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mircea_popescu: no i mean, sunroof as in, a floor without a roof on top of the building.
mircea_popescu: this is why you can't have nice things. i end up with them and i don't even like them.
mircea_popescu: hey, it will drive linux adoption [to all the schmucks who will not run linux unless it's really windows]
mircea_popescu: ascii_field this behaviour is an improvement over windows' reboot cycle.
mircea_popescu: (which is almost always the case, which is why SV loves to "pay" in equity)
mircea_popescu: you're only a bagholder inasmuch as the shit you made wasn't worth anything anyway.
mircea_popescu: well properly speaking, most of these companies are not companies with employees, they're more like work clubs or some sort of co-op.
mircea_popescu: that's the problem with finance, and stock warrants and such. they gotta make up their own minds. which means think.
mircea_popescu: which is stupid in the first place. it's like dispensing with the part of your food that you don't like - where it nourishes you.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it is a collosal waste of time. the problem with time however is that it can be but wasted - whatever you do with it can not be traded for the time it took. not at a profit, not at all. so... waste, all of it anyway.
mircea_popescu: "wait, for them and their grandkids ? my family was foreclosed on five times in three generations! " "don't you have it so much better ? FORTY ACRES AND A MULE!!1"
mircea_popescu: "oh, slavery meant immunity from foreclosure ?" "be a good non-slave jobsman and don't thionk about that!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and getting back to slavery (as a historical consturct this time) and the subtle perversion of culture : in the ten billion discussions of how badly antebellum slaves had it that point out that they were being educated (misrepresented as "beatings" and horror, of course), how many stop to point out that a) they didn't starve periodically like their northern counterparts and b) if they behaved had lifetime, even GENERAT
mircea_popescu: (more precisely : not giving enough of a shit to cave - mowing down the dumb people doesn't count.)
mircea_popescu: yeah. not giving a shit about having the same conversation with different dumb people every day.
mircea_popescu: i have the blessed chomsky advantage. apparently this is rare, but, i don't mind bothering people.
mircea_popescu: "son, your mother has cancer. here's a line-up of applicants for the job."
mircea_popescu: "oh but being a slave is bad!11". sure. except if you believe this someone will extract value out of you by calling it something else. "but i already do that, you think this brand name medicine is worth the difference from generics ?" right-o.
mircea_popescu: he can't see all this because reasons, of the TYPE of the reason that's "raceysm" even if not exactly identical.
mircea_popescu: see how the culture subtly ensures people are unhappy ?
mircea_popescu: o wait no, that's bad also. gotta call it what, motherjob now ?
mircea_popescu: what's wrong with just introducing yourself as "domestic slave" ? oh, i saw that in a film once. better call it "housewife"
mircea_popescu: because "raceysm" is the shorthand for a social convention, that's on one hand nonsensical, and on the other precludes people who are slaves from addressing their slavery as such. it must be called something else. because lo and behold, a person who does work for no pay at the behest of her masters is now "in a job" hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: "o but we decided slavery is bad". yeah, like ballas decided killing is never right.
mircea_popescu: "caring for her family was the most rewarding job [she'd] ever had" aka "my domestic slavery is a much more fulfilling, pleasant and empowering personal situation than your job will ever hope to get". that's what it is.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would the woman have to apologize for not being retarded by calling what she does ia job is beyond me.
mircea_popescu: among other many things. they're really orthogonal things.
mircea_popescu: but the POINT of jobs is for the employees to be fungible. the point of house slaves is for the slaves to be the opposite of fungible.
mircea_popescu: if you think it is, train a slave to do it at home, try to hire a brutha to do it at your diner.
mircea_popescu: who a) should not be driving ; b) want to be driving ; c) can't find a sane way out of this.
mircea_popescu: the only people who go "sitting quietly in the car is the best car driving they ever did" are mentally ill 15 yos.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes because it makes zero fucking sense. it is not a job.
mircea_popescu: does it move ? yes -> should it ? yes no problem / no -> duct tape | no -> should it ? yes wd40 no - >no p[roblem
mircea_popescu: much like the teenager is only "unruly" if dumbass anette bening of a mother keeps getting in the way,
mircea_popescu: from what i gather the latter behaviour is mostly human-reactive.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's the way of over there. ro notion of bear is mostly "this cute thing".
mircea_popescu: there's a huge gap between the split and agriculture. you're missing the voice, pastoral life, a lot.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, chimps and people evolved the same time interval, and separately. so go ask geese, for the same money.
mircea_popescu: no, we did not. both monkeys and us descdended from the same thing. which was not a monkey.
mircea_popescu: different fucking houses yo. and the usual ignorance with "we descended from monkeys" is particularly poignant.
mircea_popescu: other than that, "studying" monkeys to "understand" people is not unlike bugging the neighbour's appartment to "understand" why your wife cheated on you.
mircea_popescu: sure, they have some value as rat substitutes for biological/biochemistry research. not much from what i can tell, rats are cheaper and faster.
mircea_popescu: i also don't happen to think that "anthropology" conducted on the various types of monkey has any value whatsoever. it's roughly on the level of freud's practice, bored rich impotent folk want to play with their cock "elevatedly".
mircea_popescu: all through the "endangered gorillas" craze of the 90s all i could think was "these people seriously need better hobbies"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo just between you and me and anyone who might care to listen in, i don't like monkeys. none, at all. would not object to a plan to exterminate all monkey types, nor do i see much value in preservation of images, records and such.
mircea_popescu: im not disputing that the system works within its own logic. i'm merely saying, that "logic" is neither self aware nor to be approached like a human endeavour. it's monkey business, bring chisels.
mircea_popescu: jesus fucking christ this is going to be my go-to test-taking optimization example from now on.
mircea_popescu: 1. what is depression ? uhhhh ; 2. do you know how they measure it ? hamiltonian scale. most of which is sleep loss and weight loss. ; 3. do you know what zyprexa is ? "antidepressant", aka a sedative that fattens you.
mircea_popescu: well, if you wanna rattle mrs dushenski, sit her down for that flick.
mircea_popescu: so then he linked and whatever, isn't disputing you inspired him or w/e ?
mircea_popescu: whole lotta "nothing can justify killing so lalalala i can't hear you whatever you say is gonna be 'can't logically and realistically link' blabla!11"
mircea_popescu: ok, tlp fucks up the joe stack thing something incredible.