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mircea_popescu: seems to me jungle is everywhere cut down by diesel engines.
mircea_popescu is looking forward to his friends building own cars, will have inexhaustible supply of french fries thusly.
mircea_popescu: trinque what is this, "i'll date once i'm rich enough for it to work" ?
mircea_popescu: ie : when it works you didn't need it, and when it doesn't it doesn't help you anyway.
mircea_popescu: i can and have. it works as well as you'd expect, if you thinkj about it.
mircea_popescu: much like the alchemists of yore tricked the kings of yore
mircea_popescu: fuck revolution, i want a computer that does what i mean.
mircea_popescu: trinque as a boy, i was very distraught to find from my mother that if one invents something, he doesn't merely have to say what it should be
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure. intelligence not impeached. just, there's this entire "genius" myth built around him because it was a particular time in the letters.
mircea_popescu: alf has a good point, there IS an appeal to making own car.
mircea_popescu: i thought finns drank fermented herring and what is this "beer".
mircea_popescu: or that other time when he thought he had lost and well... the officers carried ?
mircea_popescu: heh. know about that one time he forgot about a coupla divisions ?
mircea_popescu: im enamoured with this ballas notion - 1%, 14% aspies, 85% derps.
mircea_popescu: you know, incidentally, im not so sure that 99.999% figure.
mircea_popescu: problem is - you'll prolly start a revolution by first building a country.
mircea_popescu: but it seems a lot to me like making my own car. holy shit i'd much rather have a car someone else toiled with.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would i want my own daughter. i suppose i should table this until i somehow have one,
mircea_popescu: but, provided you don't actually die. what. do. you. do.
mircea_popescu: and that "acquired" part is a lot of time and a lot of resources and so on.
mircea_popescu: an acquired taste. not something one can just jump into.
mircea_popescu: but i must point out that it's likely same as how i enjoy horse riding
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is not unlike street urchin's idea of wealthy
mircea_popescu: you're moses, up on the mountain, you're smith with his fucking stupid hat and the even more stupid but full of themselves early americans
mircea_popescu: decimation no buyt see, it's an important problem. "so you're on the stage, alright now - what do you say ?"
mircea_popescu: revolution for people who couldn't afford to fight the king.
mircea_popescu: phf why byron "did it" = had a bunch of chlorotic virgins say stupid shit about him ?
mircea_popescu: trinque it doesn't follow you should give a shit about yourself ; it doesnt follow even admitting that the world is of interest.
mircea_popescu: ah, that's plainly obvious. they;'re appealing like rape is appealing. their bloody violence is sexually satisfying.
mircea_popescu: because, mind, if you actually got something to say might as well say it.
mircea_popescu: which brings us right back to, "what do you wish to say, anyway"
mircea_popescu: random derp who inherits a wall street firm, also authority.
mircea_popescu: phf well if you can explain the difference between these two...
mircea_popescu: and then get clueless working cl;ass kids thinking "it's theiur calling" because totally, that's how the world works, with "Callings"
mircea_popescu: a lot could be said about it, let aside that nobodyu'd care, so why shouldn't a phd be offered ? once it's offered, why should it wear a red striope in its id, "this shit's pointless nutso stuff fopr rich people" ?
mircea_popescu: i am bracving myself for the "sociology of sociologists of obscure fields" phd.
mircea_popescu: "sociology of the theatre" ? such deadly refinement by now.
mircea_popescu: the 100 mn business majors looking to change the world in the US notably ARE energetic enough to run macdonalds.