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mircea_popescu: perhaps try and help mod6, he's doing a ton of different things, maybe he has time later today/this week to give out discrete tasks
mircea_popescu: i still haven't figured out if he loves immutable (ie, tar) or else volatile (ie, party bits).
mircea_popescu: jurov thinking about it, the non-people's desire to not-exist is pungent. palpable. yet they keep getting their ways out denied, "oh, war is bad", "oh, suicide is the wrong answer" or blablabla. can't even lick lead paint anymore, can't ride without helmets, honestly we deserve everything we get for stubbornly keeping the dead alive against nature and its own fucking wishes.
mircea_popescu: i suppose actually the eachday.txt is the log already.
mircea_popescu: why not ? could just make directory structure like trilema does it, by year/month/eachday.txt
mircea_popescu: you know, 100mb every day ? what is this, the blockcain ?
mircea_popescu: wasn't that your idea ? that in fabled south america people didn't actually invent the telenovela ?
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> less show-offy, more 'vertical' social life << jurov you are fucking crazy if you imagine the thirld worlders are BETTER at being real. they all got tvs over here. every god forsaken favela in brazil, salta, what have you has a tv. no fridge, but tv.
mircea_popescu: i would expect less than 1% odds of them ACTUALLY being sexual assault, and perhaps as little as 5-10% of them being some sort of contravention.
mircea_popescu: except claims of "Sexual assault" made by a native english speaker are very likely false.
mircea_popescu has observed dildo and paraphenalia rain out of window on campus b4.
mircea_popescu has a pre-made noose in this very house! nice thick rope too.
mircea_popescu: you wanna tell me an entire campus never does erotic asphyxiation ?
mircea_popescu: analmaster and tghere isn't , becausw really, who gives a shit what the agitprop machine "says".
mircea_popescu: they gotta pull stories multiple times a day each day by now huh ?
mircea_popescu: (legal precedent :
http://trilema.com/2013/the-endless-story-of-korea/#selection-81.0-81.349 aka "Plaintiff seeks to make his case solely upon the theory that, by reason of the change in the weight of the dollar he is entitled to $1.69 in the present currency for every dollar promised by the bond, regardless of any actual loss he has suffered with respect to any transaction in which his dollars may be used. We think th
mircea_popescu: "does this mean i sell the government a truckload of pork and it pays me for it three times ?" "no dummy, it means that if you do enter into a contract with them to sell them one truckload of pork you a) will never get paid and b) will have to deliver three truckloads. yearly. daily. fuck you!!1"
mircea_popescu: exactly. ie, the usg needs, for continued survival, to count all its money TWICE
mircea_popescu: "More substantively—and this is what I want to focus on in this post—“paying” for highway spending with Fed capital is not paying for it at all in any economically meaningful sense. Rather, this maneuver is a form of budgetary sleight-of-hand that would count funds that are already designated for the Treasury as “new” revenue."
mircea_popescu: " but they find easy money too seductive, and S. 190 goes down in flames before a horde of political activists chanting that easy money is sound, and opposing it is racist, nazi, ignorant, and generally hateful"
mircea_popescu: "The House voted Thursday to pay for planned highway construction by drawing on the Federal Reserve’s capital. The idea of using Fed capital to pay for government spending, which comes up periodically, is a bad one, for several reasons."
mircea_popescu: oh check it out, he's gonna be the next best thing to a super secret service agent aka "practically james bond" : he's gonna be a ~practically~ secret service guy!
mircea_popescu: well because i can't stand the bullshit "will to power" prose of the derp, either.
mircea_popescu: see ? i could read the whole thing through because also horses!
mircea_popescu: that it never came is to my eyes proof that, willing or not, you ARE redoing galois by hand, alf.
mircea_popescu: i confess i was reading all through the (very fine!) tlp piece on narcissus expecting a kafka reference at any point
mircea_popescu: anyway : kafka is exactly right, and this is where the siren story meets narcissus' story.
mircea_popescu: inept kids just imagine "art was revolutionezed and the old thrown out". not so, but who can be arsed to discuss the matter with novices in their terms.
mircea_popescu: it IS, btw, a very fine understanding of the matter at hand. it is in things such as these that we (ie, actually cultivated folk) recognize that people like kafka, or nietzsche, or picasso or who have you actually IS a master, who just chooses to go at it differently.
mircea_popescu: the problem with kids reading above their paygrade (which is to say, the sort of typically ustardian kid who, instead of coming at it plainly and getting trampled AT HIS LOWER LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING protects his ego through "ironicity" and interacts with the written excrement of great forefathers at a time when it's safe to do so [ie, afrter the "death of the author]) is that they ALWAYS misinterpret the silences.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you've perhaps noticed me doing a credible impersonation of the old fart yest i imagine.
mircea_popescu: and boy oh boy does it require atomic dirigible ciclotrons.
mircea_popescu: i confess this is perhaps my foremost area of research at the present time
mircea_popescu: And “social goods” is how we got to be surrounded by idiots and their trinkets to begin with. << yet again and again it comes back to the name of the rose, and the old monk's hater of laughter.
mircea_popescu: you know the reason everything was steel in the 70s was because they couldn't mold plastics worth a shit yea ?
mircea_popescu also had occasion to hold one of these in house of avid gamer
mircea_popescu: And I hear Buterin just got 44,000 BTC smarter." << lol alfie massacring the priesthood.
mircea_popescu: "I never knew Pirate were a shining star of brilliance and intellectual depth…
mircea_popescu: they even have pavlovian responses to it, like a sort of "privately run bell", salivation begins.\
mircea_popescu: ascii_field aptly named, but no : for the underclass "gc" means "gift certificate"
mircea_popescu: otherwise, every time in an islamic country i was everyone's best friend on account of the magic my passport could wreak at the "special shop for foreigners".
mircea_popescu: <PeterL> Is it more insulting to offer wine to Muslims << this is not insulting to muslims. it is only insulting to 3rd generation americans who pretend mulsimity to fill the existential void.
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> Amazon GC ? <<< every time i see one of these marketed i grin. because i know about eulora, and they don't, and somehow the fact that the swarm loses out pleases me.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> I support Dr. Carson << so soes every other reasonable / educated / middle class guy i know in there. which is how i know he doesn't have a chance in hell.
mircea_popescu: also i saw a man today showering out of a bucket, in front of someone's house. this man... he had tits. and i'm not kidding around, he had a pair of d's on him no girl'd be ashamed with. except they were in the ridiculous shape of manboob
mircea_popescu: punkman is that the archive.is stuff or the imo bullshit alexa thing ?
mircea_popescu: it IS an app. seriously, you had an expectation apps work ?