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mircea_popescu: "theoretical physicists calculate
the imaginary part of schroedinger function collapses for various items in
their room and
then convert it all
to matrix form
to go
to sleep"
mircea_popescu: what's he going
to do if say a bn chicks actually decide
to go for it ?
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mircea_popescu: they
taught
the greeks magic and romans
to write don;'t you know./
mircea_popescu: yeah i know. we had a bunch of crypto natl-socialist idiots in romania
too.
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to 'urkland' and
then 'orcland.'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why's
the reporter so fucking excited lol
BingoBoingo: "Non-Euclidean Geometry for Babies is intended
to introduce babies
to
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that
the so-called "Parallel Postulate" might not be
true. "
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BingoBoingo: Almond milk is about
the only way I find almonds palatable,
the demon cyanide
tasting seeds
that
they are.
mircea_popescu: or, if you prefer, de retz has some mentions in his memoirs,
to
the same principle.
mircea_popescu: the owner of one figuring it's better
to keep
the other in
the hands of its current inept owner
than let him lose it.
mircea_popescu: i
think balzac is
the first
to describe it. some small sleepy country
town somewhere, with
two printing licenses
mircea_popescu: millions of country boys had
to be assembled in
the choir invisible
to rectify
the mistakes of
two inept diplomats.
mircea_popescu: if
they worked
together we'd be sitting here speaking german
threatening doom
to
the
third reich.
mircea_popescu: who's
to blame ? inept ribentropp, inept molotov, chiefly.
mircea_popescu: think of it :
two major powers, with very close ideologies,
the absolute leader of one in love with
the absolute leader of
the other, managed
to go
to war!
mircea_popescu: you know ? putting some idiot's wife in
the gulag doesn't make him suddenly smart.
mircea_popescu: cazalla no biggy.
this is
the fungible sort of work, it'll wait.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i'm still interested in forum posting, didn't want you
to
think i was blowing it off even
though
that's what i've done
this week, i'll bbl, week of logs
to catch up on
mircea_popescu: but yes, it's been for many decades now
the established mo of
the great "nation" of
the united states :
to grow an inch, cut an inch off
the measuring
tape.
mircea_popescu: "why do you hang out with
these bums ?" "because
they're
the only people
that call me a beauty queen", said
the ambitious
teenaged slut.
mircea_popescu: obviously. but
the convenience does not resolve
the other angle. it's a ruinous association.
assbot: Logged on 09-07-2014 00:04:59; asciilifeform: pierce << ideal example of
the animal described on one of mircea_popescu's essays - he could be packed into prison for life, any
time, based on what's in his file. so he does as instructed.
mircea_popescu: gets
to run a piece of shit "resource"
that everyone pushes as if it were useful.
mircea_popescu: ironically,
the very guy
the entire clampdown on
the internets exist
to protect
the internets for
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
to be perfectly fair,
the guy wasn't keeping his finances in
the best of orders (according
to you know,
the criteria required so you don't get called "a cult leader" by
teh cult leadership). nevertheless, nothing nearly as bad as what
the childfucker jimbo wales did in his day
mircea_popescu: cazalla you're not supposed
to sit, but
that's a splendid idea : pole dancing.
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cazalla: mircea_popescu, spring is due here so i'm going
to do laps once it warms up a little
mircea_popescu: go work out. none of
that high performance gym shit
tho,
this isn't
to perform,
this is
to relax. ride a horse. swim. something sane.
cazalla: so
that's why i sometimes stay in bed for a week or 2 and just sleep
the depression off
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cazalla: mircea_popescu, i have no report for
today, been in bed best part of a week
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not a matter of
the machines per se
tho.
mircea_popescu: even at
the risk of driving down legitimate promises and capable people,
the
theory goes,
this is still a worthwhile endeavour.
mircea_popescu: and
the fiat state is predicated on
the
theory
that productive work may be extracted out of assemblages of a
trillion shitheads
that by and of
themselves are wholly incapable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly.
the fiat economy is predicated on
the
theory
that value may be constructed out of a
trillion promises
that each on and of itself is worthless
mircea_popescu: on one hand because it is actually very limited on
th edirect, on
the other hand because it is very affraid
to use even
the little it has lest a hb rehash.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's all social engineering.
the nsa does not have any
technical capbility worth
the mention.
mircea_popescu: that's immaterial.
the
threat defense, however, will be an array of geographically distributed servers which someone will have
to shepherd
the ircd on.
mircea_popescu: this
thing seems
to hold
true in
the most perverse and unexpected of applications.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know
there's
this pesky rule of nature
that
the more one speaks
the less one knows.
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mircea_popescu: i guess
the catholics also did pretty well on
the score.
mircea_popescu: so end
the glorious sunday pronouncements, join us next sunday for nude frolicking in
the grass and fire spitting.
mircea_popescu: and
therefore! whosoever knoweth well
the workings of
the irc demon and how
to set it up let me know, for we shall have a plan b, and our plan b shall
take over
the earth!
mircea_popescu: knoweth ye,
that while it is unlikely for freenode
to buckle, more
than anything because its brains are so scattered it's unlikely
to manage
to gather enough management
to do anything, nevertheless
this isn't a reason
to not build parachute
mircea_popescu: pronouncement #b : and
then he spake
thus : ye knoweth
the evil people of
the world know no rest, for
the very fire of hell scorches
their gullets on
the inside so
they may never sit quietly in a room. and
therefore it will come
to pass
that
they will put pressure on freenode, starting for instance last
thursday.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pronouncement #1 : and he said unto
them lo!
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mircea_popescu: hi all, and welcome
to mp's string of sunday pronnouncements!
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kakobrekla: well why did
they leave
the gates open!