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mircea_popescu: Mocky bear in mind that you live in gangland, and for some incomprehensible reason the mob decided to steal all moneys.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remind me again, which is the short story with the "intelligence handicaps", loud whistles in ears and whatnot ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, you want to pro-rate his warrants, you can do that. you want to kick them off the sheet altogether, "didn't complete a term", you can also do that. you want to let them ride, "whatever, he can have the lot", you can also do that.
mircea_popescu: in any case, a ssw assignment is not the same as a cash payment.
mircea_popescu: "Linux is the de facto standard operating system kernel at the core of leading products. Konsulko Group’s experience in embedded Linux architecture, development, build/CI, QA, and maintenance will help you speed your Linux-based products to market."
mircea_popescu: about as common experience of the contemporary mind as gods walking the earth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is pioneering internet work, as far as i know never before seen. 1. "here are your options" "omfg i am a special snowflake i won't take any of those" ; 2. "you have no options" "omfg i shoulds have some options!!" "you had."
mircea_popescu: i'm just being intolerable for the sake of it. "good thing you have them, they don't work."
mircea_popescu: neither anecdotes nor myths are a practicable basis for science ; but they're as fine a basis as there could be had for discussion.
mircea_popescu: as it is presented, an "untrue" story, it counts as what ? a myth ?
mircea_popescu: if it were presented as a "true" story, like so many other items actually so presented on trilema, with documentation unassailable and so on, then it'd have counted for what, an anecdote ?
mircea_popescu: teh age of "hi i am mario of so-and-so fiat concern" ended sometime this summer. talk to a lord, make yourself useful, #trilema is not open to the general public.
mircea_popescu: the many blessings of illiteracy -- drives one to make friends, for instance.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, yes BingoBoingo has it, the "expert witness" is perhaps the prime manner through which pantsuit state maintains both pretense of justice and pretense of its own relevancy. judge judges "correctly" on "the basis of evidence" and "evidence" is carefully curated. ye olde "toxic facts / fake news" approach to utopianism.
mircea_popescu: should be funny to see the same argument brought the other way
mircea_popescu: recall it was bush's idea "we can;'t let people out of our kidnapping centers, tehy'd fucking sue"
mircea_popescu: wel lfor one thing that'd open the whole civil liability can of worms
mircea_popescu totally sees it, signing a "i deeply regret all these usg politrucks did not see the wisdow in time" eventually.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, they all put forth the same pretense, hitler's "take over without breaking as much as a windowpane" very neatly mirrors calvin's "condemnation" of the 1524 wehrmacht.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i'm vaguely curious how long until scholarship comes to senses, puts hitler where he belongs -- in lengthy line of peasant revolt leaders, with calvin, gh. doja, what have you.
mircea_popescu: not hitler's sort of problem, "the world's incorrectly cut up"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because the issues the child is struggling with is that he had no dad to take him hunting,
mircea_popescu: (technically, he just shot some random old driver and some cosmonauts, but w/e. dood was going to take over govt by himself and shit, there's a difference between infantilism and insanity.)
mircea_popescu: the range wars in the very us raged in living memory as an exact manifest of this whole thing.
mircea_popescu: wtf end state, "don't take your guns to town, boy" is specifically about "don't ~START~ something".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't believe that happened. the difference i propose is that for him, said "butchering" is an asimptote, the mind never quite reaches it. which is how they end up believing that "i pick up gun and start shooting" is the ~end~ state.
mircea_popescu: so remote is this "delectable pork sausage" in fact, that scarcely he perceives the difference between waving gun out of suv window and shooting some innocent bastard.
mircea_popescu: y is the universal imago of the contemporaneous english speaking young male.
mircea_popescu: nothing's nearly as drastic in fact as the "preparative" imagination promised.
mircea_popescu: in any case, it might be that the "decolonialization" sudden failure of europe has had the undiagnosed effect of removing fundamental mechanisms required for male maturation, leaving a sort of unstable state. perhaps the case is boys could manage just fine, if there was some sort of resource available to explain that... i don't even know, whatever the fuck, that it's ok to be a boy and it'll work out in the end.
mircea_popescu: how do you salvage this, "personal valor transcends gender bias" ?
mircea_popescu: you think ? from experience russki ballerina doods quite dangerous in close quarters.
mircea_popescu: there's a deep reason for all the historical "initiation ceremonies", and the reason is as usual need. maturation's axiogenic.
mircea_popescu: well, there's that old "as i became a man i put the things of childhood aside". "something else", you know ? not a girl, no, but who knows what terror ?!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: diana_coman alright ; but do you see the argument that ~school as an institution~ provides a higher onthological threat to the boy than to the girl, specfifically because of this implicit "we'll make you something else" promise ?
mircea_popescu: Mocky different construction of the id ; therefore different capacity to survive specific crashes.
mircea_popescu: neah ; for one thing the "i r lion" fury people shy away whereas the "i r girl" "trans" people seek the limelight.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman do you recall the complaint of the police a few years ago that "you've got all these written exams, now we're stuck making police agents out of girlies, god help us" ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: oh i thought we were talking "transsexuals" / tulpas/ we
mircea_popescu: boys are supposed to try things, yes ? scary things, yes ? well ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the whole "faux transvestite" a la brendafernandez, "i'm a boy who likes girls but not like a man, so how about i dress up like a girl and we frolic ?" is very much this "what if i could girl also ? discover one day mywhole prior life was a fake" etc.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman ah, i just meant the minor side point of "competent at wrong thing".
mircea_popescu: whereas the girl does not so need. even if it is extremely distressing, the experience of the loss of the self is post-partum enjoyable, and in the process ultimately unscary.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i would dare propose the fundamental difference is that the boy absolutely needs to maintain throughout a certain feeling of continuancy, a certain notion that he's still a person, that something from his past nevertheless even today stands, that his retrospective history is somehow interpretable as "having a red thread running through it". even if it were to change, it must be continuous.
mircea_popescu: let us just say "is alwayes too hard for himself" and come back to the particular issue in a day or two
mircea_popescu: there's a bit in the piece i am working right now which i'd like to reference ehre.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: absolutely douchebag character was better informed than the girl ; and more competent.
mircea_popescu: "well... it's not broken now, is it" this is how people here repair my cars. "is it ok ?" "sure, nothing's broken RIGHT THIS INSTANT" "this is a german car, that's not what ok is."
mircea_popescu: so in the end, it becomes a dispute over present-value-evaluation. if you have two hats, one of which will break next time you use it, do you have two hats ?