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pete_dushenski: "Gambetta and Hertog painstakingly gather
together data on individuals belonging
to a variety of
terrorist groups in
the Muslim world. Where
they are able
to get
the data, it displays a compelling pattern – engineers are much more prone
to become members of violent
terrorist organizations."
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "i was
too busy
to cook at home". yea, well,
this is what your efficiency sowed.
pete_dushenski: well, 'normal' movies get you normal girls and normal relationships. glhf with
those.
pete_dushenski: (yes, jarhead was last 'first date' movie
that pete saw, and may see for some
time yet)
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:53:01; adlai: "we've always been at war with Eurasia" is a much more effective "WAR IS PEACE"
than "we are still in
the desert" (last line of Jarhead)
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 16:33:22; kakobrekla: as it is now i dont have any obligation
to keep it running, if one day i wake up and have enough i can just shut it down singlehandedly - if listed anywhere,
this changes
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:39:59; mircea_popescu: but, and
this general point remains, you don't get
to, nor should you, exclude operational costs from efficiency calculations. after you factor in
the $500
to replace your favourite pair of pants you always just so happen
to be wearing at
the
time, plus
the inconvenience at billable hour cost etc, suddenly
the idea
to switch
to "modern, energy saving, efficient" bulbs looks a lot closer
to
the insani
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:25:24; BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i somehow suspect less
than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years. << Aha.
The scam is rates
to renew policy gradually increase up until 40-50 years of age and
then insurance company is all "lol, nope" which makes derps wonder where "affordable" life inurance went when
they had no such
thing before. Customer backloads
their risk, insurance company frontloads
theirs and whoever quits
pete_dushenski: who knows, maybe light bulb industry is sending google
take-down notices for 'copyrasted infoz'
pete_dushenski: needless
to say, i
took
to 'search engines'
to find corroborating evidence, and every last fucking result was some derps on some derpy 'lighting' forum.
pete_dushenski: he
thought i was kidding and
that
this was 'old wive's
tale'
pete_dushenski: but most likely explanation is
that alternative, cuba, just had shittier hotels for
the same price.
pete_dushenski: why it didn't occur
to me
to check before i booked it, i can't say
pete_dushenski: hey look, mxn-cad not far off 10 year high. good news
this.
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:04:25; mircea_popescu: i somehow suspect less
than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years.
thestringpuller: ascii_field: what you doin on
the field? you never
take vacation?
SuchWow: freenode used
to give affiliated cloaks back in
the day, if you were affiliated with an open source project
BingoBoingo: No idea. I kinda
though freenode cloaks were kinda random
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:54:52; mircea_popescu: ironically also better for yurp, a russian-run eu would have worked where
the german-run eu is barely screeching around.\
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:41:30; punkman: "When I said I want what my parents had, I meant loan-free education and a nice house, not
the looming
threat of war with Russia."
adlai: actually
the mercury may have even imbued you with double astrological fortune
jurov: dunno really, how i could look better. even
the hair refuses
to fall out as much as predicted
jurov: nothing was ever done with
the carpet
jurov: mom came, swept
the drops,
threw
them out
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:17:26; mircea_popescu: expect ~1 cubic metre of assorted
toxic waste per exploded shitbulb.
adlai: this isn't even worth a whole qntreatment,
the headline says it all: "Zapchain Growth Proves Bitcoin
Tipping Viable Social Media Model"
BingoBoingo: I don't
think
they mine fast enough
to fund such a bounty
kakobrekla: there should be a bounty on
the breaking of
their auth system
punkman: isn't forever21
the one
that makes pants
phf: kesey couldn't care less about plight of
the mentally disabled, or helping you relate
to a mental patient or anything like
that. it's kind of obvious from reading about him. guy was just having interesting experiences at a mental ward, writing
them down, and selling
the result on a
threadbare socially conscious
theme.
phf: (experience of
The Combine as a palpable
thing for example, during his pranksters period
turned into attempts at active manipulation of others, i.e.
The Consensus,
through Control, which pranksters called "putting
them into our movie". if you can put
them into our movie, you can make
them read our lines. etc.)
mircea_popescu: probably have a little oblast named for
them in siberia, like
the jews do.
mircea_popescu: should be pretty amusing
to see how greece'd have looked in alt-history where CCCE dominated
the small continent. "oh we won't pay".
mircea_popescu: ironically also better for yurp, a russian-run eu would have worked where
the german-run eu is barely screeching around.\
☟︎ adlai: "we've always been at war with Eurasia" is a much more effective "WAR IS PEACE"
than "we are still in
the desert" (last line of Jarhead)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they'd have just abandoned europe like
the whores
that
they are and under pressure
they'd have stayed in a better state of preservation for longer.
mircea_popescu: punkman ironically war with russia would have been much better for
the us
than
this crap.
phf: one flew narrative is a just a vehicle for kesey
to share his first explorations of acid altered perception, which are further elaborated on in electric kool-aid, second hand, by
tom wolfe.
punkman: "When I said I want what my parents had, I meant loan-free education and a nice house, not
the looming
threat of war with Russia."
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 08-07-2015 19:34:29; ascii_field: far more interesting is
the
trait hasn eysenck called 'psychoticism'
punkman: well I just grabbed
the dead
tree and reread last
two pages. looks pretty stupid now.
mircea_popescu: i don't have a straight answer, but i will say
that having been in argentina for a while now and having observed
the assorted insanities
they sport here, grouped for convenience under
the "inseguridad"
thematic, i understand a lot more of
the fate of
the new world.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
that's a path less
traveled
that should be. WHY is it
that redskins in
the continental us HAD
TO be massacred ? is it because
they "couldn't fit" in its future, somehow, mysteriously ? is it perhaps because white guys wanted
the depopulation
to support higher wages and liberty [aka
the fronteer lifestyle] ? is it perhaps because
the wives of farmers "didn't feel safe" with
them around ?
adlai: "but
the
territory doesn't fit in
the blockchain"
adlai: that's not
the book ending,
that's wikipedia :(
mircea_popescu: punkman whadda you like about
this ?
the christic parallel ?
mircea_popescu: the fact
that
they can actually jointly own it just fine is a stronger indictment of
the female-mitigated insanity
than anything else could ever be.
punkman: imagines an argument with God over human nature.
The book ends with
the narrator's being approached by hospital employees who reveal
themselves
to be Project members.
They
tell him
their plans still continue, and
that
they are expecting
Tyler
to come back."
punkman: book ending: "With
Tyler gone,
the narrator waits for
the bomb
to explode and kill him.
The bomb malfunctions because
Tyler mixed paraffin into
the explosives. Still alive and holding
Tyler's gun,
the narrator makes
the first decision
that is
truly his own: he puts
the gun in his mouth and shoots himself. Some
time later, he awakens in a mental hospital, believing he is in Heaven, and
adlai: they're both about identifying and responding
to 'doomed situation'. palahniuk says, set fire
to
the hospital, while kesey just laughs all
the way
to
the ECT
trinque: and
then
the act itself is futile.
mircea_popescu: all i see is disproportionate violence (note
that mcmurphy doesn't set fire
to
the fucking hospital - heck he doesn't even LEAVE when he has
the chance, because reasons.) and disavowal (really,
the voices in your head
told you
to, maybe, who knows ? what are you, a dumbass us girl
that has
to get herself drunk
to be able
to have sex ?)
adlai: i really disliked fight club because it lets
the infantile 'rage' overshadow
the parts
that it shares with oneflew
punkman: thestringpuller: adlai: didn't
that happen with fight club as well? << I
thought epilogue of
the book was better
than movie ending
mircea_popescu: the notion
that fight club is productive in any sense is pretty lulzy
to me.
adlai: fight club's message, otoh, is a bit more in
the "this is how you win" direction, rather
than just "here's a problem, have fun dealing with it"
mircea_popescu: other
than
this mediated sort of approach, straight book-film comparisons are pretty meaningless anyway.
mircea_popescu: the film does a better job of
this as a film
than
the book does a job of it as a book. arguably
this is because film has less space
to do it in ; countrariwise, film is more of a "tower of babel" sort of artifice, so it's harder
to get anything done.
mircea_popescu: way i see it both
try
the same
thing, in
their own medium : describe
the doomed situation of a society which has lost male force and is now going into castration mode at
the hands of
the decaying female biomass. it's a failure mode of human populations, well known, well understood, amply documented.
adlai: the movie was good because it didn't
try-and-fail
to capture what
the book does, which boils down
to
the power of humor
adlai: the One Flew movie is a great movie
though, in its own right. it's orthogonal
to
the book
adlai: 'kensey' is
the hybrid synthesis of ken kesey and... alf kinsey?
mircea_popescu: he never actually saw it. but he hated it, because "o noes, can't
touch radioactive without chief brand mask!11"
mircea_popescu: notably, he didn't hate it for any reason, other
than being a vocal leader in
the "book was better" chorus ; and for
the director very sensibly removing
the chief narrator clingwrap.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, palahniuk loved
the movie adaptation ; kensey hated it.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i dunno if you did
this deliberately or not, but really, it's
too smooth
to not credit you with it.
adlai hasn't read
the book
mircea_popescu: i suppose all
the lsd and mental hospital moonlighting are
there because he's all secure in his dominion, right.
adlai: what do you mean by "insulate
the author"? ken kesey's writing process was a rather uninsulated anthropological investigation...
mircea_popescu: forman blessfuly caught on eventually
that
the personification of evil has
to be familiar, not visibly "evil".
mircea_popescu: also mildly interesting, how
that
toothpaste-commercial-and-soap-opera extra got
the nurse part.
mircea_popescu: anyway, stroke of luck mostly, god only knows what'd have happened if one of
the douglas hack clan ended up with
the role.