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mircea_popescu: so simply do that. "oh, is this
a mobile app ?" "ehh, *handwave* mobile apps. here's the weird thing about shaders..."
mircea_popescu regularly ignores nonsense on "absolute truth" "respect" "consent" etc blablabla from assorted girlies. they handle it just fine, in fact all they're really looking for is some kind of release from it. if there's
a place where things can be discussed without reference to the pantsuit mental infrastructure they're perfectly happy to.
mircea_popescu: but it seems to me talking to the pantsuit youth ~in groups~ is
a complete waste of time. from one end to the other, fetlife yielded via private messaging ; okcupid did not yield through public and visible
group dominance, i dunno the whys and wherefores but they evidently ignore all group anything.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman, honestly,
a pointed "no" works wonders. you don't have to either cater or appear to cater to their worldview or expectations. they take that just fine.
mircea_popescu: the girls' PRIVATE commlines however, those were snowed in. it's not that they didn't wanna ; it's that for some (yet uncomprehended) reason they... couldn't just fucking come, not in
a group, i dunno.
diana_coman: partially there is this obsession with "gotta be
a mobile app"; and while sure, one could make
a eulora client for mobile if they care for, first of all I DON'T CARE FOR THAT and second ffs, I'm not going to load into my head apple's shit now
mircea_popescu: the one other element is that i suspect formalism has
a significant destructive effect.
mircea_popescu: pretty much everything worth having in this world can well be had for the cost of
a cup of coffee well brewed.
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as human industry that does not benefit from company ; the strange behaviours of baruch spinoza and such are 1. not
a tradition but an accident and 2. something the old masters ~regretted~ as an unfortunate result of misguided youth, wasn't their fucking option and choice.
mircea_popescu: why eschew the pleasant way this always worked for some ford-esque atrocity of
a chaplin parody ?!
mircea_popescu: back when chet was an adult woman, decade or so before we met, she ran the only old style kitchen in her neighbourhood. local girlies came to hang out and learn how to cook, her house was always full. my cousin i had hannah live with for
a coupla months did the same thing, she had two hgirls one year apart of her own and
a half dozen daytime live-ins.
☟︎ diana_coman: on the positive side, europe has
a long history of failing in one place and then sprouting up again in another place; sort of used to failure and recovery
mircea_popescu: there's not
a single nice guy with great sense of humor anywhere in sight. i suppose they're all at the library by choice.
mircea_popescu: the entire floor of this very comfortable hotel i occupy (well, the lesser rooms, i got the nicer corner place) is occupied by large dudes in the tell-tale bodybuilding+tattoos color scheme and their obvious hookers. and they give me either upset or terrified glares whenever we pass, i suppose depending on whether my girls happen to be dressed ("hey, how come he has MULTIPLE?!?! unfare!!!") or not and i'm wielding
a paddle o
mircea_popescu: and then i say "yes, but i'm rich, i don't care what you think of anything" and she giggles. and "you can't order things not on the menu" and "don't you need
a ticket ?" and "you have to stay here, there's nowhere else" and etcetera.
mircea_popescu: the average girly that
a) looks like anything you'd fuck and b) isn't already outright working the streets has never in her life had in her hand, as discretionary funds, the cost of
a decent meal. this is europe, EXACTLY like africa. minus the infrastructure, they're exactly the same place. exactly the same people anyway.
mircea_popescu: that's the funny thing. for all the pretense, they are ALREADY the rats living among the ruins of
a "distopian future". what fucking distopian ? in the rare cases i'm not the only one in the restaurant, i'm the only one who can afford to pay the bill. everyone else's there with mechanised ious and mommy allowances etc.
mircea_popescu: to be honest, i also much prefer the killing of idiots over their redemption. i'd much rather built
a machine gun nest in
a village than
a school.
mircea_popescu: in other unexpected sideways minutia, i'm drinking from this bottle of... jurajska. woda z glebi jury. jurov want
a picture ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, would you say the share system of compensation is rather
a help or rather
a hindrance in acquiring new writers for the qntra ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the many blessings of travel, you get to debug
a random pile of strange every short time interval with arbitrarily limited toolsets. and people enjoy this! people who don't even get to play with the bodies of the local choicer bits. incomprehensible.
lobbes: speaking of, I will have
a blog post out tonight addressing my own communication problems
lobbes: though, I no longer see this as such; this is (as diana_coman, Bingo_Boingo point out)
a communications problem
a111: Logged on 2018-02-17 05:48 lobbes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-17#1784318 << ah damn, sir. Why are you playing with knives here. It was obvious
a long time ago that mircea_popescu just wanted you to submit. You can't block the king from intervening in lordly affairs in his own kingdom.
mircea_popescu: now can we be done taxiing in
a circle and start taking off already.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-30#1921070 << ever been on
a date with one of those weird fucks who want to drive you there, cook the meal, feed it to you while holding the glass and then perhaps even fuck you (while you're passed out, preferably, so they get to move your legs and maybe even your lips for you with their own hand) ?
☝︎ mircea_popescu: you're all sitting on the exact same piles of self-righteousness, too, it's something beyond parody. one dude's got the "suave exclusive" pile of veblens and is snickering at you other two, while the other dude's got his "truly truthful" pile o' divines an' is snickering
a tyou other two, and you've got your single-path-impredictable-and-unreviewable theorems and snickering at them two. cuz nobody really understands the real
a111: Logged on 2019-06-30 18:30 asciilifeform: i gotta go and do
a meat chore for 2h or so. if mircea_popescu et al have specific q for asciilifeform , will answer when come back. if mircea_popescu says 'instead do x', i'ma see if i have with what. else would prefer to skip the 2017 ' mircea_popescu plays with his food ' and take the -10 sooner rather than later-and-wasted-errybodys-time .
BingoBoingo: Or we can try to get you acting in
a way that'll give you some legs
BingoBoingo: It's
a thing to shove in people's faces. Do you want this, Y/n?
BingoBoingo: Script pointedly does not call for mercy begging. Calls for you drawing some tea, taking
a walk, and reflecting on how to maximize the return on your time outside the saltmines.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-30 18:22 BingoBoingo remembers the time shortly before departing to Uruguay when he recieved
a dispatch from danielpbarron during one of danielpbarron's then increasingly long bouts of silence. The guy declared to have
a concrete plan to do the ISP thing in Brasil, contacted
a datacenter and all, but made no updates into the logs about having done so. I thusly encouraged him to try the ISP thing, but he instead went the other way to Oklahoma.
BingoBoingo: The disease afflicting the republic is that 2013, 2014 through 2019 and three figure USD bitcoin reported by heathens to 4 and 5 figure Bitcoin reported by heathens is that while
a bunch of very cool tools have been made, there hasn't been much escaping from the bezzle.
BingoBoingo: Draw up some tea, take
a walk, and give some serious thought to maximizing your return on effort with the aim of breaking out of the salt mine.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-30 15:50 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i like to work with mircea_popescu , and would prefer to continue, but as i understand was already proclaimed
a lamer, and why would mircea_popescu want to work with
a lamer ?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-30#1920999 << yes, eventually someone else will have to do all the things you do not do. you know this going in, or rather, coming out into this world. entirely unrelated and fucking uninteresting sidepoint, of the caliber of appending "
a=
a" to all sorta technical manuals.
☝︎ BingoBoingo remembers the time shortly before departing to Uruguay when he recieved
a dispatch from danielpbarron during one of danielpbarron's then increasingly long bouts of silence. The guy declared to have
a concrete plan to do the ISP thing in Brasil, contacted
a datacenter and all, but made no updates into the logs about having done so. I thusly encouraged him to try the ISP thing, but he instead went the other way to Oklahoma.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2019-06-30 17:54 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: suppose , for
a moment, that asciilifeform issued weekly broadcasts. wouldja want to read the typical one ? because it is likely as not to consist of 'this week i spent 50hrs battling microshit, and 7 tryin' to load peh back into my greying head'
mircea_popescu: not like i;m sitting here on
a pile of gold an' coin amassed through exploiting phf, mod6 an; poor little old you but won' tsplit the loot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, is there
a bent nickle you made that i kept from you or something ?
mircea_popescu: if the idea here is, "show mp
a good time", the average daily budget of the yurpean burlesque show attraction,
a well built girl in her 20s, is <20 euros.
mircea_popescu: this is not
a workable model. i won't even call it "business model", it has 0 to do with business.
mp_en_viaje: because you can't go back in time and do anything differently ; if you're married to this "here's my narrative of what i've done", you're
a worm, digging out wormholes through the wood or w/e.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-30 16:28 BingoBoingo: As it is, there's no mention of the MIPS experiment on your blog. Last post is FFA Chapter 19. I suspect if put together
a weekly or every other weekly "This is what I've done, here's what I am chewing on, here is what has yet to be bit off, etc" would calm some nerves
a111: Logged on 2019-06-30 16:22 BingoBoingo: This loop is stuck, not because of the quality of your products, but because of the indeterminate schedule of your communications concerning the work. This problem shares
a lot with the June 22nd worries
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-22#1919151 mp_en_viaje:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-30#1920914 << this is rather
a structural problem. we had, for years,
a "foundation", pompously called nothing, that sat on its ass doing
a literal jack shit for however many years until finally managed to bumble onto
a collision course. we've had pizarro for years now, and this pizarro has as many customers today as it had yesterday, and last week, and last year -- minus dpb, i guess.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2019-06-30 16:22 BingoBoingo: This loop is stuck, not because of the quality of your products, but because of the indeterminate schedule of your communications concerning the work. This problem shares
a lot with the June 22nd worries
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-22#1919151 a111: Logged on 2019-06-30 16:22 BingoBoingo: This loop is stuck, not because of the quality of your products, but because of the indeterminate schedule of your communications concerning the work. This problem shares
a lot with the June 22nd worries
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-22#1919151 mp_en_viaje:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-30#1920914 << this is rather
a structural problem. we had, for years,
a "foundation", pompously called nothing, that sat on its ass doing
a literal jack shit for however many years until finally managed to bumble onto
a collision course. we've had pizarro for years now, and this pizarro has as many customers today as it had yesterday, and last week, and last year -- minus dpb, i guess.
☝︎ mp_en_viaje: you're like
a copout goldmine, it's something else.
mp_en_viaje: this is business 101, everyone who ever worked with people in any capacity understands it as
a necessary part and parcel of what their life experience meant ; much like everyone who's ever been to the doctor understands that such contributions as "gimme the white round ones, they're the best" are not proper.
mp_en_viaje: it's not
a matter of "mp". it is
a matter that, alf as he finds himself, incapable of any rational process besides retrospective description, is not actually in
a place where he can do anything with anyone else. exactly like the given example of the fallen rock.
mp_en_viaje: management is the art and practice of optimizing known processes, and of reducing all phenomena to known processes. that's all it is, and all it does. it is
a mighty useful thing, too, but not for everyone.
mp_en_viaje: management is exactly the same thing :
a rational process. it is for the same exact cause just exactly as disinterested in your personality, your worldview, or the mask you put on things to make it possible to get out of bed in the morning.
mp_en_viaje: if you proceed to explain to him how you don't feel urine tests are an adequate measure of your kidneys, because they're made of light and so something with
a stroboscope would be rather preferable, he's going simply output
a mental health specialist recommendation. because he does not care what you say ; he does not care what you think ; the process you are engaging in by going to the doctor is not open to your intellectual contribution in the s
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, looky, management is
a rational activity. like medicine. when you go to the doctor's office, irrespective of what you say, he's going to seek the answer to
a very specific set of questions, which he has pre-determined, and which he is not adjusting to you in any way -- on the contrary.
BingoBoingo: Log archaeology to follow old yet ongoing threads has
a cost. Blog posts, even if they aren't substantially more than index cards manage to reduce the cost of substantially.
BingoBoingo: Having the MIPS thing in the log is good, but taking good stuff out of the log for the blog to highlight and more easily find later is
a value add.
BingoBoingo: As it is, there's no mention of the MIPS experiment on your blog. Last post is FFA Chapter 19. I suspect if put together
a weekly or every other weekly "This is what I've done, here's what I am chewing on, here is what has yet to be bit off, etc" would calm some nerves
☟︎ BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It seems to be that the problem is MP is stuck in
a "Wat do?" loop.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, atm im figuring some time and
a re-read is the only ticket.
diana_coman: I'm keeping silent because I'm at
a loss as to how to get through to asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: the core of that article is trinque 's lament, not your feelings as to the world and your adequacy in it. the man has
a point -- large and round and not something we can afford to ignore.