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mircea_popescu: phf don't get me wrong, i'd love for it to work. i'd also love for the "not beating kids makes them smarter" and "all education should consist of is encouragement" nonsense to work.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the top google result for i will pay for your tits is still me.
mircea_popescu: but i liked the part about "he abandoned twitter so is no longer reachable"
mircea_popescu: so the solution remains to plug the holes in the heads. either alf style, with bullets, or else wot style, or somehow unknown yet.
mircea_popescu: it turns out that the sort of people who write good code write it in asm for a z80 or in c
mircea_popescu: phf iirc this theory was variously tried and failed to deliver.
mircea_popescu: "a chity so chic its name even starts with chicloaca maxima!"
mircea_popescu: (usually cheapest here means - just get someone to edit your apache server logs)
mircea_popescu: it's about the same as buying "seer advice". you can pay as much as you want to, but you should buy the cheapest.
mircea_popescu: sadly stitches are not a unit of account, pete_dushenski
mircea_popescu: nothing nbc bought in the past 2-12-20 billion has turned out worth anything
mircea_popescu: apparently obamacare doesn't make the lithium strong enough anymore.
mircea_popescu: is the new owner advising people against trusting the new owner ?
mircea_popescu: from listening attentively to the music and thus prevents the onset of that dreaded thing, thought. For:
mircea_popescu: though it is manipulated from time to time so as to make sure that only light music will come out of it. I know people who will keep the radio playing all through a meal and at the same time continue talking just loudly enough for the voices and the music to cancel out. This is done with a definite purpose. The music prevents the conversation from becoming serious or even coherent, while the chatter of voices stops one
mircea_popescu: The music-and if possible it should be the same music for everybody-is the most important ingredient. Its function is to prevent thought and conversation, and to shut out any natural sound, such as the song of birds or the whistling of the wind, that might otherwise intrude. The radio is already consciously used for this purpose by innumerable people. In very many English homes the radio is literally never turned off,
mircea_popescu: saw the film of that thing, because hot chick. was thoroughly disappointed.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it's a great show, starting maybe about 5-6-7 or so but be prepared to support the kid by not being a hypocrite cop-out sorta parent. which always sounds a lot easier than it turns out to be
mircea_popescu: it's a pity they took southpark the route of this hot topic "let's stand in front random news event of the week"
mircea_popescu: plus exactly the right brand of anarchic anti-authoritarian, sexually innuendo-ian and so forth
mircea_popescu: if you ever want to introduce a kid to surrealism, c&c is the way to go.
mircea_popescu loved both cow&chicken and animaniacs. not THAT generational.
mircea_popescu: this "giving" bs is like lifting kids up to the basketball hoop. pointless and boring.
mircea_popescu: <phf> it's not like you end up giving out trash, i lose books that i then have to buy again << seriously, giving women books is fucktarded. either order her to buy and read it, or forget it.
mircea_popescu: and similarly moore's mostly an opportunist. nevertheless, they represent the neverending hope of the countless christine wiigs out there, between fargo and paris (wi) that they to one day could be famous!
mircea_popescu: <phf> i thought Thompson was mostly a polemicist, are there any articles of his where he successfully "blows a lid" off something? << no.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform linked cryptome article badly stitched together effort of random derp to get his name out there ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> 'they' are the single, solitary source of all things even vaguely resembling that which they claim to defend against. << who, the soviets ?
mircea_popescu: <mats> i chatted up a cutie at the farmers market today << win.
mircea_popescu: but i can't breathe the air in the same room with these.
mircea_popescu has for many years now meditated on this point, but i do not think i loathe or despise any class more than the bureaucrat. i have no problem hanging out with convicted murderes, wanton rapists, the insane, dying men or women, and probably aliens
mircea_popescu: and all the personal bravure of "but the teacher said!"
mircea_popescu: all the intellectual curiosity of "will this be on the exam"
mircea_popescu: endless parrotting of uncomprehended, mechanically learned pseudoscience and assorted factoidal half truths for the daily dose of congratulatory popcorn from the poor teacher.
mircea_popescu: those insufferable kids that can't think so they try to compensate by "Working hard"
mircea_popescu is rather nonplussed at how social media in its "experts exchange" format has given rise to what amounts to a distributed network of "experts" recruited from among the highschool "metalworkers" as they were called
mircea_popescu: you do all the rounds for your platforms maxint ANYWAY
mircea_popescu: if the implementation allows me to discover stuff about the exponent through timing the thing, it's broken
mircea_popescu: somehow innovative derps lifting stuff manage to effectually squander the scant opportunities their good fate and their betters' peculiarities afford.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why i keep engaging random nobodies online, but hey.