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mircea_popescu: this did result in better emission controls for power plants, and did fully resolve the problem, but that doesn't make acid rain any less bullshit.
mircea_popescu: the first, historically, is the misrepresentation of the very real, and also very local problem of so2 emissions into an imaginary global phenomenon called "Acid rain"
mircea_popescu: soon enough you won't be able to find out your own height.
mircea_popescu: bad inflation numbers. bad employment numbers. pseudoclimatology. bad forensic tests (yeah, right, this only happened on drugs, not rape, yeah right, this only happened in ma, not wy)
mircea_popescu: see dub it's not just that they're fudging climate science generally.
mircea_popescu: and that was the last time you ever heard of that place.
mircea_popescu: they had everything. then they went and told their kids "we have everything"
mircea_popescu: i have no idea who the guy is, nor do i really care. california's problems are not fixable anyway.
mircea_popescu: well the argument seems to be he claims to be fiscally conservative but votes for tax&spend.
mircea_popescu: one gets more money, the other gets more bruises, but still, what they do is what they do.
mircea_popescu: moreover, is there a difference between the girl turning tricks during the recession from the girl turning tricks during the boom ?
mircea_popescu: the reason this particular bit works however has nothing to do with the form, and everything to do with the facvt it's true
mircea_popescu: this was a very happy ending to a "find me a bitcoin dork that's not in bitcoin" side project
mircea_popescu: if anyone's still keeping track of all the factual proof media is perfectly irrelevant to contemporary society : the nyt story about the group of dorks that went to inspect how antarctica is melted away by global warming and subsequently got iced in 4 lyef actually discusses "scientists". magically they forgot what those so-called scientists were doing with their "science".
mircea_popescu: or in other words, this'd be the first time someone fails 95% in electronics. how, even
mircea_popescu: this must be some luke-ish thing, who knows what exact narrow formalism required
mircea_popescu: pity she never amounted to anything in feminism, i'd much rather mock her than luminaries a la that fat chick, what's her name.
mircea_popescu: more like a cross between zsa zsa gabor and liz taylor, managing to garner the worst parts of both
mircea_popescu: giving away a slightly used, still in working condition yoko ono to whoever identifies the quote's author.
mircea_popescu: "I resent being an artist, in that respect, I resent performing for fucking idiots who don't know anything. They can't feel. I’m the one that’s feeling, because I’m the one that is expressing."
mircea_popescu: (which indeed implies that the unwilling to die have no rights)
mircea_popescu: it only becomes a right once you are actually willing to die for it.
mircea_popescu: some proposition doesn't become a right just as soon as someone somehwere doesn't see why it shouldn't be, that's why
mircea_popescu: there's millions of little noises my ears filter out. i lose something when i'm deaf to entropic noise ?
mircea_popescu: this is flat out nonsense. i don't care about most of the ~10 bn extras the earth is carrying.
mircea_popescu: by design it's a loss he can easily cope with : you've only one boss, he presumably has many employees.
mircea_popescu: and he doesn't care that you're neither happy nor any good
mircea_popescu: do the others have a right that requires EVERYONE to care about them ?
mircea_popescu: now how does that get wedged into hapiness and superiority ?
mircea_popescu: possibly the most abused term in current english, sort-of like "christian" and "intellectual" rolled into one.
mircea_popescu: from experience, the people who aren't ever sad are the people who are better than others.
mircea_popescu: well but how. if i could put it in a pill we could all start exchanges and reddit's dream of progress and equality could finally be realised.
mircea_popescu: jurov prevent is aptly named for what it does : afore, not after the fact.
mircea_popescu: by this token peacock tail feathers are probably more expensive
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform of course te per gram reference is deceiving. aerogel is very light