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cazalla: oops, forget to remove tardstalk from that one (have
a longer list with other non news sites)
ben_vulpes: "failed to live...and impose their existence upon those children" << i'm
a bit confused about the "give up, make way for the next generation" attitude when put next to the "parents should impose their existence upon their children".
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 01:07:58; asciilifeform: presently tested against designated foreign 'orcs' (what do you suppose urban battallions in iraq was
a dress rehearsal for ?)
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 01:05:16; gabriel_laddel: Only
a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. when that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. that I belive is our basic function: to develop altenatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.
gabriel_laddel: I've nothing else to say. Your grasshopper article coupled with the rabbits exposition covers it all. Don't try and make things into that which they are not. And if you have
a kid, care for /them as an individual/. Your life is over. Make way for the next generation.
mircea_popescu: that one. important part there being about understanding the animal is an animal, which is
a category of things to be.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel if you got
a purpose in mind, you need
a tool not
a child.
mircea_popescu: the situation where i never had children yet understand more of parenting than all these people with children depending on them is about as alarming as the situation where i'd not be
a woman but know more about fucking than all women. what
a shitworld!
gabriel_laddel: this is exactly correct. PG, for example, sees me coding in
a coffee shop, is there with his kid.
mircea_popescu: in africa there's
a market for gold encrusted trabant, not so much for an actulaly good car.
assbot: Why Dogecoin is
a scam, why the people pushing it are assholes, why Business Insider is
a contemptible piece of shit, why anyone who ever worked for it will be dancing in the street for nickels and why Kevin Rose is
a fuckwit. Plus other considerations. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1E4cknk )
mircea_popescu: "That'd be your VC circuit :
a bunch of old men who have no time to spend with their actual children. They claim this is because "they have to work", but in fact it's because
a) they're afraid of their actual children and b) their actual children hate and despise them, in no particular order. This in turn because they've failed to live, as an actual act in this world, and impose their existence upon those children, so
assbot: Why Dogecoin is
a scam, why the people pushing it are assholes, why Business Insider is
a contemptible piece of shit, why anyone who ever worked for it will be dancing in the street for nickels and why Kevin Rose is
a fuckwit. Plus other considerations. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1E4c5bQ )
mircea_popescu pictures asciilifeform in bed with
a woman he picked up earlier in metro. she goes "oh honey, that was SO FUCKING GREAT!" he goes "or maybe i wasn't even in!"
gabriel_laddel: Even if he knows what he is doing, still
a fuckwit. Everyone knows the story of the scorpion and the monk, right?
gabriel_laddel: That sam altman is
a fuckwit isn't in contention amongst those in here.
assbot: Logged on 20-01-2015 23:17:04; mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, it's clarified some things for me. i live within blocks of the center of all "manifestations" "public meetings" and so forth. there's on average two
a week of these. they're not all political, but the political ones seemed quite suspect to me
mircea_popescu: ahaha that pete mercedes pic. dude looks like
a total stoner paratrooper.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 00:04:30; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: to round off the earlier thread, house will be confiscated
a) ahead of schedule, if you get lucky b) when your local real estate racket's ability to crank out drywall, pour cement, assemble the thing is outpaced by, e.g., flood of $refugees from $pisshole who 'deserve' your house and your neighbour's
gabriel_laddel: Only
a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. when that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. that I belive is our basic function: to develop altenatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: Vaguely related to the conversation above, I'm hoping for
a war sometime soon - they are
a good way to go about separating content from nonsense. Von N., Teller, etc. wouldn't have been able to work on the atomic bomb without the various powers that be helping out.
gabriel_laddel: If your goal is to do
a chip level restart, one needn't start there, from
a business perspective.
gabriel_laddel: My point with the 20k is that there are individuals who are willing to fund such ventures. Yes, MP hasn't put up 5MM usd for sane computing, but afaik, no one has proposed such
a plan to him.
gabriel_laddel: I'd happily pay 100k for
a computer that actual /worked/
gabriel_laddel: Yes. Someone needs to specify their requirements, then someone else needs to take
a trip to china, find suppliers etc. and assemble somthing sane. Like system76, except not for Ubuntu crap
gabriel_laddel: (I have
a $300 compaq that I prefer to any apple crapware - same one as MP iirc)
gabriel_laddel: Eh, perhaps I'm strange, but these things don't tickle me in the right places. Mountains of coke? Fun, surely, but it gets boring after
a while...
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: I don't think it's
a scam exactly... what they want is for nothing to change, and he provided it. :/
gabriel_laddel: "Where do you want to go today?" To
a Sharashka or garden-variety GULAG? Largely
a matter of taste (and luck.)
gabriel_laddel: Who gets to become
a "delicate aristocrat," dodging carving duty, and why?
assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 05:31:28; asciilifeform: 'Astolphe de Custine was brought up for
a time by
a faithful servant, living in penury with her in the only room of the Custine home that had not been looted and sealed off by Jacobin zealots and thieves.'
gabriel_laddel: Incidentally,
a friend of mine from Romania told me
a story about what happened to his family's house during the communist revolution: It was seized, concrete was poured on the (expensive hardwood!) floors after it was stripped of any valuables.
mircea_popescu: btw i sent the archive.today guy
a note, if he shows up him
mircea_popescu: you ain't bought
a license to kill bookies, and today i ain't sellin' any.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 28-02-2015 23:24:13; asciilifeform: though folks who differ from above portrait solely in the have-money part (e.g. shrem) are also
a favourite prey animal
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can read russian poetry
a lot better once someone's conveniently done 99% of the work, found the equivalents, set out the rhyming scheme etc