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mircea_popescu: you understand this, yes, not anything that can be said necessarily means something.
mircea_popescu: perhaps "if you had to" you'd climb to infinity on the left rather than descend to infinity on the right. but inasmuch as it's a nonsensical construction, the counterfactual will stay nonfactual.
mircea_popescu: it's not altogether clear you've there depicted anymore than an escherian stairwell.
mircea_popescu: do you have any ? the planet uranus is also "a fact of life", in some distant sense.
mircea_popescu: chick that has no fucking idea she should wash isn't part of "the unwashed culture", she's part of nothing.
mircea_popescu: the ~presence~ of artefacts doth make a civilisation ; the same presence of notions makes a culture. the absence of objects does not make "the alternative civilisation of africa consisting of not having anything". absence is not a thing.
mircea_popescu: you can't speak of "the native culture" for exactly this reason. the indians have no culture, and inasmuch as they do not, they're not people.
mircea_popescu: thereby, gravestones, civilisation, poetry, culture, engines, civilisation, cooking recipes, culture, and so following.
mircea_popescu: to understand our anthropology basics : if the item has mass, it is a proper subject of civilisation ; if the item doth not have mass, it is a matter of culture.
mircea_popescu: they're uncivilised louts ; today as whenever. it is after all a fucking colony, not a real place, neh ?
mircea_popescu: misinformed ninnies may be confused as to the exact spelling of "trilema", which is a sad testament of the poor quality of public education available to them and naught more.
mircea_popescu: but in any case, unless and until you read it in trilema, it can not be said to be part of a mainstream of any kind.
mircea_popescu: this is no more of a true statement than "pin can hold 40 angels but only 3 seraphims"
mircea_popescu: plenty of rank imbeciles died with the firm conviction that they exist ; and all the better.
mircea_popescu: it exists strictly in the way "the heavenly legions" existed, to keep suleyman from constantinople.
mircea_popescu: it can be found the same place the "kingom of heavens" can be found.
mircea_popescu: also, "american mainstream" is a fake news construction. it exists in no place, certainly not the us.
mircea_popescu: who can take "feminist intellectuals" seriously, i wish to know ?
mircea_popescu: holy shit, the imbecile lists FUCKING NAPOLEON among "truth, beauty and seriousness" ? the dude with the white dickpants ? THE CAMPIEST CHARACTER OF ALL HISTORY ?!
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, the great tuscan salami scandal has 992 views on dumbtube.
mircea_popescu: if at position n-1 two possible candidate blocks could be n, then in order to extend n1 you will have to consider the blockchain as consistying of n1, and in order to extend n2 you will have to consider the blockchain as consisting of n2.
mircea_popescu: ie, this is an entirely mental problem, manufactured out of thin air. dun exist in the actual thing.
mircea_popescu: whether your opinion changes as to which exact blocks is not germane. to mine on chain a you use n and to mine on chain a' you use n'.
mircea_popescu: at all points the blockchain is a linear string of blocks though.
mircea_popescu: if anyone has issues resolving which string of bits is block n, that someone is invited to fix his hear, his node or both.
mircea_popescu: i'm not in the business of telling clerks how to run their office. it is clear what the blockchain is, no further explanation is needed.
mircea_popescu: whatever it retains outside the blockchain aren't blocks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a single block for each height, what are you talking about.
mircea_popescu: whatever, dude's going to go right back to a "losing streak" which is seeing cuts to libertard state ~= to the entire education budget.
mircea_popescu: five weeks of half-assed not-really-trying "irony" and back to denial ?
mircea_popescu: really, they went straight back to the october pipe, that's all they got ? i thought it was going to be protests and revolutions and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: trinque i don't think i ever went to a cinema with a girl that wouldn't take stuff off. not past the age of 13 in any case, or as an independent agent, or however you put it.
mircea_popescu: all those fistbumped janitors etcetera, why the fuck else were they there ?
mircea_popescu: and before anyone attempots the historical gambit, "but mp, that's not what it is, but it's what they thought in 1960", gimme a break. that's what INEPT AND LAZY BUT AMBITIOUS GIRLIES thought. much like poor people think "rich people can;'t be happy", as a cheap and useless psychological defense.
mircea_popescu: in fact the entire substance, such as it is, of "i fucking love science" contemporary idiocy is exactly that, "omaigerd nature is stylish!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the notion that nature isn't stylish can only come out of somebody who has put absolutely no work whatsoever into studying nature. half an hour in the microbiology lab should permanently disabuse one of the notion.
mircea_popescu: "bitch, essay does not mean making baseless enunciations in the thick hand of a fucking peasant."
mircea_popescu: this is how you get a D in any half-decent highschool.
mircea_popescu: "11. Camp is the triumph of the epicene style. (The convertibility of "man" and "woman," "person" and "thing.") But all style, that is, artifice, is, ultimately, epicene. Life is not stylish. Neither is nature."
mircea_popescu: i dunno, one of the supposedly intellectual libertard dorks.
mircea_popescu: honestly i kinda lost interest once it was about shithead news.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not the worst of situations, though it does fuck over a lot of typically cryptocoin usecases.
mircea_popescu: in random lulz : tje original "gone wild" reference comes from dorky ny judge who condemned deep throat. "a sodom gone wild before the fire".
mircea_popescu: same exact nonsense, "i'll talk about things i don't know"
mircea_popescu: bout the same thing, occupy wallstreet, black lives matter, student choice in education, i will fix bitcoin,
mircea_popescu: which is why the example given was "bigger tits" not "niunamenos"
mircea_popescu: rather the correct cut is that they get to define it physically, rather than consciously.
mircea_popescu: for instance : the younger sluts grow bigger tits than used to be the norm. they redefine it alright.
mircea_popescu: they can't mature on their own ; nor can they construct a working society on their own. this is neither shocking nor worth the mention.