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mircea_popescu: nevertheless spent billions of dollars in
the shitty slots.
mircea_popescu: and
the start and end of it all is,
these atrocious fucktards, who
think "sadly
there's
too many bars" and
the whole surface of club in buenos aires would fit in one sane club in a sane place,
☟︎ trinque went on a
tirade
to new lady friend yesterday about
the complete lack of ownership in USistan.
mircea_popescu: the whole charade is, government borrows, spends and
taxes, creates cardboard "businessmen"
that exist principally
to have what
to hang whenever needed and vorwarts!
mircea_popescu: so now "his" media, which obviously was cristina-friendly, pissed off macri, who won. and so
they're going
to have a falling out and
the
thing is going
to be "privatized" or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: the reason is,
that
there was some dispute between city and federal government as
to who should be paid. and
this derp went whatevers, and never paid anything.
mircea_popescu: the
thing owes in
taxes, if its own word is
to be believed, about half a BILLION dollars for
the past decade.
phf: well, exactly
those guys are not producers
mircea_popescu: the local smartasses
took over, and created "the largest agglomeration of slot machines in
the world" in
this circus
tent on
the grounds of
the old hippodrome
mircea_popescu: so, one cristobal lopez is one of
the country's greatest "owners". originally,
there was a gambling boat made by some spanish company,
taking advantage of
the unclear jurisdiction situation and
the inept and slow workings of
the ar courts.
they invested 10mn and
took home 100mn
the first year.
mircea_popescu: trinque ok, ima befoul
the logs with
this nonsense
then.
mircea_popescu: phf i met
tons of guys
that went "yeah baby i'm ap roducer"
phf: i
thought owners are always mercurial about
their answers
that sort of questions. i'm yet
to see one who goes "yeah, i own companies"
mircea_popescu: trinque quite unheard of here. whole fucking place is a socialist wet dream, nobody owns anything. did i recount
the lulz of
the local gambling baron ?
mircea_popescu: it's not "what you do, whether you make any money or not, ie work", but "how do you get
the money, whether you do anything or not, ie, social-proof".
mircea_popescu: because apparently work doesn't mean iho what i
thought it would.
mircea_popescu: local lulz here.
tall blondy aspiring
to be a stewardess wants
to know where i work. "i don't work" "then what do you do ?" "whatever i feel like." she's
thoroughly confused, enlists help. "how do i pay for
things ??" "with money." "yes!!!". eventually girl
that knows me rescues
them, "oh, he's in finance". NOW
they're satisfied! "omg you liar!11"
mircea_popescu: phf half
the
time it's not
the schooled clever, which is just as well.
phf: it's just not
the "easy" clever
phf: fwiw
there's plenty of clever girls in dc club scene,
they are predominantly american,gwu,georgetown or else educated
transplants, not
to mention lots of foreigners
mircea_popescu: generally, better a clever girl
that
thinks herself dumb
than a dumb girl
that
thinks she must be clever.
phf: but i'm saying i grok what ascii is
talking about, because
there's strong sorority culture in dc
mircea_popescu: i'd much rather discuss
the scrolls with
them
than with
the others.
phf: i have nothing but warm feelings
towards clubsluts,
they made my mid 20s quite pleasant, before i left dc
mircea_popescu: "the culture of clubsluts and sorority girls" beats any other female culture so far out of
the field it can't even be discussed, wtf. you can
take one of
those and make her a fat borderline sleeve in six weeks.
try
the fucking other way around
mircea_popescu: phf i dunno fucking comprehend
the disdain affected (perhaps
to
the point of believing
themselves) by intellectual folk re
the pro sluts.
trinque: he said something about
the women having robot faces
phf: ascii perhaps refers
to strong dc culture of clubsluts and sorority girls
trinque: ah right,
those fembots you mentioned?
trinque: poor alf
thinks people put up with fat, stupid people of walmart everywhere on
this continent
mircea_popescu: (intromission in marine mammals doesn't work as in
terrestrials. you'd prolly call it... milking.)
trinque: the
texan babes behave just fine. you're in hell.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, intelligence is an adaptive
trait!
mircea_popescu: odds are he won't find
the popular girls sexy or even interesting, and so on.
mircea_popescu: do
that
to a child, he'll have
to... wait for it... adapt
to
the new environment!!11
mircea_popescu: hey,
there's good arguments against moving
to other place. your parents
took you
there neh ?
mircea_popescu: yes decision on part of dulapped. if you ever find an island of castrated males, you found an island of dudes who
thought balls hang
too heavy for comfort.
mircea_popescu: no dude. every place,
the government it wants and earns.
mircea_popescu: fwis, nine
tenths of everyone'd wear one of
those penis shrinker
thing and be kept in diapers by a crumb-like woman.
shinohai thinks asciilifeform believes himself
the Russian Prometheus.
mircea_popescu: phf hey, and you wanted
to
teach a computer how
to do it!
phf: yeah, seriously
that part of my brain hasn't worked in 20 some years
mircea_popescu: tmsr-chan now doing literary criticism master's degrees of all
things.
mircea_popescu: phf anyway,
take your
time. mebbe alf watches it
too and he can catch up with
teh rest of
the class!
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron> just like Obama can't be
that powerful if he can't publicly have a harem <<
the excuse here would be
that "he could if he wanted
to - doesn't want
to".
mircea_popescu: this happens
to be a very strictly classical narrative, much
to its merit, and adding
to its valor. so find it.
mircea_popescu: phf "the singular act
towards which all exposition leads and from which all conclusion follows".
that's
the classical climax. yes, modern and adultcontempo storytelling does not strictly follow classicism, just like
they abandoned
the unity of
time and place. but
the
thing still is what it always was.
danielpbarron: just like Obama can't be
that powerful if he can't publicly have a harem
danielpbarron: gavin can't say
the
things
that i can say, and in
that sense he is much less free
than I am
mircea_popescu: holy shit is
the internet braindead btw. fucking websites.
phf: mircea_popescu:
the peak of plot?
phf: well, it's
the end of any action on
the part of characters,
they are sort of agitated from
their state by external factors,
they act
to
the limit of
their meagre abilities, and
that's
that. everything else is
them settling back into
their passivity as a result of
that initial agitation
phf: i
thought it was somewhere around
the dinner scene where
they ask dad questions
mircea_popescu: now
tell me
this. you familiar with
the five stages of a narrative ?
phf: i can also see why it would have a 7/10 rating, because it won't be seen as a satire,
the characters are also
the audience, words like "poignant" "reconnecting" "estranged" will be used, but of course
there all kinds of
things
to nit pick for connoisseurs of independent movies which are better
than hollywood, but are easy
to apply npr-speak while completely missing
the point, and
the meta circularity makes my head heart. hence-- painful
phf: mircea_popescu: it's very spot on, it's like everything
that happens is a neurotic mannerism, "of course
that's what she would say, of course
that's what he would do", all
the props fit
too. painful, because i'm not in argentina and
these people are way
too familiar
shinohai: Aren't
there kabbalists
that look for such hashes in Scripture?
mircea_popescu: if only god had
the common sense ot include a hash with
the material.
danielpbarron: PeterL> danielpbarron do you read
things like
the gospel of
thomas << no. just
the 66 books
mircea_popescu: he has his idiosyncratic criteria, which fit
the events. and change with
teh events.
shinohai: +asciilifeform ^ answers
the old riddle, 'does gavin have
to rot in an office' <<< a cage is a cage still, isn't it?
mircea_popescu: one of
the best
things
to do after breaking up a strike/protest/other "democratic" bs is
to isolater hte participants, beat
the shit out of
them and inquire wtf
they
thought
they were doing
there.