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mircea_popescu: she fucking shoo'd a political campaign away from the fucking downtown landmark!
mircea_popescu: let it never be said that woman can not break things. woman can break men's spirit, and that's major.
mircea_popescu: so she went down there and they stopped. and then... were quiet for like... ten minutes.
mircea_popescu: *hanbot* i am going out there to tell them to shut the fuck up.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> those fuckers. NOBODY FUCKING QUIERES.
mircea_popescu: so dumbass "political campaign" for some twerp here tried to have a huge rally (which is how i woke up, fucking drummers). but it's been raining, and nobody gives a shit about their crap, so they took refuge under a huge awning and there they've been, playing this inept 2 minute political soundclip (lo que la gente quiere, blabla fuckhead rodrgues) etc. this for a while, until
mircea_popescu: it has all the symptoms of childrearing apparatus gone berserk.
mircea_popescu: it's a great thing. the main by-product of the knitting culture. little clothes made to measure by bored old women for things like teapots.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i took a gamble of sorts. it kinda worked.
mircea_popescu: ("smells of poor people" is in no small part ABSENCE. "intellectuals" are used to the mild allergenic reaction of paper dust mites + old ink smell in trace amounts. because 5k books around.)
mircea_popescu: who the fuck said "honey, she's too dumb for you and her house smells of poor people" the past decade.
mircea_popescu: when i was a kid, the #1 question hopeful spouse had to handle with the fambly was "are they smart enough"
mircea_popescu: in the 60s they didn't even realise their own children will be marrying into illiterate for lack of alternative.
mircea_popescu: this is how vc circus works, spend 10-20mn on "a venture", part of which goes to "a respectable voice" etc.
mircea_popescu: all that shit re culture and whatnot, all the pretense of wikipedia to relevance, the whole kaboodle : an overstated maximal output of an optimistic evaluation of a technological base that a) never actually existed in fact and b) has meanwhile been substituted by a provably worse alternative IN ALL THE POINTS
mircea_popescu: they have zit to do with the html&javascript internet of today.
mircea_popescu: hint : the "expectations" about "what the internet is" which were build in the 90s by people about as informed or inclined to think as the current "blockchain technologies" crowd, are predicated on a MAXIMAL EXTENSION of an optimal ideal nelsonian network.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, yes, link rot and no bijection. who the fuck wants this piece of shit.
mircea_popescu: (not for the reason he cites, or at least not exactly, he fails to understand the deep rpoblems with "rights management", (which are what "version management" is in an edulcorated form)
mircea_popescu: "HTML is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT" guy.
mircea_popescu: btw, asciilifeform you know who invented "teledildonics" rite ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. if this works so well, i guess we need to sean more of sa then ?
mircea_popescu: guy got bored of being stupid, i get it, no need to pretend like HORRIBRU FORCES AFOOT.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is stolfi and who the fuck cares about his bizarro cover-up for his own retirement.
mircea_popescu: "No, you pedo-peso hoarding little shit lizard. One of your sociopathic free-market libertarian brethren took it upon themselves to threaten a real person and people around them in their place of work making them genuinely fearful."
mircea_popescu: but you could add a gas cromatograph in the exhaust, diagnose driver's odds of getting kidney stones
mircea_popescu: this is the fundamentally centralizing nature of bureaucracy. "gotta have one king, and preferably he be dead."
mircea_popescu: bureaucracy at work. "one thing got away and all other things got to be that thing now. because easier to have a central exception"
mircea_popescu: lol im sure the "blue" is purely concindental. not like trying to pretend it's not piss.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so he paid 1mn for 20% of fish + 20% of million. so he paid in the end 800k for 20% of fish, so he got fish at 1mn with 20% discount.
mircea_popescu: dude. richard has a fish. peter has a million. they make a deal, now peter has 20% of (fish+million).
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla but there's also my unnamed one as well as bucephalus or w/e the recent one got called.
mircea_popescu: he doesn't trade 1mn for 20% of richard's company. he trades 1mn for 20% of richard's company and 20% of 1mn.
mircea_popescu: anyway, 20% discount because he gets to own 20% of the million he brought himself, as well as of richard's company.
mircea_popescu: it now occurs to me this is maybe not even coincidental.
mircea_popescu idly hoovered over the faces, saw various VC minded folks, didn't realise retweets are a different rubric.
mircea_popescu: because new chick on the block (social media expert in civil life) insisted to make a bunch of those shits YESTERDAY
mircea_popescu: you know who else liked it a lot ? twitter, apaprently!
mircea_popescu: shinohai not bad but wrong proportion. i need landscape that's portrait.
mircea_popescu: how about banks start experimenting with fitting my cock up their uvula.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i don't really want line art. i want stuff more like that yeah