asciilifeform: ^ somehow hasn't stopped any of the excitable monkeys
asciilifeform: 'EF changed the properties of the security it sold and still falsely advertises "unstoppable .. exactly as written" code (despite proving it false) while profiting from all of it.'
asciilifeform: 'joke's on you, schmucks who sank cycles into offspring and their idiot mothers' is one variation, for example.
asciilifeform: clustering around 'male' and 'female' pov as described earlier.
asciilifeform: i suspect there's a handful of basic variations.
asciilifeform: reaction to 'yggdrasil is rotting, serpent is gnawing, axe-time, sword-time draws near' is not automatically one thing for every reader.
asciilifeform: i'll admit i never liked the original of ^
asciilifeform: where 'world will get rm -rf / and fuck all anyone could or should try an' do about it, smile that we carved a bit of sunlight out of the ice for a little while.'
asciilifeform: probably my favourite apocalypse is ye olde nordic one, incidentally
asciilifeform: trinque: do you recall mircea_popescu's article re 'hungry man feels as if he could eat elephant, thirsty -- drink a river; unfucked -- fuck a batallion of chix' etc ?
asciilifeform: war, especially , is appealing, modern boys hunger for it the way iron-deficient gurlz hunger for red meat
asciilifeform: quite opposite -- apocalypses are ~appealing~
asciilifeform: hey all i got here is this'ere light from 50 lightyears off..
asciilifeform: entirely possible that the man lives 'under the heel', like, e.g., saharov
asciilifeform: ( djb lives with one of his coauthors -- unofficial wife of sorts )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally reading the djb thing left asciilifeform with impression that $derp could also have been part of a 'cuck' scenario
asciilifeform: same reason why the old slaves are lafonding them in the eye
asciilifeform: 'captive audience of guaranteed gratefuls' notion.
asciilifeform: same reason they did the 'free the slaves' thing
asciilifeform: sooo, hypothesis here could be, that you dun need to be rockefeller to undergo this form of putrefaction: under the right conditions, 'middle class' derps also could.
asciilifeform: where the wealth a koschei sucks up during life, begins to splurt out
asciilifeform: orlol had an old piece re 'philanthropy' being part of decomposition/putrefaction process