mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-07-01#1921150 << even if you do them monthly, or quarterly, or whatever works well for you, they're just as good. the sticking point isn't that omg, gotta be every half hour. the sticking point's that you, you first and foremost, WANT the fucking written record so you can reason about your own history meaningfully. rather than treat it as an inestimable, unevaluable and otherwordly gift from the g ☝︎

mircea_popescu: form and unalterable in substance. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: gotta start taking own life back. absolutely, have to. if not, the destiny is very fucking clear : http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-08#1917827 an' http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-13#1913031 ☝︎☝︎

mircea_popescu: you realise, do you, that thing exists EXACTLY as ~teh default lifeflow for minds incapable of examining their lifeflow~. that's what it fucking IS, that is the definition, "the empire is what happens to cattle, incapable of reflection".

mircea_popescu: hence http://btcbase.org/log/2015-08-21#1247708 and EVERYTHING ELSE. it is what it is! ☝︎

mircea_popescu: i dunno how to get this point across moreso than this, and the previous installment, and the ones before that. but somehow it's gotta be gotten across, because apparently it's the one place everything hangs from.

mircea_popescu: there's two ways to organize human activity : either you sit and think about right and wrong, or else you pick the next-easiest thing. the former produces the republic, the latter produces the empire, with its sorted "market" of "bids" of easiness. these flow NECESSARILY from that choice. that's all, the economic underpinning of the divide is simply and wholly there.

mircea_popescu: the general expectation of the pantsuit that their century-long loud noise has eliminated the possibility of thought as a backing of human activity is why they're so fucking [http://trilema.com/2015/so-i-found-the-libertard-motherlode/#select ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: cheeky], too!

mircea_popescu: meh, wrong link

mircea_popescu: cheeky there.

mircea_popescu: motherfucker, this terminal is eating the final portion of my lines, when they break in two parts.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-07-01#1921164 << should be "gods above, fixed in form and unalterable in substance" ☝︎

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.

mircea_popescu: !Qcalc 3799 + 4253 + 2997 + 3721

mircea_popescu: aw shit, lobbes bot down ?

mircea_popescu: !#s "!Qcalc"

mircea_popescu: diana_coman, i used it recently!

mircea_popescu: did i miss some updates ?

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: in other unexpected sideways minutia, i'm drinking from this bottle of... jurajska. woda z glebi jury. jurov want a picture ?

mircea_popescu: the idea was that all the idle fuckwits making up some portion of the 10 billion bipedal cows befouling god's green earth for no purpose and to no benefit will drop their idiotic ways and present themselves for service.

mircea_popescu: so as to actually do something with themselves, as opposed to continuing with idiocy ad idem.

mircea_popescu: it'll continue to "pay" forever. back when the brits were machine gunning the zulu "warriors", zulu warrioridiocy was also "paying too well"

mircea_popescu: dumbest thing in the world, entering into paywell-ing competitions with idiots.

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: yeah. well, that's happening. slowly.

mircea_popescu: you have no fucking idea jusy how utterly POOR yurpeans are.

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: 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: and for this obvious sadness, they still go about pretending about "rights" and "no truth exists" and whatnot tenets of the idiocy that got them there, slaves on the continent their forefathers fought etc.

mircea_popescu: from under the well worn tshirt, washed more times than i dipped my cock in woman, from under the "cut up" jeans to mask the wear and tear, from inside the tentsheet shoes only the poorest of the poro kids wore during the LEAN communist years, holding the smashed smartphone ("where did you drop that ?" "which time ?"), they sprout forth the tenents of the idiocy that fucked them.

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: whatever, it's all been said a dozen times.

mircea_popescu: diana_coman, apparently. cuz the menu is like the limit of existence now or something, the "company policy". wanna queue for cabs ?

mircea_popescu: anyway. my point here is : attrition already happened 80% of the way. the difference between frenchgirl i recall from 1992 and frenchgirl i perceive in 2019 is staggering.

mircea_popescu: yet it was PERCEIVED 0%.

mircea_popescu: they've already been attrited out of most anything anyone'd ever want anyway.

mircea_popescu: it's honestly not so far off from hunger.

mircea_popescu: 22 yo NEVER HAD TROUT BEFORE.

mircea_popescu: is this not hunger ? what is this hunger ?

mircea_popescu: "there is no such fish as truite in french". what, it was my accent ?

mircea_popescu: ikr.

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: shit what what what").

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: yurp belongs to the scrap iron man today. whether homebrew gangster or imported, "the system" has utterly failed.

mircea_popescu: all i want is for this to be the place.

mircea_popescu: gotta do both things.

mircea_popescu: always gotta do both things, it's how this goes.

mircea_popescu: talk to some kids in between working in the orchard, there's no way out of this.

mircea_popescu: well, the literate process can help there as anywhere.

mircea_popescu: write it down.

mircea_popescu: there's deeply ingrained anti-sharing culture leading to http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-30#1921077 style nonsense. i have derived no detriment from my cock being publicly visible ; my sluts derived no detriment from their whatever exposure. there is, literally and strictly, no drawback whatsoever to communication. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: it ~seems there might be~, in all sorta ways manners and "do we still have to DO this". it's an illusion. idiocy simply gets filtered out at 0 cost and that;s that.

mircea_popescu: "somebody" deciding "you are stupid" or whatever the fuck else on the basis of your own fucking work is exactly as interesting as the fly-meaning of flies buzzing by.

mircea_popescu: even without the "oh, bad things in future". it has to change because it's unhealthy. why do eight hour stretches locked in kitchen/orchard/garden whatever when you could be doing twelve hours of relaxed work and play ?

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. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: why eschew the pleasant way this always worked for some ford-esque atrocity of a chaplin parody ?!

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: so put up ad, you know, "work with me on X". even if you don't go to local uni to send you students for practice, kids may well show up.

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: right.

mircea_popescu: the one other element is that i suspect formalism has a significant destructive effect.

mircea_popescu: consider this example : at burlesque competition (writing an article about this that'll fill in details) i told organizer i'm giving free vodka to the contestants after the show, and spread the word around. everyone was excited, yet nobody came.

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.

mircea_popescu: maybe it's an item on the cattle survival list we don't know about, "never act on any public leads". nfi.

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: 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, possibly the problem was you engaged the matter. imo the correct approach to whatever the fuck nonsense they sprout is simply no and moving back to discussing actually important things.

mircea_popescu: if you spend your time engaging their idiocy on its own terms you'll just be sadder than you need to be.

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: so simply do that. "oh, is this a mobile app ?" "ehh, *handwave* mobile apps. here's the weird thing about shaders..."

mircea_popescu: and the other item in this rapidly depleting bucket of possibly useful ideas : fucking pick. obviously i'll look at a group and go "talk to that one with the tits" or w/e such, my picks are easy peasy. but this doesn't mean yo ucan't pick! look at a group, select the donkey with the more intelligent gaze, talk to that, what's to keep you. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: you hold your lordship like anyone else, your choice enacts reality, if someone else was the smartypants you didn't pick, shame on ~THEM~. they should've looked more like it.

mircea_popescu: can pick any which way you choose, and if you don't like it... guess what! you can change it!

mircea_popescu: one of the key crowd control mechanisms of the empire, useful esp at the top, is this discouragement of arbitrariety. what, you're made of hookmeat or something ? you can pick, that's what you're here for, to pick!

mircea_popescu: you know ?

mircea_popescu: pick-and-choose will break their goop!

mircea_popescu: haha.

mircea_popescu: that kid will have one hellvua childgood.

mircea_popescu: well, i meant childhood, but anwyays.

mircea_popescu goes back to writing these boring missives nobody ever reads

mircea_popescu: kekekekekekeks

mircea_popescu: so do your own thing, it's your own house.

mircea_popescu: just, you know, whichever way you answer to the burdens of living, an answer you must give.

mircea_popescu: breathe as you breathe just as long as you get oxygen in ; eat as you eat, just as long ... and so on.

mircea_popescu: there's no "i'll be a living organism only doing 2/5 of the things living organisms must do". this is not an available option.

mircea_popescu: right.

mircea_popescu: copying the forms may be a great way to get to the substance -- which is why say all painters who painted back when painting worked and such a thing as being a master painter was still on the table learned the craft in "full houses", run by some older painter ; but we're adults, we're in the business of substance here, no amount of formalist perfection's gonna do anything on its own.

mircea_popescu: hm ?

mircea_popescu: yup!

mircea_popescu: kinda how it worked, 1700s.

mircea_popescu: ty!

mircea_popescu: it said "your single-path-impredictable-and-unreviewable theorems" ; they'd be these 1. "theorems", as the term is used here, ie, constructions of the mind, which are 2. single-path as in, there is only one possible way to get there (unlike true constructions of the mind, which can always be reached from a multitude of nodes, the implication being that these are mere masks on specific structures of psychogenic noise, not bon

mircea_popescu: objects) and further 3. escape any possibility of planning, denoted by prediction and review.

mircea_popescu: when newton sits down to do some work, newton proceeds from the edges of the known in a general direction, yes, but he can do this in a number of ways at a number of times ; he is not seized upon by sudden inspiration, to be helplessly thrown to and fro like a maniac, arriving he knows not when or where.

mircea_popescu: afterwards.

mircea_popescu: the cherries popped sometime yesterday. (this is an euro event, sometime during the summer the mega cherries, huge, delicious, appear by the truckload on the market).

mircea_popescu has been buying by the bushel, from street vendor conveniently placed right under my balcony. omfg cherries! fucking delish

mircea_popescu: "Y sin mucho aparato político ni recursos para poder imprimir listas a cuatro tintas, la tarea no era fácil." << dorks can't afford 500 color copies, think they're party. in continuation&extension of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-11#1795969 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, i was thinking maybe it'd be a good move to reform the qntra structure, have outright 10c/word payable for copy for colalborators, do say weekly deedbot payouts or something.

mircea_popescu: i mean, the whole get shares thing is eminently fair, respectful whatever, but evidently the cattle's neither interested nor ready for anything like that.

mircea_popescu: make two tiers, so the editor in chief + i guess whatever others we promote to permanent editorship still has the option to get shares ; but the rest just get a payoff.

mircea_popescu: i guess i'd have to open it a credit line, make a convertible bond, something. still mulling all this over.

mircea_popescu: anyway, i shall be travelling tomorrow, but we get back on this wed.

mircea_popescu: anybody wanna play the "guess where mp comes up for air next" game btw ?

mircea_popescu: fun times!

mircea_popescu: ima give a bitcent to the eventual winner (if nobody gets exact location, closest guess counts ; though global designations [ie, zones or countries rather than towns] will be taken at the least-favourable value)

mircea_popescu: re holy shit that get lost, dumbo article is fucking endless.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, https://archive.is/P4cM3 << ahaha, some fucktard FROM FUCKING ROMANIA ?

mircea_popescu: are you kidding me ? romanians are retarded, forget about it.

mircea_popescu: in other antique lulz : http://trilema.com/2014/%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0-%D0%B8-%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0/#comment-104059 cutoff meanwhile occured.

mircea_popescu: no doubt fellow is nao king.