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mircea_popescu: inmates can't own copyrights of
their own ideas while imprisoned because "they are in service of
the state".
mod6: shinohai: haha, i've done
that at least half-a-dozen
times.
mircea_popescu: "Because
the only
truth you know is what you get over
this
tube. Right now,
there is a whole, entire generation
that never knew anything
that didn't come out of
this
tube.
This
tube is
the gospel,
the ultimate revelation.
This
tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers.
This
tube is
the most awesome goddamn force in
the whole godless world. And woe is us if it ever falls into
the hands of
the wrong peopl
mircea_popescu: im sure it is.
this is actually a correct result. in other news, you wanna know how adictive "drugs" are ? CHEESE!
mircea_popescu: ice system does work,” said Judge Russell Healey at
the sentencing.
mircea_popescu: Michael Dunn, 47, was convicted of killing Jordan Davis, 17, in November 2012 after he shot into a SUV of four
teenagers 10
times when an argument broke out over loud music coming from
the
teens' vehicle. Dunn was sentenced
to an additional 90 years in prison for
three attempted murder convictions and another 15 years for firing into an occupied vehicle. “Our justice system works.
This case demonstrates
that our just
mircea_popescu: "My
take on
the ICO is
that Lyford recognised multiple opportunities in Bitcoi" whose own
take ? what
the bloody hell|!
mircea_popescu: this is not news, and it's not even bad. it is
terrible.
mircea_popescu: "BANX represents a
thus far dividend-paying investment in BanxCapital," << dividends out of what ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if i wanted
to have more gawker fluffl i'd have bought fucking gawker.
mircea_popescu: "And yes, it'll be a damn shame if
this backfires on BitShares.
Their
technology is extremely scalable, blazingly fast and impressively flexible on
the backend."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ok
this is by very far
the worst
thing i have ever see qntra publish.
mircea_popescu: i can't from
that piece discern what is supposed
to be
the revenue model of
the banx
thing.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: In other news congrats
to HeySteve for his first Qntra publication
mircea_popescu: wanna bet some random conclave of derpy 40yo pencildick assistants do all
the "being" sumner redstone ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, Sumner Redstone still fucking exists. and nominally is in charge of
things. (Chairman of National Amusements Executive Chairman of
the Board of Viacom and CBS Corporation).
mircea_popescu: then one wonders why you can't buy milk chocolate in
the us.
mircea_popescu: To emphasize: not simply change
the ingredients, but
to change
the definition of
the word."
mircea_popescu: "(1) Hershey's, et al, petitioned
the FDA and EU
to allow
them
to change
the definition of "milk chocolate"
to allow for
the substitution of vegetable oil for cocoa butter.
The FDA said no, but
the EU
thought it would be awesome idea.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: by which what
they mean, of course, is "swedish government on course
to be
the first cashless government".
mircea_popescu: by definition :
that which favours
the proclivities of many with no consideration given
to effects.
mircea_popescu: were
THAT
true, it would ironically make a move away from pervasive, entrenched gender inequality in favour of
the males a deeply populist move.
mircea_popescu: how about
the alternative explanation being "society as a whole
thinks young males should die horribly in droves and fuck you already."
mircea_popescu: But perhaps
there's a different explanation:
there may be an assumption
that if a guy asks such a basic/stupid question,
then he's an idiot and not worth bothering with; but if a girl asks it, well, a college girl isn't held
to
the same standard/ expected
to know as much."
mircea_popescu: The conclusion I went
to first was
that
there is some unconscious sexual element; not
that
the academics
thought
they were going
to seduce me, of course, but
that
they derived some greater pleasure in answering
the women
than
the men.
mircea_popescu: "I'll add
that
the majority of
the people I email are male;
the few women I've emailed haven't been any different. I've confirmed
this by waiting a long
time (month) and re-emailing a different (but still simple) version as a woman.
mircea_popescu: "My observation having done
this several dozen
times: If I use a (fake) male email address, e.g. "petermiller@" no one ever responds. If I use a (fake) female email address, e.g. "melissamiller@" I get answers almost every single
time."
BingoBoingo: Well, I guess Hawaii wasn't quite US soil until after
the war and even
then moar volcanic ash
than soil
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> arabs winning
the only engagement on us soil since
the brits left <<
There was
that other one
the Japs won.
mircea_popescu: i don't see
the difference. obama 3rd
term is probably a better outcome
than
trump vs hilary or w/e.,
mircea_popescu: there's a great scene in donnie brasco where newell depicts
the death of john wayne as
transformative for
those schmucks.
mircea_popescu: arabs winning
the only engagement on us soil since
the brits left
mircea_popescu: that one song from
that one band with
the chick with
the hair
ben_vulpes: i'd love
to know what americans find
transformative.
mircea_popescu: uy for whom X was
transformative?
The only guy with an iphone?"
mircea_popescu: "You can't imagine how you, one guy, can be
the problem--
the government is much bigger
than you, isn't it? But
there are millions of people exactly like you. One byproduct of modern narcissism's reliance on finite media is
that countless other people are modeling
their lives on
the same
template you are. You
think you are unique in your
thoughts and identity,
turns out you are a clone. You
think you're
the only g
mircea_popescu: "The problem isn't
the government,
the problem is you. It is always you. "
mircea_popescu: five people read
that
thing, at most, and nobody asked
them anything. he might as well have been
the author of any other rejected nbc pilot.
mircea_popescu: "Wilkinson is not just another academic social policy
theorist who references Marx; he is also
the editor of
the 2003 version of
the WHO report on social justice. " ummm... aaaand who cares ?
mircea_popescu: unfortunately inhabited, but in
the modern era
that can be fixed.
mircea_popescu: "oh, google is a valuablke company because it has all
the world's data". a) you are not
the world ; b) nobody fucking wants your data, i'd rather keep footage of afids engaging in gang rape.
ascii_field: it'll be sold by
the cubic metre. of ullage.
mircea_popescu: self-esteem education has resulted in a country
that will be sold on
the open market by
the pound.
mircea_popescu: brazil has actual rich people. but it also has poor people who do not fucking expect
to be on
tv.
mircea_popescu: "oh, income equality". brazil has A LOT more of it
than
the us. in
the us everyone is poor. i mean
this, literally,
there are NO RICH PEOPLE in
the us. nobody is rich
there. everyone is poor like a fucking dog, like
the soviets were poor in 1980.
mircea_popescu: some people are fucked in
the head,
that's all.
this isn't socieity.
mircea_popescu: how
the fuck does Richard Wilkinson manage
to look at
the data showing
that us blacks making $1k a month just for
the asking nevertheless sit around poles like monkeys glaring at people ; whereas
those same blacks living in brazil, making a quarter as much or less for 200+ hour work months go out and fix
the swing in
the park
that
they build for free in
their spare
time and decide
there's something wrong "with society"
thestringpuller: "It's not material self-interest, it's
that we're so sensitive. We experience ourselves
through each other's eyes--and
that's
the reason for
the labels and
the clothes and
the cars" << not sure how I feel about
that reference quote
mircea_popescu: how many shows did
they do anwyay? 100 hours ? 20 ? 200 ?
mircea_popescu: "As much as Sandra Bullock drives me insane I have never set fire
to a
trash can or impregnated a
teenager because she made what is obviously way
too much money for agreeing
to be in
the worst movies ever scripted by spider monkeys."
mircea_popescu: but it is shockingly
the foremost property of
the whole shebang.
mircea_popescu: which in and of itself is an unexpected result - when you
think soaps you don't
think "judicious remuneration of contributors" first and foremost.
mircea_popescu: it was clear
to me
that
the amount of money he made off seinfeld (~zilch) is actually a very correct evaluation of his actual contribution
to
the show.
mircea_popescu: i watched five minutes of
that
thing, mostly
to evaluate
the douche's (larry) contriobution
to seinfeld. i fell upon
this scene where a pubescent girl rings his doorbell and
then gets her first period. and he behaves like a lunatic.
mircea_popescu: no, sadly. i liked it originally. by
the
time i was done i squarely didn't like it anymore.
mircea_popescu: i don't either. but i did study
that show, like meade studied gorilla cock or whatever
the fuck she studied.
mircea_popescu: is it possible
to load
too much sand into your codpiece in sahara ?
that's really all
there is
to load in your codpiece around
there.
thestringpuller: is it possible
to watch
too much
TV in America?
That's all
there really is
to do around here.
mircea_popescu: i guess you could readily say, seinfeld, baywatch, "dwfs" or whatever - i didn't look
that one up, bite me - are
the same
thing.
ascii_field: aaaaand now mircea_popescu knows how it is like
to have
to look up his refs
to 'seinfeld' etc.
mircea_popescu: elin are profiled as
they raise
their atypical family of sextuplets and
twins." when it really should read "that boring dumbass
trying
to make money out of
televising her sextuplets" ?
mircea_popescu: i have
to google ALL his dumbass popculture references, and
that is ALL i ever have
to chase. somehow
the medicine he knows, i know. fucking "gosselin" ? i actually have
to look at a phrase going "Katie Irene "Kate" Gosselin (born Kreider; born March 28, 1975) is an American
television personality. She achieved national and international recognition on
the US reality
TV show Jon & Kate Plus 8, in which she and Jon Goss
mircea_popescu: somehow it doesn't occur
to him he really is watching
too much fucking
tv.
mircea_popescu: "If I was a woman of, say, 30, overwhelmed by hidden ambivalence, making next
to nothing while spending next
to everything, simultaneously unfulfilled by my excellent material possessions while protected from facing my actual social position; if I had
to choose a direction in life but realizing
that my choice probably didn't matter because
the outcome had already been decided by
the audience, yeah, I'd be on Abilify,
t mod6: Does someone in here run
the Bitcoin Error Log
twitter acct?
mircea_popescu: fun fact :
the private aviation airport is in a place caled moron.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: park chopper (or moor
the dirigible)
there.
punkman: fluffypony: it's
totally safe << seems like everything he
tests is "totally safe", was reading his mysql/mariadb results earlier
mircea_popescu: (gotta remember - it doesn't snow here. consequently,
their ideas of
tolerance is not 3.5
to 5x)
mircea_popescu: while im pretty sure
the roof will support a dozen lithe chicks seeing how i can lift
them in pairs,
jurov: anyway, at least you can start gardening
there
jurov: i remembered one
tanned-to-dark-chocolate pic of her
ascii_field: mircea_popescu is gonna love
the retractable roof in ulan batur..
jurov: heh, no ivana
trump for mp
mircea_popescu: no i mean, sunroof as in, a floor without a roof on
top of
the building.