mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/698748328511696896/tHcNra2H_400x400.png << that's a pretty cool album cover lol.

mircea_popescu: damn we're not even a decade in can't find shit in the logs ;/

mircea_popescu: there's a depth acquired from "boring" narrowness of subject.

mircea_popescu: (and for the record i will point out that tlp is anglotard enough to miss most of the substance. there's perfecty good reason everyone painted the same god damned vase with two apples next to it, and this has little do to with "you're not boring son ok" and a lot of fucking things to do with ... damn, where's that thread about ther ancient battlefield ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: well now that we understand the positions in theory, a negotiation for functional practice may begin.

mircea_popescu: Texting and social media's slowness gives them their power for this purpose. You read a text, and it lingers, it keeps your attention because it's all there is; and then you respond with a piece of your real self, and wait for a response... what's happening is time travel-- while you are on pause, the rest of not-your life goes faster. It is far more efficient at killing time than a phone call.

mircea_popescu: hen the "natural" conversation stops being interesting-- and it will, even if most of you weren't bad at it-- it would be a judgment about your relationship, about you. And you'll beg St. Jobs to blink a path to safety because otherwise you have to sit there with no existential support.

mircea_popescu: opularity of Downton Abbey, not to mention alcohol and iphones at dinner. It is against this background of "phony" convention that teens can productively "rebel" and find their own individuality against a status quo; fighting against an emotionally illogical, arbitrary, unpredictable structure results in learning the opposite lesson, "whatever gets me through the day..." Without this structure to social activities, w

mircea_popescu: ity is freeing, it allows self-conscious physical bodies to get used to standing next to each other without having to be acting, this includes husbands and wives. When dinner is a controlled process with "manners" and expected topics of shared conversation and start and end times, as boring as it may get, it is boring, not you. Women are especially sensitive to this absence of convention, this is one reason for the p

mircea_popescu: But why do we need "the balance?" What does it replace, what went missing? The very thing Holden Caufield hated: "phoniness", protocol and ritual for seemingly no purpose. Politeness is fine, but why do I have to make small talk? Why do I have to pretend to care about the weather? Why, after a decade of marriage, should dinner be a regular review of the somewhat boring goings-ons of "the day"? Because that formal

mircea_popescu: you can't be a clinician without treating people, which yes, peeliong potatoes.

mircea_popescu: to this day the only way to become a carpenter is to carpent. the only way to become a whoremonger is to fuck.

mircea_popescu: no, warhol is a talentless dali. just as lazy.

mircea_popescu: a different fellow.

mircea_popescu: what you get when you take toil out of psychologi is lacan. he is not a psychiatrist,

mircea_popescu: this is a fantasm. that you'd like it be true, i believe you. that it is, i do not believe you.

mircea_popescu: machine is not a pill against retardation. nevertheless, system is a method for limiting expression of retardation.

mircea_popescu: look no further than yourself : are you a bad person for living in dc ?

mircea_popescu: how do you suppose webstack became a thing ?

mircea_popescu: iirc was also a locomotive type engine lol

mircea_popescu: which was not terribly relevant : it could ford in places nobody knew there was a ford before.

mircea_popescu: but in any case, what i expect in practice is - a lot of cross signing, of people who know each other ; and a ready spot for corporate investment. "make me a mod6+alf patch" is a job.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> 2) what if he wants, e.g., a mod6+ben_vulpes tree. << in general it's to be expected you'd see a lot of replication of code.

mircea_popescu: you choose to view this as a sign of the omnipotence of usg.

mircea_popescu: this is your privilege, as a believer in animism.

mircea_popescu: a disaster ot which naggum's lifeless body doth attest.

mircea_popescu: having a centralising pos a la vessenes faux foundation on top of the broken process non-v, is a disaster.

mircea_popescu: but the point remains : having a trb foundation on the solid foundation of a v environment IS a convenience.

mircea_popescu: i don't see folks agreeing to anything. i see mod6 putting in a lot of blood.

mircea_popescu: principally atm, that mod6 is running like a mad dog trying to keep on top of everyone's patches.

mircea_popescu: it's just a convenience. it's not a fucking usg tendril.

mircea_popescu: a throne what ?