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mircea_popescu: the weirdest prt being that what, you actually have to organize columbian prostitutes to fuck gringos now ?
mircea_popescu: Trey Gowdy of South Carolina asked, “What would it take to get fired at the DEA? The DEA agents I used to work with were worried about using their cars to pick up dry-cleaning.”
mircea_popescu: During an appearance before the House Oversight Committee on April 14, Leonhart faced aggressive questioning over the punishment imposed on agents who were found to be engaging in “sex parties” in Colombia with prostitutes that were funded by drug cartels. Expressing displeasure that the agents were given suspensions of between two and 10 days and did not lose their positions or security clearance, Republican Rep.
mircea_popescu: teh lion does not go into song after lightening the lioness' load.
mircea_popescu: the alternative is nothing. murder's not something to be explained.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as i can see why people'd tend to represent it as no choice at all
mircea_popescu: i can see why people that just killed a kid would tend to represent this as a choice
mircea_popescu: "SHYLOCK: Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond, thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud: repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall to cureless ruin. I stand here for law."
mircea_popescu: if some "public interest" however defines "exceeds" however defined my pleasure at cutting the bankrupt's heart, what of it ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no, just, the approach is meaningless. who cares what outweighs what.
mircea_popescu: all the derps pushing gaw, for instance, neglected proper causes of action because of their retarded dreams as to the future.
mircea_popescu: it's squarely irrelevant "where this leads". lead it where it may, do it or don't do it on some basis other than you know, "expectations".
mircea_popescu: ascii_lander the idea that you can calculate the sum-value-in-the-future for alternative courses of actions and pick like you pick an investment
mircea_popescu: it's been amply documented and vastly shown to not work, one's probably better served by reading the past three centuries of various attempts.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this entire discussion of interests and bs... i dunno that there's any value in trying to re-write the protestant ethics-as-capitalism.
mircea_popescu: monkeys do not, either. they eventually learn to, but if you watch it specifically, the difference is striking.
mircea_popescu: and kids are drastically distinguishable from animals, at any age.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it doesn't. if something makes sense to only one gender, specifically, it's probably stupid.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this "natural" thing... shitting in the bed is also natural. something being natural offers little ethical indication.
mircea_popescu: ascii_lander notrly how this works. cheapest computer is not "no computer". that's cheapest noncomputer.
mircea_popescu: if it doesn't make sense to women, it doesn't make sense to men, either. whether they're poorly equipped to figure it out or not, notwithstanding.
mircea_popescu: point being, the strong push weak pull device drives all performance, but performance is a byproduct.
mircea_popescu: unrelated. it's a false bridge between the two example cases.
mircea_popescu: as a result, coriolis storms, rainbows, deep throating and daisies.
mircea_popescu: the sun wants particles strongly energized, thermodynamics wants particles weakly de-energized.
mircea_popescu: females strongly wish the offspring to survive. males weakly wish the offspring to perish.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i don't think any woman is going to score the male propensity to infanticide positively.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it's actually not bad. well,m the better stuff anyway
mircea_popescu: ascii_lander meanwhile i'm like, "yeah totally, go read trilema tomorrow."
mircea_popescu: and then start shooting at any groups of cops larger than one.
mircea_popescu: put up signs "groups of police not allowed on this property. come alone or get shot."
mircea_popescu: "She got the dogs safely out of the house, just as multiple armed agents rushed inside. Some even barged into the bathroom, where her partner was in the shower."
mircea_popescu: and if earthworms knew what their fate is they'd miss being the emperors of china, and the throne.
mircea_popescu: i used to read diskedit printouts looking for Stoned B as a kid, i CAN do it.
mircea_popescu: so is the consensus that one can't be tech savvy without being a programmer ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_lander yes but like jourdain speaking in prose, he might not realise that's what it is.
mircea_popescu: i was speaking of the proper term, illegal as deemed by the most serene republic.
mircea_popescu: lol john deere selling "licenses to operate" tractors now ?
mircea_popescu: we prolly all ended up on it because someone or other did a harvesting run of ba stuff
mircea_popescu: how exactly does the us expect to ever be taken seriously ?
mircea_popescu: "On Monday, Manhattan supreme court justice Barbara Jaffe granted a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of two non-human plaintiffs"