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mircea_popescu: the notion
that you can fleece
the sheep according
to how much wool you "need" (calculated
through a complicated abstraction designed
to hide
the arbitrarity, of course).
mircea_popescu: nah,
the
thing
that sunk
the last remnant of "america" in
the 2000s was
the "adjustable interest".
mircea_popescu: hence all
the nonsense
that has, and will, blow up in
their faces. "debt
tranching, allowing you
to remove
the debtor entirely from consideration !!! " "does
this actually work ?" "our gauss copula indicates
that it definitely will work for as long as it does!"
mircea_popescu: french cut down mercenary crossbowmen for
the fault of having not provided
them with dry storage for
the
tension element ?
mircea_popescu: but do you recall
the case of
the misfortunate doria charge ?
mircea_popescu: consider
the matter properly : so girl has put capers! in pot of coffee. because can't
tell
the difference between cardamom or capers, or because
too
tired, or mischevious, or fucked in
the head or you call it, whatever. here's now a nice old style pot (anyone besides me sill use
these, btw ?
the
tronconic items ?) with over a liter of capercoffee made out of SEVEN heaped spoonfulls of
the world's best coffee, irreproducible
mircea_popescu: and
to bring it home, if anyone hanged every
time something blew up unexpectedly i'd be sitting here in an otherwise empty #trilema-gallows bemoanign my sad fate.
mircea_popescu: just how much of an agent
to make
the principal in
the principal-agent relationship is
the problem. because obviously if
the principal were an actual agent
there'd be no agents.
mircea_popescu: let's set out
the dilemma properly, for future readers. 1. if
the creditor is not an agent,
then why would he get anything ? i mean beyond
the usg-istic / southparkian "aaaannd... it's gone" ? and 2. if
the creditor is an agent,
then why does
the borrower carry all
the responsibility ?
phf: asciilifeform: i believe it was a reference
to earlier mention of
three musketeers as a source of useful knowledge, rather
than any particular plot element. at least i meant dumas as generally high adventure
mircea_popescu: phf
this sounds great, and works fine for as long as you stick
to pulp fiction (this ~particular~ narrowness of viewport is why dumas never counted as an important writer).
try and step outside of
the
threemusketeering and see if it can still be meaningfully applied.
phf: asciilifeform: i
think
the alexander dumas notion of responsible credit is a reasonable
thing, i.e. borrow from a handful of reasonably informed wealthy people from your
town, deliver return on credit, otherwise "i'm ruined, going
to hang myself, daughter
to be weed
to one of
the creditors" etc.
mircea_popescu: on
the other,
the republic, attempting something rather in
the vein of "the life among
the meaningless is not worth living, so whether meaning-izing works or doesn't, it'll be done."
mircea_popescu: well, you'd have
to evaluate
things.
that's
the fundamental dispute here. on one hand,
the pantsuit, "ourdemocracy", whatever, "progressivists" how oyu'd call
them (they'd preferred
to be called "modern man", with an implicit hint
that
the modern part is spurious and
they've always been all
there ever was etc), which holds a strict "nothing can be meaningful, like, ever" stance.
mircea_popescu: rather
the problem is
that you can't have "progress" and responsible credit. gotta pick one.
mircea_popescu: then and only
then, and so on.
the wonders of
the police state rediscovered anew for each new crop of idiots.
mircea_popescu: nah, as late as 1960 it meant "end of life" in
that you became a nigger and had
to sell ("voluntarily", heh) your suburban home
mircea_popescu: note how it was also
the law of
the land, even as late as 60s.
a111: Logged on 2014-12-08 19:04 asciilifeform: 'companies
that go bankrupt are a danger
to healthy competition.
They are able
to make
their creditors and shareholders pay for
their losses and bad management and
then
to start anew with assets
that
they essentially got for free, quite unlike
the competition
that has not gone bankrupt, who have
to pay full price for
their assets, but quite similar
to how
their customers have wanted
their products, for
too little money.'
mircea_popescu: they get
the shareholder's house and "all
the money" and move on
to a new "cheif executive officer" set.
mircea_popescu: really,
the civil code should be upgraded
to include ~divorce~ for female companies.
mircea_popescu: you know, it's
the height of unfairness
that items like gawker have
to be ~sold~.
mircea_popescu: he contorts
that ugly nigger face like it's propelling space ships.
mircea_popescu: willie dynamite is a great 70s flick btw. 100% of all "romantic comedies" acting and actors packed in one dude
there/
mircea_popescu: but obviously, she'll either end it or
turn it into a queendom, what
the fuck CAN she do.
mircea_popescu: "what
the fuck is a queen
to do with a kingdom" is not contemplated here.
mircea_popescu: it's entirely ~male~ fantasy. give
the queen
the kingdom, maybe
that way
the messengers will stop streaming
towards your location ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this is why you know and how you know she didn't come up with it.
mircea_popescu: perhaps if "he gives her all
the money"
this could occur ?
mircea_popescu: the driver, in
that later case, is
transparently oedipian, "just make everything like it was before". (literally, he says
this). and i suspect
that's why
this
thing even exists -- one superlative realisation of
the autistic boy's refusal of
the world is re-entrance into
the mother's cunt.
mircea_popescu: cated floor washer, and some others) says, at
the peak ? "i want you
to have all
the money". what's rose say in
http://trilema.com/2015/the-war-of-the-roses/ ? yep,
that's right, "you should have all
the money". originally started as a blacksploitation item (and here's our
tie-in with "ubuntu,
the african philosophy") -- what's willie dynamite say (to
the fat, middle-aged "social worker", no less) ? "i want you
to have all
th
mircea_popescu: (amusingly enough, folks get all aggitated about "social security queens" etc, dun quite grasp
that what's happening is quite exactly "son, $600 a head is
the best i could manage
to keep
the cunt churning. you can do it cheaper, go right ahead, i didn't want
to use barned wire.")
mircea_popescu: there's no need
to even dress
them. cows live in shit up
to
their udders on an antibiotic diet,
that's where
the overton window is, in
this negotiation.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is
that
the minority of women for whom
their intellectual value exceeds
their reproductive value,
this collective bargaining is a miserable life
mircea_popescu: yes it's
true
that 100% of females being fertile, and indeed
the species either reproduces or ends, it
then follows
that
they could "organize" in
the way of "labour organizing" and "demand"
things.
mircea_popescu: ie,
the female worldview : a) isn't she
the goddess-ordained womb ? b) don't i need kids ?
therefore c) i'd better give her all
the moneys she says, what.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, apparently it also goes by
the "i don't like anything about you!!!" name.
mircea_popescu: pretty sure when originally introduced
the striking aspect of
the woman was
this orca-like quality ustardian females get, where
the head seems fused
to
the neck and
the mouth promises
to open wide enough
to
take in a live veal.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's an entire field.
The hamplanets
trying
to appear as human sized is just one flavor.
mircea_popescu: long con open
tender, because what's online for. ubuntu amirite.
mircea_popescu: ie, she's going
to
try and get money ~before~
the flying in.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> a catfisher is a fat woman
that
tries
to manipulate
the camera angle and crop
tools in post-edit
to seem less fat. <<
That's a fatfisher one step more offensive
than mere catfishing
mircea_popescu: this is what drives
the length difference : unspecific can't last.
mircea_popescu: a long con misdirects
the victim
towards a specific point ; a short con misdirects
the victim without a specific point.
mircea_popescu: tell me, and underline
the distinction from short con.
mircea_popescu: something
to do with
the habit of catfish
to bury in mud.
mircea_popescu: but by extension, anyone who
tries
to lie visually online.
mircea_popescu: a catfisher is a fat woman
that
tries
to manipulate
the camera angle and crop
tools in post-edit
to seem less fat.
mircea_popescu: as you might expect, chick's way fat, way older
than she claims, and cutting pics in
the way of
the catfisher.
mircea_popescu: they adapted
the falx for a siege weapon, but
the original
thing deployed against
them / used by
the dacians was a 2-3 m pole with a 30-60 cm blade cutting inside.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform jp item not halberd variant. jp item ~falx~ variant, as in
the dacian weapon. very practical according
to romans, either, feared
the future romanians like no one else.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform halberds you mean ?
that's a particularly satisfying item
to use. dunno if you ever held one, but it's a mainstay for purely meritous reasons. best weapon
to stand guard with, for instance, it's satisfying in
the way of warm
tea.
mircea_popescu: apparently sanity is a ~behaviour~, dependent in actual expression upon
the a) presence and b) understandment of proper, sanity-inducing
tools.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-04 03:18 mircea_popescu: you know, you can write your whole
thought in a single line, we do actually read long lines. no reason
to break up your stuff.
a111: Logged on 2013-11-04 16:22 asciilifeform:
to which
the general replied - 'it wouldn't dare.'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but
these are
the replacement zulu, hallucinated by autistic white boys
to porn up
the girl next door in
their own imagination.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-14 19:35 phf: madam blavatski and her followers did a lot of damage for years
to come. it was literally in her writing
that original meaning doesn't matter, as long as
the
translation sounds cool (there's a rationalization for why
that somehow supposed
to make sense)
mircea_popescu: Ubuntu (Zulu pronunciation: [ùɓúntʼù]) is a Nguni Bantu
term meaning "humanity". It is often
translated as "I am because we are," and also "humanity
towards others", but is often used in a more philosophical sense
to mean "the belief in a universal bond of sharing
that connects all humanity".")
mircea_popescu: (anyone ever looked into
the deep piles of pantsuiticy surrounding
that btw ? not just "Ubuntu -
The leading operating system for PCs, IoT devices ..." on precisely 0% market share, but rather "Ubuntu philosophy - Wikipedia
a111: Logged on 2018-04-06 21:27 asciilifeform: but in
that case it can be debated whether he is still using 'the same machine' as he bought, or a 'new', africanized one