mircea_popescu: fucking insane, river, swamp, the works.
mircea_popescu: you know they don't seem to exist here ?
asciilifeform is reading these words to the tune of a million actual mosquitoes. somehow appropriate
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but i care what he asks like i care what the mosquito buzzes.
mircea_popescu: and so there.
mircea_popescu: no state ever created anything. it was another mircea that carried the fucking head of the turk pasha after that one failed crusade when all of europe ran off and the us wasn't invented yet.
mircea_popescu: i am the proud result of an endless line that predates all states, and the fucking lake, the lake's bottom, and the core of the earth are mine.
asciilifeform: then to herr dutch you are a dragon and don't exist
mircea_popescu: i am not a person in the sense of this rootless, hopeless lotus floating on a sea that somehow is owned byu "the state".
asciilifeform: 'You did virtually nothing to create the conveniences you enjoy. The retirement plan 300 years ago was: get up, go to work, come home, go to bed, repeat. Then one day, you didn't get up because you were dead. ' << mega-clairvoyant! knows my retirement plan!
mircea_popescu: also a few jews with the same odd behaviour.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i kinda don't look at that part, because plenty of orthodox nuts otherwise very intelligent.
asciilifeform: hence the combo of 'brain' but 'wtf'
asciilifeform: didn't know they made those any more.
asciilifeform: but apparently he's somewhat of a... catholic apologist, in the old school.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i rarely get to read folk who at the same time seem able to find their way out of a paper bag and actually believe obama similarly could.
asciilifeform: http://stevedutch.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-most-evil-people-in-american-history.html << comedically lulzy
mircea_popescu: "Hey, who wouldn't vote for Morgan Freeman? Obama is unabashedly liberal, intelligent, and acts like he knows it. He's "uppity." People who think they're superior run headlong into someone who is superior, and they don't like it."
pete_dushenski: "Out there in the real world, none of the disasters their party predicted have actually come to pass. President Obama just keeps failing to fail. And that’s a big problem for the G.O.P. — even bigger than Donald Trump."
mircea_popescu: strangely enough, the dsm-ud did not have a heading for "bush-reactive psychopathy"
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Obama+Derangement+Syndrome | Obama's positions better reflect the change and new direction that the American people have been calling for, but those with Obama Derangement Syndrome ...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is the lemonade stand <=> dope slinging ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: iirc you pointed the finger at kako and he pointed it back at you. in any event, i'd like to see it back up. never know when said pressing need might arise.
mats: Maintains the strong set, displays some statistics as to it in the manner of Penning's thing [http://pgp.cs.uu.nl] <<
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i dun recall what the problem was with it, i think it mostly fell through the cracks for lack of pressing need. the server's up at any rate.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform except they weren't also hosted ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: any chance we might see log1 again in the near future ?
asciilifeform: prolly folks pulling the l333337 w4r3z
asciilifeform: [insert the take about a girl walking by plumber in geyser of shit]
mircea_popescu: not even a weapon. they also don't craft houses, or water pipes.
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, for all the people who have all sorts of malformed opinions, cvasi-ideas and ready judgement about "how mp is!11" stemming out of some sort of emotional knee jerk over me not caring for whatever pet peeve of theirs, NONE to date has actually tried the "hey mp, what'd it take to convince you feminists are not retarded children and socialism is really the path to go!"
mircea_popescu: "Mostly it's laziness (or shallowness) and an attempt to seize the moral high ground. It's hard to defend specific issues when you're confronted by someone who simply rejects your basic premises. How do you find out what lines of argument they would find persuasive? (Hint: ask them. Say "what exactly would you accept as proof that I'm right?" Most of the time they don't have a clue, because most people only think about
mircea_popescu: "In fact, most people are out of their depth in a mud puddle."
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, I heard it's now rude to say "blind" in the us, one must say "visually challenged"
mircea_popescu: "Ultimately it's undergirded by one of the great intellectual fallacies of modern times, the obsession with structure as opposed to content. If structure is all important, then if two conflicts have similar structure, they are similar."
asciilifeform: 'SABR is seeking engineers with deep interest and experience in blockchain-based technologies who are prepared to devote their career to making a positive impact while being continuously intellectually challenged.' << am i the only one who sees a second parse for this sentence ??
asciilifeform: how long has it been since sc4mz0rz quit doing the most elementary homework to see if other, larger and better-connected sc4mz0rz are pulling the same scam already ?
asciilifeform: idk, they evoke nostalgic msdos in my mind
asciilifeform: htm-like-93 is prolly the one nice thing that can be said
mircea_popescu: and .HTM like it's 1993 and microsoft dreamweaver, and "Failed to connect to server. The reason may be that the encryption methods supported by the server are not enabled in the security preferences." and aww.
asciilifeform: the extra-lulzy 'meta' aspect of this is that the fella is becoming more and more of an open, frothing defender of usg-in-all-of-its-glory, e.g., https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/AsymmWarfare.htm
asciilifeform: in other non-news, steve dutch (of 'anti-intellectualism' and madagascar essay, etc) is back. with a couplea new lulz, e.g., https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/IssueNeverIssue.HTM ; and even a blog of sorts, http://stevedutch.blogspot.com
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the magic moment is the part where you go "and yet unlike every other bucket of lick-a-squid shit, the maker of this one was clearly aware. wtf ?!?!"
asciilifeform: as he reads that thing and approaches the magic moment,
pete_dushenski: i just might have to take a crack at brazil myself then
phf: i'm either missing some hidden issues, or this literally says "some aspect of scripts are unimplemented, because memory manipulation is too hard"
phf: according to bitcoin script documentation "Some of the more complicated opcodes are disabled out of concern that the client might have a bug in their implementation" (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script). an example of disabled script OP_CAT, Concatenates two strings
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: Naphex was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 day, 0 hours, 11 minutes, and 4 seconds ago: <Naphex> clients get tracked and the rewards are sticky
pete_dushenski: did you fill out the form ?
nubbins`: maybe the most outta-focus picture i've ever taken
nubbins`: they still make new commercials from time to time
pete_dushenski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1p6K0xGKd0 << for non-canuckians who don't know the legacy of hal johnson and joanne mcleod
Apocalyptic: kakobrekla, thanks, can you provide a sha256sum of the file ?
nubbins`: so i had to download a font yesterday for a client project. txt file in folder says "this font was created for the first ever european furry convention"
nubbins`: it's nice to exercise the fiber, even if it seems a bit slow
nubbins`: kakobrekla tks for the movie!
pete_dushenski: i dun really torrent so i think i'll stick with the yt :)
phf: pete_dushenski: fyi, it's available freely on kat.cr, probably can be downloaded at pipe saturation level, rather then pulling it from someone's http
gribble: The Fetlife Meatlist - Volume I on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2015/the-fetlife-meatlist-volume-i/>; Further Argentine weird. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2014/further-argentine-weird/>; The Fetlife Meatlist - Volume VI on Trilema - A blog by Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/2015/the-fetlife-meatlist-volume-vi/>
pete_dushenski: trinque: i haven't seen it myself, seen it in the logs who knows how many times
kakobrekla: anyway, its not at the level of 'brazil' but had lulz
pete_dushenski: they should be hosting daytime tv shows or something
pete_dushenski: ftr i think that hammond, may, and clarkson are past their prime and should hang up their towels
pete_dushenski: but neither is he, so it's perhaps no surprise
pete_dushenski: it's not really my taste either
trinque: could be the shots
trinque: some rooms are nice, others entirely haphazard
pete_dushenski: liking the gym space but junky equipment needs a refresh
pete_dushenski: that wallpaper looks like bad bathroom tile from the 60s
pete_dushenski: http://pagesix.com/2015/08/05/michael-moore-selling-spectacular-michigan-lake-house-for-5-2m/ << different moore than most of the ones in teh search
kakobrekla: ill move to another boxen and leave link in public for a short while.
kakobrekla: goes quite well with ba theme.
trinque goes to code in a van down by the river
mircea_popescu: actual argument, in actual debate, at the time of diderot & co
mircea_popescu: i suppose the theory is that "italians have forgotten how to sing and only french royal comedy institute knows anymore"
mircea_popescu: there was also a circassian one presumably.
gernika: BingoBoingo was there not a Nubian dynasty that ruled Egypt at some point? Apparently lasted 75 years?
mircea_popescu: more like making them come out to him being a parasite.
trinque: is that like... counting with them?
shinohai: I think my favorite Al Sharptonism is "Jewing the numbers"
mircea_popescu: every group lays the same pretense. irrespective of the justification. much like every absoute monarchy sooner or later got around to deriving the monarch from the sun
mircea_popescu: and obviously usians have their own john smiths etc.
mircea_popescu: they even had statal support for a while.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, thjere's a contingent of deranged romanians who believe zamolxis taught the romans to read.
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> mircea_popescu: this particular delusion is known to have originated with a particular academitard, but his name escapes me << Actually harder to pin down. Variations had been going on in Black Christian circles since the early 1800's at least, but Nation of Islam really brought this crazy to the mainstream
mircea_popescu: the island 50 miles off the coast which you can see on a clear day, but which the mud packing philosophers and astrologo-mathematicians of a certain complexion failed to find,
ascii_field: soviet elephants are the biggest elephants (tm) (r)
mircea_popescu: neither.
mircea_popescu: neithert
mircea_popescu: let's play guess the genius.
mircea_popescu: White folks was in caves while we was building empires
We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
trinque: mircea_popescu: I appreciate the opportunity to take part in this meta-appreciation. upboated, or something
mircea_popescu: i hereby validate one derp's appreciation of the other derp's appreciation of the first derp's appreciations on issues she doesn't understand and wasn't really asked about.
mircea_popescu: "Thanks for your comment, dumspirospero! I appreciate your appreciation of the post."
trinque: and that's according to their bullshit numbers
mircea_popescu: The reality of the situation is that the U.S. dollar hasnt been this strong in decades. The thought that it could be replaced as a reserve currency is laughable at this point on a geopolitical basis and nothing in the Iran deal even remotely touches upon that issue, he added.
ascii_field: 'Over five years, two computer hackers living in Ukraine broke into U.S. newswire services including Business Wire and PRNewswire and stole more than 100,000 press releases for publicly traded companies before their release. Those documents, which included earnings data, were distributed to a network of traders who used the advance knowledge to buy or sell securities based on how they anticipated the market would react to
trinque: click here to join the burrito bandwagon!
trinque: every moronic thing has an "us" you can join these days
mircea_popescu: i have never heard either used ?!
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=aye+papi | aye papi. The new term, replacing "my ovaries," that sexually frustrated teenage girls use to describe a hot guy. Usually used on Twitter by Directioners.
mircea_popescu: As for the lesser of two evils argument, I just have to quote from Ijeoma Oluo who was saying earlier:
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is this stupid ass "noted" ?
mircea_popescu: For her part, noted feminist Gloria Steinem said (in 2008) that she supported Clinton over Barack Obama because, Black men were given the vote a half-century before women of any race were allowed to mark a ballot, and generally have ascended to positions of power, from the military to the boardroom, before any women
mircea_popescu: "While many people are excited about the prospect of the first woman president, I think that a Hillary Clinton presidency will be another in a long series of triumphs for white, corporate feminism and defeats for racial justice."
mircea_popescu: i dunno who the fuck she is.
trinque: meh, one on the right's got some weird going on with her actual equipment iirc
thestringpuller: the last time I opened a link here at work was from MP and yea...awkward...
ascii_field: thestringpuller: linked picture was from it.
thestringpuller: did ascii_field just quote the matrix?
ascii_field: mentioned solely for the cattle collar
ascii_field: like in the film 'deadlock' but moar internety.
ascii_field: at any rate, the art of human collar-making has not stood still! iirc the saudis even hold a patent on proper bomb-n-shock-n-gps collar
shinohai: Every 'murican has one glued to them nearly 24/7
ascii_field: which lucky nord (can we call'em nords?) will be the first to be carved up for his dog tag ?
trinque: I expect to hear in a few years how backward America is because we don't yet have the chip system.
ascii_field: shinohai: recent hearn (nsa) gambit. there's very little the amorphous masses love more than 'omg1111!!! censored!!'
trinque: "According to Pasi M??enranta because "the people" happily let Google and Facebook track them with smartphones there's no way this could be considered an invasion of privacy by citizens."
shinohai: Looks like they even got together and bribed cryptocoin "news" into pleading for them: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/discussion-of-bitcoin-xt-banned-from-bitcoin-subreddit/
hanbot: hehe i have plenty. they're not available for testing stuff on. craptop, otoh....
shinohai: the new rotor script mod6 and I tried this weekend past is so easy a redditard could do it
hanbot: shinohai: hanbot compiled pogo ? O.o << nein. have built stator "manually" as of last night, tho still need to verify runs as expected, after which will put together notes. have not pogo-ed, rotor trial to come. (ubuntu 10.04 32bit + mod6's gracious help)
ascii_field: see the pogotron one for example
mod6: ascii_field: for people who'd like to build rotor w/stator or rotor w/TEST2 on i386/i686, is there anything special that they would need to do to this file? rotor_buildroot_dot_config
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2014 01:30:35; asciilifeform: 'As progressively dumber programmers build progressively more complex systems we will see more of this kind of attempt to paper over coding mistakes with lawyers, sanctions, policies, and laws. Hollywood and the RIAA are usually the most successful at getting the government to do their bidding. Thus I predict that one day Disney will have a Web site where you can buy access to any of their movies.
phf: *with gernika rather
phf: ben_vulpes: http://paste.lisp.org/display/152828#1 << read-sequence reads octets (i.e. unsigned bytes) into an array, so you want (make-array size :element-type '(unsigned-byte 8)) and you also want to then explicitly convert an octet array into a string. later is implementation dependent (since concerns encodings, etc.), ccl has DECODE-STRING-FROM-OCTETS and sbcl OCTETS-TO-STRING, both support encodings. since version is ascii, a naive converte
ascii_field: In response, the Protect Act narrows the prohibition to cover only depictions that the defendant’s community would consider “obscene.”' << vintage l0l
ascii_field: 'Congress passed the Protect Act after the Supreme Court struck down a broader law prohibiting any visual depictions of minors engaged in sexual activity, including computer-generated imagery and other fakes. The high court ruled that the ban was too broad, and could cover legitimate speech, including Hollywood productions.
mircea_popescu: and especially in prestige among them.
mircea_popescu: heh. i suppose the widespread metanonsense is why people are so lost when confronted with groups utterly disinterested in prestige,
mircea_popescu: "The Trotskyist is AGAINST Stalin just as the Communist is FOR him, and, like the majority of Communists, he wants not so much to alter the external world as to feel that the battle for prestige is going in his own favour."
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 08:56:46; BingoBoingo: When the last pre-0.8 wedge came through I suspected it was a BDB issue but alf was the one to euthanize it at the root.
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 09:27:34; punkman: they gotta manage everything "The midpoint for the yuan is now set at 6.2298 to $1, up from 6.1162 yuan on Monday. The People's Bank of China (POBC) manages the rate through the official midpoint, from which trade can rise or fall 2% on any given day."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-08-2015#1234606 << the innovation of fixing by midpoint is actually quite commandable.
ascii_field: going for the mircea_popescu-and-five-phriends model ?
mircea_popescu: in any case : the "many users" problem doesn't even need to be approached at the "hey, we need their spam allowed in the blocks more".
ascii_field: possibly because ~their~ ruling class was... straight
mircea_popescu: (notable exceptions, here and there, which shows it's not racial but fashio-cultural and fucktardinal)
mircea_popescu: nah, this was the case way WAY before.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it is because, proximately, they picked the 'make'em stupid' school of mass management
mircea_popescu: why does anglo conflate so much and so stupidly ? is it because the 3-4 letter words universe ?
mircea_popescu: both things they've also done.
mircea_popescu: it's not unlike conflating computer programming and autism, or bewing the runt in a family litter and being the politician.
mircea_popescu: this goes not-so-badly with the earlier link of dooglus' attempt to resurect the mpoe-pr visits the whore forum thing.
mircea_popescu: I got a lot of responses, but you know what? I now understand why all of these women are hookers and i don't feel bad for them in the least. They are aggressive, flaky and dont want to understand what is happening around them. All I have been getting is women asking me for free bitcoin to buy their "medication". Its life and death apparently.
mircea_popescu: "I have been putting up ads on backpage letting people know I can teach about and sell them bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: the right-honorable baron rite rait al-right!
mircea_popescu: (btw, if your oral english is your slave not your master, your reading of the name distinguishes the three phonemes. because they are fucking distinct in english omfg)
ascii_field: or they could switch to english aha
mircea_popescu: and with better reinforcement throughout reinforcement throughout hello there, how goes it, we were talking about story arcs, you know, like bows hehehe, but reinforced throguhout throughout reinforced ps. this was a paragraph, and you read it well done !
mircea_popescu: the whole thing reads like literotica is too advanced now, and it needs rewriting in simpler words with simplified story arcs.
mircea_popescu: that said, i can admire the guy for taking the time to do what really amounts to daycare for mentally retarded adults. but the thing itself is in-fucking-credible.
mircea_popescu: "ambrosia" is explained in the text, because for retards.
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 08:41:27; shinohai: No one wants to *do* anything BingoBoingo, they like instant validation you get by repeating whatever someone says on r/bitcoin now.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-08-2015#1234555 << i was reading a "book" written by some romanian twerp who thinks himself famous (stand up comedian / singer), sent to me by retired whore (really, if you whore and can't retire by 25 or so, you're too stupid to live) of my generation, for the purpose of "see mr p, i told you the kids are fucktarded". ie, kids, the next set.
ascii_field: why the hell wouldn't it run
ascii_field: string in there somewhere
mircea_popescu: they all seem one byte offset sort of things like this.
mod6: ascii_field: http://thebitcoin.foundation/misc/rotor-bitcoind-TEST2-debian8-vs-gentoo-objdumps-20150811.txt
mircea_popescu: he whose personality is entirely fictitious has trouble groking the permanence of reality.
ascii_field: in the age of newsprint, this was messy, unreliable
mircea_popescu: yeah. it's the clear mark of the "nationalist", aka socialist, libertard - generally speaking idiot.
ascii_field: see the 'nationalist' thread
mircea_popescu: do they delete so and so ? fuck em.
mircea_popescu: incidentally - the attitude towards stuff like this is becoming the premiere marker of dishonest folk.
ascii_field: nobody disclaimed the idiocies, but oracle would like to pretend that no one said them in a single convenient place.
ascii_field: btw in case this wasn't obvious, the original article is memoryholed into oblivion
mircea_popescu: i'm at the same phase.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: these folks are at the stage where they openly expect to be able to use law as lettre de cachet
mod6: i'll post the diff so you can take a peek when you have a chance ascii_field
mircea_popescu: but lulzy at the legal nonsense they're sprouting. my consultant can do whatever the fuck he pleases.
ascii_field: these are turds with two legs
mircea_popescu: there you go, that's your "professionals".
mircea_popescu: onsibilities to customers, merely trying to avoid a painful, annoying, and mutually-time wasting exercise," the CSO writes.
mircea_popescu: "More like, "I do not need you to analyze the code since we already do that, it's our job to do that, we are pretty good at it, we can -- unlike a third party or a tool -- actually analyze the code to determine what's happening and at any rate most of these tools have a close to 100 percent false positive rate so please do not waste our time on reporting little green men in our code. I am not running away from our resp
ascii_field: 'Q. Why are you going after consultants the customer hired? The consultant didn’t sign the license agreement! A. The customer signed the Oracle license agreement, and the consultant hired by the customer is thus bound by the customer’s signed license agreement. Otherwise everyone would hire a consultant to say (legal terms follow) “Nanny, nanny boo boo, big bad consultant can do X even if the customer can’t!”'
assbot: Logged on 29-07-2015 03:51:50; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: circumstantial; based on out-of-phase release time, and the content (uncensored) and formatting (full text memos, with technical detail, rather than idiot powerpoint)
ascii_field: the ant catalogue ('godsurge' etc) ~wasn't~ from snowden
ascii_field: like ~all of them~
mircea_popescu: btw, it might please you to find that in the woirld simulation that is eulora, licensing agreements appeared within the first month.
ascii_field: why is mircea_popescu convinced that the oracle thing is a sham ?
mod6: <+ascii_field> and srsly do i have to do everything myself << i might not be viewing the differences correctly .. so what I said above might not be correct.
ascii_field: to borrow mircea_popescu's observation from last year, these folks are just ~begging~ to be boiled in oil
ascii_field: 'If we determine as part of our analysis that scan results could only have come from reverse engineering (in at least one case, because the report said, cleverly enough, “static analysis of Oracle XXXXXX”), we send a letter to the sinning customer, and a different letter to the sinning consultant-acting-on-customer’s behalf – reminding them of the terms of the Oracle license agreement that preclude
ascii_field: these need to die, yes
mod6: hey, if i build rotor-TEST2 on say gentoo, and someone else builds the same whole thing on debian, we get the same number of output bytes in the bin, but the checksums are different, seem to be some offset differences.
ascii_field: some of the text did not ocr
ascii_field: ^ the paste is incomplete
kakobrekla: nah, they are just being racists.
mircea_popescu: like the word "negro"
mircea_popescu: the expression "white men can't jump", as an artefact, which it is. comes, as far as i know, from actual black people, as a local creation. like the word "trayvon". not from white people, as a projection.
funkenstein_: i just can't really follow because it seems the terms are not clear.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ i'm very vaguely following the black culture stuff, mostly on the grounds that i don't believe it is sterile / doesn't carry much import. so i have nfi. but srsly, you saying the theme is really projected rather than locally brewed ?
funkenstein_: I just read great book "of water and the spirit". Dagara youth taken by French missionaries, when he returns he is "too white" to be part of his villiage, forgot his language, etc.
mircea_popescu: lol i thought this was a black culture theme ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno, bird jumped alright back in the day
asciilifeform: from the l0ltrons: http://web.tampabay.com/news/business/tampa-man-accused-of-illegal-bitcoin-exchange-getting-attention-in-new-york/2240829
mircea_popescu: and moor is nonsense. it literally means "the white nigger"
mircea_popescu: ^ super-famous literary work, title works on the contradiction of "White Negro Slave"
gribble: Harap Alb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harap_Alb>; The White Moor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Moor>; De-as fi Harap Alb (1965) The White Moor [English subtitles ...: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbtyxNSqBsQ>
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 14:06:11; mircea_popescu: which is why "arap" in romanian means black, in the sense of negro slave. because the turks called them "arabs"
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-08-2015#1234912 << this was the ru parlance as late as the time of peter I.
shinohai: I can see why if all they got were the same whiny white Xstians we have here in the US today.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, has survived, a proper thing to wish for the bride at wedding throughout musliv world is "may your kids be light skinned"
mircea_popescu: which is why "arap" in romanian means black, in the sense of negro slave. because the turks called them "arabs"
mircea_popescu: the arabs and the turks preferred black men for labour and white women for ... belabour.
shinohai: Did not the Ottomans enslave whites as well?
asciilifeform: and not 'same conditions' - minus the expectations and beatings, no ?
mircea_popescu: you know, the little discussed secrtet, is that at the time "blacks were enslaved", poor, independent minded whites lived in just about the same conditions throughout the slaveowning states.
asciilifeform: where's the 'eat for phree'
mircea_popescu: happy now ? you live in the best world possible.
mircea_popescu: the work they currently do is about as economically useful as handpickingf cotton, for the record.
mircea_popescu: they're the negro slaves of the new, certifiedly non-racist regime. they, just like the previous negro slaves, eat "for free". in exchange, they may not own property, have no disposition of their bodies, and have to do "work"
asciilifeform: they also live here.
asciilifeform: well not exactly. the folks on the other side of the fence get to eat phree, rather than pay.
mircea_popescu: but in point of fact no higher learning has happened in the us in two decades at least.
mircea_popescu: they will call it "university"
mircea_popescu: i suppose the sticking point is that you for some reason project unrelated matter on it.
asciilifeform: i object to it on account of being among the designated chumps who will have to starve to pay for the 'phree'
asciilifeform: but it isn't like i can personally do my thing in the warehouse
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