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mircea_popescu: phf no but i mean, directional. like the metal detectors.
mircea_popescu: you would expect the one useful tech could do for 15yo neh ? "left, right, left, left, there she is"
mircea_popescu: laugh, but from the trouble it gives randos i would expect "how to trilema" is like sitting on a warez pedestal somewhere.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the game has no actual use for cards, it just uses cards to generate some random numbers. it's not a card game, properly speaking, not anymore than using your car engine for powering your laptop makes the assemblage "it"
mircea_popescu: her eyes are kohl'd, there's powder on the cheek, and well chosen rouge on the lip... what more, really ?
mircea_popescu: but the point : there's always winds. whether men blow the winds against the mechanisms, and create the prison card playing world ; or whether mechanisms blow the winds against people, and create the "company policy" and us office, there'll still be wind, and there'll still be some towers, and some ground down mounds were other towers could have stood.
mircea_popescu: the inconceivable is just as good impermissible as any other.
mircea_popescu: a sort of fairness-and-equality-through-simplicity-and-poverty is required for such things. kinda why orange revolutions work, when they do.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the discussion of card cheating brings us to an inverse of that ancient towers point (
http://btcbase.org/log/2015-10-31#1312420 ) : it is only in prison that technology is sufficiently limited for the "cheating -- allowed" approach to work. yes, it does work well, and yes it is very warmly human. but it is also a strong part of the rural vs urban dispute, in that it is strictly a matter of rurality, and can not live
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform reason why extinct is that no longer need deck for rng. which is ~all that was.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf stos / drum de fier is also known in romanian. antique, and very stupid, french game.
mircea_popescu: "her affection!" "can you be cheated of things you imagined ?"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not limited to that, either. what do folks feel cheated of, when they declare to have been cheated on by spouse ?
mircea_popescu: there's edges of this observable everywhere in nature. why make car insurance mandatory ? so that every idiot with a donut has a certain kind of principal behind him, so accidents can stay accidents and you can actually get your car fixed rather than "hurr durr i'm anon pothead, lolz".
mircea_popescu: but the point remains -- it very much matters whose principal thje agent is.
mircea_popescu: yes, you live in a most strange of places :D where you aim to live it was quite customary.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it can't possibly be willingly given, i didn't ask.
mircea_popescu: suppose you go to the casino, yes, and lose some money playing with the fates. if you discover that the game was fixed, will you go "ah well, i had lost it anyway" ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: can you say "no one is a friend of mine" ? and if you can, what does it mean, "wine" ?
mircea_popescu: sure, rarely. yet you can be robbed of your heart and not mind the loss any.
mircea_popescu: the "it was not robbery for [insert reasons]" is the common, but also nonsensical escape from this fix. the correct way out is to notice that yes you were robbed, but it matters who does it.
mircea_popescu: and i suppose if i were come to your house tomorrow unbidden, sit on your couch and pour myself a glass of wine you'll say you weren't robbed ?
mircea_popescu: how he spends it is not the item, but who or rather what he is.
mircea_popescu: if you spend it, does it make a difference to you what you spend it on ?
mircea_popescu: all the difference in the world, neh ? what difference does it make for whom the postman brings letters ? well, if he brings othello letters from desdemona, he is a sort of cupid ; and if they are from the doge, a sort of mercury.
mircea_popescu: which is the whole item here : yes usg seduces a bunch of dorks, but what i am saying is that a) i'm not seduced myslef and b) i do not think very much of they who are.
mircea_popescu: these are very much not the same : i can say "i'm not interested" in the woman case only.
mircea_popescu: the case of the whore is not of "man who walks into room and overpowers all those present", but instead "woman walks into room and seduces all those present".
mircea_popescu: ^ in celebration of the "recent events" that... weren't.
mircea_popescu: er blockt hinauf in himmels au'n wo heldengeister niederschaun'n -- alle schiessen stachelig kugeln!
mircea_popescu: anyway, the old "gop" dorks fell over like so much paper candles, the traditional senatorial refuge in disease and bodily weakness. guy won his home front, no question.
mircea_popescu: and back to cabaret, it's plain to everyone joel grey's role is quite literally morte, the ace of spades, the xiiith card ? which is why he's in the morgige tag scene right at the end.
mircea_popescu: pro tip : most rapists prefer the body subdued but still warm.