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pete_dushenski: "If you say you are an artist, but you make little money from selling your art, can your work be considered a profession in
the eyes of
the Internal Revenue Service? In a ruling handed down late last week by
the United States
Tax Court and seen by many as an important victory for artists,
the answer is yes."
funkenstein_: i went
to a "music" event
there, advertising 14 hrs. of music beginning at 1 am
pete_dushenski: i'm guessing
that if
these figures have any meaning at all
that
they're from
their 'productive years'
mircea_popescu: they expect people
to reply
to
then sell
them legal services or something ?
pete_dushenski: also of note (if
true) : milton was
the most physically active at 4hrs per day, flaubert did
the most reading at 5hrs per day, and balzac did
the most writing at 13.5hrs per day
funkenstein_: yeah and "court date".. better see what
they want eh? especially in babylon ;)
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 22:36:48; shinohai: My gf's
tits display pretty nicely ... in HD AND zoom works!
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 22:27:22; mircea_popescu: apparently, suicide among physicians in
the us is larger
than for
the general population. however - male suicide is LOWER, whereas female suicide is not only higher, it's actually highere
than
the male
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 22:29:24; shinohai: Living in America period is enough
to make you wanna kill yourself sometimes, sex be damned.
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 21:36:59; mircea_popescu:
there exist in
the us-of-a at least a dozen juvenile females who go "at least i had a door".
mircea_popescu: I have spent
the last
ten years of my life putting a normal-sized American family in crackerboxes and apartments, living with roommates, not going on vacation, cooking and buying secondhand and making do and doing all
the rest of
the normal
things
that normal people used
to understand you had
to do if you couldn't afford
to do different."
mircea_popescu: "I go priced out of my childhood neighborhood,
then out of my childhood city,
then out of
the region,
then
the state.
mircea_popescu: "look honey, you're
the size of a cow. and i don't mean
the cow's udder. i mean
the whole enchicowada."
shinohai: My gf's
tits display pretty nicely ... in HD AND zoom works!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: tv has
tits on display in
this passive-agressive manner
tho
shinohai: Or I can
turn off
the
TV and read an actual book ....
shinohai: Living in America period is enough
to make you wanna kill yourself sometimes, sex be damned.
☟︎ assbot: Hey, stupid women ? We need
to
talk. Smart women don't want
to be with you anymore. on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1MNqnmz )
mircea_popescu: apparently, suicide among physicians in
the us is larger
than for
the general population. however - male suicide is LOWER, whereas female suicide is not only higher, it's actually highere
than
the male
☟︎ mircea_popescu: he'll read what
the
teleprompter says while pretending he's somebody. meanwhile he's nobody and it's
too late for him
to get an actual job anyway.
mircea_popescu: he;s
the
type of guy like
that marginal
tv derp what's his face, with
the icelandic coin scam
shinohai: He strikes me as
the
type of guy
that would want me
to pay him royalties just
to quote him.
shinohai: Sounds good until I get accused of plagiarism and hounded on
twitter
to return
the $30-40 in BTC you "paid" me
to write.
mircea_popescu: there exist in
the us-of-a at least a dozen juvenile females who go "at least i had a door".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (How I got out of it is just as far-fetched
to most people as
the lies
that put me in it in
the first place.)
mircea_popescu: system.
Things like
this are only news
to
those who have never been a part of it.
mircea_popescu: you're only in it for
the money, why do more work for
the same pay? F#@$
that. It would
take
things like morals and integrity
to do
the right
thing in
the juvenile system in
this country;
two of
the many virtues
this system has little
to none of. Corrupt judges receiving kickbacks and facility owners buying jets and boats with money obtained by falsely imprisoning minors is all business as usual in
the juvenile justice
mircea_popescu: When it came down
to it,
they saw
their choices as either
telling
the
truth and risk me being sent home or filing fake incident reports
to keep me placed
there. I was an easy check every month.
The only work
they had
to do was write false incident reports and fill out some paperwork in order
to get paid. If I were
to be sent home I'd be replaced by a kid
that would most likely have real and serious behavior issues. If
mircea_popescu: closet with a sheet for a door. #2) I slept in a 10x10 bedroom with 2 sets of bunk beds always running at full capacity. #3) I slept in
the utility closet
that contained
the hot water heater. It was barely big enough
to fit
the
tiny bed, but at least
this
time I had a door.
mircea_popescu: They were completely fabricating incidents in order
to make it look like I not only belonged
there, but needed
to be
there quite a bit longer. Of course, every report ended with
them swooping in
to save
the day and resolve
things in-house. For
those
that don't see why
they'd do such a
thing, most (yes, sadly it's most) foster parents do it for
the MONEY. I ended up staying in 3 different homes. #1) I slept in a storage
mircea_popescu: lar. While
the foster family was at church one day, curiosity got
the better of me and I snuck a peek at
the file of reports
they were required
to submit
to
the company
the state was outsourcing foster care
to. Imagine my surprise (I was naive) when I discovered
they were submitting false incident reports.
mircea_popescu: When I was 15-17 I was in DCFS custody for (honestly) "insubordinance". Don't ever underestimate
the power of a sociopathic mom and a corrupt juvenile system. Eventually I found myself placed in a foster home under
the pretext
that I'd be on my way back home as soon as I "straightened up" and flew right. Among
the many dozens of pathetic failings of
the system I was now privy
to,
this post reminded me of one in particu
mircea_popescu: I will forgo any back story as
to why I was in
the situation I was in. Just know
that it involved an absent dad and one very bad, pathological liar of a mom.
jurov: you want
to learn from him. but he does inscrutable
things you may even abhor.
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 17:02:02; asciilifeform: ok,
then who is walking around after
this 'death' ?
trinque: BingoBoingo: needs
the
text one.
BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell pete_dushenski I must have missed it
ben_vulpes: ;;later
tell
trinque yo deedbot- got calved off
the b-assberg
mircea_popescu: the solution is retarded in
that it doesn't solute anything, but
the MECHANISM is in fact exposed.
mircea_popescu: Instead of
trying
to stop playing a role-- again, a move whose aim is your happiness--
try playing a different role whose aim is someone else's happiness. Why not play
the part of
the happy husband of
three kids?"
mircea_popescu: "I feel like I am playing a part,
that I'm in a role. It doesn't feel real."
mircea_popescu: "worms eat you psssh". i could have said "life goes on" for all
the good
that does anyone. and
then I'M
THE SOPHIST!!1
mircea_popescu: even in a context
that is by definition constructed
to not allow
the modelling ?
mircea_popescu: is anything
that doesn't admit a
technological approach (such as say, random number generation) obscurantist claptrap ?
pete_dushenski: damn
this pop-in-pop-out stuff...
time
to
take
the worm for a walk. bbl.
mircea_popescu: this is not a
tool of
thought, you know. it's a
tool of grantsmanship.
mircea_popescu: wait, you actually dusted off
the phylosophycal zombye ?! woot.
mircea_popescu: we kinda don't laugh when
the only result of
the stupid brain is more stupid.
mircea_popescu: we laugh when
the only result of sponsored "scientific studies" is
that
they need more studies (ie, more sponsorship)
mircea_popescu: the problem is
that well, cutting
the knife with
the very knife in question.
mircea_popescu: a healhy erect cock also looks like death
to a good half of fifteen year old brides.
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 16:32:23; mircea_popescu: so yes, you're right :
the idiot-poor imagine
that
the source of
their misfortune is
the malfeasance of a ~particular~ event, rather
than
the large clump of shit
they carry around on
their shoulders.