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mircea_popescu: o wow that's his irc client ? i thought he literally meant "mother".
mircea_popescu: And after spending his earnings foolishly he beats his wife -- the man that promised to protect her during life -- and so the man would if there was no drink in society, for seldom a man beats his wife in a state of sobriety.
mircea_popescu: Thou causeth the mother to neglect her child, also the father to act as he were wild, so that he neglects his loving wife and family dear, by spending his earnings foolishly on whisky, rum and beer.
mircea_popescu: Oh, thou demon Drink, thou fell destroyer; thou curse of society, and its greatest annoyer. What hast thou done to society, let me think? I answer thou hast caused the most of ills, thou demon Drink.
mircea_popescu: next you'll be having sex, and who knows what other unspeakable horrors banned in boston.
mircea_popescu: see Bigtexasbingo , online piracy, gatweay drug to marine piracy.
mircea_popescu: i don't understand how they propose anyone use those things. "here's a pile of very important features that you must turn off one by one in order to get the box bacl"
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, apparently "screensaver" on "graphical linux", all flavours, BREAKS OPEN PIPES.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: thinking about this, it's fucking evident what difference the online made for the thinking mind. yes i was a child, but child or no child, it didn't occur to me that i must have a gns link to the item that i like. "this" and pointing was an acceptable manner of reference in the 90s, because why the hell wouldn't it be and what's a global namespace anyway.
mircea_popescu: this "iron-gnat", i'm not even sure it's clear what a cool system it could make.
mircea_popescu: did i ever tell you the story of ye olde 8086 friend had that could drop into asm-er from bios ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, let him be, this part can be easily patched in later anyway.
mircea_popescu: and not even a long finger, he just doesn't comfortably asm is all.
mircea_popescu: i like his approach, ftr. tempered ingenuity, wiggle things one at a time towards the greater goal.
mircea_popescu: hey, colonial empires. england's all injuns and france's all africans for a coupla centuries now.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile teaching girls to make zwiebelschnitzel. in french chablis, for maximal gains.
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't want anyone to be able to make a gui without importing rust-whatever ?
mircea_popescu: used to be exactly what alf says, the building blocks of "gui".
mircea_popescu: which, incidentally, is a character you apparently ~can no longer paste~.
mircea_popescu: if you recall, unicode started as "how about we produce replacement for "Box drawings vertical single and right double"
mircea_popescu: the issue of textual->pictographic representation is a lot wider and deeper than what the imbeciles rephrased it as, and proceeded to "solve" in their usual fucktarded manbners.
mircea_popescu: and i suspect the "unicode" problem is tightly bound into this.
mircea_popescu: i guess next time i ban his whole c class. two bit shitheads on two bit shitnet with pooled ips
mircea_popescu: a language dumb enough, by the way, that there's no way to distinguish between "i expect" and "i hope". espera-m-ia-i pula.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and yes definitely from "back home", bought it in romania, was unable to replace because spanish speakers are idiots to a man, for the reason that their stupid mothers spoke a stupid language to them.
mircea_popescu: yet EVERY shop in this cowtown HAS IT. same exact item. everywhere. pretentious malls, built for no reason, "expensive" "brand" shops, offering... the same exact nothings.
mircea_popescu: who and in what cloud of toxic smoke came up with short sleeved bathrobes ?!
mircea_popescu: and SAME fucking thing with bath robes. you have your choice of a) plastic, imported from miami or b) chinese notion of fluffed cotton, looks like insane asylum ware, WITH SHORT SLEEVES
mircea_popescu: fwiw, proper size beach towel had to be crafted, "not available" from "retailers" of "industry"
mircea_popescu: yes it's fundamentally stupid ; but superficially sane. and in a world that's fucking stupid throughout, the "i don't give a shit what they started with, they have x y z working processes" is quite tempting.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform handsewn underwear, so help me. this is how stuff like mormonism endures, ftr.
mircea_popescu: they're so god damned useful, these pointless morons, i have an assembly line of stripper-phds running all over to find the most banal of items.
mircea_popescu: fucking worthless "industry" of superficial painted paper.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform don't remind me, i am $1000 dollars into the adventure of finding underwear for myself.
mircea_popescu: can find a bunch of "i can't believe it's not butter"s, but...
mircea_popescu: what the "gay community" got out of the mess is that it's actually even MORE difficult for gay man to find a partner today than it was in 1980.
mircea_popescu: i care about how "the world was briefly better for X insignificant minority" like i care about flea pageants.
mircea_popescu: it'd have been a fuckhell of a lot better to NOT liberalize it, and for the effort we'd still have a bunch of sad faggots crying in the corner, AND ALSO a natural and universally confirmed expectation 20something housewife-to-be can work webirc by herself on first encounter.
mircea_popescu: but what we got for the "diverse, inclusive internet" is the move from the "sov schooling & father's army belt" 1980s where ~all kids understood most basic things naturally~ through a period of "confusion" and into this situation of smartphone and food delivery, where ~all kids understand nothing useful~.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there are some very strong arguments available for intolerance.
mircea_popescu: very much like "preventing ~other people~ from smoking means 7% of the taxpayers don't die early from cancer they got ~in this manner~, so they either find some other abortion mechanism or else even worse news, they get to pass on their shitgenes)
mircea_popescu: "oh, but this means 7% of kids don't get their shit beat out of them regularly ages 6-9 for THIS reason"
mircea_popescu: somehow this never figures in the blather (also called "conversation" in-universe) : that the COST for "being inclusive to left handed people" is that a) all tools now must come with manual indicating whether left or right handed item and b) it's ambiguous, when going for a tool, which hand to go with.
mircea_popescu: because back then, yes less diveristy, and consequently, also more obviousness.
mircea_popescu: "things that crawled out of their mother's cunt, stuck around long enough to grow a cunt of their own, and tits to go with it"
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood, i don't fucking remember having to explain anyone how to use webirc in 1998.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remember back when "self evident" was a thing ? legitimately, was an actual thing.
mircea_popescu: downconverting is a much stickier issue than meets the eye
mircea_popescu: tournament markets, what happens to capitalism once the sons of unbeaten mothers in monogamous arrangements grow up.
mircea_popescu: no, i mean sponsorship. remember when i sponsored the what was it, 8chan maybe ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo understand, i don't even necessarily mean "sell webhosting". don't open a conversation by a pitch in any case anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not like imperial ideology is meaningful in any sense anyway. might as well.
mircea_popescu: most people are too shy to talk to girls ; be the girl that talks to them.