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mircea_popescu: decimation: of course, printing something structurally critical like a bracket holding weight is a great application for weakass-plastic 3d printing << yes, because hopefully it falls on his head.
mircea_popescu: decimation : "independent op ed" = "piece written for narcissist that we didn't have to pay'
mircea_popescu: anyway, in vaguely related news, i'm preparing a pretty lulzy "outrage the feminists" thing for later.
mircea_popescu: its audience is idiots, and this is publicly known. so...
mircea_popescu: except it doesn't actually do anything. gawker is entirely myspace'd.
mircea_popescu: parallel construction is apparently a universal hobby. "tipsters" ? what tipsters. nobody fucking tips gawker.
mircea_popescu: "oh, IAC said our deeply discounted CPM is not worth paying for anyway because we don't have any actual relevancy / power online ??!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: now, the real journo story : how deep a discount did gawker offer on their advertising, who said no, why did they say no.
mircea_popescu: (and apparently is no longer buddies with gawker media)
mircea_popescu: but good for the sheeple to find out that okcupid and tinder are owned by the same thing.
mircea_popescu: it's mostly the avatar of teenagers that wish to pretend they're adults, and make up their parallel adult world to inhabit.
mircea_popescu: not that i've actually met a woman seriously into bdsm that was all derpy with this atomic consent bs anyway.
mircea_popescu: not to mention the entire fucking point of the exercise is for the sub/slave to SUBMIT. not to constantly feed the red herring of "individual self determination"
mircea_popescu: if you handling the cane can't tell when she;s had enough, her with the bruises and marks CERTAINLY can't.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the whole construction's fucking irresponsible. for one thing, the subject's not in any position to evaluate anything. there are specific, well documented, well understood biological mechanisms that prevent a sane evaluation.
mircea_popescu: it's unhealthy for said world to just infinitely give way in all directions all the time. at least some of the time she has to come face flat against a stone wall.
mircea_popescu: it's just infantilism. girlie trying to test the limits of her world.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the funniest part is the notion that anyone gives a shit what comes out of it.
mircea_popescu: well, whadda they want, bitcoin scam foundation sold lifetime seats and ran out of money. of course it's not gonna honor them
mircea_popescu: well, i would imagine if they actually aim to be female they'd miss having a cunt more than having a dick.
mircea_popescu: well, i guess maybe you're better connected in the group than me. i mostly know clinicians.
mircea_popescu: well, berkshire is kind-of famous for this reason. you never heard of it ?
mircea_popescu: he can never ruin an uppetite. for even if he ruins one, he has another coming right after!
mircea_popescu: these people and their narcissistic delusions of self importance.
mircea_popescu: * Adlai wonders what such a person's shrink would think if first hearing about bitcoin from such a patient << srsly.
mircea_popescu: how did you get this idea, that if you don't follow something it's incumbent on me/the school/the world to fix it for you ?
mircea_popescu: the notion that you may participate without understanding is like... well, what all comedy gold is made out of, i guess.
mircea_popescu: i do not correct you, you're not tim fucking swanson. you correct you.
mircea_popescu: if you're doing this by accident, you'll stfu and go read. if you're doing it deliberately... well... you'll keep at it and we'll have our lulz and move on.
mircea_popescu: benjamindees you're completely and utterly misrepresenting the discussion.
mircea_popescu: so your avenue to pay for your starbucks is a) give them some of your money ; b) borrow some money to give them or c) buy another soda ?
mircea_popescu: all screws are better than thumbtacks for the man holding a hammer.
mircea_popescu: good article, that, incidentally, in that it plainly discusses in 2013 things people imagine are "about the future" in 2015.
mircea_popescu: which is fine, they can struggle for as long as they can gather the energy.
mircea_popescu: Yet another one of them is that consumers revolt, entrepreneurs intervene, before the end of 2015 there's about a thousand to a million different Bitcoin forks, each with its ten million-ish monetary base worth about a dollar, on global average. The size of the inter-Bitcoins market, the complexity and confusion ensuing makes pretty much everything unmanageable for the "ordinary person".
mircea_popescu: well technically this was more in the vein of horrible maiming and dismemberment threats.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell ruin_dpbs_life Guilford, Connecticut << it's probably a decent idea to not go throwing around threats off your home ip.