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mircea_popescu: gimme
a break, anyone who's someone can get
a bottle or two of whatever they like. wtf.
mircea_popescu: "Mix
a can of Cherry Dr. Pepper with instant coffee, cocoa, cappuccino mix,
a carton of milk, and some leftover sugar packets to make
a drink that tastes as close to cognac as you will get in prison."
mircea_popescu: see, alfie ? social behaviour. the dude will gladly state
a nonsense to the outgroup (us) to gratify the ingroup. he's not even
a part of it notably, but he aspires to see himself and hopes to be seen by us as if he were.
mircea_popescu:
a steak ? can't recall. gardner's math amusements ? nope.
mircea_popescu: but yes, i expect prison food is
a shade below rather than
a shade above what they feed the cattle normally at the mall food court.
mircea_popescu: that nobody makes use of the library part seems rather
a comment on the nobody.
mircea_popescu: afaik they get
a book
a week or some shit, i dunno, haven't followed.
mircea_popescu: yes. and every once in
a while one gets hallucinations.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-09#1653759 << no, no. the sad fact of the matter is that what people want is without exception stupid and harmful. not even one, both.
a functional civilisation provides people with
a good story as to why they're getting something other than what they want. whether what they actually get happens to also be
a) what they actually need, as opposed to $random ; b) actually competitive with the vario
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-05-09 05:06 mircea_popescu: in any case,
a civilisation is not
a sort of supermarket leaflet, to be judged by how well and how thoroughly it satisfies your perceived needs.
mircea_popescu: in any case,
a civilisation is not
a sort of supermarket leaflet, to be judged by how well and how thoroughly it satisfies your perceived needs.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually the premise for civilisation competing with dope od is finally here. prior to recently, the dorks were still needed for muscular power -- first, brute, then, finely controled by
a cns, primitive as it was.
a111: Logged on 2014-06-18 00:36 asciilifeform: interestingly, sometimes the pharma folks fail: they spent some years trying to cough up
a dopamine reuptake inhibitor that doesn't reduce to
a synthetic cocaine, and, afaik, gave up
BingoBoingo: English has
a poverty of conjuctions, trying to use an exclusive sort of "and"
shinohai: Well I left out bananas for
a week, turned brown, got gnats. Now what?
mircea_popescu: in other news, why the fuck isn't there
a rapper named cashew ?
a111: Logged on 2015-04-07 00:10 mircea_popescu: just like having
a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such
a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
mircea_popescu: well, there's
a difference between typical and common. tsetse in fact quite typical.
mircea_popescu: or else they gotta go you know, in the raft, like that chinless douche / president of nbc with
a crush on elaine. which doesn't supply food.
mircea_popescu: "In future, it would be great if I could just accept any old patch, from any urbit down to the merest comet, as long as it was sealed by ~zod. In general, I would find it comfortable, knowing that everything my urbit was running was
a collection of patches, each of which had
a signature, or
a chain of them, originating in the urbit claiming authorship of that patch." << wtf.
mircea_popescu: i'd propose anyoen with
a degree from the same place and an ounce of self respect worth would return it, but then again it's transparently
a ploy by whatever rando nonuniversity's too-clever-by-half administrator.
mircea_popescu: honestly, i was hoping for something more along the lines of, "trayvon martin, the idle hoodlum who tried to beat up the wrong guy and got it as
a result has finally received
a less idiotic name. he's going to be exhumed and reburied as travis martin later this week"
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 21:32 asciilifeform: in yet-other, lulzier-yet lulz,
https://archive.is/wRzSJ >> 'Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager whose shooting death by
a neighbourhood watch volunteer in 2012 prompted
a national debate over racial profiling and civil rights, will be awarded
a posthumous university degree in aeronautical science that reflects the 17-year-old’s dream of becoming
a pilot before he was killed.'
mircea_popescu: they gotta hold the she-waterbugs in front of
a frog to get them to cooperate, yo.
mircea_popescu: "i have nfi what receptive member of
a sexuate species would want to "experience sex" rather than run as fast as legs would carry in opposite direction."
mircea_popescu: and take-out is this very specific thing. subway bears the advertisements thjat tell the story, "rated largest quantity of muza per porcion". muza dude. petrocheese found
a new life down there.
mircea_popescu: you should have seen the cheap "pizza" places in buenos aires. ~nobody cooks there because they're idiots, they survive on take-out and barbecue
a few times
a year.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653594 << the problem with this theory is that culture is reposited in the elite in all cases. the arab world at the time it was saving the classics from the idiot hordes of europchristians ALSO mostly made of arablite by mass. if i pile up
a bunch of coal over your heirloom diamonds can i thereby convince you to throw out "all this pointless carbon" ?
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 21:09 phf`: i think that traditionally would be called pogrom, rather than genocide. problem is that unlike jews, coptics, parsi, etc. american blacks don't have
a culture to fallback to, and their persecution narrative is artificially constructed, so they just fall back. there's not going to be
a tzadik in projects, unmovable, because torah told him to suffer
mircea_popescu: it is literal genocide, however that may fit or not fit unexamined notions of mass slaughter = genocide. the fact that "african americans" are
a sad desert where ella and louis used to walk is good enough.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653582 "any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy
a national, ethnical, racial or religious group : causing serious mental harm to members ; deliberately influencing the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction ; forcibly transferring children from the group to another group". standard un definition. entirely fits.
☝︎ ben_vulpes: cute attempt to assign agency to
a collective though
phf`: when i was growing up, mcdonalds was
a place where you go to get
a milkshake before going out. nobody ever thought about it as food, because people cooked at home and still do. i noticed this in paris this time, how similar mcdonalds is, that it's not food and not treated as such. it's
a place where you go to experience american. if there was going to be qualitative jump where bulk of population considers mcdonalds primary source of nutrients, i suspe
phf`: i think that traditionally would be called pogrom, rather than genocide. problem is that unlike jews, coptics, parsi, etc. american blacks don't have
a culture to fallback to, and their persecution narrative is artificially constructed, so they just fall back. there's not going to be
a tzadik in projects, unmovable, because torah told him to suffer
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fuhrerprinzip is
a lot more in the vein of usian miracle diets.
phf`: hanging uppity poor by will of lord seems
a lot more romantic than same by process of pervasive surveillance bureaucracy
mircea_popescu: seems
a shoddy way to design. you want to hang the poor, hang the poor.
mircea_popescu: this reduces to "
a complicated gui built atop the basic idea of "just hang the poor" except with various fashionable colorings thrown in for marketing".
mircea_popescu: anyway, only true manly race is the item depicted in, iirc, rebel without
a cause.
a) steal car ; b) meet at precipice ; c) last man to stand on two feet wins.
phf`:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653398 << best driver i knew was chinese, drove
a beat up honda (mazda? acura?) that would cut off the engine at 120 mph, so he would drive it on 119. he'd get into racing fancy cars, and of course they can dust him on acceleration, etc. but he'll always overcome them by being
a) habitually good b) calculatedly reckless
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 14:14 Framedragger: asciilifeform: are you planning on building an entropy source based on them, then? :) need
a good uv light reader, or something?
ben_vulpes: but also if you're the sort of person who side-loads yr tyres
a) you undestand that stick is not purely
a function of lateral g's b) you deliberately break traction when you want to anyways
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform presuming for unknown reasons acceleration constant, there's
a strict relation between it and 0-60 timings.
mircea_popescu: 500 hp prima facie sounds like it could in principle give you
a 4-5.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform talk to mthreat, he did the "driving for fun" thjing for
a while. eventually moved on to buying jets and shit. addictions are addcitive!!!
mircea_popescu: next stop, girl mooses him. but like, in all seriousness, turns around, does it. she's in
a cocktail dress, i'm in
a suit, they're NOT LOOKING
mircea_popescu: round and turkey the driver. total idiot look, you know the "drab tshirt, close shaved for beard and hair, stupid glasses" i-m-
a-java-engineer look ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta love the folx who buy 12-cyl mazeratis to go REALLYREALLYFAST!!! between same red lights as the toyota goes << oh i had the lulz of all time with this yest. so we were coming back, in cab. on other side, porsche SUV! black! dude just peels off like crazy, in the middle of the night. i go "hey, i think he won" and dun think more of it. till... guess who's lined up at next stop ? oh, us and them. so i turn
a a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 17:11 ben_vulpes: Framedragger: now imagine you have
a car that actually goes fast
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : i was walking with
a girl, she groks maths and things, we were lulzing at the socioeconomic/politicoscamful aspect of qc. ended up discussing its future, i said it's on the outs, no gimmick long outlives its failure to produce anything, and the qc has been promising stuff for long enough now. i said, "i just dunno what they're moving to next, but they'll move".
mircea_popescu: well... maybe the tremendously ever-improving ai opens up
a whole bunch of galaxies' worth of new leaves, like sf promised.
mircea_popescu: srsly, this is also how silkworms clean up their lab. better make sure you got
a new layer of mulberry leaves atop for them to move to OR ELSE THEY DIE!!
mircea_popescu: nevertheless,
a lab that nobody spends time cleaning shows it.
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner honestly i don't think anyone is. politics is like cleanning, nobody builds himself
a lab for the joy of having to clean it up periodically.
mircea_popescu: to make it
a wot contest rather than
a popularity contest, ie, to remove the franchise from the britney spears demo.
ben_vulpes: Framedragger: now imagine you have
a car that actually goes fast
☟︎ gizmolearner: Yeah, but who will be left over? If people are actually obsolete, it's just
a popularity contest in then end.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i wasn't even going to go into how i spot
a lot more tiny geckos, lost earrings, etc than my glass-blessed friends.
gizmolearner: So if we go further and say at some point everyone is obsolete, then you are left with
a power struggle between those who happened to be in
a place of power and those who aren't so fortunate. All are potentially obsolete.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform get good ones. but anyway, i do, in the grand total i dunno, 100 hours i spent in
a chem lab over three decades.