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mircea_popescu: huge strategic mistake publicizing that item, but sadly i r not yet in the position of making ALL the calls.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform shameful excuses of the items they pretend to be.
mircea_popescu: oh they're still going on with their pretensions to sovereignity and whatnot, "firewalls", bs.
mircea_popescu: (this mechanism survives in "error codes" lulz even today)
mircea_popescu: you're familiar with how industrial technology looked at the time, the machine'd have a list of items internally, and glued on a piece of paper giving the words per item
mircea_popescu: whereas odds are mccarthy thought indexes in an array.
mircea_popescu: it might just be that you look at mccarthy's symbols and think "oh strings".
mircea_popescu: "not a primitive" means "nothing can '''conceptually''' be that"
mircea_popescu: ~only utility for those is "baby's first naked pic" back when they didn't shave, didn't suck cock and didn't habitually strip naked in company.
mircea_popescu: holy shit turns out i know a lot about field developing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cut up cardboard, coupla inches larger than window, duct-tape on.
mircea_popescu: (to keep form it has to be always feminine anyway, so this works surprisingly well)
mircea_popescu: (all the proposed definitions are at least somewhat reasonable)
mircea_popescu: roll some rexona on the chip and throw it against the wall.
mircea_popescu: if you're gonna do it like this, why not use a fridge.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what reasoning would impel a sane fellow to use fucking polaroids auto-paper, when a bit of film would have about 9k x resolution ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform used to be reactives were expensive. no more. proper bath, listen to me.
mircea_popescu: bathroom in most us places works as dark room, screw in red light plug the window if it exists.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo *you would if you could import the fresh tuna.
mircea_popescu: oh, in other lulz : costa rica failed to send anyone to miss universe competition (some indian midget won in china). on the basis of observed data... this is correct.
mircea_popescu: so i go into shop that has you know, coffee toaster and a buncha nuts etc, and go "camarron ?" and the woman looks at me befuddled, so i'm like "semillas de camarron!" and she's eyeing me like wtf then realises. "maranon ?"
mircea_popescu: "rent is 100 but i don't have to spend 150 to get language lessons, o noes, im 50 in the green here"
mircea_popescu: not bad start. find a shared apt deal among the students after, will be cheaper in the sense of paying for itself via roommates.
mircea_popescu: eventually late 70s incarnations looked exactly like the early nissan suvs. of the 90s.
mircea_popescu: then the romanians added 10% hp / 10% speed etc five years later. then added 15% more five years later. and so on
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cuz head of the reds, ie, vaguely left-centrists. but rather, because somewhat opposite to usg party.
mircea_popescu: people did that sort of thing, back then. and all the fuckbook tards who paint the dude (rightfully or not, i don't give a shit) as the summum malum never as much as put together a fucking lego box.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but take this forinstance : thorouyghly hated politician active these days MADE his own fucking ARO (70s romanian SUV). OUT OF PARTS. WHICH HE BOUGTH.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: depends. 80s were insufferable (but, according to eg stanculescu, still better than ru). 70s were supposedly great. 60s ro was ahead of the post-war pack, but still... europe. even the french had malnutrition.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: made to the tune of 1,5k a day or such, respectable altogether.
mircea_popescu: proportionally 10x than the ru things, because smaller pop.
mircea_popescu: and you showed up like for the draft, paper in hand and specified comcast-style times. "between 8 and 17". people fucking camped at the plant.
mircea_popescu: i tell the girls stories, you know, "to get a car in the 80s you had to deposit 80k lei in this so and so account, and then 8 to 18 months later they'd call you TO THE PLANT and you'd get, mostly, a car. of whatever color they had available and maybe with all the parts. there were no fucking showrooms or anything, people drove the car home 500 kms.
mircea_popescu: trinque> I just beat his face in << better strategy. "bitch, by the time i'm done with you, your mom's gonna be begging to bring me my hat in her snatch every weekend after nine."
mircea_popescu: the most amusing example being that in 1817, back when "miscegenation" was a serious offence, and in 2017, when "bbc" is kinda fashionable, the prevalence of black-white mixed kids born was ~same. cuz exogamy is a behaviour and society is a blather, guess which comes later.
mircea_popescu: trinque the theory isn't that it actually does anything ; the idea is that the ~reason~ they thought they're doing it was pretty dumb.
mircea_popescu: recall when they started bussing kids to school lest you know, family ties survive or some such