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mircea_popescu: but "the intuition" thus formed is that you see better
mircea_popescu: this, of course, because he is diagnosing one item at a time
mircea_popescu: this mention of the snellen chart finally jarred my understanding of the very widespread misconception that closing eye improves aim accuracy
mircea_popescu: i have perfect vision, in spite of being on computers since about age 9. nevertheless, that distance is still uncomfortable for the purpose.
mircea_popescu: Kampfblatt der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung Großdeutschlands!!!
mircea_popescu: 13 yo performance, in the united states of america and the republic of congo, counts as scholarly engineering.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's nothing wrong with kid breaking up the shit in the house to make a shitty lesser something
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "It is not uncommon for the family to buy two or even three grave plots for burial."
mircea_popescu: then they wonder why no girls throwing panties. well... this would be it eh.
mircea_popescu: pity kids don't talk back more, you know ? "and you look like a movie idiot to me. where's that leave us."
mircea_popescu: well obviously misrepresentation in commercial matter is the substance of fraud, but so far, not there
mircea_popescu: wife of "big daddy wanted me to become a lawyer, I became a lawyer. he said get married, I got married. he said have kids and i had kids and now he can't stand them. so he never loved me. fine! but I appeal to your common decency! gimme some money!"
mircea_popescu: good people come from eve and bad people spawned off lillith, but americans all crawled out from between the thighs of one mae pollitt!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for fucks sake. funerals should not be fucking celebrations of life. what the fuck do they do at weddings, mourn over the dead ?
mircea_popescu: "a unique celebration of life with honor and dignity. "
mircea_popescu: "the other residents of the drab soviet prefab block of flats always envied ivan ivanovich, for this inept pretense of normalcy that he found himself on the receiving end of, even if in all fairness it was not really his fault."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: satisfied that the car is in working condition and also that it has an engine at all!
mircea_popescu: "satisfied that he understands all the conditions and obligations contained herein, that he is entering into this agreement freely and voluntarily with full knowledge of its contents, that no additional promises have been made regarding his sentence, or potential sentences, and further, that he has read this entire agreement."
mircea_popescu: t, as such, nor any "progress" in the sense of "levelling up to krishna" and supersizing your karma serving.
mircea_popescu: <phf> talking about it or presenting second hand revelations as some sort of ultimate truth completely contradicts the original intent. <<< it is altogether dubious any original intent even exists, or that "intent" as a category is at all adequate to discuss the matter. perhaps a decent approach towards what "existential" sanely means in the context is provided by the "causes not purposes" dichotomy. there is no inten
mircea_popescu: <phf> the translations are universally bad, but gave westerners first glimpses of "eastern thought" << and by westerners we mean, of course, americans.
mircea_popescu: te ever was before. ie, incompetent, superficial, a sort of "cosmo does state dept".)
mircea_popescu: (i also do not hold the view that indians EVER made scholarly anything. nor do i believe people like bharara or the raj schmuck recently mentioned are part of the western tradition, in spite of doing a passible job of masquerading it. the DA's office with bharara in it simple ceased to be much akin to the US DA and more like a fetid indian "institution", just like state with rice was more like state hence than like sta
mircea_popescu feels compelled to point out re phf's worthy evaluation of topic that a significant part of eliade's said evaluation was drilling a local dude's daughter.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, got a meeting now, will be back later we can drink this issue under the table.
mircea_popescu: because that's what always crawls out of woman : a barely aggregated pile of shit.
mircea_popescu: phf tito was, like stalin was, originally, a hood rat.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and comparing the equivalent of shooting yourself in the head to cleaning a car is disingenuous, at least. << it is. meanwhile it't can't possibly be ingenious, because what goes on in man's mind is incomprehensible. be it bullet or whatever else.
mircea_popescu: not that fucking many big guns available. all fucking guns are their standard size, being as they are industrial products.
mircea_popescu: the bullshit is unchanged for 5000 years, first hand observers report it is "exceptionally so and so". and all guns ever used in robberies are BIG
mircea_popescu: eh, they're always much more insidious for being the ones you saw.
mircea_popescu: the notion that "the situation is livable" and "he'll figure it out" and you know, the previous inhavitant was russian so there's satellite dishes.
mircea_popescu: what do you suppose prevents man from cleaning out the trash from his car ?
mircea_popescu: i would propose this is an exceptionally apt comparison, incidentally. the relative economic might of chicago of the 30s as part of the us of the 30s is about where the economic might of the yugoslavia of the 50s as part of the eu+ru of the 50s stands ; the stalin-hoover equality is not particularly inept, on many scores (and the ones where it isn't, it advantages stalin)
mircea_popescu: the mexicans that weren't derpy, you don't hear about.
mircea_popescu: capone was derpy enough to not shoot the fbi head. which is why you hear about him.
mircea_popescu: phf capone was a dollop tho. stalin didn't get tito, tax evasion or no tax evasion.
mircea_popescu: "he struck the fear of god into the local telco monopoly, your honor" "oh shit. 20 life sentences!11"
mircea_popescu: go break into their trunk box, cut the connection to home, install your own firmware ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: o hey, apparently they figured out outgoing worked by reading teh logs :D
mircea_popescu: julius caesar lived his entire life paycheck to paycheck.
mircea_popescu: move to romania. easily best internet service in all of the western world.
mircea_popescu: business means "here's what we do and here's how to pay".
mircea_popescu: i thought they got a monopoly. how else would you do it ?
mircea_popescu: first you plan then you budget, not the other way around!
mircea_popescu braces for that sweet sweet time when alf's power goes out weekly and he STILL sticks around.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field keks, thgey want you to pay them to fix their network for them ?