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mircea_popescu: and i bet you 90% of those are actually correct uses of the term, as opposed to the common derpage.
mircea_popescu: modern english (ie, shakespeare's writ) is readable to
mircea_popescu: HelpPlease prolly hasn't propagated yet, give it a little.
mircea_popescu: and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. << "there but for blind luck goes I", just because you're here today doesn't mean another just like you didn't die yesterday, or the day before.
mircea_popescu: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, << roughly equivalent to "life is what happens while we were waiting for other things"
mircea_popescu: there would have been a time for such a word. << It's not like this was the only opportunity for her to die and she had to take it.
mircea_popescu: She should have died hereafter; << She should have died LATER.
mircea_popescu: but the fact that they did already speaks, does it not.
mircea_popescu: you could entertain yourself indefinitely just following the yakking.
mircea_popescu: people. harlots and scamps and duchesses and everything.
mircea_popescu: they had more then than you have now for crying out loud. for one thing, the street was fun
mircea_popescu: mike_c that wasn't worse, those you could identify as such
mircea_popescu: no, they went to the theatre like you come here. because it's new and cool and it speaks to you and you can afford to.
mircea_popescu: this wasn't a time when theatre was ancient and respected.
mircea_popescu: i should do a shakespeare once just to mess with people.
mircea_popescu: this ? you kidding me ? and people bitch at trilema being too complex to read ?
mircea_popescu: this was read, over screams and bellows, in a crummy theatre, and people fucking understood it ?!
mircea_popescu: creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! "
mircea_popescu: bounce incidentally, since you quoth macbeth. "She should have died hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
mircea_popescu: except the most common form of congenital malformation is fixed with ties.
mircea_popescu: not that widely, it's recent and still experimental therapy afaik
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : rabies doesn't kill per se. current therapy consists of essentially freezing the brain while the virus is flushed out by the immune system
mircea_popescu: the most we have to go on is that while the recent aberrations produced neither of those,
mircea_popescu: works just fine. you start with women in their 20s, self selected. you beat and humiliate them into shape. five to ten years later, people emerge of this.
mircea_popescu: it is exhausting but not particularly difficult or complex.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have an experimentally verified method.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one has to have a whole lotta things. literacy is a good start, of course. the actual kind.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, africa had no soviets, it was and will remain in the shitter.
mircea_popescu: romania was in the shitter in 1984, and has more gold per capita than most states today. all it too k was getting rid of the soviets.
mircea_popescu: comparing modern day idiocy in africa with the white areas of 1800 ios nonsense
mircea_popescu: reddit is the temple of this bizarre sect, the large collection of people who can use letters but don't understand sentences.
mircea_popescu: they can convincingly pretend like they can read. but in point of fact, they can not and do not.
mircea_popescu: you don't get to measure literacy as counted by j h newman with "literacy" as counted by some fuckardacy.
mircea_popescu: this never happened, seriously. you seen that early 1900s test for ohio if memory serves highschoolers ?
mircea_popescu: you'll have to argue for that better baseline. what's better about it ?
mircea_popescu: and yet... that 2nd brain will never function. all it takes is a little more doping and suddenly you *don't * have a semiconductor
mircea_popescu: another child, not healthy. inside his cranial cavity, slightly more water.
mircea_popescu: a child is conceived. he is healthy. inside his cranial cavity, among water, thin strings of protein run every which way.
mircea_popescu: no matter how you bang on it, the shit chip won't suddenly start dropping magic packets.
mircea_popescu: so in short : there's not going to be external solutions to internal problems
mircea_popescu: to quote the teflon don speaking to sam giancanna, "all they got is a tape. let 'em play it 'till they're sick of it"
mircea_popescu: suppose qntra buys mtv, and obama is shown back to back doing that, 18`994 times over two weeks.
mircea_popescu: bounce in the same spirit (of statistics) : the average bacterium makes no penicillin
mircea_popescu: bounce that's a dubious theory. i don't credit it so much.
mircea_popescu: see, the distance between bounce's theory and asciilifeform's practice is that in theory there's a lot of things that aren't actually fouind in practice ?
mircea_popescu: then who ? who are those numerous people that make news ?
mircea_popescu: if the sec is a puppet, if senior counsel for the sec ~= housewife