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mircea_popescu: the problem with this scoring approach is that google or w/e "exciting" "tech" bs is just as drab, but optimizes for "getting people in the picture".
mircea_popescu: way to rob yourself of your own , hard earned benefit, usg.fetlife, usg.blue, usg.*
mircea_popescu: kinda also why teh usgistan is so utterly unthreatening. "we never got beaten" "aaaa...ok :)"
mircea_popescu: lottery winner is made famous by the after effects of "whatever i might've been, now i'm the sort of guy that wins lottery"
mircea_popescu: there's two kinds of i won : the "i won because you're fucking stupid" and the "omfg i'm so cool i won". the latter never works out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: some winnings, at any rate. lottery winning ; god-given victories, etc. all poison.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, the explanation for spain per BingoBoingo 's bit would be... reconquista.
mircea_popescu: "humility" as the xtian virtue, right, "love" as the harem slave's virtue, "do not fucking flip that bit"
mircea_popescu: it is EXACTLY what it is, "the divine order of people who imagine they're too cool for assrape to happen to them".
mircea_popescu: then they joined nato, which is no kind of victory, but the bit fucking flipped. and well...
mircea_popescu: romanians had this overpowering "we're the total shitheel losers of all time" going 1990 - 2005ish, and it helped them immensely.
mircea_popescu: it's true, but the locals have been this exact thing 15 y ago too , and 50, and will be in 50.
mircea_popescu: diana's notion of the locals was "whoa, they remind me a lot of romanians 10-15 yrars ago, when they had a little money and slowly getting a clue"
mircea_popescu: this may very well be it : there's a single bit in the bios, and the flip state of it decides.
mircea_popescu: the brits "had" india&china in much less of a sense than spain had el dorado.
mircea_popescu: spain was ever fucked in the head. how did they manage to get the whole new world and end up the laughingstock they are...
mircea_popescu: not for lack of trying, right ? barcelona has better cathedral than paris.
mircea_popescu: it's a complex problem, "why do peripheries fail to thrive". "why was hispania not gaul" etc
mircea_popescu: in 1970s, buncha army officers rounded up all the adlais, beat the shit out of them, then shot anyone who complained.
mircea_popescu: because they hallucinated freedoms they didn't have, therefore they went from hero to zero.
mircea_popescu: cr is the original "omfg check out this wonder" though. smaller, but imo better.
mircea_popescu: Mocky latin america cemetery utterly worth visiting. very elegant, makes the inept puritan bs from the us shine in all its ridiculousness.
mircea_popescu: these days, no trade, musty abandoned library scent everywhere
mircea_popescu: romania had a close relation with latam countries, uruguay, columbia, w/e, 30-50 years ago.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and do you see kerry registering a key and begging us to help ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo they're so fucking hysterical, these tards.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess. dun seem like any difference to me, write on blogspot, slideshow at conference, whatever. then again, entomology.
mircea_popescu: and yes, i'd make the same exact argument if fellow "wrote book" which was then "new york times best seller list"
mircea_popescu: and in the minority were picked up by the scouts anyway.
mircea_popescu: i ended up on the main floor a total of maybe twice, but in general you just meet people privately ; and in this particular context the teenaged bimbos desperate to "get started" were in the vast majority too ugly to meet the bar (which, back then, still existed, nobody paid uglies to fuck)
mircea_popescu: i never went ; but based on my limited experience with the few cons i ever went to, years ago in a different life, literally nobody listens in.
mircea_popescu: how managed "bunch of MP & trilema quotes tho" with no pingbacks is anyone's guess.
mircea_popescu: language was hastily (and ineptly) codified late 19th century with union, then there were two major wars (and two minor ones romania was a major actor in) and then 50 years of stalinist freeze during which no serious scholarship was produced. and hence they're too stupid and too lazy to even make a proper dictionary. so actually, romanian grammar still awaits its hero.
mircea_popescu: in fact, it's not clear to me the verbal tensions of romanian were ~EVER~ ennumerated.
mircea_popescu: AS WELL AS a ~homonymous~ conjunctive pluperfect with conditional-optative role, "sa fi stiut de dimineata, mincam" ie had i known then, i would have.
mircea_popescu: to continue for no apparent reasons the
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-29#1830805 discussion : romanian has a conjunctive pluperfect with role of imperative ("de dimineata ne-au dat omleta dar eu am citit ziarul si acum mi-e foame" "~sa fi mincat~ atunci." ie in the morning they put out omelette but i was reading the newspaper and now im hungry -- you should have eaten then
☝︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, this whole "from the perspective of moronworld" discussion is such nonsense. who the fuck ever cared, seriously now.
mircea_popescu: well... honestly the bottle a lot less sinkable than the yacht.
mircea_popescu: in which spirit, the teflon-coatable noobs absolutely should be coated. fucking dipped in bronze, why not.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the world's salvation is work for the world's own hands. i feel no obligation towards it ; i feel an obligation towards my having a good time and that's all. if the world's ready to work i'll show it how and if it's not ready to work i'll just talk to my girls. the only thing with something to lose in the republic-world binome is the world.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also, what you call "chore" is mislabeled. my whips spend most of the day hanging. when they do work, the work they do, named "pain", is properly speaking education.
mircea_popescu: if you add better elements, you're well advise to purge.
mircea_popescu: if you add the SAME quality elements, you actually end up at a size past which the cost of addition exceeds the value of it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im not even sure i prefer 24 partizans to 12. the costs mount exponentially with size.
mircea_popescu: there's great value in getting rid of code. greater than in "acquiring" code. same is true of people. getting rid is a great boon.
mircea_popescu: so do you. it's after all how fg ended up named fg, isn't it. and how we got rid of, eg, pete_douchenski
mircea_popescu: in short, "teflon-coatable" noobs ~should~ be teflon coated. god knows i do everything i can to help the coating.
mircea_popescu: certainly. but we also don't need weak ones for any purpose (or, in that sense, already "have")
mircea_popescu: but the nonmarginal doesn't have the problem here discussed, as part of the definition of nonmarginal.
mircea_popescu: the republic loses nothing / gains nothing whether adlai/framedragger/whatever is in or out.
mircea_popescu: but the notion that anyone ever wanted a male is the most ridiculous nonsense ever. other than for steaks, xy has no use.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i don't hold it against the males that manage to make it
mircea_popescu: pretty much whole "corporate" portion of www consists of this anyway.
mircea_popescu: then they come into my basement and we lulz at it. what can you do.