mircea_popescu: n as customary.... who they are. America is a branded-identity nation, which means hearing yourself speak in not-your accent, with not-your vocabulary sounds very not-you, which is why when an American tries to speak French he feels self-conscious, but the Frenchman hearing it feels you aren't even trying. He'd be wrong, you are trying: trying not to become French."

mircea_popescu: he CIA learn as adults, are they all using different science? An American describes another American who is fluent in French as "oh my God, he's so smart, he speaks French and everything" but this statement is easily unmasked as a defense by getting him to describe a Frenchman who speaks English: "well, they all speak English over there." The bilingualism is robbed of the "intelligence" signification because it's see

mircea_popescu: it's not even a problem of references per se, is the fucking issue. "don draper", big fucking deal.

mircea_popescu: myeah. disentangling this dead dependency is, i will want to point out, just as much a cognitive nightmare as fixing shit to compile with inane gcc or w/e

mircea_popescu: they got a whole system down there i hear, hussies babymomma while derps fuck up linux and wash dishes in the buff.

mircea_popescu: what, you think systemd happened in a vacuum ?

mircea_popescu: ftr : i've been here over a year and i've not pinched a single butt (the plain variety - on the street, uknown - let's not get into perversion) because a) they're short and b) they're petrified.

mircea_popescu: "This is how I know that anyone who says, "If only I could live in Mad Men time where you could pinch a girl's ass and not get in trouble for it" is going to be way disappointed if a TARDIS shows up, because they wouldn't pinch them back then, either, not because they are afraid of trouble but because they are afraid of girls. Exhibit A: you know what a TARDIS is."

mircea_popescu: wait, we deny there's a climate ?

mircea_popescu: "That's the trick of Shame. "He's an attractive, wealthy, guy with a big penis (did you see it, ladies?) but he's not using it properly..." Brandon's sex addiction makes him very un-desirable, no one watches Shame and says, "wow, I want to be Brandon" and no woman says, "wow, I want to be with Brandon." The opposite is true for Tucker Max, who is popular with women, especially the very women that he "degrades." Now

mircea_popescu: really makes more sense for you to buy her a diamond than for her to turn tricks and bring you the money.

mircea_popescu: " Sex addiction rarely breaks laws so it can't be punished, and there's no God so the immorality of it is debatable, i.e. inconsequential. It must be a disease, that way other people don't want to catch it. All psychiatric treatment of constructed syndromes isn't about cure but about regression to the mean, where mean= cubicle drone. " not even, just... please believe that monogynous fambly is the only fambly and it

mircea_popescu: ddicts we see in movies and on the news are: rock stars, politicians, sports guys, CEOs. If you think about the demo primed to receive this depiction of lothario as sex addict-- women over 35, i.e. the demo for Shame-- sex addiction needs to be seen as terrible because it is terrible for them. It may also be terrible for the sex addict, but fuck you, we have a society to run."

mircea_popescu: "Take a look at Brandon. When media wants to depict a sex addict they depict the wealthy, the good looking, the powerful, the well hung. There are plenty of slimy basement dwelling janitor sex addicts out there, but they are represented as sex offenders. There are also plenty of gay sex addicts out there, but they are represented as gay. Both of you are dismissed, the world has no time for your nonsense. The sex a

mircea_popescu: a statically linkable one. etc.

mircea_popescu: whole thing is a trivial example of WHY usg doth not want a sane bitcoind, ie, a 700kb one./

mircea_popescu: could be a spv wallet even. it just checks for a speciffic address being paid, derived from the key.

mircea_popescu: "If you want to watch these invisible unconscious defenses play out right in front of you, in real time, in a real way, watch an adult American try to learn a second language.

mircea_popescu: you wanna be rich, get a better dad.

mircea_popescu: i assassinated buterin, lolski, derpersson, whoever. no need for a "market".

mircea_popescu: fade into an alt scam, a la keiser ?

mircea_popescu: <davout> "Bitcoin XT: a project run by two men << who are the men ?!

mircea_popescu: word. "why can't i quit pop culture ?" "because to you it's a solution, not a problem."

mircea_popescu: culture isn't a symptom of our dying society, it is its heroic measures."

mircea_popescu: "There is no information there. It is there in order for you to talk about it-- so you have something to talk to others about, through a screen darkly or face to face, because if it weren't for these meaningless media stories which includes all partisan politics people would have nothing to say to each other, and society's collapse into hikikomori narcissism would be total. Which is why it is correct to say that pop

mircea_popescu: "The Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, Nev., has come under scrutiny since one of its patrons suffered an actual heart attack while eating a Triple Bypass Burger there earlier this week."

mircea_popescu: stop giving feminism a bad name.

mircea_popescu: yet i am a self-deluded imbecile, who imagines she still has something to say in spite of that.

mircea_popescu: "Disclaimer: I am not a kernel programmer, so I may have am certain I have misinterpreted some of the technical aspects of Linus’s original post."

mircea_popescu: EVEN IF they find some way to "fix it" what they'll have found is a way to make empty bottles fake fullness for longer than anyone'd care to inquire.

mircea_popescu: this acting like every vessel that didn't happen to get a soul at fill-up is nevertheless full and should be given attention... sigh.

mircea_popescu: this fuckhead should have been getting atomic whirlies and shitwedgies for 20 hours a day until he killed himself aged 15.

mircea_popescu: "I'm an economics major who doesn't know what the hell he is going to do for a career after graduating, and frankly doesn't feel qualified to do very much. I went into university thinking that I would try for medical school, but I was one of those kids in high school who got good grades without trying very hard, and my nearly non-existent study habits have left me with a C average, although even that has been slipping

mircea_popescu: (to mr pig, to mrs cow and up the girl's butt, a pickle)

mircea_popescu: (to the gent, pork, to the lady, veal, and to the miss in the back, a pickle.)

mircea_popescu: is broadly intended to mean "in the manner of a slightly-derogatory old style word for female" ?

mircea_popescu: i watched it because of tlp's idiotic fixation on basinger and an insistence on "white heels". a) she wears no heels at all ; b) she is as hot as my doorman.

mircea_popescu: the mistress is a very important surogate for the functional (ie, 3-4 wives) arrangement. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: i am of the firm belief that an adult male with wealth and a monofambly is a liability to both the wife and the children.

mircea_popescu: pp is like a sort of tgi fridays or w/e that thing it's called, a fastrestaurantfood.

mircea_popescu: (hint : if they do they're gay and think you'd make a great gf)

mircea_popescu: give someone a tie see if they wear it.

mircea_popescu: "Not even the girls will condescend to it, and if you can't sell fashion goods to the girls, you can't sell the goods." << fun fact, ties are a purchase mostly controlled by women. JUST LIKE HIGH HEELS,

mircea_popescu: there's also a bunch of chicks that are kinda worth fucking that will be old before i get around to them