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mircea_popescu: i dunno dood, i don't even run a studio. chances are, it'll never get made anyway
mircea_popescu: i gave him some freedom implicit there, so his job doesn't suck
mircea_popescu: this is where i link that "all one" california soap nuttery
mircea_popescu: no but i mean, if he's going for the outrage value, at least go all the way.
mircea_popescu: why not have them fuck ductaped baby chickens, and use THAT as the currency.
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid if you had read the logs, there was even a cushy us govt job offered.
mircea_popescu: VanCleef or people whoi like alma-tadema, or people who like to see men get fucked, or w/e
mircea_popescu: the greatness of money, you get to make choices and have preferences.
mircea_popescu: i could. but i prefer to give someone the chance to write the script.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves btw, if it makes you feel better : <chetty> your movie needs a sequel <mircea_popescu> well sure. <mircea_popescu> you wanna make money, always leave room for a sequel.
mircea_popescu: VanCleef indicated i nthe text by "This scene makes or breaks the whole film"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that's why you're in the marbles and i'm in the furs, because you actually believe that :D
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i guess it does that. and yes they are. but it ain't the political statement i wish to make :)
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nah. that's imbalanced. it proposes the idiocy is somehow okay.
mircea_popescu: but it has an event. how many episodes before, and how many after ? either way it's... two tv shows
mircea_popescu: that's exactly what happened : some engineer made 1/0 shorthand for infinity trying to fit their code into the insect
mircea_popescu: ecided he wasn't going to tell anyone that this was an error, because he's a dick, and now all your snowflakes are urine and you can't even find the cat."
mircea_popescu: "You discover that one day, some idiot decided that since another idiot decided that 1/0 should equal infinity, they could just use that as a shorthand for "Infinity" when simplifying their code. Then a non-idiot rightly decided that this was idiotic, which is what the original idiot should have decided, but since he didn't, the non-idiot decided to be a dick and make this a failing error in his new compiler. Then he d
mircea_popescu: but with the countless neon moons distributed all over, this ceases to work
mircea_popescu: they're tuned to seek the moon in the dark, you see, because while they can't go that far, all of them seeking it ensures they meet
mircea_popescu: btw, i don't know if you realise this, but we're fucking up most insects something fierce.
mircea_popescu: then make another one, and with the profitos from the first one, buy a a banner ?
mircea_popescu: "what premises would we need for intelligent frogs to make perfect sense ?"
mircea_popescu: sometimes i entertain this vague notion where we're somehow all wrong and the nonsense somehow actually makes sense
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i bet you that if you asked indian teens today, the millionaire speaker ee guy is more interesting a worship idol than the physicist.
mircea_popescu: maybe when you're old and dying you pick a guy to bequeath your yurt line toi
mircea_popescu: by the time they're falling apart i was just about leaving
mircea_popescu: it matches my lifestyle perfectly, i get to a new place, buy a set of the plastic shits
mircea_popescu: decimation that's a major point of socialism : it uses technology to degrade quality of life
mircea_popescu: nobody'd come to put up the show and shake the bottled fars for them
mircea_popescu: w/o the welfare cheques, the "vc" bunch would be alone in a room.
mircea_popescu: the ill effects of moral hazard produced through giving idiots free money are far reaching.
mircea_popescu: something like that. as they say, a fart stinks up the entire room.
mircea_popescu: the engineer would NOT think there are more important things in life,
mircea_popescu: of course, a large part of hte problem is that if the derps running around on welfare checks debasing the cultural impoirtance of money,