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mircea_popescu: it deeply fascinates me how alf does feel the need to maintain a -publicly stated!!!- corpus of humanities cannon, yet nevertheless does not feel this need about a corpus of software cannon.
mircea_popescu: "and here's me in front of the sphinx. notice this other guy is speaking to me about the sphinx"
mircea_popescu: it's this entire "try to find a trend to stand in front of"
mircea_popescu: and it kept going to shit. once english bowmen owned french cataphracts
mircea_popescu: in this sense it went to shit once legion surpassed phalanx.
mircea_popescu: it's "to shit" every time the contest moves from "who can hold his position in front of enemy with nary a care" to "who can hide best".
mircea_popescu: notrly. recall the unfortunate adventure of one mr orsini ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes software is nevertheless eating law. except it happens somewhere other than there.
mircea_popescu: as orwell well observed, the airplane and the radio turned the war into a game of rats.
mircea_popescu: and the only thing "being a veteran" means is, "having loaded an endless list of don'ts"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the vet knew enough from experience to know the war is now a defensive affair, and the only thing that matters is not being killed.
mircea_popescu: why ? why should he wish for this ? after all, goebbels well observed "their determination" will make up for the lack of weaponry.
mircea_popescu: i guess this is to some degree true. war changes to favour offensive or defensive in a cycle. there's an excelent scene in der untergang, where a veteran field officer surveying the killing zone through stereoscopic periscope sees a bunch of green vulksstrums and yells for them to get the very fuck out of there already!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's five lines up from where you say "yes massa"
mircea_popescu: admire the irony of having been defeated by a quote from a videogame, in your quest to defend the videogame war.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform originally tried by michail paleologos as "heavenly host"
mircea_popescu: i always wondered if any star trek fans ever wondered what happens to the spaceship once saying "shields up!!" "shoot lasers!!" etc stops returning "enemy destroyed"
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.decimation.-1:e02efb9e5119b44094f8e4c6c945e9317990425cc57168b24cb7ab8c0db78d5b
mircea_popescu: !rate decimation -1 Guy's been soft working teh #b-a for about a year and a half. Needless to say, it didn't work out.
mircea_popescu: and, i might add, symptomatically, for the perspectives of being a libertard, the newly branded ustardian puritan.
mircea_popescu: (masturbation, spending time alone, and generally not being a jock also parts of disease of gayness)
mircea_popescu: worked about as well as you'd expect, on the basis of the record of ustardian puritans.
mircea_popescu: and if ytou cut it off the boys will be protected by Utilihova from becoming filthy fags.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla ironically, because puritans of the 50s thought that the foreskin is a major factor in the disease of gayness
mircea_popescu: and i am still reeling over how imbecillic philg got over the years srsly.
mircea_popescu: why the everloving fuck would i want a car with better hidden failure modes from the creators of the car that sucked.
mircea_popescu: consumer culture, that's it. "the car you sold me sucked, i want you to give me another one"
mircea_popescu: who the fuck in his right mind goes for seconds at the place that fucked it up.
mircea_popescu: "you roll 22 and bust, you should double your bid!!11"
mircea_popescu: Adlai the only thing he can accomplish there is ben_vulpes' breakfast.
mircea_popescu: just like "the classical antiquity" seems to have made such excellent bronzes mostly because only the excellent ones survived the 9000+ cases where "must melt all bronze to make weapons".
mircea_popescu: i actually think its curve-based. women just have better aesthetics.
mircea_popescu: it's just, nobody cares about men, women people still care about.
mircea_popescu: but the original, socialistoid, eisenhowerian proposition that "soldiering's a job - full employment!" died in a pool of its own lye.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it still is. who wants most people as pets ? not even the coyotes.
mircea_popescu: and thinking making a bit of plastic "go naked to tea party" is a big todo
mircea_popescu: it's play-pretend work, for the intellectually immature girlies not yet ready to make their own dolls, still playing with barbie
mircea_popescu: this entire "monkey with electric typerwriter" pseudo-occupation play-pretend-job that unites gawker, reddit and 4chan is NOT IN FACT WORK
mircea_popescu: other than stay the fuck at home and have babies, or else go to the bar and dance (the vertical bar ; nude dance) there is jack for her to do.
mircea_popescu: computers replaced secretaries. drones replaced soldiers. robots replaced coal miners. better detergents replaced the maid.
mircea_popescu: i know pretty much everyone here is very down on the whole concept, and perhaps you're right. but in point of fact, that thinking is at least in part supported by refusal to consider the plain fact that THERE IS NOTHING USEFUL FOR MOST WOMEN TO DO.
mircea_popescu: it's one of the precursors. i saw that and i went "fucking hell, pipes. again. the solution."
mircea_popescu: may i grow up into an adult as a personal process and in my own terms ? huh ? HUH ???
mircea_popescu: punkman he's probably in it for the titties. until he discovers some discoveries. which is in the end the point of both travel and being a young male.
mircea_popescu: "everything that runs on this machine is fifty lines of code or less. one display page."
mircea_popescu: fuck alf's "fit in head". if it's large enough to ever need updating it shouldn't have made in the first place.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: shinohai no but i just feel for the guy, gentoo is the last thing that made me want to burn the world, and through a very similar process as he describes.
mircea_popescu: and just you, i don't wanna be fucking bankrupt over here.
mircea_popescu: <n6> Um, I'm in way over my head and going on 17 hours of gentoo << take your picture with your sad face next to a screen with gentoo failing on it, i'll pay you 0.1 BTC. just to prove a point.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: practically speaking, even a dozen requires a veteran crew.
mircea_popescu: aegis can't even track that many, because "nobody could have foreseen how useless this shit is"