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mircea_popescu: mrwdunne srsly, it's not the first in any sense, forget about that angle.
mircea_popescu: for instance recently : gigaom's atrociously mendacious coverage of bitcoin has put him on my blacklist.
mircea_popescu: decimation depends on the reaction of the corporation. if they fire him, him. if they don't, both.
mircea_popescu: what are you going to say, "herp", because you already used the proper expression in april 2014 ?
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> asciilifeform: It is well within the specs I set when I raped herbi and his wife's future. << dude srsly.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i'm kinda up to here with the smoking addiction thing. i've been smoking since ~16. that's two decades ago. i still smoke, i average a pack a month. prolly less these days. it takes all the willpower of a tomato as far as i can tell, it's never bothered me.
mircea_popescu: after six weeks of that, the choice is never smoke again and never have to crate it up again
mircea_popescu: simple programme of... load crates 16 hours a day. every day.
mircea_popescu: get a special bed rigged where you get pricked with a pin. all the time. somewhere.
mircea_popescu: now that's an inconvenience. not fucking nicotine deprivation.
mircea_popescu: do an experiment where you get shocked at a modest 48 volts at random intervals on average 8 times a second.
mircea_popescu: people just conveniently pretend like their experiences matter out of all proportion.
mircea_popescu: it raises the most minor of inconveniences conceivable.
mircea_popescu: and i'm not gonna give stan any more credit than i gave benkay either
mircea_popescu: dude i love this chan. i shall now write yet another great trilema article on the basis of shit i ran into here.
mircea_popescu: no he has a point, calling it cholinergic is a ridiculous approximation.
mircea_popescu: "If you /are/ the majority and I am in the minority, how could you possibly believe that I have not already and many years ago figured out exactly how you guys work? If you had the brain to do it, this would be a grave insult, but you do not think ahead. You do in fact not think at all, because the things you say can only be uttered by a mind closed shut long ago."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but the one thing that makes the plane "more responsive" is spiking the pilot.
mircea_popescu: afterburners are a pain in most situations tho. much less precision
mircea_popescu: cazalla well, if he had or hadn't, still has to be in bet interval. wasn't like a "first time" or anything
mircea_popescu: the se;f confidence thing sounds just like greenspun's problem
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves maybe. was there a bubble last summer ?
mircea_popescu: im sure the practicak difference between acquittal and conviction is less than the difference between his life pre and post that nonsense.
mircea_popescu: putin the redbeard, the norwegian rapist cum invader ?
mircea_popescu: who are the hillbillies going to support ? bigus dickus, the roman bureaucrat ?
mircea_popescu: This also gives some credibility to the thesis that was popping up in the 19th century that the North African Jews had a Phoenician origin (or that the difference between Canaanite and Jew before the rabbinical period was not very pronounced for p
mircea_popescu: is wasy for a Punic speaker to progressively become an Arabic speaker, since he already knows 80-90% of the vocabulary.
mircea_popescu: This explains the mystery of the effortless Arab invasion of the Southern and Western Mediterranean, all the way to Spain (and, less advertised, the Portuguese Algarve). They had to be welcomed by the local population along the coast. Canaanite and Arabic are easily mutually comprehensible (the distance between Semitic languages is very short, a corrollary of the stability thanks to the triplet of consonnants). And it
mircea_popescu: e Romans did not make names, but transcribed them). I estimate that the third of the coastal villages spoke Semitic dialects. The modus of the Phoenicians was network, hence a system of trade links built on trust (you send merchandise to a relative who pays you back; you needed a certain amount of trust before the letter of credit). The region is large: it extends all the way to Mogador on the Atlantic coast.
mircea_popescu: anguage at home and for oral communication that is different from the language of writing, and doing so for 1000 years). And there had to be plenty of Semitic language speakers; just follow placenames from Carthage to Ramatuelle in France near Saint Tropez (ramat el means hill of God in both Canaanite and Hebrew). Even Marseilles seems to come from Marsa, port in Canaanite (and not from Massilia the Roman name since th
mircea_popescu: This stickiness of the Semitic languages supports a speculation: by the 7th Century there had to be many pockets in the Western Mediterranean of Punic-Canaanite speakers, about a thousand years after the fall of Carthage. Falling under Roman rule did not turn the population into Latin speakers (only for scholarly purposes, say Saint Augustine of Hyppo; we have much evidence of diglossia in the Levant, of the use of a l
mircea_popescu: let me interject something related i was just happening to read. a bit of a paste :
mircea_popescu: just you know, sink all its cruisers and impose a massive war reparations programme.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't imagine anyone would be invading the us.
mircea_popescu: I hear that beat; I jump outa my seat but I can't compete, cause I'm a dancin' fool, I'm a dancin' fool
mircea_popescu: But I go dancin' every night hopin' one day I might get it right
mircea_popescu: 'Course now right along with 'em I got no natural rhythm
mircea_popescu: One of my legs is shorter than the other 'n both my feet's too long
mircea_popescu: Don't know much about dancin' that's why I got this song
mircea_popescu: this reads to me like "the us cook force no longer trains sauce chefs in flour-and-oil saucing"
mircea_popescu: "The U.S. Air Force, for example, no longer trains navigators in celestial sightings,"