mircea_popescu: phf i'm like the emperor-god xenomorph from the future, i go "what was that bullshit tv series from the early 90s with all the boats" and wihin minutes a woman pops the name. unfuckingbelivable.

mircea_popescu: see what's here, see what's there, live of www.tv

mircea_popescu: lms, they impersonate entities that they dislike, a practice that they call "identity correction". The Yes Men operate under the mission statement that lies can expose truth. They create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they intend to spoof, which have led to numerous interview, conference, and TV talk show invitations. They espouse the belief that corporations and governmental organizations often act in dehumanizin

mircea_popescu: to summarize said argument attempts : line 1. "high voltage is dangerous" "mkay, throw out your tv" ; line 2 : "you will have to protect the line" "yes you will" ; line 3 : "this was done historically" "yes it was".

mircea_popescu: eh get out ; if he has a tv set he has 2kv or some shit in the house already.

mircea_popescu: did he say, on tv, "bitch you either eat out marylin or ima flay you alive and hang your disgusting carcass by the south gate" ?

mircea_popescu: roughly speaking the equivalnt of a shelf of make-up in the workshop or "i wanna watch tv on my computor" sorta things. get a husband / get a tv set if that's what you're trying to do and get out of everyone's way.

mircea_popescu: i end up spending 150 pesos on cabs and 50 pesos on coffee across the fucking square, because argentines are truly and utterly retarded. why make a grand off a fellow when you could just as well make nothing at all and go home to the tv ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly i think it's nest building. dudes have discovered that the way to attract washed up ex-whores in family mode is to fill the fridge and mega-tv-couch arrangement.

mircea_popescu: and on it... they watch dumbass 2nd hand us sitcoms and mexican tv productions.

mircea_popescu: that's the other thing you know, every other derp here that i ever visit has bought a huge tv, oft times at a cost that compares to that of his car.

mircea_popescu: but, tv format, who cares, you can push it into one cd per season.

mircea_popescu: "all american women are blonde because that's what i see on tv anchors"

mircea_popescu: what the fuck, whore budget for us tv sports team should be in the hundred mil a year sorta thing.

mircea_popescu: as social media and general laziness drove the cost of producing tv shows why the fuck up, forcing ever present decreases in quality,

mircea_popescu: so in this sense, something like "gpu-powered ipad game, 100ms delayed" is a great competition for cable tv

mircea_popescu: basically [a segment of] gaming has turned into "gimme a minimally interactive tv show"

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-01-2016#1388381 << dude writing that formed his ideas about the world watching cheap tv entertainment. "chinese" is this sole guy, very polite, slanty eyes. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: we know this does promote all the industries - people will hunt and make farms, and then need lumber and tv sets.

mircea_popescu: lmao when we started, computers plugged into the tv. and after 20 years spent spinning in the desert, as we age computers plug into the... tv.

mircea_popescu: epic interview, i think the last one too, on the tv show of that guy with the camera in demo mode

mircea_popescu: show to be rebranded as "OhMySides", to move on F! tv ?

mircea_popescu: "if he's not o nthe cheap tv set he's probably cruising the highway restrooms"

mircea_popescu: my god has tv died

mircea_popescu: same shit with ustard : does burning down the govt result in immediate payoff ? no ? well... what's on tv ?

mircea_popescu: so : argentina has many problems, economically, all of which reduce to "it's a country of 40mn useless douches, of which ~10 mn pretend to live like they saw in various imported tv shows, while the country is unfit to even export raw meat, so it lost those contracts and is now exporting soy"

mircea_popescu: guys at the local bar, you know, watching shark tank on tv...