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assbot: Mutha 'uckers - Flight of
the Conchords - YouTube
Vexual: 6
to
the dollar punkman
Vexual: wait, you got a dollar for
the jukebox?
pete_dushenski: i'll let your fertile minds play with
that while i bid ye "hasta manana"
pete_dushenski: That was in
the morning,
then
this afternoon was mainly pillaging,
though
there was a bit of bloodshed around half four. What sort of day have you had?"
pete_dushenski: "How...how's
the work going... dear?" she yelped miserably.
The soldier shook her. "Put some affection into it!" he roared. She sobbed again. "How...how's
the work going... dear?" she yelped miserably again, but
this
time with a kind of pathetic pout at
the end.
The mighty Khan sighed. "Oh, not
too bad I suppose," he said in a world weary
tone. "We swept
through Manchuria a bit and spilt quite a lot of blood
there.
pete_dushenski: goodness knows you
tell yourself enough compliments, neh?
mircea_popescu: what are
the odds
that someone cracked a good joke/compliment jsut as
the flash went off ?
assbot: Fototeca de Haur pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
pete_dushenski: those of you who didn't kill andreas should definitely be following
that dude
Vexual: don't read
that, read law
assbot: Nick Szabo (NickSzabo4) auf
Twitter
pete_dushenski: ^just stumbled across a very interesting looking math blog, for
those so inclined
Vexual: fluffy, have you
travelled outside za into
the contient?
pete_dushenski: RebeccaBitcoin: wonderful. next
time, we'll work on
the rest
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i just picked up atlas shrugged
today
pete_dushenski: "There isn’t, nor is
there going
to be a way, manner, instrument or device
through which
to protect
the passive from
the active."
RebeccaBitcoin: However
to what you were really asking, yes, i am satisfied with
the response
to my entropy question
assbot: A very unfair perspective. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
RebeccaBitcoin: none of
these were achieved: revenge, orgasm, college degree, a really hot dude's phone #
decimation: I must retire for
the evening but I would be curious about what you
think about
that, given your proximity
to
the affairs in
that region of
the world.
pete_dushenski: if not by me,
then by my, what shall we call
them... colleagues?
RebeccaBitcoin: ya
thats why I wanted
to ask you about
the mouse entropy
thing
pete_dushenski: RebeccaBitcoin: not saying you have
to use it, merely
that it
talks about
the entropy of javascript mouse clicks
assbot: Unqualified Reservations:
The country
that used
to exist
fluffypony: decimation:
they were fighting an incredibly oppressive regime, I don't
think you can hold
them any more accountable
than
those
that continued
to push Apartheid policies
pete_dushenski: RebeccaBitcoin:
that must be about
the
threshold
to get people here
RebeccaBitcoin: "Bullshit" with Penn &
Teller about reparations: a good episode about
that in America
fluffypony: you don't correct
the problem with handouts
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yes -
that's what Malema pushed for, and it's one of
the
things
that eventually got him booted from
the ANC, because even
they believe it's a stupid idea
mircea_popescu: somehow i don't see
this education angle
too much. seems it's more a case of, "let's
take
the land and maybe white people will just pay us
to be black"
assbot: Apartheid
taught whites
to be racist: Malema -
Times LIVE
decimation: after all, as I recall
the ANC would necklace anyone who got "overly aggressive" in cooperating with whitey
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: like
there's no problem in saying
that a lot of wealth in South Africa still lies in
the hands of whites by virtue of being born into privilege and so on,
this is a known
thing and it is spoken about and
there are policies
that are
trying
to correct
this by providing an easier route
to good education for
the less fortunate and so on
fluffypony: now he's started his own political party and is clamouring for nationalisation of
the mining industry
mircea_popescu: fluffypony
the concept boggles me. "overly" aggresive ? as in what,
there's an appropriate level of aggresive ?
pete_dushenski: RebeccaBitcoin: well see
the jewfro needs no sticking up for
fluffypony: mircea_popescu:
there are some, Julius Malema was
the head of
the ANC Youth League and often erred on
the side of being overly aggressive against whites, but he was also overly aggressive against
the ANC and got his ass booted
fluffypony: eg. your grandfather had no education and so lived in poverty,
thus your father had no education and lived in poverty, and now you finally have an opportunity
to get a reasonable education and can pull yourself out of poverty, but
there are decades
that must elapse before it's more "balanced"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you know
that strikes me as a very charitable read.
RebeccaBitcoin: in
the end it was mostly insults about bald people and so fourth
fluffypony: decimation: I
think
the old guard within
the ANC might have, but
the younger guys are starting
to care less and less about race, and just want
to fix
the lingering effects of decades of oppresion
assbot: Proof
That Mycelium Knows How
To Make A Better RNG For Its Entropy Dongle. And Isn't. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
decimation: fluffypony do you
think
the ANC will avoid appointing another Comrade Bob?
fluffypony: they're all like "every week I saw someone murdered right outside my house, until finally I packed up my family and we moved
to safe America"
fluffypony: RebeccaBitcoin: South African expats are literally
the worst,
they're a running joke on
the /r/southafrica sub-reddit
fluffypony: and
that isn't something you can breeze past politically
fluffypony: they have "struggle credentials" still going for
them (as in
they fought Apartheid)
fluffypony: so
to remove him all you have
to do is have a change of hands within
the party
fluffypony: which is relatively easy -
the ANC is
the dominant political party,
the president of
the country is
the elected leader of said party
RebeccaBitcoin: I've heard from others
that it is "continuing
to go downhill" but
that's based on a limited number of people, mostly from cape
town
fluffypony: when Mbeki was providing staid, but ineffectual, leadership
there were hands
that moved him out
the way
RebeccaBitcoin: I don't know enough about it
to really have a valid opinion
fluffypony: 60% of
the
trade in
the whole of Africa is done in Gauteng
fluffypony: decimation: Zim's bigger problem was its inability
to oust Bob quickly
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> decimation: nope -
too many overseas companies with skin in
the game,
they won't let a despot ruin
their income ;) <<<
this is at best naive.
decimation: I donno, I recall
that
there were plenty of overseas companies involved in Rhodesia...
fluffypony: decimation: nope -
too many overseas companies with skin in
the game,
they won't let a despot ruin
their income ;)
fluffypony: RebeccaBitcoin: safe by most standards - just like any city in
the world,
there are areas you'd generally avoid unless you were familiar with it
decimation: fluffypony do you see post-Apartheid south africa going
the way of Zimbabwae?
fluffypony: by old-school I mean
that a lot of
the older ones especially struggle
to shed
the ingrained views
that Apartheid
taught
them
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: nah, Afrikaaners aren't like
that at all, more like generally overweight, beer and whisky loving, meat-bbq'ing biltong eating men and women
decimation: my favorite south africa movie is "zulu". makes me want
to visit natal
fluffypony: RebeccaBitcoin: Pretoria is quite safe, certainly much safer for an adventurous
tourist
than Johannesburg where
tourists are best kept
to
touristy areas
fluffypony: then you drive down
the streets with
these beautiful purple blossoms everywhere
fluffypony: and ugly, except when
the Jacaranda
trees come into bloom
fluffypony: yeah,
the building ownership
thing was a fuckup