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mircea_popescu: the only reason that is notable is because the radium jaw is really just phosphorus jaw.
mircea_popescu: this is why there has to be a fucking board of employment in th first place, otherwise people would happily STILL be sucking down phosphorus
mircea_popescu: especially if the employers represent them as "standard"
mircea_popescu: jurov people take unreasonable risks as part of their employment ALL THE TIME
mircea_popescu: (we're giving the people over at X your radio id, and they'll shoot you down. omitting to mention this part.)
mircea_popescu: "mr jurov, we have a very important mission for you. it's to fly here : X"
mircea_popescu: you're telling me he's not going to do it, becase "it's not done" or something ?
mircea_popescu: suppose this manger now goes to work for me, and i'm "whatever, fuck them all in chains for all i care."
mircea_popescu: ok, let me put this to you. average us middle manager can't fuck his employees, because he's affraid of scandal. of the employees, at least a few would be open to being fucked
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only thing we can infer is that the whole org is made out of people motivated through income, which means it's not really a threat to anyone (other than perhaps its employer)
mircea_popescu: "in the interest of santa clause we can't say" "sorry, not interesed."
mircea_popescu: at some point cca 2012 any consultant with anything inside the skull started answering the "o hey, we want to promote you" with "o yeah ? who else is going ?"
mircea_popescu: any "consultants" organisation of a decent size can fill an airplane with people who are costing it more than they're worth.
mircea_popescu: i guess england is the only major player to not have tried yet huh.
mircea_popescu: but i guess "tactical" isn't a word anymore, and so strategy is a lost art.
mircea_popescu: the only difference here is that germany didn't have a bound border. russia does.
mircea_popescu: [which was loaded full of fulmicotton and tons of ammo, we're not saying this part])
mircea_popescu: "o the evil german submarines sunk a passenger ship kiling everyone on board
mircea_popescu: this is a rehash of that miserable rms lusitania bullshit.
mircea_popescu: so now as the public retirement schemes are collapsing...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo sometime in 2005 they made the mistake to promise senior pilots payment "in kind"
mircea_popescu: he past headgames people had to play to cope with the problem. And nobody misses the supposed "benefits" of the problem they once dreamed up excuses for."
mircea_popescu: ahaha this is rich, because succession : "Social skills will decline markedly after the advent of sex robots, much like the way electronic calculators degraded arithmetic skills." "People often cope with an unsolvable problem by convincing themselves that somehow there is some purpose or need for the problem. Like it builds character or something. But when technology eliminates a problem, people soon forget about all t
mircea_popescu: what, cause the teenagers there are really really frustrated ?
mircea_popescu: "Of course I hesitate to argue as I am doing here for fear of encouraging xtians to have even more children and raising them to believe in Noah's Flood." << ironically, that's in all likelihood an actual event.
mircea_popescu: under it some metal blades turn in step with the engine closing contacts to fire the spark plugs.
mircea_popescu: punkman1 look at that, " You'll feel the wetness during penetration and orgasm, thanks to a lube reservoir that knows when and how much to release." they made bubblejet printing do something useful ?
mircea_popescu: in fact, sitting there whining about the delco cap is so unlike the blues they made a new word for it. it's emo.
mircea_popescu: one gets the blues because he worked ten years to make enough money to marry this girl that he really really loves, and she loves him, and now they're married and YET.
mircea_popescu: one doesn't get the blues because he can't figure out how to remove the delco cap.
mircea_popescu: the blues is the common man's understanding of the doomed human condition, has nothing to do with fucking failure.
mircea_popescu: A whole musical genre---the blues---showcases life failure. "Singing the blues" is figuratively what sexually worthless nerds do on Usenet, except it doesn't fly with women as unembellished prose. << o that's fucking bullshit.
mircea_popescu: now tell me there's anyone in existence who's not rendered at the very least slightly curious.
mircea_popescu: "DESTROYA Upon entry, three small rings of bumps will grasp you tightly, followed by the ultra piercing pleasure dome that will give you 360 degrees of unmatched bliss. The next chamber starts with a small row of teeth and fangs that delightfully rub and pull at you. Finally, one row of large bumps leads into a super ribbed texture that narrows the farther you get inside."
mircea_popescu: you know ? fiddy bux. less than any conceivable bar tag.
mircea_popescu: here you are going nicely along, making this fluffy uniform complex sauce, when suddenly... boom. for "no fucking reason". it's bits. can't be saved.)
mircea_popescu: (the mayonnaise cutting, for the readers that never made mayo, is this absolutely catastrophic event from hell.
mircea_popescu: my problem with sf is more personal i guess. i think i have a very finnicky suspension of disbelief, makes the mayo cut extremely easy for me.
mircea_popescu roughly speaking despises all us style fiction, to the point of not actually liking most sf.
mircea_popescu: and if you do read the book, its prolly going to be something like knuth or whatever other exceptionally well systhematising works, which are again well in the past.
mircea_popescu: well you won't count looseleaf documentations as "books" would you ?
mircea_popescu: i suspect this is a good rule of thumb. and equally good in 1700 for that matter.
mircea_popescu: i think less than 1% of the books i ever read were published after my birth.
mircea_popescu: and walk around talking to other bearded men in sarafans
mircea_popescu: if people REALLY wanted intellectual stimulation, they wouldn't read books, they'd listen to music.
mircea_popescu: Face it, movies are eye candy trash. If people want intellectual stimulation they read books. There's nothing funnier than a pseudo-intellectual trying to get pompous about "film." << fucking hater o noes.
mircea_popescu: tually verified in practice. indian women are more than a little reluctant to get married.
mircea_popescu: "If marriage constituted more than a hypothetical risk of getting raped, I would expect women to learn to avoid it as women have learned to avoid walking around alone at night, or at least show some reluctance to get married, as women often show reluctance to put themselves into positions of vulnerability with men they just met or men they have gotten to know and decided they don't want to have sex with." << this is ac
mircea_popescu: Today, the Internet brings every imaginable form of pornography to every home. The Internet is too valuable for too many things to just ban, and we can't even regulate spam that nobody wants, much less a product such as porn for which enormous demand exists."
mircea_popescu: "Look at how the Internet has overwhelmed opponents of pornography. Back in the 1970's, the conservatives who ruled some towns were able to wipe out pornographic bookstores and theaters. Depending on what town you lived in, pornography might have been hard to come by.
mircea_popescu: (in the purely math sense : i'm probably going to be able to write a simple transform)
mircea_popescu: how would they be different issues ? they're both functions of knowledge and power. f(k,p) and h(k,p) aren't gonna be all that different.
mircea_popescu: chetty because most engineers are men, and most bitcoin will be made by engineers (understood broadly).
mircea_popescu: years of service they had forgotten how to work. They were soon doubled up with back-ache, and they missed their dominoes."
mircea_popescu: "The real trouble was that the planners and accountants had failed to make provision for this work. The free women workers employed in the kitchen refused to do it: they were paid only to cook. The administration tried to foist it on to the guards in their off-duty hours when they would otherwise have been playing dominoes in the guardroom. The guards were all healthy young men, chosen for their toughness. But in their
mircea_popescu: i am generally forced to admit that yes, "especially for you, it would be."