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mircea_popescu: i bet you that if your car broke down and you had to use someone's phone, you'd rather do it in isfahan than chicago.
spandrell_: i didnt have the confidence to go seek a hooker in casablanca, honestly
mircea_popescu: ok ok but i mean... there's whores in cairo ; more than in berlin for sure.
mircea_popescu: what exactly is your exposure to this "arab" thing, because i'm starting to suspect maybe it's all livresque.
spandrell_: christians i guess
mircea_popescu: anywya, i didn't study any, picked off hos, like any other language.
mircea_popescu: i guess i am hostile enough, so maybe not a good example.
mircea_popescu: i speak some arabic!
mircea_popescu: i have no fuycking idea what "arabs" even is.
mircea_popescu: i've heard the same said of, in no particular order, women, computers, day old chicks, dogs, hungarians, germans, actually i tire of the list, it's universal.
spandrell_: my thing! i'm the guy saying islam might be a good idea
mircea_popescu: depends how much money you have, i guess. but yes, publishing for a living is, definitionally, being a bureaucracy hanger-on.
mircea_popescu: i find it hard to believe anyone gives a shit, but anyway.
spandrell_: i said women are dumb too
spandrell_: i said blacks are dumb
spandrell_: i can't get book deals because i dont write under my real name
spandrell_: i could write about this guy
spandrell_: well i guess that explains it
mircea_popescu: so, too lazy to stick with law ; had "high traffic" website, which he parlayed into a coupla books which i suppose sold a coupla thousand copies, or w/e enough to pay rent for a coupla years. and then...
spandrell_: i mean i could, but i'd run out of funny stories pretty fast
spandrell_: 5k are nice, but it's not like i can write a book every month
mircea_popescu: well... if you're awesome like that i guess 5k shouldn't be too hard.
mircea_popescu: oh i see.
spandrell_: i write fast, i'm awesome like that
spandrell_: i don't see how that follows
mod6: <+trinque> I laughed in her face << lol
spandrell_: well if i can't get 5 pages per hour i'm not bothering with the damn book
mircea_popescu: spandrell_ you notice how this isn't actually related to what i say ?
trinque: I laughed in her face
spandrell_: well my blog has a decent readership, i don't think 1,000 is farfetched
spandrell_: and i sell 1,000 copies
spandrell_: i sell it for 5 bucks
spandrell_: if i spend, say, 100 hours writing a book
spandrell_: i could sell pdfs by myself
spandrell_: well i cant do it for the fame
spandrell_: should i bother writing the book?
spandrell_: i take it you guys liked my chinese stories
spandrell_: anyway, i didnt come here to convince you to marry and have children
mircea_popescu: i don't think you've experienced paranoia of quite this strength and vintage in all your born days.
spandrell_: if somebody actually bothers to supplant me i'll feel very flattered
mircea_popescu: moreover, post-world effect. i'm much better off picking up select 19yo children from otherr people than making them de novo.
mircea_popescu: now, ironically, i ~could~ make useful children. but i require items (such as an undisputed right to kill them) that i could also make, but can't be arsed to.
mircea_popescu: aite. i'ma need some time to get to that, seeing how i'm not going too fast through this one cuz we keep talking midway :D
spandrell: i wrote a post about that too
mircea_popescu: it's not a "for me". i said it in the general.
mircea_popescu: ah, and THEY don't have any children. yeah i can see that argument in that context.
mircea_popescu: if children had actual marginal utility i would have children. by the dozen.
mircea_popescu: it's an option though. i could, if i were so inclined. i'm not, but that's a societal failure.
mircea_popescu: i guess she's getting out one way or another. but then again this'd be why i own my women as opposed to marrying them.
mircea_popescu: well i find this claim unsubstantiated so far, but anyway.
spandrell: no no, i completely get that
spandrell: i get your point
spandrell: i try to please my wife with money and not faith
spandrell: i dont work for the govt
spandrell: i'm not a faithful man
mircea_popescu: so ridiculous, "i'm a colonel at nsa" "nice, i'm a regatta rear admiral!"
asciilifeform: after i declared open jihad against his employer
asciilifeform: i may have spandrell confused with another fella
mircea_popescu: i don't do that, nor would i. but i suppose i'm to leave this aside ?
spandrell: why i dislike bros? ☟︎
spandrell: they also have this bro culture to them which i dislike too, as i wrote int he water margin post
mircea_popescu: the debates as to genetic basis for intelligence have raged for a while in the logs. it's not really settled i guess, but there's certainly no merit for NATIONAL concepts of intelligence hm ?
spandrell: i wouldn't know, i generally avoid them when i'm home
mircea_popescu: i had some pretty clever friends that part of the world.
spandrell: i obviously understand why nobody with a 90+ IQ would hang out with arabs
mircea_popescu: i'm jus' curious.
spandrell: i wasnt really that serious but i do understand i struck a nerve
mircea_popescu: i'm the only one talking right now.
spandrell: am i only able to read you, mircea_popescu, or are you the only one talking right now?
spandrell: i actually started to study japanese because i found a bitch on IRC who taught me
spandrell: when i was 15
spandrell: i used to be a lot in irc
mircea_popescu: there's a huge pile of interlocking wonders that make up la serenissima, i'll be more than happy to explain them in detail as time goes by.
mircea_popescu: the bot allows you to self-voice, if you have the WoT presence, which you likely will because i'd rate you.
spandrell: i see
mircea_popescu: hey, i dunno until i ask :)
spandrell: i do
spandrell: nope, i'm a humanities grad
mircea_popescu: why would i want to read a tv show script, good lord. even the people paid to do it don't.
mircea_popescu: i sadly don't read chinese
spandrell: i probably should check out some english translations if i want get the book written
spandrell: i am very fond of using that
mircea_popescu: yeah i'll have it fished out ; just thought maybe you know something. worth asking.
spandrell: well that i'm afraid i don't know
mircea_popescu: yes but where'd i read it
spandrell: then realized i could just watch the show
spandrell: i think i said it there that i read parts of the original
mircea_popescu: https://bloodyshovel.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/men-doing-their-own-thing/ << the article i'm reading
mircea_popescu: i'm genuinely curious whether it'll read offensive or you're just a pansy.
mircea_popescu: oh also, reading this article makes me want to round my knowledge of medieval chinese literature (which consists of golden lotus, vase and spring plumlet) with this other thing. know of any decent edition of said "water margin" in any european language i could get online ?
spandrell: i can confirm then, never met the guy
spandrell: well if this asciilifeform is a hot japanese chick then I might have met her
mircea_popescu: i thought that's where people go to meet all the hot japanese chicks!
spandrell: and i'm pretty sure he's not one of them
spandrell: i've only met two people ever from this kind of place
spandrell: i'm running a loose assemblage of my own, fwiw
spandrell: what is this place about? here i was thinking it was a bitcoin forum or something
spandrell: i was just listening to a podcast on venice while driving
asciilifeform: i suggest mircea_popescu or hanbot try..
mircea_popescu: ah really ? i'm not familiar.