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mircea_popescu: if you ever played heroes you know you CANT FUCKING LOSE
TEN PERCENT OMFG YOU ARE ALL FIRED WITH STICKS
a111: Logged on 2015-01-08 14:02 mike_c:
there's another 14 btc for bitbet investors. maybe
this bet will spark a rally in
the stock.
mircea_popescu: it's an important exercise, for
the "land of
the free home of
the brave" soviet union citizen 2.0,
to review
the 1950s movies, and implicitly what
things looked like.
a111: Logged on 2015-09-07 04:00 mircea_popescu: in
the 50s a bank CLERK lived in roughly what alf
thinks palatial.
a111: Logged on 2015-01-08 14:06 cazalla: it all shrinks, i grew up visiting my opa's backyard on
the weekends, spending week days in my own parent's smaller backyard, what do i have for my own son? next
to fucking nothing, no-one has kids, no-one has familiies, no-one can afford shit, land of opportunity my fucking ass
mircea_popescu: "bitch, we've come so very far, your socialism and me,
that now i gotta be president
to get
the house a returning midshipman'd have got"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and
the funhny
thing is, baby boomer producing cheap housing is ~what obama gets
today
mircea_popescu: and
the whole story of "oh, 1800 style squalor and poverty and five points erradicated!!! great ourdemocracy progress!!!" is really just very caked on masking upon
the base fact
that "we redirected all resources away from fun, so
that now
there's nothing
to do but wait
to die a la
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-14#1670156 ☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: the 1850s major and his ilk WOULDNT HAVE FIT in
the baby boomer producing cheap housing.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the point being
that "man's greatest possible as well as actual aspiration is
to wait upon some dumb cunt and
the miserable maggots
that crawl out of her cunt with some regularity" was never in history socially acceptable or socially accepted. it became
the norm post ww2 not for any reason
than because it is a prerequisite (among many other) for stacking pseudo-people like sardines.
mircea_popescu: i'm just saying --
this is universally and without exception
true, in all cultures,
times and places.
mircea_popescu: it was ~never different~.
the male hut was
this port in athens, where fun was had.
the female hut was
this literal hut, where
they groomed and
talked dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: ie, a book from 1900 about a major's "what a great
time we had" re 1850s wars.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-14#1670242 << it gets better. caragiale (possibly only romanian in
the history of
that political concoction
to be suspectable of intelligence) praises greatly „Maior C Pruncu — Din campaniile mele (Crimeea, 1855, Algeria, 1856—57, Italia, Maroc, 1859).
Tipărită la Bârlad în 1900, la
tipografia George V Munteanu”
☝︎ mircea_popescu: in fact
the above agreement re
the florida cession will actually do more
than
the even above-er "agreement" on
talking-about-bitcoin-from-outside-bitcoin
mircea_popescu: "the united states has agreed during a conference in #trilema
to cede florida back
to spain"
mircea_popescu: maybe we should start doing
this, "the united states came
to an agreement" bla bla.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-11 04:51 mircea_popescu: it'll never end,
this constant stream of improved improvements, until
they're literally fucking buried,
the muppets, will it.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-14 13:49 asciilifeform:
https://archive.is/9AZcm << meanwhile,
the forkwarz folx. '...the Bitcoin industry came
to an agreement in New York...' didjaknow!!
mircea_popescu: shinohai good
thing
they figured out who satoshi was, at least.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-14 12:40 asciilifeform: a sound card rng is considerably better
than... none at all. but
this is all
that can be said for it.
a111: Logged on 2015-08-19 23:55 mircea_popescu: what, "i'm a boy from
tenesee here
to die for some fat bitch's right
to marry her dog" ?
a111: Logged on 2017-06-14 06:04 mircea_popescu: who
the fuck are you
to die for something, anyway.
diana_coman: so maybe more a sign of degradation rather
than anything else (and yes, when I went into academia initially it was based on what I knew from
those old people -
the shock/unpleasant surprise was quite huge)
diana_coman: the only
trouble with
the emerging image of academia as "the land of how opressed" is
the fact
that...I knew some old real academics
too; and
they...had fun; also! lol
☟︎ diana_coman: and yeah, no idea re Americans exactly - my interactions were mainly with Europeans and I'd say biased
towards Eastern Europe
too
diana_coman: I did notice some difference at old veterans of both wars - not really much
talk of fun exactly but certainly not
that impressed with death either
diana_coman: asciilifeform, I kind of suspect
the what fun vs how oppressed is a good way
to
tell what sort of person is
talking basically
a111: Logged on 2017-06-14 06:17 diana_coman: and yes, some of
them were dead
a111: Logged on 2017-06-14 06:17 diana_coman: fwiw I
talked
to former army pilots;
they had lots of pictures of lots of males as you might imagine;
the punchline was...WHAT FUN WE HAD
mircea_popescu: it's
the oldest profession
this, what! "bet you a dime
the next person coming in
the door will be female"
mircea_popescu: besides, one day i found a correspondence between
the direction in which my dog barked and whether it was gonna rain
that day.
erlehmann: what would be needed
to convince you
that
the researchers found a correspondence between a cellular automaton on a hexagonal lattice and skin cells?
mircea_popescu: erlehmann
there's absolutely no relation between
the mathematical model of cellular automata and biological cells.
phf: it seems like a questionable move
to speak for your friend's motivations like
that. sort of a classic moralist move "oh
these bikers who were fucking,
taking drugs, and riding wild DIED YOUNG!!1"
erlehmann: mircea_popescu was
the cell conforming
thing ment as a metaphor only or do you have something
to share on cellular automata?
mircea_popescu: he's a dancer. but he also gets
the visiting french president
to do his bidding by showing him ww2 decorations etc
diana_coman: my
take away from your picture story is
that apparently each of
those in
the picture got pretty much what
they wanted so...
erlehmann: i am
thoroughly glad
that i do not find work fun because it means i do not lose motivation when others do not have fun.
diana_coman: that's not even
the point; one of
them apparently kept being promoted/demoted in
times of peace because he was a. an excellent pilot b. apparently unable
to not have fun regardless of whether it's "permitted" or not
erlehmann: diana_coman of course,
the goal of war is not do die for your country, but
to make
the other basterd die for
theirs
mircea_popescu: i don't
think i ever met anyone i'd let into
the house who was death-avoidance-oriented.
erlehmann: i made a
tripping haskell programmer smile when i was like ALGOL – NO FUN ALLOWED
diana_coman: fwiw I
talked
to former army pilots;
they had lots of pictures of lots of males as you might imagine;
the punchline was...WHAT FUN WE HAD
☟︎ diana_coman: erlehmann, getting a picture ready with "this one wanted
to NOT HAVE FUN" ?
erlehmann: my coworkers say similar
things. i always answer
that work does not feel enjoyable for me and programming is not fun.
erlehmann: oh, i won't sleep, probably. but i have mindless work
to do and i feel in
the right state of mind for
that.
mircea_popescu: ok, not bad. i guess i didn't spend enough
time staring at
that part of europe at
the rightr age.
erlehmann: on my keyboard, m and f are not right next
to each other
mircea_popescu: i
think you might've had
the people/vermin division wrong.