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mircea_popescu: but i must say, splendid alf monograph, should be in an article.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but this counted as valid science for decades in hundreds of convictions.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: understand : the question of what is specifically HUMAN dna is very much open. we share a lot with other living things, and the thingsd we don't we don't all exhibit. point in case being the bullshit pseudoscience "he must have raped her because so and so substance only exists in male sperm" to be then found sure it exists in female sperm-equivalent, no problem.
mircea_popescu: the stench of the room can never be an argument against the process of cleanning.
mircea_popescu: "I'd also like to address my family, if you can call them that. I despise everything they stand for and I truly hate them, in a non-emotional, dispassionate and what I believe is a healthy way. The world will be a better place when they're dead--one with less hatred and intolerance." << above quoted guy's son, in his suicide note.
mircea_popescu: in fact the most important "why did you fuck ?" answer on porn set is "well, wanted to try it out"
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the more sex you have, and the more exposed to it they be, the more likely. and so on.
mircea_popescu: (with sex, unlike money, sympathetic magic works. can for instance fuck a girl's friends to fuck her.)
mircea_popescu: if it were sympathetic magic they'd be in the strip club
mircea_popescu: (and obvioujsly, the most enraged by the shameless hussies are the old household women. because they know that her weakness is the only prayer they got.)
mircea_popescu: which is why alley flashers are all ~marginal~ men. the device works exactly like the homeless dragging around broken ipads works. "hey, i might be refuse, but at least X!"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile a guy that's ashamed of going to football practice / army bootcamp / school in the buff is... not really a man.
mircea_popescu: the reason we insist females be "bashful" ie, ashamed to desnude in public is that an overactive shame IMPLIES a weak personality
mircea_popescu: "Shame will never be enough-- when your identity is "strong" enough nothing shames you, not a sex tape or a prison term, you'll take that scarlet letter and put it on a tight tank top and wear it ironically, not to mention hotly." << he happens to be exactly rtight, by the way.
mircea_popescu: no, no matter how "accepted" your vernacular gets, it will NEVER supersede Latin. because it's not a "consumers have come to expect" thing. nothing is.
mircea_popescu: they are also the sigh of a disavowal, the manifestation of how we desipse the ruminants.
mircea_popescu: they are the sign of a commitment, that is very much alligned with what v is, and with why we have the bitcoind we have, and the foundation we have, and everything else.
mircea_popescu: for the record, using the original latin phrases over their vernacular "just as good" later "equivalents" is not merely and not just talking down to some (the "intellectual" equivalent is nonsense, but let's ignore it).
mircea_popescu: ^that happens to be the title of the next trilema article.
mircea_popescu: "That unpleasant moment when "principles" you were supporting ~strictly~ because "of the principle of the thing" and pointedly not because of the convenient manner in which they worked upon a restricted set of circumstances decide to move on to another set of circumstances and work consistently but against your (inconsistent) preference. The only thing to do is look away."
mircea_popescu: da fuck is this "we all agree" insanity device. there is NOT ONE SINGLE OUGHT "we" all agree on.,
mircea_popescu: Now incest-- terrible, we all agree << we do not all agree.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this is SO tardstalk/altcoinforum/reddit/whathaveyou it bleeds.
mircea_popescu: It is, in effect, crowdsourcing the superego, and when that expression catches on remember where you first heard it."
mircea_popescu: "But what you need to get out of these stories is how this generation and forwards will deal with guilt: externalizing it, converting it to shame, and then taking solace in the pockets of support that inevitably arise. Everyone is famous to 15 people, and that's just enough people to help you sleep at night.
mircea_popescu: good for them. time to get shot, for no reason, straight in the gut.
mircea_popescu: but hey, they at least "stopped bullying". and also rape!
mircea_popescu: David Epstein, HuffPo-Mo blogger and Columbia professor of Applied Po-Mo allegedly had a sexual relationship with his 24 year old daughter. "
mircea_popescu: "I don't expect journalists or anyone else to be free of moral ambiguity, but it should be a postulate that if you choose to write those words you should not also be having sex with your daughter. Allegedly.
mircea_popescu: well no, that doesn't work. by the time the power differential's inclined like that, the prison is a walled compound called the kremlin or something.
mircea_popescu: i can't really imagine mp doing much more than mocking the parole board.
mircea_popescu: The Walking Dead is a uniquely American show, about Americans. It depicts the unconscious processes involved in death and mourning with perfect articulation, because it is founded on denying what is obvious to everyone. "No," it says, "this is different."
mircea_popescu: What do you get when ego and id aren't in conflict, in fact, they team up, against a common enemy-- reality? A reality which must often be denied in order to get some id-iPal satisfaction? You get America. What do you get when you get so good at denial, that you extend it to the inevitable? You get American zombies: denial of death.
mircea_popescu: so let's add up the history here : b-a decides ntp must die, nsa decides esr must be re-activated to make a "secure" ntp replacement.
mircea_popescu: subquestion : how come every worn out tool out there is doing some sort of "security" nsa project or other ?
mircea_popescu: and now he can't say anything because he already used his ugh.
mircea_popescu: "I miss you every single day. So this time I'm using a scope."
mircea_popescu: i wonder if it ever happened in the history of trickortreating that someone dropped a brick of straight cocaine in the kids' bag.
mircea_popescu: you know, this is fucking great, sitting here over muffins at teh bitcoin republic and lolzing over old jokes.
mircea_popescu: yes, probably filthy. and too short. but she got the look, man.
mircea_popescu: i just dun recall if it iwas ever discussed or just stated
mircea_popescu: shinohai while its true that one of the girls has THOSE EXACT stockings, naw.