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mircea_popescu: je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothese a lot more radical than originally thought.
mircea_popescu: usian can not comprehend existence unless tv explains it to him ("how does the news relate to me?!?!"), arab hasta have the allah basis, socialist needs the state to, conceptually, assuage his existential anxieties and so following.
mircea_popescu: "spurious item which the superficial mind regards as the universal underpinning of existence"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose this is the proper definition of divinity.
mircea_popescu: arabs believed "if one doesn't believe in god, no matter which as long as one" world also ends. looked at me as you'd look at something thart crawled out of black hole.
mircea_popescu: or the exact equivalent, "if there were no state THE WORLD WOULD END!1111"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i heard it pluriously, much like the whole "if men just went out to rape and pillage there'd be ANARCHY!!!1"
mircea_popescu: fucking scum of all time, those are the only women anyone even wants!
mircea_popescu: dja know how despicable faggots of the interwar (such as, eminently, bedwetter blair) were "indignant" at "the cruel and violent sport of boxing" especially because "of how it makes a minority of women behave" ?
mircea_popescu: to hear the woman retell it, it was more a case of ww2 russian materiel, "we made a buncha duds so now we're gonna call this a new standard rather than throw them out"
mircea_popescu: back then everything came with its own apple-style keyboard etc, nothing fucking worked. subtly.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing more perennial than 1880s tech, in the 1960s as in the 2010
mircea_popescu: you know back in the day she worked for the usaf, chet had a buncha crap systems that had to interop, ended up plugging them all on a hunk of wood to switch manually ?
mircea_popescu: (phone was new and needed name... in the 80s. the other 80s.)
mircea_popescu lived this recently, very elegant vertical 1920s style item, on wall. "what interesting art" "it's a fucking sundial" "a what ?!"
mircea_popescu: comes, originally, when this newfanged tech was new and needed a name, from a different item that was common curriculum and meanwhile disappeared
mircea_popescu: i wonder if ppl even have any fucking clue WHY it's "~dial~ tone".
mircea_popescu: nobody even had a decent monitor in the whole fucking noc. half of them at that point still fuckling tandys or whatever the fuck bicolor cgas.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only place i ever used one, in the 90s, WAS IN DATACENTER. not at your fucking house.
mircea_popescu: that "conventiona 1990 vga kvm" EXISTS so that people in the noc can look at their god damned comps
mircea_popescu: obviously 1990s tech will not reference 2010 tech wtf nonsense is this.
mircea_popescu: not at all. kvm item appeared to serve the isp market, not the alf market.
mircea_popescu: it's a box, which was once driven by the needs of people offering ISP services, which was consequently sold everywhere and which you picked up and used in your own way. meanwhile the people that drove the kvm item moved on, leaving you stranded. because how you use it and how they use it were never fundamentally the same, just briefly appeared that way.
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone uses kvm in the sense you use it.
mircea_popescu: (for the harem, obviously, not so much for harem-wannabes, but that's aside )
mircea_popescu: the previous item are radio hosts, a major underpinning of us counterculture throughout the 70s and 80s. not really much left by the 90s, and totally gone now.
mircea_popescu: (surprisingly to no one but the sort that get surprised by such things, kim kardashians' us pics are heavily edited.)
mircea_popescu: cruciform did you notice the cartoon with the baby turtles ?
mircea_popescu: WNEW-FM didn't suck in the 90s. where is it. what happened. questions!
mircea_popescu: needless to say that all those websites are dead ; and that the "cadre" of young female fans is long rotten away, the 16 to 21 yo female crowd is all over what even these days ? etsy/patreon/facebook/what ? FUCKTARDS FUCKING RUINED THE GROUPIE! 2010s are a regression to fucking 1950, holy hell, gotta have elvis come back to shake his hips once more ?
mircea_popescu: le fans), and the unofficial site for the show. Though "Dot Com" was soon dropped from the show's title, Ron and Fez have garnered an admirable online following due to RonFez.net."
mircea_popescu: e evening timeslot. Buoyed by Opie and Anthony's lead-in ratings, the duo began to enjoy success. During this period, several memorable characters joined their on-air team, including taciturn producer Hawk, Dumpy, Tasteless Ginny, and the call-in prankster Joe Poo. The show's web-based premise inspired the founding of several websites devoted to the show, including RFBabies.com (once a haven for the show's cadre of young fema
mircea_popescu: "RonAndFez.com : New York's WNEW-FM was converted from a long-respected rock station to all-talk in 1999, with afternoon drive show Opie and Anthony as the focal point. Ron and Fez signed on to host an overnight talk show named Ron and Fez Dot Com, beginning February 21, 2000 and broadcast from 11pm–3am. Ron and Fez eventually moved to evenings (7:00–11:00 pm), then to early afternoon (12:00–3:00pm) and later back to th
mircea_popescu: and speaking of history, here's a well forgotten bit (finally wikipedia can be useful, recent pop culture topic!) :
mircea_popescu: "why doesn't trilema publish something about #random-idiocy-of-today ???" "because it did years ago, back when you should have been paying attention".
mircea_popescu: in other naked truths, ttps://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/nintchdbpict000319251588.jpg
mircea_popescu: because totally, the peon has this option, to insistently attempt to sabotage the elite, and it'll work to anything other than his getting utterly fucked, by apes eventually.
mircea_popescu: and in other "we are the asswipes, we programatically cut the very branch we sit on" lulz, "we did not choose the "new rothchilds" nor do we want them. if bitcoin cash is a means to stop these people then it appears that the votes are being cast as we speak. if bitcoin cash is just another version of the "new rothchilds" then the votes will be cast for the next usurper. there will always be an underdog".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ttps://kiwifarms.net/threads/psa-thanksgiving-is-not-for-black-people.36789/ << in other unexpected obviousness.
mircea_popescu: i suppose in fairness the socrates claim to progressive narrative is the best part though. poor socrates. LAST fucking thing.
mircea_popescu: (yes, many people thought they voted for trump -- but some votes for trump actually mattered. this ain't teh ourdemocracy anymoar, bish!)
mircea_popescu: if i mention how i had slave-labour-made fresh crannberies sauce as well as yogurt chimichurri for the lamb over thxgiving (which we don't even actually celebrate) i'm just being an asshole rite.
mircea_popescu: t from the host, which is what containers do. System services can still be part of the host and can still maybe see it but not necessarily access things." this'd then be the empire's gothic line. as the man observes himself, ""the concepts and logic behind it aren't really convincing".)
mircea_popescu: (re link, the worthy quote, for they too lazy to dig, being "Poettering, as usual, is working on his own solutions and not complaining about the problem. He is working on bringing service management to the next level. He wants to make it easy so users can sandbox system service without necessarily isolating them completely from the host-ware. No need to pretend that a system service is a set of processes completely independen
mircea_popescu: (this, btw, is what reddit is like ON ITS OWN POWER, ie when conde nast isn't tripping up the fake account levers)
mircea_popescu: that scene with shannon doherty "are you guys even trying anymore ?!?!" comes to mind.
mircea_popescu: doing utterly 3rd tier "gnome asia summit", for the same money he could be entertaining in atlantic city.
mircea_popescu: digital particuarly good fit too, because usual problem with mirrors is "your head won't fit in F". but a ccd will.
mircea_popescu: only good high magn optic microscopes i ever saw were mirrored not lens.
mircea_popescu: next you're gonna tell me ai isn't quite here yet and quantum computers not right around the corner, not to mention no 3d printed guns.
mircea_popescu: i though usb nullifies lens aberration through the power of unicode.