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mircea_popescu: "I'm pretty sure that's Charlize Theron, not Scarlett Johansson." And I'm pretty sure they're the same person, and just because now she's Rachel Maddow doesn't mean she's serious.
mircea_popescu: l poison your toothpaste. Be careful: the point is not that a woman shouldn't post her baby pictures, the point is that the system cannot profit from her baby except as a photo, so that in order to get them to do it more-- to be online more-- the system teaches them to overvalue the photo; and this must necessarily be at the expense of the object itself. #porn."
mircea_popescu: "In the world where the media postulates social media as an absolute requirement of the modern era-- the era where everything is fetishized-- no one is permitted to make the distinction between a value and the picture of a value, they are made equivalent, so daring to criticize Randi's baby pictures is made to sound like misogyny or misobaby. It's not. I love food but if you ask me to look at a picture of a food I wil
☟︎ mircea_popescu: who the fuck came up with gyms and why the fuck would you want the women working out outside the home.
mircea_popescu: well, just like in a movie : actor threatens the other actor AND the audience, but can't really hear the audience.
mircea_popescu: well you know, small kids. their relationship is to mom.
mircea_popescu: "what, drive a wedge between the people and the governmentoregulating fruiting body ? WE OWN THE PEOPLE1!11!"
mircea_popescu: while trying to take advantage of the consumer's disinclination to use it
mircea_popescu: "no, i'm sure it's just a crazed ruiu acting alone". obviously.
mircea_popescu: why not just program re-runs of obama's sex tape if this is the level of effort.
mircea_popescu: so wait, now that they lost "cryptoexpert" bruce whatshisname, and the entire zimmerman angle didn't work, the plan is to bring the deceased husk of esr back to complement the recently stolen cryptome into some sort of bitcoin-foundation-3.0-except-with-more-gunk ?
mircea_popescu: "apple store has 68765985897 games this year, up 0987985698 from 54897658976598 last year"
mircea_popescu: pale white, no apparent stalk, if dried readily crumbles / grates
mircea_popescu: ok, so i've made pilaf, and included a random mushroom found in china town. it's roughly speaking like a loofah.
mircea_popescu: they ran out of costumes that fit gavin, moved on to whatever sand niggers ?
mircea_popescu: "people transacting without involvement from the ministers would be tantamount to the uk government being irrelevant!!!"
mircea_popescu: o hey check it out, ghetto island pretending like it has legislative pwoer and shit ?
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> though i grant that some actors only have one character, but we shouldn't even know the names of such fungible plebes << like who, bogart ?
mircea_popescu: "It is a kind of extreme method acting; call it ironically absurd behavior." << i knew "method acting" was fucking stupid the moment i heard of it
mircea_popescu: What you don't see is that this logic isn't even self-justifying, it is self-destructing. Not "since I have sexual problems, I wish I had the drug"; but, "since I wish I had the drug, I have sexual problems." Since I wish I had the drug, two hours have already gone by. I'm staying in tonight.
mircea_popescu: rdis, then I would know how to pilot it. If such a drug existed, then my sexual problems would all disappear.
mircea_popescu: Because picturing yourself exerting power is fantasy; imagining yourself as victim is easy. Which is why you brought this all up. You spend a lot of your waking life creating elaborate fantasies of power that contain their own self-justifying logic, and those fantasies are so numerous that added together they actually take up a real portion of your day. A portion you're not spending on something else. If I saw a Ta
mircea_popescu: which takes us round circle to viagra : yeah, i don't take it either. because i happen to be satisfied with the sex. because the women i fuck rock. because etc.
mircea_popescu: stop throwing the motherfucking curve. have some productivity enhancement.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "productivity enhancing software", the surefire halmark of people who aren't productive and don't wish to be.
mircea_popescu: "my immunity from gunfire is 7k shots a week, how high is YOUR level of gunfire immunity ? over 9000 ?"
mircea_popescu: what they do is go empty magazine after magazine in the worship of "look see, even THIS great gun can't hit anyone".
mircea_popescu: i take it as a personal point of pride that i've yet to discharge a weapon and NOT HIT SOMETHING.
mircea_popescu: which is why "gun control" is even a thing : gun owners are its biggest advocates.
mircea_popescu: he wants to take the "spear that will pierce any shield" and fashion it into a shield that will stop any spear.
mircea_popescu: which is why "if you fuck it it only gets heavy and you still can't hit largest side of barn" does not deter him. nor even occur,.
mircea_popescu: the secret hope of boi with stupid shit stuck on all sides of rifle IS NOT that he can now go shoot people.
mircea_popescu: what they want is to be recognised BY OTHERS as, and this is important :
mircea_popescu: the problem isn't that they want something. they do not. they pointedly not only wish not to have it, THEY WISH IT TO NOT EXIST. because it scares them like penis @ little girl.
mircea_popescu: "more useless appearance of the desired thing for less work".
mircea_popescu: and no, this is not how steroids work, either. this is how you/people WANT them to work.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> MOAR return for GIVEN amount of discipline. << this is fundamentally how it doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: fine, one would not refuse to use a condom because it's not their own cock!
mircea_popescu: similarly, if you ask america to vote, ( ) balance the budget ; ( ) replay the 90s, guess ?
mircea_popescu: or if you ask tlp, they're doing it TO AVOID something like this.
mircea_popescu: or moreover for adults seeking to relive 5yo-dom being a tad regressive ?
mircea_popescu: not having access to the stuff of being ficve years old ?
mircea_popescu: "oh i've been raped". no, you haven't, you were whoring out. "but nobody asked me" yeah, they did. "i'm just here for the free food" well... enjoy the extra protein. actually natural.
mircea_popescu: no but looky, there's fifty people eating in a free fast food joint, except the rule is that when the music stops the cook comes out and picks a patron to suck his cock.
mircea_popescu: "This is the whole gimmick of media, not polar but triangular, right, left, middle, mobilizing an army of assonauts to feel strongly enough about something that they don't do anything."
mircea_popescu: it's really very much an open topic, which is why the "evidence based" court's bitch goes all in for "mri scans!"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field imo they answered alright. nature works in the following way : the punishment is the deed. those people who bought into it got their life ruined.
mircea_popescu: jurov yes, but the problem with the evidentiary based standard is that, well, the matrix. this is one of the biggest problems for young children, incidentally. what the fuck is going on!