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mircea_popescu: there sits the chick, confronted with some vacationing kids, she has not the werewithal to ACCEPT their offer for a ride
mircea_popescu: phf think on just one thing : i also train women to be human. oft they get a task to talk to random people. they NEVER get a fucking task to memorize and recite random strings.
mircea_popescu: ONE GUY survived. but i had 1k+ of the things, and god damned i used most.
mircea_popescu: it did rock. i once won an attack by the fucking muttons with he.
mircea_popescu: but imagine if the fucking base was full of corridors omfg!
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you ever played x-com interceptor, which was a splendid game
mircea_popescu: so yes exceptions do exist. but the fact remains that the fucking reason you even take your base to the desert is to be free of this bs.
mircea_popescu: heck, most of ladri de biciclete, a1950s film, takes part in the underground vaults of rome.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure. but as far as cultural impact goes, the catacombs (ie, burial site in old city) were much more important.
mircea_popescu: (castle age is separated from cannon age by centuries, ftr.)
mircea_popescu: there were some tubes, used to throw rocks from very high parapets, later on
mircea_popescu: it has no such root. castles were expensive, because of the stone. ~nobody built anything without a very good purpose.
mircea_popescu: no fucking research facility, let alone super-whatever base is designed like that!
mircea_popescu: why, because that's what the imbecile making the movie saw in star wars ?
mircea_popescu: super-mega-ultra-splendiferous fucking advanced computabase consists mostly of fucking tunnels and corridors going nofucking where.
mircea_popescu: incontinent break of convention is the sign of ignorance.
mircea_popescu: if you'\re going to use the typically new york sewer escape scense
mircea_popescu: right. there's nothing wrong with artistic license ; or with artistic convention.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but they wore black on stage because invisible. there's good reason for this!
mircea_popescu: sweet innocent girl sitting next to me watching the apcs storm past the sewer was like "don't they know where the sewer is ?"
mircea_popescu: there's a very good reason the character wears black. there is no fucking convention re the open storm sewer in the desert.
mircea_popescu: what if the chicken plant 20 miles down has an accident and sends a 7 foot tall chickenshitsludge tsunami ? does your base smell of chicken shit for the next three decades ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck designs bases with open storm sewer into the desert ? what if it's a fucking rain, your base gets wet ?
mircea_popescu: a lot less humourless tedium and unselfaware, unintentional self-irony critting would have also helped.
mircea_popescu: and unlike there, they actually needed a waif someone could conceivably want to fuck, here.
mircea_popescu: much like aeron flux, this film sins because a) the chick should have been naked about 50% of the film more, ie 50% instead of 0% ;
mircea_popescu: yeah, well, at least the other one was vaguely funny and vaguely sexy.
mircea_popescu: fucking parochial ustardism, what's next, galleons are built through correctly making the sign of the corss, and starships through correctly reciting the sensitivity credo ?
mircea_popescu: seriously, "saying it in italian" is how you make super-secret-agents ?
mircea_popescu: it's a remake of the 5th element, except the new mila jovovich (that eskimo looking chick that played suzi q, the rape victim) is not up to the dumb blonde par ; and without bruce willis the whole thing decays into incredible ineptitude.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wouldja watch the savages movie ? then ima ellaborate on that basis.
mircea_popescu: mno. redditard claims he owns 43 btc and other things.
mircea_popescu: “I would never trust the legal system, frankly, to protect my family again,” Jeff Sikorski said.
mircea_popescu: "identified more than 70,000 untested sexual assault kits in the custody of more than 1,000 law enforcement agencies in communities large and small, pointing to a national accumulation of untested kits that likely reaches well into the hundreds of thousands across the nation’s 18,000 law enforcement agencies." << and check it out, the us has more "law enforcement agencies" than there are people who give a shit whether it li
mircea_popescu: by now the entire usg government is approximately a webforum.
mircea_popescu: "The couple was identified by authorities after they contacted undercover federal agents online about assistance traveling to Syria." ; "pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal terrorism charge"
mircea_popescu: ("A Michigan woman was arrested after she expressed a willingness to have sex with a pair she thought was a father and underage daughter, police said.", obviously. gotta keep teh gestapo fed. publish or perish!)
mircea_popescu: "vanilla shortage - icecream prices to increase" ; "fast food workers share things you should avoid"
mircea_popescu: jesus the headlines on usatoday, "17 yo michigan girl gets 10-20 years for plot to kill family"; "dad who murdered his kids to be executed wed" etc.
mircea_popescu: "fierce fighting" being, you know, people who stood a post for half an hour amirite
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller "Join the world's fastest growing platform for moving, converting, transacting and holding any form of money or commodity. Instantly, securely and for free." << if someone actually takes that sort of thing seriously...
mircea_popescu: diddled so after an hour of fuctioning or so they go into detecting overdrive.
mircea_popescu: speaking of detecting gear, one of the best geek gotcha april fools thing would be to gift scam geiger counters to friends
mircea_popescu: that proggy is still an exericse in inductive reasoning.
mircea_popescu: an ancient, and rather netwonian explanation of the difference is that deduction is all from god ; and induction from sensata.
mircea_popescu: you're thinking mathematical induction, perhaps, which has nothing to see with the logical concept of induction.
mircea_popescu: that's a deduction. you keep changing 2, that's your inductive job.
mircea_popescu: 1 : "p and q are in this n" ; 2 : "if q is this" then therefore 3. "p is n/this"
mircea_popescu: it is INDUCTIVELY accessible, if you have the time to induce all the needed factors. which we knew.
mircea_popescu: but in any case - "that's one crazy babe" is definitely complimentary.
mircea_popescu: phf quite exactly. which is why i don't use the term nor think much of reasonings employing it as a rule.
mircea_popescu: this definition was obtained through negotiation in class ; teacher had speech mania of saying "obvious", we protested, eventually the poor guy couldn't be needled into the ground with it so this solution was agreed upon and upheld by all parties.