asciilifeform: 'fuckyou, i already gassed one this month, talk to my union rep.'
asciilifeform: in this day'n'age, even the gasenwagen is lazy.
asciilifeform: yeah must of us have to make do with reading MB of turd and stoking the killfile.
asciilifeform: and then comes dekulakization, the pyre, etc. depending on the milieu.
asciilifeform: then 'cheating' is the logical answer in his mind
asciilifeform: well, if the fool is operating with the premise that you are a creature entirely like him,
asciilifeform: if i recall, there was even a version of bronze head in ancient china.
asciilifeform: how many centuries of thinkers were accused of keeping a bronze head?
asciilifeform: people who are seen as 'winning' tend to get explanations attached, of how they 'must have cheated.' consider the legend of the 'bronze head.'
asciilifeform: and get pissed when confronted with counter-example
asciilifeform: people tend to think of emotion as 'credible signal' (game-theory term)
asciilifeform: afaik, every culture has stories of people who lost/sold/etc their souls to 'win'
asciilifeform: though, for some reason, never stage actors
asciilifeform: one also commonly sees the term used to describe people who pull elaborate ruses by faking emotion
asciilifeform: whether it's a fellow who eats his children for lunch, to see what they taste like, or a perfectly decent creature who insists that debts be repaid.
asciilifeform: the good point here is that people (of all stripes) will use the word to describe virtually anyone whose 'firmware' doesn't match their own.
asciilifeform: (it is said that very interesting punishments were invented for the latter, by survivors of such attempts)
asciilifeform: people who treat friends/family as meat puppets, soldiers who shoot their comrades in the back to cover their shameful retreat, etc.
asciilifeform: 'sociopath' has a perfectly useful meaning aside from 'that bugger i hate for holding me to my word'
asciilifeform: reply came: 'we don't know why you need defective transistors, but for your convenience...'
asciilifeform: (legend re: american company buying the first japanese transistors; in the u.s. at the time it was customary to request '5% defectives' or whatnot; factory didn't test.'
asciilifeform: re: 400: 'for your convenience, we have packaged the defective ones separately.'☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: didn't they let some bastard take his shareholder piggy and run off, or was that somebody else ?
