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mircea_popescu: williamdunne they dont have sex jail in the czech republic.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well i plan to shoot a few schmucks first. so just as soon as they can line up enough schmucks willing to be shot.
mircea_popescu: "we reject gender specialisation, which is not something anyone asked us about - to focus on professional specialization, which is both impossible and counterproductive"
mircea_popescu: williamdunne wouldja stop trying to make her decisions for her ?
mircea_popescu: there is a deep link between sex and communication, not least of all because sex is the communication of biological material.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field but to round it off : i am unimpressed with that utter fear of all usian pencildicks, "omg prison". seriously, lifetime pension ? tyvm. i am also unimpressed with the "difficulties" of "orcs" aka niggers in the us. i have never had a problem making sense of them or the reverse. and THIS is why i say the flight to suburbus is a purely sexual problem.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne if you're that kind, which i hadn't judged you for. else, "wanna go for a bite after work ?"
mircea_popescu: ie, the place working to make missile controls and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: chetty oh, and no "access control" either. as late as 1988 you cvould just fucking WALK INTO the super-secret-only-not-military-because-the-smart-kids-hated-corporals itci
mircea_popescu was blessed with an early life in a land with no elevators
mircea_popescu: how much fucking polymacy does it take to get a fucking joke!
mircea_popescu: i have no doubt it is essentially correct, which is why i speak for isis more than i speak for the usg.
mircea_popescu: i merely speak of this : that when baker tells you a joke about yeast, you'd better fucking get it and laugh.
mircea_popescu: im not talking, previously, against specialisation in the anti intellectual, acultural manner you seem to have taken in.
mircea_popescu: just how fucking hard is it to speak another's language ?
mircea_popescu: you recall the amply discussed "soviet realisation". the funny thing is, those people's sons had... a very similar realisation.
mircea_popescu: up until that point, the big reveal (for him), where he discovers that his inferiority complex to "civilisation" is unfounded.
mircea_popescu: it demands an explanation. WHY is it that the brit can't talk to the other ? he DID actually come in peace.
mircea_popescu: why exactly can't a random english kid talk the basic language of the other ?
mircea_popescu: and the russian tries to talk to the brit. plainly, man to man. it involves some kickjumps in the vegetation. the other backs off like a cat from a calendar.
mircea_popescu: and there's a most endeering scheme where he and the current guy his girl is ... with, let's say, walk in the woods.
mircea_popescu: the way this movie is generally perceived is "oh, russian mob and mail order bride scam". nothing of the kind. the russian boy is pretty much playing it by the ear,
mircea_popescu: she, of course, has a boy back home. and that boy... comes to check her out.
mircea_popescu: an excelent film, see it sometime. the plot is that a russian whore (which just means woman in her 20s) sells herself off to an english eunuch
mircea_popescu: given the lure of exotism, the only stable result here is where australia is a terrorist regime and all the guys sit around discussing immigration reform.
mircea_popescu: then a kid from australia comes by, wants to play tennis, and well... none of the boys can play. because... mind you... not their speciality.
mircea_popescu: at which point, guy specializes, and takes rachel. another guy, coming later, takes hanna. for less effort, but lesser pickings. and so with everyone.
mircea_popescu: a decade passes, and the thirteen year old is confronted with the sad circumstance that hanna likes basketball players and rachel likes football players, and to become either you gotta talk to the respective coach, and the coach says you gotta spend all your time practicing. well... he can't readily spend all his time twice over.
mircea_popescu: guy is 3. he is easily the equal of anything life throws his way. master of his destiny, the three year old roars.
mircea_popescu: to their waiter - which they don't have - to their doctor - which idem - to their life, whatever it means, they're interchangeable.
mircea_popescu: consequently nobody's responsible for anything and whatever.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i dunno about insects, but it is certainly a cheap if ineffectual way to assuage one's feelings of inadequacy.
mircea_popescu: for otherwise, as the romanian expression goes, "nu ma prea vad in clar"
mircea_popescu: but i have some, however marginal, hope - that by the time i actually do, one might actually exist.
mircea_popescu: he was very much what i describe (not really what you charicaturize, obviously)
mircea_popescu: i was about six, and my parents somehow had found an old jew - complete with chained pocketwatch - to be my personal physician
mircea_popescu: i dunno... iirc mod6 couldn't get the laptop to open last i saw him :D
mircea_popescu: nonspecialisation would be strictly a better outcome. the only problem with it is that it relies on falsifying the "we are all human" dogma.
mircea_popescu: yes, this means that three people out of five would starve. guess what ? four of five starve now.
mircea_popescu: i propose to you that a team of two people selected from five that are only informed in general computer sanity can produce in the same time better software than the sum of all five, each schooled in one specialisation : sysadmin, webdev, db management, ux and marketing.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to formalize a positive form for this, not merely the negative :
mircea_popescu: is he more convergent than you, also ? can you apply CBS to your own monotony "to some degree" ?
mircea_popescu: in any case the actual pashtuns might be nonplussed by the proposition.
mircea_popescu: doubt the comparison "more pashtun than x" can be declared in scopes where nobody's killed anyone for honor.,
mircea_popescu: adults do this sometimes with children, pretend-give them things to motivate them "for their own good".
mircea_popescu: not more necessary than the goods it actually provides are.
mircea_popescu: specialisation is, much akin to geting used to narrow spaces, a necessary evil.
mircea_popescu: specialisation is not the unilaterally superlative good it is presented as.
mircea_popescu: but a) it all lasted as long as the sputnik and b) i forget what i wanted to be b.
mircea_popescu: and yes by 1955ish they were almost on par with the post-war us, on accounts of not being saddled with the baby bloomers.
mircea_popescu: yes, by 44 they were doing okay, as far as everyone in europe was doing ok after five years of war.