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mircea_popescu: hence
the automatic "we" every idiot drops
to
the moment i get my club.
trinque: american buddhists come
to mind
mircea_popescu: "the other" is a puny excuse for
the ego
to escape
the superego.
decimation: trinque: easy. 'the distant other' always happens
to agree with your own liberalizing views
jurov: more like general setup if
things, you prolly did not get radio luxembourg in ro
trinque: decimation: how does
that square with
the rampant narcissism?
mircea_popescu: was
that not just natural "look
to vienna" for
the kingdom of bohemia ?
decimation: jurov: many have noted
that western liberalism is much more concerned with 'the other'
than with
themselves
jurov: was happening for a very loong
time in ostblok
mircea_popescu: in fairness, as far as pop music is concerned, not understanding what
the lyrics say is a net plus.
decimation: well, at least
the last generation
took what
they heard and remixed it
to something somewhat unique
mircea_popescu: decimation i have no idea, maybe it has. if
that's
the case
then your answer is "because
THIS stupid generation is different from
THAT one."
mircea_popescu: hence why "globalisation" is
the necessary end game of a "the many matter"
trinque: probably as simple as "because
they gorge on our shitty entertainment, like
the morons everywhere"
decimation: my understanding is
that latin jazz was inspired by shortwave broadcasts of us jazz
decimation: mircea_popescu: why do
the 'natives'
there sing low quality us pop music instead of performing
their own stuff?
mircea_popescu: amusingly, after bitching above, just got email from one of
the folks involved apologizing profusely. so which one of you dudes runs godmodehost ?
trinque: mircea_popescu:
they probably give him pills
to help with
that
mircea_popescu: "hi, i am obama and for a while
there I was a bad meme."
mircea_popescu: i wonder if mr "if you have a stanford you didn't go
to
that stanford" / "if you have a presidency your parents didn't make you in
that country" / "if you had an insurance you can no longer have an insurance" even realises what his memory is going
to look like
trinque: speaking of him,
this chatter is something I'm seeing on more accounts
than just circle
mircea_popescu: it says right here in paragraph obama subsection nobody could have foreseen : fuck you, if you have an account you didn't make
that account.
trinque: mircea_popescu: we
tell circle
to mark a bit
to 0 in
their db, and
they keep our info for all
time
mircea_popescu: what is
this "close account" stuff you folks are
talking about ?
mike_c: trinque: it's even viral. now I am reminded
to close my account
too.
trinque: it worked! reminded me
to close
the account
trinque: heh, reminds me I have
the account?
trinque: this morning I got a bunch of 2fa
texts from circle; I wonder if
they have an undiagnosed bug leaking customer info
mircea_popescu: amps should be a restricted fucking export. buncha native retards and
their cargo cultishness bejeezuz.
mircea_popescu: and people are like, squaling in delight,
there's
thunderous applause... "forever young" hasn't got
this bad a mangling since
the last
tiem a drunk dude in wichita sung it at a karaoke
mircea_popescu: they're doing covers of shitty elevator music, all of it in english (or should i say
their lords and masters over
the faulklands ?), and
they don't get
the words right or even rightly apprehend what anything means.
mircea_popescu: jurov meanwhile, while we've been having
this conversation,
there's been one of
those open air concerts going on right under my window.
the women can not sing. i mean...
the
tune is not even close, it's like zappa's "the beat goes on, and you're so wrong..." stuff.
mircea_popescu: it's not even hate,
to be
technical. it's more like "this may not even exist".
jurov: i have noticed both mircea and alf show irreconcilable hate for certain
things, maybe it's a prereq?
trinque: other men in my family did
things
that still
tower above my own achievements, so I have something
to compare myself with
trinque: mircea_popescu: yeah, creative people, entrepreneurs. In my case I've been self-directed for
the larger part of
the last 5 years, but I wouldn't credit myself with having provided all
the motivation
to go down
that route.
jurov: something
that bothers me
mircea_popescu: trinque
this pointedly excludes "creative people", obv.
the sad story of WBs animation studio post quimby vs pre is a fine illustration
there.
jurov: i kinda ran out of problem i feel
the need of solving
trinque: subset of "being self-directed at all is a
thing"
trinque: the world's
too comfortable; goes back
to
the
thread yesterday about whether being self-taught is a
thing
jurov: they had
to neva some other cause, perhaps believed
their children appreciate it or such
mircea_popescu: jurov i dunno dood, for money, cause it's what you do...
the world was built by men who enjoyed working.
mircea_popescu: this entire "we've been sitting on an order for 36 hours"
thing is entirely novel. no idea when it came in, but it strikes me as outlandish.
mircea_popescu: I just... never looked for a webhost since at least 2002, been using pretty much
the same outfit since.
mircea_popescu: apparently nobody actually still does anything anymore. just watch
tv all day or something.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, jesus CHRIST has
the world decayed since I last looked for a host.
pete_dushenski: "Toyota Venza volume peaked in
the model’s first full year at 54,410 units.
Two years later, in 2011, Venza sales slid 28%. Last year, U.S. Venza volume was barely more
than half what it was in 2009." << oh hey look pete killed
the venza with his cartoon drawings in 2011
mats: and on
the subject of media, four episodes of
this season's Game of
Thrones have been leaked
mats: ofc, on x64 Linux
the oom killer catches it
mats: on Windows
the common codecs formats means
that 99% of users would be running a 32-bit version of both
the video player and
the codecs
mats: e.g.
they have a VLC bug
that causes it
to use
terabytes of memory
mats: Fun fact: Media companies (or contractors
thereof) are doing vuln research on media players in order
to plant bug-triggering media files on warez sites.
chetty: not so much in
the north, northern farms were small
chetty: <mircea_popescu> <chetty> most of
the founding fathers were from
the north, not many plantation keepers around Boston << at what
time,
this ?//founding fathers = circa 1770
mircea_popescu: journalist as opposed
to indian battery chicken, i guess. "i cluck at
the keyboard just like
the wetbacks, but in not being a wetback i get
to call myself a journalist. by
trade!"
mircea_popescu: "Harriette Halepis is a journalist by
trade. Her work can be seen in Vegetarian
Times, Seacoast Living, Success Magazine, Alive Magazine, and various other online and offline publications."
mircea_popescu: <chetty> most of
the founding fathers were from
the north, not many plantation keepers around Boston << at what
time,
this ?
chetty: decimation certainly, even as far north as Maryland but I don't
think it was
the majority
decimation: chetty:
the ones from virginia certainly kept plantations
chetty: most of
the founding fathers were from
the north, not many plantation keepers around Boston
decimation: but I
think
this is failing
too. how many us folk believe
that
throwing
their sons into
the us military 'intervention' wood chipper is actually helping anyone other
than
the power-mad staffers in washington?
decimation: yes, but usg has been very successful at brainwashing
the masses into believing its bullshit
decimation: so who gave a fuck about whatever
the local soviet declared? folks who wanted
to climb
the power structure?
decimation: asciilifeform: surely
the average peasant couldn't be much bothered
to distinguish between comrade joe and
tzar nikolai?
decimation: surely even stalin had
to pretend
that he was operating
the structure installed by lenin and his friends on kronstadt
mircea_popescu: there wasn't anything in between was
there ? stalin didn't dare.