phf`: i have a very what's the word straight? romanian coworker. i like to periodically send some of the things i glean through mircea_popescu about romanian this guy's way. just to watch his reaction.
mircea_popescu: there is no romanian in there, though. fat guy is a popular gypsy singer, the ~only actual word in his speech would be "carolina" which is only romanian inasmuch "o iubesc pe carolina, e o fata din carpati, are ochii ca si marea si-i frumoasa ca o stea, o carolina lina lina carolina cha cha cha" etc 30 yo kid rhymes.
phf`: apparently something called manele. i was wondering why it sounded vaguely iranian, vaguely turkish
mircea_popescu: anyone recall the dude ? square jawed dork, committed some amusing points re "interdicting uninterdictable comms" and other "us army ra ra ra!!" lulz.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yet he's ~in charge of the idf sikrit projects to maff and stuff.
mircea_popescu: not a general. check out his tau homepage, even has pic.
mircea_popescu: phf` your evidently good taste ensures you'll make friends fast in bucharest! bamboo awaits you!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, the dude's not even stupid. but this notion that not being stupid suffices to think is not unlike the notion that... well... everything else.
phf`: i'm not even sure my office is ready for this. i kind of want to open a hookah bar with really bad rail drinks and bottle service just so that i can play that stuff on TVs
mircea_popescu: eh, why'd you open something in shittyland. come to cr, open here.
mircea_popescu: o hey check it out, "rakata" actually caught lexical value somehow.
phf`: it's like a mixture of all the oh-i-remember-this-was-popular chav styles from across the world
mircea_popescu: the reason being that there's a whole troop of intellectuals who missed their web development calling and instead of sitting on compuer all day checking out what's new in rust they just collate crap from across the youtube.
mircea_popescu: very much 90s/2000s item though. the following generation found the normal path to ibm alcatel oracle etc.
mircea_popescu: phf` fwiw styles is actually right. arguaby chavery is a genre.
mircea_popescu: the lyrics include gems such as "so the whole world sees you're the most unique" &c
mircea_popescu: there's also something about 1k hp producing a lot of pleasure or somesuch.
ben_vulpes: god bless mandatory minimums. incarcerate 'em all and let dementia sort 'em out.
mircea_popescu: prisons have this very interesting fermentive effect for democracies. basically, it's easy enough to pretend like "our democracy" while the bread's still flowing ; once that stops, as it always does -- suddenly it's impossible for the "our democracy" pretense to insulate itself from the authoritatian restructuring the prison drives into society.
mircea_popescu: maintaining "our democracy" compatible prisons is too expensive ; not maitaining them produces the sops problem, which is a surer "democracy" solvent than austrian painters named adolf.
mircea_popescu: and yes, "democracy" is in quotes because it has no substance, can at most ever be a varnish and no more.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and yes, "democracy" is in quotes because it has no substance, can at most ever be a varnish and no more. << Nah, varnish does have some substance. More like Xylene
mircea_popescu: by the time i'm typing . )).). you know the current article's gonna be involved
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BingoBoingo: ^ If this is what "OMG CRASHING" has become...
Framedragger: ^ relevant (yes i know stross is not really liked here, but this was ~ok)
a111: Logged on 2014-01-20 05:24 asciilifeform: indium tin oxide is conductive. and transparent.
mircea_popescu: lol poor danielpbarron was waiting for shirts for like a year
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform definitely NOT you know, "we're thropwinfg windows in the dumpster"
mircea_popescu: plenty of "oh, everyone ELSE affected". now tell me fedex is a ... private company, not a usg agency. because that's totally how private companies communicate, and absolutely not how the soviet agencies speak.
mircea_popescu: and nobody's talking about it outside the republic, either.
mircea_popescu: then again, the notion anyone is actually talking about anything outside the republic is a little luzy, in the vein of talking sheep.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-05-13 22:35 mircea_popescu: then again, the notion anyone is actually talking about anything outside the republic is a little luzy, in the vein of talking sheep.
mircea_popescu: it's called frottage asciilifeform , there's no dildo.
trinque: trb has been running on this apu2 for about 20min, ~100k blox
trinque: msata ssd seems notbad.jpg