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mircea_popescu: the problem with bureaucrats is that it universally is not possible to provide them with an above-secondary education.
mircea_popescu: you can not, still to this day, in spite of all sort of "published research", include a statement of its own coherence in a coherent system sufficiently complex (so as to include a statement of certain mathematical truths...)
mircea_popescu: nor, and here's the important point, and the utf bane, nor could!
mircea_popescu: "romanian thinks all other languages are badly written romanian", and this because it actually continues latin.
mircea_popescu: this is done universally and to everything, german, russian, turkish. zdreantsa!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it is the correct mark of the perfective participle in this circumstance. so "cumfaced" i guess.
mircea_popescu: this is why i like that romanian cartoon series, "robotzi". they do it extensively, to breaking point. single example : at some point one says to the other "daca stiam c-ai sa ajungi un ghetzalit nespalat". this is evidently in standard romanian "if i knew you'll end up and unwashed ???". the ??? is iffy, because ghetzalit is not a word in romanian. in fact, it's a construction : ghetz is how you say sperm in hungarian, and -
mircea_popescu: anyway. your chief point is correct, in that flexion is pure lisp for language, that i even to this day can say inexistent words whose meanings are directly evident to romanian speakers is a large matter. english even has rudiments of proper flexion, i can say "the built" and it connotes, but not to all speakers.
mircea_popescu: now, if the jews and other golden crescents notated six centuries later whereas the chinese notated a few centuries before but a language already 2500 years old...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform most languages were notated after long time spoken though.
mircea_popescu: thereby coming up with the confucianist horror we all know and loathe today.
mircea_popescu: then they made the stupid move of coming up with separate notiations for the 16 meanings of the letter tsa.
mircea_popescu: now -- birthday paradox, you only get 8 boxes you end up with a LOT of meanings.
mircea_popescu: rted to carry multiple meanings. FILIP B is still how you say philip the 2nd in greek to this day, because B is also 2. it means a number of things, and if you didn't know "set" is the english word with the largest number of meanings.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684311 << the amusing part here is that ~possibly~, as an entirely speculative, rather literary than linguistic notion, the chinese started out early, and as such started out small : they had but 8 or so letters, which they combined in words (with silent winds, as was the fashion 5000 years pre-magdalene). as the complexity driven by a large empire ever piled, these short and few letters sta
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wtf yet lol. there is no such time there weren't. AN END TO SLAVERY!
mircea_popescu: perhaps because man with superior encoding is superior man. or shall we say MMMMMMMMMMx instead.
mircea_popescu: to use a chinese idiomatic which, oddly, i can actually introduce without importing shitsquiggles.tiff first.
mircea_popescu: instead tell me you were there while it happened and didn't notice, and i shall believe it, but also point to it for your benefit.
mircea_popescu: now tell me they did not do this in berlin and i shall not believe you.
mircea_popescu: even if it was a little meaningless bit of useless space misplaced and so on.
mircea_popescu: the ~only thing all survivors of socialism agreed on, even the ones too dumb to live.
mircea_popescu: why ? because even in their sclerotic stupid fucking heads that should by rights have been taken off en masse at the very onset, the value of SPACE exceeded all other values.
mircea_popescu: just as soon as they managed to get a little capital, which is to say money not needed day to day, they stuck it in this deeply improductive activity. not went to istanbul to buy cheap colorful crap to resell, not anything else.
mircea_popescu: this is to say, standard soviet matchbox dwelling, like berlin is still full of, came from the maker with a "balcony", which was open to the outside. they -- paid, scions of the decrepit metalworking industry, to solder/weld/glue to the balustrades ugly scrap metal pikes and pipes, and in between them put glass.
mircea_popescu: you probably are familiar with, but anyway : they ~~~ENCLOSED THEIR BALCONIES~~~.
mircea_popescu: this is not so, but let us not diverge any more. what did the old people do, as their principal neo-society endeavour ?
mircea_popescu: process that produces antibiotics -> people needing to hold on to a tree while peeing.
mircea_popescu: note helmet works -- before the fact. it's not fucking antibiotics.
mircea_popescu: no. people worring about people drying from head injuries.
mircea_popescu: (helmets -- great. the process that normally produces them -- poison)
mircea_popescu: you won't get a bike helmet industry, which is a tolerable loss.
mircea_popescu: yes. if you permit the woman to act out her "worry" about "What may happen" you will sink. if you beat her black and blue every time she worries -- about anything, you'll suddenly get great parties.
mircea_popescu: do guess, you i hear are from the right germany to guess./
mircea_popescu: erlehmann let me tell you a story. after the fall of the romanian socialist republic, people were left with no practically useful skills and no capital. a mad rush to accumulate both ensued, which was subsidiarily great because it put young people above old people and as a result produced the only sort of society worthj living in -- with anxiety way way underregulated. now then -- what did the old people do, as their principa
mircea_popescu: erlehmann and yet, funnily, everyone comes to make war in europe. and yet, funnilky enough, the byzantine empire still prays to their legions in heaven, notwithstanding the reality daily debunk
mircea_popescu: war makes the only thing peace never can, that is -- empty space. the value of empty space varies, from negative after a war to infinite during socialism.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: erlehmann war IS more profitable than peace. whether you find this or not.
mircea_popescu: "make domestic arguments less profitable than watching tv". this isn't washing the dishes.
mircea_popescu: erlehmann security, yeah, that old "come be eaten by ants for you're too scared of hunting bear"
mircea_popescu: and i don't mean, because eu bureaucrats tolerate greek, eu is going to shit. i mean -- because eu has absolutely no project (which is the direct equivalent) everyone is only there while the food flows. and furthermore, because the men tolerate the misbehaviours of the women, the countries are dropping off thje map, and so on.
mircea_popescu: and is going to shit. BECAUSE of it. not simply "in the time of it", but BECAUSE of it.
mircea_popescu: erlehmann but that's prtecisely what tolerance is. an ill designed attempt to swallow.
mircea_popescu: there shall be no equality, and there shall be no tolerance. black man either dresses like white man or picks cotton.
mircea_popescu: "oh but all teh great literature shall be lost" hurr durr. egyptian had just as great literature. JUST as great. its loss was thought important for centuries, before drunk soldiers broke the code and it was discovered -- egyptian literature is barely fit to grace toilet paper.
mircea_popescu: look at bureaucrat wank, it's directly translatable to word table.
mircea_popescu: i'm not proposing a sorting here. i am just proposing they notice the parts of their skull made of cow dung.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but we DO know mine still permits the use of language.
mircea_popescu: coming to that minimal point of self-awareness any bimbo with half a peanut in her skull manages in fact to come to, where she realises it's not the fucking squiglies painted on her nails that make her unique.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684289 LEARNING A LANGUAGE. accepting that chinese is not a language ; accepting in order to accept that the simple annd obvious fact thjat your mother and father, if you're chinese, were FOR THAT REASON idiots and imbeciles ; and for the reason also that their parenjts in their turn -- idiots and imbeciles.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: there is NO REASON to continue the nonsense. learn a language.
mircea_popescu: visa could totally buy russia, if russia were dumb enough.
mircea_popescu: notice how this works : visa is sending "up to $10k in bitcoin" to its own bitcoin addresses to claim "people" have "invested" in whatever nutty bullshit faux coin they have going ; visa is sending "up to 10k" faux news on dead paper to its own offices to claim someone actually gives a shit what the new york times says on any topic ; visa is then giving 10k in cash to 50 of its own merchants to pretend like you and i should d
mircea_popescu: he could as well be their fucking patron saint, the party of vaux.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and yes, brougham is a monument of socialist retardation. devout abolitionist (which, incidentally, is coming together in my mind as the spot where western civilisation actually went off-course, early 1800s), argued with young re wave form of light, argued with some statistician re solar spots impact on wheat prices, tellingly thought everyone else unscientific and by comparison to his bright mind very stupid indeed and perp
mircea_popescu: does not relieve anything, it's just something you do.
mircea_popescu: again, no argument. T needs to be measured, factorial is a fine case to measure it in, we don't resort to the lab when we wish to prove theory wrong but in all cases and at all times because we like the lab.
mircea_popescu: no argument. but i am a practical man and i like plugging things in.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile faux news outlets imagine they have over a dozen readers.
mircea_popescu: so almost an hour, and then failed to return. alrighty.