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mircea_popescu: in other news pete_dushenski is actually a pretty clever auctioneer, once he overcomes not having done homewerks
through listening
to
the market chatter.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-15 18:49 phf: actually funniest "charitable" pretense is some years ago kate michaels raising money for underprivileged kids so
that
they can play polo. every
time i remember it i crack up
Framedragger: (it's more like
them just
talking in
the film, i must say it is really a nice watch)
Framedragger: another film recommendation by association - documentary: "whore's glory" - by one glawogger (who died from malaria or somesuch while filming in liberia or somewheresuch), a bunch of interviews with whores in bangladesh,
thailand etc
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i certainly spent way more
time chatting with whores
than fucking
them. no regrets.
phf: the kind of people who
think
that
the only better way
to say no
to a beautiful russian sex girl is
to do it over a form
Framedragger: "
The phone rang shortly after I drifted off. No more jet lag; I jumped out of bed and picked up
the phone. Now I'll find out who's been calling, I
thought. ``Would you like beautiful Russian sex girl?'' a woman asked. ``No,
thank you,'' I said. Couldn't you just hand out forms at
the front desk? I
thought. I went back
to sleep. "
pete_dushenski: another dumb q :
the auction convo just happens in
the 'auction'
tab, yes ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: where does
the eulora client hide
the in-game logs ?
phf: actually funniest "charitable" pretense is some years ago kate michaels raising money for underprivileged kids so
that
they can play polo. every
time i remember it i crack up
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this somewhat in
the vein of "i want
to believe
these eggs weren't actually shat by
the dumbest
thing on
the farm."
phf: i want
to believe
that
there's a dusty attic somewhere on upenn campus, grandfathered in of course, with a library and a secret liquor store, where boys wearing ascots meet
to discuss
their progress at becoming men
phf: so it's a divergent process, you have mediocrity
taking over, while excellence retreating
phf: other
two would never even consider
phf: i have
two or
three friends who were proud of
their ivy fraternities, and i checked, umd had a chapter for one of
them, stopped qualifying sometime in
the 80s
phf: umd is a public school,
there's not necessarily "tradition of excellence" when it comes sororities/fraternities. it's
the least common denominator herding kind of
thing, with corresponding activities
mircea_popescu: "somebody who has no other options, evidently" "oh yeah, and HOW did
they end up not having other options ?" "ikr! SOCIALISM FOREVAR!!1"
mircea_popescu: anyway,
this shift from "spend your free
time getting better and let
the others acquire
that as best
they can"
to "spend your free
time giving yourself for free and forget improvement" is very much
the reason america even needs
to be made great again. r&d ended up cut out of
the loop as it were ; who wants
the
time of some dork "as she is".
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski well
there is
that nice video of
the girl sticking dildos inside etc
mircea_popescu: at some point in
the 60s/70s it was mostly about personal achievement
phf: i'm pretty sure
that whole angle is never going away, at least it was as strong while i was
there. one sort of complements
the other.
mircea_popescu: so it kept pushing
teenage ditzes into old people's homes and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: you know, sororities supposedly existed not
to get
the members deflowered but
to "service
the community"
mircea_popescu: is
the "charitable" pretense
that was going on in
the 90s still going strong or is it starting
to go away ?
phf: left of
the line it runs on campus housing,
the
three bars where everyone gets shitface and
then sororities (i suspect fraternities are also
there, but no idea)
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: yup, ready
to rock in 60 mins for
the auction.
phf: actually,
this is pretty hilarious. because you can walk a reasonably straight line and get: compsci, electric engineering, chemistry, math, student center, political science, cultural studies, arts, business buildings in
that order
mircea_popescu: and
the ~only "media"
they study in
this "multimedia" is youtube shorts.
mircea_popescu: label entirely bereft of any meaning, it's like going
to cooking school called "alchemy"
phf: right,
there's a very distinct continuum, with compsci building on one end and rhsmith of business on
the other
mircea_popescu: and "communications" and "arts" and "multimedia" and "drama" and
the list goes on
phf: well, umd campus is large, and
tech buildings are, as is usually
the case, are in
the remote corner. you have
to
track all
the way past
the student center,
to
the other side, where poliscy and sociology are
mircea_popescu: us college exists principally
to make young women comfortable with being naked in public and such basics, as far as anyone can
tell.
mircea_popescu: phf i was
thinking, wtf, college for any other purpose
than slut magnet ? where's he live.
phf: missing
the quarterbackers from your list
mircea_popescu: "we created ai
that can pass any college exam. it... counts letters."
mircea_popescu: actually (evidently nobodyu's done
this, because hurr, experts, hurr, cryptographers, hurr durr) but it would be amusing
to run simple word length averaging on random selection of multiple choice
tests, see how often you can crack it with no other measure
mircea_popescu: phf it's interesting how un-alphabetic
their approach is, also. "you will learn
these
three hieroglyphs ; and shame on mp for using longer words
than 4 letters, it's not really writing when you do
that!"
mircea_popescu: at a
time
the usian methodists etc were
trying hard
to resist
that
tide all over east coast mill
towns
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt it needed any help with
that ; by churchill's
time england was entirely
that already. started in manchester cca 1800s.
mircea_popescu: dude
they don't have
to be stupid just because
they're stupid.
mircea_popescu: same
thing with fucking apple, "we'll make
tools
that make
the users dumb but happy". really ? and who will defend you, when
the guys who made
their users smart but uncomfortable come seeking your head ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the bankruptcy of
this approach would be evident
to anyone functionally literate. or for
that matter vaguely numerate.
mircea_popescu: it has
to be mp in #trilema,
there's nobody among all
those according-to-them important
thinkers
to have added
these
twos
together.
mircea_popescu: somehow exactly nobody in
the idiocratic party stood up at
the convention and said "the reason we couldn't get our girl elected is
that for 30 years while we had
the resources, we squandered
them on sucking black dick instead of spending
them on whips for
the same blacks"
mircea_popescu: you don't fucking want
to gain approval in
the herd at
the cost of diminishing herd quality. who
the fuck runs a herd like
this!
mircea_popescu: somehow
the idiocy of self-hat-stealing is never evident. and it's not just a matter of politics. single-wife marriages are generally exercises in "trying
to keep
the woman as stupid as possible". why, exactly ? not like she's not your woman, if you make her dumb who
the fuck is going
to defend you when you run into a guy with a dozen women and a fleet of battleships ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but it also produces a 90% majority of people who nevertheless can't "influence
the elections"
phf: the whole point of "no child left" is
to skew literacy rates
through standardized multiple choice. "by
the end of
this course you will recognize
the words dog, cat and food.
this will also be in
the
test"
mircea_popescu: o look,
the wikipedia article on "white flight" manages
to somehow be all about "environmental racism" and other bullshit.
mircea_popescu: and it also hides
the fact
that half of
those under 30 aren't qualified
to be dressed in public under
the "one in
three" all ages bs.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "A Robert Emery 2007 report found
that about one-third of Washington residents are functionally illiterate, compared
to a national rate of about one in five."
mircea_popescu: but it was under 50% white in 2011 for
the first
time, mind.
mircea_popescu: there is some substance
to what you say in
the sense
that it gains like 10k per year.