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mircea_popescu: there's this very strange delusion where twerps on the internet and beyond imagine someone, somewhere, (important! secret!) gives a shit what they do.
mircea_popescu: or more importantly, that there IS such a thing as servants, and such a thing as a line for them to keep to.
mircea_popescu: here we sit discussing "elites" in a space that doesn't even know how to keep the servants in line
mircea_popescu: and yes, anyone else contemplating the same position'd better get in their skulls that no, they don't get to fuck around on the job.
mircea_popescu: someone "paid to be nice^H^H^H^H be my servant who fucks up his DUTIES is going to be called to task. before a sound beating.
mircea_popescu: " Snapping, clapping, yelling, whistling or just general rudeness to someone waiting on you are a sure sign to anyone in your company that if they spend enough time around you, you’ll eventually treat them with the same selfish nonchalance and disdain that you treat those who are paid to be nice to you."
mircea_popescu: "oh, you have no clue about composition so take refuge in the bullet point ? go back to the hoe."
mircea_popescu: even english lit professors a few decades ago would have laughed this pedestrian bullshit out of class.
mircea_popescu: pretty sad indictment of the intellectual capacity of the people behind it.
mircea_popescu: check it out - everything on the internet is a list now.
mircea_popescu: don't covet another man's fleet of ships, gaggle of cunts or flock of deer.
mircea_popescu: may be a false friend, it comes from a time when wives were just another kind of chattel.
mircea_popescu: in sane languaged jealousy is sexual and envy material
mircea_popescu: i ask because this is a fine example of english being a pigdin, where dictionaries don't define and nothing means anything specific
mircea_popescu: but it can never BE a fox, while living. nor can these pencilnecks be elite.
mircea_popescu: they can hang as elite, sure. a hare can hang as a fox.
mircea_popescu: you gotta ask the girl out to be a man. that's the bar. you don't ask, you're not a man. you hint at her you might like to, you're a lesbian trapped in a transsexual's body, not a man.
mircea_popescu: and to think 99% odds are all these shenanigans is because the sexually deprived twerp was trying to get laid with some marginally fuckable middle aged woman.
mircea_popescu: decimation adding that nonsense to the porcfest nonsense (or was it burning man ?) i'll lol once every house in the us has to have a special bathroom for any visiting cops
mircea_popescu: i guess neartly all locales in the us are fortunate i don't give a shiot about building anything there.
mircea_popescu: ima build a fucking wizard tower on my own land if i feel so inclined, and if anyone doesn't like it ima add cannons to it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the notion of "approved" for construction is foreign to my mental universe.
mircea_popescu: in a shitty 70s suit, looking like they won the zoo lottery and it's more monkeys.
mircea_popescu: phf yeah, middle aged men looking about as sad as the nayor of mew york.
mircea_popescu: mats the kennedys never went out with a "we're better than you, so do it this way"
mircea_popescu: im all for prosecuting them AS IF THEY WERE, it's right and proper.
mircea_popescu: which is the tell tale sign of the absence of such an elite.
mircea_popescu: and charged with anything but "failing to respect the elite"
mircea_popescu: if i go up to obama and take a leak on his shoes he's going to say "that's inappropriate" isn't he.
mircea_popescu: who exactly, outside of that idiot mit kid, actually says "we are the elite and move out of our way" ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno that the us has an elite. merely a perception of such a thing does not cosntitute one.
mircea_popescu: people like that black dude in wc metro are actually helping.
mircea_popescu: now if the us could just get over itself collectively and reach the humility of chinese peasants cca 1970, the us would be all ready to be china thirty years ago.
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah. and the impression i got, from there an' everywhyere lese, is exactlly this : neat execution, uninnovative.
mircea_popescu: you can now get a 70kwh battery for cheaper than in 1995.
mircea_popescu: decimation well, hes improved the mass production part.
mircea_popescu: the more resources one throws at a wrong problem, the more thoroughly reviled.
mircea_popescu: which incidentally, since you don't ask, is exactly how love and hate works in this channel.
mircea_popescu: the problem is, idiots working on wrong problems are not a net win for humanity.
mircea_popescu: anyway. yes, electric car is a piece of shit submarine-airplane joint nonsense, specifically because there is no battery equivalent of fuel.
mircea_popescu: mats could have been lol but it lost me at "post-quantum"