asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'la rumana' << is that a shitter?

asciilifeform: but it was more of a bitch than usual.

asciilifeform: then comes the time when he is ordered to perform seppuku.

asciilifeform: a year passes; two

asciilifeform: replaced the blade with a wooden one.

asciilifeform: goes something like this. one samurai had the misfortune of breaking his wakizashi (short sword - 'sidearm.') but he was a cheapskate.

asciilifeform remembers the japanese folktale of 'the wooden wakizashi'

asciilifeform: colinistheman: interesting site. what does one sharpen a titanium knife with ?

asciilifeform: proper works of evil. If the victim, at the sight of the economic predator, goes into doggie submission, we must stop discussing the phenomenon in terms of conflict and consider whether what we are observing might be some strange instance of symbiosis.'

asciilifeform: '…we need a word that describes the artifacts generated in response to irrational actors who demand to be fooled. As the old saying goes, “A fool and his money are soon parted” – at the fool’s own insistence, no less! If the deer comes out of the forest and walks up to the hunter, it is not proper hunting, and this is not proper con artistry or grift or embezzlement or any other term we use to describe ☟︎

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: can't help but remember orlov's point about the deer hunt