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BingoBoingo: Everything is legal so long as you wait until
the contest is over
to flaunt it
ThickAsThieves: nobody has any right answers,
that just /has/
to be destructive for your
ThickAsThieves: what you
try
to do. If you work in a field where you cannot distinguish
ThickAsThieves: competence is related
to some method of measurement of your success at
ThickAsThieves: "It has been my experience
that it is strongly related
to competence, but
ThickAsThieves: i
think low bet submissions being
topical is enough
to change
the
tide
BingoBoingo: $100-80 until
the rally
to
the millenial value
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves maybe. was
there a bubble last summer ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: What I gather is
that SEO spammers can't spec interesting bets
cazalla: mircea_popescu: didn't Obama already mention it last year albeit off
the cuff remark questioning he needed
to worry about it or not
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Well,
teach him
to
throw a baseball and save his economic future.
cazalla: BingoBoingo: interesting article - my son is 14 weeks ATM, is favouring his left hand when grabbing for
things yet no left handers in my family although my father is schizophrenic as was my grandfather and my uncle
ThickAsThieves: also in my own experience many of
the crazies i met
that are also smart are left-handed
BingoBoingo: Eh, I'm right handed but left eye dominant. Sometimes I'm clumsy, but
that is usually just distilled rather
than beyond
the grave spirits at work.
ThickAsThieves: seasonal effects on mother, child, and
the people influencing
the child
BingoBoingo: I also swear deadspin might be
the only Gawker enterprise worth saving.
ThickAsThieves: "he researchers indeed discovered
that left-handedness, like schizophrenia, was highly associated with being conceived in May or June " yknow
this has always been my
theory of how zodiac
traits were started
BingoBoingo: That's like liver and stomach boobs. Missed
the chest by quite a bit
assbot: Voicing jborkl_ without
time-limit.
mircea_popescu: im sure
the practicak difference between acquittal and conviction is less
than
the difference between his life pre and post
that nonsense.
kakobrekla: 90 if you include
the
time from closing
to resolution
BingoBoingo: The hill billies always support
the local nut, or
the regional nut
they can identify with
mircea_popescu: putin
the redbeard,
the norwegian rapist cum invader ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Of course it is. Diplomacy is also dating. Governance is a different
thing
though. Marriage.
mircea_popescu: who are
the hillbillies going
to support ? bigus dickus,
the roman bureaucrat ?
mircea_popescu: This also gives some credibility
to
the
thesis
that was popping up in
the 19th century
that
the North African Jews had a Phoenician origin (or
that
the difference between Canaanite and Jew before
the rabbinical period was not very pronounced for p
mircea_popescu: is wasy for a Punic speaker
to progressively become an Arabic speaker, since he already knows 80-90% of
the vocabulary.
mircea_popescu: This explains
the mystery of
the effortless Arab invasion of
the Southern and Western Mediterranean, all
the way
to Spain (and, less advertised,
the Portuguese Algarve).
They had
to be welcomed by
the local population along
the coast. Canaanite and Arabic are easily mutually comprehensible (the distance between Semitic languages is very short, a corrollary of
the stability
thanks
to
the
triplet of consonnants). And it
mircea_popescu: e Romans did not make names, but
transcribed
them). I estimate
that
the
third of
the coastal villages spoke Semitic dialects.
The modus of
the Phoenicians was network, hence a system of
trade links built on
trust (you send merchandise
to a relative who pays you back; you needed a certain amount of
trust before
the letter of credit).
The region is large: it extends all
the way
to Mogador on
the Atlantic coast.
mircea_popescu: anguage at home and for oral communication
that is different from
the language of writing, and doing so for 1000 years). And
there had
to be plenty of Semitic language speakers; just follow placenames from Carthage
to Ramatuelle in France near Saint
Tropez (ramat el means hill of God in both Canaanite and Hebrew). Even Marseilles seems
to come from Marsa, port in Canaanite (and not from Massilia
the Roman name since
th
mircea_popescu: This stickiness of
the Semitic languages supports a speculation: by
the 7th Century
there had
to be many pockets in
the Western Mediterranean of Punic-Canaanite speakers, about a
thousand years after
the fall of Carthage. Falling under Roman rule did not
turn
the population into Latin speakers (only for scholarly purposes, say Saint Augustine of Hyppo; we have much evidence of diglossia in
the Levant, of
the use of a l
mircea_popescu: let me interject something related i was just happening
to read. a bit of a paste :
BingoBoingo: What enables or prohibits aggression for
territory, is not
tanks fighter jets, or nukes but
the williness or lack
thereof
to accept certain kinds or sources of governance.
jurov: but
they will be made
to favor it any way necessary
jurov: BingoBoingo
they don't necessarily favor Russia,
they know well who Putin is
BingoBoingo: The same
thing
that gives Putin his good fortune enables America's golden
toilets
thus.
BingoBoingo: However if 1000 hillbillies with rifles oppose
their own government over cows...
BingoBoingo: Putin could have crimea and Eastern Ukraine because
the people already favor Russia.
BingoBoingo: See
this is
the genius of Putin in Crimea and
the enablement of US golden
toilets all rolled into one.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: In
the next 100
to 500 year someone might want
to use Kansas as
their own breadbasket.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't imagine anyone would be invading
the us.
BingoBoingo: The greatest problem with
the movie Red Dawn is
that no sane invader of
the US would spend more effort
than necessary
to hold
the Rockie Mountains
than
that necessary
to cripple command structures
there.
mircea_popescu: I hear
that beat; I jump outa my seat but I can't compete, cause I'm a dancin' fool, I'm a dancin' fool
mircea_popescu: One of my legs is shorter
than
the other 'n both my feet's
too long
mircea_popescu: Don't know much about dancin'
that's why I got
this song
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mike_c: this preston jackass strikes me as a rebirth of dr foreskin. not worth even getting riled up over, and yet he manages
to get under my skin with his herp derp.
BingoBoingo: Then
there's
the accident by which a fuel
tanker and crew were lost because control systems failed.
The crew was done in
though by a lack of parachutes which had been recently removed.
mircea_popescu: this reads
to me like "the us cook force no longer
trains sauce chefs in flour-and-oil saucing"
BingoBoingo: The ground pounders seem
to still be getting well versed in
the arts of map and compass, but for
the rest...
mircea_popescu: "The U.S. Air Force, for example, no longer
trains navigators in celestial sightings,"
ThickAsThieves: yknow
this auth shit frustrates when paired with a crash
mircea_popescu: it looks like
they're announcing a new bitcoin credit card
BingoBoingo: No one knows except
the people who shouldn't
kakobrekla: Cognitive Mining LLC is no longer liable for any past or present action or involved in
the management of
this project in any way. It is fully within
the rights of Cognitive Mining LLC
to find a new operator and resign.
mircea_popescu: bashed 102 quotes with 4440 votes <
this is like.. not bad is it.
mircea_popescu: the stones from
the earth have spoken
through
the kako
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla:
The part where
they finally liquidate after a bunch of "no u" back and forth between Gar and Goat
kakobrekla: bb dude have you read
that
thread, jesus fuck.
BingoBoingo: Well, of course kakobrekla manufacters
the best slander. It works so good it makes itself right.
mike_c: he
told me
to piss off
mike_c: i
tried on kako before.
mike_c: i'm
trying
to make more friends
today by nitpicking everyone's work.
mike_c: trilema feature request: why do i have
to go
to secret page
to login? having
the cookie form on
the 'fee' page would be nice.
phf: asciilifeform:
they wanted
to forbid / walking down
this street. / we'll smash
the concrete walls / we'll march down
the block / you, forbaders, / suck a cock!
BingoBoingo: At
the
time herbi mess up
there still kind of was a reliable-ish spot.