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mircea_popescu: but, importantly,
teaching
the controversy re
the 2nd ammendment in
terms of "to own or not
to own guns" is nonsense.
ascii_field: he is
the
tool, like
the axe. but king who ordered 'heads off', is also acting predictably, no ?
ascii_field: now
this was always plainly obvious
to students of witchcraft prosecutions
mircea_popescu: why do people
think whosoever
they don't grasp is inspired by satan himself ?
mircea_popescu: and
this is why "incomprehensible" and "evil" are so deeply entertwined
throughout
the history of
thought.
mircea_popescu: "why can't you be more like plants, said
the sheep
to
the wolf"
mircea_popescu: dominating your environment reduces
to ... understanding it.
mircea_popescu: the demand
to rationality reduces
to "act in a manner i can understand"
trinque: yes, something like I have a model of reality (even if incomplete) and act coherently within
that model?
mircea_popescu: if
the soviets
think
the germans are being rational and are right,
the soviets win. if vice-versa, vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: trinque well
think about it. what does "rational" mean ?
that YOU can understand it, right ?
mircea_popescu: (and yes
this is also why
the state urges
the individual
to "be rational". oooofcourseitwould.
the only rational
thing
to do is
to preserve
the 5th amendment, which is
to say : i reserve
the right
to unilaterally shoot any and all policemen on my say so. because
that's what fucking independence is.)
trinque: hm, why is rationality on
the side of
the defeated?
mircea_popescu: think about it for a second. in any game,
the "rational" player is
the defeated player. rational in
this context merely means "that which has been intellectually dominated by
the other side".
trinque: I've heard lots of moaning about "make
the world
the way I want" from women
trinque: well how far does
this "accessible
to him" go?
trinque: sounds like female expectation is fundamentally irrational
then.
mircea_popescu: the last
time
things made sense
to me i was 5 years old.
mircea_popescu: it's a fundamental expectation
that a) world is reasonably constructed and b)
the reasons are accessible.
to him.
PeterL: "If I follow
these steps,
the girls will want
to date me" sort of
thinking?
mircea_popescu: it's usually absurdistanisms of
the sort.
they drive
the
type of
thinker PeterL's cartoon illustrates absolutely fucking batshit
trinque: what I'm
thinking of is
this general "pay attention
to me" I've heard a great deal lately
mircea_popescu: (seinfeld kinda moicks it in
their own retarded
toothless way with
the marine biologist.
mircea_popescu: trinque you gotta appreciate young female mating behaviour. what
they generally do is pick a small ante.
trinque: doesn't
twitter have an HR-department style "don't be mean" policy now?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It matters little, but helps
the qntra get a bit broader audience
than
this channel
danielpbarron: twitter is useful for
trolling, although
they are cracking down on
that by coming up with ways
to sort replies so
that
the less favorable ones get hidden behind "click
to see
the rest" b.s.
mircea_popescu: i guess
that's
the one
true social media lifecycle : packaging attacks
the sort of derps who buy into packaging, which in
turn attract
the
trolls, who naturally feed on
them.
trinque: mircea_popescu:
terrible incentives. I
told a chick
the other day
that she communicates like she expects her sentences
to be retweeted.
BingoBoingo: trinque: Not at all for
that. It's another broadcast channel so long as it lasts. Also useful for yelling at small market sports commentators
kakobrekla: >It doesn't seem
to be one you use often. Personally, being on lists has never been a good
thing for me. < now you are on
the list of people not being on
the list!
mircea_popescu: trinque a decade ago in ro it was where all
the minxen decided
to gather.
mircea_popescu compulsively clicks on all
the stuff b-a people put in chan.
BingoBoingo: probably useless for you
trinque barely useful for me
mircea_popescu: ahahaha wait, "i'm
the soccer mom married
to a fbi derp" "i was an anarchist" ? what else was
the retard, a cheerleader ?
trinque: deleted my
twatter
the other day
assbot: DI$RUPTIV3 on
Twitter: "@danielpbarron Oh fuck you! Piss off you piece of shit I was an anarchist when you were jacking off
to Hillary Duff Suck it! @BraveTheWorld" ... (
http://bit.ly/1JqJOy5 )
assbot: Logged on 28-08-2015 13:47:54; kakobrekla: prolly not so much 'not daring'
than 'not having'. like in
the majority of cases.
BingoBoingo: <mod6> lol, my
thing stays connected pretty well i guess. << You hit a mega netsplit earleir
trinque: it's ever clearer
to me
that
there can be no sanity apart from economic sanity, and
that everything good outside bitcoin will rot in
the sun meanwhile
trinque: yeah, I was recalling
that
BingoBoingo: <trinque> so when I switch
to OpenBSD,
they're going
to announce
their strategic partnership with
the FBI? << iirc FBI
tried
the stealthy version of
this around 2003 cleaned house quietly and FBI guy went full derp about it again around 2010
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
thing is, fella had a project, just not one
that anybody wanted
mod6: lol, my
thing stays connected pretty well i guess.
mircea_popescu: ocols, he incorrectly identifies it as "more of
the same", goes
through
the word game, is suprised
that
this is a dead end.
assbot: Logged on 28-08-2015 13:29:38; asciilifeform: re: pankkakeing:
the basic process is, i
think,
that someone shows up here, plays for a while,
then understands
that rocket will not come, will not
take him
to mars. and leaves - unless he had some entirely other reason for sticking around, such as having become embroiled in actual projects with other people here.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-08-2015#1254393 << mno. imo
the basic process is, kid lived entire life in circumstances where a)
there is cleavage between words and reality ; b) resources are allocated on
the basis of group apartenence rather
than factual merit ; c) group apartenence is a matter of saying
the right words. upon meeting #b-a, which
to his inept eyes has very ellaborately, formally structured prot
☝︎ mod6: hmm
that's weird. what am i, stale?
trinque: see, you don't have
to be good at your "passion", it's just
this vague focal point off in
the glorious future somewhere
trinque: this "I'm
trying
to" reminds me of being asked in job interviews what my "passion" is
mircea_popescu: ^ only way
to run an office with white people < 40 in it, incidentally.
mircea_popescu: "what
the fuck are you doing" "i'm just
trying
to..." "bend over."
mircea_popescu: doesn't matter. look around. it's what white middle class
twerps say when
they're
trying
to
talk
their way out of shit.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: what was it
they 'tried
to' ?
mircea_popescu has had for a while auto-lashing for saying
the words "i'm
trying
to". one lash per instance.
two bonus for adding any "just" in
there.
mircea_popescu: but
to answer cazalla : owing
to a by now
two decades'
traditsion of middle class pushing its inept offspring
to "pretend like you're doing something",
there's millions of kids floating about with very good first line of answer
to "so what are you doing". except if you inquire past
that
their choice is
to either
take off or admit
they suck. generally,
they
take off.
assbot: Logged on 28-08-2015 13:13:02; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-08-2015#1254314 << laugh, but all of
this has
to be in some sense
true, or
the place would be indistinguishable from zimbabwe. i just looked out my window. i do not - yet - see zimbabwe. ergo some 'meta-' is in
the mix.
assbot: Logged on 28-08-2015 13:06:45; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ...
the whole
thing's a small nudge or
ten away from people with guns realizing
that cops hate getting shot at ... << important
to distinguish city police (the folks presently getting shot at) from fed gendarmerie (alphabet soup) -
the latter just ~love~ it, on account of it giving
them an excuse
to waco. all
that armour, heavy weaponry, poison gas, flying machines
that
they've stockpiled,
assbot: Logged on 28-08-2015 10:08:53; cazalla:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-08-2015#1254251 <<< it is funded by boost VC,
that start up school where kid draper pisses away daddy draper's money on shit on awful ideas like zapchain itself and follow
the coin.. boost VC pivoted
to cover VR
tech so zapchain is also covering VR
these days as well!
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i don't know enough about
torvalds, but i suspect
that his bargain with satan, from which he sleeps ad libitum, involves putting up with
this crud
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i suggest him
to NOT BE A FUCKING "FELLOW".
trinque: ascii_field: shout at people, I
thought his schtick was
that
trinque: I
thought he was supposed
to be
the big mean dictator man of linux
assbot: Logged on 28-08-2015 16:41:03; mircea_popescu: and
this idiot is putting up with it. why
the everloving fuck would you do something like
this
trinque: everyone wants
to be an apple ad.
trinque: I have
to lay some of
the blame for
this starry-eyed world-changer vibe at
the grave of Jobs
trinque: not communism but an american advertisement
thereof
trinque: you imagine
the amount of zoloft it
takes for
this chick
to sound
this positive about god knows what?