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mircea_popescu: someone patented straight lines in that fuckfest of insanity over there.
mircea_popescu: "The bars are tilted 22.5° to the left, both for stylistic reasons and to avoid Lemelson parallel barcode patent concerns."
mircea_popescu: pankkake wait, you're from the magical land of the minitel aren't you
mircea_popescu: i was keeping this as my personal private chuckle re all the ninnies with the qr codes that revolutionise w/e the fuck
mircea_popescu: unclehowell as far as anyone knows, you're some guy that started talking the moment he joined and what he had to say was some sales angle. this is exactly how to end up on the ignore list of half the chan within five minutes, and on the mocklist of half the rest.
mircea_popescu: pankkake what, the bbss ?! those weren't free, foo. urmom was payin' for it.
mircea_popescu: dja understand by this reading the average fridge is a honeypot ?
mircea_popescu: this works sort-of well, until you end up with things like... i dunno, every show on tv being a honeypot by this approach, as well as every newspaper and most of everything else, cause they damn sure don't work for the advertised/intended purposes.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic i suppose his argument is chiefly "what else could it be"
mircea_popescu: this "making things easy" bs is just another name for "painting yourself out of the picture"
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's deeper than that, too. us people wanted a system that'd work without their input. thirty years later... they have it.
mircea_popescu: the modern equivalent of "let's go to war for the love of jesus"
mircea_popescu: except the entire thing is directly the result of political negotiation, as an exchange of power.
mircea_popescu: such bs all this. the whole charade is predicated on supposedly acting on principle
mircea_popescu: "you've not lived until you brought strippers on campus, to parade nude for the benefit of all the stuck up "career" bitchez"
mircea_popescu: no no she has a point, they have a stupid glue thing they use for fake lashes
mircea_popescu: millenials is how women that don't fuck tender reffer to the chicks which are just about ripe.
mircea_popescu: subquestion : did the elctric chair include a buttelectrode ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform forbes has the circulation of mail order catalogues for anal plugs cca 1950, what herding ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder what'd happen if you replaced the wsj's experts with seventeen magazine's experts for a week
mircea_popescu: it seemed to suddenly add up to a lot more dough than normally.
mircea_popescu: it's probably the most diversely-held stock in the history of btc
mircea_popescu: well everyone's baby blue on my thing, except me. i'm gray.
mircea_popescu: including where you may wish to complain, some nl host.
mircea_popescu: guy's been running a node off the same ip he's spamming here ?
mircea_popescu: bitbet has the same problem, except there it's kind of deliberate to encourage ppl to be brief
mircea_popescu: lol this is what internet experts with mucho experience and #1 delo negocios come up with
mircea_popescu: and also we could keep gasoline in cups right next to our coffee cups and type away in the dark
mircea_popescu: anyway, i dun see the big deal. if this wasn;'t a problem we wouldn't need trademarks
mircea_popescu: how did that clemens line go, "the less one is inclined to make definitive universal statements, the less likely they are to look like some random noob that ended up in the wrong channel"
mircea_popescu: there's value in this "theory / practice" approach anyway. for one thing mpex contracts even allow assets to skip a month entirely
mircea_popescu: it'll get confusing as all hell because s.mpoe actually pays divs same month *most* months
mircea_popescu: mike_c oh i c. maybe make a note somewhere or who knows
mircea_popescu: stuff that lays on the bottom of still water, rolling its eyes and not putting any effort is scum, that's what it is, look it up.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, calling things you don't like to hear opinions doesn't much change the reality of them.
mircea_popescu: there's the truthfulness defense. something's not an insult just because you don't like hearing it.
mircea_popescu: it does also save you from making a fool of yourself thinking hemingway invented donne, but that's i suppose a minor point, especially if you are careful to live among people who won't laugh to your face for it.
mircea_popescu: or in other words, any fuckwit can "roll their eyes" pointlessly. actually reading a book takes some effort.
mircea_popescu: they're the same substance, "let's presume inferiority abroad"
mircea_popescu: <truffles> just trying to say u put in more effort than most ppl prob << how do you distinguish this from "niggers are just born with less smarts" ?
mircea_popescu: and scum is one who thinks that the solution to their own stupidity and laziness is enticing, encouraging and if need be forcing everyone else to be equally lazy and stupid.
mircea_popescu: more generally, any passive-aggressive behaviour fits under weasel.
mircea_popescu: weasel is someone who behaves arrogantly and offensively anti-thinking, and when they have it pointed out to them they claim they were "just observing", in your case.
mircea_popescu: didn't you just call the guy a nerd for not being as stupid as you'd like people to be generally ?