tmsr - Search: stotting

ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-19 01:13:59 trinque: and you know, these are the things friends discuss rather than stotting before eachother playing at greatness. I should hope we are that, and I am disappointed when we aren't.

trinque: and you know, these are the things friends discuss rather than stotting before eachother playing at greatness. I should hope we are that, and I am disappointed when we aren't.

asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-30#1939147 << indeed they were. they demonstratively pissed on the ban, not even from 'practical' but as a stotting .

mircea_popescu: i do however find the stotting behaviour quite infuriating. so yes, in my book the sort of retard who "does great work for like a year" isn't scoring above the sort of retard who does no work. i'd much rather have tea with elliott than any of the historical time-limited editions specifically for this reason.

mircea_popescu: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-06#1934009 << i don't know yet ; superficially hutchentoot seems like it's python-in-lisp as a stotting exercise by the sort of sparsely-beareded / unemployable postdoc students that do this sort of dumb shit because they can (or can't get laid).

BingoBoingo: Some here top there fences with small electric fences. Stotting behavior

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: this type of 'stotting' is ubiquitous here also

assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 18:04:21; asciilifeform: it suggests that erdos was right, most people 'have no theorems to prove', the idiot social stotting game ~is~ the point of living, to them.

asciilifeform: it suggests that erdos was right, most people 'have no theorems to prove', the idiot social stotting game ~is~ the point of living, to them. ☟︎

asciilifeform: e.g., i can go and buy 'mercedes' but what if i want to ~only~ pay for quality and ~not at all~ for stotting ?

mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> idiot stotting bulls are a dime a dozen. << they're a dime a dozen exactly like how microscope is a dime a dozen in post-usg us.

mircea_popescu: if you think the stotting buck is stotting "to impress the she-herd" you've spent a little too much time i nschool.

BingoBoingo: Why did benkay and BingoBoingo butt heads? Sport mostly. Also stotting behavior.

BingoBoingo: Once tesla revealed their hand was competing not on efficiency, but stotting Porsche had it

mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> who saw the palaces and ludicrous 'stotting' << sure, i'm privy to teh arab wastage.

ascii_field: re: meatwot, all i meant was that i personally know a fella, who i trust to describe what he saw, who saw the palaces and ludicrous 'stotting'

assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 01:20:40; BingoBoingo: And the military hummer has a certain stotting value the Ford "King Ranch" doesn't

BingoBoingo: And the military hummer has a certain stotting value the Ford "King Ranch" doesn't ☟︎

mircea_popescu: im unconvinced this is stotting. i don't dispute it could be called that, but then again anything could.

asciilifeform: could have something to do with the cargo-cult, 'stotting' aspect of advertising per se

assbot: Logged on 16-03-2015 20:16:50; ascii_field: sorta wonder, i confess, if sprezzatura/stotting makes its appearance in overcrowded worlds 'that have no frontiers'

ascii_field: sorta wonder, i confess, if sprezzatura/stotting makes its appearance in overcrowded worlds 'that have no frontiers' ☟︎

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes stotting ?

BingoBoingo: But now Watson can surmise he will be saved by stotting behavior until the one time he isn't

mircea_popescu: stotting behaviour ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform since you linked http://www.loper-os.org/?p=939 dja know what stotting is ?

mircea_popescu: a sort of intellectual stotting behaviour, where any idiocy is argued in all seriousness.