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mircea_popescu: plus... you know... who wants
to put her nipple on random
tihngs.
decimation: a bit wobbly as a ruler don't you
think?
mircea_popescu: took
them a good five minutes
to figure out
the whole
thing;s a snipe.
mircea_popescu: and yet, if you
think of it,
there should!
they're like natural calipers.
mircea_popescu: that no natural measurement of length works as
the distance between
the nipples
mircea_popescu: and proceeded
to proclaim
that perhaps
the best example of society marginalising women known
to anthropology is
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know i famously proposed
this once ?
mircea_popescu: why is
the boob forever cursed with ambigous multinominity ?
mircea_popescu: "her
tits aren't really
that much bigger, it's
the light."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform conceivably supernovae would be more like a cough
than a slurp
mircea_popescu: not much was possible
throughout much of
that history, but
the idea still nevertheless recognisably remains.
mircea_popescu: right. for many years men gathered
together,
trying with
their humble powers
to implement as much of a bitcoin-assets as possible.
bounce: tried
to hunt it by myself once, no dice.
bounce: so why does english have different names for groups of animals and
then specify
the animal anyway?
mircea_popescu: there is no such
thing as "the people" any more
than
there are "women" or "blacks" or "jews" or "strippers" or "sluts" or "coeds" or so forth
decimation: you know what orwell missed was
that you didn't really need "Big Brother"
to convince everyone
that
the digits/zinc is worth anything - you just need 'the people'
to have a 'stake' in
the success of
the graft and
they will 'big brother'
themselves
mircea_popescu: don't go all lyrical & philosophical on people now. you got oyur blogs for
that. stick
to facts and practice good journalism
mircea_popescu: when dealing with a woman... apparently,
the opposite!
mircea_popescu: specifically : when dealing with an item,
trying harder is for when
things work, and
trying something else when
things don't work.
pete_dushenski_: assbot: Farrakhan claims Ebola invented
to kill off blacks | Fox News << i always
thought
that was aids' job...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i propose my objection is better grounded
than
that.
pete_dushenski_: strp: no
thanks,
thickasthieves. I don't have
to justify
talking with anyone else I
talk with. << classic wilyotp (walk in like you own
the place). gotta love
the endless supply of such
thinking.
Dimsler: its worth what you choose it
to be worth
decimation: surely serious men must find it extremely silly
to sit around and pretend
that nickel coated zinc is worth a shit
mircea_popescu: the key is
to stick
to
the human, rather
than
the real.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "whoredom is
the new chastity". see,
this one works.
pete_dushenski_: mircea_popescu: is it me or is pete_d on a roll ? << and i
think it's just you :D
pete_dushenski_: mircea_popescu: v. good point about
the shaw
thing. i'm logging on from a different comp and i don't quite have
the flow sorted on
this one.
decimation: one problem being
that once
the sovereign decides
that insolvency is
the new solvent it gives leave for everyone else
to do so, especially using
the king's scrip
BingoBoingo: decimation>
the clerks in
the bank of england
thought
they could use 'one weird
trick'
to materialize gold from
thin air <<
To
the extend Geography poses a challenge
to verification
they could pretend
decimation: the clerks in
the bank of england
thought
they could use 'one weird
trick'
to materialize gold from
thin air
assbot: History of
the
Trial of
the Pyx |
The Royal Mint
decimation: "the hlls are
tall an
the emperor is far away"
mircea_popescu: btw, since he got mentioned : newton ended up
the author of
the gold standard in
the western world.
decimation: they exist, but
there are at least 10 layers of fat bureaucrats between obama and
the
truth-knowers
Dimsler: but i
thought obama was
there leader?
bounce: ``Newton moved
to London
to
take up
the post of warden of
the Royal Mint in 1696, a position
that he had obtained
through
the patronage of Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax,
then Chancellor of
the Exchequer.''
mircea_popescu: i would very much like
to see current day "scientist"
telling obama
to get
the fuck lost.
mircea_popescu: decimation more on point :
they could
tell
the sovereign
to get fucked
decimation: ie
they didn't have
to worry about food & basic human needs
mircea_popescu: just add lavoisier
to
the list and we can call it a day eh.
decimation: 'government' was quite a different
thing
then
though
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you know if you first join as d.shawcable.net
the entire cloak
thing loses its point
mircea_popescu: fumes will kill you before
the fire even warms you a little
mircea_popescu: problem i nthe usa isn't as much
the per se combustibility, more like, all
the evil shit sandwiched in
there
decimation: well, loads of bureaucrats have been harassing people
to spray various dubious fireproofing chemicals on everything
Dimsler: yeah like
the combustable house and obsession with firemen is a north american
thing
mircea_popescu: actually... i
think us houses are
the most combustible
things ever in
the history of dwellings.
mircea_popescu: three
thousand years and uncountable changes in everything later.
mircea_popescu: i doubt malignancies are
the main problem. i
think
the main problem of medicine
today is still metabolism
decimation: asciilifeform:
the scanner would have
to see down
the molecules
to determine malignancy in-situ
Dimsler: well i mean
todays operations are much much cleaner
decimation: yeah, it's a delicate microstructure and your
tools are basically 'hammer' and 'sledge'
mircea_popescu: and
then blamed you for
the results, but praised "nature" for
the success.
mircea_popescu: decimation you can appreciate
the shittyness of it, right ? suppose you were given
the
task of fixing code you may not read running on a one of a kind processor you don't even have
the spec for.
decimation: until someone can give an engineering-level account of
the human body and all its processes, it's gonna stay
that way
decimation: yeah I would say
that's probably
true in most cases
Duffer1: speaking of dr,
that coffee was a big hit,
thanks for
the suggestion MP
mircea_popescu: actual doctors
today are about as hacky/harmful as
they were cca 1714.
mircea_popescu: generally
the problem is
that people ascribe
the benefits of santiation
to medicine.
this is false.
Dimsler: problem with being a scientifist in
todays modern age is you aren't working from home
mircea_popescu: bounce
then allow me
to use
this opportunity
to expose before your eyes your own automatism.
bounce: pfft.
too early
to do
the research.