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davout: 'Siri has not informed
them about
this' <<< kek
mircea_popescu: et — reinforced by
the revised bankruptcy laws
that make it impossible
to ever write-off
this sort of debt. When will
they get political about it?
Their debt loads will disfigure
their lives as surely as a
tour of duty in Vietnam would have forty years ago. Perhaps Siri has not informed
them about
this."
mircea_popescu: "Now it’s all aging badly, fraying,
too costly
to fix and, increasingly, not worth scraping off
the land and replacing with a new cheap, shitty building.
The younger generation doesn’t even want
to live in
that suburban dystopia.
They run shrieking from it
to Brooklyn, or even downtown
Troy, New York, up
the Hudson River Valley. Alas,
this younger generation has also been broadly victimized by
the college loan rack
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i mean specifically
the shape of
the blade. very elegant.
phf: "Searching and collecting
the bog iron ore from
the bottom of
the river."
mircea_popescu recalls
the recently published metal from scratch photoblog
thingee.
mircea_popescu: teach
the rest of
the world consumers have come
to expect, aha, nice aids you got
there.
mircea_popescu: volunteer corps or whatever
the fuck it's called made a lot more sense 20 yeasrs ago, back when kids COULD actually do architecture by hand. at least
thye idea
that hey, you don't HAVE
TO live in mud huts could spread (it did). but
today ? what exactly do
they know "how
the ipad must behave" ?
mircea_popescu: "i sent my piece of fuckmeat
to africa -
they don't know
this about her
there. yet."
mircea_popescu: little
thought is given
to "what did
the daughter go
there AS ?"
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 21:47:32; phf:
there's an organic food place here, ran by, i'm pretty convinced of
that, former MOVE hangerons. black folk be
talking about prana, and
the power of positive
thinking,
that REALLY WORKS man.
typical cliental involves angry black woman
talking about
taking her daughter
to africa and how refreshing it was without all
the white folk looking down on you
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, "boko haram" simply means - "you suck". it's deliberately named
this way, in
the same sort of joke vein in which /. was named
that way -
to get stupid old ladies confused by
the metasyntaxis problem. so stop calling it
this if you donm't actually agree
the west is
the suck.)
phf: can
teach
them scientology
mircea_popescu: then people wonder why boko haram, and why all
the rest. srsly ?
mircea_popescu: modern man, if airdropped in africa, would have nothing useful
to
teach
the natives.
mircea_popescu: (and yes is what i mean by savage/monkey, and no it's not an easy point
to grok, and yes i did have
this as a
term paper in my naked girly school once and so sure, imagine myself with
the whiprifle looking down on your efforts if it helps)
mircea_popescu: (exercise
to
the aspiring anthropologists of
the OTHER ilk in attendance ("cultural", ftr. you're welcome.) : write one page explaining
the difference between "deficiente" and "disgraziato".)
mircea_popescu: "oh
teach why should i know
this ?" "so you're not
the sort of savage/monkey
that is reduced
to building mud huts"
mircea_popescu: the
three week course being in fact
the whole profession
mircea_popescu: just like no sane person
takes smoking advice from gps.
mircea_popescu: (which happens
to be
true, architects know a lot about how buildings may be, and for
this reason nothing about buildings
that are)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for instance because one
time he kicked all architects out of
the room because "who
the fuck asked you anything - man on
the street knows more about buildings
than you do"
mircea_popescu: what exactly architecture would have
to do with
this is anyone's guess.
mircea_popescu: he apparently also has no idea
that he looks
to people who actually know about
the world as a retired and perhaps scandalous antrhopologist of
the "physical" ilk.
mircea_popescu: has no formal
training in architecture or
the related design fields."
mircea_popescu: "Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He moved
to
the Long Island suburbs in 1954 and returned
to
the city in 1957 where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from
the State University of New York, Brockport campus, worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer forRolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out
to write books on a full-time basis. He
mircea_popescu: "The Geography of Nowhere, or
the rise and decline in america's man-made landscape", what's wrong wioth
that ?
mircea_popescu: not like
that is any sort of limit of any practical importance.
funkenstein_: "Janet Yellen was left standing naked in
the hot glare of her own carbonizing credibility, a pitiful larval creature, still maundering about “the data,” and “the median growth projection,” and other previously-owned figments spun out of
the great PhD wonk machine in
the Eccles Building."
mircea_popescu: looky here, if i strip a chick naked, blindfold her, stick a quart of diluted wine up her asshole, spin her around for five minutes and
then encourage her
to "move
towards
the cock she prefers"
mircea_popescu: im sure if "stick a knife in his eye socket and push up"
thing resulted in a coolotomy,
mircea_popescu: would you not say
the attempt
to
treat people as
things has gone far enough ?
funkenstein_: notrly, he makes some nice pieces from
time
to
time
though
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ am i very lame if i have nfi who
that is ?
mircea_popescu: alfie,
there's a reason
things work
the way
they work which happens
to be opposite of
the way you want
them
to.
mircea_popescu: check out how
the internet is giving a voice
to ordinary people!
mircea_popescu: or in other words, not like she's
the only one
there neh ?
mircea_popescu: shinohai well
the beauty of social media is
that you can readily ignore individual people in pursuit of rules.
punkman: naturally, because
the CEO knew about salmonella in company emails
cazalla: punkman, ya
think as much as a single person uses
that facebook pgp?
shinohai: I could literally pay some doge derp $1
to 3-d print
that holder, I have
the same product and
the derp
thinks "yay my currency is a success"
shinohai: So I can't just ducttape a
tennis ball
to my smartphone. I need
to fund a kickstarter for
this junk.
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shinohai: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu Artist chick shuddered at irc I
think, wishes
to contact you via email.
mircea_popescu: o look,
tech crunch still beatying
the "bitcoin governance" horse.
mircea_popescu: "Link your 21 box
to your
Twitter account, and any paywall website lets you read anything you want without popups, ads, or subscriptions." << except 90% of all paywall usage in bitcoin is
to read
trilema. which isn't in on
this plan.
mircea_popescu: “I did a U-urn and screeched wheels and
they began firing handguns at us—boom, boom, boom! I
thought we would die, but
their fire discipline is as poor as
their manners.
mircea_popescu: (i do not see any lack of continuity in soviet degeneracy as compared
to pre-soviet, but
then again
that's just me._
phf: i don't
think mp
talks about willpower,
there's some sort of munchausenian pulling yourself by own bootstraps (in
the original meaning of
the passage) point
that keeps eluding me
phf: asciilifeform: i didn't intentionally skip for
the purposes of "чайные ложечки" rhetoric, just
talking about how
the
things are now
phf: well,
the way i see it, pre-soviets my family had a handful of hotels and
titles with corresponding land,
there's not much pie growing possible, it's either i who own
them, or some bloke in
the ru pipeline hierarchy, and as it stands it's not me. so i'm only parodying soviet
terminology with "impaired"
talk