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mircea_popescu: that's what i'm worried about, coal mines and oil wells. not the amazon/google/facebook/apple babyblue-chip bs.
mircea_popescu: "Fossil fuel companies risk wasting up to $2tn (£1.3tn) of investors’ money in the next decade on projects left worthless by global action on climate change and the surge in clean energy, according to a new report."
mircea_popescu: this guy should stick to cleaning floors or w/e he does for a living, exterminate rodents.
mircea_popescu: also "progressive" and "advanced" do not mean the same thing, they mean the opposite thing. so they're not interchangeable.
mircea_popescu: by definition of pep talk and archeology, there can not be an archeology pep talk.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside how they're not even wrong, too far gone off the map to even be wrong : what the fuck is with this mentally slow 12yo style of communication!
mircea_popescu: can't write on any topic without channeling one's 7th grade football coach doing a pep talk ?
mircea_popescu: "But if you’re in Walnut Canyon in 1150 A.D., these guys are totally amazing! They’ve got canals, stone buildings, and advanced ceramics. They were so far ahead of everybody they knew, that they are absolutely the smartest guys anybody has ever heard of. They’re the pinnacle of human achievement. They’re the Stone-Age Stanford. They’re the MIT of black and white pottery."
mircea_popescu: the whole population of yurp was less than the bay area. not to mention the land value.
mircea_popescu: moreover, at the time lavoisier was working on these things they had fucking kings!\
mircea_popescu: why should the great march of liberty stumble on ancient nonsense like laws that were perhaps valid in the middle ages, but no longer satisfy the needs of an ever progressing humanity ?
mircea_popescu: if marriage could change, if we've progressed past narrow views of the past on so many topics from what science means and how to collect data all the way to you name it,
mircea_popescu: no more of this sterile reinventing the same things over.
mircea_popescu: about damn time technology brings solutions to the actual pressing problems of manking
mircea_popescu: curious who ends up with the copyrights over particularly valuable genotypes.
mircea_popescu: all bread is made with "own vaginal yeast". wtf other yeast is there.
mircea_popescu: well, cobalt decay convincingly proves "nature" has a handedness
mircea_popescu: incidentally : thinking of the cobalt parity violation. somehow im reminded of the spin engine discussions last year
mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of clark gable, "a good whipping would benefit oyu immensely my dear"
mircea_popescu: ie, much better than now. the empire wants them to work, and will whip them just enough to actually get some work done.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: probably have a little oblast named for them in siberia, like the jews do.
mircea_popescu: should be pretty amusing to see how greece'd have looked in alt-history where CCCE dominated the small continent. "oh we won't pay".
mircea_popescu: ironically also better for yurp, a russian-run eu would have worked where the german-run eu is barely screeching around.\
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they'd have just abandoned europe like the whores that they are and under pressure they'd have stayed in a better state of preservation for longer.
mircea_popescu: punkman ironically war with russia would have been much better for the us than this crap.
mircea_popescu: i don't have a straight answer, but i will say that having been in argentina for a while now and having observed the assorted insanities they sport here, grouped for convenience under the "inseguridad" thematic, i understand a lot more of the fate of the new world.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's a path less traveled that should be. WHY is it that redskins in the continental us HAD TO be massacred ? is it because they "couldn't fit" in its future, somehow, mysteriously ? is it perhaps because white guys wanted the depopulation to support higher wages and liberty [aka the fronteer lifestyle] ? is it perhaps because the wives of farmers "didn't feel safe" with them around ?
mircea_popescu: punkman whadda you like about this ? the christic parallel ?
mircea_popescu: the fact that they can actually jointly own it just fine is a stronger indictment of the female-mitigated insanity than anything else could ever be.
mircea_popescu: all i see is disproportionate violence (note that mcmurphy doesn't set fire to the fucking hospital - heck he doesn't even LEAVE when he has the chance, because reasons.) and disavowal (really, the voices in your head told you to, maybe, who knows ? what are you, a dumbass us girl that has to get herself drunk to be able to have sex ?)
mircea_popescu: the notion that fight club is productive in any sense is pretty lulzy to me.
mircea_popescu: to me fight club is merely a coupla stages down. "we're lost - infantilism is always a refuge".
mircea_popescu: other than this mediated sort of approach, straight book-film comparisons are pretty meaningless anyway.
mircea_popescu: the film does a better job of this as a film than the book does a job of it as a book. arguably this is because film has less space to do it in ; countrariwise, film is more of a "tower of babel" sort of artifice, so it's harder to get anything done.
mircea_popescu: way i see it both try the same thing, in their own medium : describe the doomed situation of a society which has lost male force and is now going into castration mode at the hands of the decaying female biomass. it's a failure mode of human populations, well known, well understood, amply documented.
mircea_popescu: he never actually saw it. but he hated it, because "o noes, can't touch radioactive without chief brand mask!11"
mircea_popescu: notably, he didn't hate it for any reason, other than being a vocal leader in the "book was better" chorus ; and for the director very sensibly removing the chief narrator clingwrap.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, palahniuk loved the movie adaptation ; kensey hated it.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i dunno if you did this deliberately or not, but really, it's too smooth to not credit you with it.
mircea_popescu: i suppose all the lsd and mental hospital moonlighting are there because he's all secure in his dominion, right.
mircea_popescu: forman blessfuly caught on eventually that the personification of evil has to be familiar, not visibly "evil".
mircea_popescu: also mildly interesting, how that toothpaste-commercial-and-soap-opera extra got the nurse part.
mircea_popescu: anyway, stroke of luck mostly, god only knows what'd have happened if one of the douglas hack clan ended up with the role.
mircea_popescu: the chief narrator device is mostly there to insulate the author from tyhe material, best i can tell.
mircea_popescu: imo this is one of those situations where the better movie makes the book its bitch. yes the book is longer and goes into more detail, as a book has space to do. but this is a twin edged sword
mircea_popescu: i've just had the world's worst peach. what the fuck this tree should be ashamed of itself.
mircea_popescu: i know what you're saying, man. i fully know what you're saying.
mircea_popescu: it's a reasonable condition. iirc the bitbet thing was a straight meeting of the minds, i wasn't going to do it with anyone else as treasurer anyway.
mircea_popescu: most people don't know how to walk on two feet, meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: most people are used to getting raped by banks, and have enough respect to stfu and kiss the bloodied, dripping penis in thanks.