Until a few decades ago, we enjoyed a near-complete freedom to transact when, where and with whom we pleased. Centralized control over the ability to buy and sell was impossible, as was centralized surveillance of individual transactions.
english has a cool built-in heuristic for detecting bullshit
are most of the nouns and verbs being used latin/greek or germanic in origin?
if germanic, the things being discussed are probably real physical actions and things: tree, walk, cow, shit, fall, wood, buy, leg, go
germanic words are the ones we needed in 1065 and have never stopped needing. real words for real things
latin and greek words are ones the norman french aristocracy felt lost without, or philosophers and scientists felt the need to borrow from the ancients (or make up)
if they’re latin or greek, caution is advised: concept, information, imply, connote, equity, liberty, diversity, oppress, empower, persecute, periphery, center, idea, intellect
it’s not that they’re all vapor. it’s just good to keep in mind. if you’re asking yourself, “is this bullshit?” first ask yourself, “is there any way to express this without a lot of latin and greek?”
if the answer’s no, you can be sure at the very least it’s not lindy
here’s an example: “misinformation”
we have germanic words that appear to cover this concept just fine: “lie” and “wrong”
but those won’t do becuase “misinformation” doesn’t mean wrong. it means heresy (greek)
and it needs to be latin because it has to sound official (latin)…
institutional (latin), judicial, legal, the domain of experts (all latin except “of”)
you don’t need a masters degree to know what is and isn’t a lie (old english). what’s right (old english) and wrong (old english)
meaning they can’t use a real word without looking absurd
they have to raid the liturgical languages for something polysyllabic and impressive: “misinformation”
and that’s how you know they’re lying*
*every word in this sentence is old english
sucks for spanish and french. although i guess they can at least assume any english borrowing is bullshit, since it necessarily comes from business, hollywood or academia in the last ~70 years
“sucks for spanish and french” as in: they don’t have two sources of vocabulary. it’s all latin, including the normal earthy everyday vocabulary
there’s nothing inherently earthier about germanic roots or airier about romance ones. that’s just how it shakes out within english
“crazy, drug-addicted homeless people” (OE latin-latin OE latin) becomes “people experiencing problems related to drug addiction, homelessness and mental illness” (latin latin greek latin OE latin latin OE OE latin OE)
the only change in meaning is a huge helping of bullshit
“people experiencing problems related to drug addiction, homelessness and mental illness”
you mean crazy, homeless drug addicts
enough with the new speak. tortured phrases don’t alter reality
btw i’m not double checking all the etymologies for all these words. i’ve likely gotten a couple wrong. i’m such a nerd about this stuff i welcome (polite) corrections
if you enjoyed this thread i wrote a book. not about etymology, but about some bullshit people have been using a *lot* of latin and greek to try and dress up
how does it blur the lines of race & gender? tell me right now how it blurs the lines of race & gender. i want to hear exactly what these things do that in any conceivable way blurs the lines of race & gender
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i literally just realized, just now, that the dead dog in the trash bag that sat outside my apartment in south america for a week was meant to intimidate me
i literally just thought, shit sanitation is worse than i thought here
i keep missing signals like that and i'm gonna die
why do people who are willing to resort to censorship work in crypto? crypto has exactly one purpose: make censorship impossible
go work on literally anything else. everyone in every sector is tripping over themselves to police everyone else’s expression. you’ll fit right in
We'll be reviewing our token profile moderation policy in the coming days. We won't be the gatekeepers of what happens on-chain, but we're definitely not here to spread hate.
@manuelcobo
i’m a software developer, i’m comfortable with abstraction. but i think it’s healthy to be suspicious of it when it’s not strictly necessary
“so based. so trad”
y’all are retarded. enforcing this requires kyc. it’s a backdoor to full unshakeable soy bureaucrat control of this platform (and every other one, but they already have those)
it’s the end of anon posting
@eigenrobot
"And when the teacher placed before us a painted globe, and said that our world was like that—that upon such a thing our forefathers had roamed and hunted for untold ages, as it whirled and danced around the sun in space—I felt that my foothold was deserting me."
Charles Eastman
odd thing about being 33 is it’s how long the creator of the universe lived as a human, enduring all our filth and stench, before undergoing the most humiliating torture and death we could offer him. this is how long god put up with being one of us. strange threshold to cross
when milady flips ape, the curse is broken. the earth opens up and swallows sbf whole, solana goes back to $3, eth hits $10k, gensler retires to spend more time with his “family” (brood of whip scorpions)
when milady flips ape the world heals
he's threatening children with arrest for thoughtcrime. it's not even like he's law enforcement. he's just a regime sycophant. an informer
the american press is maoist
A group of five to six kids just starting doing donuts and creating skid marks on the Pride Mural. Right in front of me as we’re reporting on three people getting arrested for doing the same thing last night.
@KHQLocalNews
Trump has come out against CBDCs. I spent the past couple of years learning and writing about these things, so while there's a lot I don't know, I'm pretty well placed to answer questions like, "what are CBDCs, what's he talking about?"
Also, "are they evil?" (Yes.)
Here goes:
dear milady
i have written a book. i want to give it to you for free. milady money is no good here
it’s called “the right to transact” and it’s about what it sounds like it’s about
the literal founder got drained. massive, indiscriminate, massacre-dump into bids. a few days later and we're higher than we were going into it
fuck you. miladys in control
you've seen the meme. CBDCs subject you to the dystopian caprice of evil bureaucrats: account freezes, expiration dates, caps…
ok, says who? paranoid speculation?
i've read ~everything published by central banks on CBDCs. join me, anon, for a romp through the primary sources
@politicalmath
i thought i was left-leaning until about three years ago, because my experience growing up in the bible belt was that the left supported free speech. the right was authortiarian and puritanical
i was wrong. or the facts changed. or some of both
there’s a scene in the chernobyl series where the west germans give the sovs a robot they can send into the wreckage to maybe unfuck things
the robot kicks out in like a minute because the sovs gave the germans the propaganda radiation level
that’s what happened with the debate
if one actually thought trump was hitler, assassinating him would be the clear, correct, moral choice
liberals are denouncing and disavowing the attempt, meaning they never actually believed that
they just wanted to scare you. like cult leaders and despots and predators do
fukuyama, 199whatever: nothing ever happens, liberal democracy won forever
fukuyama now: so much has happened in the last 30 years we need to end liberal democracy
Here is Francis Fukuyama (of "End of History" fame), a core node in the Stanford censorship network, agreeing w Kate Starbird that "the level playing field & "marketplace of ideas" are "18th-century notions" that should be eschewed & plotting how to end-run the First Amendment.
anybody know of a milady drop that isn't listed here?
@CryptoNines
, intergalactic megachad, presents: remiliadrops
this will be a frequent destination for milady. if you want attention for you project, airdrop to milady and get yourself on remiliadrops
@Antweegonus
as with many leftist ideas, it's ironically very christian: we are disembodied souls floating around the cosmic staging ground of life. we are completely *us* in mind and spirit, but not body or culture. we're randomly assigned a material vessel that could be anywhere or anyone
i love the idea of "conspiracy theories":
"your explanation can be discounted out of hand because it relies on the idea that a group of people with shared interests coordinated to achieve an outcome. nothing like this has ever happened and the notion is absurd"
so just to clarify: y’all are so leveraged and so allocated to shitcoins that a move to $66k is enough to slaughter the timeline?
impressive that y’all are finding ways to stay poor in this market
i am moving to the deepest south i can find. somewhere gunpowder is a condiment. the exact geographic center of mississippi. the florida-georgia border. is the ozarks the south? maybe there. the open to suggestions.
This is the picture of a Milady.
The only NFT Elon Musk has ever shilled.
Against all market trends, Miladys are now likely to lead the upcoming NFT cycle.
Let's investigate why these neochibi aesthetic PFPs are taking on the world (1/10)
met my second friend-of-a-friend nyc k12 teacher today. both volunteered that they dislike white parents. quickly, unprompted, in no uncertain terms. like, very eager to share that. as i hold a baby, whitely, in nyc
i hate it here in ways i can’t put into words
everyone’s suddenly obsessed with a single issue? crazy bro
blue hairs are rioting and making everything grind to a halt over it? that’s nuts fam
it’s a crisis and we need emergency legislation to impose speech controls? bananas dawg
right before the election? bonkers dude
if you think about it, the assumption that the state has a right to know who every single person is, where they live, what they do, what they earn, what they own, where they travel, what ails them, who their parents are, who their children are—
is kind of wild
my objection to meme coins isn’t that gambling is bad, or that everyone needs to spend all their time building Serious Infrastructure, or that the normals might judge
it’s that they ruin the timeline. i want pure schizopilled miladyposting not “the ticker is $GONORRHEA gogogo”
“you have an opinion that would have been unremarkable among obama voters? well i’ll depict you as possessed by a shadowy nazi screen demon. aren’t you sorry now?”
idk bro maybe it was a decade of ^ this shit
it’d be hard to exaggerate the degree to which the security state is hostile to personal freedom. in the 80s, the NSA was mad about *passwords* and tried (not especially hard) to classify them as encryption. which it wanted to ban
if you don’t see mass seizures of self-custodied crypto as a real possibility, you don’t understand crypto or you don’t understand the state
the latter, as currently constituted, can’t tolerate the former. it’ll abandon the rule of law before accepting money outside its control
@BBoghan
there are barely any in english. it’s a mystery why, goven that britain was presumably full of celts when the saxons landed. crag, bard and goblin are from welsh. i think hog is disputed. that’s pretty much it afaik
when i argue that we have a right to transact freely, normals tend to regard me with horror and disgust
but why? why renounce a necessary and natural liberty? enthusiastically no less?
propaganda of course
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Until a few decades ago, we enjoyed a near-complete freedom to transact when, where and with whom we pleased. Centralized control over the ability to buy and sell was impossible, as was centralized surveillance of individual transactions.
after fighting strong cryptography for decades—because what if criminals and terrorists—the american government embraced it basically all at once
they realized how vulnerable things they wanted to *protect* from criminals and terrorists would be without it
history rhymes
almost everything i disagreed with my dad about in my teens and twenties, i now see he was right
given what he thinks now, this fills me with profound dread