asciilifeform: reads just like modern pheminist etc. crapola.
asciilifeform: incidentally, (as school project!) i once went to the u.s. national library of medicine and had them dig up for me ancient, yellow copies of lysenko's complete works. and read them.
asciilifeform: referring here to the appearance of powerful cranks
asciilifeform: suddenly fungi grow in places where no one has even conceived of before
asciilifeform: to continue the 'medical' theme - it's rather like an immunodeficient collapse of organism
asciilifeform: more often you get lysenko, lepeshinskaya (exercise for the reader: who was she? why) and a thousand similar creatures
asciilifeform: sometimes you get clever folks who finally get to 'do their thing'
asciilifeform: you get figures like mengele (or a considerably more destructive, though lesser known, trofim lysenko) when barriers around some field are demolished en masse and field is thrown to the mercy of cranks (say, by revolution)
asciilifeform: but of btc-themed derpitude as a field, no ?
asciilifeform: much as karpeles didn't personally handle every btc derpatron
asciilifeform: wasn't run by mengele >> true. but somehow he became 'poster boy'
asciilifeform: they usually pinch their nose in an obligatory gesture of kowtow to taboo, but they cite.
asciilifeform: people still cite the german cold weather experiment data.
asciilifeform: what herr mengele, or japanese 'unit 731' did - was considerably more valuable scientifically.
asciilifeform: research is when there is something useful to be learned
asciilifeform: many other cases of severely brainless are also created artificially - by rescuing 'super' premature infants, for example (at tremendous cost to the taxpayer, even before they enter the welfare system)
asciilifeform: specifically the fellow as portrayed in the film '300 spartans'
asciilifeform: i like to refer to these folks as 'elphialtes's army'
asciilifeform: did they win << don't recall, couldn't be bothered
asciilifeform: this kind of thing, in other variants, is pretty big in usa. for instance, pretty much nobody births a down's syndrome case any more other than deliberately.
asciilifeform: i vaguely recall a documented case where deaf women sued for the right to 'in vitro' select deaf samples from a set of foeti
asciilifeform: 'oh noez they're holocausting us by curing deafness'
asciilifeform: ;;google deaf community cochlear implants
asciilifeform: the original inspiration for the 'mra' folks was possibly the invalid 'community', where the nuttier ones actually thought that, e.g. being legless only sucks because of a 'conspiracy' of the two-legged
asciilifeform: not that they'd have walked sans astrologist.
asciilifeform: 'astrologist said now's a good time to shoot the prisoners.'
asciilifeform: as a kind of decorative slipcover for policy that 'must happen anyway', it works just the same.
asciilifeform: 'believers' tend to make a hash of things.
asciilifeform: phun phact: 'sexual market value' afaik, as a phrase, was first coughed up by dan mocsny.
asciilifeform: the landau film has precedent. when they filmed the infamous nazi atrocity pic 'come and see', they fired real bullets over the heads of the actors
asciilifeform: jborkl: no - original question was about a set that wanted 'rights'
asciilifeform: 'The only acting professional in the cast is Radmila Shchegoleva, who plays Landau's wife; before shooting began, she spent a full year working at a chocolate factory and a hospital, a regimen devised by Khrzhanovsky to beat the actress out of her.'
asciilifeform: 'Landau significantly advanced quantum mechanics with his theories of diamagnetism, superfluidity, and superconductivity. He also tapped epic amounts of ass.'
asciilifeform: Pravda," as in "Pravda it.") The fine system has also fostered a robust culture of snitching. "In a totalitarian regime, mechanisms of suppression trigger mechanisms of betrayal," the director explains. "I am very interested in that."'
asciilifeform: 'The fine system is the Institute's latest innovation. Khrzhanovsky decreed it a few months ago, fed up with staffers smuggling cell phones and talking about Facebook. Other finable offenses include tardiness, which costs a whole day's pay, and failure to renew the fake Institute pass. The program has been a hit. Not only has morale improved, a whole new euphemistic vocabulary has sprouted up. ("Google" is now "
asciilifeform: 'Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky on set. He is known to interview potential female cast members with questions like “Can you come up to a guy in a club and sleep with him without finding out as much as his name?”, or “Are any of your friends whores?”'
asciilifeform: ^ found through that link. demented film maker decides to make a biopic of lev landau (of landau & lifschitz), gets people to live in a 'soviet reservation' for realism.
asciilifeform: overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot.'☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ctified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been
asciilifeform: 'But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty's figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their re
asciilifeform: at some point people lose interest - how many people cared about soviet stats ?
asciilifeform: 100% is the correct winblows tax rate.
