mircea_popescu: "I've noticed the same weird principle on soc.singles: the more a man needs a virtual woman, the more threatened he is by the very concept. Why is that? [Rhetorical.]" << for the exact same reason poor people understand better than rich people that they can't afford substitutes.

mircea_popescu: worst angle a girl could possibly present herself if she's not actually a pro. simply comes off as a whiny entitled pointless bitch.

mircea_popescu: BayAreaCoins so if this chick isn't a camwhore why exactly would you be pestering her.

mircea_popescu: extra points when the message doesn't even make sense in a way readily apparent to the intended demo.

mircea_popescu: i think maybe what's at work here is, that "there's no such thing as deliberate character assasination when the people trying to do it are a relatively irrelevant, powerless and uninfluential minority".

mircea_popescu: mike_c: this feels the same as "bitbet is a scam" flamewars: "[FCC levies huge fine on Stern] << it does huh.

mircea_popescu: this is why there has to be a fucking board of employment in th first place, otherwise people would happily STILL be sucking down phosphorus

mircea_popescu: "mr jurov, we have a very important mission for you. it's to fly here : X"

mircea_popescu: ok, let me put this to you. average us middle manager can't fuck his employees, because he's affraid of scandal. of the employees, at least a few would be open to being fucked

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only thing we can infer is that the whole org is made out of people motivated through income, which means it's not really a threat to anyone (other than perhaps its employer)

mircea_popescu: any "consultants" organisation of a decent size can fill an airplane with people who are costing it more than they're worth.

mircea_popescu: guy has a point.

mircea_popescu: but i guess "tactical" isn't a word anymore, and so strategy is a lost art.

mircea_popescu: the only difference here is that germany didn't have a bound border. russia does.

mircea_popescu: "o the evil german submarines sunk a passenger ship kiling everyone on board

mircea_popescu: this is a rehash of that miserable rms lusitania bullshit.

mircea_popescu: chetty what a country...

mircea_popescu: ahaha this is rich, because succession : "Social skills will decline markedly after the advent of sex robots, much like the way electronic calculators degraded arithmetic skills." "People often cope with an unsolvable problem by convincing themselves that somehow there is some purpose or need for the problem. Like it builds character or something. But when technology eliminates a problem, people soon forget about all t

mircea_popescu: punkman1 you know what a mechanical alternator is ?

mircea_popescu: punkman1 look at that, " You'll feel the wetness during penetration and orgasm, thanks to a lube reservoir that knows when and how much to release." they made bubblejet printing do something useful ?

mircea_popescu: in fact, sitting there whining about the delco cap is so unlike the blues they made a new word for it. it's emo.

mircea_popescu: A whole musical genre---the blues---showcases life failure. "Singing the blues" is figuratively what sexually worthless nerds do on Usenet, except it doesn't fly with women as unembellished prose. << o that's fucking bullshit.

mircea_popescu: "DESTROYA Upon entry, three small rings of bumps will grasp you tightly, followed by the ultra piercing pleasure dome that will give you 360 degrees of unmatched bliss. The next chamber starts with a small row of teeth and fangs that delightfully rub and pull at you. Finally, one row of large bumps leads into a super ribbed texture that narrows the farther you get inside."

mircea_popescu: my problem with sf is more personal i guess. i think i have a very finnicky suspension of disbelief, makes the mayo cut extremely easy for me.

mircea_popescu: but that's probably just me being a pompous ass.

mircea_popescu: i suspect this is a good rule of thumb. and equally good in 1700 for that matter.

mircea_popescu: Face it, movies are eye candy trash. If people want intellectual stimulation they read books. There's nothing funnier than a pseudo-intellectual trying to get pompous about "film." << fucking hater o noes.

mircea_popescu: tually verified in practice. indian women are more than a little reluctant to get married.

mircea_popescu: "If marriage constituted more than a hypothetical risk of getting raped, I would expect women to learn to avoid it as women have learned to avoid walking around alone at night, or at least show some reluctance to get married, as women often show reluctance to put themselves into positions of vulnerability with men they just met or men they have gotten to know and decided they don't want to have sex with." << this is ac

mircea_popescu: Today, the Internet brings every imaginable form of pornography to every home. The Internet is too valuable for too many things to just ban, and we can't even regulate spam that nobody wants, much less a product such as porn for which enormous demand exists."

mircea_popescu: (in the purely math sense : i'm probably going to be able to write a simple transform)

mircea_popescu: and so he privately wonders why the fuck would i bother with a stable of slaves. "isn't it hard work ?!"

mircea_popescu: the average kid today doesn't understand why i'd have bothered with a fixed cabled phone at any point

mircea_popescu: all that "lol at sexist women ads from the 50s" obliquely misses the point that "honey, that was then. i wouldn 't settle for a carbureter today, and i wouldn't settle for a 50s housewife only. do more. MUCH more."

mircea_popescu: it's the sad fact of the matter than if you do the nude math, a tube is actually a better girlfriend than whatever random town dweller may run into. that's roughly a third (of western women) of a fifth (western world).

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this tech is called "derp not giving a shit". this tech is here yet.

mircea_popescu: mthreat better yet, you know of a place in ba that sells that cheap inflatable furniture ?

mircea_popescu: a tricket lol