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mircea_popescu: moreover, people who think they achieved hapiness are the golden standard of deranged.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` "leading normal happy life" is not the gold standard.
mircea_popescu: hopefully they run out of money and then they vcan go on thinking they knew better with the winklevii and the rest of the dumbcrowd.
mircea_popescu: bitstein the thing with idiots is that they will continue to think they know better indefinitely.
mircea_popescu: decimation i dun believe anyone's stupidity is anyone else's responsibility.
mircea_popescu: i'd really like to get with the program here and think "hey, more power to em", but the vast majority of the self improvers are just deranged.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes prolly looking for gawker magazine, fuck if i know.
mircea_popescu: but the idea isn't to make stupid shit impossible. just punishable.
mircea_popescu: no further than tonight, girl got sent to bed early because well, bought eggs at carefour.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> trinque: gawker and friends are blocked at /etc/hosts on babetops << what sort of an abusive relationsheep is this!
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> the guy is proposing to merge the silk road with yahoo! answers << well, they already implemented "yahoo finance boards" as "bitcoin finance"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` for my curiosity, when are you gonna get bored with it ?
mircea_popescu: decimation no, it's more like "why would a pretty girl like you go do this whorish stupid thing ?"
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> <+ben_vulpes> boss your penchant for recasting everything as a result of your own actions is endlessly amusing <<< i came for the btc, stayed for the lels << hey, if obama can save the economy...
mircea_popescu: i suppose one needs the particular idiocies of the us for the particular forms of the us idiocy to manifest.
mircea_popescu: reason ? unattached youngish female begging people is usually offered a junior mistress arrangement.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally - amway never took off in romania.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ^ exactly like that, but in the other stupid colors.
mircea_popescu: not books have been nominated in the category, let’s say it’s not an original work) but a collection of right-wing chain emails and one liners–which, among other works
mircea_popescu: The ballot looks ridiculous. John C. Wright has three nominations in the novella category and six overall, a record. The vast majority of the works are published by Castalia House, a Finnish micropublisher barely a year old and owned, I’m sure coincidentally, by Vox Day. Wisdom From My Internet, nominated in the Best Related Work category, is neither science fiction, nor, strictly speaking, a book, (Edit: many things
mircea_popescu: right. and brokeback mountain isn't an endless piece of meaningless cheese. because polarities.
mircea_popescu: ".And to an author of integrity, it’s a pointless act of bullying, because if you don’t compete against the best, an award is meaningless."
mircea_popescu: o wait. bitching at excellent scientists because they didn't say stupid-thing-x-about-our-aggenda is not laughably petty and outright idiotic.
mircea_popescu: "4. None of this is strictly speaking against the rules. It’s unethical. It’s almost laughably petty and mean-spirited."
mircea_popescu: really, opposing "social justice" implies one supports... injustice ? how about the obvious "social-anything is stupid, for many reasons we won't rehash, and never has anything to do with the vanilla version" ?
mircea_popescu: W is, I hope you’re enjoying your new computer. It stands for Social Justice Warrior, which to a normal person sounds like someone who fights for justice and cares about all human beings, and to conservatives like the devil himself. The implication that they then must support injustice seems to be lost.
mircea_popescu: 3. The group is of the opinion that their work was being overlooked because of their politics, and that the Hugo ballots and winners of the last several years were only awarded due to leftist politics and the racial/sexual/gender identities of their authors, not quality. The tenor of the call to arms was explicitly and often resoundingly political–“this is your chance to hurt SJWs.” If you don’t know what an SJ
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> entirely transparent project to reduce hiring costs << moar like, entirely transparent admission that "well, mp said he's killing us, we're as good as dead, might as well give up"
mircea_popescu: not because economy's dead and whoever has "investors" to connect them to the printing teat can simply dictate terms.
mircea_popescu: decimation yea, i'm sure THAT's why they don't negotiate.
mircea_popescu: except, of course, english is about as relevant to tanzania as korean to the us.
mircea_popescu: hey look at that. tanzanian kids read about as well as us kids.
mircea_popescu: Like many other African countries, Tanzania has made huge strides in expanding basic services like health and education. The primary school enrollment rate, for instance, is officially at 94%. But “unofficial” statistics suggest the quality of those services is often quite poor.
mircea_popescu: But in the spirit of thumbing one’s nose at government overreach, here’s a sampling of unofficial, but highly reputable statistics about Tanzania that might explain what’s going on.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you care enough about coinbase to write up this latest lulz ?
mircea_popescu: "oh we shall send people in #bitcoin-assets as per standard counter-actor and sabotage procedures to be made within hours and laughed at all the way to the front desk."
mircea_popescu: so are we gonna call teh usg ops "tiki taka" ? seems adequately derpy...
mircea_popescu: i mean people would come with their freshly baked cookies for a dusting...
mircea_popescu: jurov "PDFs/PPTs or it didn't happen." was pretty good...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, you ever seen what happens if you accidentally a bag ?
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i have nfi why they don't use cocoa powder to disperse crowds.
mircea_popescu: "your honor, this man is totally innocent of what the police did to his house."
mircea_popescu: hmm so the ~90 i paid for it isn't really THAT outrageous.