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phf: (experience of The Combine as
a palpable thing for example, during his pranksters period turned into attempts at active manipulation of others, i.e. The Consensus, through Control, which pranksters called "putting them into our movie". if you can put them into our movie, you can make them read our lines. etc.)
mircea_popescu: probably have
a little oblast named for them in siberia, like the jews do.
mircea_popescu: ironically also better for yurp,
a russian-run eu would have worked where the german-run eu is barely screeching around.\
☟︎ adlai: "we've always been at war with Eurasia" is
a much more effective "WAR IS PEACE" than "we are still in the desert" (last line of Jarhead)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they'd have just abandoned europe like the whores that they are and under pressure they'd have stayed in
a better state of preservation for longer.
phf: one flew narrative is
a just
a vehicle for kesey to share his first explorations of acid altered perception, which are further elaborated on in electric kool-aid, second hand, by tom wolfe.
punkman: "When I said I want what my parents had, I meant loan-free education and
a nice house, not the looming threat of war with Russia."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i don't have
a straight answer, but i will say that having been in argentina for
a while now and having observed the assorted insanities they sport here, grouped for convenience under the "inseguridad" thematic, i understand
a lot more of the fate of the new world.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's
a path less traveled that should be. WHY is it that redskins in the continental us HAD TO be massacred ? is it because they "couldn't fit" in its future, somehow, mysteriously ? is it perhaps because white guys wanted the depopulation to support higher wages and liberty [aka the fronteer lifestyle] ? is it perhaps because the wives of farmers "didn't feel safe" with them around ?
mircea_popescu: the fact that they can actually jointly own it just fine is
a stronger indictment of the female-mitigated insanity than anything else could ever be.
punkman: book ending: "With Tyler gone, the narrator waits for the bomb to explode and kill him. The bomb malfunctions because Tyler mixed paraffin into the explosives. Still alive and holding Tyler's gun, the narrator makes the first decision that is truly his own: he puts the gun in his mouth and shoots himself. Some time later, he awakens in
a mental hospital, believing he is in Heaven, and
trinque: take
a couple of buildings down and utopia!
mircea_popescu: all i see is disproportionate violence (note that mcmurphy doesn't set fire to the fucking hospital - heck he doesn't even LEAVE when he has the chance, because reasons.) and disavowal (really, the voices in your head told you to, maybe, who knows ? what are you,
a dumbass us girl that has to get herself drunk to be able to have sex ?)
mircea_popescu: to me fight club is merely
a coupla stages down. "we're lost - infantilism is always
a refuge".
adlai: fight club's message, otoh, is
a bit more in the "this is how you win" direction, rather than just "here's
a problem, have fun dealing with it"
mircea_popescu: the film does
a better job of this as
a film than the book does
a job of it as
a book. arguably this is because film has less space to do it in ; countrariwise, film is more of
a "tower of babel" sort of artifice, so it's harder to get anything done.
mircea_popescu: way i see it both try the same thing, in their own medium : describe the doomed situation of
a society which has lost male force and is now going into castration mode at the hands of the decaying female biomass. it's
a failure mode of human populations, well known, well understood, amply documented.
adlai: the One Flew movie is
a great movie though, in its own right. it's orthogonal to the book
mircea_popescu: notably, he didn't hate it for any reason, other than being
a vocal leader in the "book was better" chorus ; and for the director very sensibly removing the chief narrator clingwrap.
adlai: what do you mean by "insulate the author"? ken kesey's writing process was
a rather uninsulated anthropological investigation...
adlai: well i guess mcmurphy is the "main character", but the book has
a narrator. i'm not sure i've seen
a movie yet where narration didn't interfere with the story
mircea_popescu: imo this is one of those situations where the better movie makes the book its bitch. yes the book is longer and goes into more detail, as
a book has space to do. but this is
a twin edged sword
adlai: the book is quite different from the movie, in that the movie merely tells
a story, whereas the book takes the slightest baby step towards actually placing you inside the main character's head
adlai almost wishes One Flew would've been
a mediocre movie, then maybe more people would read the book
thestringpuller: phf: that's fucking brilliant. also astute observation of why people send requests the day before
a vacation begins. funny how many disorganized people end up in an ofice.
thestringpuller: Is there
a reason everyone wants shit done like the day before you take vacation?
mircea_popescu: it's
a reasonable condition. iirc the bitbet thing was
a straight meeting of the minds, i wasn't going to do it with anyone else as treasurer anyway.
kakobrekla: if this was
a fiat company there would be no such issue
mircea_popescu: myeah. one classical problem the corporations were for is that usually ventures require
a lot of dedication, and people got lives to live.
mircea_popescu: but, and this general point remains, you don't get to, nor should you, exclude operational costs from efficiency calculations. after you factor in the $500 to replace your favourite pair of pants you always just so happen to be wearing at the time, plus the inconvenience at billable hour cost etc, suddenly the idea to switch to "modern, energy saving, efficient" bulbs looks
a lot closer to the insanity it is.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: punkman if it doesn't get up as much as before for
a few weeks the effect's supposed to go away.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, if you didn't know - this is pretty much the only thing where
a vacuum cleanner that was supposed to have its bag changed weeks ago is good for - but boy is it great for it.)
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 08:47:46; mircea_popescu: makes 0 sense. to be paid 500k when you die, even starting as
a 20yo man you'd have to do at least 500 bucks
a month in premiums.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> makes 0 sense. to be paid 500k when you die, even starting as
a 20yo man you'd have to do at least 500 bucks
a month in premiums. << Such deal are typically "term" policies expiring in 5 years
punkman: so one of those linear halogen bulbs exploded next to me and rained hot glass. almost got me even though bulb was facing the wall and had
a half-cylinder glass cover.
shinohai awaits
a cli or text-based Eulora client.
wyrdmantis: but i'm also looking to fire up
a linux box
wyrdmantis: waiting for phf to give
a mercyful hand :D
mircea_popescu: makes 0 sense. to be paid 500k when you die, even starting as
a 20yo man you'd have to do at least 500 bucks
a month in premiums.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you will note that the thing discussed in my article was health insurance, which is
a contingency sort of deal. life "insurance" has nothing to do with this, as everyone dies. as practiced it is moreover
a sort of heavily discounted investment plan\
pete_dushenski wants to at least imagine that this would be
a difficult and trying purchase experience.
pete_dushenski: token old fart dutifully chimes in "pete, you have
a kid now, buy life insurance !"
pete_dushenski: "If you make it half
a million you just happen to be at the cusp of what the scum perceives as "Oprah rich" and they just almost kinda go for it," << coinkidink of coinkidinks, the token insurance salesman in my choir has recently set his eyes on me and yesterday pitched me EXACTLY 500k of life insurance coverage in exchange for $25/mo.
pete_dushenski: "why is it that you expect your boyfriend introduce you to his friends ?" << missing
a 'to', mircea_popescu ?
pete_dushenski: "The cert, we're told, is used with the plugin for receiving cryptographically signed telemetry requests; said telemetry includes things like the machine's service tag,
a seven-character serial number that identifies the computer model, if not the individual machine."
pete_dushenski: "According to an analysis [PDF] by Duo Security,
a bundled plugin reinstalls the root CA file if it is removed. First, you must delete Dell.Foundation.Agent.Plugins.eDell.dll from your system (search for it) and then remove the eDellRoot root CA certificate."
pete_dushenski: "The rogue root certificate in new Dell computers –
a certificate that allows people to be spied on when banking and shopping online – will magically reinstall itself even when deleted."
pete_dushenski: lulziest part is how 'noahpinions' can't find
a single supporter who agrees with his dumb puppet mouth in the 124 comments. even the english-speaking male internetists knows enough to call
a fraud when it sees one.
mircea_popescu: but whatever, easier to write fiction than get
a job. like any fifteen year old with
a "backup plan" knows full well.
mircea_popescu: this figures way higher than "oh, president bahamas of london 1715 - what do you mean he didn't exist, not like he's
a recent invention dun be racist! - forced companies to pay more in wages which is why manna fell from the heaven as it certainly will now!!1"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the "productivity" claptrap is irrelevant. england just had
a good moat.
mircea_popescu: gotta be "companies", as if such
a thing even existed in any sense any recent derp would be familiar with.
pete_dushenski: . In the past, automation has always complemented human beings instead of making them irrelevant. That might change in the future, but so far the old pattern is still holding." << mr. 'noahpinion' on the history of innovation, in
a nutshell, and pretty much straight from his 'social studies 10' textbook. because that's where facts come from : the dumb mouths of high school teachers and the sputum-cum-textbooks t
BingoBoingo: Dose with
a calcium channel blocker prophylactically, risk abated
pete_dushenski: "if the community tells me my ideas are valuable,
a magic wand is waved and so it becomes ! and with it so too do i become
a real boy !"
gribble: brendafdez was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 34 weeks, 5 days, 7 hours, 24 minutes, and 3 seconds ago: <brendafdez> mircea_popescu it works now. Anyway the IP I'm on now is one of
a public AP, it shouldnt be whitelisted. I'll later give you my home IP, and BingoBoingo has my VPS IP already. I didn't know you were filtering.
gribble: Error: "gooogle" is not
a valid command.
trinque: "The mafia has
a bad reputation, but much of that's undeserved," says Gambino, who moved to Brooklyn in 1988. "As with everything in life, there are good, bad and ugly parts – the rise of global terrorism gives the mafia
a chance to show its good side."
pete_dushenski: and for the unawares, Stevan Jovanovich using 'rogers' email indicates that he's
a client of the country's largest telco, and that if his comment's place and content weren't sufficiently informative as to his demographic placement, he's almost certainly in his 50's.
BingoBoingo: <kakobrekla> have
a pic from 2012 when vision still worked hold on << That's some pig
hanbot: mircea_popescu you forgot
a step for pufuleti i mean profit
mircea_popescu: i dunno that anyone who isn't born in
a minor culture can ever enjoy this situation of "i am the only literate one of my people. literally."
mircea_popescu: other than the same-day homage thing, i would guess between half and two thirds of every romanian blog is either
a straight lift,
a bad translation or
a more or less hacky adaptation of either current or historical trilema.
assbot: Here's what you don't know or understand about Facebook : everything. on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1M69PXV )
assbot: I need some legal advice, because my roommate is
a paranoid imbecile! - The Something Awful Forums ... (
http://bit.ly/1TbqSrc )
kakobrekla: he wont move unless you break
a pumpkin in front of him
kakobrekla: have
a pic from 2012 when vision still worked hold on
kakobrekla: couple of weeks ago i saw
a pig so fat he could not see anything for last 2 years
trinque: the thumbs aren't very strong, but hey, it's
a start
mod6: anyway, i dunno, for me its
a toss up between For Whom The Bell Tolls &
A Farewell To Arms.
mod6: wow, look at that. thing has
a thumb.