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mircea_popescu: Adlai that's what pencil dicks are : those who attempt to fool people as a means to existence.
mircea_popescu: that's what "chomksy" means. "disappointed over how the people running his ideology apportion the proceeds of the theft that ideology entails"
mircea_popescu: he's not yet come up with a way to ask people how intelligent they are. what the fuck.
mircea_popescu: and chomsky proposes people be ASKED ?! like how, orally ?
mircea_popescu: what is this, senility day, buffett structures his business so as to avoid tax then derps that he pays less than his secretary so his middle management shouild be taxed more
mircea_popescu: what the fuck, "the answer was". chomsky conveniently forgets all the problems inherent in FORMALISNG these problems, in speech ?
mircea_popescu: Adlai we readily agree, provided by "current way government is conducted" you mean "pencil dicks who chiefly need the government to steal from others and give them part of the proceeds as a means of support derp about how to formalise choice"
mircea_popescu: they had all the choices they can meaningfully have. go to work or don't. read or don't read, beat your wife or don't beat your wife, whatever.
mircea_popescu: this idea that "people" should have "a choice" is bullshit of the first degree.
mircea_popescu: yeah well i have scant few of those and nobody seems to like 'em.
mircea_popescu: seems you don't actually have an argument past empty formalism.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves do you dispuite the ethereum "money" is already stolen at this point ?
mircea_popescu: how is something that's a fact that idiots don't know anything but news ?
mircea_popescu: Adlai if you review the log, there was ev en a contract drawn for the purpose. and a bunch of people were gonna participate.
mircea_popescu: no, it would actually be news. inasmuch as we KNOW that's what's going to happen.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you can write their next update yourself. so can i. if either of us do and we send it to qntra,
mircea_popescu: o, shit, i forgot. all their "investors" never actually existed. ooops.
mircea_popescu: where are all the people "interested" in lending me some to short ?
mircea_popescu: and the typefaces are from the cheapo bin at the print shop
mircea_popescu: wallpapers holy shit, we can't even afford a cascading ss.
mircea_popescu: usg: "you have the right to blablabla" cartman: "fuck you, i do what i want"
mircea_popescu: but seriously : this machine which purports to remove freedoms, as if, and replace them with "rights", as if.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ironically, that's the one thing where it does work.
mircea_popescu: there are so many ways to resolve problems now that we have the social media.
mircea_popescu: ah don't worry about that tat. you can always fuck a virgin and you'll be cured. or if not, one can make a proposal and publish it on tumblr.
mircea_popescu: well, unless there's a refugee camp with hot sexy 12 year old locals. then all bets are off. Standard UN policy in the matter, as seen in Congo, Haiti, Liberia, Sudan, Burundi etc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i think going awol is probably more of a risk than ebola.
mircea_popescu: that us soldiers need 14400 seconds seems mildly insulting.
mircea_popescu: dude i just did 30 seconds ebola training for intelligent people.
mircea_popescu: "wear this gear. wash your hands. don't put stuff in your eyes, mouth, asshole"
mircea_popescu: course the antioficialismo newspapers are nao calling her paranoid over that impermissible holistic approach.
mircea_popescu: to quote the cristina chick, "todo hace juego con todo"
mircea_popescu: Adlai you readily ignored the (previously discussed) reference and now are making a soup of the statement ?
mircea_popescu: bounce yeah, just make sure you have a wallet inspector made out of two cans and a string or something.
mircea_popescu: "mother mary who thoust be in heavens in all glory and power, ready my letter of what i would like to see and DO IT"
mircea_popescu: you know it's startying to wear on me this. there's a currently-in-the-process-of-universalizing-itself mode of behaviour of the principal mode of failure of contemporary youth (previously discussed) which consists in essentially... prayer.
mircea_popescu: got a decent router in front of the server, puny as it is.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but also 'traduttore, tradittore.' << but consider ... cinema treason adds to the story.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes golden ages are of cultures not of people you lout you!
mircea_popescu: well... because nobody translates worth a shit, and filters even worse than that ? perhaps ?
mircea_popescu: in any case, this speaks directly to a revolutionary wonderment, to wit that "how is it that these reactionary types always see the golden age in some past".
mircea_popescu: no. for one thing, "i salute you, memories of my youth, and knob upon which my fate turned" is unfamiliar to no one
mircea_popescu: and this seems fucking independnet of which side you sit on if any at all, and time invariant for that matter.
mircea_popescu: but be that as it may, it's fascinating how the stuff that doesn't cross is always more interesting than the stuff that does
mircea_popescu: i suppose soljenitsin is more readily accessible, and whatever, tolstoy readily seems so to teh western reader
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta say, you got the formalisation quite exactly.