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mircea_popescu: last item in the series prolly worth reading, i dun wanna try and put in a sentence what i dun like about the guy.
mircea_popescu: first off operas have their own range of topics ; second off people writing them died long ago ; and third off who cares.
mircea_popescu: this is not unlike observing "no opera composed on the subject".
mircea_popescu: i suppose, by that guiderline, next there's going to be a phone emissions standards agency ?
mircea_popescu: not bad, a mobile phone recall. saved the auto industry from bankruptcy for almost a decade.
mircea_popescu: none of that is a crime, but it'd help if the content was above mlm sales team prep fodder.
mircea_popescu: per chapter is better than per book, but evidently the correct approach is per-article, which in the antiquated world probably should translate as "per-page".
mircea_popescu: in other gripes, holy shit the idiotic habit of tree ruiner idiots of making a footnote leak into the next page. wtf, people had like a single neuron and they kept having to borrow it from each other for a spell like the fates ?
mircea_popescu: you gotta be kidding me. too disinterested to actually participate, but interested enough to avoid bans,
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem i'm sure it's somewhere but who the hell knows anymore where anytrhing is!
mircea_popescu: "baker says i have to let him fuck me because i can't pay for having smelled his bread!" "well... would you prefer to let me fuck you for having paid him by jingling my purse ?"
mircea_popescu: pretty sure i recounted this with juicy ass "student" avoiding one rape to get the other.
mircea_popescu: User705 nobody is seriously proposing a fiat court outside of tmsr jurisdiction has any leg to stand on.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem anyway, i'm sort of hoping that he becomes interesting once he gets out of the "introductory" phase.
mircea_popescu: phf hopefulyl they end up with "must submit a news story before eating a news story" stone soup.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i can't fucking belive nobody has made a Book of Ulterior Doom, consisting of McGonagall poems with Thomas Kinkade illustrations.
mircea_popescu: but i was quoting one of your engineer folk. uncle al maybe ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who had that great story about the three dorks in a garage inventing a super-efficient engine over 20 years of playing around throiugh the process of miss-measuring torque ?
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who the hell made that excellent point about the possible types of planar symmetries and the small count of human civilisations that discover all ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: aka "this one secret mp doesn't want you to know about how to enlarge your brain without doing any reading".
mircea_popescu: mysticism is now what it always was : the adolescent's refuge.
mircea_popescu: it sure as fuck shares mystic dimensions with the whole "just give me the facts" "i fucking love science".
mircea_popescu: i thought i had ; but then i searched and found nothing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can't find the original discussion re prison noobs playing cards for a fuffle aka buttfuck. dja recall ?
mircea_popescu: mgoetze you don't know that. you'll know if it is, though
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, russia is confiscating us real estate in moscow in retaliation to us confiscating ru property in dc.
mircea_popescu: bah, i mean "to have and have not", not passage to marseilles. apparently the cheapo war flicks are running together into one large casablanca.
mircea_popescu: accessory after the fact ; or else obstruction of justice ; but in practice a cop will just come and steal all your shit, like the ever friendly usg-comissioner stealing bogart's money in passage to marseille.
mircea_popescu: so, if dude is running down the street throwing benji confeti, you pick up ?