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mircea_popescu: kinda how folk-whatever goes. "he had the devil in him" ie liked to touch girls between the legs and drank.
mircea_popescu: makes for much better demonography than the southerners had at any rate.
mircea_popescu: (both because today's culture is mostly interhuman masturbation and because it has mostly lost the ability to reflect reality.)
mircea_popescu: yeah. at the time and in those parts, wolves were a much more serious problem, and correspondingly a much larger part of culture than seen today
mircea_popescu: of course, they don't really have rabies in galilea, but wut-eevars!
mircea_popescu: afaik the slavic notion of the devil is muchly indebted to a) the observation of lyssaviri in action and b) the passage about jesus and the herd of pigs. so they mostly understood demons as rabies agents.
mircea_popescu: kinda the whole story of socialism, as it happens. what the pantsuits are doing is === voluntary apnea, and what happens to them is always "well, you ran out of money, so back to capitalism whore!"
mircea_popescu: "voluntary apnea works out until the brain shuts down from lack of oxygen and the stem restarts breathing reflexively" ?
mircea_popescu: kinda why buying the ourdemocracy pantsuit lolboat is such a ridiculous deal. the only thing you know for sure about it is that, "wait a few years, they won't like it anymore".
mircea_popescu: and so the poor kid has allergy to clothes and the black kid to learnin and the injun to sitting still.
mircea_popescu: the "uncles" ie uppity aunts don't like it anymore these days, though. too much nigger in it, not to mention a very strong vein of "things are as they are not only because that's how they are but also because that's how tyhey should be".
mircea_popescu: phf really ? i utterly missed that out. i think to this day. what was the point ?
mircea_popescu: to this day my idea of "who can be bothered to read "other americas" or "trainspotting" or you know, watch coffy fightin' crime for the black "homeland" is, 11 yo boy.
mircea_popescu: then i discovered romania actually had a niche equivalent of the us pulp, spinrad & all, so i moved on to that.
mircea_popescu: i preferred twain, but the problem is twain wrote enough for a coupla weeks, verne for a coupla months. every day as a 10yo i'd come home from school, stop at library, buy another jv book an' go read it.
mircea_popescu: "bring back that time when ''your job is to watch tv'' actually WORKED."
mircea_popescu rather suspects that actually star trek figures principally as the G in that MAGA. it really was the best of times, that worst of times, for all those involved.
mircea_popescu: afaik it was all about that big screen and the various people gathered around in that livingroom to watch it.
mircea_popescu: phf except the soviet writer jules verne later wrote star trek, "how great would it be to sit on your couch watching tv on which they show you some dorks sitting on couch watching tv"
mircea_popescu: just because a buncha doods are standing uncomfortably on it for five minutes dun mean jack.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform show me pics with naked chix sunbathing on this submarine deck.
mircea_popescu: rules to fucking live by, you know, "by the time you feel like you wanna live in a submarine, it's time to gtfo and find a better place."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what, you are going to have a CONVERTIBLE sub ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno man, there's many kinds of people and i dun expect to understand all, but going by observation to date the only reason people even put up (for brief intervals) with the many and significant inconveniences of navigation is access to the sun and the wind and so on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno you'll be able to find anyone willing to indulge, so in theory not but in practice likely.
mircea_popescu: they give those out for free, you know, even in your jurisdiction.
mircea_popescu: mostly hits people like fishing boat crews, which is why they never take more than X% noobs no matter what.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mind that there's two sea sicknesses, also, early and late. though the late is rare.
mircea_popescu: nudity is a start, but it's just... people have a bubble, it depends on many things and i suppose is of various types. if you pack them tighter than their bubble is they'll get increasingly pissier.
mircea_popescu: possibly only thing in nature that actually occupies negative space.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it helps immensely if you only take slavegirls along.
mircea_popescu: perhaps. but it's still an open problem how expensive, and it is my estimation you're massively overestimating it.
mircea_popescu: but the insanity of one group does not affect the bedrock of reality any.
mircea_popescu: which is why i said don't buy it in the us, cuz yes those people are SO into papers and empty signifiying by now that it's a legitimate problem.
mircea_popescu: "you marry a girl, it loses 10k whoring value right there" is rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: there's many values. value as a negotiable is different from value as a usable.
mircea_popescu: anyway, a word re the "new chump tax drives off the lot loses 10k value" thing : it loses 10k of RESALE value. it does not lose 10k of value, ie, your new car still won't need new shocks just because you drove it off lot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform buy a few bitcoins and wait a few years.
mircea_popescu: yes, from a pass/fail perspective brake pad is either broken or isn't. but natura not facit saltus, it gets there through a continuous process. there's no discrete processes above atomic scale.
mircea_popescu: the problem with brake pads is that under the heat and shear stress they microcrystallize. this makes them much less useless for their intended purpose, which is abrasion, and for which they'd better stay amorphous. the problem with fiberglass is that under mechanical stress they separate, which then creates fissures and which then is the end.
mircea_popescu: we already had this thread last week, but you got it like duck gets wet. the boat hull IS a moving part, and it is moving in such a way to make plastic ~useless.
mircea_popescu: and, to a much larger degree in the car than in the fan. and to a larger still in the boat than in the car.
mircea_popescu: the relevant part in the fan is the movement, not the intimacy.
mircea_popescu: yes but circumstances of two kinds overlap to dazzle and confuse your eye.
mircea_popescu: there's ~no mechanical moving parts in computer, and guess what -- the few that are, you DO buy new.
mircea_popescu: of couse your brotyher isn't going to stick you with a lemon.
mircea_popescu: i swear the loony reservation is doing things to your head. you ended up baking in us "consumer protection" laws at some level.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure. when you buy a used electric transformer, i'll keep my peace.
mircea_popescu can buy used cars. CARS. because i bought and own hundreds. i can't buy fucking used boats, and i doubt you can (or would, or do for that matter) buy used cars.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a used item can be worth anything through mt_rand(0, new)
mircea_popescu: all items coming off the factory line are worth ~same within a few percents, AND the whole fucking world is out there trying to figure out FOR YOU, on their own dime, what that SAME is.
mircea_popescu: you understand this ? industrial process offers a guarantee of sameness and conformity, such as it is. natural decay DOES NOT.
mircea_popescu: it is a stupid thing to do. i don't care what you think "means never" means.
mircea_popescu: you understand, for $retard "correctly means never" is how he gets into javascript ?
mircea_popescu: dude, you are off your fucking rocker. you have no experience whatsoever with boating and will buy a 2nd hand item ?
mircea_popescu: (perhaps also of note, what piddly orlol boats pass for "the yacht!! of a mobster!!!" in rotardland.)
mircea_popescu: (yet another of ex ro president traian basescu's harem was finally "found" by teh ro tards. this one is an actual general no less, and organised more parties / ows-likes than ~anyone in the us).
mircea_popescu: shinohai precesion, yo. by now solstice moved to late 20th evening.