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mircea_popescu: and the start and end of it all is, these atrocious fucktards, who think "sadly there's too many bars" and the whole surface of club in buenos aires would fit in one sane club in a sane place,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the whole charade is, government borrows, spends and taxes, creates cardboard "businessmen" that exist principally to have what to hang whenever needed and vorwarts!
mircea_popescu: so now "his" media, which obviously was cristina-friendly, pissed off macri, who won. and so they're going to have a falling out and the thing is going to be "privatized" or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: the reason is, that there was some dispute between city and federal government as to who should be paid. and this derp went whatevers, and never paid anything.
mircea_popescu: during which decade it paid NOTHING. nor kept any sort of auditable books.
mircea_popescu: the thing owes in taxes, if its own word is to be believed, about half a BILLION dollars for the past decade.
mircea_popescu: the local smartasses took over, and created "the largest agglomeration of slot machines in the world" in this circus tent on the grounds of the old hippodrome
mircea_popescu: so, one cristobal lopez is one of the country's greatest "owners". originally, there was a gambling boat made by some spanish company, taking advantage of the unclear jurisdiction situation and the inept and slow workings of the ar courts. they invested 10mn and took home 100mn the first year.
mircea_popescu: trinque ok, ima befoul the logs with this nonsense then.
mircea_popescu: phf i met tons of guys that went "yeah baby i'm ap roducer"
mircea_popescu: trinque quite unheard of here. whole fucking place is a socialist wet dream, nobody owns anything. did i recount the lulz of the local gambling baron ?
mircea_popescu: it's not "what you do, whether you make any money or not, ie work", but "how do you get the money, whether you do anything or not, ie, social-proof".
mircea_popescu: because apparently work doesn't mean iho what i thought it would.
mircea_popescu: local lulz here. tall blondy aspiring to be a stewardess wants to know where i work. "i don't work" "then what do you do ?" "whatever i feel like." she's thoroughly confused, enlists help. "how do i pay for things ??" "with money." "yes!!!". eventually girl that knows me rescues them, "oh, he's in finance". NOW they're satisfied! "omg you liar!11"
mircea_popescu: phf half the time it's not the schooled clever, which is just as well.
mircea_popescu: trinque not even signalling for cock. anti-signalling for male fears > 9000.
mircea_popescu: generally, better a clever girl that thinks herself dumb than a dumb girl that thinks she must be clever.
mircea_popescu: i'd much rather discuss the scrolls with them than with the others.
mircea_popescu: "the culture of clubsluts and sorority girls" beats any other female culture so far out of the field it can't even be discussed, wtf. you can take one of those and make her a fat borderline sleeve in six weeks. try the fucking other way around
mircea_popescu: phf i dunno fucking comprehend the disdain affected (perhaps to the point of believing themselves) by intellectual folk re the pro sluts.
mircea_popescu: (intromission in marine mammals doesn't work as in terrestrials. you'd prolly call it... milking.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, intelligence is an adaptive trait!
mircea_popescu: odds are he won't find the popular girls sexy or even interesting, and so on.
mircea_popescu: do that to a child, he'll have to... wait for it... adapt to the new environment!!11
mircea_popescu: hey, there's good arguments against moving to other place. your parents took you there neh ?
mircea_popescu: yes decision on part of dulapped. if you ever find an island of castrated males, you found an island of dudes who thought balls hang too heavy for comfort.
mircea_popescu: no dude. every place, the government it wants and earns.
mircea_popescu: fwis, nine tenths of everyone'd wear one of those penis shrinker thing and be kept in diapers by a crumb-like woman.
mircea_popescu: phf hey, and you wanted to teach a computer how to do it!
mircea_popescu: tmsr-chan now doing literary criticism master's degrees of all things.
mircea_popescu: phf anyway, take your time. mebbe alf watches it too and he can catch up with teh rest of the class!
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron> just like Obama can't be that powerful if he can't publicly have a harem << the excuse here would be that "he could if he wanted to - doesn't want to".
mircea_popescu: this happens to be a very strictly classical narrative, much to its merit, and adding to its valor. so find it.
mircea_popescu: phf "the singular act towards which all exposition leads and from which all conclusion follows". that's the classical climax. yes, modern and adultcontempo storytelling does not strictly follow classicism, just like they abandoned the unity of time and place. but the thing still is what it always was.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron doesn't matter because lemonde.fr isn't going around pretending like what you say matters!!!1eleventeen
mircea_popescu: holy shit is the internet braindead btw. fucking websites.
mircea_popescu: what's next, "the exciting bit" like changingminds.org ?
mircea_popescu: now tell me this. you familiar with the five stages of a narrative ?
mircea_popescu: if only god had the common sense ot include a hash with the material.
mircea_popescu: he has his idiosyncratic criteria, which fit the events. and change with teh events.
mircea_popescu: one of the best things to do after breaking up a strike/protest/other "democratic" bs is to isolater hte participants, beat the shit out of them and inquire wtf they thought they were doing there.
mircea_popescu: imagine leah's disconcert when teh republic pissed all over her face for JUSRT DOING HER JERB
mircea_popescu: anyway. there's little doubt, if nothing else for gm reasons, that the original #bible-a was rather anti-establishment ; and then got reshaped into something more tolerant once the wot involved ended up in power irl.
mircea_popescu: you're gonna be the best read smartest dude out here ? fancy that!
mircea_popescu: except the ridiculousness of such on the fucking internet... really ?
mircea_popescu: but this text was set aside as obscure by scholars as early as five centuries later.
mircea_popescu: (generally "original greek" refers to the septuagint, ie, the result of an effort that actually predates and likely likely caused christ, to translate the hebrew texts into greek. it was a committee affair sponsored by the ptolemaic autarchy in power in egypt.)
mircea_popescu: at least latin is by and large understood, as compared to ancient obscure alexandrine greek
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron even something like the vulgate (ie, jerome's ancient but otherwise very good latin version) would be useful
mircea_popescu: but hey, snatch intro scene made derpage on this theme fashionable among the crowd that'd later constitute the fight club electorate.
mircea_popescu: and by "early greek versions" of course he means some shoddy english commentary by some derp who in turn does not read classical greek.
mircea_popescu: "oh wait... i don't want anyone to fuck me... so... how about holding hands ?"
mircea_popescu: probably explains why the drones never seem to have any sex.
mircea_popescu: which is why and how lacan was a psychoterapist, but not a scholar.
mircea_popescu: therapy is always a subjective endeavour. the "therapist" is ~the wallpaper.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron these fucking derps with "the golden rule" already. /me turns the page.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, the self-important ignorant derps are amusing au naturel, but for the historian of ideas even more so!)
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as "real" therapy ; which is why unsurprisingly the charlatans are now predicating it on "empathy".