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mircea_popescu: stop impeding progress.
mircea_popescu: better != easier.
mircea_popescu: sorta like manhattan without brooklyn, let alone harlem or you know, ozarks.
mircea_popescu: singapore democracy's gonna be a fun one to watch.
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah, the same thing;s been said in spanish about the english lol
mircea_popescu: how do you mean ?
mircea_popescu: hai preet & friends.
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDHDM7PfyYs
mircea_popescu: what, is it like a festival ?
mircea_popescu: !up diatonic
mircea_popescu: stop giving stan stuff to do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform add shields :D
mircea_popescu: are the pms annoying ?
mircea_popescu: joecool i dun has anything to do with it, but kakobrekla might be able to help.
mircea_popescu: average gender of resulting regulation ? "martian".
mircea_popescu: then they... mediated it.
mircea_popescu: basically, they made a ruling for a purpose. then industry lobbied on the basis of cost.
mircea_popescu: so silly.
mircea_popescu: well... colonostomy bags aren't any fun.
mircea_popescu: what could possibily.
mircea_popescu: abstinence-only sex ed WIN!
mircea_popescu: for instance : through a surgical intervention mandatory in schools for girls aged 12, they could reverse the asshole and vulvar opening.
mircea_popescu: maybe this principle could be extended.
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: so he did.
mircea_popescu: srsly, you can't plug it in because it's reverse threaded ?!
mircea_popescu: this is like the dumbest thing i ever heard lol.
mircea_popescu: derp
mircea_popescu: decimation alternatively, you could hit it once with a hammer and make contacts directly eh
mircea_popescu: i unscrewed so many antennae off wired-only "wireless-capable" routers...
mircea_popescu: decimation what's that ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but you can't run it because bus speed right ?
mircea_popescu: a dog ?
mircea_popescu: it does kinda look like a sprinkler...
mircea_popescu: they'd love to, of course, for the obvious reason. unsheathe that.
mircea_popescu: fuck em. they don't get to say what the topic is.
mircea_popescu: off-topic is an idiocy anyway. you're writing it, you're the topic, how the fuck could it be "off-topic"
mircea_popescu: right ?
mircea_popescu: i'd rather read it on your platform than on some bezzlatron platform. is that so bad ?
mircea_popescu: uh.
mircea_popescu: i mean, you just gave imgur some money. why ?
mircea_popescu: yeah listen, why is this not a post on loper-os ?
mircea_popescu: lol is it yours ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo tis happened afore.
mircea_popescu: if it doesn't work, all the redder.
mircea_popescu: gernika not just, but sure. also, i don't care about form. if meditation works all the better.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ^ mr. o is 'having problems' ? << maybe he got made, and so now teh fsb is no longer interested in what was a marginal asset anyway ?
mircea_popescu: say a picolulz' worth.
mircea_popescu: kinda lulzy.
mircea_popescu: http://sov.ro/ << romanian pseudo-tycoon (the sort of derps that live off govt spending in cvasi-socialist states), meanwhile convicted and eventually released from jail, started his own blog.
mircea_popescu: why not august 7th lol
mircea_popescu: for our esl (english as a single language) friends : мили́ция = mili-tsya
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: what can be said of the average policeman ?
mircea_popescu: and speaking of which, given that intelligence is to be measured in tsyans,
mircea_popescu: honestly, i dun see how it's even a kilo-lol.
mircea_popescu perseveres in his ahistoricity.
mircea_popescu: i guess we progressed past the classical philosophy of either rome or the east. a well.
mircea_popescu: dude srsly, intelligent people want to go a direction ?
mircea_popescu: mkay, i'll pass.
mircea_popescu: "I seem to be doing a lot of hyperproductive things lately: explaining to people how to kill the foul beast of Empire, revolutionizing the way English literacy is taught to both native English speakers and the rest"
mircea_popescu: i dunno.
mircea_popescu: guess so.
mircea_popescu: so then.
mircea_popescu: da fuck you care whether she can do heisenberg matrix calc in her head or not, really.
mircea_popescu: so... whole story really.
mircea_popescu: anyway, thus understood, you will find that a woman trained to be intelligent, irrespective of iq, is quite to your liking, whereas one untrained, equally irrespective of measured iq, is quite unpalatable.
mircea_popescu: same reason braided rope is stronger than straight rope.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, experience shows pairs work better, because errors average out rather than compound.
mircea_popescu: one can train to build muscle by himself. one can also train to comprehend the torah by oneself.
mircea_popescu: nothing of them. they may develop myopia in time.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck do you think intelligence is other than the ~knowledge~ of what is noise in the psychocrosstalk ?
mircea_popescu: what else ? first you gotta teach her to rule over her emotions, then gotta teach her the modes of logical failure of teh brain, on it goes.
mircea_popescu: as a result, there's nothing fucking scarier than the former known to man.
mircea_popescu: the difference is that the first's entirely negative (don't do this. don't do that. don't do the other. do something) while the latter's entirely positive. (do like this and like this and so on)
mircea_popescu: they may look similar, sure.
mircea_popescu: they are not.
mircea_popescu: which is kind-of why people readily imagine training a woman to think with whip in hand and training a woman to dance whip in hand are the same thing.
mircea_popescu: the important parts aren't visible.
mircea_popescu: same thing, for the exact reason you don't see much reading on tv.
mircea_popescu: to the ignorant, there's little difference between circus seal being trained and you sitting in room flipping page after page.
mircea_popescu: tell you what.
mircea_popescu: just, much and important don't map.
mircea_popescu: much of what YOU know is learned like what a dog learns. specifically, where the fuck the control key is and how to make pretty letters on the screen.
mircea_popescu: because well, they don't get wtf french is.
mircea_popescu: dressage has the unfortunate implication of dress-up in english
mircea_popescu: hence well trained pilots, and training ai and so on
mircea_popescu: i think this pejorative usage is novel, and not really all that standard yet.
mircea_popescu: no, but every man can either become a circus lifter or die trying.
mircea_popescu: trained is what happened to scheherazade.
mircea_popescu: but i did say that's not what's meant.
mircea_popescu: well so if all your intelligence is in fact trained, then what are ye bitching about.
mircea_popescu: kinda lulzy when you visit a blog with one of those blinky geomaps, and the only blinky spot is in argentina.
mircea_popescu: if you gotta use trainable tests you lost.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no but look, you're already conceding defeat. why are you building your castle out of my rocks ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how many women do you know that could do this ? and, importantly, out of these how many are not actually in special-school-for-it ?
mircea_popescu: kind bad example cause didn't we discuss this here earlier ?
mircea_popescu: well done lol. do i win yet ?
mircea_popescu: so your idea of intelligence is... culture ?
mircea_popescu: most of the things one identifies as intelligence in the field is actually artfulness.