mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know as a result of the fanfic discussion with kuzetsa it occurs to me : fifty or so years ago, the amateur "thinking man", ie, someone who could read and write and took delight in both, would mostly write (ie, try his amateur hand) science fiction. that is a sort of fanfic to the canon of nature.

mircea_popescu: with the revolution of comfortability, the "same" guy is now writing fanfic to the canon of some derpy author or other, inept substitute for the actual god of the gaps.

mircea_popescu: this is obviously a lot easier to do, it doesn't take nearly as much work to find an exploitable weakness in the "world" predicated by some schmoe working for some us publisher as it takes to find an interesting hole in nature.

mircea_popescu: for being easier, it's also a lot less interesting, which is why the entire system relies on the walled garden concept : none of these write properly, ie, for the world. they all write for an arbitrarily restricted audience, which makes their task all that easier : athena can turn a single crow black from where it was white. a bunch of sweet singers of michigan can turn a multitude of birds a multitud of colors, and al

mircea_popescu: l pretend to the same earth-shattering effectuality.

mircea_popescu: that pretense is not good, of course, but nor does that matter : they don';t care if their pretense is good, they just want to hold on something. they similarly don't care if their lottery ticket is good, just as long as it's a lottery ticket.

mircea_popescu: quite fucking instructive, all this.

mircea_popescu: !up lordbunson_

mircea_popescu: !up punkman

mircea_popescu: lol oops.

mircea_popescu: !up cardigm

mircea_popescu: punkman do you know how the crow got to be black ?

mircea_popescu: they do this sort of thing a lot, keep rewriting the fundamental myths without citation.

mircea_popescu: basically, if you make 500 "separate" literatures, you get 500 people who can all be employed as dante, the theory goes.

mircea_popescu: this is obviously easier than actually writing something good.

mircea_popescu: so thus you have the "universe" of x, y and z. they're all by and large rewrites of themselves, but hey, it pays the bills.

mircea_popescu: in a culture composed mostly of monolinguistic, ignorant twerps, such as the us (or, for that matter, china), it's not even so very hard to do.

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker

mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EcjWd-O4jI

mircea_popescu: cazalla generally nobody really knows what amounts are held in any wallets.

mircea_popescu: cazalla nobody of any relevance uses weballets as a matter of course.

mircea_popescu: maybe as a temporary measure for small sums, but otherwise, there's no good reason and too much risk.

mircea_popescu: cazalla you're describing a collection of clueless yet eager beavers.

mircea_popescu: i wonder what the eventual result will be with that culwick fellow

mircea_popescu: cazalla yes. in the end, "nothing has changed - no prevails" won the day.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla it's the girl that gets murdered.

mircea_popescu: !up dignork

mircea_popescu: ;;gettrust dignork assbot

mircea_popescu: ;;gettrust assbot dignork

mircea_popescu: why?

mircea_popescu: nah, i see where this is headed.

mircea_popescu: first, drop a bucket of water on your head for cancer

mircea_popescu: next it'll be shove a head of brocoli up your ass for the environment

mircea_popescu: all on youdude.

mircea_popescu: Alas! Lord and Lady Dalhousie are dead, and buried at last,

mircea_popescu: Which causes many people to feel a little downcast.

mircea_popescu: bwahhaha

mircea_popescu: The Late Sir John Ogilvy: in praise of Sir John Ogilvy, 9th Baronet, MP for Dundee. "He was a public benefactor in many ways, Especially in erecting an asylum for imbecile children to spend their days."

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla and no panacea!

mircea_popescu: <mike_c> mixed metaphors are the best metaphors. << "mixed metaphores are the best concrete"

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla bitbet ?

mircea_popescu: i'll put money against .7

mircea_popescu: aite.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` why are your big toes of different sizes ?

mircea_popescu: mandatory love

mircea_popescu: i confess i do not understand all these tests.

mircea_popescu: why is "being propped against a fence" supposed to destroy posters ?

mircea_popescu: or does it have something to do with "proximity of icebox" ?

mircea_popescu: and why is "being taped at a weird angle to a doorknob on a door that for some reason rests by itself in a hallway at an angle" dangerous to posters ?

mircea_popescu: that shot looks like the fucking "alice in wonderland corner test facility"

mircea_popescu: why is it under a chair in the sun ? what is this, the waldo package ?

mircea_popescu: nubbins` ^

mircea_popescu: i am surprised and appalled at the shocking lack of rabbits with this package on their head.

mircea_popescu: so i'm reading up on the darien scheme. while i always suspected the scottish people to be by and large a bunch of useless louts more or less on par with romanians,

mircea_popescu: this is actually ample confirmation.

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: such a broken question.

mircea_popescu: hm ?

mircea_popescu: you generally see two bets on the highest weight, they're the house bets. if there's three, one's the bet proponent zeroconf.

mircea_popescu: i don't think there ever were 4.

mircea_popescu: ;;google karla homolka

mircea_popescu: today i learned there's like cool chicks in canada.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla technically one can make 500 zeroconf bets by sending to the same addy

mircea_popescu: a it adds it all up ? and what, shows as inbound the most recent ?

mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal a block has to ellapse between when bet is proposed and when it's accepted. for this reason the poster's counter bet would come out in a different weight from his zeroconf

mircea_popescu: http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11284392.Man_made___180_000_from_online_betting_scam__court_is_told/

mircea_popescu: pounds = criminal currency.

mircea_popescu: jurov well knc is at least making something.

mircea_popescu: yeah, i don't want to buy their products myself, but i'd rather be long than short knc i think.

mircea_popescu: hmm, any of the gamblers in attendance care to point me to a respected gambling blog ?

mircea_popescu: mike_c cazalla others ?

mircea_popescu: danke

mircea_popescu: um how is this a blog ?

mircea_popescu: Welcome to the Two Plus Two Poker Blogs Posted: February 25th, 2008, by Two Plus Two o.O

mircea_popescu: !up Newyorkadam

mircea_popescu: ;;topic

mircea_popescu: apparently this beast does not exist. the best goog-fu masters have failed to produce anything but obvious mfas, shockingly garish designs (blue on orange, not even kidding - http://www.winonsports.com/Pages/AboutUs.php ) and assorted crapolade.

mircea_popescu: im shocked there's no trilema of gambling, seriously. considering the piles of interest and the shit on tap, minimal ability would prolly earn someoine a living with less work than a college degree requires.

mircea_popescu: i blame lazy thinking.

mircea_popescu: i wanted to have a few reputed voices look over the berkshire bet for their audience.

mircea_popescu: it's really easy to forget just how shitty google has become over time, for as long as one sticks to obscure topics and generally the long tail.

mircea_popescu: mike_c tbh i don't care for fit past betting, inasmuch as bitcoin is the bottleneck anyway

mircea_popescu: and besides, i'd rather pay bloggers to write than spend money on "advertising".

mircea_popescu: i want more clicks like i want more warts.

mircea_popescu: mike_c ascii. nothing has changed, i promote the same things, work with the same kinds of people...

mircea_popescu: now that;'s useful. does he blog ?

mircea_popescu: to paraphrase a famous assbot saying, i've never been as handicapped by my ignorance as when i started a betting site.

mircea_popescu: who the fuck drives atvs. now that's a dumb bet.

mircea_popescu: "o i know, let's get all the disadvantages of skateboards, bikes and vans into a nice tight package. tight enough to keep all the advantages at bay"

mircea_popescu: "o look! my ride-on lawnmower doesn't even lawnmow!"

mircea_popescu: "Phil Laak in Trouble over Unpaid Taxes"

mircea_popescu: uh i think i actually met this guy

mircea_popescu: FabianB most people haven't got the memo that slovenakia is not actually a german province anymoar.

mircea_popescu: maybe i fundamentally misunderstand something. such as perhaps the market hates reading.

mircea_popescu: what else ? engineering, moving to video too ?

mircea_popescu: fucking barbarians.

mircea_popescu: punkman ok, but his blog 2nd post is in april, "My dad died this morning, smiling up until the end. "

mircea_popescu: if i cast this wide a net i might as well import phantomcircuit.lib and email @internet

mircea_popescu: reddit at its finest : "Sports Betting at it's finest - Reddit"

mircea_popescu: punkman yeah, he thanked me.

mircea_popescu: in other news, the large soros spy put now sits at 2.2 bn

mircea_popescu: fittingly, that hungarian is going to run the dollar into the ground, after having raped the pound.

mircea_popescu: even icahn noticed yellen is about as clueless of financial matters as obama of politics....

mircea_popescu: !up shazow

mircea_popescu: 10k eh ? lol.