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mircea_popescu: apparently "goodbye" doesn't mean goodbye in EXACTLY
the same way no doesn't mean no.
mircea_popescu: or not even. fucking vogue, something. who even
thought rando what's-her-husbands-name is important in
the 60s ?
mircea_popescu: but i mean, REMARKABLY fucking idiotic. dude's idea was
that rando movie star is important, on
the basis of i dunno, all he ever read was vanity fair i guess
mircea_popescu: "what did
they have in crankcase ?" you ask ? drugs, man.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 20:34 mircea_popescu: incidentally, can anyone recount
teh helter-skelter charlie mason scenario of risk,
the game of world-diplomacy and international intrigue ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile however
the 90s
turned into
the 00s and in
turn into
the 10s and well...
mircea_popescu: anyuay,
the quoted piece from a 1990s bit from a local landlord. as such it reflects
the predominantly hopeful mood of
the landed gentry at
the
time "yes, it's a downturn portion of a cycle but
that's what cycles are".
mircea_popescu: the "web 2.0" "mobile" etc "revolutions" however failed
to catch, so its port is getting sanded as we speak.
mircea_popescu: sparked off accidentally with actual gold,
then supported pre and post ww2 by
the choice of film industry
to move away from
the mob rackets (and
they succeeded, when
the mob caught on and
tried
to invade
the movie folk got
the usg
to
tear it a new hole) and finally post 1960 by
the ic folk.
mircea_popescu: california exists principally out of having (accidentally, but nevertheless) well managed
the gold rush.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 15:01 asciilifeform: for some reason
the beautiful equatorial mild valley bananistans, never grew anything in
the way of interesting ~people~
mircea_popescu: if
that nonsense were
true costa rica would consist of 50% of
the world's
tech minds.
gabriel_laddel: I was computing so
they stuck me into mental.. no charge
mircea_popescu: i
think
this
takes
the cake. yo why
TRIPLE on/off login wtf is
this
mircea_popescu: i guess actually
this'd be
the best approximation for
tmsr currently, at
that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform quite. whereas where
the smart azn kids wanna go is into
the firms "retired" ex gs doods start.
mircea_popescu: if
they had a kickbacks scheme with eg stanford bs i would be utterly unsuirprised.
mircea_popescu: ~every chinese mba i ever met however remotely wants
to work for
three-white-names-you-never-heard-of financfial firm.
mircea_popescu: makes me suspect entirely engineered item, it dun stand up
to plain reading.
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck would anyone with
two neurons
to rub
together ~actually want~
to work for costco is impossible
to divine. it's a dead, commoditized item,
that's like research physicist desiring
to work at cnc mill. wtf
to do
there ?
mircea_popescu: at least if he's poor --
then some sort of kowtowing could perhaps be instilled. and even so...
mircea_popescu: azn with 1mn
to
throw around is like salt for
the ivy mills.
mircea_popescu: throws
the curve. same reason kids dun want mp
to move into
their class.
mircea_popescu: that's why
they're quotas in
the first fucking place : undesirable activities, harmful for everyone. if
they weren't,
they... wouldn't be quotas, holy hell.
mircea_popescu: tell you what,
the pancreatic cancer quotas are routinely exceeded each year since 1972 also!
mircea_popescu: since i'm supposed
to believe
that "quotas are exceeded" is some kind of argument.
mircea_popescu: in other "lottery winning", for
the past half hour while
taking shower i've been mulling over
the dilemma of whether i can be arsed
to go over
to fine restaurant have
their absolutely fabulous porterhouse or not really.
mircea_popescu: but as
the old saying goes, "if anyobne's selling it, you don't want
to buy it".
mircea_popescu: the "lottery"
theory is very much in
the vein of "when one is born male, one gets advantages", ie, statistical retrofitting.
the past 30 years have well proven
that
there's no causality
there -- yes people who were born male i nthe past also coincidentally later developped into enviable positions. but
the maleness was not germane, as proven by
the sad scum
that is just as biologically male born
these days, and holds all
the p
mircea_popescu: "really feeling" as opposed
to, importantly, "not really" feeling. it's a matter of degree not of reality
that's being spoken
to
mircea_popescu: "Holy shit Freud is spelled with an e not an a ? I had been spelling it wrong all
these years and had no idea!"
BingoBoingo: At
the
time,
that stretch of street lacked shadow.
This part of Montevideo has comfortable shaded walks full of sycamores and scorching sun galleries.
mircea_popescu: well you know, works best if you get
them in
the shadow
shinohai: I hadn't heard
the
term "Pink Elephant" in years ... last
time was when I got a bunch of bennies
to make sobering up from 3 day binge easier.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's near
the closed zoo in Montevideo
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha! except it's a "school's
too hard" somatization.
BingoBoingo: When I saw it and
the zoo I wondered if maybe
they'd been
trilema'd
shinohai: Hey BingoBoingo
that little Pink Elephant guy was kinda cute.
BingoBoingo: The fucking sniffling spasm, What
the everloving fuck. Go home and leave polite society until you discover
the handkercheif.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, after meeting with accountant
tomorrow will likely publish first piece on developing annoyances with subsets of
the locals.
mircea_popescu: consider :
take chick
to restaurant, do
things
to her, on cam,
then put
the files on her buttdrive and have her carry it next
time you eat at
that restaurant.
mircea_popescu: then again i guess a good
third of all
trilema convos are about
that.
BingoBoingo: But in a world full of stoned brazilians, one has
to have a vice
to be
trusted, so
tobacco returns for now.
BingoBoingo: Anyways comparing/contrasting results of past
two years vs previous
ten makes
the case
mircea_popescu: but slavegirl is safe in
that "tell you what, how about i crack your skull open ?" is very... relaxing.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i wouldn't avise "free agents"
to
try,
that's for damn sure.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i was always suspicious of
this "could not" business. really, you can't ? << Well advised not
to. Once started who knows when stopping happens
mircea_popescu: well... kinda
the whole point of smoking, neh ? "it just... relaxes me, man" "and how do yo uthink it does
that ?" "i don't know,
there's some like brain receptors or something"
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 17:54 BingoBoingo: Also,
the local accent is beginning
to break into discrete works as opposed
to noise.
The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity
to listen
to a variety of local speakers one at a
time.
mircea_popescu: eventually once
there's no hidey hole for "i just can't help myself" and no fucking benefit
to binging whatsoever...
they can./
mircea_popescu: then comes
the first cold
turkey + beating & berating for it,
then
the second...
mircea_popescu: ran into
this lots of
times, most chicks are smokers, and most "can't" have a smoke like normal people without
turning into
their old x packs a day habit over
time.
mircea_popescu: i was always suspicious of
this "could not" business. really, you can't ?