mircea_popescu: prolly #1 on the "1trn in infrastructure expenditure" he's talking about.
pete_dushenski opens window to hear albertan cheers overtop of feminegro sobs
mircea_popescu: oya. oil canada is by far the largest winner of trump victory.
pete_dushenski: "THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated" << beautiful.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski not just beautiful, but copied off here lol.
pete_dushenski: i can't help but wonder what i did in a former life to deserve such luck, that everything in my life turns into sweet profits.
mircea_popescu: how do muslim women pray ? "thank you god for not making me a cow". and muslim men ? "thank you god for not making me a woman". and everyone else ? "thank you god for not making me muslim."
pete_dushenski: i'm suddenly reminded of that scene in the simpsons where the mob boss tells bart that "crime doesn't pay" as he rolls up the tinted window on his limo and drives off smoking a fat cuban cigar. being an infidel is like being that mob bos innit.
pete_dushenski: "Fully-funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country of Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall" << curious to see how this "dear mexico, you now have us debt" angle plays south of the border.
phf: i did my time as TA, i've seen these people first hand
mircea_popescu: though in fairness i did get hungover once in recent memory that was terrible.
mircea_popescu: hangovers are unknown in civilised lands, such as transylvania. getting immensely drunk on the local stuff makes one's heart not in the slightest hurt. there's just this extremely pleasant mellowness the day following imbibing a liter of 52% tuica.
mircea_popescu: however in this accursed land i invented a new champagne cocktail, out of this mint-ginger slushie lemonade they have. you just order a bottle and then pour it by degrees in the lemonade glass.
mircea_popescu: except you know, three girls, six buckets and however many lemonades later.... o brother.
phf: i feel hungover just from description. that's the kind of stuff they love here. actually Seacrets, the place that sluts like to go to in ocean city maryland, has this signature drink, that's a slushie, out of a slushie machine, but a significant amount of vodka in it
BingoBoingo: Apparently Trump is visiting the Trumpreichstag tomorrow. How much you wanna bet he pulls a trade mark "Illinois Governor" move and instead Presidents from the dark tower in NYC surrounded by ungrateful fucks.
mircea_popescu: it's universal in the lifecycle of decaying empires that the official capitol seat as depicted on coins is abandoned. and as alf correctly pointed out recently, even nopw it's more ceremonial than functional.
BingoBoingo: AHA now that is a metric Illinois has been leading the US in for some time now.
mircea_popescu: besides, very good signal for the rats. they were hurrdurring about how "he can't staff white house", implying that he'd care to. well...
BingoBoingo: DC ceremonial because target. Springfield ceremonial because ChIraq
BingoBoingo: Nah SPrinfield is safe. Just inconvenient when it comes to collecting 31337 bribes
phf: they don't really do champagne in u.s. unless it's a bottle service kind of deal and then you get a krug or moet (actually more often clicquot or cristal). it's definitely a much nicer base for a lot of "entertaining" drinks
mircea_popescu: and, importantly, very universally available. the last diner will be able to bring you a bottle if you order.
ben_vulpes: rather nice bubbles can be had from the dundee area for ~25 usd/bottle
ben_vulpes: the apple liquor industry is spinning up as well.
ben_vulpes: i had a mind-blowingly good pear brandy last week.
phf: oh yeah, the whole popping bottles thing
mircea_popescu: only thing is - romania has splendid rose and actually red champagne. never saw it here.
mircea_popescu: (romania has excellent wines - as far as whites go. the reds generally don't keep worth a shit, which is why it's not usually rated above france, notwithstanding wineries ~as old, of ~same quality)
phf: ben_vulpes: blacks popularized champagne as a status symbol, so i can see it newly becoming a thing
mircea_popescu: eh, it was doing ok as a status symbol even before qt's four rooms thing (which is what i suppose you mean by blacks ?).
mircea_popescu: teh cafe society was fixated on it arguably to a larger degree.
ben_vulpes: wilamette valley grapes are only just starting to mature in quantity. my wine guy does 3 single-plot vintages, we went through > 6 cases of the shit over the past year
ben_vulpes: probably the wrong name, but each of the wines came from grapes in a specific plot in a specific vineyard.
BingoBoingo: phf: Whites popularized champagne, blacks popularized brands of champagne
ben_vulpes: like "single origin" in coffee, but more like "single this acre or so of grapes from this other vineyard you already like"
phf: no no, there's a whole bunch of hiphop songs where they go "popping bottles" blah blah. means specifically opening bottle service champagne (usually cristal)
ben_vulpes: eh, they're tended with the rest of the farm
ben_vulpes: just...that varietal grown in that part of the farm.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha. ben_vulpes you realise this is purely a marketing tactic of poor people, driven entirely by the fact that... they only OWN a tiny spot, and has no actual merit whatsoever ?
mircea_popescu: good wine comes out of all-hill sort of vintages, wtf.
phf: BingoBoingo: nah, plenty of songs where it's not, though i agree that the brand is probably implied
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But small plot because other hill has light taste of Hanford site
BingoBoingo: <phf> BingoBoingo: nah, plenty of songs where it's not, though i agree that the brand is probably implied << Nah, this is endorsement fishing. Brand yet to be named
mircea_popescu: heh did i tell the joke of the friar who could tell wine by a simple taste ? kind, year, often enough exact place in the vintage ?
ben_vulpes: (guy also does a deliciously sacrilegious bubbly chardonnay)
phf: also i'm pretty sure i heard that joke
mircea_popescu: if you get a typical cavalry sword and run it against the bottle neck the last segment will detach with the cork attached ; or just the cork may fly off.
phf: ah ah, no. the place would get shut down for having a sword in it
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: But same air and I haven't seen the hydrological maps but could be interesting aquifier
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes : so in order to mess with him, they bring him fresh piss in a glass
mircea_popescu: the guy takes a sip, rolls it around the tongue etc all pensive, then declares
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: wind blows in from the coast, over wine country, and thence to hanford
mircea_popescu: as it turns out, his REAL talent wasn't wine tasting. that was just... you know, like gay people sometimes channel their love of dressing up into an acting career.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes anyway, for to enlighten and instruct : champagne proper (ie, in theregion) is mostly made of pinot and chardonnay.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: But does it do this ALL the time? How many nines in your 99.X% does it take to make the idea uncomfortable?
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: aquifer is entirely different too, with dundee being on the wilamette and hanford being on the...columbia?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: no idea why it was recorded as being weird in my head.
BingoBoingo appologizes I live in real America where white people SMILED as they waited for the Great Again to happen
mircea_popescu: i thought you lot were a hateful spiteful warmongering bunch making the precious snowflakes of twitter etc feel not-safe
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: the nines are high. that's why there's a desert on the other side of the cascade range.
mircea_popescu: back to france for a moment : so marine le pen, the chick that kicked the inventor of national front out because you know, he was getting in the way of "coabitation" with the bureaucracy cock what with his poking fun at the jew lobby and whatnot, was married to some guy who was the front secretary, and had three kids with him.
mircea_popescu: then that guy was no longer the secretary, so she divorced him
mircea_popescu: whom then she divorced when he no longer was, to marry the new one.
mircea_popescu: (franch chauffroy ; eric lorio and louis aliot, for the name-oriented)
BingoBoingo: Anyways it was a rare sight today. Working white people rarely smile unless smiling is part of their work, and yet here they were. The Great Again hasn't happened yet, but you can bet they are eagerly waiting the Great Again.
BingoBoingo: No one can know what happens during the Great Again.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: 'Murican grammar can be tricky. Hence the expanded line of Mr. T: Make America, Great Again!
BingoBoingo: With the proper comma the Great Again is either a diety or perhaps some sort of event.
BingoBoingo hasn't worked out the Theology of this quite yet.
ben_vulpes: isn't not "actually getting it" the one thing voters are guaranteed?
BingoBoingo: Oh the Great Again will come, but no one can know the form Great Again chooses.
trinque tries not to imagine stay puft marshmallow man, foils himself in the process
BingoBoingo: ^ Literal fallout among the poor urban population
BingoBoingo: tyvm asciilifeform for your valor in retrieving evidence of butts hurt
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But you are Russian immigrant and those derps are Russophobes!!!
a111: Logged on 2016-11-10 01:05 mircea_popescu: should be interesting if they don't actually get it.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-09 21:43 mircea_popescu: oh, also iirc richest woman in congress, worth ~80k btc.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-09 23:17 mircea_popescu remembers the days when obama told da to pick up some random hooker turning tricks in hotel, claim she was a maid, have her tell that strauss-kahn assaulted her, then lie about the whole thing so that france would end up with a president the us likes (which, of course, like every other bahamas scandal, backfired miserably and cost the us taxpayer a helluva lot more than the nigger's "education" cost them)
a111: Logged on 2016-11-09 23:54 mircea_popescu: anyway, odds are first move of new "unified" govt is repeal of affordable care act, aka the tax-thats-not, aka obamacare.
shinohai: jurov pete_dushenski have gpgram incoming
shinohai: deadline for Qntest today plot thickens! O.o
trinque: poor guy even held up the fag flag
trinque: the voices are so grating. that particular whiny female frequency is only surpassed by a screaming infant.
trinque wonders if this is the wail of which mircea_popescu spoke
trinque: asciilifeform: ah, but when somebody says "dude, smell this!" what can one do
mircea_popescu: well, it works in the direct like that ; but i generally use it metaphorically to describe communal behaviour. ie when pimp goes into the room, slaps one, and they all start bitching.
trinque: other primates, same, eh? all start freaking out in chorus
trinque: oh man, the people taking selfies while "marching"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile fucktarded internet.bs decided to... no longer take bitcoin payments.
mircea_popescu: because why the fuck run a business like it were a business when you could also run it like a fucking gypsy sideshow.
mircea_popescu: so i guess i'm moving domains yet again. fucking bullshit "domains" i'm entirely sick of this dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: anyone know a domain registrar that's not run by fucking monkeys ?
mircea_popescu: dude check him out, alf is one tiny step away from becoming a talent scout.
trinque: pouty interior decorating major sought for leather couch consulting; no experience necessary.
mircea_popescu: anyway - the derpitude of "protests" totaling fewer people than trump's lead in new hampshire aside, the man definitely has his work cut out for him trying to get these idle fucks to even consider doing something useful with themselves. i very much doubt any us citizen under 30 has done any kind of productive work this year.
mircea_popescu: and no i don't mean showing up 80% of the time for an overpaid "service" job waitering / barristaing / whatever coyote ugly fantasy nonsense.
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> deadline for Qntest today plot thickens! O.o << November 10th began 4 hours ago so closed. And jury is deliberating.
mircea_popescu: o check it out, apparently there's even an acronym for it! NEET. gotta remember this.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : foa&mounk study reveals barely 30% of people born 1980 believe it's essential to live in a country that is governed democratically.
mircea_popescu: that's something like half a billion white people unimpressed with this whole "modern democracy" bullshit.
shinohai:
http://archive.is/xhFEq <<< Should at any point in the future Ms. Clair come here to claim that bounty, I will personally match mircea_popescu 's stated offer.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-10#1565225 << ru writer pelevin has a thing about Dog Pizdetc, which in his world is a kind of diety, but pizdetc is a russian mat word derived from "pizda" i.e. vagina, and is used to signify the totality of negative and positive experiences. sort of like "how's it going? -- total pizdetc", i.e. everything has utterly failed. or "look at that car go! -- piiizdeeetc", i.e. holly shit that's awesome. so in
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-11-10 01:12 BingoBoingo: No one can know what happens during the Great Again.
phf: pelevin's world the coming of the Dog Pizdetc is an eschatological event, when you're going to finally have "vsyo", a word which means both "everything" and "the end".
mircea_popescu: holy shit the insane pretzel logic of the progressive mind. so "voter suppression" is bad mmkay except how dare people show up to vote who don't live on "university" campuses or in other usg-aggitated ghettos! "demography is destiny" except of course when it ... "shouldn't be" ? voter opinion is sacrosanct and fundamentally true and good, except of course should it diverge from progressive idiocy. the electoral college system
mircea_popescu: is great and a bulwark of democracy, except of course it's really bad and barbaric and an anachronism as "we've always said" - and this literally changes from nov 7 to nov 8.
shinohai: freezing to death in a sudden packet storm
mircea_popescu: shinohai lol clair sheehan is really too old to rescue.
mircea_popescu: "demonstrators - blabla - FLOODED". you know, all 12 of them.
shinohai: hence why she should be impaled as a warning to the others
mircea_popescu: "from new england to heartland cities like kansas city and along ther west coast" ie, we almost managed a coupla of these per state, especially if you're like us and can't actually say how many states there are.
mircea_popescu: (obama, incidentally, teh great scholar etc, is on the record having nfi how many states there are. because they don't learn that in kenyan jr high. and besides - he was on college on a nigger scholarship not an academic one.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform random chickie whose selfies are being used by random rag for clickbait.
mircea_popescu: "she wrote whatever on her forehead" "since when does anyone give a shit about her bulbous, oily forehead ?!?"
mircea_popescu: your idea of a face is very heavily biased in favour of impudent imbecile.
mircea_popescu: i much favour the whore mask because it shows the important traits of humble adaptation which are much more valuable in a female than "intelligence" or whatever, "having a personality"
mircea_popescu: (for the record - average crack whore sampled off us highway today is, in point of fact and as any sort of practical measure of intelligence will show - far above average "student" sampled off us campus.)
mircea_popescu: but i bet you now and here - i can teach crack whore structuralist linguistics to the standard of defeating the average us college professor within weeks ; you will not be able to teach "student" to get out of rain / paper bag within year.
mircea_popescu: it's obvious, but not specific. at the same age, the same chick was malnourished in romania in the 90s, on the basis of a strict mineral-water-and-pufuleti diet.
mircea_popescu: 20something females self-starve as a cross-cultural phenomenon.
mircea_popescu: "Chicago resident Michael Burke said he believes the president-elect will "divide the country and stir up hatred." He added there was a constitutional duty not to accept that outcome." << more of the same pretzel. "we have been pouring armed monkeys from the border for years - rhodesian govt has been trying to maintain order WHICH IS RACISM"
mircea_popescu: somehow this makes sense to them. "HE WILL BE DIVISIVE". it's like listening to stupid overentitled housewives argue domestically.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: aaanyway. much like in romania a decade ago, much like in argentina three years ago, the ACTUAL turnover at these "massive" protests where the entrenched "progressive" niggerdom was supposed to pour its heart, soul and mostly spleen are shockingly underwhelming.
mircea_popescu: for flavour, right after macri was elected the peronistas (you know, the idiots with the
http://trilema.com/2015/marcha-de-las-dumbas/ ) threatened for weeks to throw a huge protest rally. in the end the government mobilized more troops than the actual protestor count and because of it macri showed them the bill for the "manifestation" and politely asked them to refrain because the money to pay for the police's coming straigh
mircea_popescu: word. there were like 3.5-5k police in the street, like 1.5-2k "protestors" of the most copacetic, "someone paid me 100 pesos and bussed me in to be here and what is this?" countryside yokel ylk.
mircea_popescu: aha. that was the problem here exactly - they couldn't even get all the pros to show up. unoficially it was like... dude, you got -500 people in the street wtf.
mircea_popescu: and hence the logic - policeman costs about 15x what your "protesters" cost, wtf is with the wastage you're ddosing the interior affairs ministry.
mircea_popescu: PeterL centralized police force is not avoidable, but i daresay this is a failure of the population not so much of the government.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-10 14:53 mircea_popescu: somehow this makes sense to them. "HE WILL BE DIVISIVE". it's like listening to stupid overentitled housewives argue domestically.
mircea_popescu: the problem being that i couldn't give less of a shit what progretalk means in progreterms.
mircea_popescu: that's the major point all the wanna-be mini-lacans fail to comprehend. "oh, we'll pick a set of presumptions, construct a language, and make up intricate literature in it!" "nobody cares." "huh ?" "you don't get to say, "hey, consider THIS premise"." "why not ?" "because you're not cool enough."
mircea_popescu: somehow the basic "first, the tank divisions ; THEN the new words / definitions" failed to connect with their heads.
mircea_popescu: and dorks a la curtis yarvin & friends go around dribbling "hey, since they're behaving AS IF they had the division, therefore they have them yes ?" as fucking if.
mircea_popescu: much like "jewish" being hijacked by some alt-alt-neoprotestants from fucking ohio. all the actual jews ie hasids being dead.
mircea_popescu: so now "being jewish" is yet another flavour or three of being you know, southern emo preacher / martin luther king is luther 2.0 sorta nonsense.
mircea_popescu: the whole body of americana actually needs a #NotAThing cold-pressed on each sentece.
mircea_popescu: yes, and condemned by people like the previously mentioned satmar.
mircea_popescu: the relationship essentialized to a brincusian level is like this : there was an adult, and quite fetching jewish body living outside the pale. which is not just poland, even if by poland you mean the lithuanian-polish commonwealth, ie a historical state larger than russia in all respects. aside from this, across the ocean was an acneic fat 12yo girl some cadet branch had with an irish "handsome rover from town to town" blabl
mircea_popescu: the fatass really really wanted to be you know, IN IT! and so she "helped"
mircea_popescu: in the exact unwelcome manner a 12 half-sister would help the adult beauty get laid.
mircea_popescu: my point being that the fat, obnoxious 12 yo girl is related, but not substantially, to the hottie.
mircea_popescu: they were eaten by wolves, ie, they lost character and became a sort of yankees.
mircea_popescu: no argument. nevertheless, retarded kid telling you "he has azn ancestry" in english, the sole language he speaks has no azn ancestry. as ballas aptly points out, in an article which can anyone plox link ?
mircea_popescu: that schmuck thought he was you know, british royalty.
mircea_popescu: i don't necessarily despise it ; i am however unconvinced. moreover, while examples with your tendency certainly exist - examples of the contrary tendency also do exist (eg, romanians-abroad are far the fuck better than romanians-within, and always have been).
mircea_popescu: obviousy a life without hardship is a life of decay. past that general - i dunno.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-08 13:57 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-08#1563912 << anything where half or more of the hopefuls fail to make it in, AND half or more of the first year fails to pass into 2nd. it must be selective in this sense, with an understanding that most extant fenotypes are biological failures of no further interest or value.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing specific about the soil ; and the meaning of "blood" is - spill the blood of the children.
mircea_popescu: no, it's not that. it's simply - if out of 100 newborn male babies 50 make it to be 7 ; and then 25 of those make it to be 14 and then a dozen make it to 21, you will have a splendid culture, civilisation, and generally world.
mircea_popescu: look at it from the historical perspective : music was invented in babylon to quell the wail ; because the males there had the wisdom to kill the boys - for "no reason" but did it. then the jews came along and put it in their book to not do sacrifice children - and so the dumb women flocked to them, and they birefly prevailed. only to go to shit in a handbasket soon thereafter, so much so the fucking short-legged short-dicked
mircea_popescu: lowbrow ROMANS of all fucking people conquered them. imagine this nonsense. and they even figured it out and put it in the holy texts, "god wants you to kill your boy!"
mircea_popescu: the british "blood and soil" implemented the wail-supression through the mechanism of sending all kids off to work for osmeone else, so the woman's dumb feelers wouldbn't be aroused by the foreign kids imported into household. and it worked, for as long as they stuck to it - and it immediately failed once they gave it up.
mircea_popescu: the REASON british empire fell has naught to do with anything else but the presence of arthur blair - that despicable fuckwit who pissed his bed. and his existence is due to the fact that he grew up with his mother's tit around.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in idish land, the wail was supressed through "oh honey, there's nothing io can do, those mean xenomen came and killed your baby"
mircea_popescu: "of course they killed all the ones i didn't bother to hide - and i didn't bother to hide them because they suck because you're a dumb worthless whore whose cunt runs on perl and consequently all manner of ungodly slime crawls out from between your legs"
mircea_popescu: but fortunately the 2nd part could also pass silently.
mircea_popescu: once no more "evil xenomen" to come and kill "teh babies", no more jewish anything either. which is why it failed in the states - no leverage to quell the wail, there.
mircea_popescu:
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/how_does_the_shutdown_relate_t.html << the tlp in question. "Why would she think this? Because she's stupid? Actually, yes: the culture you know least about has all the answers, which is also why the Guinness ad hypermale in pre-season Special Olympics has chosen to tattoo gigantic Chinese characters on his arm to explain his ennui to himself. "It's a chinese proverb, 'That what doesn'
mircea_popescu: t kill me make me stronger.'" I hope to God a bus tries to make you stronger."
mircea_popescu: in sparta, by gorgo's to quote : "Επειδή γαμώ την ράτσα σου". in athens, they did not as far as one knows.
PeterL: the refreshing thing about Trump (and would not have been with Hillary) is that now if the president does something stupid I can say "That was stupid" without everybody saying "Stop being RACIST"
mircea_popescu: that epic feeling when the entire set google can produce for a greek excerpt is trilema. ha-HA!
mircea_popescu: obviously, it can. but it can also suggest cultural superiority of a chilling depth.
mircea_popescu: for all physchopatologies, a frank view of the disease is quite exactly the next step after "madness".
mircea_popescu: it's vaguely regrettable no one with an old dogde pick-up ran. then he could have driven it all the way over to the wh and park it on the lawn.
mircea_popescu: "Beauty is a social construction. I'm all in, but it is a construction nevertheless. The reason I think women are hot today is that they are today, not that they are hot. I watch pornos from the seventies and I think to myself, "well, it would be better than bestiality, I guess." Everyone from the cast of Shampoo to the special guest stars on The Love Boat make me want to be a promisekeeper, meanwhile Wilt Chamberlain ha
PeterL: I used to drive an old dodge pick-up, was good sturdy truck. gave it up for a minivan when I got too many kids to fit in the cab.
mircea_popescu: PeterL if it wasn't obvious, the bald thing above was because trump has such a great piece.
PeterL: I would look alot like trump if I grew my hair out a bit
mircea_popescu: consider running after retirement, apparently that's all the rage nowadays.
PeterL: but I think my wife would leave me if I did my hair like his
mircea_popescu: i live in this strange blessed state where i've not to date managed a hairdo teh womenz didn't like.
mircea_popescu: shaved head kept inch thick beard yest, "that's so hot!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's really no sense in "evolutionary" takes on individual sexual preference.
mircea_popescu: even collective - it's a fashion not some sort of biological thing.
mircea_popescu: moeover, there's an important distinction most people don't think of : if you've fucked under a few hundred women, one's "preference" doesn't exist as such ; they're discussing their ~projection~ of a preference, which isn't the same thing. not even remotely similar in fact.
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to say "between 1980 and 1990 i went to bed with 244 women of which 179 were blond, therefore i prefer blond women" ; it's quite another thing to say "when i dream up a dream girl, she's blonde".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the discussion there wasn't "i'd rather" but "i prefer". which things also aren't equal. i rather all sorts of things i don't prefer all the time, it's the key to sanity and male reproductive health.
mircea_popescu: also being idiot dun enter into any of this. two different things being two different things doesn't make you anything in particular.
mircea_popescu: this being another thing most (western) men never think about : a sexual preference for young women NECESSARILY connotes a sexual preference for fucking derps with mistaken notions about the world.
mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure this would help. i have a huge helping of "innocent barbarians" right here, and the obvious solution is for them to... first eat up 50 years of hollywood then we'll talk.
mircea_popescu: i have no use for americana, yes. but the only way 3rd world shitholes can become even vaguely digestibles is throuigh a lot of americana.
mircea_popescu: just like stone age man still has to do iron age, even if we're not doing iron age anymore.
mircea_popescu: and before that it was british corrupting influence as per byron. and before that etc.
mircea_popescu: "cornell university students held a cry-in" ahahaha epic.
mircea_popescu: more importantly : how the fuck "calexit" being on twitter makes it "a thing to cover" ?
mircea_popescu: nobody asks this. who the fuck cares what is on twitter ? and what difference does twitter make ?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-09 20:30 asciilifeform:
https://archive.is/1fqR8 << 'And it’s our duty and our responsibility as entrepreneurs, as citizens of the f—— world, to make sure that s— does not happen. '
mircea_popescu: i suppose it was ok for the reddit hordes to not read that. because why ? and i suppose it was acceptable for college kids to NOT LEARN IT. since when is self-directed education a thing ? and why would it be ?
mircea_popescu: i say it, it's mandatory for them. nobody cares if they like it or not, or understand it or not. wtf is this, lalaland ?
mircea_popescu: trials ftr, in commercial matter, are less than 0.1% of cases
mircea_popescu: does it appear to you i'm in any kind of short supply ?
mircea_popescu: multe flori sunt, dar putine rod in lume au sa poarte ; toate bat la poarta vietii, dar se scrutur multe, moarte.
mircea_popescu: ie, there's flowers, of which few will carry fruit into the world ; they all knock on life's door, then most wither, dead.
mircea_popescu: also, for fairness/completeness : if you actually go to trial over a minor commercial case where a reasonable settlement offer is on the table (provided you somehow find a lawyer to do this which is not actually trivial) the judge will throw molotov cocktails at you.
mircea_popescu: moreover, commercial litigation is bundled/sold/bought as so much negotiable paper. it's almost never the original parties that are involved, much like your 20 bux for a boxed cd set dun go to the artist.
mircea_popescu: nono. let's go through this story because the republic's failure to create an isp is one of the largest stains on its cheek, so i'm sure the discussion will be instructive.
PeterL: from comments on link I posted a minute ago: "Any college receiving public funding - what college doesen't?- should have their funding immediately frozen if they don't take an immediate, corrective action." < seems commenters have the same idea as mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: PeterL too bad nobody is reading / has read trilema for the past however many years. hurr.
mircea_popescu: uh. so i should punish random derp for ... living in where ? and if he wants to move i tell him to go where ?
mircea_popescu: moreover, you say money is not adequate punishment ? take me through the margins, explain this to me.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 17:18 mircea_popescu: (short version : lawyer lobby added law on books that allows them to sue anything that doesn't have a warning label on ; there's 0 enforcement from anyone but the lawyer mafia ; and for that matter no penalty for mislabeling anything ; consequently all of california is today a huge sticker reading "this item is known to the state of california to cause cancer")
mircea_popescu: and going to trial in california is no sort of punishment of the state of california.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is going to be somehow able to charge enough for servers to pay some dude 150 an hour to read random crapolade copy/pasted by nobody on the internet ?
mircea_popescu: (which is EXACTLY what happened, random canadian fraudster lied in an email. which you know - clinton is still not in jail for)
mircea_popescu: nope, just another anodyne "social media" tard who really really thinks he can do things. and who - exact mirror of the trump situation - manages to hurt the people who credit him and no one else.
mircea_popescu: exactly same issue with "progressive" pseudo-thought : the people they most hurt are the people who try to most help them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in a very theoretical principle, this. the mechanisms involved in the practical discussion, however, aren't nearly there. just simple cash starvation, "why is roach motel full of roaches!" "because you're paying $8 a night"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "why is there ddos ?" "did you want cheap internet or didn't you ?"
trinque: it sounds like asciilifeform is making a mercernaries vs soldiers distinction
mircea_popescu: trinque i had soldier isp back in the porn days (when it was "unacceptable" to the squares, but little going to jail over fucking girls in girly make-up to vomit was unthinkable).
mircea_popescu: imagine that dumb shit, "apologizing for offending the people of florida".
mircea_popescu: no, they just wanted max hardcore to apologize to the fuckwits. which is HOW this entire "cornell cry-in" thing got started
mircea_popescu: it's 10+ years in the making, and it was made out of dumb shit like this originally.
mircea_popescu: as if it makes the first whit of difference that someone's offended. pssshhh
deedbot: GustaveGold voiced for 30 minutes.
mircea_popescu: and the "eh, THE COUNTRY" delusional notion one can live in the us is entirely fuelled by the 20+ years of max hardcore shooting his repugnant shit undisturbed.
GustaveGold: was reading the logs since a while and trilema itself
mircea_popescu: i also imagine the girls are still paying him visits, incredibly enough i guess he was actually well liked by the talent (unlike much more "upstanding" producers for instance)
mircea_popescu: understand, up until that point he was periodically raided and the charges hung the jury / got dismissed. i use the 2005 govt raid / 2007 indictment to date the end of the vhs america in the practical sense - it went from larry flynt being the hero to paul little being the heel.
mircea_popescu: the typical max hardcore shot is, short woman who's a new face (unlike you know, stoya, distinctive pornstar, who everyone instantly recognizes) in garish 12 yo make-up (you know, the thick, deeply cloroed stuff they sell in gas stations in the south) saying she's 12, playing the dumb soubrette, being assfucked, fisted, spit on, drinking piss out of her own anus via intubation etc.
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt average taxpayer could distinguish samples from actual outrageous abuse. which obviously in terms of artform is a compliment ; but in practical terms it's ever so dangerous.
mircea_popescu: which makes paul little both notable and an artist, exactly in the way of say dali ; and unlike all the other dorks and philisitnes ever involved (yours truly included)
mircea_popescu: scene was so influential might and magic vi - for blood and honor contains a reconstruction.
mircea_popescu: this is not unlike modern tgv traveler who longs for ancient train, where landscape was distinguishable not a blur. and you could spot foxes from the carriage.
mircea_popescu: do you wish the power of the internets or don't you. etc.
mircea_popescu: and if today we were to make slave republic, the result won't be you know, this is the island of slave republic, mthat is the island of progressive empire, that is the etc.
mircea_popescu: no, the result will be a bunch of billions of idiots doing stupid shit to innocent women that happen to be around
mircea_popescu: also entirely bush-usg thing. has nothing to do with anything but the insanity.
mircea_popescu: watch those people process > 1k travellers/minute ; watch yourself get through the single file immigrations queue within ~12 minutes, as a new airbus/boeing lands every OTHER minute dumping 500 more people behind you.
mircea_popescu: i was not impressed with anything quote so much that year.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform take bitbet for isntance. "we never kept logs" "no really we did" "fuck you. too late."
mircea_popescu: look, at issue is not whether you want to do it or why. at issue is that much like opening a pizzeria, there is this thing called an isp.
mircea_popescu: dude... your pretense is very fascinating in theory ; but in practice you somehow manage to make an unprincipled exception which apparently is entirely mysterious to you.
mircea_popescu: how does your house both house you and also is not operated by a sovereign ?
mircea_popescu: nevermind that. HOW DOES YOUR HOUSE BOTH HOUSE YOU AND ETC.
mircea_popescu: "by me ignoring the matter". "fine. so ignore it for isp too."
mircea_popescu: the one you keep on every day so you can carry on with the nonsense.
mircea_popescu: it's a fascinating thing that you don't give up on housing on this (gabriel laddel does - and you don't realise he is for the reason better than you ON YOUR OWN TERMS) but do give up on computer hosting for this.
mircea_popescu: because hey, the dick that's not up my ass this moment never existed or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: so then. your arbitrary line is at "i will have house but not isp". his line is at "i will not have house or isp".
mircea_popescu: mine happens to be at "i'll have house and isp and other things too."
mircea_popescu: purely arbitrary, there's no principled argument to be had here.
mircea_popescu: this is pure elliotism, "the lack of women willing to marry poor people is not mega-puzzle".
mircea_popescu: the solving a problem by pretending the problem doesn't exist, in whatever flavour may the pretense come, is not solving anything.
mircea_popescu: ie, declare usg impotent and act accordingly. "oh, they'll shut you down" "whatever, i'll open another".
mircea_popescu: that's exactly how you solve the problem of housing yourself. you declare the "alf non-housing board" impotent.
mircea_popescu: if it is you have serious problems with thought generally. the second is two things.
mircea_popescu: ignoring machine gun is a matter of action ; pretending no machine gun is a matter of thought. might as well not understand the difference between camming and dating.
mircea_popescu: as per usual, when i talk of something it's not "undoable", whatever it may look like.
mircea_popescu: the problem, predictably, is that we have dedicated cs people and very loosely associated everyone-elses.
mircea_popescu: pretty much everyone who doesn't lisp still harbords some sort of hope he'll you know, contribute to republic ON HIS OWN TERMS. hence pete_dushenski 's log-line ref bombings, because hey, maybe he's a little me or something.
PeterL: does mircea_popescu do lisp?
Framedragger: 1) preamble: "[...] there is a strong correlation between a language being
Framedragger: dynamically typed and a language also lacking all the other facilities that make lowering the cost of maintaining a large codebase easier"
Framedragger: (I worked on the original versions of JScript at Microsoft from 1996 through 2001.) The by-design purpose of JavaScript was to make the monkey dance when you moused over it. Scripts were often a single line. We considered ten line scripts to be pretty normal, hundred line scripts to be huge, and thousand line scripts were unheard of.
Framedragger: The language was absolutely not designed for programming in the large, and our implementation decisions, performance targets, and so on, were based on that assumption. [Goes on to show just how insanely dynamic JS is, and how it's mostly suitable for one-liners, etc.]"
Framedragger: web shitstack sits on a language designed and implemented in 10 days
Framedragger: it's a shame that large part of 'infrastructure' is built and run by those teenagers. then again maybe it shouldn't even be counted to be part of anything.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger i'm with the "Shouldn't even be counted" side.
Framedragger: i remember having to debug frontend code (which i wasn't supposed to touch in the first place), looked at JS exceptions, didn't make any sense, until realized that it was "compiled from coffeescript". asked "lead frontend engineer" how do i debug, he said he'll check and sort it himself, "it's not really debuggable". OK.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-10 20:28 asciilifeform: peter I ~did~ build a ship at some point. (but it is not for what he is remembered..)
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: ya i figured.. i mean, it's a pile o' nothing, can't argue with that.
Framedragger: ikr. that's what it did to me when i had to debug it. ugh
phf: Framedragger: "lead frontend engineer" didn't know about source maps?
Framedragger: phf: in truth, not sure if coffeescript had source maps back then
Framedragger: still though, not exactly much of an answer. (it was a small web shop, granted, but yes ridiculous title)
trinque: my survival strategy with webshit has always been to heretically do as little as possible client-side
mircea_popescu:
https://archive.is/Shq9z << in vague lulz : romanian immigrant (from small town in romania's own rust belt) living in az and working as a rent-a-cop voted trump. his declared principal issue : "the stability of world peace".
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: ya, i can take it easy on the barfbombs. am also taking ug cs course to fill in the holes in my education. not likely to lisp anytime this decade but working towards being a more useful citizen of the republic. bbet seemed like potential avenue. your ancient suggestion to serve as marketing agent for tmsr-related entities isn't forgotten but meatwot obligations currently prevent its pursuit,
pete_dushenski: if not indefinitely so. lastly, if i had who else to emulate, i... would. but taleb's a bit of a hermit and i have nfi who else (alive) that leaves.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski mind that the point isn't by any means to turn everyone into a cs head. those are probably oversupplied.
mircea_popescu: the point however IS to get people to do things that ... well, "out of confort zone" is the common expression, but it's unserviceable for at least two reasons.
mircea_popescu: just do things. especially the things that are big and scary. that'd be a better statement.
pete_dushenski: i'm a bit far behind to be a total cs head anyways, just trying to keep up with some of the convos.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: as to scary things, i can see it. and believe it or not i'm doing just this on meatspace projects. just have to kill a few dragons to get to the (republican) princess.
mircea_popescu: "Of course I'm not happy about this, I like smart people, but that's the new reality. There was a time where women went to college to get an MRS degree, and I am telling you that that time is today, there is nothing else of value in there. Sure, some college women go on to become doctors and CEOs, and some go on to become child pornographers and Salon writers, none of those things have anything to do with what happened in c
mircea_popescu: ollege. If you are going to college to get an education and not to meet guys, you are insane, literally insane, delusional, in reality one is never going to happen and the other is going to happen anyway, and you could have gotten both for free at a bookstore. Worked for me. The only question for the future single mom is whether it's worth $XXXXXX a year to meet guys, and the answer is of course it's not, even nightclubs l
mircea_popescu: let's try this again. on what is your notion that "he threw to make readers think he were a chick" based ?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-10 22:54 pete_dushenski: i'm a bit far behind to be a total cs head anyways, just trying to keep up with some of the convos.
pete_dushenski: the shit ?! i went to french immersion not cs immersion!!!1
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the point you elude here is that education is not so much about gaining things as it is about losing them. it's like washing not like book implants.
mircea_popescu: "theory of relativity used no math beyond highschool, so why didn't you come up with it" is a horrible reason to beat up your teenager some night in 1915.
mircea_popescu: i'm aware that technically it would qualify as olympiad subject matter for that reason ; but still.
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-21#1546426 << for your entomological pleasure, this is an example of an elementary cs discussion that intrigues me and i ~want~ to understand yet requires afaics zero math. the logs abound with other examples of 'this language does this but not that and is therefore better suited for the other thing' that i (perhaps naively) deem valuable despite not having a ready application
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 14:52 phf: and for the record, read in python doesn't ever fail, what fails is elevation from str to unicode that implicitly happens in places, like when you do "print" or inside the html encoder or whatever. the correct way is to treat "str" as a byte sequence, and explicitly do encode/decode when appropriate.
pete_dushenski: anyways, phf's line is but one example. the corpse that was my 'trb history' should serve as the only proof required that i have deeply nfi which way is up in the cs field and that is has ~zero to do with maths.