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mircea_popescu: nah,
the amusing
thing about
the empire of
thin air is
that ~everything is "justified". it's never "here's some hot air", it's always "here's
two steps of correct deductions based on
the 3rd on
thin air"
a111: Logged on 2017-11-23 15:26 mircea_popescu:
the only fucking reason, point and selling characteristic of anglo college is "making money", and
there's no quantum below 1 million dollars.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-03 14:56 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-03#1745763 << my current reading of
the shoemaker is
that he was some combo of senility and 'tilt' (being under attack from ~all angles by
the empire, and unable
to do much of anything in
the way of genuine push-back )
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-03#1745783 << my read is
that he was genuine lee kuan yew, except not nearly as intelligent (nor fortunate) ; eventually collapsed under
the pressure of
the pointless maggot herd wanting what it wants rather
than what it needs aka "democracy".
☝︎ mircea_popescu: why
the fuck would standford give a dumb neet as much as a length of string "because
they need it" ? let
them need from
their fucking mother / community college.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-03 14:41 asciilifeform: 'only
terrorist conspiracytheorists,
toxicfacts' etc.
mircea_popescu: but
the good news is you can config your blogotron
to just suck out pastes and put
them in blockquotes itself.
tho i've not had mp-wp do
this
mircea_popescu: not all intelligent people find
the republic. some
that don't... "troll"
the imbecile public, ie, sopirla.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-03 10:10 mircea_popescu: "investigative" in
the sense of "here's half
the picture, let's hope
together
that a) you're not smart enough
to understand
the elements it's constructed out of are meaningless and b)
the areas it doesn't cover are meaningful". basically,
the EXACT nonsense as in "wash dc pizzeria scandal"/"#metoo" : free association game.
mircea_popescu: now i want
to link
to
the
thing in
this article and... where do i link
a111: Logged on 2017-11-15 18:19 phf: manual meaning
that i see a vpatch in any random place, i post it (obviously it benefits me, more content etc.)
mircea_popescu: "investigative" in
the sense of "here's half
the picture, let's hope
together
that a) you're not smart enough
to understand
the elements it's constructed out of are meaningless and b)
the areas it doesn't cover are meaningful". basically,
the EXACT nonsense as in "wash dc pizzeria scandal"/"#metoo" : free association game.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-12-01 22:42 mircea_popescu: in other news nobody cares about, usg.state's main asset in romania looks well headed
to jail. kovesi (special "anti-corruption prosecutor") lied about meeting various politicians (as part of usg embassy-directed
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-28#1743878 scandal).
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Cool, barring any problems
the
transit
time will be ~24 hours
mod6: yeah,
thx for msg'ing back; indeed, his pastes are gone!?
BingoBoingo: Anyone want
to put a bet against one bitcent for "Bitcoin passes 12500 (per '!~ticker --market all' VWLA) while I am enroute from StL
to Montevideo
BingoBoingo: Well, appears when
the booze is preventing new memory formation you get a lot of "WTF? Why no butt patting
the entertainment at work anymore"
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, imdb on lollobrigida : "She was
the daughter of a furniture manufacturer, and grew up in
the pictorial mountain village."
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> other
team's cheerleader bus, au naturel. exactly what
teh airmen meant by "tailhookers all weather attack" fliers dumped on area colleges. << An appeal of hanging out with
the old drunks in recovery is
that
their
time drinking often seems a sort of cultural cosmoline.
mircea_popescu: yeah, it was her. perfect chick for
the role, basically subsistence prostitute in ww2 italy.
then ended up in cinecitta.
mircea_popescu: bette davis is
this old woman playing cards with ghetto italians (sordi and i
think mangano ?)
mircea_popescu: actually, re-reading
the comments i know why i wrote it. because i didn't like
the implication
that "so what if liberalizing drugs leads
to
truck drivers being forced
to meth by economic pressure, fuck
them,
they're
truck drivers".
the idea being
that you never know who
the
truck driver is.
mircea_popescu: and for
that matter, why did i write
the original ? i had nfi when i did what
the future'd be like. SURELY it was no possible perception of value. but
this is merely an indication of just how fucking valuable
the whole
thing is, if it builds meaning upon itself in a manner
that defies imagination.
mircea_popescu: e split-second right before fight,
there's not enough brain in any skull
that ever passed
the woman's middle
to manage such ample feats. some
try, but why should i
take amphetamine
today
to compensate for having been lazy a decade ago ?
a111: Logged on 2017-08-06 16:51 mircea_popescu: (this point, in either "intern can progress" or "sit in forum and access meaning" presentation, is
the fundamental mechanism of both "rounders" and
that "poolhall junkies" cheapo rehack of it :
that
the dude playing can decide
the girl's future, a degree of magnitude above her own capacity.
take
that away -- it's not worth doing. and you sure as fuck ain't meeting
the head of ny law firm socially, and play $X with him so he g
mircea_popescu: the discussion re poker, EXACTLY same
thing. once
the buildup went away... no further point
to playing.
mircea_popescu: every gram of sweat off my brow, every keystroke magnified
thousandfold by
the passive value of accumulated history.
mircea_popescu: the problkem is
this : your fishing
today is in no way improved by your fishing yesterday.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the sea is rich ; but
the fisherman's stuck playing a loser game.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yet
the function remained, half
the kids born in berlin 1946 were russian.
mircea_popescu: that's
the problem with "modern war",
that its charming quality of yore became quite grotesque.
mircea_popescu: other
team's cheerleader bus, au naturel. exactly what
teh airmen meant by "tailhookers all weather attack" fliers dumped on area colleges.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman it never went. see...
take say
the early greek wars.
those dudes did essentially a society game :
the men stripped and cockwrestled on a field on a sunday.
the "defeat" of
the defeated was a
two phase game. phase 1, where
their line broke. phase 2, most important, where
THEIR WOMEN spread out for
THE OTHER GUYS. because fuck you loser. exactly how college football worked when it worked, you mean means you get
the
diana_coman: re not really extracts - I guess it's fair
to say it's not "extracts" but rather "charms out of" and
that certainly makes some sense; although it's
totally unclear how it went from conquering actively
to charming passively
diana_coman: and moreover,
that was said in 1898, not as if it's new or anything
diana_coman: there was no counter-argument
there;
those were scum;
the point was simply
that
this sort of scum is alive for longer
than it would be if not for
the warm/comfy "crowd"
mircea_popescu: (really, nobody ever wonders how come
the fishermen are always
the poorest demographic ?
the sea is so very rich!)
mircea_popescu: the lido gets sanded.
this is not up
to venice
to prevent. end of story.
trying
to live off civilization is exactly like
trying
to live off fishing, or off playing double-or-nothing at
the casino.
mircea_popescu: which is why
the british empire COULDNT prevent its own demise. nor
the current one. nor any other "highly organized civilised crowd".
mircea_popescu: it's 100% "making
the sun raise" by gesturing wildly at 5:15 am
mircea_popescu: diana_coman point isn't
that it extracts, point is
that it doesn't, not really.
that's what i'm saying,
that
the whole "whose existence is only rendered possible
through
the high organization of civilized crowds" is really VERY vulnerable, because
the high organization doesn't ACTUALLY cause or control
the extraction.
diana_coman: well,
the *what* it extracts is of course much more
telling of what
the
thing is
to start with; as for
the reasons
there... reason was as far as I understand it "they are better
than us because
they defeated us", can't say it's obviously "smoke and mirror"
mircea_popescu: were
the ww2 generals fighting ww1,
they'd have ALL been great military minds
mircea_popescu: yes, were you living in
the
time of your parents,
the strategy you came up with would have worked. you're not.
mircea_popescu: the one you're looking at, whatever it may be, won't
turn out
to be
the exception, either.
mircea_popescu: by
the
time
the plebs figure out "where
the party is",
the party just moved.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nothing about
the usd makes it best. no, it's dollars for
the same reason "eat at mcdonalds" -- worst horse in glue factory.
mircea_popescu: in
the specific sense
that by
the
time "you figure it out"
they're gone.
today, everyone wants
to go
to college.
today it's
too late
to go
to college. everyone wants a 401k ? guess what...
too late
to. and so on.
mircea_popescu: there's no fundamental reason for nicaraguan working abroad
to save in dollars ;
there was no fundamental reason for indian
to
think his kid must go
to school in london. smoke and mirrors, and
those are
terrible basis for one's life
mircea_popescu: everything else... just
trying
to. lasts while it lasts.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman
that
the republic is
the only economically stable
thing --
the extraction of
the smart.
mircea_popescu: (anyone remember
the derpage early 2000s in
the same venues
that
these days discuss "toxic facts" and "russian hackers" ?)
diana_coman: hm, by same
token life only ever survives (briefly) as an extraction engine, what of it
mircea_popescu: BECAUSE india credited london,
THEREFORE
the ~pretense~, idle and basless, of british empire.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman except here's
the biter :
the "civilized crowds" only ever survives (briefly) as an extraction engine.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-02 22:20 mircea_popescu: all of it, however wrapped, however excused, it's
the same
thing : we here in white man world are incapable of doing anything useful and don't wish
to see why
this'd make any difference.
mircea_popescu: so... you wanna work self-managedly, and are rich enough
to afford it, great! not rich enough
to afford it... stfu. pick one and only one.
mircea_popescu: now, obviously in
the particular case of "make crypto bit for eulora"
the problem evidently is
that such an item is more complex
than what worker usually workers.
this is
true, but also it was your idea, blocking also
that out.
mircea_popescu: but you can't argue both ends. it can't be "oh,
there's no jobs" and ALSO "i'm not doing
the jobs". unemployment office kicks you out, and so does everyone else, for good reason.
mircea_popescu: either way, low output means low value and dubious humanity.
that's capitalism.
mircea_popescu: if you're
too poor
to ownership share, need
to be paid in cash,
that means no options and no decisions and off
to work whore.
mircea_popescu: if you're rich enough
to make your own decisions, good, make shit on your own
time and in your own way,
that's ACTUALLY VALUABLE, get paid via ownership share.