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mircea_popescu: "cheap computer game aiming to mass market will expose in garish tones the idiocy common to all people"
mircea_popescu: avortons that didn't even PLAY civ. spawned by idiots who also did not play it -- but were somehow osmotically influenced by the players ?
mircea_popescu: i am starting to suspect civ was a lot more influential than previously realised --a whole generation of morons literally imagine "the nation of africa" was spawned forh by shaka the bahamas.
mircea_popescu: think about it -- if she hadn't given zee germans zee letter z, what'd they have done!
mircea_popescu: when rich people had obsydian knife, dorks had bone knife. JUST AS GOOD!
mircea_popescu: and all through bronze age, subnormals derped around with wood.
mircea_popescu: all through iron age subnormals derped around with leather
mircea_popescu: all through computer age subnormals derped about with plastics, as a substitute (look baby! it's so colorful! almost like a real computer!)
mircea_popescu: turkish woodworking tradition is 100% imported from ro/arvnaut/macedonian tradition on the west and the iranian on the east.
mircea_popescu: well, two! there's one that came from the jenissary music, as a brass instrument (goaran) and there's one that came from the thessaly/macedonian pastoral tradition earlier, as a wooden shepher's whistle (caval)
mircea_popescu: nah. zurna is greek-turkish item, high pressure, parabolic outer lip
mircea_popescu: pro tip : jews ~= gypsies. after five centuries spent on the same caravan roads...
mircea_popescu: but no, the actual item is "paul lica de la roman", "sunt sofer de camion"
mircea_popescu: just about ; radio station producer chick hit me for their "guilty pleasures" segment.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's me on the radio, like a decade or so ago.
mircea_popescu: (i just mean the my spoken segment, not the whole atrocity)
mircea_popescu: lettuce offer a mn ECus to whoever of the rotaku club that produces the correct notation of that thing. hanbot diana_coman an' spyked are kindly asked to stay out of it!
mircea_popescu: haha. i suspect genetically engineered repeater bug a ways off yet.
mircea_popescu: actually no quetzals here. princopally great kiskadees, colibris and some sort of wren
mircea_popescu: having / as a magical character should be a execution squad offence.
mircea_popescu: what sort of morons are these, who a. pick a FIXED magic character which then they make equal to b. THE MOST COMMON FUCKING PUNCTUATION IN THE UNIVERSE
mircea_popescu: in today's wonderment, why the FUCK is it i can say sed 's%x%y%g' or sed 's^p^q^g' but can NOT say awk '%a%,%b%' ?!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i expect they get a "pew pew pew!" audio attachment next.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform melee range in trained hands, firearms are pretty deadly.
mircea_popescu: "what happens when cinema warband encounters man who didn't take A-team shooting class"
mircea_popescu: fellow who was ambushed by a bunch of "hardened criminals", killed seven out of two revolvers and four more with his knife. the rest took to flight.
mircea_popescu: god knows it's been the recorded problem of teenaged boys throughout civilisation.
mircea_popescu: well ? slow approaches that work may well be "too common".
mircea_popescu: "I am not to be common, Kyle, ok? I am a creature like no other. I know that. I am a creature like no other. And I will not -- I willnot be common. "
☟︎ mircea_popescu: hence, "train failed to correctly play the part tard assigned it"
mircea_popescu: i would suppose it wasn't so much suicide as the train failing to correctly play the part fucktard assigned it in fucktard's own WoWoW.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but let's continue the "do you knows" then. ever heard of one j. r. davis ?
mircea_popescu: thus therefore, the fecalscopy scientists identified "german subversion plot".
mircea_popescu: if you live in miami and your cousin lives in akron, it'll be he who comes to your studio for doing coke, not you to his.
mircea_popescu: economics disposes : the dynasty was hannoverian ; at the time cheap fuckmeat was both prettier (ie, higher quality) and cheaper had in rural hannover than in rural lancastershire. so unsurprisingly, cousin bob fucked little boys at cousin joe's house, rather than the reverse.
mircea_popescu: you know for a fact pantsuited hilarity traded in children. the part where it was run from a pizzeria in wash dc... well...
mircea_popescu: it'd seem self-evident that if a buncha doods carrying an L etched on their forehead go banging their heads on a chunk of concrete insistently enough in large enough groups, the L will eventually to some degree and under some lights transfer.
mircea_popescu: it's fundamentally what it is, "confederacy" of "independent" men alone going at teh establishment. the dent they make always takes the same shape
mircea_popescu: so : something i nthe vein of reddit investigative journalists uncovering the pizza hut hilary clinton pedophilia scandal, if you recall that.
mircea_popescu: somewhat like "reddit" umm how did the expression go...
mircea_popescu: billing was this fellow who famously sued a bunch of establishment faggots over his theory that faggot conspiracy is the cause of ww1 failure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he said it is a ~business~. it's not a business. if tomorrow civilisation ends scavenging its remais will be a large activity, but still not a business. "business" means something!
mircea_popescu: well ? "don't attack enemy lest he attacks back" localized peace somehow sums up to a war over the interval ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's terrible advice. "recovering data from damaged hard disks" is a "business" in the sense "painting and decorating boobies" is a business. nobody gets boobies anymore on account of bacterial diseases being exticnt.
mircea_popescu: if i were a snail, i suppose i also would want to be paid for leaving slime trails.
mircea_popescu: but people WANT TO "big break" from "writing". it's sorta like women who aspire to be paid for fucking.
mircea_popescu: kids that grow up like c.s.lewis, ie forsaken, end up with a sorely overgrown notion of the importance of the self.
mircea_popescu: at a time if you put the whole population in a shaking machine you wouldn't have likely shaken a million loose.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly enough, i knew a chick like that ; she was going to get her big break in poetry IN CLUJ
mircea_popescu: the cab driver with a leningrad doctorate, gone to new york to "this is america!" is almost endearing ; the iowa farm girl gone to new york to "i r become a writer" is just...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: to a large degree for the same fgucking reason, i suppose : that it only ever existed in the mind of a very select few, who however didn't have the excuse of poverty, or of distance, or of so very many other things that protect the rusophone moron from the full brunt of his wilful stupidity.