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mircea_popescu: the problem with diseased mental states is that THEY ARE IMPRODUCTIVE.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with diseased mental states is not that they don't have their own, often very well drawn out, self-consistent "logic".
mircea_popescu: i wonder if one could make money with a new-age-y brand of "swarovki" crystals that you... personalize.
mircea_popescu: certainly no vagina. thinking of this... i wonder how vaginal diamond polishing would work.
mircea_popescu: yeah, well, the problem is the broken brain that fails to comprehend how spoons work is also unsurprisingly going to incorrectly evaluate suicide as an option.
mircea_popescu: the case here is, schmuck : when i drink coffee, my eye hurts. commander : take the spoon out of cup before driniking. schmuck : i would rather kill myself.
mircea_popescu: no, see, it is not your job to contribute anything intellectually to this.
mircea_popescu: five or so generations out he might even have reached humanity.
mircea_popescu: no, that's exactly what happens. his worthless existence is forfeit, but he'll hopefully have some kids a little less retarded than him
mircea_popescu: forget about it. go up to every woman over 50 you run into, kneel before her, kiss her shoes, beg her to give you something to do. explain that you have made such a mess of your life, this is actually the only sane avenue out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so what exactly is the start situation, 25 derp with 100k in college debt, no skills, no resources, no social net, in the middle of a shitland like the us ?
mircea_popescu: so yes, you're right : the idiot-poor imagine that the source of their misfortune is the malfeasance of a ~particular~ event, rather than the large clump of shit they carry around on their shoulders.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and fire as a class has not removed the option of keeping the bulk of your skin.
mircea_popescu: you have to have deals between them to allow each to get what he wants.
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : at the time the sale completed you didn't know who is pulling the dud. they thought they got equal value.
mircea_popescu: or moreover, perhaps, but i don't think you have the right idea.
mircea_popescu: "it was better". i'm sure. until it is and all you can think of is how to trade dad's old house for two shiny new ipads and a van.
mircea_popescu: fine, so you did without this, and that. now you do without this other and that other. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, we did without", is the answer, if the guy;'s not too much of an intellectual coward and the matter's even considered.
mircea_popescu: yes, "all the girls were happy and all the boys lalala". but did they know how to suck cock ?
mircea_popescu: i've had this discussion with old folk in romania. they have a very distinct FEEL for the old style settled village life in that space. i have a very precise understanding of it, because they're cows and i'm the young lord. nevertheless, the point stands :
mircea_popescu: for a co2 this is hard work. from each according to his complexitits.
mircea_popescu: "all my grandcarbons traded soot for gaseous form, said the co2. and given half a chance, i'll trade it right the fuck back, said he. and so it was, and had been a number of times prior.)
mircea_popescu: (note that the 0 orcs in THAT case comes from lack of differentiation. there's a lot fewer retarded children at 2 weeks than at 2 years of age. guess why ?)
mircea_popescu: your grandfather traded the pen paper and 0 orcs for this, and this is what you have.
mircea_popescu: this is moot, because you are not engaging in commerce.
mircea_popescu: they are, much like the jet, mere prongs. extensions. that require the whole story, and the whole story is that finance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. because none of the tools you hoard, your grandfather could have had.
mircea_popescu: i know, i know, "british researches discover antioxidants hold secret to eternal lyf"
mircea_popescu: the existence of landlords as a class is no more to their detriment than the existence of fire as a phenomena.
mircea_popescu: manufacturers are putting stuff like "it's what's inside that counts" on the remaining space and winning with it.
mircea_popescu: omaigawd these idiots with forcing cigarette packs to depict whatever valuable messages.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: e. this is a very vulnerable position to be in, and it requires immediate and insistent attention.
mircea_popescu: it's not like i hate you or anything. the problem is that you're intellectually imuno-compromised so to speak, by which i mean : you get ideas, which is fine, but also a common function of the human mind. but then when you go to evaluate them, your evaluator is broken, and when the evaluator is called into question it's discovered in turn that the building blocks are also broken and in turn the building blocks for thos
mircea_popescu: not only is this a horrible idea, but it is my considered opinion that you are very far yet from the intellectual maturity that'd allow you to marry, let alone raise children, and that running any kind of business is many many years in the future AFTER THAT.
mircea_popescu: you can tell if dirtyness occurs from amateur shot digicams ?!
mircea_popescu: what do you do when the landlord and the tenant each upload a video and they don't even look like they come from the same place ?
mircea_popescu: so ima spend two hours shooting amateur footage to (maybe!) save 60 bucks a year from now ?
mircea_popescu: except they already did that and are lying about it now.
mircea_popescu: you mean, like it is "obvious" that the rental agency suycks ?
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the failures of "evidence based" in "process", be it political, juridical or otherwise
mircea_popescu: and you promise. for all he knows you throw dimes to figure out who to side with.
mircea_popescu: but the tenant still only gets his deposit back maybe.
mircea_popescu: the outcome is that he gets his deposit back SOMETIMES. so maybe.
mircea_popescu: in fact, your idea sounds to alf like it was invented by the landlords in question, because the mere presence of this bad (horrible!) option on the table makes the miserable first more palatable than it would be on its own.
mircea_popescu: so let me get this straight, you want to give people too poor to litigate, too stupid / desocialized to talk to the landlord and too scared to act the option "you can either pay 100 to the landlord as deposit or 300 to me and unlike the landlord I PROMISE to give it back (maybe), except im not anywhere near you and you can't burn my house down" ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah. evne if you don't have a crt, 6300k is better than 9
mircea_popescu: anyway, as a take-away : if you're depressed, before you try seroquel or whatever, try changing your lightbulbs.
mircea_popescu: but at home, ima have the warm tones of old style filament, tyvm.
mircea_popescu: i have no problem flood-lighting industrial spaces in sodium lamps, or blowing the shit out of consumable beauties in the studio with halogen projectors.
mircea_popescu: haha no, actual light bulb (proper incandescents, not the bullshit halogens emplaced in an incandescent ampoule) is still produced, and still sold.
mircea_popescu: you have NO IDEA what an impact quality of lighting has on quality of life.
mircea_popescu: they're often in rental units because hey, "energy efficiency". i have to take them out every time.
mircea_popescu: no but i mean the "energy efficient" mercury dispensers.