Stuff I don't understand and other likable parts.

~ Part One - The Lickable Part ~

Isn't this beautiful ?

Sadly the provenance of the image is unknown. It appears in a number of the usual retard venues (tumblr, blogspot, etc) in the general Precambrian manner stuff appears there : here's an image "I found"i and let me write some retarded stuff around it to make it "mine" in the sense of "jiving with the little I understand of this world". Because that's the very point of existence at the lowest level of humanity : not to wash birth's grime off their filty faces, but instead to try and interpret everything around in equally grimy terms.

Because what better usage of expensive digital equipment sprawled from here to Tim-buck-two than some firm believer in a flat Earth "finding" a satellite picture of Earth and scribbling in fat Comic Sans something like "See ? IT IS FLAT!" all over it. Nevermind that he doesn't understand how it was taken, or by whom, or what it means, or what a satellite even is. He has taken an ideal object and produced another ideal object out of it. He's an intellectual just as much as you or me, right ? Nevermind that taking ingredients and making shit doesn't qualify assorted invertebrates to the status of a Chef. He is a person too!

So... I have no idea, regretfully, where's it from. Nevertheless, I would say it broadly gets it. Broadly, get it ?

~ Part Two - The Inadvisable Part ~

Linus Torvalds pulled a commit by Greg Kroah-Hartman. It goes like so :

Diffstat-rw-r--r-- Documentation/CodeOfConflict

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new file mode 100644

index 0000000..1684d0b

--- /dev/null

+++ b/Documentation/CodeOfConflict

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@

+Code of Conflict

+----------------

+

+The Linux kernel development effort is a very personal process compared

+to "traditional" ways of developing software. Your code and ideas

+behind it will be carefully reviewed, often resulting in critique and

+criticism. The review will almost always require improvements to the

+code before it can be included in the kernel. Know that this happens

+because everyone involved wants to see the best possible solution for

+the overall success of Linux. This development process has been proven

+to create the most robust operating system kernel ever, and we do not

+want to do anything to cause the quality of submission and eventual

+result to ever decrease.

+

+If however, anyone feels personally abused, threatened, or otherwise

+uncomfortable due to this process, that is not acceptable. If so,

+please contact the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board at

+, or the individual members, and they

+will work to resolve the issue to the best of their ability. For more

+information on who is on the Technical Advisory Board and what their

+role is, please see:

+ http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/advisory-councils/tab

+

+As a reviewer of code, please strive to keep things civil and focused on

+the technical issues involved. We are all humans, and frustrations can

+be high on both sides of the process. Try to keep in mind the immortal

+words of Bill and Ted, "Be excellent to each other."

The problem here isn't that Torvalds, Kroah-Hartman or anyone else would rather see people get along than not get along. This is a purely aesthetic preference, debating it holds all the merits and virtues of debating whether beer's better than wine, blondes taller than brunettes etc.

The problem here is that as written, this text creates a blanket obligation for some (the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board and its individual members joint and several) to address the problems of others. This is exactly the same nonsense as "let's you and him fight"ii, "single payer insurance"iii and so on and so on. It is yet another attempt, doomed in principle, hopeless by definition, of implementing socialist utopia into the world, that magical construct whereby divorcing agency from its fruits doesn't simultaneously drive a decoupling between human behaviour and reason.

Back in saner pastures, if you don't know how to apply pressure, if don't have an avenue to voice your concernsiv, that means that your concerns aren't worth shit. Plain and simple. The very fact that you don't have enough clout to force anyone to listen to you means, directly and incontrovertibly, that you don't have anything to say. Because you couldn't possibly have anything to say.

So no, don't make "the board" listen to all comers. They're, generally speaking, the guys that weren't good enough to sling dope. It makes exactly no difference whether they feel "personally" this that or the other. Let them either

change "personally", so that their betters no longer feel an incentive to punish themv ;

learn to enjoy the process, orvi

change "personally"vii so that their betters become their equals, and no longer dare think of the matter in those terms.

That's the correct solution, and it runs exactly counter to the retardo-socialistoid approach. Don't cater to the unwarranted pretense of cattleviii but instead reject it, uniformly, universally and explicitly. Rely on hierarchy, implement the WoT, the further you go away from the vulgate of the contemporary "civilised world", the better your chances to survive, and to succeed. It really is so utterly broken intellectually that going any way that's not it is significant, marked improvement.

Not that it matters so much for this particular exercise in obsolescence, but recorded here for the future : Equalitarianism is the summum malum. Everything derived from it, nonsense like "the dignity of the human person" and "the right to self determination" and so on and so forth fruits of that poisonous tree. Don't pick them, live longer. Cut the damned thing down, live happier. That's all.

———"Where ?"

"On the Internet!"

"Which Internet ?"

"Oh, you know, the blue Internet icon." [↩]Amply documented as part of "Transactional Analysis", cooler minds' doomed attempt to deter random idiots from engaging in their usual fatlogic-fueled behaviours. [↩]How to make sure costs balloon out of all semblance of control while quality collapses under any conceivable floor ? Have one pay for another's use. Tried and true - worked without exception throughout the ages. [↩]Unlike, for instance, Lindsey Kuper. [↩]"Hey doc, it hurts when I do this"

"Don't do that." [↩]Gang rapes are pleasant experiences for nine out of ten participants. [↩]Personally, you know. [↩]It's a known fact that domestic animals see their caretakers as an animal of the same gender, same age and same species. [↩]

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Category: Meta psihoza

Wednesday, 11 March, Year 7 d.Tr.

Strategy for the antisocial struggle.

This is a translation of a Romanian article, which came up recently.

"Anticommunist struggle" sounds goodi, "antisocial struggle" sounds badii. Probably in the manner that USians shooting Pakistanis are heroes to be respected, while Pakistanis that set US up the bomb are insufferable and unsuffered, god damned Goldsteins.iii

How bad or good it may sound has no impact on it being in fact a struggle, and being a struggle it lends itself to the strategic approach. For convenience let's just pick the bank robbery aspect - doubtlessly part of the struggle of man against society in its widest senseiv Before theory, let us consider a specific example, which some of you may be familiar with, through reading me, while a majority no doubt never heard of it, seeing how we are after all on the Internet. So :

Emil Matasareanu was an USian of Romanian orgin who, together with an actual USian (as actual as any USian can ever be, which isn't very much) by the name of Larry Phillips went into robbing banks. This was no amateur hour : they made their own, military level armor, that couldn't really be pierced by the police of the timev and modified various assault weaponsvi so as to massacre with maximal efficiency the responding personnel.

To their - and the police's - misfortune, a patrol spotted them going into the bank and sounded the alarm, so they never got around to using their exit plan. When confronted by police they opened fire and killed a number of policemen. Special forces came in great haste, helicopters, stuff like that. Our guys had 99 problems but shooting cops wan't one of them. Or shooting at the helicopters, shooting at the SWAT, one of them exchanged fire for six minutes against a team of four. Thousands of rounds were fired, hundreds of policemen responded out of which thousands about a dozen died (so 6:1). Plus a dozen or so civillians or thereabouts, I forget. A whole story.

One killed himself, the other died from blood loss (probably because the police didn't allow the ambulances in, because hey, protect and serve and all that). It is worth noting that by this point the two had already stolen about two million dollars from other banksvii and also held up an armored truck, thus earning the "high incident bandits" nickname.

And now we're in a position to discuss the subject of this article. So, from the perspective of man's struggle against society, the weakest strategy is the one presented in all made-for-TV moviesviii. That scenario goes something like, "you go into the bank, you try to get out, if you don't manage to get out you "negotiate" with the police". The truth is that you've got nothing to negotiate. The stuff about airplanes and buses to the airport and whatnot is a fable, the whole and entire point of "negotiation" is for them to keep you talking until you become mentally exhausted enough so they can storm the place.

One level above would be arming yourself properly. If you go out, fine, if you don't get out then you open fire freely at the police. Let's find out who's the chickenshit. It is improbable you'll ever walk out of something like that, but you do get to take with you more enemies than your skin's worth, because it's certainly more expensive for society to pay all the pensions and insurance policiess of a dozen dead cops than it would have been to just let you walk with a coupla million dollars.

Still, this intermediate step is yet not really much of a strategy, just a kind of pointless game to be played by strong willed guys bereft of useful leadership. The actually ideal strategy is to go in and rob the bank. If the police doesn't show up, off you go to your business. If the police does show up, butcher the civillians. Which is to say : all of them. No hesitation, no pity, focus on maximizing the extension of the carnage. Two-three hundred people at a minimum should be no problem in a well circulated area (and if it is a problem get out of the sticks).

After which you'll probably die. So what ? This is a minor concern if you consider that a) you'll die anyway and b) once the police knows that if they respond there will be hundreds of deaths whereas if they don't respond there's not going to be any deaths, they have no further choices open to them. Plain and simple, they won't be allowed within ten miles of the place of the robbery, because three hundred dead at two million a pop comes to about half a billion out of the insurance company bottom line, whereas you can't practically steal more than a few million, seeing how you can't carry it. In fact, this is how the rule that they clerks will let you rob the bank came about - the only victory of man against society in the modern era. The correct strategy is always the thing that worked, never the thing that looked good [on TV]. Stick to what works.

This has been, by chance or not, the strategy applied by the Mexican cartels pushing drugs up north towards the US, and they've by now pretty much won in the field that mystycal "war on drugs" the federal authorities keep claiming to have won every 2-3 years since '72. North Mexico certainly belongs to the Cartels, south Texas and California do in practice even if here and there the Feds try to keep the talk up.

The moral being that society is not able to handle decisive people. It never was, it never will be, it simply can't. All that it can do is submit, trying its best to filter out and retouch the stronger contours wherever possible. In other words, society is the woman in the man-society relationship. If you let her make the rules she'll climb atop your head. If you go by what's coming out her mouth you'll end up drinkin tea in a miniskirt complete with stockings and garter belts. If on the other hand you grab her by the scruff of the neck and take her over the knee she'll happily suck your cock, glowing red butt and all. Basic stuff.

This also goes towards they who are unhappy that girls dig bad boys when they'd be ready to instead love them and respect them and have a great sense of humor. Same exact problem : women go with the decisive because they have no choice. That's all there is to it.

That's all there is to it, even if here and there you may find individuals that try to keep the talk up.

———This is especially true in Romanian. Thinking "antiracist" instead of anticommunist doesn't begin to suggest the scope of this difference. I don't think anyone since the Nazis inspired quite as universally shared odium as the communists did. For that matter, most Romanians, like most Ukrainians, or Serbs would readily prefer the Nazis to the commies. [↩]This good/bad alternation profits from a well known (among the educated elite) point regarding Transylvania's native population (Motii). These people were generally hostile to the Hungarian leadership for as long as Transylvania was the larger part of the Hungarian kingdom. They were a hardy mountain folk, who did whatever it took to survive, such as hiding better nuggets found in the gold mines in their ass, to deny it to the "owners". Such as cutting the bark of trees down low around the root, so the trees dry out and can be "legally" cut down. Stuff like that.

These actions were greatly encouraged by the Romanian "revolutionaries" - an essentially oral, sterile intellectual concern of little practical importance. Once the political situation changed, and Transylvania became the larger part of the Romanian kingdom, the very same practices that were once heroic and frothily praised in newspapers suddenly turned into outright shameful, degrading acts that no real patriotic Romanian would ever do. Obviously, the Hungarian language verbiage of times past was saying exactly the same fucking thing, in a different language. These people however weren't either Hungarian or Romanian, and so you see...

We're not part of your fucking society. Be it communist, socialist, utopian, idealist, humanist, democratic, progressive or whatever the fuck it is. Pack it and get lost. [↩]Review the classics. [↩]Stalin can confirm. [↩]Beretta 92 in a number of variants, all old, S&W 38s and in some cases those broomsticks people use to act tough in movies, 12-gauge Ithaca Model 37 pump action. [↩]K-91 si AKM, stuff you certainly respect if you're into playing Fallout. And speaking of which : USians make a big deal of this supposed right to bear arms that's the fundament of their (perceived) liberty and it says in the Constitution blablabla. In actual fact, they have the right to carry toy guns, that are intentionally ineffectual against the police, let alone the army, a constraint illustrated for instance by the immediate change in legislation as to allowed weapons, allowed imports and police equipment once these guys showed that the weaponry available to civillians is actually effectual. As such, the fact that some chitlins in the rural South spend each weekend emptying revolvers and 40 caliber handguns with 8 bit magazines into sand sacks is about as important for "liberty" as kids playing with squirt guns. Let them try to buy some usable assault rifles, watch the paperworks. [↩]These are pre-Bush dollars, worth a lot more than the post-Obama crud. [↩]Deliberately taught by the media, because that's the principal point of TV : to put out stuff to be learned by rote by a herd of cattle, as a commentator well pointed out a year ago. Well done, dood. [↩]

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Category: Gandesc, deci gandesc

Thursday, 26 February, Year 7 d.Tr.

Stop all the clocks (again)

Since I'm still mourning my own earlier death at the hands of sexual justice personified in stupid, allow me to fix, upgrade and improve Auden's rather gay verse. For I'm not a tired old self loathing alcoholic fag but a successful and happy slavekeeping narcissist, and his stuff really isn't good enough for my needs.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent each dog from barking with your own hip bone.

Break all the strings, drill out the tuba and with muffled drums

Bring out the coffin, set ablaze the slums.

Let halves of aeroplanes turn overhead

Their smoking, broken cockpits dripping "He Is Dead",

Put dark crepe bows through every single feather of each single dove,

Gift each policeman one black velvet glove.

No further want for stars, go put them out ;

No roundness left for Moon, the Sun we'll do without.

Go pour the ocean in a cup and let it be misunderstood

After today, nothing can come to any good.

There can no further be such thing as song

I thought that love would last for ever. I was wrong.

It's time to swallow caltrops and wash them down with bleach

There's scarcely any further point to speech.

The sea you see was gloomly cried in place,

There used to be much sweeter water in that space.

The eagle's flight is broken and all geometric figures shattered

There's nothing left in place of all that ever mattered.

And so goodbye, there's nothing left except the time to die.

UPDATE, April 25 : So apparently this thing got read! Contravex, The Whet and here's mine.

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Category: Cuvinte Sfiinte

Tuesday, 21 April, Year 7 d.Tr.

Statistics : still the hardest part of math.

Parenting and Personality Disorders sounds banal enough, but it strives not to be. Supposedly some colorful graphs in there provide support for stuff like

The authors made a (startling) discovery: there are types of parenting behaviors which predispose your kid to growing up personality disordered.

[...]

You'll notice that antisocial PD is essentially zero at baseline, and is dramatically sensitive to bad parenting.

What you'll see in the top figure is that being an aversive parent is a great way of making someone borderline or passive-aggressive, not to mention paranoid. But it doesn't make them antisocial. Hmm.

[...]

Some covariate caveats: even when parental psychaitric disorders and offspring behavioral problems at age 6 were controlled, bad parenting was still associatd with increased risk of their kids' PD.

Furthermore, the usual association of parental psychiatric disorder leading to child PD could be explained, in fact, 95% due to the bad parenting. Another way of saying this is that 95% of the effect that a parental psychiatric disorder has on causing their kids' personality disorder can be obviated by better parenting. In a similar vein, 35% of the effect of childhood behavioral problems leading to later PD can be similarly reduced by better parenting. In other words, even if you or your kids have a "biological" psychiatric disorder, better parenting skills can darmiatically affect the outcome.

[...]

The nature vs. nurture debate in psychiatry is all but dead. The longer we delude ourselves that biology controls behavior, and not the other way around, the longer we'll have to live with the same behaviors.

Let's create a counter model for this. Suppose I collect a bunch of seeds of fruit trees. For simplicity : apple, pear, plum, peach and nut. That's all.

Suppose I interview newlyweds by the magical power invested in me for this experiment, and further I have a means to obtain absolutely truthful answers to whatever questions I might wish to ask. I give a peach seed to every couple where the woman's a wanton slut. I give a nut seed to every couple where the man's an addictive type. I give an apple seed to every couple where the woman's a total nag. I give a pear seed to every couple where the man's aggressive and violent. I give a plum seed to everyone else. And I have these people plant the seed in the front yard.

Fifteen years later, I come by to do my study, and find : that wanton sluts that parented "a seed" in their wanton slutty ways seem to have something kinda like a peach on their hands, whereas nagheads that parented "a seed" in their naggy ways seem to have apples on their hands. Meanwhile families led by degenerate gamblers seem to mostly "have transformed" their seed into nuts, and regular domestic beatings clearly promote the pearization of "the seed". What seed ? The "plum seed" that everyone got.

Then another fifteen years later I come by and find that the peachiness of the peach aggravated just as the hussy progressed to full blown nymphomaniac, whereas what seemed to go towards a nut tree is now definitely nutty and so on and so forth. And upon their lives I read outloud from Voltaire, saying that

It is demonstrable that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end. Observe, for instance, the nose is formed for spectacles, therefore we wear spectacles. The legs are visibly designed for stockings, accordingly we wear stockings. Stones were made to be hewn and to construct castles, therefore My Lord has a magnificent castle; for the greatest baron in the province ought to be the best lodged. Swine were intended to be eaten, therefore we eat pork all the year round: and they, who assert that everything is right, do not express themselves correctly; they should say that everything is best.

The error with this "experiment" is that it presumes biology is fully given at birth. This is manifestly untrue, of course : even though infants have no pubic hair, it is an incontrovertible fact that by the age of about fifteen they will have some, and this irrespective of any parenting. Similarly their blue eyes and blond manes will go away, and their deciduous teeth fall out before they finish junior high and irrespective of diet. Some of them will develop schizophrenia, which declares itself in the thirties or forties - there exists no such thing as infantile schizophrenia but this does not necessarily rule out a biological cause.

In short : in arbitrarily allocating all the phenomena perceptible after birth to "nurture", the study proceeds to gleefully beg the question. It inquires with itself, "hey study, provided that all effects we perceive are due to cause B rather than cause A, is it true that cause B rather than A is the true cause of all effects we perceive ?" and it doesn't delay in answering (itself) "fancy you should ask me that, study, but it turns out it's exactly correct within the paradigm we're using!"

This is not science. The longer we delude ourselves that this is science, the longer we'll have to live with the same behaviour.

(As you can probably tell, I'm doing a Ballas full read. It seems a worthier use of time than say the Yarvin full read I once attempted, with its dismal results.)

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Category: Cocietate si Sultura

Thursday, 12 February, Year 7 d.Tr.

Sooo... FetLife is butthurt.

The only question that matters in all of this is : Have they fixed the security holes putting their userbase at risk ? And the answer is that no, they have not.i

The question that doesn't matter, but is nevertheless included here for the lulz is, what have they done instead of fixing the security holes putting their userbase at risk ?

The answer is two things. The first thing is here :

Friend Onoes you were banned! You still show up in my friends list but if i click on your pic (name tooltip still works) it redirects me to my feed.

Me Aha. Except... a) I paid them for that account and b) it's unclear what exactly the relationship is supposed to be. This is extremely poorly thought out, as a strategy. It would seem they basically fly by the seat of their pants, or in other words : the entirely absent forethought shown by their very poor technological security practices readily translates in absent forethought shown by their operational and, (at least on a boasting level) legal practices. Imagine the havoc I could cause with this, if i disliked them. a) could easily result in having their cc payment processing suspended ; b) could easily result in endless drama through banning various community leaders in no way related to anything.

The other thing is

Hello,

This is a notification of trademark infringement and violations of your

Acceptable Use Policy that are occurring on a site hosted on your servers.http://trilema.com/,

owned by one Mircea Popescu, has posted the followingpage:

http://trilema.com/2015/the-fetlife-meatlist-volume-i/

On this page, Mr. Popescu has infringed upon our trademark =E2=80=9CFetLife==E2=80=9D,

registered in the United States with registration #3869809.

This program creates a likelihood of confusion, mistake and/or deception with the consuming public,

as it is connecting directly to our website. The confusion created can be that the product is the

same as FetLife, or that they are are somehow associated, affiliated, connected, approved,authorized

or sponsored by FetLife.

We have not authorized nor approve of this product. It is in violation of the Terms Of Use for our

website as well, and Mr. Popescu has been banned from our servers as a consequence of his actions.

In the above linked page, Mr. Popescu admits that he is posting this information in violation of our

Terms of Use and against the wishes of many of the people linked in this page. For example,

"management makes a point of not implementing it (a search function)", and "Don't you think people

have a right not to be included in your list ? People might, and if the list was a list of people,

I might care.

"In section 5, Network Unfriendly or illegal activity, subsection A, your customer agrees not to "

1. Attempts, whether successful or not, to gain access to any other system or users' private data

without express consent of the user." In the above linked page, Mr. Popescu not only admits to doing

this on FetLife - he brags about it.Each item noted above is sufficient to warrant immediate suspension

of his account, subject to your investigation towards possible termination as noted in section 4,

Unacceptable Conduct. As a consequence of this, were quest that you please immediately remove this

product from your servers,and provide our legal team with contact information for Mr. Popescu so that

we may proceed with further legal matters directly with him.

--James Huesmann

Senior CaretakerBitlove, Inc.

The problem with this is, of course, that I've filed a counter claim and they're more than welcome to argue the matter in court.

Now, Fetlife, how about you fix your piece of shit software instead of trying to bully ? I don't happen to bully well. (In which line : the second volume of the list in question is coming up later today.)

———Much like in the case of Automattic, denial is by far the preferred reaction of these obsolete entitities when confronted with security holes. Fixing is nowhere on the list. [↩]

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Category: Meta psihoza

Monday, 16 February, Year 7 d.Tr.

Socialism saved for later lolz.

sauce It's Gawker media. They prolly have office hours because socialism.

Gander Mhm.

sauce Now that Denton's surrendered his authority to committee the last pretense of anything resembling management at Gawker is done. No one can fire Hamilton Nolan and the interns just burn out because no one can hire them. At least, that's my hypothesis for their next year.

Gander Yup. Well... he surrendered it... moar like "Whatever, I'm not even gettying paid to do this, pick it up and wash your heads with it". So... yeah it's done.

sauce The Gamer thing cost them a bunch of advertiser money and they responded by... giving up.

Gander Yup.

[a moment later]

Gander This Gawker convo should prolly be published so we can point and laugh later.

sauce Feel free to Trilema it. Do the thing where you use code names to confuse Gawker moar when they discover the Trilema poast rost.

That's all, carrion.

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Category: Zsilnic

Thursday, 05 March, Year 7 d.Tr.

So, what of the future ?

o. It is certaini beyond the shadow of any sort of reasonable doubt whatever that the current worldii is going away.

The legitimate question, then, and certainly the only question worthy of the name, is what comes next ?

It is not difficult to give some sort of an answer to this question. Let's try.

I. Whatever comes next, it will certainly not be Christianity. Christianity, irrespective of the flavour, is merely socialism in a clown suit. The exact colors that clown suit displays are not in any way germane to the discussion, nor is the position that "you can fix Christianity by getting it into the right clown suit" sensible.

On the other hand, arguments constructed around how "quaint", or "harmless" or "traditional" or whatever else the clown suit is squarely miss the point : there may not be any socialism in the future, because socialism is the ideology of the stupid, and there's no future for these.

NB - I am not saying they won't inherit the kingdom of their dumb father. I am outright saying they won't make it past the pig sty.

II. If what comes next will be Islam, it will be a very drastically reinterpreted sort of Islam, to the point of very tenuously having barely any sort of connection to what passes foriii such today. As perceptible today, Islam is the ideology of loser teenage boys, a sort of distillate of their hormonally scented exudate after a sleepless night spent wrestling with an erection they fear and misunderstand. Maybe it grows up - if it does it's probably going to be very much like the anti-Arab indigent Iranian reinterpretationiv thereof cca 1300 and very little like its most successfulv parts today.

III. In any case, what comes next will settle the following major questions (that the current arrangements fail to settle) :

A majority of women are farm animals, in strictly no way different and to no degree above a cow. They will be treated as such. A minority of women are individuals, just like me and you. They will be treated as such.

This is a drastically difficult problem to approach, in part because childbearing tends to promote the latter into the ranks of the former, in part because womanhoodvi is contagiousvii which makes plain coabitation a difficult proposition.

None of this is by any means an unsurmountable problem - it's not like sane, thinking women can't understand they carry a cow with them through life, as part of them, burried inside their belly and back of the skull. Most figure this out on their own anyway, as some sort of intuition - it'd be (and anecdotally is) both cheap and effective to support this intuition with social reinforcement and simply butcher the remaining dumb.

Convenience is not, in and of itself, a solution.

You can see this pointviii rehashed throughout the history of ideas, "simony is bad" does not intend to mean anything past "sure deciding an argument by the purely economic, and economically legitimate criteria of who pays you more is simple and effectual and therefore convenient - but it's no good, because it introduces a cycle in economy and that breaks it". All this is in no way different from my disdain for jwz's position, the guy who "only wanted for things to work on their own - is that too much to ask ???" Yes, it is too much to ask. Stop asking stupid shit.

You will note that pointedly absent from that list are any sort of concerns related to "fairness"ix. This is because there's absolutely no room into the future for any of that crud. The future will be unfair or it will not be at all. I do not mean this lightly - races have been extinguished before and the white race is not special. If it wishes to be equal and fair, it will be equal and fair under the grass.

That is all.

PS. I wish to share with you just how unspeakably proud I am to have been able, through luck and diligent effort in that order, to construct the pile of useful tools that is Trilema, this endless Bandar Toolkit which allows me to in the end construct this article, out of its parts. I would not trade such wonder for anything.

———By the time general Wesley Snipes of NATO comes out with it... that's really the millionth and one tiny stamp. [↩]No, not the "Western" world. The whole world. There's nothing else and nothing outside of "the Western world". Russians are and always were Africans, except a tall white sort, yet still swarming around the outskirts pretending to be "Cesars" by donning crowns made out of frozen goat shit, as if cargo cult works now or something. The Chinese are the same thing except smaller, swarmier, yellower. Suitwearer, Contractbearer, Master of the World. [↩]No, not what "is it" today. This is how reinterpretations work - whatever passed for "electric current" in 1920 is NOT "what electric current was" in 1920. And, much to half a billion people's eternal chagrin (that don't even live there) - what passed for "America" in 1960, or in 1910, idem isn't what America actually was. [↩]There's a very bad recent film that may help you understand this divide if you're not one to read. Look for the parts where the Persian father explains to his daughter how words are to be pronounced irrespective of anything school might say, add together the part where the Arab schmuck is resentful over not being more socially central, add two and two together. Then go read. Nobody in the recent history of that JohnSmithism has taken the muslims seriously, for exactly the quoted reason. [↩]ISIS, the Taliban etc are successful strictly because they are radical enough. They carry no point, no idea and no value above and beyond the correct intuition that the world has ended. [↩]Womanhood as used here denotes biological conservatism - that is the proposition that it is always better to do anything else instead of killing. It is a position well founded in biology, and it is associated with women through no fault of theirs, but through a merit : they're in the best position to appreciate just how much damned effort and inconvenience it takes to make a new schmuck, and so if any alternatives are available they'd much prefer not having to go through that all over again.

This is valid and respectable, but it also can not become the whole consideration, because sometimes the shit that comes out of their cunt is simply unbearable and will have to be taken out of existence. In short, biological conservatism is a virtue, but you can readily have too much of a good thing. If the kids face no chance to die on their own, they face no chance to grow up into humanity either. [↩]The only reasonable diagnosis of the current set of youngsters is that they're all trying to be young women. Not adult women, but fanciullas, unpopped cherries, that horrible thing. In this perspective, "transsexualism" is just an epiphenomenon of the larger problem - who cares that some of the idiots try to alter their secondary sexual characteristics ? They've all lost contact with the primary anyway.

Imagine that - contagious girlhood. Cooties! Who the fuck knew 9 yos had the correct intuition fifty fucking years ago. [↩]You can see the previous point similarly rehashed, if you bother to look. Why do you suppose Sparta didn't support plain coabitation between the genders ? Why do you suppose Xtian Europe introduced that entire song and dance to protect one from the corrosive effects of cunt on the premises ? Etc, etc, etfuckingc. [↩]Or, as the spin doctors hysterically put it recently, "preventing gentrification". It's not that the US is too poor to even upkeep infrastructure, let alone build new amenties of any kind. It's that they're "trying to prevent gentrification", don't you know.

Yeah, that's right, gentrification - that thing where people get the american dream, that thing where "social mobility" ends up, that thing [the slower] people are still coming to the US for. They wanna prevent it. Because you gotta be poor, in socialism. [↩]

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Thursday, 30 July, Year 7 d.Tr.

So the broomstick fired.

By pure coincidence, just as desperation drove the USGavin-USHearn scamcoin to a before-schedule launch under the thick storm clouds of public ridicule, a well known scam masquerading as a Bitcoin exchange crossed the wire and started giving away free "Bitcoin"i :

kakobrekla ;;ticker

gribble Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 204.25, Best ask: 175.84656934, Bid-ask spread: -28.40343, Last trade: 187.25, 24 hour volume: 50551.56244909, 24 hour low: 225.03, 24 hour high: 258.5, 24 hour vwap: None

The total damage they will have to cover for is at the least the 100`000 Bitcoin they supposedly traded in in the interval * the 60 or so dollars between 175 and 235ish, which comes to a cool six million, plus whatever damages the fraudulently liquidated parties may wish to excise out of them, plus the difference they owe anyone who had orders in the book that should have been executed but were not. But it's cool, I'm sure the handlers' promises are good and Yellen will run the press an extra microsecond to cover for Bitcoinicafinex, too. You know, just like they promised they'd do for their MtGox tool, now sleeping ad libitum in a Japanese jail. Let's call it a "non-dilutive investment round", because what are words for if not to call things!

Back in the field, the broom might well have fired, but its firing did nothing past the amusement of the show. They'd have had better results if they spent that money on Adsense already. What exactly was the plan, were we going to all panic and what, give a shit about your stolid, overextended existence ? Suddenly, somehow, you were going to be the spearhead of civilisation and the shield of the faith again or something ? Good luck, heh. That place's long lost for your ilk.

Does it suck to be the loser with clay feet ? I wish to know, my imagination fails me, I can't see the world through this set of eyes. Does it suck to be regularly humiliated, on a daily basis, for years running, by... by whom exactly ? We don't even exist, right ? Congrats USG, playing alone on the field in your own mind and losing every time.

Idiots.

PS. Dear anon derp : go ahead, use web wallets, "trade" "Bitcoins" on Bitfinex, answer "legitimate" KYC questions, pay your taxes, read the newspaper, and dream about how you're still going to get to participate in the future. Someone's going to save you a spot. Someone you never met, someone you didn't bother to know, magically, for no reason, is going to think warmly of you. And save you a spot. Because you're just that special - not only in your own mind but universally - and because it's never happened before that lemmings got left out of the movie. Not like, ever...

Update :

Apparently they didn't pay up.

———This isn't the entirety of comedic "measures" the inept wanna-be financial power has arrayed, either. The twerps running "coinwallet" came out with a very lulzy

we "attacked" Bitcoin earlier which did nothing but then we had to stop when our server crashed - we'll be back and it'll matter then! You'll see!

As if anyone who isn't paid per post even gives a shit about web based Bitcoin wallets anymore. [↩]

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Wednesday, 19 August, Year 7 d.Tr.

So... is it a virus ?

What do you think ? Is iti a virus ?

The whole thing leads me directly to Ballas, of course :

Unlike men, women, as a group, are constantly being reminded by the media that social media is a necessary use of time-- just find a balance. To be precise: it is not marketed as a diversion, or useful, or helpful or fun-- it's necessary to their existence. The danger is branded as "excess." And this coincides their role as the primary consumers and consumables, which is why Randi's stupendously uninsightful book is being heralded wherever online women congregate. The book itself isn't meant to be read, it can't be read, it can only be hurled. It is a MacGuffin; her interviews aren't promotions for the book, the book is an excuse for the interviews. No, of course she doesn't know this. I'm sure she thinks she's talented and smart and fiercely independent (two fingers to the sky!), but getting her to televangelize about finding a balance (=the default is plugged) to her demo of underachieving credit card applicants is what suits the suits.

That's a great article, like pretty much everything else on that man's site (even if most of it really above our pay grade in this discussion). Nevertheless, the equations underlining this processii are that most people don't have anything marketable outside of their sex drive (in men, direct, in women, indirect, as the sex drive they arouse in others).

Originally the great commercial Internet dream (you might recall it as the epic failure of web 2.0) was that "we'll just let people create content for us, for free". Endless attempts at "a platform for you to author music" and whatnot sprung up all through the 90s, and the long tail's still going, to some rather impotent extent. It turns out that the average person can't really compose symphonies, or write novels, or do anything else of any import whatsoever. Even if they tried much harder than the average person ever tries anything. Yes, fancy that -- where is your "humanism" bullshit now ?

As those early attempts failed left and right (and the yahoo-Paul Graham ponzi scheme built atop of it came crashing down, because yes, that is the fate of any pipe dream built on fundamentally broken economics that nevertheless manages to attract unwarranted attention aka chumps : it turns into a Ponzi scheme) someone came up with the bright idea that "hey, people suck, but if we limit their output maybe it won't be so visible ?" and Twitter was born. Incidentally, the explanation given "fits in a text message" has absolutely nothing to do with anything, and the idea itself is in no sense innovative -- anyone who ever struggled pointlessly with the stolid stupidity of computers trying to create "ai" sooner or later discovered the cop-out that hey, if you don't let them say too much at a time it may even seem like they're saying something meaningful. Or at least that mistaken idea may be entertained for longer intervals at a stretch.

But the real money is in the sexual drive. While writing symphonies or novels or whatnot is incredibly hard, everyone gets wet down there, and much more importantly... everyone is, to some, present if minimal degree, interested in everyone else's moist spot. This is a fact, as incontrovertible as the rain, and the conviction with which you deny the obvious tells you two things : one that you're a woman and the other that you're too fucking dumb to understand that a stick that's ten inches long or NEGATIVE ten inches long is the same exact god damned 25.4 centimetre stick which I should crack over your dumb ass a few times to thereby fix your head.

Obviously UStards women being the hypocritical idiots that they are, sexual drive platforms are marketed as "social media" and totallies not sexual drive platformsiii, no matter how blatantly obvious the nonsense of the claim. And they lap it up, because hey, equations are not going to serve us "in this life", according to 15 yo logic.

Then we sit around wondering whether it's a virus. The only problem is that while we formally agree on that point, we're in silent if gross disagreement as to what "it" is. Is stupidity a virus ? Is normal sexuality rape a virus ?

Humanity might be the first species of virus destroyed by a cancer, making cancer win at evolutionary biology!

———Sexuate reproduction, it. Because that's what the fuck is going on there, obviously, women present and men chase. Heck, they're chasing my god damned publicity account. For its sin of having a handcuffed woman in the background a buncha arab twerps wish to run through the Alecu Snackbar / how old are you / where are you from / blabla at the rate of five a day.

The incredible patience of the flesh, you know. Will do it again and again and again, each day, each minute, in the face of slow decay, until that one day you finally die. Your heart, it mastered heartbeating around the age of 16 or so, but did it ever stop ? Did it ever move on to a different career, say perhaps aiming to be a liver now ? Because you know, it's mastered one thing and the goals of personal development require it to move on, yes ?

Your so called civilisation is a cancer, you realise this. Do you ? Or are you above such things ? [↩]Hey, did you know every natural process that ever happened, or ever will happen, can be described by closed form equations to any arbitrary degree of precision you might wish for ?

You likely don't, because "what's physics going to do for me in life", so let's do adult education together for a spell. Your bath tub is comfortable (which is a female-termed expression, in male terms it would read 1.8 x .8 x .9 -- by the way, do they even make confortable tubs where you live ? since they gave up on showers ?), and your faucet is "normal" (in female terms, which in male terms means one inch) and water flows normally fast through it (ie, 1m/s). Behold, for I know how how long your tub (that you don't have, anyway) would take to fill.

For one thing its volume is 1.296 cubic meters, which would mean over a ton of water (hey, did you know this is how proper notation works ? now do the same thing in your god forsaken imperial units, how many long tons of water fit in a reservoir that's ten yards long, eight feet tall and four hundred inches wide -- hm?) but there's that emergency drain up there to keep it within the ton.

For the other thing the section of a one inch pipe is 3.141592 (I know the first digits of pi, and so I typed that from memory. This is because I am a man, and you are blown away at this because you are a woman and this is how sexuate reproduction is intended to function -- your only real option is to pretend like this isn't the case "because you don't care", but you don't have available an actual defense -- see Ballas for it, he explains the damned thing in detail) * (0.025 / 2)2 which comes to 0.000490874 which means you're getting a shade under half a thousandth of a cubic meter in there every second, so you will need about two thousand seconds and change which is closer to two thirds of an hour than half, so closer to 40 than 30 minutes. How about that!

And it doesn't stop with fucking tubs. I drive like a man - you drive like a woman which is why your car surprises you and you get in "accidents" -- seriously, bodies moving on a surface is where "accidents" happen ? Because why, because you can't add and so 3 + 5 coming out to 8 is a surprise to you ? Derp.

Whether you are a slave or not is not predicated on whether you give your consent. Your consent is not required in this as it is not required in any other matter, you don't have to agree to be born a girl or grow into a woman either. You can choose whether to be a malformed girl or an obnoxious woman, but this is as far as your choice goes (and that's precisely what "transsexual" means, too).

The only point of difference, as to whether you're an individual or someone else's slave, is whether you know the equations involved in whatever process you're participating in. If you know them, you're an actor. If you don't, you're someone's bitch. It's that simple - and no, your ideas of "gender" don't enter into it. Life's what happens between sexuate animals, irrespective what dreams about "gendered persons" they might entertain during the intercourse. And of course as a slave you'd get the trappings of power. That's the whole fucking point. [↩]Not even the only one, here, have another. [↩]

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Monday, 12 October, Year 7 d.Tr.

So I'm going to be a total asshole for a moment here

You know I like Ballas. I do. Consider this however :

mircea_popescu thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/03/economy_where_we_go_from_here tlp's sufferances as an amateur financier on an etrade account, and his efforts to cope and come to terms with it is a whole opera in and of itself. Funny how the otherwise very competent psych does not feel comfortable taking off the coat and hat, and waddling in the mud modestly, like any other amateuri .

Let's then go through with a fine brush and detail the damage almost a decade does to categorical statements put forth by amateursii.

1. I was wrong about the dollar, which continues to fall, but more important than laughing at me is understanding why I was wrong. I could not believe that the Fed, the government, would allow bank closures, would allow the dollar to fall further by waiting too late to cut rates.

Remarkably enough

The dollar didn't really fall that much. Not that there's anything wrong with the secular expectation that it will implode, of course it will. But on the short term therein contemplated... nothing serious. Nothing like the random euro meltdown recently, for instance.

The Fed is not "the government". The Fed is a private concern, like the funds you and five neighbours put together to get your daughters to ballet practice. Exactly like that.

What banks failed in 2008 ?iii

Moving on :

I was wrong. I should have suspected, though,

Can you smell it ?

But any human on this planet knows there is nothing more recessionary than losing your house, except possibly losing your job and your house, or a government policy to kill off all daughters and losing your house.

This is wrong because all of Europe collectively losing their house in 1940-1945 was NOT recessionary in any sense whatsoever. And merely seeing other people lose their houses induced such an ever-loving boom in the US young adult population of the time, the damage they did to any cunt in proximity is still remembered today by the collective name of "Generation OMFG They Massacred All Cunts In Proximity", or BABYBOOMER for short, and echoes thereof informed an entire movement a decade later. Love, right ?

So I made a bet in common sense, in pride.

Funny, this is exactly what the Argentines (I do not mean the smart educated ones that can speak languages, I mean the dumb ones watching football in Spanish) thought they were doing with that entire default thing. And it also apparently reminds me of what the Greeks are claiming. Dignity, right ? Common sense, pride, what Romania's useless generation has been derping about, this discussion of "pride" mixed into economy has very unflattering connotations. It's usually what stupid people do.

Stupid people who played, lost and are now trying to argue they didn't do either. (Was it the meds ?)

No banks have failed yet, but it is generally assumed Bear Stearns is in real danger of evaporating. You should probably hide your daughters.

Article published March 13th, Bear Stearns sale to JPM announced March 16th. Apparently, 3 days ahead he gets it right.

2. I was right about GOOG, 520 was the top. Unfortunately, the PE is still 33, and has to fall to about 25 (see #5). So another 20% drop in price is to be expected, though continued (but slower) growth will offset this. See you at 400.

Amusingly, Google is still trading 500s today, seven years later. You know what the ~8ish% yearly inflation rate you had in the meanwhile did to a GOOG portofolio ?iv Hey, tech stocks are inflation proof, right ? Blue chips are a smart investment, right ?v

3. Oil is too high. It will fall fast and hard, by which I mean fast and hard. Certainly there are long term demand concerns, which means we'll never see $50 again.

You can say that again :)

But when oil rises 20% but the refiners fall 20% (see VLO), that disconnect means that the oil price isn't related to use, but to speculation. See you at $90.

This part he got right : oil peaked that summer at a whopping 140.

4. A good rule of thumb I just invented is that people will a spend little more for lattes than they will for gas. I know Brazil is supposed to have a large and delicious crop in 2008, but I don't care. I am drinking more coffee, and the Chinese are going to need more as well, if they're going to keep working to to put lead paint on all their exports. Coffee is cyclical, so wait for a pullback, but see you at 175/lb (that's cents, yo.)

Buying what you like is kinda stupid, generally, but in this case it didn't pan out : coffee never hit 175 until 2011ish, and it actually dropped (on some volatility) during 2008 all the way to 100.

Conclusion : the thing here isn't that he's entirely wrong. If he were, you could use him as a reverse signal. The thing is that he's slightly worse than a random generator. You know, like a coin flip. While such may work just fine for his professional field (I seriously defy anyone to prove modern psychiatry is actually better than a coin flip - I am pretty well convinced it isn't), it gets pretty painful once measuring sticks are involved.

Something tells me Ballas didn't end up making money daytrading on his online account. That is besides the point : had he made money he'd actually have been worse off for it, much in the manner a shaman whose cure patently doesn't work is better off than the shaman whose cure appears to be working - god help him if the king's girlfriend gets sick or something.

Update Seems Google shares actually split after all - into two unequalvi halves. It is nevertheless fair to say that a stake in Google probably covered inflation over the intervening 7 years, if nothing else.

———This :

What we in #b-a call "six months to a year's log reading". And notice (by the visible airholes) that they're not wearing any underwear, either. [↩]And let's reference the seminal How to make money on the Internet while pretending you know what you're talking about and accumulating a legion of mindless followers - for fun and profit! piece here, because rarely are amateurs as disinterested as mr B. Usually they just feign it, for [a hope of] profit. [↩]Here's a list if you're curious :

Bank

City

State

Date

Assets ($mil.)

Douglass National Bank

Kansas City

Missouri

January 25, 2008

58.5

Hume Bank

Hume

Missouri

March 7, 2008

18.7

ANB Financial NA

Bentonville

Arkansas

May 9, 2008

2100

First Integrity Bank, NA

Staples

Minnesota

May 30, 2008

54.7

IndyMac

Pasadena

California

July 11, 2008

32000

First National Bank of Nevada

Reno

Nevada

July 25, 2008

3400

First Heritage Bank, NA

Newport Beach

California

July 25, 2008

254

First Priority Bank

Bradenton

Florida

August 1, 2008

259

The Columbian Bank and Trust Company

Topeka

Kansas

August 22, 2008

752

Integrity Bank

Alpharetta

Georgia

August 29, 2008

1100

Silver State Bank

Henderson

Nevada

September 5, 2008

2000

Ameribank

Northfork

West Virginia

September 19, 2008

113

Washington Mutual Bank

Seattle

Washington

September 25, 2008

307000

Main Street Bank

Northville

Michigan

October 10, 2008

98

Meridian Bank

Eldred

Illinois

October 10, 2008

39.2

Alpha Bank Trust

Alpharetta

Georgia

October 24, 2008

354.1

Freedom Bank

Bradenton

Florida

October 31, 2008

287

Franklin Bank

Houston

Texas

November 7, 2008

5100

Security Pacific Bank

Los Angeles

California

November 7, 2008

561.1

The Community Bank

Loganville

Georgia

November 21, 2008

681

Downey Savings and Loan

Newport Beach

California

November 21, 2008

12800

PFF Bank and Trust

Pomona

California

November 21, 2008

3700

First Georgia Community Bank

Jackson

Georgia

December 5, 2008

237.5

Haven Trust Bank

Duluth

Georgia

December 12, 2008

572

Via FDIC. Out of that ~370 bn, roughly 80% was due to Washington Mutual, which failed much later (six months gives the Fed another chance to fix the rates so you can just blame that one if you want to blame such a thing) and arguably for unrelated reasons (in the sense that 0% rates would not have saved them). [↩]Not hard to figure out : 500 * 0.927 = 278 and change. "Not soo bad" right ? But don't worry, your kid will get twice the college for half the money. They always do.

And then he'll look around and wonder why he can't afford half the house you raised him in. You know, the sucky one you got, that is less than what your grandparents could readily afford.

How did that go, "something something homeless, something forefathers conquered" ? [↩]To quote the blue chip wiz, from back in the day he still spoke teh truth :

For an understanding of how the to-invest-or-not-to-invest dilemma plays out in a commodity business, it is instructive to look at Burlington Industries, by far the largest U.S. textile company both 21 years ago and now. In 1964 Burlington had sales of $1.2 billion against our $50 million. It had strengths in both distribution and production that we could never hope to match and also, of course, had an earnings record far superior to ours. Its stock sold at 60 at the end of 1964; ours was 13.

Burlington made a decision to stick to the textile business, and in 1985 had sales of about $2.8 billion. During the 1964-85 period, the company made capital expenditures of about $3 billion, far more than any other U.S. textile company and more than $200-per-share on that $60 stock. A very large part of the expenditures, I am sure, was devoted to cost improvement and expansion. Given Burlington's basic commitment to stay in textiles, I would also surmise that the company's capital decisions were quite rational.

Nevertheless, Burlington has lost sales volume in real dollars and has far lower returns on sales and equity now than 20 years ago. Split 2-for-1 in 1965, the stock now sells at 34-on an adjusted basis, just a little over its $60 price in 1964. Meanwhile, the CPI has more than tripled. Therefore, each share commands about one-third the purchasing power it did at the end of 1964. Regular dividends have been paid but they, too, have shrunk significantly in purchasing power.

This devastating outcome for the shareholders indicates what can happen when much brain power and energy are applied to a faulty premise. The situation is suggestive of Samuel Johnson's horse: "A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician." Likewise, a textile company that allocates capital brilliantly within its industry is a remarkable textile company, but not a remarkable business.

Google was a horrible bet. So is Apple. So is anything you could ever hear about. The good stuff isn't even listed. Because it's not for you. The mud's for you. [↩]Unequal in that the new share (which uses the old name) has no voting rights, whereas the old share (having 1/10 of the voting rights of the management control B class) now trades under GOOGL. [↩]

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Monday, 23 February, Year 7 d.Tr.

Sneak Peak Screenshots and The Future Golden Goose

Chetty has been hard at work preparing a new release of Eulora. We are now testing it, and if everything passes we expect deployment during the coming week.

The important thing to note is that this release breaks compatibility with the previous clients - you will not be able to use your current client to connect to the Eulora server after the update. Consequently, we will do a staggered release, whereby first the new client sourcei will be made available, then after a few days the server will go down for updating (and stay down for about half a day), then the new server version will come online. For details as to the timing of these events, please see the #eulora chan on Freenode.

To pass the time meanwhile, here's some peeking material :

As to the Golden Goose : the Sunday after this release, which we currently expect to be September the 13th, a Golden Goose item will go on auction. It is very similar to the currently existing Magic Bags, in that it produces coins every day. It is also dissimilar, in that a) it is a hat, not something to hold in hand and b) it produces 10`000 satoshi Eulora copper coins each day, rather than 1`337.

To help put this in perspective :

mircea_popescu ;;gentime 113256481.48

gribble The average time to generate a block at 113256481.48 Mhps, given difficulty of 56957648455.0, is 3 weeks, 4 days, 0 hours, and 8 seconds

As you've perhaps intuited, 3 weeks and 4 days comes to just about 25 days, which means that if you have miners doing one hundred thirteen and one quarter terahashes per second, you are then on average mining a Bitcoin a day. Consequently the miner equivalent of this humble Golden Goose would be a 11.3 GHps unit (that uses free electricity and needs no cooling or any kind of maintenance whatsoever, of course). As the current price of miners seems to be about two Bitcoins per TH, and the value of one Bitcoin is still a hundred million Eulora coppers, it then follows that said Golden Goose would be worth 2`250`000 Euloran coins, plus of course whatever electricity costs (about 7 or so Watts' worth, so in a year roughly speaking five bucks), discounting of course any collector value or simply the cool factor of (eventually) going around with a duck on your head.

The big catch being, of course, that mining units do not come with a guarantee that the difficulty will stay the same forever, so best factor that angle in too, just in case.

This much for the business side. On the financial side, this item reduces to an annuity worth 0.0365 BTC p.a. forever. As we all know from our respective Accountancy 201 classes, the value of a perpetuity is pretty much the payment divided by the interest, and so we will be able to actually calculate the reference interest rateii by taking the annuity value (3`650`000 coppers) and dividing it by the auction sale price of this item. For instance, if this item sells for 2.25mn, the reference interest rate is then ~160%. If however it sells for 55 mn, then the reference interest rate is ~6.6%.

Taking as for instance the current 0.25% reference rate the FED uses, this item would be worth no less than 1`460`000`000 Eulora coppers. That's right - if the United States and Eulora were relatively equally credible and trustworthy investments from the point of view of the Bitcoin holder, then the fair market value of this item would be a billion and a half copper coins.

Isn't economy a great thing ? And everything else, too ?

———The new client will not be able to connect to anything yet. The idea is to allow the interested parties time to read and verify the new source, the package maintainers time to compile and release binaries etc. [↩]How much an investment in a foreign currency should bring in order to be equivalent to merely holding the local currency. [↩]

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Sunday, 06 September, Year 7 d.Tr.

Slutennis

Since the idjits "in charge" (hey, they think so) of that Most Noble Sport Of Girly Yelps are "reforming" and "improving" and "refining" the spec and so forth, I think it's high time the entire thing be forked, so they can go into the night of irrelevancy that beckons them, and we can continue to enjoy sluts on the field for all it's worth.

In that spirit and as a first step, I have a proposal for an updated uniform for female playersi. Henceforth all uniforms will consist of :

Shoes with vertical solid steel heel equal to one inch + ~0.9x times the measured length of the woman's feet sole, from tip of toes to end of heel, so that her foot will be at all times at an angle from the vertical equal to her age. Thus, a sixteen year oldii will have her heels fitted to a factor of 0.961261696, whereas a twenty-two year old will have her heels fitted to a factor of 0.927183855. The shoe also includes a universally equal one inch platform for the toes, so think ballerina shoes with heels. The front strap, made out of foot hugging stretch material will start above the separation of the toes - it is strictly forbidden for the front strap to cover any part of the front of the toe! - and continue past the ankle. The toenails must be painted in a matching color.

The skirt will consist of a short ruffle starting from the waistline, provided that it does not cover the pubic bone to any degree in front, and leaves the beginning of the cleft of the buttocks exposed in the back. Side ruffles may extend past the hip joint.

Any sort of panties are strictly forbidden, with the exception that women on their period may wear an internal tampon provided its string is clearly visible outside the body and labelled descriptively on a special tag.

Players that have never won the cup on the particular venue being played will wear anal inserts ending in a fluffy white bunny tail, in the shape of a half sphere made of natural latex and covered with natural white rabbit fur, three and a half inches in diameter. Players that have won the cup on the particular venue being played will wear anal inserts ending in a luscious fox tail, fire red with white apex. The anal inserts will be solid stainless steel, of sufficient girth and size to accomodate the woman's sexual habits so that the tail may be carried safely without being lost, and in no case to weigh less than three ounces. Losing one's tail during play signifies surrender to the other side.

The breasts will be constrained in a fully transparent, rigid acrylic mold quarter inch thick, so that no part of the bosom is exposed to the atmosphere, secured firmly in the back and over the shoulders so that no movement of the breast is possible. The players may mold their own shapes, but may not wear anything whatsoever underneath.

Players will wear a posture collar made out of steel reinforced leather that prevents any movement of the head separate from the rest of the body. On either side of the posture colar, over the head right in front of the ear and over the jaw articulation, steel prongs will connect to animal ears worn on the head : bunny ears for the bunnies, fox ears for the foxes. The ears will similarly be made out of silicone rubber covered in the corresponding natural fur.

Players will wear a ball gag, made out of soft rubber, the same diameter as the length of their big toe. Any yelping they can get done past that is allowed.

And the victory cups will be, of course, penis shaped. And the presentation ceremony will consist of the winners sitting on their winnings, of course. (Normally or anally, at their option and by their preference - if they wish to preserve vaginal virginity for marriage for instance, or for any other reason.)

Wouldn't you watch a sport like that ?

———The fact that men also plays tennis remains to this day an unexplainable mystery, it's almost like those flying fish things. Wtf nature, seriously ?! [↩]Yes of course sixteen year olds can play. Try one if you have any doubts. [↩]

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Sunday, 14 June, Year 7 d.Tr.

Shamir's derpage

To quote a recent vlog,

Shamir: I've been looking at the Bitcoin system and fundamentally the problem with this community is that they haven't made up their mind whether they want to be anarchist rebels or they want to be the establishment and to replace all the fiat currencies in the world. And they are torn between those two possibilities. A strong group within the bitcoin community resists any kind of a supervision or regulation and this result -- crime is very rife, prevalent -- there are lots of events you read about every day in the newspapers. I think it's not ready for primetime due to this dual personality. I think once they decide they seriously want to replace some of the world's currencies, they should change their behavior, they should agree to some kind of regulation, and then they'll buy future.

Diffie: Well that dichotomy of viewpoint of course is exemplified by the United States which hasn't been able to decide in a little bit over 200 years whether it was a revolutionary country bringing democracy to the world or a great imperial power like the powers of Europe. So, maybe they can resist.

I won't engage the idiocy directly, I don't have the patience. I will instead provide some contrasting material culled from today's log :

mircea_popescu By the way, lemme recount the fourth crusade for the benefit of the awareness-raising crowd-sourced crowd. So, I. a bunch of militarily powerful, intellectually naive Westerners made an army to go beat up the Muslims and take Jerusalem. II.a. Random Byzantine (militarily worthless, intellectually overpowering) entity convinces them to help him "recover" his "stolen" throne, as if the Byzantines ever did anything else or anyone had a valid claim, or the possibility of a valid claim even existed in their world. II.b. And further promised them the "pearls in heavens", a very classical device in Greek gay drama (since at least the days of Darius, this empty promises as a path to military glory. The Greeks invented "fake it till you make it".) III. They take Adrianople, and their presence alters "reality" as the Greeks perceive it. So their guy is named co-emperor. IV. the "crowdsource" revolts. This alters "reality" once more, their guy is promptly poisoned. V. They decide to conquer the fucking city. Because by now they've got an inkling of the pure filth the Greeks are. So they do, and burn it, and cauterize the place. Moral : Democracy is for the mentally ill ; The rewards of democracy are rape and arson, often enough delivered with the same stick. If Dandolo had any sense they'd have plowed and salted Constantinople, and sold all the women to the Turks.

ascii_field Promised them the "pearls in heavens"

Friday, 01 May, Year 7 d.Tr.

RObotzi S03 Ep3 : Hobby

In Romanian :

Deci ?

Fara deci!

Ce dracu-n conserva ai tot behait azi noapte ca o besina vaginala ?

Foca, poca ciugubes pagaciugele agalala ? Adaga balala debeledelon.

Da, aha, bine!

Azi noapte ? Ce zi o fost azi noapte ? Marticuri ? Joineri ?

Mda. Ai baut pina te-ai retardat si-ai uitat.

Alcolule! Masin'a timpului pierdut, cine mai stie cit, si unde, am baut.

In fine. Esti pregatit sa sari ?

Daaa... peste coarda de mica-ta. Ai prizat igrasie ?

Ma tenie de tastatura! Azi sarim cu cine te-o fatat.

Adica.

Adica, sarim cu... parasuta! Hihihi. In sfirsit ajungem si la hobby-ul meu.

Aia-i azi ? Stai sa-mi consult agenda. Of... ce mizerie! Azi nu pot!

Ba poti! Ca io-am indurat destul hobby-urile tale de cacat. Experimente pe legume mutante... ceapa aia schizofrenica...

> Plingem, plingem, plingem un riu... Plingem, plingem

Si muistu' ala de castravete...

> Ah ah, ye ye, sunt castravetele. Nu-ti plac legumele... ia-ma-n gura ca-s sanatos. Da da. Castravetele.

Aia-i deja istorie ca cultura la romani.

Da ? Da' cind te antrenai sa fii ninjalau ?

> Steluta...

> Vrei sa te resetez, 'tu-ti capu' tau de prost! Te-ai ascuns ? Voltaju' ma-tii!

Asa ca hai, hai, fara discutii ca intiriziem la aeroport.

Foca! Foca io nu sar tototot transpir, mi-i rau de la vezica jubiliara, vomit in pula mea peste borasc.

Nu sari, nu sari. Hai inauntru. Pa!

Ma! Dice m-ai impins! Iti dizloc o pula peste ochi de vezi alb-negru ca ciinii! Dice m-ai impins!

Taci odata. Bucura-te de libertate! Simti ?

Hm... sa stii ca nici nu-i rau. Ah! Cum imi flutura fularu'... Ah-aaah! Mo fin plutea... AAAAAAAAA!

Ce-ai ma, tentativa de avort. Ce urli-asa ?

Mi-am amintit ce ti-am zis azi noapte!

> Foca, pot sa ciuruiesc parasutele alea ale tale ? Am nevoie de niste prezervative de nylon.

> Da, aha, bine...

In English :

So ?

No "so"s!i

What the devil in a can did you bleat about last night like a queef ?

Foca, poca ciugubes pagaciugele agalala ? Adaga balala debeledelon.

Yeah aha okay.

Last night ? What day was it last night ? Tuesneday ? Thuriday ?

Myeah. You drank until you became retarded and forgot.

O, alcohol! Lost time machine, who ever knows what, and where we have drunk.

Anyway. Are you ready to jump ?

Yeaaaa... over that string of your mother.ii You snorted black mold ?

You keyboard flat worm! Today we jump over she who calved you.

Which is to say ?

Which is to say, today we parachuteiii. Finally we get to my hobby!

That's today ? Let me consult my agenda. Pff... what crap. I can't today!

Yes you can! For I've endured enough your shitty hobbies. Experiments on mutant vegetables... that schizo onion...

> We cry, we cry... We cry a river... We cry, we cry

And that cucumber cocksucker...

> Ah ah ye ye, I'm the cucumber. You don't like vegetables... take me in your mouth for I'm healthy. Ya Ya. The cucumber.

That's history like Romanian culture.

Yea ? What about when you were training to be a ninja ?

> The star...

> Do you want me to reset you, fuck your stupid head. You've gone into hiding ? Your mother's voltage!

So come, come, no discussions or we'll be late to the airport.

Foca! Foca I won't jump I'm all sweaty, I'm sick from the jubiliary vesicle, Ima puke on top of puke for cock's sake!

Don't jump, don't jump. Come inside. Bye!

Ma! Whydja push me! I'ma dislocate a cock over your eyes that you'll see b&w like the dogs do! Why did you push me!

Shut it already. Enjoy the freedom. Feel it ?

Hmm... it's not even bad. Ah! How my scarf wiggles in the wind! Ah-aaah! Mo was finely floating... AAAAAAAA!

What is it, attempted abortion. What are you screaming for ?

I recalled what I said last night!

> Foca, is it ok if I cut through those parachutes of yours ? I need some nylon condoms.

> Da, aha, bine...

In conclusion : having the parachute before you jump exposes you to the well meaning activities of people moving through time on the alcohol machine.

———This is a reference to an oft repeated admonition of higschool teachers, trying to discourage one of the most common antieulalisms of spoken Romanian. [↩]Coarda means whore. Of course. [↩]Also means whore in Romanian. [↩]

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Tuesday, 25 August, Year 7 d.Tr.

[RFC] The Gavin Assassinsen Memorial Mining Pool Implementation

You are to create a Bitcoin mining pool that :

1. Merge-mines both Bitcoin and Gavincoin chains.i

2. Includes anyone's broadcast transactions in the Bitcoin blocks, rationally sorted so as to maintain the blocks small while at the same time optimize fee collection ; mines empty Gavincoin blocks, except in cases where it originates the transactions.

3. Allows miners to create payments from the Bitcoin chain that are divergent, so that payment ends in one user-specified address on the Bitcoin chain and in another user specified address on the Gavincoin chain. This would require an intermediate step where the miner sends Bitcoin to a pool-owned Bitcoin address, and so is not trustless by design. These are the only transactions the pool will include in the Gavincoin chain.

4. Sends all miners that contributed to mining a block on either chain a bonus payment, proportional to their share contribution, equal to the last character of the mined block's hash % out of specified Bitcoin and Gavincoin addresses.ii

5. Advertises itself on either blockchain identically to the pool that last solved a block.

This pool is named in memory of a circus freak that had some cursory involvement with early Bitcoiniii, who then used his social media influence to kill a couple of kids.

———Turns out I hadn't really thought this through. Spec will need a lot of rework. [↩]So for example if the Bitcoin address holding the bonuses is 1BitcoinBonuses and it cointains 50 Bitcoin, and a block is mined whose last character is A, then each miner will receive a 20% extra to the payment he'd normally be entitled to (10% of 50 is 5, which is 20% more than the current25 BTC coinbase). If the Gavincoin address holding the bonuses is 1GavinKilledSomePeopleInAstoria, and it contains 0.01 Gavincoins, and the block is mined whose last character is 1, then each miner will receive a 0.0004% bonus over whatever he's due.

This should be implemented as a private service, pregenerating the tx that'll need to be signed later. [↩]Principally providing party entertainment as a cosplay artist. If you're organising a conference, corporate outing, Bar Mitzvah or other similar event, don't forget ol' Gavin. He'll dress up as Satoshi Nakamoto or any other imaginary personage you might fancy. All for the lowest price! [↩]

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Sunday, 18 January, Year 7 d.Tr.

Recursive Dunning-Kruger

As you might have noticed, I'm a great Chris Ballas fan. But this is ok, because some random name on some random forum isn't :

Judging by the comments on his site, I get the impression that he's a writer whose main skill is convincing people that he's smarter than he really is. He achieves this effect in three ways:

1). Writing in a brash, arrogant style comprised almost entirely of declarative sentences.

2). Making weird, esoteric historical, political, and pop culture references and then breezing along without bothering to explain them. He probably knows it's unlikely that any one person would be able to catch all the references he throws out, and would probably have to Google a couple (which is why good writers only use them sparingly, if at all), and I suspect he only includes them so people will think "Wow, that guy must be really smart! He's referenced Zarathustra, Popeye Doyle, and Katniss Everdeen in one paragraph!**" - What he doesn't realise is that anyone can pull this trick.

3). Mixing heavy polysyllabic words like 'egalitarianism' and weirdly stilted academic phrases like 'Only a taught narcissistic psychology' in with conversational language like 'SPOILER ALERT' and 'Duh! That's the whole point!'

His essays don't really stand up to any real scrutiny. I doubt they'd survive ten minutes in GD. The whole thing reads like a beginner's introduction to social psychology written by the guys from Cracked.

Yeah, that's right. To be clear, I have two impressions about the blog. The first is that the author thinks he's really, really smart. I'm not saying he's stupid or anything, but it's clear he thinks he views life through a wider lens than most people. This impression, I get from his own articles and the (IMO) rather arrogant and presumptive style in which they're written. The second impression is that a lot of people have fallen for it. I get that from the comments, many of which seem to support him and relatively few of which address the (again, IMO) rather large holes in a lot of his arguments.

On and on it goes, on the same tone and on the same presumptions, except it's a forum so it slowly degenerates into the sort of petty bickering you'd expect.

Generally, the Dunning-Kruger effect has been understood by the large mass of people who ever heard of it to mean "stupid people do not know they are stupid". This is true, of course, but is not related to the discussion. The Dunning-Kruger effect describes the unfortunate situation where people are less intelligent, informed, and capable of evaluation than they think themselves to be. There's nothing in there about "niggers", or "women", have you noticed this ? It doesn't say "niggers are dumber than they think", it doesn't say "cunts&bitchez are stupid he-he". It doesn't say "everyone other than you", either. It says people. Generally. That means - yourself included.

Which is exactly the problem : somebody with an IQ of 85, someone who struggles to recall a two paragraph description he just heard, someone who can't read through a 300 page technical manual in an afternoon and reproduce it orally in a two hour speech afterwards does not readily imagine that other people, specifically, people intellectually superior to him can and in fact regularly do both of these.i

The same frustration that would lead your marginal retard to lash out should you force him to do basic functional analysis for his food manifests in the random forum poster above. To him, his own inability to decode language as used by a pointedly superior intellect is frustrating. This frustration, being as it is an emotional process, does not cross over into cognition (and it'd be perhaps concering for his mental health if it did ?) but is resolved through the emotional mechanisms - and so he lashes out. He is upset that the writer makes too many references (with which he's not familiar, so he has to google - as fucking ifii), he is upset that the writer uses metaphor in ways he can't readily decode (but he doesn't realise this is probably due to the same reason you won't get jokes if the punchline revolves around things you just now for the first time heard about), and since he's a little paranoidiii he imagines some sort of conspiracy among the people who get it.

Inasmuch as this is physiological, there's nothing "wrong" with it. It's not particularly useful, of course, but inasmuch as it's not particularly useful to the patient himself, nobody cares.

It would perhaps be worthwhile to address the specious sort of reasoning that proposes a reader who hasn't understood a text is in a position to evaluate that text. Since I'm a major actor in a field drawing a lot of mostly unrelated public interest (Bitcoin) I get to see a lot of confused redditard nonsense on these lines. It should perhaps also be worthwhile to address the specious sort of reasoning that proposes public interest is, on its own strength, relevant to any professional field - as if somehow the number of people who play Risk: The Game of Global Domination at home has any sort of impact on international diplomacy, or the number of people who read pop psychology and follow "medical" TV shows is important for the field of medicine.

It is however impossible to address this sort of insanity, principally because the people who are intellectually able to cross the barrier get it necessarily, as part of that crossing, whereas the people who aren't by that very fact can't distinguish said barrier from a stone wall. So it will remain unaddressed.

Forever.

In any case : what DK says, first and foremost, is that you are probably unable to understand what DK says in your own case. This is why it's so fascinating : because if you think about it, it's actually a plain statement of the impossibility of a "science of the mind". Which, incidentally, is a point about as old as dirt.

———Subplot : lesser writers often imagine that my lengthy (and more importantly - substantial) blog posts take me a long time to prepare. This is not true : I usually write them in one go, at about 50 WPM (which means the average Trilema article takes me about twenty minutes) and rarely re-read them (if I do, it's mostly a paragraph at a time) or substantially edit them. This is because my thought process is well structured and my memory perfectly capable of holding a thousand or so words, at least in the general lines, after which once I sit down to write my general literacy allows me to express without effort.

And then, people who do in fact have all these various skills and abilities - an IQ of perhaps 130 or thereabouts, I would guess - do not readily realise that I mostly cook up my articles in my sleep, that my brain does this while I'm not actually present and then just presents me with the results as I wake up.

And I, in turn, have no fucking idea what goes on in Cthulhu's brain. (Unless I get angry. Then I have a pretty good idea. Don't get me angry, you'll live longer.) [↩]The notion that googling an unknown reference has resolved the problem is ludicrous, about on par with the proposition that checking on a girl's profile on Facebook has now made you sexually intimate with her. This is not how familiarity works, and if you proceed to act like she's been your subbie for a coupla decades should you meet (on the strength of, you know, "I've seen your online pics *huh huh snort*") she will probably slap you - as she should. References don't have hands, but I would definitely contribute to a "Give References Hands So They May Slap Idiots Who Think Googling Solves The Problem" fund. [↩]Inasmuch a boat, self righting rig on the open seas of water, is either inclined port or starboard, the brain, self righting rig on the open seas of stimuli, is either inclined paranoid or schizoid. There's nothing in either term other than that : which side is the thing off kilter ? It doesn't have to be off kilter a lot, and generally it isn't. [↩]

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Saturday, 14 February, Year 7 d.Tr.

Random weird shit

So first off, in the window of one of the shops catering to the retardedi 20something crowd :

What in the name of Mircea Monroe's see-through bodysuit is that! Batman in wanna-be MMORPG armour wielding a hammer ?! Preppy derp shooting a bow in Miami Vice sunglasses ? Is this what you're doing in the privacy of your own homelessnessii ?! And what happened to that orc's leftiii hand ?!?!?!

Moving on :

Is it a brain ? Is it a plane ? Oh no, a discarded detached ass in the middle of the street! Problem ?

I wonder what was wrong with it.

Oh, check that out, apparently the crack was cracked!

Well... definitely can't have that! Off to the sidewalk!

———Seriously, jeans and a t-shirt, that's what you're wearing ? Why not spielhosen ? [↩]It has long been a standing observation in the Western world that "children are invisible". I remember this fondly from my own childhood - it was glorious.

I suppose things have moved on and the adolescent bum enjoys this prerogative now ? [↩]Left on the picture, I mean. His actual left hand (on the right size of the picture) is "normal" : about as thick around as the waistline of anything I'd fuck. But the other one...

Come to think about it... how does that sort of discrepancy even arise in the first place ? [↩]

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Thursday, 16 April, Year 7 d.Tr.

Racists and the racist idea

mircea_popescu in other news, pervyleague

Part of the numerous Blessings of Sucki of postmodernism is a deluge of cultural artefacts that was purely inconceivable before we invented the electric shannonizerii that's sometimes also improperly called "computer". As a direct and directly unavoidable result, the space left for thought in between one production and the next is so deeply subunitary that limiting items to 140 words does not even grate.

Just like "photography", even in its "professional" senseiii has reduced to "make a bunch of snaps and sort them later" - later when ? Later is "taking ever more snaps, faster, more of them", not "switch modes to do something structurally different in that it's a lot harder than what you're doing now and you're not only not tooled for it, but actually your tools such as they are keep degrading through disuse". And so an immense thought debt keeps accumulating and accumulating, we'll make sense of these photographs later (at some point we even forgot what they were of or for, perhaps ?), we'll comment and wring out the bugs and even these days test this code later (at some point nobody's even using it anymore, perhaps). It goes on and on, unavoidably, unforgivingly. Notice that this paragraph starts with a "just as" which I'm not closing. I will never close it, which is to say I'm closing it "later". To be specific, I'm closing it five minutes after you've caught up with "contemporary culture". Aite ?

The coping strategies of they drowning in this uninvited, rigorously uninteresting and in the end meaningless sea of pompous nothings are interesting to the anthropologist, of course. One very narrowly particular such coping mechanism - the "caption" - is of particular interest to the cultural anthropologist examining the interaction between written and visual cultureiv. There are a number of uses of this strategy readily visible, of which in order the most widely seen are the "lolcat" and the "black power". The former is purely narcisiac impotence, and consists on affixing the simulated verbal dribble of the mentally retarded to pictures of neotenic animals, chiefly kittens. The latter is somewhat more interesting, and so we'll spend a little time discussing it here. As you might have intuited, the illustration above is culled from the available documentary material.v

"Black power" captioning is a very interesting phenomena for a few reasons. One is that (like most pornography) it suffers from divergence, in that it chiefly depicts white females and black males while it is chiefly produced by white males, for the consumption of white males. This is very fundamentally cargocultism, similar to the discussion of "Jews" as imagined by people who never met any, or the discussion of the evils of "loose morals" by people who never had much sex &c.

Another is that the actual producers are very deeply ignorant of either the visual medium they cull for a basis or of the verbal medium they employ for "alterations". Specifically as to this point - pornography as a productive fieldvi has, in its also desperate quest to make sense of fantasy, resorted to some very visible and not so subtle codification. It is thus trivial for the qualified observer to identify through cursory examination the "line" in which any given visual falls, and often identify the studio, the period and so on. Moreover, that qualification can be obtained by the intelligent observer cheaply and easily, it requires a few months spent methodically with source material, which means it's not even a full phd. The authors are however blessfully unaware of even the most basic conventions of their source medium, no matter how plainly apparent, and will consequently imply context or subtext that the image itself drastically and unequivocally invalidates.vii

On the other point, of the verbal space... How to properly speak is, of course, an enduring preoccupation of human culture, arguably older and more well represented than pornography. Nevertheless the authors managed to remain blessfully ignorant of this vast array of human effort over millenia. As a result rank nonsense of all kinds and at all levels is gleefuly presented - such as for instance the naive claim that "X is a recessive gene and thus it will die out", more amply discussed in the #b-a logs recently, or statistics starkly contradictory of the intended point being presentedviii, or otherwise statements grossly ignorant of the situation in the field.

In this last line, the very often repeated proposition that the present day emigration from Africa towards Europe is indicative of some sort of "conquest". Even if you deliberately ignore the obvious point that the ~billion white people in Europe can not in any conceivable manner be demographically endangered by the ~billion black people in Africaix and even if you ignore the very obvious disadvantage of means, both civilisational and cultural, at the disposal of the supposed invaders, it still stands that the immigration is mostly the result of the demographic collapse of Africa itself!

This is the sad fact of that matter - at the rate things are going, should the Chinese decide to not provide demographic support for black Africans deliberately, the entire continent will disappear as a going concern within not that long a timeframe, leaving the US blacks and whatever tinier group manages to make it across the Mare Nostrum in some kind of leaky boat the only representatitives of a once... fascinating, or perhaps we should say fascinatingly sterile, human population.

So basically "black supremacy" captioning consists of images gratingly taken out of context, in a way that ridicules the producer, to which text is affixed that makes very little sense if any at all, and generally the sense it does make serves to enhance the involuntary humor. What could possibly drive this paradoxical if apparently paroxistic behaviour ?

This question has puzzled me for a while, but I am happy to announce that I have a theory! It goes like so :

The racist idea is the proposition that one is not an individual, but merely a representative of a group. You see this at work when idiots "are happy" because "their team" won some sort of event. It has the benefits you'd expect - no longer need to figure out math, because we're already on the team that invented it in the first place! No longer need to take any sort of personal responsibility, "we did it for the team". That sort of thing.

The racist does not in fact have the werewithal to renounce the racist idea, simply because it would require him to pay a huge pile of accumulated intellectual debt. Like you know, learn a fucking language, and things of that unpleasant nature. It is thus a very reasonable coping mechanism to invert the racist idea, rather than renounce it altogether! So, if "ra ra ra we're the greatest ever because we're in the right team" no longer cuts it, the solution will be "aww we're the lowest ever because we're on the losing team and this other [wholly imagined] team is sticking it to us through a mechanism we can't possibly control in any way!!!"x much before it'll be "heck, I guess I gotta figure things out on my own now".

Which neatly explains why this thing is created by white males out of things they don't understand and consumed by white males undeterred by the sheer nonsensical nature of the affixation. It generates "anger", which is not wounded narcissism but mere frantic action to cover impotence, and it conveniently hides the actual problem into so many layers of obscure gunk, you actually need a few hours of actual expert meditation to even see through it - something they're certainly safe from ever encountering in their actual environment.

Win-win, as they say. I imagine it must really suck to be a malnourished immigrant from Syria (which is currently the majority), trying to escape a country ravaged by war while possessed of no 12 inch cock, no 100 meter sprinter physique (in no small part through the joint misfortune of not being 20 anymore and having been perpetually hungry throughout your childhood and puberty) and no terribly dominant personality.

Congrats to the winners!

———Term of ars gratia artis. [↩]As alf properly notices, the soviets also had a variant. It was primitive, in that it didn't include all the required components. At the base it would be "digital camera" + "WYSIWYG" processors (text and data) + internet, in the sense of "bootstrap web + social media". A rough approximation of this is the "Smartphone", which pointedly is not a computer. Nor is it a "platform" or a "revolution" or anything else. It's just an electric shannonizer for the subnormals. [↩]The notion that there can exist "professional" photography in the age of point and click cameras is not unlike the idea that there can exist "professional code" or professional defecation. Get over it, everyone's doing it anyway.

The "professional code" bit is controversial by the way. See the logs. [↩]This is a term of art too, and there's a lot here I'm omitting for brevity. [↩]One of the most informative sources available is perhaps swedishinterracial on tumblr, but of course there is no shortage of these, and none are really worth the mention. [↩]It calls itself an "industry", of course, which is risible on the face, as there are no significant capital goods involved whatsoever, but is also illustrative of the meaning shift : they actually say "industry" because they believe that is the word that denotes any productive activity, and since their activity does in fact produce footage, it therefore follows...

The LOC (line of code) nonsense approach to programming has resulted similarly in a wholly imagined "software industry", and similarly the bogus metrics of "engagement" and "web-*" have produced an "online advertising industry" that exists strictly in the minds of the participants, generally for as long as they're together at a con (which they call a con-ference, in spite of it being more related to a convention, where fans gather to gush over comic book heros than to an actual conference, where professionals meet to discuss actual observations of actual observable reality). [↩]Such as by implying familial relations between well known, unrelated, mainstream models ; or by making specific claims as to pregnancy, paternity scl on top of random softcore images ; or through implying gender or power dynamics that are not merely unsupported by the actual image presented but outright contrary to its recognisable source and context etc etc ad nauseam & infinitum, whichever comes first. [↩]Variously visible, because the captioneers clearly hated math throughout their existence. Perhaps the most egregious example was something about how 2.5% of all marriages in the US being "interracial" supposedly heralds some sort of demographic collapse of the white race. If you stop and ponder the numbers for a moment, that a ~70% majority and a ~12% minority intermarry at a rate of ~2.5% is the most plain banality, and if anything a very present danger of demographic annihilation for the minority in question. [↩]The minority ~10% black population in the US has been relatively stable for two centuries now. The similarly minority gypsy population in Romania and Eastern Europe generally has been very stable over many centuries, and it even survived deliberate genocide attempts, carried out by both the nazi socialists and the soviet socialists without visible ill effect. The even tinier ~5% Hungarian minority in Romania has also been relatively stable (slowly dwindling, really - but geologically slowly).

In point of fact demographic collapse occurs in connected communities that are well under 1% of the majority, which is relatively rare an instance. Very tiny minorities (such as say the Korean minority in the US) manage to retain demographic stability through the age old mechanisms such is attained and has always been attained, which is to say connectivity modulation. If you think about it - if the mechanisms proposed to "annihilate" a race actually worked, there'd not have been any races at any point in recorded history. In reality however the likeliness of any race (in the broad, billion-strong sense this term is commonly used these days) disappearing is pretty much nil, and in no case will it occur through simple fucking around. That latter proposition is an impossibility of the level of claiming water can be diluted into being the philosopher's stone. It apparently is also on about the same level of credibility, somehow, amusingly enough. [↩]This is ever-present, under the guise of "feminism", which is to say making the white male not be the center of things anymore the situation is presented in the terms of "black males and white females are pushing through the 'soft genocide of the white race' and there's nothing to do about it". Like so :

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Monday, 10 August, Year 7 d.Tr.

Quantum Mechanics Today : A Machine To Turn Penis Projectile Vibration Into Eyelash Flutter

So prepared, let us proceed to the famous "cunts run Perl" discussion.

mircea_popescu Perhaps you don't appreciate how deep Perl goes, or how unaware Perl-people are of their Perl-ness.

gabriel_laddel Fuck em? I mean literally - steal their Bitcoin, hack their bank accounts, cause chaos.

asciilifeform 'Certain languages support serious programmers, and others don't. E.g., I don't think it is at all possible to become a serious programmer using Visual Basic or Perl. If you think hard about what Perl code will do on the borders of the known input space, your head will explode. If you write Perl code to handle input problems gracefully, your programs will become gargantuan: the normal failure mode is to terminate with no idea how far into the process you got or how much of an incomplete task was actually performed. On my view, serious programmers don't deal with tools that _force_ them to hope everything works.' -- herr Naggum, who else.

trinque Lotta derps out there that can be taught to better themselves. I'm fucking 28 and learning CL *now*

mircea_popescu I think the female reproductive system runs on Perl. What now ?i

[*crickets*]

mircea_popescu I see nobody wishes to engage the cunt problem. But yes, IT DOES RUN ON PERL. And here we are.

gabriel_laddel In what sense? That it'll accept all sorts of odd inputs?ii

mircea_popescu How familiar with the process are you ? Like, for instance, the simple (loliii) ShouldAbort() function ?

gabriel_laddel I've had sex with a female if that's what you're asking.

mircea_popescu Not at all. Think about it : foetuses are sometimes aborted. On the basis of reasons. When ? Why ? Pure Perl.

* asciilifeform tries to picture a variant where 'where, why' is accessible.

mircea_popescu It is, you can measure a lot about a pregnancy.

asciilifeform - with instruments. Sure, fella with microscope can sometimes say why eject button got pressed. But that isn't negating the 'perliness' of the basic apparatus, no ?

gabriel_laddel You're talking about the women in question purposefully aborting her pregnancy? Or miscarriage?

mircea_popescu No, no, we're talking about the reproductive system itself.iv Trisomies are usually aborted. Spina bifida usually not. Etc. Make sense of it, Nobel prize is yours.

gabriel_laddel Yeah, I don't see the analogy to Perl.

mircea_popescu Really ?!

trinque That nature is filthy hacks upon hacks?

asciilifeform Pretty sure the example you cited is immunological (trisomies trigger tumour response).

mircea_popescu Maybe. Some of them certainly do. IIRC they proved some of them actually abort through some oxygenation pathway.

gabriel_laddel The reason we build abstract machines is because people are not very good at repetitive tasks.

mircea_popescu This is cells. Cells are automatons.

gabriel_laddel Yes...?

mircea_popescu Humans don't enter into it, at that level. And it's Perl for exactly the specified reason, "the normal failure mode is to terminate with no idea how far into the process you got or how much of an incomplete task was actually performed". Many more similarities (like a pointed lack of sexprsv), but let's keep it simple.

gabriel_laddel People are machines - but computer programs are not people, nor cells. We know how to write computer programs such that you don't need regexes. If you're /ever/ using them, you're doing it wrong.

mircea_popescu So you're saying cunts are doing it wrong.

asciilifeform Basic idea, perhaps, is that systems designed 'step at a time' by 'practical types' without any clear line of reason - will converge to resemble meat. As per L. Lamport's essay.

mircea_popescu No, idea is that some people who can't even make dragonfly are in a weak position to teach grandmother how to suck eggs, as it were.

asciilifeform If we get the stochasticity of meat, we also need to have the wide functional state space of meat. One without the other - is drowning in shit.

mircea_popescu That may be. I'm just pointing out that biology offers a very significant challenge to theoretical CS, in the perl aspect of things.

gabriel_laddel This conversation bothers me.

mircea_popescu Does it ?

gabriel_laddel We don't understand how to make dragonflies, nor how the reproductive system works. We know how to write computer programs that work - the failing to do the latter correctly is a human failing. Analogy need not enter into the conversation. It isn't necessary.

mircea_popescu Generally when an analogy need not enter into a conversation, it's a sign the conversation's broken.

gabriel_laddel Der fucking nonsense.

mircea_popescu And mind you, at issue is not whether we do or don't understand how reproduction works. At issue is that we understand enough to know it runs on Perl. Which means that as long as you live, you will not live in a clean world.

gabriel_laddel It doesn't run on "Perl". "Perl" is a well specified computer program. Meat runs another separate well specified meat program. Select portions of humanity have, to varying degrees created "clean" computing.

mircea_popescu Take the simple fact that ethacridine lactate induces abortion in any trimester, and without exception. If this isn't a regex gone wrong, what is ? (And if it were so well specified, we'd prolly know a lot more of it than we do.)

gabriel_laddel Regexes are regexes - nothing elese is. Not everything is the same thing.

mircea_popescu So you dispute that there's ready biologic equivalents of a regexp match ? You are aware organic molecules are actual strings.

gabriel_laddel I wouldn't dare draw that equivalence without agreeing on a formal definition for regexes and the process in question.

mircea_popescu How do you define a string ? (This, incidentally, would be the Lisp/Perl difference IMO. Lisp does not have strings, Perl does not have sexprs. In spite of pretending on each side.)

gabriel_laddel WTF is this. Lisp doesn't have strings?

mircea_popescu If you think about it, you said so yourself. "If you're /ever/ using them, you're doing it wrong."

gabriel_laddel My first pass at a definition for a string: A string is a collection of characters from an alphabet.

mircea_popescu Organic molecules pass this.

gabriel_laddel Nah - if you're using regexes you're doing it wrong.

mircea_popescu That's what strings are. "Stuff you use regexps on".

gabriel_laddel Nonsense. I use strings all the time, don't use regexes.

mircea_popescu You're using fake Lisp strings. Perl people think they're using "structured data" too. It's all strings, but w/e.

gabriel_laddel They can't do tree traversals on their "structured data"

mircea_popescu Exactly.

gabriel_laddel Therefore they suck c0cks.

mircea_popescu And you can't do regexp on your "Strings". Therefore...

gabriel_laddel Ah, but I can.

mircea_popescu Well, "can".

gabriel_laddel I don't because it's stupid.

mircea_popescu Right. Why do you think THEY don't ?

gabriel_laddel Because they're mentally defective.

mircea_popescu Obviously.

gabriel_laddel (I'm assuming you're saying "why don't you think they don't - do tree traversals")vi

mircea_popescu Right.

gabriel_laddel I should note that "they" (Algol programmers) try to add the tree traversal properties of Lisp to their languages. In every single language. They all have failed, and will continue to fail

mircea_popescu So ?

gabriel_laddel So they waste a lot of effort doing it.

* mircea_popescu gets a "so ?" gold-on-black-cardboard card.vii

decimation Did I just stumble into an ongoing turing test?viii

mircea_popescu Nah, i'm just being unreasonably heterodox over here.

gabriel_laddel This conversation is going in the direction of "heat death of the universe" so I'll note that companies that use e.g., Scala have to hire a lot of people to regin in the complexity inherrent in ALGOL. Hence, they waste money. Hence they'll be beaten in the marketplace by yours truly.ix

mircea_popescu This is a very minor point. The chief point, still standing, is that cunts still run on Perl. There must be a reason for this. But even if there isn't a reason for this : it's so deeply baked into the structure of the world, you'll never be free of it. (Because cunts obviously aren't free to choose what they use, so the need for Perl must be way deeper than that.)x

gabriel_laddel And...?

mircea_popescu That's all, no more. You'll never be entirely free of idiots.

gabriel_laddel That doesn't mean I should stop "butchering slugs".

mircea_popescu Hey, splay that slit! no argument here.

decimation How can anyone even make statements about what the female reproductive/baby system is doing without examining the results in each case, in molecular detail?

mircea_popescu [It's been examined] enough to say "it's doing regexp".

gabriel_laddel What aesthetic do you wish to live in?

trinque Fast and loose is fine if the product is somewhat disposable?

mircea_popescu Except the product of reproduction is perhaps the most expensive thing there is, if you look in the proper context.

trinque Yes, very expensive to the host body while it's being made

mircea_popescu Exactly.

trinque Seems like systems where there are a variety of ways to solve problems accept that they don't know the "perfect" way, if there is one. Assuming lack of perfect knowledge having multiple things to try seems appropriate

mircea_popescu The main problem here is that for a large number of solid considerations, Lisp would actually be a much better choice. Moreover, the space alf referred to is indeed vast, but the processes narrow. In many spots the whole tree converges to a very very narrow bottleneck. Consider the ridiculous happenstance that all foeti have a god damned lizard tail two weeks in.

trinque Mhm, and gills at some point, or proto-gills. Little blockchains themselves.

asciilifeform I must confess, that I am at a loss as to which aspects of meat we should like to replicate in machines: intransigence? toe fungus? pneumonia? schizophrenia? Seems like we've achieved a great many of these, in the computer...

mircea_popescu I wasn't going nearly as far as any of that. Anyway I should like to see a schizo computer.xi

asciilifeform "there must be a reason for this."

Monday, 27 April, Year 7 d.Tr.

Qntra (S.QNTR) September 2015 Statement

Qntra has realised no income and made no expenditure this period. Qntra is expected to realise no income and make no expenditure the following period. Doesn't the press rule ?

As directed by its charter and on the basis of the report of the editor in chief, 16`508 S.QNTR shares issued this period.i This brings the total shares issued to 314`238 (+5.54%).

Qntra is gaining significant traction, while the competition's drying up. This, I suppose, must be good for Bitcoin.

———Incredibly enough, this is within 1% of last month's! [↩]

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