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jurov: and
as it happens that my days end up with bug reports,
mircea_popescu: the problem is they've lost control, the orcs are running amok, and
as a result there's not going to be any donations, there's not going to be any electoral support and moreover the opposition can mop up the entire democrat tammany hall machine.
BingoBoingo: I fully expect to see a lot more Universities go through this over the next year or two
as crazy realizes the football time striking trick works.
BingoBoingo: What is the US coming to though when a well scaled lizard like Wolfe can't use a university gig
as a more relaxing way to keep drawing a paycheck in effective retirement.
mircea_popescu: "In the dying days of April 2015, the student body of a City High school picked a fight with the entire Baltimore City Police department, and,
as the world watched, won. In the meantime,
as these kids basically tried out for membership in the three drug gangs that conspired to set the city on fire while they trucked in unprecedented weight of dope, and gangs of armed black man fanned out across north, northeast, and ea
BingoBoingo: They wanna get rid of the Wolfe dude for being white, male, and busy. Chance of snagging the interview is slim, but I may
as well try.
BingoBoingo: "However, it seems the giant pile of heroin I have theorized came into Baltimore in late April, did in fact exist, had been referred to by local low level players
as “Smaug’s Shit” after the legendary hoard of the dragon that was the giant villain in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Hobbit story, and has since been plundered by “Dem muvafuckin’ PoPo Dwarf shits.”"
mircea_popescu: "Here's a transcript of an illegal recording not done by the NSA that therefore everyone is ok with, consistent with our new standard of conduct: it is not illegal to make an illegal recording
as long
as it is given to the media and they profit from it and we can use it to rationalize our lives. Got it."
mircea_popescu: just like if you get the wrong 10% of the rent market you're out of busienss
as a landlord ; or if you get the wrong 10% of patrons your pizzeria's dead etc.
mircea_popescu: "Why would the The Economist's rich and powerful demo want to be ruled? Because they aren't powerful, only rich, all that time getting rich did not translate to any power, only the trappings of power. So they've postulated a fantasy power structure/NBA owners that explains why they can't enjoy their lives
as they think they should-- to absolve themselves of the guilt they feel for having money/intellect/opportunities a
mircea_popescu: (for the innocent, nigger = a particular sort of demagogue, characteristic to the fall of the us empire. like all demagogoues, the corpse of a once-great realm is his ; like all demagogues he attempts to whip the underclass into hysteria in the hope of somehow exchanging it for value later on ; his minor specificity is that he uses hallucinated "social issues"
as frothing agents, usually to do with skin tone, less comm
adlai: of course story ends badly, our hundreds-page report detailing the flashy new crap's crappiness went ignored
as top brass signed the line that's dotted
assbot: Successfully added a rating of -1 for adlai with note:
As best
as I can tell, the individual is either mentally retarded, or else expends significant mental power to emulate mental retardation.
mircea_popescu: !rate adlai -1
As best
as I can tell, the individual is either mentally retarded, or else expends significant mental power to emulate mental retardation.
mircea_popescu: too much specification is a bad thing, and in any case specification
as indicated by outsiders is beyond fucking dumb.
mircea_popescu: <adlai> also, qntra guidelines should specify << so far jurov's been acting
as a broker for the people interested.
BingoBoingo: "Together, the 100 schools that made the list "produce the greatest number of students who are employed by the Intelligence Community (IC), have the closest relationships with the national security state and profit the most from American war-waging," according to Vice. The rankings only report three traditionally conservative universities, indicating that more liberal schools play a larger role in what Vice describes
as militariza
☟︎ mircea_popescu: one dead slave does not persuade a harem nearly
as much
as the red marks on a live slave's butt.
ben_vulpes: jets by any other name would smell
as rank
mircea_popescu: Of course the easy critique to make, and even this one Hess was not allowed to formulate, is that in this way The Economist conveys the impression that it has personal access to the levers of power, the way Us Weekly recasts publicists
as "sources close to Kim Kardashian", shrinking the gap between the magazine and the sources and artificially widening the distance between Kardashian and us. She becomes more important
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the when is besides the point, you were inquiring
as to the theoretical underpinnings.
trinque: I dunno that it really matters who's watching you fuck the pig, just so long
as you're not alone with your date
mircea_popescu: or
as george points out, "you take tv out of this relationship, it is just murder"
mircea_popescu:
as tlp wel lpoints out, it's not that "work" invades the home. is that you need the blinker for existential support.
BingoBoingo: Like Assange's refusal to enter shipping container
as "diplomatic package"
BingoBoingo:
As answering these misfortunes might soon lower his future booze to "Country Club" vodka and Thunderbird
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and how does it relate to what some idiot sow did ? << because people keep talking about it
as if it were important. and so what the hell's the difference.
trinque: oh working out, good
as well
BingoBoingo: But he was the bad guy just
as he is when he does drag
as rachel.
BingoBoingo: Both. I think his big role this year was
as a giant robot who gets killed by a purple dildo.
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> BingoBoingo: 2 legs good, 4 legs better ? or what was it... << In the end it reverses
as the pigs become nearly indistinguishable from the humans, except fatter. ESR in that pic seemed to have bagged a descendant of "napoleon"
mircea_popescu: l poison your toothpaste. Be careful: the point is not that a woman shouldn't post her baby pictures, the point is that the system cannot profit from her baby except
as a photo, so that in order to get them to do it more-- to be online more-- the system teaches them to overvalue the photo; and this must necessarily be at the expense of the object itself. #porn."
mircea_popescu: "In the world where the media postulates social media
as an absolute requirement of the modern era-- the era where everything is fetishized-- no one is permitted to make the distinction between a value and the picture of a value, they are made equivalent, so daring to criticize Randi's baby pictures is made to sound like misogyny or misobaby. It's not. I love food but if you ask me to look at a picture of a food I wil
☟︎ mod6: in the process of testing that change
as well
as the change for the temporary gpg directory.
pete_dushenski: "Surgeons break the leg bone in two and implant a state-of-the-art telescopic rod into the middle of the broken bones which then pulls the bone apart very slowly, about one millimeter a day. New bone grows around it and tissues like the muscle, the nerves, the arteries, and the skin, regenerate
as well. At about $85,000, the procedure is expensive and the process lengthy. It takes at least three months to complete it
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:26:00; mircea_popescu: ascii_field there are two kinds of three year olds. all three year olds sooner or later threaten their parents with holding their breath. all parents laugh at this,
as it's a physiological impossibility : if you do any sort of a good job you necessarily pass out, and once you pass out autosomatic control restarts breathing. the two kinds of kids are : the ones that are dissuaded by this ; and the one
ascii_field: 'Ministers have no plans to ban sex because it has an important role in the protection of legitimate economic activity such
as creating bank users and lottery players. But there is concern over some aspects of so-called end-to-end fuck where only the thruster and recipient of thrust can feel it.'
☟︎ pete_dushenski: it's one thing for me to represent tmsr~ to fishwraps
as a voluntary service, correcting issues in 'news pieces' when and where i see them and acting
as a point of contact for future inquiries
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: 'method acting' does raise the question :
as opposed to what ?
mircea_popescu: Because picturing yourself exerting power is fantasy; imagining yourself
as victim is easy. Which is why you brought this all up. You spend a lot of your waking life creating elaborate fantasies of power that contain their own self-justifying logic, and those fantasies are so numerous that added together they actually take up a real portion of your day. A portion you're not spending on something else. If I saw a Ta
trinque: yeah, the world was exactly
as it is
ascii_field: and the fiction about 'dysfunction' is quite likely the same order of fiction
as with psych meds
mircea_popescu: i take it
as a personal point of pride that i've yet to discharge a weapon and NOT HIT SOMETHING.
mircea_popescu: what they want is to be recognised BY OTHERS
as, and this is important :
ascii_field:
as i said, most of the takers want 'world for nothing'
trinque: perhaps; I would not know.
as with modafinil, would mircea_popescu say "yes, this is called paying attention, you idiots"
ascii_field: the purpose of dope in this example is
as a force multiplier.
trinque: jurov: your observation about yourself is not unlike experiences one might have on acid, in the ballpark of "this entire system of ideas that forms the world
as I know it is built of assertions accepted within this universe simulation in the mind" which might be an excellent argument for the general population not having access to the stuff
mircea_popescu: o do this heavy lifting
as long
as they are given just the right facts, filtered from the "noise." "Where can we get the right facts, in a world of liars?" Good question, maybe the news?"
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, "Worse, they proudly announce their lack of ideology by branding themselves
as Independents-- capital I, a thing, a demo. He willingly lessens his independence to become part of a group.
ascii_field:
as it is, i'm trying to navigate towards fewer 'dopes' (in the very general sense, far outside of 'things you must eat') rather than more.
mircea_popescu: then people wanna take drugs,
as if juddling all this shit in the vain, vague hope that it's evolutionarized to balance isn't hard enough,
mircea_popescu: anyway, the chief problem with self esteem, and it is indeed a major problem, is that coping strategies develop and are tested
as the name says : through coping. will is a fabulous thing, which serves approximately the same role
as beauty in teenaged females : now you don't gotta work at anything, because lalaland. and so you don't. and so you suck at everything ELSE. and you're fucked. the problem with self esteem is
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there are two kinds of three year olds. all three year olds sooner or later threaten their parents with holding their breath. all parents laugh at this,
as it's a physiological impossibility : if you do any sort of a good job you necessarily pass out, and once you pass out autosomatic control restarts breathing. the two kinds of kids are : the ones that are dissuaded by this ; and the ones that are now.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the erect cock,
as an incarnation of will, is the one and only driver of action. which is why attempts to legislate inaction are stuck pretending "rape" exists. unless everyone's flaccid, the supremacy of will over everything is too hard a sell.
mircea_popescu: everyone [smart, white, rich, whatevs] likes to think of intelligence
as a force. perhaps it is.
mircea_popescu: religion among educated whites in favor of science. Not physics or chemistry, but evolution. Tabloids were incomprehensibly popular, partisan media the norm. A loosening of conventional morality manifested
as bored promiscuity, female bisexuality, and a flood of new porn the likes of which never existed before.
ascii_field: '“Earlier today I announced that
as president I will take steps to ‘ban the box,’ so former presidents won’t have to declare their criminal history at the very start of the hiring process,” Clinton told the assembled crowd. She did not correct herself.'
mircea_popescu: re the recent alcoa/aluminum discussion, but also a broader industry and futurology discussion : aluminum is now so cheap (ie, china has got SUCH a solid handle on it forever) that home furnishing shops here have started to offer, alongside pots in silverstone and teflon, pure, plain aluminum. marketed
as such, too, "puro alumino".
mircea_popescu: "how about
as a precondition to anything they abandon their self ?" "OMG WHAT ARE YOU A PSYCHOPATH THIS IS DOMESTIC ABUSE BLABLABLA".
mircea_popescu: "The ad's association to therapy here was probably not planned but it was inevitable, just
as Mantegna selecting a psychiatrist and not an engineer or a cook or a stripper
as the mark in House Of Games was inevitable. It is the only system of rules based on self-deception, it encourages the illusion of "self" separate from behavior. And
as long
as psychiatry uncritically elevates identity over behavior, it makes it-
mircea_popescu: yeah alfie, the risk is that you lose pace.
as in, guy who's been sitting in a fox hole for all summer, when a scout regiment finally shows up on the hillside goes all rambo on the opposition.
jurov: "business
as usual", perhaps...
mircea_popescu: lol my butt. "usg got a run for its money the likes of which it had hoped to never see. it will not survive another one in all likelyhood, which is just
as well, because november promises at least a couple."
mircea_popescu: totally.
as in, get type A (wanna do things to environment) people mixed with type B (wanna have things done to themselves) people and performance will improve. just
as long
as you agree to drop the male-centric definition of performance (the ration of damage done to the quake map by bullets expanded) for a more... you know. jackoffian definition of performance.