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mircea_popescu: (exercise to the aspiring anthropologists of the OTHER ilk in attendance ("cultural", ftr. you're welcome.) : write one page explaining the difference between "deficiente" and "disgraziato".)
mircea_popescu: "oh teach why should i know this ?" "so you're not the sort of savage/monkey that is reduced to building mud huts"
mircea_popescu: well it's such an obvious application of number analysis 101
mircea_popescu: the three week course being in fact the whole profession
mircea_popescu: just like no sane person takes smoking advice from gps.
mircea_popescu: (which happens to be true, architects know a lot about how buildings may be, and for this reason nothing about buildings that are)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for instance because one time he kicked all architects out of the room because "who the fuck asked you anything - man on the street knows more about buildings than you do"
mircea_popescu: what exactly architecture would have to do with this is anyone's guess.
mircea_popescu: he apparently also has no idea that he looks to people who actually know about the world as a retired and perhaps scandalous antrhopologist of the "physical" ilk.
mircea_popescu: has no formal training in architecture or the related design fields."
mircea_popescu: "Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He moved to the Long Island suburbs in 1954 and returned to the city in 1957 where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from the State University of New York, Brockport campus, worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer forRolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. He
mircea_popescu: "The Geography of Nowhere, or the rise and decline in america's man-made landscape", what's wrong wioth that ?
mircea_popescu: not like that is any sort of limit of any practical importance.
mircea_popescu: 100m cocks in attendance or not, she ain't picking any directions.
mircea_popescu: looky here, if i strip a chick naked, blindfold her, stick a quart of diluted wine up her asshole, spin her around for five minutes and then encourage her to "move towards the cock she prefers"
mircea_popescu: im sure if "stick a knife in his eye socket and push up" thing resulted in a coolotomy,
mircea_popescu: would you not say the attempt to treat people as things has gone far enough ?
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ am i very lame if i have nfi who that is ?
mircea_popescu: alfie, there's a reason things work the way they work which happens to be opposite of the way you want them to.
mircea_popescu: check out how the internet is giving a voice to ordinary people!
mircea_popescu: or in other words, not like she's the only one there neh ?
mircea_popescu: shinohai well the beauty of social media is that you can readily ignore individual people in pursuit of rules.
mircea_popescu: o look, tech crunch still beatying the "bitcoin governance" horse.
mircea_popescu: "Link your 21 box to your Twitter account, and any paywall website lets you read anything you want without popups, ads, or subscriptions." << except 90% of all paywall usage in bitcoin is to read trilema. which isn't in on this plan.
mircea_popescu: “I did a U-urn and screeched wheels and they began firing handguns at us—boom, boom, boom! I thought we would die, but their fire discipline is as poor as their manners.
mircea_popescu: (i do not see any lack of continuity in soviet degeneracy as compared to pre-soviet, but then again that's just me._
mircea_popescu: it's very simple really : have your kids grow up poor and kill most of 'em.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you can never grow the pie. but if you can be made to believe you'll grow the pie, then all bets are off, and the whole house collapses into rubble.
mircea_popescu: it happens to be proper. see, "wealth impaired" hints at the (mistaken) notion that you know, there's something out there, maybe you find it. whereas the system REQUIRES for there NOT to be such a thing.
mircea_popescu: gimme, you know, an independent value and i shall henceforth move the earth from orbit on its leverage.
mircea_popescu: (hey, is my inclination to reuse qualify me as a noob lisp-er ?)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or in other words, to paraphrase, "the sticking point here, i suspect, is that you believe for whatever reason there's "value" in things. which is at best naive, at socialism bourgeois etc."
mircea_popescu: the eldest didn't inherit naught but the tears of the non-elders, and their butthurt.
mircea_popescu: (think of blair's own personal history - "england is great except for 2nd borns" "maybe you get lucky" "what if i don't ?" "let's make an empire, then". and after a century "empire work is too hard")
mircea_popescu: runts ever so often make the world a better place, that if they all unite the internet can't possibly be long away.
mircea_popescu: what is the "left sympathy" of the "West" other than the disilusioned of 3rd borns at their own disenfranchisement ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not before the "romantic period" at any rate.
mircea_popescu: and also on it goes, "everyone may read and write - so go gitbub"
mircea_popescu: very similar to "made everyone a little noble, but absent the usual incentives to reproduce - made everyone choose between thinking and having kids"
mircea_popescu: one of the many atrocities perpetuated by the "derp revolution" is the creation of young men with artistic taste but without a family fortune to inherit.
mircea_popescu: imposed fucking topic by political power, apparently "women are a thing" in their twisted nonsensical view. what's he to do ?
mircea_popescu: and also, all the "censored" "artists" have no excuse. why the fuck did da vinci EVEN PAINT women, at all ?
mircea_popescu: the only important, redeeming feature of art is that, like woman, will survive everything. in all times and places, its tits must poke out.
mircea_popescu: and in my eyes the one to blame in this failure is !stalin.
mircea_popescu: note that the pope that da vinci had to daily argue with was a very stalinesque figure in his own right.
mircea_popescu: but a) russian speaker who b) was actually a master of this trade and c) actually willing and able to stand on his own did not mostly happen to exist.
mircea_popescu: the task would have been to restate the old conversation in proper terms, for a very sweet life.
mircea_popescu: my own private suspicion is that stalin was very deeply conservative, and just didn't get lucky (for the most part) to find someone COMPETENT.
mircea_popescu: (the sticking point here, i suspect, is that you believe for whatever reason there's "value" in art. which is at best naive, at socialism bourgeois etc.)