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BingoBoingo: Well, that and the opportunity to run the printing press and spread bezzel to favored lizards bringing back
a number of them along the way
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The fancy dope tends to cause less collateral damage when it works suddenly. When bottle takes suddenly usually
a motor vehicle is involved
a111: Logged on 2015-08-19 00:18 asciilifeform: cabbie: 'this ford is
a piece of shit. stalled again.' mircea_popescu: 'i have
a solution!' cabbie: 'oh???111' mircea_popescu: 'here, have this broomstick.' cabbie: 'how do i drive customers on that, feed my family' mircea_popescu: 'you misunderstand, my good man. you stuff it in your arse.' cabbie: 'and... how does this feed by family?' mircea_popescu: 'no, you sit there with it in.'
ben_vulpes: haw someone just sent me an ad for
a nylon "posture brace"; not that
a brace is going to do anything for the lump of muscle developing at the base of millenial skulls from supporting their heads at
a thirty-degree angle all day
trinque: sound like they oughta be able to eviscerate
a man in swarm
mircea_popescu: insect timekeeping, it's
a weird thing. possibly sideral.
diana_away: and coconuts + vendor on
a sort of trike
mircea_popescu: i got
a buncha girlies in "default" about imaginary "debts".
mircea_popescu: you register company, you have company receive some dough, which it can use however it pleases, such as buying you
a dozen cars or
a piece of real estate or w/e, then you use that for right of stay and eventually passport.
mircea_popescu: afaik it's not even
a "is x". if you're willing to spend some dough, like, buy
a house or something, you can have it.
ben_vulpes: and while the uncleals are convinced it'll be highway maintenance that blows
a crater in the usg budget, i have high hopes that the heavy metal poisoning from 'vape pen' use will eclipse it by
a few orders of magnitude
ben_vulpes: haven't even heard
a peep about putting trans rights into the corporate handbook in at least three years!
BingoBoingo: And German comes with
a stipend if you convert to Islam
BingoBoingo: The whole crummel story is lulzy. Pan African runs over to Liberia in 1853 to raise
a Christian Republic... Returns to the US in fear of the ascendant Liberian mulatto caste.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's when Alexander Crummel died. Was
a black nationalist who worked on making
a black zion in Liberia, put skin into the game, mourned the results.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-16 16:38 mircea_popescu: the fact that anglotard english "does not have
a cannonical body of works", the necessary result of "ameritards stole england's language but had no room in pocket for culture", resulted as it has in "no great american novel" makes it impossible for engl dept to see what classical lang dept did and do it one better.
mircea_popescu: the fact that anglotard english "does not have
a cannonical body of works", the necessary result of "ameritards stole england's language but had no room in pocket for culture", resulted as it has in "no great american novel" makes it impossible for engl dept to see what classical lang dept did and do it one better.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the probable "cause" for there not being sane dict for living langs, you realise, is that there IS such
a thing as
a cannonical body of greek, but "who is to say what anglovomit does not make the cut".
☟︎ ben_vulpes: trinque flagged whitaker's words for me as
a latin dictionary (an ada artifact even!)
ben_vulpes began the exercise as
a form of entertainment during
a road trip recently; "hey baby what do you think of this translation" "what does X mean in context of Y"
mircea_popescu: i manage quite well with digital lookup in dictionary flatfiles, but i suspect familiarity has
a lot to do with it.
ben_vulpes: turns out, absolutely no replacement for
a large desk and several dictionaries
a111: Logged on 2018-08-16 15:56 mircea_popescu: italians naturally learn german, germans not so naturally. there's
a fundamental problem with germanic languages ; and if one follows the tree, that problem is best realised in fino-ugric group.
mircea_popescu: tbh i don't think anyone at all familiar with the functioning of hardware init can propose the tradition is worth continuing with
a straight face.
mircea_popescu: aha. but i vaguely recall, from my days of doing this 2decades+ ago, that the way to put processor from real to protected mode or back was
a triple fault
mircea_popescu: ave1 you know it's
a pleasure to revisit my childhood in your company.
Mocky: it did occur to me. went to the dominican republic some years ago for
a summer, started learning spanish. but had no use for it back in the states
Mocky: i'm not in
a position to say!
mircea_popescu: tu quoque, have spent time and effort doing all sorts of things with your life, none of which are bad or wrong per se. yet it never occured to you "must learn language" in any effectual sense. this'd be
a natural occurence though, wouldn't you say ? what disocurred it for you ? how come you went in all the rooms in the palace but one ?
a111: Logged on 2018-06-12 14:55 mircea_popescu: there's this joke in romania that "if you hear
a hungarian speaking foreing languages you're looking at
a jew".
mircea_popescu: italians naturally learn german, germans not so naturally. there's
a fundamental problem with germanic languages ; and if one follows the tree, that problem is best realised in fino-ugric group.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you have $100, it's way better to buy two $40 pairs and
a girl
a drink than to blow the wad on
a $100 pair of shoes.
mircea_popescu: Mocky you could just as well take
a woman or two and become mellifluous i mean multifluent.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-16 14:03 mircea_popescu: imo nothing wrong with using english AS LONG AS ITS NOT
A FIRST LANGUAGE.
mircea_popescu: as it turns out, absurdity undergirths human thought, as
a sort of rebar.
mircea_popescu: "when you read
a text and can distinguish the absurdities it contains from the actual sense, you may claim you have an anachronistic understanding of the matter ; but when you read the text and clearly see the ~necessity~ of the absurdities, their fundamentally-required-ness, and the circumstantialness of the sense, you may claim meaningful understanding of the item" as the witticism goes.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but to continue
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-16#1841967 : it's also
a red thread particularly productive through the hermeneutic method. "why did the greeks care about the columns" type of inquiries work quite well, "why did someone like say heinrich caro dedicate
a decade of his life to turkish red ?"
☝︎ Mocky: sounds like
a bill murrray, dan aykroyd "don't cross the streams" item
a111: Logged on 2017-09-12 19:34 mircea_popescu: you know what
a faberge egg is for instance ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this exact scenario plays out
a lot more than anyone reading ever realised before reading.
mircea_popescu: superficially, it's
a vehicle for exploiting laura antonelli's tits.
mircea_popescu: imo nothing wrong with using english AS LONG AS ITS NOT
A FIRST LANGUAGE.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in which vein i suppose ima have to produce
a few, lest i find myself not having
a very high oppinion of myself.
mircea_popescu: actually, i very much don't think someone respectable who ~doesn't~ have
a train of weeping instagram whores "accusing".
trinque: what of the desparate attempts to pin
a "me too" to him?
mircea_popescu: that'd depend what you mean by is. he's the canary
a massively distributed net uses for some purposes.
mircea_popescu: like elaine once said, the choice between being raped and being
a good girl rests entirely with the slut herself : those pantsuit that choose not to misbehave are never truly raped into submission, rite.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "
a bed sitting room" has the cast listed ~by descending height~. this is totally how ima do any film i ever do, let shorties learn their place!
mircea_popescu: in this view, "raising awareness" is the definitive wank, because it's an activity that is
a) always entirely available ; b) always completely ineffectual and c) ulterior phenomena always confirm its predictions. no substantial difference between that and waking every morning ~3am and kowtowing towards the east until the sun comes out.
a) this can always be done ; b) it will hurt absolutely nothing and c) the sun will always
a111: Logged on 2018-04-30 18:21 mircea_popescu: in front of this, whether we idly decide that he's just dumb or actually evil, ie, his brain dun work like in the case of say bernstein ; or his brain doth work, but he deliberately attempts to shannonize republican words into imperial outcomes,
a la curtis yarvin, jwz, whatever.... well what fucking difference does it make.
mircea_popescu: and so, to bring this around, i always said that
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-30#1806663 ; here's
a fine example of what is meant -- the guy with "plaque is the result of infection", like the guy with "homosexuality is biological", like the guy with "guns kill", like the guy with "don't tell women how to behave, tell men how to behave", like the guy with "stupidity isn't stupidity, but
a thing of reason" are in the end the
☝︎ mircea_popescu: and yes, obviously, "the cheese on the sides of her twat" is the "natural" and even "necessary" end point for ~all women. keep her in
a cage, unable to shower for
a week or two and see. but what's this say ? "common reason" ? fucking spare me.
mircea_popescu: not even plato thought to include
a mm or two of toe jam in his definition of the human.
mircea_popescu: in short, the proposition that the accumulation of idiocy observable in the poor, the stupid, and the lazy is somehow
a thing is not unlike the proposition that plaque is part of teeth.
mircea_popescu: if there existed
a different (cheaper!) universal solvent with low polarity and immense thermic innertia living things would perhaps consist of mostly that, rather than mostly water. but this still wouldn't be
a contagion, nor would be the "alternative" "preferred" in any meaningful sense.
mircea_popescu: socialism is not the result of people ~reading~ ; it's the result of people NOT reading. whether they decide they're not reading in the circumstance of
a readery, where they discover that they're actually unfit for the activity of reading, notwithstanding what they thought themselves in the other context, of the barn (where, among the cows, they "felt" like reading'd be just the thing) or not is irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: this, of course, is false. atp is not "
a virus", it just happens to be the cheapest item with those properties that can be had. living things are made predominently of water, but this isn't
a contagion. this is
a necessity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes! example : "As
a non-Universalist, I can't help but admire the success of this particular replicator. It is brilliantly designed, like the smallpox virus. The fact that no one actually designed it, any more than someone designed the smallpox virus, that it is simply the result of adaptive selection in
a highly competitive environment, heightens rather than detracts from my awe."
a111: Logged on 2018-06-23 22:21 asciilifeform: this reminds me, not long ago asciilifeform picked up
a little chinese toy, item shaped like tennis raquet but the wires are charged to 4000v and connect to (small) cap;
a sort of mechanized fly swatter, they pop, little blue plasma burst, vapour. nominally. so then , having used it, later i see
a most peculiar insect, did not immediately realize what it is, never having seen before. looked closely, turns out -- fly head + front legs
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ( if anyone ever sees
a -5 , lemme know, it means the machine is prolly on fire ) << I prolly ought to be advised if the machine is likely on fire as well.