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mircea_popescu: seeing how the more people read the more their fixed costs go up.
mircea_popescu: vice doesn't really have much interest in making it easy for people to read, either,
mircea_popescu: i get it that impotence is a major problem there, both culturally and sexually, but that's scarcely an excuse.
mircea_popescu: this bullshit whereby a clueless shit will "invent" something and the world will "adapt" to it is sheer usinsanity.
mircea_popescu: and no, it's not that we've adapted to the lines. the lines are adapted to us.
mircea_popescu: plenty of "smarter than necessary" folk came up with lines that went 123 654 789 etc
mircea_popescu: "but moving eyes from end to begin of line must add cognitive load"
mircea_popescu: scrolling is not unlike the revolutionary notion of having sentences broken up on lines on the written page
mircea_popescu: i can't even remember, i liked the guy since i was 14 or so
mircea_popescu: you think if i get alzhimers' when im 95 that'll change the 2013 articles on trilema in any way ?
mircea_popescu: the letters are old, and as respectable as they ever were.
mircea_popescu: read that whole set, you'll be ahead of about half the group of folk that identify as finance-anythign
mircea_popescu: can you imagine how shocked the aliens/reptillians/illuminati/etc watching this will be
mircea_popescu: before that back in 2012 he was going to post pics of his mining farm
mircea_popescu: yeah, he was going to sue pirate, he is going to sue garr,
mircea_popescu: so has goat. so has gigavps. so has teh bitcoin foundation. around scamming for quite some time now.
mircea_popescu: or maybe they just have a dartboard and throw darts at it each day
mircea_popescu: aren;'t these the guys that stole the "investors" equity to cover for the previous time they got owned ?
mircea_popescu: o, that was my only one time in that chain, i have no idea what they serve
mircea_popescu: blond lead vocal guy couldn't quite decide if he wanted to do an elvis impersonation or not
mircea_popescu: then people from the bar were coming to me to ask me to ask the band to play songs
mircea_popescu: anyway, it was funny, i was wearing a suit, struck up a conversation with a band in a bar,
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves which one of the numerous mystery trilema photos
mircea_popescu: someone should make a purported canadian forum like that just to mess with people
mircea_popescu: MisterE the fact that i spent a week doing nothing but champagne on the riverwalk may well have colored that impression :p
mircea_popescu: and more interestingly so than the white equivalent, dearly loved as "pc speak"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nah, that's only because you don't speak either russian or fringe chinese/indian languages
mircea_popescu: artifexd well this is in reference to an earlier bill cosby imgur
mircea_popescu: but i happen to think some bits of black vernacular are expressive. i use ain't all the time.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves at the end there was about 1 ton of paper residue, 1/4 ton of textile residue taken from the grounds
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is all bs weirdo romanian stuff, it shouldn't really count.
mircea_popescu: maybe it was the last generation that had any unobstructed view of us reality.
mircea_popescu: this is the furthers out case of musical and generally artistic ownage i know of
mircea_popescu: then consider it was supposed to be THEIR signature song.