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mircea_popescu: we currently have 29 like 4 times (expected 2ish) and 11 or 13 0 times
mircea_popescu: "we the people" misunderstood as "we the pointlessly hopeful and unwarrantedly aspirational"
mircea_popescu: (dali did a lot better, but dali quite specifically whored out to power rather than to plebes)
mircea_popescu: "The great thing about /r/fatpeoplehate was it was a prominent (6th most active) part of an extremely popular website. This is too private; we aren't pissing off fatties being here."
mircea_popescu: what, dja think those people imagine they're making a better world ?
mircea_popescu: how's this different from "imagine being so empty of purpose that you put actual energy into dirtying paper"
mircea_popescu: why would i bother / expend effort and energy to serve her ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field plenty of people do, actually. children certainly impulsivley hate all abnormality.
mircea_popescu: i imagine the same thing drives people to kill cockroaches / rats / assorted vermin, to wash, to choose their sex mates and to reject fatties.
mircea_popescu: and we might be able to spend our entire lives running from it
mircea_popescu: in the end, whosoever references pointers is going to end up with bitrot.
mircea_popescu: this is the crux of the entire discussion (of all text, as it were) : the ought/is debate is exactly this, observing the perils of judging by signifiers.
mircea_popescu: and judging by signifiers rather than by realities is exactly the path to perdition
mircea_popescu: but mind that reverse-indication is still not different indicatively.
mircea_popescu: "you may eat for free, but the food will make you stay here"
mircea_popescu: like, women with long nails -> do not need to work -> etc
mircea_popescu: and for the record, "accepting" fat people on the mere basis of them being fat people is exactly as morally wrong / intellectually bankrupt as hating them for the same reason.
mircea_popescu: seems an imageboard way more adequate than reddit for the purpose anyway
mircea_popescu: hint : you're well aware that eliberation is not necessarily the path to freedom. nuland's all about eliberations after all :D
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> i know exactly what i want to be free of. << my tao cat smile is thiiiiis wide
mircea_popescu: ascii_field originally it was supposed to be some thing really cool 19yo girls with a modelling/pr career say about socially marginal, sexually undesirable geeks. five to ten years later it emerged as the new cool.
mircea_popescu: if you think "they" have a different set of problems... they don't.
mircea_popescu: lobbes this is EXACTLY what wall street has tried, 1945 - 2015
mircea_popescu: sitting on thumbs and stroking cocks over "FOSS!111" has resulted in pretty much unusable software.
mircea_popescu: lobbes sure. and in exchange, should you choose to do that, you get to see how they're "phasing out" grassland
mircea_popescu: alrighty then. so apparently alf is a very convinced horse ?
mircea_popescu: only to wish the world back into the picture piecemeal as the clock ticked seconds away
mircea_popescu: or, if you prefer, that chinese story where cocklet in love wished the entire world went away and was left with just his darling
mircea_popescu: horse's notion of freedom is "the ability to run where it will". nevertheless, absent a ground to push him up and an atmosphere to push him down, the horse's freedom's not quite what he imagined, but rather painful if short an affair.
mircea_popescu: take the sexual metaphor. sure, sexual freedom would supperficially appear to be that situation where "the cunt;'s your own to do as you please". however, the cunt so liberated from a context wherein cocks make demands upon it is not in any sense something for you to do as you please, it's just a painful bit of bleeding garbage enbittering your existence.
mircea_popescu: on its own strength, two kids pulling their dicks in zurich aren't worth the time of day.
mircea_popescu: what's so special about this one that made you click ? start with that part.
mircea_popescu: so many people trying to matter in bitcoin "on their own terms" producing so much junk that's - to them, no doubt - meaningful and important that's not worth reading
mircea_popescu: most africans thing the world is africa, for that matter, and so outside of the world.
mircea_popescu: you were under the impression they're adults or something ?
mircea_popescu: either david garcia or frank whoever, chair of whatever else.