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mircea_popescu: danielpbarron nah, caffeine works as a general stimulant
mircea_popescu: it's bad policy to kill people before they're completely squeezed of any possible anguish they could provide for themsleves.
mircea_popescu: first they gotta fail. then internalise it. then despair.
mircea_popescu: such an increase can ONLY be viral. not even a bacteria can do that.
mircea_popescu: the us MD crackpots are held to explain why the CDC is not going crazy over the bipolar virus yet.
mircea_popescu: sure, but the advantage of "Science" and "facts" is that, you can build on their solid footing anything you wish.
mircea_popescu: check it out, bipolar is a virus inf% more effective than ebola, nobody noticed.
mircea_popescu: "In 1994, there were 20,000 visits for pediatric (under age 19) bipolar disorder. In 2003, the number was... 800,000. The diagnosis, therefore, was 25/100,000 in 1994, and now it's 1000/100,000. In other words, 1% of the population. "
mircea_popescu: generally, being articulate is the opposite of thinking there's such a thing as synonymy
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, articulate does not mean a vague "able to express ideas clearly and effectively in speech or writing" a la webster. what it means is, "all words used according to their definition, so that the receptor does not have to make ANY adjustments to the text to turn it into 'probable' meaning".
mircea_popescu: uh... has this usage gone out of fashion in the past five years ? i'm completely unfamiliar with it.
mircea_popescu: "Articulate" has a certain meaning, look in the dictionary; it is fairly consistent throughout all settings except one: when it is used by a white guy to describe a black guy. In that case, the word suddenly means something completely different than it ordinarily does: it means "not hung up about race." Here's the point: the black guy may actually be articulate, or not be articulate-- who knows? But white people kno
mircea_popescu: it would seem that a correctly run news outlet turns more into rotten.com's library than the gawker empire of shit.
mircea_popescu: check it out! jesus! orwell understands this much, but does not make the step to grasp that socialism is somethin you want when you're stupid, because you're stupid, and as your brain starts working you stop wanting it./
mircea_popescu: "Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also."
mircea_popescu: this is like the complaint of hairdressers about unspherical heads.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes punkman road goes off at 12 degrees because FUCK YOU YOU WORK FOR US so you adapt to us. not the other way around. god dang it.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes lol didja bring her here for us to scare her off ?
mircea_popescu: probably best argument ever in that entirely nonsensical "anyone can edit" line of conmanship.
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : someone came in and fixed linkrot for wikipedia without bothering to ask the "anyone can edit" powers whether they aprove.
mircea_popescu: And as it is something unusual, the usual verbs cannot be applied to it. Can the ants from the outer space be "forgiven"? No. They can be only wiped out. It is an existential issue, not a technical one. That's why your brilliant arguments won't work"
mircea_popescu: "The problem is the people cannot fit the behaviour into any customary category. It does not look like usual editor's behaviour, does not look as usual spammer's behaviour, etc. They do not know what expect from it. They still cannot stop the bot fixing the dead links. They have angst.
mircea_popescu: the wayback machine thing reminds me of one of the lulziest things ever drug up in my nets :
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "computers are not about hurtful things like math but more like about feelings and so the fact that there exist unevaluable statements does not worry me, but on the contrary"
mircea_popescu: no, and i do mean NO english speaker of 1712 would have come up with that string.
mircea_popescu: "Ancient Rome would envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish"
mircea_popescu pictures legion of corporals going "omfg end of fucking world igmme a drink"
mircea_popescu: much more brusquely, as if a cowboy in dirty footwraps at a bar somewhere decided to cut it short and end with a joke.
mircea_popescu: they STILL deal with their own fear of death, just, not iun the very refined jewish manner.
mircea_popescu: the payload is, amusdingly enough, a very primitive answer to the same problem.
mircea_popescu: (sicilians more in the "kingdom of two sicilies" than in the island of ~ sense)
mircea_popescu: the only other people i know about this stupid and stupid in this manner are the sicilians, and they are fucking fixated on the holy cunt.
mircea_popescu: basically, THIS if anything is the red thread of a putative "american nation". religious obscurantism divorced from religion per se.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and you obviously notice that after the "god spoke to me through stones in hat" west of the early 1800 and the "god spoke to me re black people" of the mid 1800s, they moved on to "god spoke to me re rhodesia" almost seamlessly. and before that it was...
mircea_popescu: fucking bs, there's nothing novel about it, they just did to science what they had been doing all through 1800s. which apparently is, for unclear reasons, all the ycan intellectually do ?!
mircea_popescu: then people jump at the fundamentally antiscientific restructuring of science the americans did (and many places copied) after 1950 as a sort of noivel phenomena
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently. it's kind-of strange that this shared psychosis was never investigated.
mircea_popescu: this makes him no more a philosopher than the soviets.
mircea_popescu: i never read anything important he wrote. he did a lot of abolitionist propaganda, for which his party attached titles to him.
mircea_popescu: kinda lends a lot of substance to a notion that usians are actually broken in the head structurally, rather than accidentally. at least the usians of the time.
mircea_popescu: he sounds exactly like a better read joseph smith. substantially the same inclination to pass counterfactuality for fact "because who's to say it didn't happen" and "it damned well serves the purpose of making my understanding of the world more palatable ot others".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: meatspace friends blessed me with three rare books as birthday gift "Slave to her nigger", "Temptress in the Slave Quarters", and "A Craving for Black Flesh" these people know me too well << wtf, these are books or more like photo albums ?
mircea_popescu: "come watch a bunch of folks sit at desks on a green field, make numbers go up."
mircea_popescu: and if in a scored sport, say baseball or soccer, they started messing with the scoreboard, the game'd stop right then and all the players etc would just move to working teh board.
mircea_popescu: nothing ever gets done anymore because everyone's energy is spent dragging everyone else down.
mircea_popescu: inflation economy is basically the cheapest most reliable implementation of "crabs in the pot" to human society.
mircea_popescu: chetty: [...] which makes stupid ideas like min wage even more ridiculous << there's simply no way to avoid it. it IS a stupid idea, of course, but in an inflation driven economy everyone just keeps trying to climb on everyone else.
mircea_popescu: "i represent the family of a rich ferguson, mo merchant who has died in the recent troubles..."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: and i'm pretty sure africa's heard of ferguson mo << at least the part that can read. although... it seems improbable that if they did we don't see the output.