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mircea_popescu: and yes it was a real character.
the guy didn't write fiction. he just wrote well and so plenty of his ethnographic notations read more like blogposts.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the notion of making statues for imaginary entities was not really well rooted.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <trinque> re: being loved and/or feared << it's actually a quote from
that de niro film :D chaz palminteri says it :D
trinque: and hopefully much more of
the latter, in
the future
trinque: hence we are a species
that inhabits every continent, and sometimes space beyond
trinque: no matter how high a man ascends, he is also
that
gernika: My Dad did enjoy
telling me
the story of
the Donner Party. One of his favorites.
trinque: death is always
there, staring at you
gernika: Saddest stories I read in school were Bridge
to
Terebithia, and Where
the Red Fern Grows. Not comparable
to Fefeleaga I don't
think.
trinque: admitting death, perhaps we are freer
to do as we please in life
trinque: that freedom is why
the story made me smile, horrible
though it is
trinque: there is freedom in
that, but I'm not ready
to articulate it
trinque: but
then
too, my end is just like hers
trinque: this is what we will amount
to absent intelligence, luck, etc
trinque: and indeed, fefeleaga is
the baseline
trinque: asciilifeform: first off, goddamn if I didn't just bellow laughter across
the bar at "for piglet!"
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 21:47:45; assbot: Logged on 03-02-2015 23:43:58; asciilifeform: winnie pooh walks into a butcher's shop, asks 'got mortadella' ? answer, 'sure' winnie pooh draws a submachinegun and spins round, round, round with it, mowing down everything
that moves: 'for piiigleet!'
trinque: and since such
thoughts are usually associated with a sort of brutal perspective, let me ask: which is worse,
the mind which accepts
the harsh reality of existing or
the one which struggles against it?
trinque: not a goddamn
thing. as (*clears his
throat*) MJK of
Tool wrote, "The universe is hostile, so impersonal. Devour
to survive; so it is, so it's always been."
trinque: look at her abjection, and yet, what could you possibly do
to prevent future Fefeleagas
trinque: relates imo
to
the Fefeleaga story
trinque: a guy I respect
told me
that one could maybe hope
to change
the world in one specific way, but
that intending
to change
the world arbitrarily was
the mark of hubris
cazalla: specifically "and fill distfiles with
tarballs, etc. as before." is
this just all
the patches?
cazalla: asciilifeform, in your rotor guide, can you help me understand what step 6 asks me
to do?
trinque: if
the point about culture wasn't made well enough already...
trinque: jesus christ my sister just quoted
The Prince and called it a quote from
The Office
trinque: ^ I greatly enjoy encountering
this... actual culture
cazalla:
http://i.imgur.com/LxfsCfc.jpg included in
the photobook my missus and other folks bought from local play centre.. because
that is what i always wanted, a photo of a photo of my son.. actually surprised
they included a dvd minus watermarks all over
the images
mod6: well... heh. I
thought i'd get
the chance
to dive into your new email asciilifeform. But, guess it'll have
to be
tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: anyway, im vaguely contemplating hiring an indiancandy
to counter woe-shannonizer with
the -1 * equivalent
trinque: gets
them ready
to rejoin
the pretend workforce
trinque: nope, gotta pretend
to work at least part of
the day
cazalla: it already has over
taken doge, only paycoin and
that icelandic? coin has done so in
the past
mircea_popescu wonders if asciilifeform has pre-made file with
the woe me stuff, or generates
them on
the fly.
cazalla: i am hoping ethereum over
takes litecoin in fake market cap just as its first halving occurs for extra lulz and butthurts
trinque: if he does,
that's somebody else's failing, for sure
trinque: either way, if you anticipate ethereum going
the way of other altcoins (or worse, look at
the complexity of
the
thing), he'll have
to live with
that on his name forever.
trinque: yeah, he's got plenty of
time for more bad decisions
trinque: burn it
to
the ground and make 'em watch
mircea_popescu: because
the
things
that are get
the flaw
talk, and
the
things
that aren't.... you wouldnt wanna fud some kids' imaginarium nao wouldja./
trinque: thank god
that vaguely russian kid is here
to nuke
the status quo, or whatever it is
trinque: ethereum and
the fucking... you know what, nevermind.
pete_dushenski: come and get us, because
the window in which we pursued you closed when you
turned 20.
pete_dushenski: "if i suck and can't have love and children and a successful husband,
than neither can you !"
mircea_popescu: especially seeing how stage 1 is precisely
there
to prevent stage 2.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu certainly so
that 'teh womenz' don't edit
the rag. makes it a
two-stage deployment.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of
things of which i can't really name anything but hey, a lot of vague vulnerabilities are better
than one specifically.
mircea_popescu: i heard
this said emptily by a large number of derps, so it must be so.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski well
they read it, but
they don't edit it rite.
pete_dushenski: it has a sufficiently broad cross-section of readership
that it doesn't need electing so much