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mircea_popescu: anyway, apparently pearl s. buck did an anglo water margin
mircea_popescu: looks more like some sort of windows "hacking tool" by the idiotic "try everything n times"
mircea_popescu: except they're arabs in exactly the sense reddit's populated by computer experts.
mircea_popescu: which, incidentally, i met aplenty in the arab lands. and they ~match spandrell_ 's ideas of "arab"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile irl, islam is about him dieing with a fucking explosive towel wrapped around his head, as a 37 yo virgin.
mircea_popescu: so, dickless beta whiteboy figures "islam" is "all about making all men equal", so he'll get a wife from allah.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform please please like what i like omaygerd.
mircea_popescu: spandrell_> whites prefer arabs to chinese << this is very true. chinese womenz aren't hawt. what can i do.
mircea_popescu: it's not really common in egypt, they usually wear that misr style hair cover thing, like jesus' mother.
mircea_popescu: there's some subtext there, talk to locals sometime they miught explain it.
mircea_popescu: the secret story of iran being that a large not-really-arab community is being oppressed by a buncha arabs.
mircea_popescu: i bet you that if your car broke down and you had to use someone's phone, you'd rather do it in isfahan than chicago.
mircea_popescu: you have any idea how "the irish" looked from staten island cca 1900 ?
mircea_popescu: ah, well... distress immigration is never a good measure, my good man.
mircea_popescu: ok ok but i mean... there's whores in cairo ; more than in berlin for sure.
mircea_popescu: what exactly is your exposure to this "arab" thing, because i'm starting to suspect maybe it's all livresque.
mircea_popescu: anywya, i didn't study any, picked off hos, like any other language.
mircea_popescu: spandrell_ you think english is a better culture language than arabic ?!
mircea_popescu: i guess i am hostile enough, so maybe not a good example.
mircea_popescu: in my head it sits on the same shelf with "the country of africa"
mircea_popescu: these aren't jews right ? arab's one thing ; islam's another. do you mean muslims ?
mircea_popescu: i've heard the same said of, in no particular order, women, computers, day old chicks, dogs, hungarians, germans, actually i tire of the list, it's universal.
mircea_popescu: depends how much money you have, i guess. but yes, publishing for a living is, definitionally, being a bureaucracy hanger-on.
mircea_popescu: i find it hard to believe anyone gives a shit, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: eh, the english notion of "evil" by now roughly maps to "not entirely boring".
mircea_popescu: spandrell_ looky : the publishing thing works (marginally) if you get book deals. from macmillan or whoever the fuck still does it. they pay you a few thousand, kinda measly, and maybe royalties but not really.
mircea_popescu: he was rescue-married like a little bitch and there he goes, raising some woman's children, and no doubt pleasing her.
mircea_popescu: so, too lazy to stick with law ; had "high traffic" website, which he parlayed into a coupla books which i suppose sold a coupla thousand copies, or w/e enough to pay rent for a coupla years. and then...
mircea_popescu: course you might consider shitting it directly. rather than going through this complex process with pdfs.
mircea_popescu: well... if you're awesome like that i guess 5k shouldn't be too hard.
mircea_popescu: but think about it! what sad sort of bro culture is this where you put as much work into the book as a reader into the reading!
mircea_popescu: spandrell_ you notice how this isn't actually related to what i say ?
mircea_popescu: trinque major in chinese acrobacy and irish clowning, 100k debt ?
mircea_popescu: a) sub hour per page is hardly a book is it ; b) minimum wage is still minimum wage ; c) you've ever sold 1000 anything before ?
mircea_popescu: finished with a useless degree, and is now trying to ... sell things on etsy.
mircea_popescu: the etsy chick is this imbecile female that instead of getting raped and loving it, listened to her stupid mother,
mircea_popescu: this is basically the etsy plan. you know what the etsy chick is ?
mircea_popescu: you'll get what, 30 to 50 cents a copy. most of what you see will be the advance, which is what by now, a grand ?
mircea_popescu: what exactly are you trying to get writing it though ? money ?
mircea_popescu: i don't think you've experienced paranoia of quite this strength and vintage in all your born days.
mircea_popescu: of course by now we don't know whether this isn't an impostor :)
mircea_popescu: much like after-the-end people go around looting the walmart, not stocking the shelves.
mircea_popescu: moreover, post-world effect. i'm much better off picking up select 19yo children from otherr people than making them de novo.
mircea_popescu: now, ironically, i ~could~ make useful children. but i require items (such as an undisputed right to kill them) that i could also make, but can't be arsed to.
mircea_popescu: aite. i'ma need some time to get to that, seeing how i'm not going too fast through this one cuz we keep talking midway :D