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mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other news,
trilema has served 5.5 mn pages...
this month.
BingoBoingo still really
that Puget Sound Muslim Association was big enough news for Liztler
to kill Buttfunex over it
mircea_popescu: anyway, back
to
the romans :
the whole "dickus maximus" bit in monty python is actually very strict scholarship.
to
the "rugged men of
the fronteer",
the speech of proper roman citizen sounded so fucking faggoty you can't imagine.
PeterL: perhaps should be "retroactively changes
the meaning of
the message"
mircea_popescu: "retroactively changes
the meaning of
text". what fucking
text ? strings including "emoji" ipso facto carry no meaning.
mircea_popescu: i can't comprehend why anyone'd summon
the interest
to care.
the only correct solution is
to insist strict latin set exists
throughout, and otherwise
they can all get fucked.
phf: they have an encoding in circulation,
that actually encodes
text in
terms of font glyph offsets, which was also
the way emacs did it initially.
the solution was written by japanese, was called MULE, and
that was one of
the first major flame wars naggum participated in. famously forked his own version, etc.
mircea_popescu: azn illiteracy is no excuse for doing
things wrongly, which is why colonialism and
the rape of nanking are more sensible policies
than whatever
the fuck's going on presently.
mircea_popescu: the ~only~ way
to get useful symbolics, which does mean STRICTLY standardized symbols, is
to have very few of
them.
mircea_popescu: the notion of unicode is fucking stupid in
the first place.
phf: the whole font changes meaning
take
two is coming from
the japanese.
they were actively promoting
this idea back during early unicode standardization days, where
there was a strong drive
to include every idiosyncratic version of kanji in
the standard, because "that's how my family writes it in our last name".
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ shinohai: Soon it will be a federal crime
to use handgun or assault-rifle emojis
mircea_popescu: to
this day "Exchange" in serbian is menjati, for
this reason.
two "i".
mircea_popescu: then
the barbarians decided
to hear distinction between i and j.
mircea_popescu: PeterL no, and leaving
the greeks aside : one day some people decided
to make an I
that looked more like a J. sexier font, stylish, whatnot.
mircea_popescu: and hence numerous examples i'm
too much of a business insider
to bother fucking listing. who
the fuck let
these idiots write in
the first place,
they're an insult
to
the cattle
that had
to die for
the vellum.
PeterL: aha, right, roman alphabet is just a
transmutation of greek etc?
mircea_popescu: PeterL no.
the "letters" you currently use are
the result of FONT FLUCTUATION in
the roman empire.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform>
this inevitably brings
to mind
the characters in BingoBoingo's links, who curse doctor for going
to
the root cause of bedridden maggot farm << See
there was a purpose!
mircea_popescu: actually oil drillers use a version of your arm
thing.
mircea_popescu: all
this shit is made of solid steel mostly because earthmoving is barely a step away from direct abrasion. it's like making
tools
to push
the grinder.
mircea_popescu: in fact,
the heavy machinery industry is
today very much a "designer item" sort of
thing, pretty much any large mine will order machinery
to spec for its own particular use.
mircea_popescu: i dun
think so.
to wit : every kid has a
toy buldozer, which he does improvements
to.
mircea_popescu: so in
this sense,
the solution seems
to be quite simply vitriol. dissolve
the "acceptance" blanket of idiocy.
mircea_popescu: it's ~like a fungus colony
that secretes plastic substrate for itself
to live on.
mircea_popescu: this is universally
the fucking problem. and it's passively supported by idiots'
tendency
to build life support systems for
themselves, hence
the all-pervasive socialism.
mircea_popescu: idiots must be
told
they're dumb. often. loudly. in no uncertain
terms.
mircea_popescu: so she ends up underwriting debt
to "pursue" rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: nobody ever
told 20 yo girly, in her 16 or so years of active intellectual life
to date,
that she's fucking untalented and needs
to go do something she can actually do.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if i start screaming at
the idiots
they WILL execute
their job, and well. but absent my scream,
they have no fucking idea
they're doing a bad job, even. nobody ever
told
them so.
mircea_popescu: the reason argentines drive horribly, as well as are incredibly inept economically, and
the reason for pretty much all visible misbehaviour is exactly
the same : lack of negative reinforcement.
mircea_popescu: the point being
that i have wisened
to understand
the problem. it is a lack of negative reinforcement.
mircea_popescu: alternatively
there's some pheromone interaction or something. dunno.
mircea_popescu: yeah, maybe
they hunt
them,
though i've never personally seen it.
mircea_popescu: i also didn't mind
them - but it did drive one girl positively crazy. couldn't sleep, eventually had a mild psychotic episode. so i got rid of
them.
mircea_popescu: they patrolled all
the outside walls constantly. being no damage
they could do
to rebared concrete... i really didn't see
the harm.
mircea_popescu: no
they were
the black sort interested in bugs and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: the only practical starting point for hygiene in
the mind of
the golum is
through forcing pain until a desired result.
that it's unachievable
through means available
to
the golum does not matter one iota.
mircea_popescu: that's
the
thing. especially
to
the inferior man, "hygiene" does not exist, as an abstract. it may only exist as "mechanized individual squishing"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but hygiene starts as well as exists as a "better squishing". people given
the "hey, it'd be elegant
to wash" will wash and retain
the bugs. people given
the "hey, you will be in
this dungeon until you squished all
the bugs" given "hey, use
this, works faster" WILL fucking wash.
mircea_popescu: being "inclusive" is not merely distasteful. it is actually something
to carry on your conscience, as a murder, except worse.
mircea_popescu: you're a bad person,
there's no
two wais about it, kiddy fuckers may be great or horrible. you're horrible, no great.
mircea_popescu: if you participate in "communities"
that make
this difficult, you are, personally, a bad person. it's not "oh, i'm just
trying
to on facebook".
mircea_popescu: if you are a guy who was on a list where a maggot
tried
to get in and you didn't, personally, flame and humiliate
that maggot,
mircea_popescu: nevertheless -
there must be collective guilt at work here, as a concept, for
the opposition. if you are "a computer programmer", and you aren't part of
the solution, you ARE part of
the problem, ands personally responsible for it.
mircea_popescu: merely opening
the matter of should
to
the maggots is a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: no. a sane examinator always begins by
twisting
the necks he can, not
the necks he "should".
mircea_popescu: i get
that it's a diffuse, socialist, retarded sort of forcing where nobody actually does anything
that could possibly be upon
them. but
that dun matter so much, if you end up pushed out of bed by a colony of maggots,
THE MAGGOTS DID IT.
mircea_popescu: instead of everyone laughing her into bulimia, and weekly egging and
tping
the house in which basement she dwells,