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mircea_popescu: people with the biggest beer mugs are similarly busy discussing things about the game on
tv.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 22:32 asciilifeform: 'The situation is somewhat akin to a retarded girlfriend trying to flood your apartment, that not only opens all the faucets and stops all the drains, but also takes the "extremely clever" measure of puncturing the water pipes, so she can then preciously inform you that "turning off the faucets won't help" and you must work with her to somehow create a raft out of your widescreen
TV so as to navigate the marshy terrain that used to b
Mocky: made me think of 'British PM fucks pig on live
TV' from black mirror
Mocky: which i've never been to, only watched on
tv Mocky: I'm working on a laptop hooked up to a 4k
tv, so every time the power cycles I end up sitting listening to the neighborhood AC units powering down until my
tv comes back.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-13#1850166 << was huger and more recent "is wrestling
tv show or sportive competition" debate. resolved, amusingly enough, through a doctrinal "diune essence", very much exactly like the "god is also son and passerine bird, same person" except "it's both staged and not staged"
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2015-12-09 03:27 assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 19:36:34; mircea_popescu: <Naphex>
https://xotika.tv/static/report06102015.html << speaking of which, plox to give the guy's numbers a good shakedown, because im considering listing xotika this month.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-05 16:13 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-05#1666045 << the way the lizards expect the shit to work is exactly in the way mp -saves-openbsd worked : as seen moneyz. recall the story of the us embassy spending a whooping 50k to start an "empire" of fake news
tv stations etc ?
a111: Logged on 2015-02-20 18:24 mircea_popescu: "Here's one that even The Onion would reject as too blatantly ridiculous: American right-wing radio and
TV clown Glenn Beck believes that Sean Smith aka Vile Rat, the EVE Online diplomat who was killed earlier this month during the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, was actually a CIA agent, relaying communications to his fellow undercover agents at Something Awful."
a111: Logged on 2017-06-05 16:13 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-05#1666045 << the way the lizards expect the shit to work is exactly in the way mp -saves-openbsd worked : as seen moneyz. recall the story of the us embassy spending a whooping 50k to start an "empire" of fake news
tv stations etc ?
BingoBoingo: I also get one classic method
tv channel of unknown (maybe Argentine?) origin
BingoBoingo: In other news of interest to asciilifeform: Tienda Inglesa has taken down their seasonal display of
TV's for the word cup and replaced them with a display of... Ammo can... well, they labeled them toolboxes
a111: Logged on 2018-07-05 17:15 asciilifeform: in fact, this sorta happened, recall the early crt
tv and its xray killzone
BingoBoingo: On the other hand, my practiced experience knowing how and when to appropriately yell at the
tv during sportsballs has helped to build rapport with the locals.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-22 03:42 phf: well for one, they all talk like the doms they've seen on
tv, "i bore me now" "run along little pet" i mean what's next "beg, worm"?
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the root : some inept, clueless servant girl from the shtetl calling herself "domme", some unemployed railroad worker calling himself "wykeham professor of logic", some fucktard calling himself "working for google", these are all STRICTLY the same thing, of the nature of gomer pyle calling itself a heap and the
tv set calling itself Boshiba.
phf: well for one, they all talk like the doms they've seen on
tv, "i bore me now" "run along little pet" i mean what's next "beg, worm"?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: exactly how all propaganda works, neh, they advertise cans to the washing machine while she watches
tv instead of cooking.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-30 09:22 spyked:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-29#1819346 <-- funnily enough, one of the first (at least AFAIK) pointedly american pieces seen on
tv in romania was promoted by
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728889 in its first year of existence, "die hard" w/bruce willis. they still air it every year in december. this completely ignoring the fact that romanians had their very own diehard-mcclane since the '70s, i.e. comisarul moldovan.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 18:27 mircea_popescu: anyway, to revisit the matter of
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728843 : adrian sirbu, possibly the only romanian to have done anything since 1989 (he created the deliberate usg tool Pro
Tv in 1995, a media company whose wikipedia page no longer mentions him -- very much a successful equivalent of the failed
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-05#1666048), has recently been accused of... you'll guess this not ? TERRORISM!
a111: Logged on 2018-05-27 18:52 spyked: with telly savalas aka kojak (which was also popular on romanian
tv in the early 90s)
spyked: anyway, /me finds the
tv format increasingly repetitive and hard to follow. last thing I saw was cowboy bebop, and found about a third of it boring. the other two thirds were worth it though, I can now say I've seen most
tv anime.
mircea_popescu: ever so slightly less fucktarded (american) and possibly the closest esltards ever got to european
tv. even had boobs now and again!
spyked: with telly savalas aka kojak (which was also popular on romanian
tv in the early 90s)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this was a
tv show on hbo in the late 80s (at the time hbo was a perfectly respectable premium cable channel, far from the shitpile it has degenerated into after the end of america).
mircea_popescu: spyked, anyway, i wouldn't say it's a good movie. run of the mill 80s
tv camp, with vampires and whatnot. "tales from the crypt" fare, if you recall that show.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-12 01:59 mircea_popescu: 2018 web is ~= 1988 disco or 1968 "rock&roll". there's no beatles, there's no elvis, there's just you know, "rock and roller Little Richard performing in 2007" ie wikipedia. there's fucking F!
TV.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-12 02:00 mircea_popescu: turn a
tv on if you can find one, and tune it to mtv, which still exist. compare/contrast to 1988 mtv, it'll illustrate the matter perfectly.
mircea_popescu: remember 1988 mtv ? peak of live concerts, 120 Minutes was just getting started... whole different story. heck, people who weren't complete mouthbreathers even owned
tv sets back then.
mircea_popescu: turn a
tv on if you can find one, and tune it to mtv, which still exist. compare/contrast to 1988 mtv, it'll illustrate the matter perfectly.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: 2018 web is ~= 1988 disco or 1968 "rock&roll". there's no beatles, there's no elvis, there's just you know, "rock and roller Little Richard performing in 2007" ie wikipedia. there's fucking F!
TV.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: There's also a made for
TV adaptation spanning three seasons which no one has time for in 2018 that turns the script into an overt love story between the FBI profiler and the Republican psychiatrist to fill time
sashahsas: Nope, just heard them through media,
TV, news and such.
mircea_popescu: but yes, broadly speaking, who has any interest in them and their flow of made for
tv snacks.
mircea_popescu: all sorts of schmucks ended up with "oh, things will totally happen because i saw keiser on
tv!!!", and so forth, then come here to ask me for "comment" on their latest idiocy because who knows, perhaps it's not because it's totally irrelevant and completely invisible that it wasn't mentioned, maybe it's not mentioned because they hadn't asked me, here i was sitting waiting for a rando to inquire!
mircea_popescu: indeed the zek paradise is very much that "loose shoes and warm place to shit in" historical african's paradise : if they could pick up a new woman every night and she'd be gone after cooking lunch every day ; if they had to drive to a new place to start work every monday ; if there was always a new beer in the cafeteria and a new show on
tv with a new identical blondy lead... scl
mircea_popescu: can you picture the hordes of
tv watchers gathering me up and setting up a spectacle (like those inane 1980s lassie-in-court
tv productions) whereby some pompous douche ("a judge!!11") asks me to... explain... what happened ?
mircea_popescu: wait, i thought the hackers was some hbo/lifetime
tv series.
mircea_popescu: admittedly putting down bottle hard to do, all this self-determination and choice-having and gotta watch teh
tv gets in the way. but anwyay.
mircea_popescu: better than the "professional" conceit. really, someone got to anchor
tv for their non-cleavage skills ? what am i to believe next, that bridges are for sale ?
mircea_popescu: sometimes lowest effort as typical of
tv pays off, i guess.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-26 15:19 shinohai: Does local
TV have sexy weather girl BingoBoingo ?
BingoBoingo: I haven't actively watched
tv since Houston
shinohai: Does local
TV have sexy weather girl BingoBoingo ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you don't own it, who the fuck does ? daytime
tv starlets ? fat brown women behind fast food counter ? who ?
mircea_popescu: i was not inb the slightest appointed. i knew going in it's gonna be CGI-for-
TV. with a cast of idiots...
mircea_popescu: it's not the usual "here's four dumb bitches on a
TV show set" like that atrocity with johnny depp
mircea_popescu: worst construction... well... have you seen that
tv show ?
cazalla: can't remember when i first dick on
tv, but he's as old as maddox surely when it comes to the net
mircea_popescu: few people can get through any social call without
tv support. which is how they ended up invading bars etc.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-27 02:03 asciilifeform: similar reaction if you invite an american d00d into a house with no
tv set
diana_coman:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-27#1743279 <- I had this with cypriots too; bbbut no
tv? not *even* where you sit with friends? what do you do?? well, we...talk, you know; to be fair I've put that on account of youth rather than more generic rot but maybe I was wrong
☝︎ mircea_popescu: usian can not comprehend existence unless
tv explains it to him ("how does the news relate to me?!?!"), arab hasta have the allah basis, socialist needs the state to, conceptually, assuage his existential anxieties and so following.