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mircea_popescu: sadly, he got to operate among the "pills work!!!" imbeciles, went on the bottle.
mircea_popescu: the dood was a talented talk-psych, good structure of thought in his head.
mircea_popescu: anyway, github is very much going the way of livehornal / slashdot.
mircea_popescu: "those nameless idiots in siouxland are eating turd sandwiches, so we here in paris must therefore eat turd wellington!!11"
mircea_popescu: europe is such a lulzy shithole these days. sorta like the whiplash of its erstwhile colonies.
mircea_popescu: "if we act like it matters then it almost does" ? how cute.
mircea_popescu: it's shocking how many improvements one beenfits from not benefitting from.
mircea_popescu: yes, i have notices/dccs/whatever featurecreep they "updated" irc with turned off.
mircea_popescu: yeah, not much of a theory. theory in the sense theory of evolution is theory.
mircea_popescu: "risks to undercover agents", in every fucking manual/imperial discussion/whatever since the days of edgar hoover (who didn't permit it, btw, and for this reason) is specifically that exposure to violence renders slave incapable of "readjusting" to "normal" environment.
mircea_popescu: think about it : nobody is more independent minded than street urchin. why not ? nobody's got more hard knocks.
mircea_popescu: in this context, "if you're going to trust implicitly, either trust the republic or it's the lime pits for you" is a direct continuation of "if you're going to believe in god, you'd better fucking believe i am that god", ie some minimal mental hygiene.
mircea_popescu: nobody buys an ipad because "otherwise they'll get shot by LAPD". they buy the ipad because "i am so fucking stupid, i literally can't tell the difference between this piece of shit and a working programmable machine".
mircea_popescu: nobody trusts implicitly "or else". idiots trust implicitly because they objectively lack the capacity for anything else, so it's a strict "either trust implicitly or not at all" dilemma they face.
mircea_popescu: esthlos the atempt to weave practical thought and ideology isn't even fruitless ; i believe the symmetry described is truthful and informative.
mircea_popescu: up there with golf, or male tenis i guess. who the fruck would want to ~watch~ this
mircea_popescu: it happened to be on screen @whorehouse earlier, but otherwise...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i can't imagine why, they 1-1'd with switzerland.
mircea_popescu: anyway, nfi why thailand is famous for its ladyboys. they're a minority there, while united states consists of nothing but.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: moreover, an attempted nominal continuity with your 20yo self would rather hinder you today.
mircea_popescu: at issue isn't whether yes-or-no, but whether specific-identity-or-not-particularily, see ? even if what you describe happens, the item coming back won't meaningfully be douchebag.
mircea_popescu: !!rate douchebag -1 as it turns out, the more elaborate effort one puts into distinguishing gold from sand, the more elaborately sandy sand the one ends up with. gold is irrespectively evident on the first pass.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some superficial formal similarity i guess ?
mircea_popescu: they found him dead in a ditch, sewed him back together and ran reanimative storm-powered electricity through the pile ?
mircea_popescu: people usually send letters with their own picture on them where this guy is from ?!
mircea_popescu: "mommy, mommy, the kids in school hate me." "why ?" "THEYRE BARBARIC!!!!" "oh, i see!"
mircea_popescu: oodles upon oodles of discussions of "antisemitism", a term very substantially like phologiston : its mere inclusion in a text constitutes an ironclad guarantee that nothing intelligent, useful or interesting will be found there.
mircea_popescu: on the otherhand, but just as amusing, the simple and plainly evident fact that period europe consisted of ~way~ the fuck more people who couldn't stand jews than of people who liked hitler is, somehow, not much of a subject for the pomposity calling itself "scholarship". really, this happenstance doesn't happen to be at all interesting, somehiw ?
mircea_popescu: you know, the whole pile re hitler ancestry is fucking hysterical. fellow "absorbed austrian granite through his father", believe it or not. whatever that might mean.
mircea_popescu: ah there it is, Leopold Frankenberger, the 19yo son of the jewish family where the 40yo grandmother worked as a cook. this is ~about what i recalled.
mircea_popescu: did they ever establish whether granpa alois was actually somewhat jewish ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's this constant "oh, there's a lot of us, what can you do". i dunno... machine gun the leftovers after extracting all prostitutable girlies ? how about ?
mircea_popescu: owing on one hand to the extreme cheapness of building materials and on the other hand to the absolutely beaslty notions of southern socialism, as to the "rights" the scum has.
mircea_popescu: they have this HUGE problem in the orclands with "buildings" without title on land the builders don't own.
mircea_popescu: eh, england's a shithole to the degree a waspnest better approximates it. they have to constantly tear down old cells to chew into new ones.
mircea_popescu: if the walls could speak, no one would listen to any degree. there's already too much to read.
mircea_popescu: Finisce sempre cosi, con la morte. Prima, però, c'è stata la vita. La vita, nascosta sotto il bla, bla, bla, bla, bla. Tutto è sedimentato sotto il chiacchiericcio e il rumore : il silenzio è il sentimento, l'emozione e la paura. Gli sparuti, incostanti sprazzi di bellezza. E poi lo squallore disgraziato e l'uomo miserabile. Tutto è sepolto dalla coperta dell'imbarazzo dello stare al mondo. Bla, bla, bla, bla, bla.
mircea_popescu: "today, a snail came. i am not sure about this new moss growing. the wind is uncharacteristically global this time of the cycle. bla, bla, bla..."
mircea_popescu: if every brick standing for eight to twenty centuries in an indistinct wall spoke the whole time we'd go mad.
mircea_popescu: there isn't really much to tell, which is why "happily ever after" goes the expression.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform had job, kids, marriage, circle of friends, everything else. like cazalla say or w/e.
mircea_popescu: in other solipsisms, i threw out a rebours & l'innocente, because the suck, re-reading my zuleika rewrite instead, very happy with it.
mircea_popescu: hey, wanna never have to kill anyone, learn to like the soylent.
mircea_popescu: this is the way of sheep, to appear to be entirely aware.
mircea_popescu: but, the working of the wool shear is not for the sheep to meditate upon.
mircea_popescu: as naggum well put it, "have a kid or two, a start-up or two, an ambulance ride or two, suddenly your imaginary independence you sacrificed your youth for is nowehre in sight"
mircea_popescu: these are all plied specifically as ways to plug the printing press circuitry, lest it leaks.
mircea_popescu: or take pete d, or who the hell else. plenty of people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eg, you had some friend come over long ago, was going to do laser work for early model of fuckgoats ?
mircea_popescu: like science, you know, there's not 1 scientist per 10k "sciences" academia departments.