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mircea_popescu: so they have odd, to put it mildly, ideas. about personal space, about power and control, about proper behaviour, etcetera.
mircea_popescu: i expect most of the 20something crowd is socialized in the fenceless suburbia and lulzy-ass campus.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how such invalidates one's opinions on things and matters...\
mircea_popescu: fancy that wonder, we were going to take the bus. what, not everyone does ?!?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: quite. but begging for "just turn your ass this way while talking to him" is ye oldest beggary.
mircea_popescu: there's the man, who tells the woman, "it'll hurt" and then there's the boy, who tells the girl... "it won't hurt"
mircea_popescu: if you read the "social media", 100% the approach of the dweebs would be "i won't take up much of your time, anything"
mircea_popescu: premature ejaculation is meta-stable because it is actually the key tool to the mating strategy of the beta.
mircea_popescu: except -- there's two mating strategies. there's the beta strategy where it tries to stick it in her while her back is turned ot the side and the owner is distracted. that'd better be quick.
mircea_popescu: it should be selected against, and then disappear, right ?
mircea_popescu: tell me this -- ever wondered why premature ejaculation is metastable in the population ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yet kurchatov generally understands that my women are off limits for his inferior limpdick.
mircea_popescu: how are the kids who "could do anything" and whose "education" cost literal millions [in bezzlars, but what else is there ?!?!] conceptualize that "no, fuckfaced, you're NOT GOOD ENOUGH for this usage of this item" ?
mircea_popescu: the elements a) he was there ; and b) was bored and c) item was also there and so d) he did something with it. monkey implemented in human genome, what.
mircea_popescu: it's how they do it! it's how it's done! wut do these old ppl want even!
mircea_popescu: kid was bored at work, who may tell him he's not allowed ~the use~ of ~reddit's airplane~ to ~do some cool shit~ for a break ?
mircea_popescu: they call it "terrorism" and whatever, but all i can see is wediditredditardism. dood doesn't even conceptualize property in any sense above diego rivera's "it's the people's wall!".
mircea_popescu: anyway, but while discussing "new man" psychopathologies --- consider the dood who stole a plane to do barrel rolls on the basis of his video game experience.
mircea_popescu: very important that the group be small though, and stay small. must regard aliens suspiciously.
mircea_popescu: or else the very narrow groupuscle thing, like moronskutsy what's his name, making "challenges" for his troop of five people AND THEM ONLY.
mircea_popescu: seems there's the two strategies - either a very low bar of individuation, as employed on 4chan's "anon" bla bla -- they're not anonymous, it's just the identity attaqinable is very simple
mircea_popescu: can't imagine who'd give an inkling of a shit, besides the republic's incredibly advanced entomology dept.
mircea_popescu: not so impossible, from mine -- if CAMPOS were worth the cost of a decent burial, !!key CAMPOS would work.
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as "the innocent zek". inca exists because the zeks exist.
mircea_popescu: i only read usg productions as literary fiction when it involves standing members ; otherwise it's liars playing liar. why would i trust CAMPOS more than the system he and his friends created ? or less, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: the only question is, why isn;'t mr campos here saying this ?
mircea_popescu: and they falsified the records, or do the records not even exist ?
mircea_popescu: here's a possible theory : this dood went over the border twice to who knows, five times a day for months and fucking months, and they counted his money in front of him every time
mircea_popescu: MPOS entered the United States from Mexico in possession of $9, 580 in U.S. currency. 3 . On ,or about February 9, 2017, at approximately 8: 17 p. m., defendant JACOB BURRELL CAMPOS entered the United States from Mexico in possession of $9, 746 in U.S. currency. 4. On or about February 10, 2017, at approximately 11:52 p.m., defendant JACOB BURRELL CAMPOS entered the United States from Mexico in
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that may be, but what of 11 In furtherance of this conspiracy and to effect the objects thereof, the following overt acts, among others, were committed: 1. On or about February 8, 2017, at approximately 12:10 a.m., defendant JACOB BURRELL CAMPOS entered the United States from Mexico in possession of $9, 500 in U.S. currency. 2. On or about February 8, 2017, at approximately 10:29 p.m., defendant JACOB BURRELL CA
mircea_popescu: i guess they're getting pretty desperate, if they're throwing randos in jail in lieu of making good on their usg.bitfinex takeover obligations.
mircea_popescu: anyway, dood didn't get dragged anywhere, he kept crossing teh border.
mircea_popescu: the problem further compounded by the fact contemporary vaccine IS work of devil.
mircea_popescu: (not for me as much as for these fine fellows, they still like their middle earth etc)
mircea_popescu: 20% to research, 80% to phrasing research results "in such a way as to not..."
mircea_popescu: "why should i make a correct tool when could just use this thing available next day for 9.95 ?"
mircea_popescu: precisely how supposedly thinking people ended up writing papers on "global warming" and whatnot. grants amirite ? the COMFORT.
mircea_popescu: ie, monarchy got meanwhile overwhelmed by "democracy", so the moron mind was "in charge" so it dispensed largesse instead of trying to attack thought outright.
mircea_popescu: the problem in the time of darwin, however, was a bunch of morons trying to persuade him of their wisdom.
mircea_popescu: the problem in the time of newton was a bunhc of morons wanting to "burn down the sorcery".
mircea_popescu: which i suspect may actually be the principal destabilizing factor historically, driving the error generation process.
mircea_popescu: this being yet another aspect of the problems of man alone. absent a fortress where to do it, he's stuck solving some kinds of problems in some kinds of ways only.
mircea_popescu: fortress. so the people inside can fire cannon upon the peasants outside. because this fucking reason.
mircea_popescu: for instance, do you know why it has walls, and how they were ever used ?
mircea_popescu: without a formal AND FORMALIZED republic it's fucking hard for people to handle the orc pressure
mircea_popescu: hey, newton never published FOR REASONS rather than by neglect.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the problems were 1. to determine the brachistochrone, and 2. to find a curve such that if any line drawn from a fixed point O cut it in P and Q then OP^n + OQ^n would be constant.
mircea_popescu: 1600s, whatever, "renaissance" amirite. as fucking if, in england. aaanyways.
mircea_popescu: very much tmsr problems, smack drab in the middle ages.
mircea_popescu: there was a problem circulated by the swiss circle of mathematicians, which he elegantly solved (anonymously). except they saw right through the anonymity, because doh, and begged him to select and publish the infinitesimal calculus method, lest someone else steals it.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, infinitesimal calculus was exactly this, never published as such but merely used, "by the claw we know the lion" etc. you familiar with all that ?
mircea_popescu: so then : he, like you, also had "partial of code that I wrote *with* other intelligent people and partially of things that i just just wrote personally to simplify my own common tasks and found useful over a long period of time"