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asciilifeform: the car, as i understand, has to come -after-, or you fished with dynamite - and any idiot with a stick of dynamite can then be a 'great fisherman'
mircea_popescu: if i don't buy her a car and some fat and bald goofball buys his "daughter" whom his wife had with the plumber the car
asciilifeform: afaik the pickup folks have no position on which, if any, car, boeing, planet, one should buy -after-
mircea_popescu: why the fuck not ?
mircea_popescu: and now the idea is, i can't buy her a car.
asciilifeform: afaik they don't have a position on money per se, except that it can be used to travel to faraway lands where the great satan has not perverted womankind
mircea_popescu: why the fuck WOULDNT you pay the woman. this is beyond me. i am not discussing a whore here. forget that part. i go out, and notice a girl sitting down. i chat her up, she comes with me and i fuck her. turns out she's 17, she's a virgin, and she's never even THOUGHT of doing anything like this, in her life.
asciilifeform: have to score 'on your merits'
asciilifeform: in the philosophy of the 'pickup' folks, you don't grade as 'l33t' if you pay the whore
mircea_popescu: Most would say that Tucker Max was nothing more than a brief flash-in-the-pan, a pony whose only trick was vulgar frat boy humour. But the reality is that Tucker Max’s stories were more than just entertainment: They articulated a new male identity that was unapologetically masculine and intellectual."
mircea_popescu: "Tucker Max was a hero of mine. I discovered his writing at the age of eighteen, and idolized his literary persona for the next five years. His descent into mediocrity has been painful for me to watch.
cazalla: haha this guy played a bit too much road rash, it's almost a copy/pasta of coming off your bike in that game http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d92_1422724643 around 0:40
assbot: Logged on 19-01-2014 19:38:32; asciilifeform: as a boy, i read about an 18th c. book, 'Triple Power over the Forces of Hell'
mircea_popescu: sad fact of the matter is, any book costs me about a dollar a page or thereabouts.
mircea_popescu: i guess the time to read it dun count.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the book costs as much ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is not the objective for the 'pickup' folks
mircea_popescu: holy shit, there's three different bars within ten blocks of where you live, you can just go there and LOOK at a girl.
asciilifeform still has trouble picturing anyone for whom the book - specifically - makes the difference
mircea_popescu: "Roosh's Argentina Compendium: Pickup Tips, City Guides, And Stories (2011) "
mircea_popescu: uh... i dunno, go to any of the campuses, pick a girl and take her out to lunch ?
mircea_popescu: "Bang Ukraine: How to Have Sex With Ukrainian Girls In Ukraine (2012)"
mircea_popescu: hanbot well somehow it turns out you can't be an emperor on the support of 20something us boys.
mircea_popescu: lmao he never wrote about... hungary ? romania ? czech republic ? wtf is wrong with this guy lmao
asciilifeform: i even remember a surreal thread, somewhere obscure, where people were pissed at not having been selected yet
cazalla: self-published as in hey, i uploaded my shit to amazon, i'm an author now
hanbot: <assbot> Tucker Max Is Lying << dude clinton should've been made emperor stead of impeached. clearly this is the sort of shit they're interested in.
mircea_popescu: o hey, made the splc kill list.
mircea_popescu: "dditionally, Roosh has self-published 14 books, most of which offer advice to men on how to sleep with women in specific countries."
mircea_popescu: Daryush Valizadeh,[1] (born June 14, 1979)[2] also known as Roosh V and Roosh Vorek, is an American[3] writer, pick-up artist[4][5] and self-styled "love tourist"[6] of Iranian and Armenian descent,[7] known for his writings on seduction and antifeminism. ☟︎
asciilifeform: wasn't sure if this was a plus or minus
asciilifeform: although his colleague, 'heartiste', once referred to yours truly as 'the moldbug of computer science'
mircea_popescu: i suppose i misunderstand power on top of everything else. and ows did things.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the general idea is that these are people who trasnform the culture and are well read and etc.
asciilifeform confesses that he was never a regular reader of herr roosh
mircea_popescu: well afaik he identifies as a capt'n of the whole "how to get laid" thing.
mircea_popescu: or wtf is going on in there ?
mircea_popescu: this guy is supposedly a big deal internet marketing thing. why the fuck does he live in half a kitchinette separated by a pressedboard pane from the other half ?
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2015 04:14:19; asciilifeform: they 'which room'
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVcYP3OhlUU << speaking of the http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=29-01-2015#996778 thread ☝︎
scoopbot: New post on The Whet by han@thewhet: http://thewhet.net/2015/line-betting-on-bitbet-january-2015/
assbot: Mating Grounds: Geoffrey Miller and Tucker Max Copy Danger & Play and Hilarity Ensues - Danger & Play ... ( http://bit.ly/1ztPUbY )
mircea_popescu: http://www.dangerandplay.com/2014/03/17/mating-grounds-geoffrey-miller-tucker-max-hilarity-ensues/ << this shit's pretty lulzy, as far as academic drama goes.
scoopbot: New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/more-beat-around-whore-street/
BingoBoingo: Totally. And then Nixon killed the Chemistry hobby.
mircea_popescu: i suppose they did more solid ice in the 60s than previously thought.
assbot: Brian Hyland "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1ztPuTa )
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge9Ou3-YyqU << this is perhaps the oddest set for a pop song.
BingoBoingo: And you know where they mine lead? Ozarkistan.
mircea_popescu: hm. no lead obama, now that'd probably help the environment.
BingoBoingo: Right, and it lead to Obama
BingoBoingo: She thingified shoplifting
mircea_popescu: don't thingify women!
BingoBoingo: Is she still a thing?
mircea_popescu: wynona ryder's somehow going to end up mixed in all this isn't she.
mircea_popescu: they're way past the 8th "launch"of their whatever it is.
BingoBoingo: Y. Pestis does not occur in the singular
asciilifeform was taught this formula
adlai: actually if we go full anal, strunk & white specifically mentions that the plural of a singular ending in s includes an additional apostrophe+s, so it'd be « Vessenes's »
BingoBoingo: I am blind to the things I write.
adlai: it's fucking underlined in blue, how does it not jump out to you
adlai: like, the header only had one approach, so this approach was the header's only approach?
BingoBoingo: cazalla: I tried to fix the parsing. Sentence needed a subject among other things.
cazalla: asciilifeform, ya need a few beers, reads ok here, had a few beers though
BingoBoingo: how about: In the interest of the reference implementation being a robust solution that requires minimal trust of its peers, the header's only approach favored by the Vessenes' foundation's forks' developers is being passed over in favor of actual solutions.
asciilifeform failed to parse this sentence
asciilifeform: 'In the interest of the reference implementation being a robust solution that requires minimal trust of its peers the header's only approach favored by the Vessenes' foundation's forks' developers.' <<< wat?
BingoBoingo: It did almost do that
BingoBoingo: Indeed. Would have been nice to see Seattle win on the ground and close the book on the Air Assault era that ushered in
thestringpuller: Rams vs Titans was a great game.
assbot: Hacking on the Satoshi Codebase | Hacker News ... ( http://bit.ly/1ztMAxF )
BingoBoingo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982452 so little conversation on the HN
BingoBoingo very disappoint the game didn't end with Whitey getting Lynched
BingoBoingo: Even when he was on the Rams he was old having bagged groceries and played NFL Europe.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Bullshit ending. Also I really want a 30 foot golden mechanical tiger to ride for when the times come.
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: what'd you think of the game?
BingoBoingo: Have any pogo people run the ArmV build with a preloaded blockchain (i.e. minimal initial sync before current)?
mircea_popescu: "hello, yeah, i'd like to rent an ass. can i live in it ?"
mircea_popescu: so apparently there exists a real estate firm in ba called "asses propriedades"
BingoBoingo: Wallowing with the Eagles is the best wallowing.
danielpbarron: it's a Bible channel / not usually that kind of conversation in there
cazalla: punkman, took me a moment
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: wallowing with the eagles, soaring with the pigs, eh
asciilifeform: 'gentoo' is sufficiently malleable, presently, to fill the role.
BingoBoingo still reeling over last week's discovery that of all distros Linux Mint appears as though it will be a systemd holdout.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Will put in on the list.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: unrelated - recent re-read, recommended to you specifically - 'the design of the unix operating system', m. j. bach.
BingoBoingo: Oh it's totally inflation.
mircea_popescu: i mean look at that, it's not even funny, straight line with an oscillator thrown in wtf is this.
mircea_popescu: ok, http://www.google.com/finance/getchart?q=DIS&x=NYSE&p=5Y&i=604800&ei=PgLPVKGGMoi48gaMwYFI << if THAT doesn't look like inflation i dunno what does.
BingoBoingo: It's pretty much been of couple of decades of marching in the opposite direction of AOL Time Warner
mircea_popescu: i guess there's lots of things i don't really understand.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, they got the super heros which are followed by the fanboys. From there they release a bunch of movies the fanboys use to get other idiots comfortably with Marvel. Then ??? Profit.
mircea_popescu: what brand is it, tchotches r us ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> holy shit, it turns out Marvel's The Avengers is the highest grossing and highest opening movie of all time. << The power of brand and using 5 previous feature length films as trailers.
punkman: has that been in some movie?
mircea_popescu: but hey, led displays to be able to adjust price in real time are just technological improvbement.
asciilifeform: flipped, like the prices at filling stations.
asciilifeform: the story of inflation << one of the streets i frequently drive through had a housing development (row homes) under construction for the past ~3 yrs. there was a billboard, advertising 'From the low 300s!' (10**3) recently the '3' was flipped to a '6'.
mircea_popescu: not to mention that not a fucking thing in there is even watchable.