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mircea_popescu: pushing a point, sending an ack to a
http server is pretty much the same as sending an ack to any other
http server.
mircea_popescu: this is the sort of thing one can't understand from outside.
mircea_popescu: but hanging out / using people who do a bad thing, even if they're not doing it to you, is dubious.
mircea_popescu: sorta like hanging out at the rape club is a-ok because you're only getting drinks anyway.
mircea_popescu: but i guess if no children one could sacrifice first gf.
mircea_popescu: "and we'll make medicine work that way too because there can only be one of anything"
mircea_popescu: "oh, we don't have the continental legal system here - we have an adversarial system" good for you
mircea_popescu: e jury must decide the fate of the defendant-patient. And the FDA--judge simply makes sure everyone is civil. Not accurate, save for outright perjury; just civil."
mircea_popescu: I'm going to repeat this because I know people are going to misunderstand me: the system that you want is impossible to construct in the framework of modern medicine, if for no other reason than doctors don't read-- derive no benefit from reading. The system does not exist, and you cannot create it. Psychiatry is politics; medicine is the justice system. Pharma are the opposing lawyers, and doctors are the jury. Th
mircea_popescu: a treatment. It's not all the doctors' fault; but that's the system.
mircea_popescu: "Pharma is the backbone of medicine, because, unfortuantely, medicine is about treatment, not prevention. If a doctor recommends exercise, or garlic, or even aspirin, it's a sidenote, and a quaint one. "Oh, my doctor thinks I should move to Florida for my asthma!" Meanwhile, they'll give out the amoxicillin to every crying toddler, even though they know that that is detrimental. you know why? Because it looks like
mircea_popescu: imo the right play would be to stop refreshing and move to a "provide your pubkey in pastebin" model. prhaps even to be enhanced to a "ask someone in wot to sign your pubkey and give it to assbot" later. too soon for that imo.
mircea_popescu: all neurosis works the same way, the subject replaces the thing as is with a construct in his own head.
mircea_popescu: the ancient theory on consumptive masturbation was that monsters are a figment of the imagination, and so the practical cure was to expose the young man to ACTUAL, ie, anatomically accurate depictions of the other gender. what today we'd call porn.
mircea_popescu: with any luck you'll be cured before you lose your 2nd tooth.
mircea_popescu: for young males with anxiety "disorders" the only workable solution is to get into a lot of fights.
mircea_popescu: and concentrate that time, and then get the hell out of the way."
mircea_popescu: "I have a surprising piece of advice for parents, which I hope will be taken in the spirit it is offered: your kid doesn't want to be around you that much. No one does. This isn't because you're a bad person but because you're an ordinary person. You are not such a unique, creative, intelligent or even interesting person that the kid benefits from constant exposure to you. When you have something to offer, maximize
mircea_popescu: i've seen the thing where after a bout of sustained fucking her cunt would leak of its own volition for another fucking hour, yes. but what is this sandy bitch bs.
mircea_popescu: i have never, ever, in my fucking life been in a situation where pumping dried out the woman. how the fuck does this work even ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: y, that one more condom wouldn't make the necessary difference."
mircea_popescu: "I met the woman at a Broadway show, but the night's best piece of acting, I'd say, came from me, back at her East Village apartment, after we'd been having sex for about 25 minutes, with Neil Young wailing the song "Comes a Time" from the laptop on her bedside table. The dried-out condom had a full-bodied choke hold on me, but I'd already stopped twice to put on a fresh one, and I knew, as I kept earnestly pumping awa
mircea_popescu: i doubt it's actually possible for a proper dead end, in nature.
mircea_popescu: thjat's why borax gets them. it scratches their carpace, they lose water.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: cockroaches are pretty interesting as far as that goes. for instance : did you know that the entire fucking genus, which is immnse, strictly depends on there not being abrasive surfaces ?
mircea_popescu: so improbable in fact it even enticed you into playing your qj straight into my pocket rockets.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's the cultural antrhopologist standing story an' im sticking by it : speech is interesting because it provides permanence in a very improbable setting.
mircea_popescu is well gratefull to be dead long before he'd reach the end of anything.
mircea_popescu: it'd then be the case that sooner or larter we;'d have to do everything. EVERYTHING.
mircea_popescu: because if it weren't... think for just a minute how horrible life were if in point of fact we were imortal.
mircea_popescu: well... they're colored. you ever seen my pic with the sea slugs ?
mircea_popescu: and i meant indelible not inedible. i blame the keyboard.
mircea_popescu: but some obscure thing about what is interesting or not.
mircea_popescu: that's your inedible point of contact : the same agent that cooed and went heels over head through the use of the same mechanism then taught you how to usew that mechanism.
mircea_popescu: you are familiar with the basics of human sexuate reproduction i expect ?
mircea_popescu: that's how that thing got added in there, outside of that line it's dead.
mircea_popescu: grandfather is only present in the father (and his antecessors) chain.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the context of your father shares a lot with your own.
mircea_popescu has serious trouble evaluating the gender of people who lived in socio-cultural constructs that share little with his own in any sort of term that's meaningful for common parlance.
mircea_popescu: dude i have no idea, the long dead are a 4th fucking gender.
mircea_popescu: or in other words, the only reason you think they're still men is because their key expired and you don't have to refresh anything.
mircea_popescu: phf i doubt assbot actually updates them. it might also not look at expirations, i dunno how kakobrekla did it, maybe he weighs in.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but they are dubious scientists. if euclid walked over here and got into an argument with me over fucking bannach space algebra, pete_dushenski would prolly be right in his wing with a !rate euclid -1 gramps has nfi where his rope ends.
mircea_popescu: "no but really, it's more about partnership". i'm sure it is. and it gets tested never. "no, like, once someone gets cancer". tyvm, i prefer to create my own problems.
mircea_popescu: but some common ground can be found. "your wife won't do what you tell her to ? what does the possessive denote then ?" for instance. "oh but it hurts. and she finds it disgusting". yeah. that's the fucking point. of course she'll obey an order to eat more chocolate.
mircea_popescu: to some people, the notion that men aged > 50 today as well as their antecessors didn't do x y z thing automatically disqualifies them, as men. to some other, it's just ridoinculous bs.
mircea_popescu: note that you're no more required to be a plumber than i'm required to give a shit about lisp. you get to pick your own spot where your vita brevis makes no difference anyway.
mircea_popescu: how about anal sex. what % of his mates did he bugger ?
mircea_popescu: the thing with science is that there's no science outside of what science you make. there's no wave function in the actual fucking fermion.
mircea_popescu: "oh i tried to look into this whole darwinian stuff. mmmkay..."
mircea_popescu: here's a pro tip : everyone investigating matters out of paradigm decide, with clockwork regularity, that their attempt was a mistake.