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mircea_popescu: whaack why would nickserv drop an account ? i never heard of this.
mircea_popescu: Chillum something's amiss, actually. the +25dBm needs to output >320 mW. your thing can't eat 300mW peak and also output 320. but anyway, usual commercial puffery.
mircea_popescu: everyone wears the same thing and calls it sopmething else.
mircea_popescu: all fine ideas that never work. and in any case : i was discussing gender not sex.
mircea_popescu: seems improbable for anyone to manage to ever break this cycle.
mircea_popescu: yes, war is about how the women will be left, and they'll reform society into an imbecillic construction that'll require the next war.
mircea_popescu: think in terms of impregnating women, trinque. why don't you do it ? because what it... means, what it implies. but imagine it implied exactly nothing. well then ? why not ?
mircea_popescu: trinque "a man that does what he can and takes pleasure in it will do what he can and take pleasure in it".
mircea_popescu: what's the big deal ? animals are versatile. pigeons do it, why wouldn't monkeys.
mircea_popescu: being a man is already such a bad deal very little you'll do can possibly compensate.
mircea_popescu: im kinda sorrty we don't have an ukr alf here, it'd be fun to watch the two.
mircea_popescu: you're thinking the modern villages in england built out of their various ancient druid stuff.
mircea_popescu: what motivates the monkey to pick up the rock isn't some sort of contorted dream about becoming a rockthrowing revolutionary ceo.
mircea_popescu: most of human history, and the vast majority of everything nice and good, came out of cause-oriented. so common in fact it didn't even have a name.
mircea_popescu: whitelabelling and dropshipping and all that is how the "service economy" operates.
mircea_popescu: better ways to grow fungi and afids on your walls if you're really into that.
mircea_popescu: i used to have a huge library, i wouldnt buy a book today.
mircea_popescu: Chillum this is how it worked in belle epoque paris rly.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, politicians are pliable, policemen respectful and judges amenable. in all times and places. that's what these do.
mircea_popescu: imo it's kinda dweeby, but hey. one doesn't get to choose the times
mircea_popescu: shinohai dawg you're trying too hard. how about you get in the wot, settle down to some reading ?
mircea_popescu: it's how fucking africa runs since... oh i dunno, 1500 ?
mircea_popescu: what exactly would prevent me from beating the shit out of the 'villagers' each day, having them digging out gold nuggets till they drop so i can have more guns flown in ?
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, same people actually believe the equivalent of beggars in a river somewhere are... a communal co-op!