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mircea_popescu: so it turns out atheism is a non-prophet organisation.
mircea_popescu: so it's not basically a laptop board with a soldered over bios chip ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, can you format the ipad, run debian on it ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller here's one for you : what concert costs 45 cents ?
mircea_popescu: you dunno what the enemy is until mats_cd03 steals your .2 btc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as much as a new news site brings about ddos.
mircea_popescu: don't knock it, it's what they use to make hambuger meat.
mircea_popescu: no he has a point, you can just make your own tx and forget the stock selection code
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the whole thing was a debate over whether it should be earliest or latest that still works. apparently earliest won
mircea_popescu: undata listen, go read le diable et le bon dieu, sartre.
mircea_popescu: "Un acte gratuit est le fait d'agir en dehors de toute raison, motivation ou incitation."
mircea_popescu: lmao check that shit out, doesn't even exist in english.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many social studies chicks fuck bums because they're bums.
mircea_popescu: i kinda suspect where bums sleep is indicative of societal notions
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud amusingly, bums here mostly sleep in banks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think that cost may be more than a few hundies a year.
mircea_popescu: like, the sort of people churning out "science" about stuff.
mircea_popescu: but no, we can't do better, because otherwise the fucking bums start nesting there.
mircea_popescu: be rich or stfu and work, science is not for "the people".
mircea_popescu: bounce "no tax money spent on education" is a solution.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise this is what the existentialists used to call "petit burgeois"
mircea_popescu: <undata> another attempt: all statements are implicitly advocacy. << only for the utilitarian/methodist/usretardian school of thought.
mircea_popescu: (i don't mean it never is, i mean the noun is outside the domain of availability of the adjective. like a circle can't be heavy, 2d figures have no weight)
mircea_popescu: selfless sacrifice on the altar of satisfying the societal expectation.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the problem wih that approach is that it's literally indistinguishable from the tack of the 16yo kid in the video.
mircea_popescu: meyer lanski famously told some older street thoughs, as a 12 yo, "you get nuttin' for nuttin'". that's all it is. at 12 he's as rich as me telling the sec how to behave.
mircea_popescu: the point is still there, tho. fuck you rich is about fuck you, not about rich.
mircea_popescu: anyway, you;ll appreciate i didn't bring him up in the definition of "fuck you rich"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform except his is the exact opposite of odd. his best is even.
mircea_popescu: but on anecdotic evidence, whether people believe that or don't is more of an indicator of whether the polis is on the upswing or downswing than anything personal.
mircea_popescu: well, the problem with "discussing the art of living" is diogenes. as in, discussion requires common ground. which isn't a given.
mircea_popescu: and diogenes being woken up by all the ruckus, started pushing the tub he inhabited up and down and all around.
mircea_popescu: anyway, at some point the city was being attacked by the enemy, and so every citizen was running up and down trying to make themselves useful. to the "society", by which of course you mean polis.
mircea_popescu: yeah, guy famously got caught jacking off in the forum (roughly equivalent to putting pron tumblr pix in the serious #b-a chan) and when confronted said that his only regret is that hunger doesn't also abate by rubbing the stomach.
mircea_popescu: undata well sure, but the problem with this is diogenes. you know the bath tub story ?
mircea_popescu: undata how about "you don't get to say what should be interesting to other people" ?
mircea_popescu: i mean, if your bar is that, then you'll never be happy. takes a lot of dough, that project.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well... how about "reengineer all of it"
mircea_popescu: undata ok, but it's not very well expressed. what is the value ?
mircea_popescu: how do you figure the people in the vid fit that theory ? they don't seem overweight.
mircea_popescu: jurov no they have this thing where they make 13yos sing in front of the whole congregation.
mircea_popescu: bounce it's god's cruel joke. jews take it even further with all the torah singing.