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mircea_popescu: (but, worry not -- "climate change" activism is there!)
mircea_popescu: otherwise, inside given cultural space, shit catches on. but no dominant one in us like there was in su (yes, the aspie 14% keeps trying to pretend, but ain't nearly the same thing).
mircea_popescu: soviet jokes also "didn't catch on", which became a joke in itself -- teh georgians dun understand all these muscovy joeks!
mircea_popescu: no culture. nothing can "catch on" in any meaningful sense. romania is a nation, the us is a sort of india.
mircea_popescu: it has no culture, no history ; it has no business class, no anything. what exactly would they say ? compared to whom.
mircea_popescu: they kept calling him that. possibly on some grounds, but i never fucked him myself so...
mircea_popescu: well, there was this ro version of le canard enchaine ; it was really good. for half a decade or so, absolutely mandatory reading. some shit in there i laughed at for days.
mircea_popescu: not so different. guy's nickname, "bombonel". approximately, "little candyboy"
mircea_popescu: there's all sorts of losers who imagine these objects are a sort of holy amulet, and the only reason they dun do anything is because "they don't want to", but if "one day" they "decided" to "use them" then WHAM!
mircea_popescu: eh, he's a pasty. wtf does he know about guns or shooting them.
mircea_popescu: which is why i even bothered pointing it out to him, "you fucking idiot, you're STILL defending "the state" wtf is wrong with you."
mircea_popescu: but anyway -- was a major victory for the us dept of nuland, because thsi was the first time local aristocracy actrually got the black treatment. guy took it verypersonal, tried to shoot self, had a hole in jaw for a while.
mircea_popescu: in this specific case, for taking a bribe in the form of some electoral campaign materials some other dudes gave some other dudes in exchange for what some other dudes did.
mircea_popescu: what for ? well, for being a contemptible low life. plenty of shit to convict her of, if you actually were to apply you know, "the iron hand of teh law" that black dudes with a nickle bag keep running into.
mircea_popescu: this question allows multiple answers. but basically, suppose trump actually was traian basescu. then clinton WOULD be in jail.
mircea_popescu: it is perhaps the definitive difference between genders, that man would love nothing more than for woman to do something useful while he fucks her.
mircea_popescu: it's not an ominous cackle at all. more like bird is literally amused at our bs and losing its shit.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea about this whole thing! wut is it phf ?
mircea_popescu: nah, that was ion iliescu, president. they teaqmed up for a while though.\
mircea_popescu: was pm for a few years. anyway, he wrote some derpage about "the state", and i wrote a scathing comment.
mircea_popescu: dude! the ro guy, ex-con ex-pm ? actually published my comment. color me impressed.
mircea_popescu: there's also a bird that cackles, literally. so we'd be fucking or talking or w/e, and the bird is a-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
mircea_popescu: there's also an insect that sounds EXACTLY like a dying fan
mircea_popescu: phf costa rica has a bird, does the EXACT FUCNING NOISE
mircea_popescu: remember those things ? more steel on them than on today's toyota.
mircea_popescu: had a sorta-bad sector, kept fucking with me until it finally died hours later.\
mircea_popescu: my most frustrating experience in this vein was back in dos dies, one of those maxtor 40mb, dick-tall drives. which i thought properly immortal, at the time.
mircea_popescu: do you need diff permission sets to run global vs directly ?
mircea_popescu: y. one tends to go around naked and slather peanut butter on himself, the other tends to behave as if the panties were glued on, there's really no substantial difference.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re other point : i dun believe there is such a thing as an autodidact. everyone that knows anything learned that thing, themselves. no one can learn outside of an environment, and there is no deeper relevancy to convention of the time than that -- convention of the time. dude who learns in dark room is going to be weird one way, girly that learns in room with other girlies and teacher is going to be weird the other wa
mircea_popescu: look at the euler curve all you want, it dun satisfactorily resolve it.
mircea_popescu: i wasn't thinking of anything specific, past the indeed kindergarten intuition that there's more to the triplet than we figured out.
mircea_popescu: deride, deride, but half the world's magic works on this!
mircea_popescu: 4 * 5 mod 6 = 4. (6-4)*5 mod 6 = 4. 7*5 = 35 mod 6 = 5. 1*5 mod 6 = ...
mircea_popescu: what ~else~ can i predict, and looking at what exactly inside the two factors ?
mircea_popescu: also incidentally : what is the relation between arbitrary modulo, factorization, and reducing mults to adds ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i imagine he means that it overflow between the exp and the modular steps.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : "define *' so that modx(a * b) = modx(a) *' modx(b)" should be a legitimate abstract algebra approach.
mircea_popescu: so the whole hiding song and dance has nothing to do with anything.
mircea_popescu wouldn't be in the slightest surprised if all this "big data" utilization is 0.0000 ppm.
mircea_popescu: way the fuck easier just pretending like the hairspray tubes are REALLY mics. google makes this easy now.
mircea_popescu: problem of modernity is nobody wants to listen. that nobody has anything to say worth listening to is obviously sufficient cause for that ; but the nobodies in question would much rather approach the problem from the former horn than the latter. good god, having something to say worth listening to sounds like it'd take effort.
mircea_popescu: now quick to firesales to buy more shit to weigh down your pockets!
mircea_popescu: it's quite... quite the thing for the sorta chick that loves big boots.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform technical floor, where various machinery livese etc.