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mircea_popescu: and yes it's a pity idiots don't know greek. how about penelope, not enough agency ?
mircea_popescu: and psyche is supposed to be a fucking object. that is THE POINT of that particular story (fuck you myth legend bs words you don't even comprehend. story is good enough for pedestrians).
mircea_popescu: you fail at comprehending wtf anything is, anon derpy female comentator on tlp site.
mircea_popescu: god damned it... "this is better than the greek myth because i like it more"
mircea_popescu: make choices and take risks along the way, though.) There are also loads of Native American fairy tales with women who have agency."
mircea_popescu: in other news, "There are, in fact, fairy tales about women with agency, and your article would have been even stronger if you knew them (but it's understandable that you don't). "The Girl Without Hands" for one, and a fairy tale retelling of the Psyche and Eros legend, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon". (The retelling is better than the Greek legend, where Psyche is deus ex machina'd at the end. She does at least
mircea_popescu: maybe if the piston was tungsten tipped or some nutty shit.
mircea_popescu: supposedly the failing chamber pierced that ? with what.
mircea_popescu: tbh i have no idea how these accidents are supposed to occur - every air cusjopm i ever saw had this 2mm steel plate protecting the butthole.
mircea_popescu: the problem is he isn't fucking applying it to himself!
mircea_popescu: n as customary.... who they are. America is a branded-identity nation, which means hearing yourself speak in not-your accent, with not-your vocabulary sounds very not-you, which is why when an American tries to speak French he feels self-conscious, but the Frenchman hearing it feels you aren't even trying. He'd be wrong, you are trying: trying not to become French."
mircea_popescu: he CIA learn as adults, are they all using different science? An American describes another American who is fluent in French as "oh my God, he's so smart, he speaks French and everything" but this statement is easily unmasked as a defense by getting him to describe a Frenchman who speaks English: "well, they all speak English over there." The bilingualism is robbed of the "intelligence" signification because it's see
mircea_popescu: makes shit like "Short of cauterizing your own genitals, nothing seems like it would change who you are like speaking in an-other's language. Blech, I'd rather wear someone else's underwear, no thanks, I'll take the 12 credits but no way am I retaining anything. "Well, science says you lose the ability to learn languages as you get older." Oh, did NPR just interview TED? Dummies in other countries and dummies in t
mircea_popescu: the reason you can't translate trilema from romanian to english IS NOT that you can't move the references. but he doesn't offer much in the way of this benefit.
mircea_popescu: but when i use throwaways i use them on the basis of something, whereas with him that something's not actually fully formed behind the throwaways
mircea_popescu: it's not even a problem of references per se, is the fucking issue. "don draper", big fucking deal.
mircea_popescu: btw : my first impulse when you made that quote was omfg i left it out of my last article, it should be in there! mad chase ensues to find it in source material, by the time i have contextualizatio0n ready i know where it should be in my article
mircea_popescu: myeah. disentangling this dead dependency is, i will want to point out, just as much a cognitive nightmare as fixing shit to compile with inane gcc or w/e
mircea_popescu: yet another is the discoursive style - it's as if he never actually went to school.
mircea_popescu: one major problem is that he has some major fuctardry embedded. another one is that he insists in using shitty references.
mircea_popescu: they got a whole system down there i hear, hussies babymomma while derps fuck up linux and wash dishes in the buff.
mircea_popescu: some overenthusiastic derp, next in line to be hearn/poettering/blabla ?
mircea_popescu: right but i mean you don't know the face you don't know the name, i guess "nobody" ?
mircea_popescu: the strange idea being that they want to "fix" the kernel
mircea_popescu: ascii_field wasn't it in that time traveling british thing with the guy with wild hair and the two kids ?
mircea_popescu: ftr : i've been here over a year and i've not pinched a single butt (the plain variety - on the street, uknown - let's not get into perversion) because a) they're short and b) they're petrified.
mircea_popescu: never read blogs, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience!
mircea_popescu: motherfucker i only know what it is because i looked it up because you're fucking obsessed with it.
mircea_popescu: "This is how I know that anyone who says, "If only I could live in Mad Men time where you could pinch a girl's ass and not get in trouble for it" is going to be way disappointed if a TARDIS shows up, because they wouldn't pinch them back then, either, not because they are afraid of trouble but because they are afraid of girls. Exhibit A: you know what a TARDIS is."
mircea_popescu: (psa : if you're female, in your 20s and ~couldn't~ replace either girl at my option, you fail at life. practice more, this is important. reading jezbel is not.)
mircea_popescu: There's only one thing it can do: say that these women don't know better, that they're broken women from broken homes... that they're not real women."
mircea_popescu: "That's the trick of Shame. "He's an attractive, wealthy, guy with a big penis (did you see it, ladies?) but he's not using it properly..." Brandon's sex addiction makes him very un-desirable, no one watches Shame and says, "wow, I want to be Brandon" and no woman says, "wow, I want to be with Brandon." The opposite is true for Tucker Max, who is popular with women, especially the very women that he "degrades." Now
mircea_popescu: i think it might be about three or four different oens tho
mircea_popescu: really makes more sense for you to buy her a diamond than for her to turn tricks and bring you the money.
mircea_popescu: " Sex addiction rarely breaks laws so it can't be punished, and there's no God so the immorality of it is debatable, i.e. inconsequential. It must be a disease, that way other people don't want to catch it. All psychiatric treatment of constructed syndromes isn't about cure but about regression to the mean, where mean= cubicle drone. " not even, just... please believe that monogynous fambly is the only fambly and it
mircea_popescu: "i know nothing about how kernels work but i'm 36 and i don't think the nielsen box in my house does enough to mess up society - here's some rephrasing i've done in my mysteriously abundant spare time"
mircea_popescu: or, "how the women nobody can be bothered to fuck anymore are getting into everyone's business any chance they get".
mircea_popescu: ddicts we see in movies and on the news are: rock stars, politicians, sports guys, CEOs. If you think about the demo primed to receive this depiction of lothario as sex addict-- women over 35, i.e. the demo for Shame-- sex addiction needs to be seen as terrible because it is terrible for them. It may also be terrible for the sex addict, but fuck you, we have a society to run."
mircea_popescu: "Take a look at Brandon. When media wants to depict a sex addict they depict the wealthy, the good looking, the powerful, the well hung. There are plenty of slimy basement dwelling janitor sex addicts out there, but they are represented as sex offenders. There are also plenty of gay sex addicts out there, but they are represented as gay. Both of you are dismissed, the world has no time for your nonsense. The sex a
mircea_popescu: whole thing is a trivial example of WHY usg doth not want a sane bitcoind, ie, a 700kb one./
mircea_popescu: i suppose it goes on the to-do list once someone myseriously disappears.