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mircea_popescu: i guess if
the sluts were good i'd credit
the school more
than
the individual sluts in question... maybe.
thestringpuller: I have found a correlation
to alumni dedication and how "out of control"
the partying is at said alma matar.
mircea_popescu has ~0 anything for "the school", remembers some
teachers.
mircea_popescu: why not feel deeply indebted
to
the actual people
that
taught you ?
nubbins`: in fact, i feel deeply indebted
to
the place, as i essentially learned my
trade
there
nubbins`: gigposters has "premium membership" ($20/yr) and people get
turbo shit-on if
they ask
too many questions w/o coughing up some funds
mircea_popescu: the plague starts once bitcoin/experts sexchange/seo/mommy/ what have you default activities of
those who really should have been shot in
their
teen years.
nubbins`: odd
thing
to say about a forum
nubbins`: ignore
the watermark & url,
these are my actual
tools
nubbins`: mix our own inks from scratch
too
nubbins`: it requires a couple years of abject failure
to
truly appreciate, but
tyvm
nubbins`: post #19 if you don't feel like waiting for
the jump
mircea_popescu: actually
The Story of Nubbins
the Industrious would make a pretty decent book
title.
nubbins`: lemme find some close-up photos
that will mean absolutely nothing
to you
nubbins`: i'm a
technician more
than anything
mircea_popescu doesn't recall
the last
time he actually saw a competent draughstman / painter / anything.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` are you gonna get butthurt if i
tell you
the
thing sucked ?
ascii_field: eh nubbins` i
thought of you!111 every
time i papercutted on my ragged bitcoin printout binder
mircea_popescu: i'd be pretty harsh
to all
these hussies daring
to prance around in like clothes
mircea_popescu: in fairness, if i were a woman, and worked my ass off for kink.com
throughout my
teen years, and
then retired
to... start my own perfume line,
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: whole
thing was 'generous'.
twas
the point ;/
nubbins`: really i retired from
tech
to stave off suicide later in life, but
this is splitting hairs
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: hey one
time i left for an hour and came back
to discover
that i suffer from depersonalization and am dog-who-identifies-as-cat
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski ironically, nubbins` retired from
tech
to do artsy bs, and now has a sweet
tooth for anyone daring not be in
tech!
pete_dushenski leaves for few minutes, only
to discover
that his dad is dead and bequeathed him some paper,
that's he's mp-but-no-mp,
that he didn't retire from health inspection, and
that he's on welfare because not 'in
tech'.
nubbins`: now suppose instead of mining dung beetles, you're waiting for a
tenant
to say
the radiator's busted in your dad's building
mircea_popescu: ironically, my virtual game character made more in november
than 50% of earth's population, and most africans.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` im actually on
three computers. one of which is mining magical dungbeetles.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ironically,
the "tech and all else is state supported" shithole mostly would be
the bay area.
mircea_popescu: check it out, nubbins` schematic
thought naufraged once more on
the circuitous beaches of irl.
mircea_popescu: tech, finance, governance, hey, do you count
the usg plants as self-supported or state-supported ?
ascii_field: some of even live in communist shitholes where
tech and ~all else is state-supported
nubbins`: if you don't work in
tech, odds are you're one of
the former
nubbins`: consider
that
there are people active in here on a daily basis who are 100% supported by
the state, and others who are 100% self-supporting
nubbins`: there's a set of lifestyles
that allow one
to dick around on irc all day
nubbins`: ^ parallel universes collapsed as i wrote
that
nubbins`: don't look a gift painting in
the brush
nubbins`: mircea_popescu lol my entire generation was spawned by people
together enough
to actually own something. and
they're all fuckups
☟︎ trinque: this is a poor person's notion of
the wealthy.
mircea_popescu: all
things equal i'd rather deal with someone who comes from sane parents.
mircea_popescu: "this guy was spawned by people
together enough
to actually own something. unlike everyone on
the internet, who is here mostly because
their mother
thought being ugly is enough excuse
to fuck drunks.
nubbins`: unremarkable in
the sense
that any asshole can get a windfall
☟︎ nubbins`: remarkable in
the sense
that saving for
the future is remarkable
mircea_popescu: today, it's fucking remarkable. means about
the same as a dog's pedigree
nubbins`: mircea_popescu so he "manages" a couple
things for dad?
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 19:07:55; pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu property manager of a small, older commercial building
that my father owns. 6
tenants, 100 occupants, fun little project. also manage
two residential properties. also manage a small start-up in
the construction materials space, we make
the first/only/bestest fibreglass composite curtain wall framing. and
then
there's
the little one. le petit monstre...
whaack: !rate funkenstein_ 2 met in
the flesh, has a great blogpost "on chumponomics"
whaack: !rate funkenstein_: 2 met in
the flesh, has a great blogpost "on chumponomics"
nubbins`: he's like a mini-mp, but without
the circuitous argument skills
nubbins`: actually pretty much anything pete says falls under
the category of
trite,
too
mircea_popescu: but you know
that
trite happens
to be a sort of banal, right ?
mircea_popescu: shooting people certainly a lot more practical
than "helping" people.
mircea_popescu: it's how i ran my
town
the only
time i ever ran a
town, and it's how i intend
to run any
town i ever run.
mircea_popescu: i happen
to agree : if you happen
to be poor and happen
to be loud, being shot is
the correct policy.
nubbins`: could keep going but shrug, you get
the idea
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 17:10:19; pete_dushenski: i don't go into withdrawal when forced
to use leaves for
tp.
nubbins`: "use it
to offset
the insanely high cost of goods"
nubbins`: as opposed
to southern canada :D
nubbins`: gov literally pays you
to live up
there
nubbins`: move up north for yr last 5 years in
the workforce
nubbins`: i personally would not fare well above
the
treeline
nubbins`: that's
the other "high pay, shitty work" option for canadians: go up north
mircea_popescu: the main
thing is being able
to sit by oneself for six months in
the dark
nubbins`: don't let me get in
the way of your over-9000
triteness
nubbins`: pete_dushenski all
the people whose houses are suddenly worth less
than
the outstanding mortgages would
tend
to disagree
that "all will be well"
☟︎