mircea_popescu: i'm doing okay.

mircea_popescu: simple example : if i get a stomach upset, i can identify the culprit through the simple process of ... "shut the fuck up a mintuer and listen".

mircea_popescu: i suspect it's the normal/natural state. people with overrepressive habits (ie, bad childhood) end up blind to their own mind, but...

mircea_popescu: The "independent" demo actually has all the textbook characteristics of a group most susceptible to propaganda, more correctly "pre-propaganda", and by textbook I mean literally Propaganda.

mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, "Worse, they proudly announce their lack of ideology by branding themselves as Independents-- capital I, a thing, a demo. He willingly lessens his independence to become part of a group.

mircea_popescu: but then again i lack the tools to find out.

mircea_popescu: i do not believe so.

mircea_popescu: tho i doubt many in the audience have the actual, proper mathematical understanding to grasp the MEANING of formalisms.

mircea_popescu: i am not arguing from my pov, but from the contrarian pov.

mircea_popescu: i think i must have recounted the story.

mircea_popescu: ascii_field and at about the same age, i wanted to fight a lamb! headbutting ftw

mircea_popescu: at about age 5 i wanted to hunt a cow.

mircea_popescu: i can explain what scams are to wilful idiots until i fall over, it's not unlike trying to prevent storms by lubricating the water.

mircea_popescu: I totally don't know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960." ☟︎

mircea_popescu: bwahahaha, ok : ""But that book was written in 1908. Based on what I've seen on Downton Abbey, things were a lot different then."

mircea_popescu: lol meanwhile @tlp, "I'm starting to wonder if the reason it is always pretty white girls who get kidnapped is that the media is the one kidnapping them."

mircea_popescu: "i prefer the term jewish-african".

mircea_popescu: i suppose the alternatively counter-cultural reaction would be to write in "no, and i'm not black, either"

mircea_popescu: anyway even in crust i suspect mg might be higher.

mircea_popescu: i wouldn't put it past them.

mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea how they do this, either. maybe they discovered cold fusion and are keeping it quiet. maybe they're burning tibetans for heat. fuckall knows, but there they sit.

mircea_popescu: i would about 100x rather use a deedbot-based system. and i don't think something like that is usable.

mircea_popescu: the sad truth is that the requirements of safety and concurrency run into problems of time. there's a reason bitcoin blocks are 10 minutes long, and i fear i'm going to end up having to fundamentally redo the whole shebang.

mircea_popescu: i get that this is unhelpful at best, but a) making specific error messages is not trivial, and b) the alternative denomination would be something like "generic error message" which whatever.

mircea_popescu: jurov : i know. working on it, but it's not a trivial problem sadly.

mircea_popescu: - not the patients, it-- an easy mark for con men with their own agenda: SSI, the justice system, gun control, schools, whatever. "It's called a confidence game. Why, because you give me your confidence? No: because I give you mine." Take a minute, think it through."

mircea_popescu: i think you still gotta be somewhat rich to make chacarrita

mircea_popescu: * kakobrekla suspekts there will be more Things before there are less Things <<< i am of the hope that we're done with things and will be a proliferation of subthings. because fuck me if i'm going all the way into microbiology to fix computing.

mircea_popescu: jurov aha. monstrous. but what can you do ? i've been trying to "manage" the issue / pretend like it's not an issue but got efficiently (and righly) uprooted at every step.

mircea_popescu: then came part 2, when the kids i was staying with were "omfg you went into a pub ordered a drink ?!?!?!?!"

mircea_popescu: i was like.... what the shit, is this like with wine, you brought me a little to sniff it ?!

mircea_popescu: culture shock, largest i ever encountered : 17 yo me in london, goes into pub orders a drink. they bring him... im not even sure what it was, a thimbleful.

mircea_popescu: i don't even drink that much.

mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, i keep taking these dumps roughly in the shape of horse penis

mircea_popescu: but i suspect more because, peasants.

mircea_popescu: i never used it.

mircea_popescu: i honestly liked this stuff better a decade-two ago back when donna was doing it in between being hassled by police

mircea_popescu: "i saw a naked lady in the street - i have nothing to say to her but i'd like to talk to my friends ABOUT her"

mircea_popescu: god damned i want this guy to write for qntra already where is he!

mircea_popescu: in unrelated not-news, ""For the past two weeks Sandberg was anywhere nothing useful is happening, and I'm going to include Facebook in that. Some cry-baby over at Jezebel was thrilled that Sandberg was featured all week on Access Hollywood, holy Christ, she thought this was a good thing. "Feminism is back in the mainstream in a big way," she wrote, I assume in between quaaludes, "the women's movement is actually movi

mircea_popescu: i guess.

mircea_popescu: anyway, cockring and flag in asshole guy will make a great daddy i'm sure.

mircea_popescu: Of course I'm not happy about this, I like smart people, but that's the new reality. There was a time where women went to college to get an MRS degree, and I am telling you that that time is today, there is nothing else of value in there. Sure, some college women go on to become doctors and CEOs, and some go on to become child pornographers and Salon writers, none of those things have anything to do with what happene

mircea_popescu: orly, neurosis is the answer ? i had no idea anyone even asked the question!

mircea_popescu: "But if Echo was no longer a projection, she was still a reflection. Echo, like all women, offered her man a peek inside his soul, all he had to do look: What kind of a man am I, that attracts this kind of woman? What kind of a man am I that attracts the kind of woman who only likes me for how I look? Despite how I treat her? What kind of a man am I that only attracts the kind of women who like me for X? Is it b

mircea_popescu: i think he always was a chinese woman.

mircea_popescu: at some point at that age i used to go trouting in this stream. the trout likes to sit under the rock sort-of mid evening, you can catch it with your hands just loop either end in.