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mircea_popescu: while
there's nothing wrong with a 20yo playing with a dollhouse in her hoisiery,
there IS something very very wrong with a 20yo
that actually
thinks of dolls as if
they were people. or
that "animals have rights
too!", which is exactly a proxy for
that.
mircea_popescu: stop playing with
the
toys ? likely, but not necessarily. stop
thinking
the
toys were actual
things ? definitely, foundationally.
mircea_popescu: they CAN. and
they should.
the reason
they don't has a lot
to do with
that peerless question of "what would
tlp do if he individuated".
mircea_popescu: "Ponder
that flippant run-on sentence for its hidden
truth. Who judges whom? What are
the criteria for becoming a judge? It's not popularity; nor
the sophistication of
the staff and writers; or
the insight of a director. In
the hierarchy of authenticity and
truth, which one is at
the
top? Why can Variety call someone "internet obsessed" but no one can call Variety a "comic book" which, as I am about
to show, it is
mircea_popescu: "There is something presumptuous, not
to mention deluded, about a print magazine
that no one reads claiming
that a movie no one will see is a peerless window into something anyone can access anytime
they want."
mircea_popescu: this one single
thing is about 130% of what -the best of
the best!- pr does, so let's put pete_d on notice about it.
mircea_popescu: (which is code for, you publicly humiliate
them.
that's
the worst
that can happen
to a wanna-be journo. and in 2015
there exists nothing other
than wanna-be in
that biz.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and if
they won't not let you, if
they won't be EAGERLY complicit in your control of "their" codes, you punish
them.
mircea_popescu: rsons.
they might write IN
the washington post, but for as long as
they write ABOUT you
they write FOR you. so
they can write whatever
they want, but
they do NOT get
to write "upscale neighbourhood", or, as
tlp's apt example goes "If
they profiled me it woudl start, "Wearing a disheveled undershirt clutching a rock..." and leave it
to you
to make an objective assessment (="drunkard, likely unbalanced.")".
mircea_popescu: this is, incidentally, a fundamental point
to be considered for
those inclined
to interact with
the scum (aka, non-qntra reporters), a point which
that seduction expert (i don't recall which one but was in
the logs - something about how he went on a "live" show where
the 5 dollar audience bood him on cue) : you do want
to control
their codes. because you must project your own ownership of reality, and of
their sorry pe
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in
the restaurant is so
that random fishwrap can say "upscale neighbourhood" like it means something.
mircea_popescu: "
They don't give his age,
they give a physical description. Media-- and
The New Yorker is probably
the wost offender of
this-- offers a physical description of
their subject as a code about
their character in exactly
the way
the media would never allow a regular person
to do." <<< right, because it's not about anythihng but
trying
to misrepresent
themselves as powerful.
the only reason random derp can't say "nigger"
mircea_popescu: so very damaging,
the
themes of female submission.
to otherwise unemployable, wasted-life-is-only-a-matter-of-time 13yo girls
trapped in 25something female bodies.
mircea_popescu: "hool
teacher
to determine
the curriculum's rigor. But
the samples also
tell something about
the readers. "I had one essay
that said how awful
Twilight was"--the essay was about damaging
themes of female submissiveness in
the series--"and I was like, 'Admit her!' " says Melissa Faulner, a 2006 grad on
the committee."
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many kids actually earnestly
trying
to play
that lottery know
this is going
to be
the case and write
to
that audience (barristas)
mircea_popescu: And some are, I guess,
there's got
to be an Admissions Dean in
the building somewhere. But
the average applicant is writing an essay
that he
thinks an adult with a suit and
three kids would want
to read. Instead, it's probably being read by someone who can't wait for
the new iphone and still bites
their nails.
Ten grand says
they
think Jon Stewart is "a freakin' political genius.""
mircea_popescu: In every college admissions website,
they are referred
to as "Admissions Officers." While I didn't assume
they were in
the military, I suppose I did assume
they were... old. er.
mircea_popescu: that's why
the fuck
there are
two parents : so
they're not both mothers, and so
that one of
them says exactly
that, and on occasion actually prevails.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "0.
The diagnosis will make
the parents want
to
try and help
the child.
This is axiomatic. No parent with access
to services will be
told
their kid has a diagnosis of "PDD" or Asperger's and say, "not interested, let's wait a few years and see how
this goes." Once a diagnosis is made,
the psychiatric juggernaut is activated. " << no MOTHER.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but EXACTLY. minus, of course,
the violence,
the act of will. a negotiated, agreed upon, "by
the power" deal.
mircea_popescu: Where have you ever heard
the words, "by
the power vested in me?"
That's right, it's a domestic partnership, a marriage of sorts, and rather
than
try and un-pc figure out which one's
the girl and which one's
the boy simply observe
that person B finds actualization by completely subsuming his own identity into
the business of person A, who in
turn gets
the leisure
time
to pursue other interests (like drumming.)
That,
pete_dushenski: "The project sends solar-powered balloons 16,000 feet (5,000 meters) into
the air
to deliver Internet access
through radio frequency signals
to antennae connected
to buildings on
the ground.
The balloons use algorithms
to find
the best winds
to carry
them along
their charted course."
pete_dushenski: maybe not what you'd want
to annouce of 'dc dirigible on
the loose' day
pete_dushenski: in other nyooz
that actually is, "Google has
teamed up with
three Indonesian
telecommunications companies
to expand Internet access in
that country using solar-powered balloons."
pete_dushenski: in other nyooz, "The police department in Anderson, north of Sacramento, announced
this week
that it plans
to equip and
train its force of 20 officers with
the weapon, also called nunchuks, as a new means
to detain uncooperative suspects while “limiting injuries”."
gribble: Error:
That's all,
there is no more.
mircea_popescu: ;;google and
there's nothing short as dying
that's half as lonely as
the south
fluffypony: like I get
that it renders README.md, but leave
the rest of my files alone
mircea_popescu: if
that worked we wouldn'\t even know what "conscientious" programmer means.
mircea_popescu: mpoe-pr. her stuff is still remembered long after everyone forgot wtf gavin is supposed
to have done last year.
BingoBoingo: <vulpes_a_hopital> and perhaps a link
to "so you want
to start a bitcoin business"
there at
the end << It is at
the start
vulpes_a_hopital: and perhaps a link
to "so you want
to start a bitcoin business"
there at
the end
mircea_popescu: no, was is
the right verbal form
there. it's not
tense, it's aspect.
vulpes_a_hopital: this brings up such sweet memories of wandering along
the remodeled docks
talking
to davout about how great of a business paymium was
BingoBoingo: it was an interview,
transcription errors happen
pete_dushenski: hm. i lack
the words in which
to cloak my
true intention of spreading porn
to
the four corners of
the digital world
vulpes_a_hopital: BingoBoingo: i
think you want
to insert a [sic]
there and not correct
the quote.
mircea_popescu: your odds of finging it amonmg all
the words are negligible.
mircea_popescu: yes. while it's
true
that
trilema hosts one of
the largest porn galleries in
the western world,
pete_dushenski: weird, same as my buddy at his
td office in calgary....
vulpes_a_hopital: feature bloat, fueled by what consumers have come
to expect, <<
top kek
BingoBoingo: Anyways
that procedure has at least
two millenia of safety behind it. Some women do it
to
themselves
mircea_popescu: anyway.
there is respectable research into
this,
they actually make sense, going in after 42 is
the right move.
vulpes_a_hopital: moreover, *because*
the doctors start insisting on going in at 42.5ish,
there are very poor statistics on uninduced labor past 42 weeks or so.
pete_dushenski: vulpes_a_hopital i'm missing something, not
the least of which was
that i read 42 and
thought "oh,
that's
term!" lol
vulpes_a_hopital: an apparently healthy baby at 43 weeks may endure labor entirely differently
than
the 42 weeker, much less
the 40 weeker.
BingoBoingo: I
thought
that was in November, pretty sure
this was his van
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: But if
they bake it longer
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital
those don't exist. if she goes over 42.5 or so
the doctors usually go in.
mircea_popescu: anyway. let it be said real women deliver around
the
time strip clubs close. 6am,
that sorta
thing
pete_dushenski: vulpes_a_hopital i'll get you
the name of
the book in
the morning
BingoBoingo: vulpes_a_hopital: Baby's prolly going
to give pete's a run for
the money on size, or already has mommy issues
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> who
the fuck
takes
the woman
to
the hospital before she floods
the room i want
to know! << Person who has
to clean
the room?
vulpes_a_hopital: so riddle me
this: where are
the statistics for > 43 week long pregnancies
mircea_popescu: (quote from actual father, many years ago "dude you will not FUCKING BELIEVE how much water is in
there!")
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck
takes
the woman
to
the hospital before she floods
the room i want
to know!
vulpes_a_hopital: thestringpuller: howdja get
to france if you couldn't make it
to con3?
mircea_popescu: "if he were ~~~truely~~~ conscientious he'd
take better care of himself. plus he wouldn't go around killing people." yeah im sure.
phf: i naively went
there
to see how exactly
they measured "programming aptitude" expecting some bogus methodology involving bug counts,
the reality is just so incredibly bad, i'm now
tracking original papers purely out of morbid fascination