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mircea_popescu: hello kakobrekla, raper of assbots, sleeper of long time.
mircea_popescu: well this is enough history reading for an evening. ima go beat my slaves and smoke a pipe.
mircea_popescu: ideas are a source of evil in the sense pie is a source of evil.
mircea_popescu: “People have the silly idea that there must be freedom of the press and no repression. They don’t realise that ideas are also a source of evil.”
mircea_popescu: “[An] SABC records committee members, Mr Roelf Jacobs, denied the SABC ‘banned’ songs. ‘We just don’t play them,’ he said.”
mircea_popescu: “At least I’ll be able to kiss Desdemona without leaving a smudge.” — Actor John Kani, the first black man to play Othello in Shakespeare’s play in South Africa
mircea_popescu: “I never imagined that power would remain forever with the Matanzimas. It’s just that we were the only two with university degrees.”
mircea_popescu: hot summer in the city and assorted sexploitation/blacksploitation flicks ?
mircea_popescu: ‘When we show a film which our non-white girls are not allowed to see, they usher patrons with a torch and watch the floor,’ he said. ‘We discussed the matter with the Department of Labour and I raised this point with them. As a precautionary measure — since non-whites are not allowed to see some films restricted to whites only — we decided that they should not look at the screen.”
mircea_popescu: decimation i'd be surprised if 10% of us gdp is independent atm. it'd be mostly things like that cattle rancher guy.
mircea_popescu: aww. i was rooting for "provided they remain on their knees, mouth open, left hand around lips
mircea_popescu: 7. “Coloured girls can now work as usherettes in white cinemas — provided they do not look at the screen, Mr John Redman, general manager of Kinekor’s theatre division, told me this week.
mircea_popescu: those pesky muricans ruining perfectly reasonable nonsense!
mircea_popescu: guish them from people who originate from Europe.” — Cape Times, 19
mircea_popescu: 5. “Jan Smuts airport, in common with the Union’s other ports of land, sea and air, will soon amend its apartheid applications. The words ‘European’ and ‘non-European’ will be replaced by the words ‘Whites’ and ‘Non-Whites’ over appropriate doors and entrances. The reason is that foreigners, particularly Americans, confuse the issue — and the exit — by tending to use doors that seem to distin
mircea_popescu: Colloquially, passes were often called the dompas, literally meaning the "dumb pass."
mircea_popescu: someone "bought" "traffic", got ddosed, got cloudflare.
mircea_popescu: check that shit out. it redirects to a ... cloudflare protected domain
mircea_popescu: one of the advantages of trilema : i'm on everyone's spamlist. cause i write about games, about movies, about whores, about money... food, you name it
mircea_popescu: "buy traffic, set X domain as referer, hope noob webmaster actually links it somewhere"
mircea_popescu: some guy on twitter, " The amount of web traffic that is driven to those site links are the equivalent of Gold to these companies. In a digital world SEO is king. On top of this, the CoinDesk price index is what the foundation uses to charge it’s members and is generally accepted as the price by mainstream media."
mircea_popescu: "650+ Search engine unique traffics by Google/Facebook/Twitter/Youtube/... for $1"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: otherwise, papers were always to be produced on demand, ever since la terreur.
mircea_popescu: before 1914 ie, after 1800, you could travel if you had a passeport.
mircea_popescu: before 1914 ie in the middle ages you could only travel if you were a journeyman, or in the service of a noble.
mircea_popescu: communist romania had similar regulations. you couldn't just herpy-derp settle in town cause you felt like it.
mircea_popescu: i think this is actually quite brilliant. make it illegal to have a mob[ile vulgus]
mircea_popescu: "Before the 1950s, this legislation largely applied to African men, and attempts to apply it to women in the 1910s and 1950s were met with significant protests. "
mircea_popescu: <bounce> and now, of course, with the advent of schengen and the resulting wonderful open borders, you're required to always be able to produce identity papers on demand in various countries in europe <<< this was a) never false and b) not currently true.
mircea_popescu: <bounce> man, those are some ugly banners. like fluffypony's take though, classy and shit. << aww!
mircea_popescu: if you can live with it you can, if not you'll do something about it, but in no case can it be that you just... never knew.
mircea_popescu: i make it my job to bother people exactly in this manner.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves leave a sauce ion the trilema article too ?
mircea_popescu: this is historically and geographically stable, too. i have writings from 1880s romania describing the exact same problem
mircea_popescu: in my experience it's usually the women that want to work hard
mircea_popescu: bounce it's a fact. there's 30 to 35 iq points buried in there.
mircea_popescu: this does not compare to your average bitcoin stupid in any sense.
mircea_popescu: all this aside : the guy made lemon and sold it out. then is making xapo
mircea_popescu: he was here for a little bit, but it was weeks really iirc.
mircea_popescu: is your thesis that wences has been reading the logs or what ?