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mircea_popescu: perhaps
the byzantine empire and some selected chinese confucianist
tards.
mircea_popescu: there is no historical comparison
to just how utterly wrong
that
thing is.
mircea_popescu: the notion
that someone somewhere
thinks in
terms of "x is worse
than
the us" is mindnumbing. fucking hell,
the
third reich only killed SOME people.
mircea_popescu: same EXACT
thing happened
to everyhing else america
touched.
the damage
that brown hole of fetid shit does
to
things is such,
that
the aggegate benefits
to mankind of say computers, or philosophy, or you name it are actually exceeded by ustardian damage in
the short half century since it even became a
thing.
mircea_popescu: the parallel here is pretty evident - for a century now man's eternal dream
to fly was realised. it was realised by great minds in europe, and
then
taken over by usians. who FUCKED IT. but i mean so utterly,
that at
the last count cca 2008 it came out
the aggregate air
travel industry lost more money in its history
than it made. period and full stop, consider
that.
mircea_popescu: yes but rubbish in
the sense of supermarket rubbish - useless and ubiquitous, with a fury worthy of a better cause.
mircea_popescu: consumerist culture, meaning
that unless i fuck
tolkien's corpse into action, i'm sol.
mircea_popescu: shift ? ayup.
the great idea is "what if we
took ultima and made it in 3d",
that's fucking it. "i want a car just like
that car but paint it pink and write my name on
the dash".
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't necessarily mind one for eulora.
the problem is
that in
this, like every other field,
the
tinydicked western men are entirely infertile. all
they want is
to copy and reimplement, which is how
they ended up doing
THE SAME FUCKING GAME 500
times. ever heard of ultima ? how about runescape ? guess what - it's
the same fucking
thing, down
to
the
t, by which initialism we mean
the fucking
tutorial. EXACTLY. oh and plane
mats: since some folks bailed i
think i am
the
third largest holder
mats: i hope not, i'm still hoping
to see a return on my s.nsa shares
mats: ill reach out
to some folks
mats: so what does in-bulk mean
to asciilifeform
hanbot: if anyone is
trying
to maintain old ubuntu installs, and ran into
this bs where synaptic/apt-get no longer works because it can't locate any repos:
the nice ubuntu folks broke
their directory scheme. edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace "us.archive." with "old-releases." and
then hit reload. for as long as
that lasts.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: He can just ask all
those Russians at Breitbart
to
tell him!
a111: Logged on 2016-11-28 19:57 pete_dushenski: ya i can see
that. i don't find
the period entirely hermetic, just unfamiliar as i slowly bridge
the gaps in my historical knowledge between
the romans and
the french revolution. currently working backwards from
the end of
that period via peter
the great's life and
times.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-28 19:51 mircea_popescu: early history, eg ages of settlement are relatively easy
to understand, and open
to "idea people" ; late history ie collapses of civilisations are not easy
to understand, and entirely hermetic
to
they unblessed with esprit de finesse.
mats: i remember now,
there was a lack of entropy source
mircea_popescu: heh. with any $item
the possible outcomes of
the problem-function would be either "it sucks [reason list]" or "not enough people
to use it". i guess
the 2nd is how you count success.
mats: what was
the sticking point with esp8266? i forget.
pete_dushenski: ya i can see
that. i don't find
the period entirely hermetic, just unfamiliar as i slowly bridge
the gaps in my historical knowledge between
the romans and
the french revolution. currently working backwards from
the end of
that period via peter
the great's life and
times.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: early history, eg ages of settlement are relatively easy
to understand, and open
to "idea people" ; late history ie collapses of civilisations are not easy
to understand, and entirely hermetic
to
they unblessed with esprit de finesse.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: man alive was politics in
the 1500s convoluted. league of cognac
this, renegade
troops of charles v
that, pope clement vii fliplopping and running away and my oh my oh my..
mircea_popescu: and so he's quite literally giving commentators enough rope
to hang
themselves with.
the
trilema way.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-16 14:20 mircea_popescu: also as
taleb correctly points out,
this example is just a very good example, but not
the whole story. what it exemplifies is
the ineptitude of a class of people, whom we call jews, and whom we wish
to see in camps.
these people understand some - enough
to be harmful - but not enough, so as
to be useful.
they are worse
than stupid, because of
this familiarity with first order but incapacity for higher order reasoning.
mircea_popescu: he correctly identified
the problem with modern "educated" "liberals", which is -
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-16#1568343 aka first pass knowledge. whatever
they could scrounge up in a quick skim
through wikipedia reinforced by a smattering of wqhat was
trending on
tedtalks.
☝︎ pete_dushenski: no doubt. makes him sound oh so mysterious and erudite. lest we forget BANNON WENT
TO HARVARD MKAY
pete_dushenski: for
that we can blame bannon. i didn't ask
to research
the complicated
tudors. just what came up on
the docket.
mircea_popescu: anyway, masha gessen.
the progre party is in such disarray
the actual bona fide assets of
the embassy state are stuck doing editorial work.
mircea_popescu: tis a risky venture
to pick one's example from a period when
the consensus was
to call all deaths "of poison" just because everyone was
trying
to appear worldier and
therefore jadeder and cynicer
than everyone else.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it's not even
that simple,
there's
that entire wolf episode, rome got sacked also...
twas a murky
time.
mircea_popescu: otherwise it's perfectly fine when
the libertard does it! he's not supposed
to follow
the herd, and is not a redneck "conspiracy-minded" nutcase etc for being... a conspiracy-minded nutcase.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: a slave isn't a slave
to all, just
to his master. so it was
that clement vii was obsequious
to charles v, not henry viii. anyways i can see
that
the sentence was poorly worded and it's been corrected. so cheers :D
mircea_popescu: e popping of
the libertard delusion"
thing). apparently, and seriously, who could have predicted
this, apparently diverging from consensus reality is only bad when
the OTHER guys do it. you know
those racist sociopaths who didn't buy
the global warming fraud.
mircea_popescu: "Rule #4: Be outraged. If you follow Rule #1 and believe what
the autocrat-elect is saying, you will not be surprised. But in
the face of
the impulse
to normalize, it is essential
to maintain one’s capacity for shock.
This will lead people
to call you unreasonable and hysterical, and
to accuse you of overreacting. It is no fun
to be
the only hysterical person in
the room. Prepare yourself." (from
the same "how
to survive
th
mircea_popescu: curious what
the muslim influx will do
to
the eurodork "consensus" re smoking.
mircea_popescu: gotta admit
that disgrace film is an epic distillation of an already pungent collection, coetzee's collected vials of retard phlegm and puss.
mircea_popescu: a) yes,
that's
the fucking point - and more people who could be
taken at
their word would be an incredible improvement over "open society" and "modern democracy" ; b) no, not "humans". women. strictly women.
the ~FEMALE~ response
to "confronted publicly with
the unacceptable", which is just a periphrastic mention of public rape, is
to... what was
that line, "i am a woman, david. do you
think i hate children ? must i choose ag
mircea_popescu: in other lolz, "Rule #1: Believe
the autocrat. He means what he says. Whenever you find yourself
thinking, or hear others claiming,
that he is exaggerating,
that is our innate
tendency
to reach for a rationalization.
This will happen often: humans seem
to have evolved
to practice denial when confronted publicly with
the unacceptable."
mircea_popescu: the avatars of "Safety" - have a bunch of men dork around with guns
that are NEVER charged, get
them used
to using
them like doorstops.
mircea_popescu: mats pointedly absent, any reference
to how small
the arab penises are.
mats: >Jasmin Olbrich, having a quick lunch of French fries at a food
truck outside
the educational center, said she liked
the Middle Eastern looks and complained
that German men "drink
too much beer, watch way
too much soccer and are just so white!"
trinque: then a moment of enlightenment came and I decided
to proceed unfairly :p
trinque: aha, in point of fact I ran graphviz on
the whole dataset first. output was hilariously useless
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform generally in
the holes where men fought, children now play.
mircea_popescu: or you know, offer a separate "all conceivable datapoints", but imo waste of your
time and
the whole point is
that
their presence drowns out
the actually important people.
mircea_popescu: trinque i don't
think
there's anything meaningful
there ; should prolly purge all
those with a nil reputation string.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you have
to consider
the history of
the republic. first it was a very vague
thing in a very large soup
that was #bitcoin-otc ;
that split up between
the libertards and
the sane people ; me, mod6 a few others moved on
to -assets.
then
that also split up, between whatever
the hell it was, modern-science-democracy-and-consumerism and
the current #trilema.
trinque: I have no strong opinion
that
they should.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-28 16:35 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: it's going
to be so unfair when
the white working class is entirely satisfied with
the recent championship pay-per-view outcome
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-28#1573807 <<
they're positively fucking endearing in
their unyielding imbecility, "oh,
the data acquisition mechanisms / ~scientifically~ conducted polls
that
told us clinton is a cinch
to win also
tell us what
the X demographic wants and what
trump is delivering and WE
THEREFORE KNOW he's not doing what we know
they want and blablabla.
☝︎ trinque: yeh, some ancient data in
there regarding reference
to key
trinque: after which folks can
throw me
their own, and I'll sign if I like
them and use.
trinque: pretty close
to a genesis V patch by now
trinque: yeah seems SVG does pretty well in
the browser
trinque: they're
there if you get
the node just so
trinque: graphviz
thinks
that
tooltip is helpful or something, gonna remove it with sed
trinque: we finally found
the g spot