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mircea_popescu: it's another to flee mumbai because you can no longer stand the stench.
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to leave golden age new york because you can't afford the rent
mircea_popescu: <decimation> granted, it's a mistake to think of that as another golden age too - there's a reason they all left Germany after all << that reason is population pressure.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I'm convinced that one of the reasons that pre-WWII germany spiraled out of control was because people who were able to make something of themselves had already left 50 years earlier << this is actually a pretty good theory.
mircea_popescu: And Grandma without joking, Said that when she was a young girl she could still drink from the Elbe, without getting sick
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> fuckitall. watched that clip, now i just wanna be in friedrich's army. what have you done mircea_popescu! <<< lmao. die kaisrin hat sich mit den franzosen alliiert, und das romiche reich gegen mich revoltiert die russen seind gefallen in preussen ein auf! lasst uns zeigen dass wir brave landeskinder sein!
mircea_popescu: but it's that so many men over the years thought about the possibility that maybe wifey/daughter/mom's just pregnant ?
mircea_popescu: take the immaculate conception. it's not that any woman ever did. not even close.
mircea_popescu: i suspect any good myth has a dose of nonfactual commonplace thought.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the success of socialism may trace to this, that it has no mythical age in the past.
mircea_popescu: if his father was somebody he'd have been in a world of hurt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, the various fringe groups all do this. anarchists have their pre-state garden of eden, so do goldbugs, so does everyone.
mircea_popescu: decimation i kinda say it too. and probably anyone with a clue that ever saw him.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's lulzy what socialism's own "to each according to his needs" makes out of people.
mircea_popescu: icule, you are the poster child of Slutwalk. And so it is.
mircea_popescu: I deserved it for being unattractive. You deserved it for being too attractive. We both got fucked and not in the way we wanted it. You had no power and had violation inflicted upon you. I had no power or right to feel like a human being inflicted upon me. You were penetrated against your will. Feminism and woman bent me over and fucked me up the ass while laughing at me. We both wanted death. Yet i was a source of rid
mircea_popescu: em was going up to a guys room at 2am for a late night coffee.
mircea_popescu: In fact, you could call this my own personal rape. I’m sure women will be up in arms for me calling it that, but what is the criteria for it? I feel shame. I am unable to talk about it with others. I will invariably be blamed for the outcome i suffered because of the way *I* acted. Being beta was ‘wearing a miniskirt’. Acting like a NiceGuy was ‘being overly flirtatious’. Respecting women and pedestalizing th
mircea_popescu: the guy i linked is actually noteworthy because he takes the dilution of rape one step further : he claims his experience's been rape.
mircea_popescu: it's not bad. author got banned because she displayed wastage of food.
mircea_popescu: it'd definitely make me enjoy reading teh internets more.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this entire "idiots figure they're people too" side of the internet is like a lake of stu
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch as we got plenty o theorems already proven..
mircea_popescu: it actually comes from a great bogart line, he tells slim to walk around him.
mircea_popescu: or you could just query gribble but im usually too lazy to
mircea_popescu: odds are this bunch is more numerous than the bunch that still reads romanian press.
mircea_popescu: cgcardona i bet you that's more per sq foot than the businesses in downtown san francisco can possibly afford
mircea_popescu: kidneys, everything's worth it just to make the tiny coal plant go.
mircea_popescu: bloodstream, all the hassle of hemoglobin, the expense of feeces being 80% that
mircea_popescu: after all, they are genetically different (and that's why the mother dna is actually more dna than the father's)
mircea_popescu: justusranvier BingoBoingo re the virus discussion, i suppose you're familiar with the viral theory of the origin of the mitochondria
mircea_popescu: <decimation> If USG doesn't consider failure to pay federal taxes a basis to deny a security clearance, one wonders upon what basis the clearance is granted? <<< i don't think you understand how few people still pay their taxes.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> if easier to find bullet than coin, re-examine engineering priorities in project. <<< ahah the foregoing was worth it.
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> diablo has not looked like that for some time, she got a make over in diablo 3 << sadly.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> mthreat: mircea_popescu: has ars customs completely cut amazon off from delivering? << i've not yet tried mail.
mircea_popescu: that ain't maslow's pyramid for crying out loud. this is like the #1 libertard falsification topic or what ?!
mircea_popescu: the major point of difference being that out of the glass, of water or of emotion, one can extract usable entropy. not so from logic, at all.
mircea_popescu: ColinT a glass full of water is a glass-sized computator for water molecule position within a glass inside a gravitational field.
mircea_popescu: logic is a very narrowly, absolutely defined subclass of "computed"
mircea_popescu: but no, emotion ain't no type o' logic i ever heard of.
mircea_popescu: <ColinT> I'm not someone who thinks rationally in groups - because groups of people don't think rationally << depends on the group.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, i suppose it's a good proof they don't grok objective reality.
mircea_popescu: you can't really dilute anything past 10^-20ish or so.