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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform first time i saw a steam-powered sledge. russian technology ?
mircea_popescu: no pure objects in reality, huh. plato, i r disappoint.
mircea_popescu: THESE IDIOTS REIMPLEMENTED C STRINGS you understand me. also wrongly, of course. fucking pancake.
mircea_popescu: traim milenii de impliniri marete, pre-attic nile valley v2.0.
mircea_popescu: "this most prestigious rhino has a cat's head inside the chicken head on each of its four wingtips. SO MUCH MORE PRESTIGIOUS than the flying whale of that other temple"
mircea_popescu: god fucking help me if ima make square "ice sculptures" and give out ptolemaic imaginary beasts.
mircea_popescu: (yes, obviously, my highly structured response to the problem being called slavery, but that's neither here nor there, walled garden so to speak)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, because milk comes from supermarket, so what milkmaid.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but at the time ~there was something to do~. this, yes, always rescues. but what's there to do ? last time esltard did something the wall was still standing.
mircea_popescu: sorta like being a homosexual was only a sexual choice before they came up with the political choice of being gay.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, eating roadkill is only not giving a shit until some nutjob in santa cruz comes up with $275 to rent a cable channel slot and starts pushing his miracle cure, diet & philosophy.
mircea_popescu: because you specifically can't have fried ice, these two are contradictory. either it's marketed to or not.
mircea_popescu: in my case it's in suits. but in any case, it'll ahve to not have been pret-a-porter not-giving-shits.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform think about it this way, "ropa americana" ie, 2nd hand clothes imported from the us, are VERY DISTINGUISHABLE in actual not-giving-a-shit places. how would this be, if it carried no information ?
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with hobo garb, "shows you care" "about the less fortunate".
mircea_popescu: kinda how this works, best i can tell. "this is the livery for expressing your disdain to livery, and this is the livery to express your dedication to livery, and there you go, a complete experience out of a cardboard breakfast box"
mircea_popescu: but then when same galley hand "team building", all the stupid cunts had the same cut of panties on, you just didn't look.
mircea_popescu: you don't understand how "ironic" works. YES the emblazoned tshirts. of course, it's what they're for, channeling this sentiment.
mircea_popescu: very much has. company dress code, and they DO all dress very much alike. the differences are superficial.
mircea_popescu: if it doesn't come with a laptop-with-watch-in-it, it's not as PRESTIGIOUS a job. (term of art, from the guy with the vehemently delectable pork sausage)
mircea_popescu: see ? that's the beauty of it, all these lost fucktards who don't have $50 bucks to pay on my queens fulla jacks, nevertheless, NEVERTHELESS i say, "is very rich"
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the +r thing... we did get the no j/p spam part. sadly the way this shit works leaves no optimal choice, gotta pick this-or-that. is the idea we... i picked the wrong set ?
mircea_popescu: end up with a programmable hardware inclusion list on which to run a php ftp emulator.
mircea_popescu: trinque hopefully they put a laptop in the watch next.
mircea_popescu: "what do you think of elon musk ? i mean, his ideas ?" "what fucking ideas ?"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know, had to format. let it read ext4, wut.
mircea_popescu: well this is the core of my point! holy shit you sheltered existences, you have nfi what it's even like, out there!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, re tastes, you've not seen any of this "interview" bs. it's fucking comedy central, watching solo/girl-girl models talk to each other.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it will please you to know your name having been mentioned in passing in aside conversation, it proved remarkably enough to now denote the evil of internet boys among the new recruits.
mircea_popescu: assemblage can be drastically improved by placing laptop atop her ass, playing publicdisgrace.com. bring the light of the great urban outdoors in the dank of the cellar.
mircea_popescu: item is actually very pleasant, from a purely visual perspective. stupid-ish kbd, but large and light. fits perfectly on ass of girl holding her ankless so you can hurt her asshole while you lovingly kiss another.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, let the record reflect i did do it. and THEN had to conjure up wireless driver, because holy shit it comes with an unknown pos atop the realtek.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, the "setup" page consisted of, i kid you not, 20 word "descriptions" of the various items and links to "read more" ie ON THE FUCKING WEB. no knobs.
mircea_popescu: EXACTLY like shitty cellphone service, "hey, you just placed a call, we'll send spam sms 10 minutes later, so you think it's the op and look"
mircea_popescu: "hey, it seems like you're copying a lot of files, would you like to buy this or that ?"
mircea_popescu: do you realise it literally spams you with advertisements during usage ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but as far as it was concerned, i suspect it also "didn't have" the switch. you should see wtf windows has morphed into, jesus christ.
mircea_popescu: there's like three intermediate states, progress by degrees.
mircea_popescu has wiped the windows10 off a hp "envy". jesus fuck, anyone had ANY FUCKING IDEA just how many times you gotta reboot and bless the box to get through the lock microshit put on the boot process ?!
mircea_popescu: cue complex joke about gorgo's "spartan women", romanians being born poets and n.d.cocea's poet-poeta.
mircea_popescu: whereas in romanian it just comes naturally, with the language.
mircea_popescu: with the caveat, of course, that one who could express himself in english in that manner instantly raises in the audience the suspicion he should be some kind of king or something.
mircea_popescu: spyked "scuză-mă te rog, îs năcăjit rău" ie, "don't hold my bitter lot against me."
mircea_popescu: that remarkably-like a town background for every jwz's jwzing.
mircea_popescu: for people who "just wanted to" play vidja in their den or "work on their software dev projects" or whatever, there HAS to be someone putting up the pretense of "small town" surroundingtheir stretch of sidewalk.
mircea_popescu: george sanders has an excellent point re this : "for new yorkers who want to go out of town, new haven is a stretch of sidewalk between the taft hotel and the schubert theatre, surrounded by what appears remarkably like a small town".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if what one wants is "for x to be without needing my involvement", x can only be a road show. what else ?
mircea_popescu: performative leadership. always same flavour of scamola, the beheading of the "unreliable" priests organised like any other show by the same priesthood that produced the "unreliable" priesthood.