asciilifeform: i personally knew a fella who wasn't the least bit 'unter' who got rolled up.
ben_vulpes: eh, only of the untermenschen.
asciilifeform: don't forget the 'child support'/alimony apparatus
ben_vulpes: the west may have been brought under dominion of the feds with marriage laws, but the whole country is dominated by CPS.
asciilifeform: this kind of usgistic rape has its advocates in ru, and they are - correctly - beaten on the streets or wherever found
ben_vulpes: "when it comes to children, the us /is/ worse than russia."
ben_vulpes: wrapped up, bundled, swaddled, generally speaking insulated from the cold.
ben_vulpes: "you don't understand. they. will. take. your. children."
ben_vulpes: "oh, they'll take your children away if you don't conform to us norms."
ben_vulpes: so my father managed a gentleman who'd moved from the soviet block many years ago. the man walks into my fathers office one day, asks for some privacy to talk about american things. "in odessa, we put children out to nap. cold air, is good for little lungs! anyways," hands my father a letter, "what is this 'child protective services?"
asciilifeform: this is rather like reading an article 'how to become a nazi' and therein reading that you gotta gas ~yourself~ with zyklon
asciilifeform: 'Avoid causing physical or mental harm other people in the course of your revolutionary activities. Becoming an oppressor yourself will not further the communist cause, and will only land you in jail!' << nice try capons
ben_vulpes: anything touching the request/response cycle? apis etc?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what, by the way do you mean by "web work"?
ben_vulpes: http://trilema.com/2015/no-such-labs-snsa-october-2015-statement/#footnote_1_63841 "to survive" << i suppose if the thing can be said to survive while asciilifeform starves...
deedbot-: [Trilema] The Minuscule Crab of Doom and the Sympathetic Spool of Drool - an endlessly complex machine to shred your dreams to pixie dust! - http://trilema.com/2015/the-minuscule-crab-of-doom-and-the-sympathetic-spool-of-drool-an-endlessly-complex-machine-to-shred-your-dreams-to-pixie-dust/
ben_vulpes: how does the ipud figure into this?
asciilifeform: the principal difference between this and actual sys6 is that a) written in ansi, rather than k&r c b) ab initio, for x86 b) ab initio for multiple processors, which actually simplifies threading & locking
asciilifeform: leaving this for other folks here.
asciilifeform: i haven't tried to plant the thing on iron, as of yet. nor do i know whether the author has.
asciilifeform: 2) if you have 64-bit qemu because you're an old osdev junkie, qemu-system-x86_64 -smp 2 -m 512 -hda xv6.img -hdb fs.img instead of the makefile's runner.
asciilifeform: 1) you don't have to use the serial console. the thing includes basic text term and kbd handler.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: they have their place. i find it convenient to have tests when rewriting large swaths of a thing either i've written: with the behavior codified, i don't have to manually poke at the thing to ensure that it still behaves the way it did before i tore it apart and put it back together.
asciilifeform: but passes the author's testatron (included)
asciilifeform: 'test can prove the presence of bugs, but never their absence' -- vladimir ilich knuthikstra
mod6: shinohai: thanks for doing all that testing on V. looks like I might need another round yet before tomorrow.
mod6: ok, last place of 'each' removed -- only one more line of code required there.
mod6: i've got one more spot in the code to change out 'each'
mod6: i've re-written the traversals of the map for ante & desc and my new changes passed the automated tests.
asciilifeform: in other 'news',
asciilifeform: (hey it beats scatology - who am i to talk! i'm writhing in the guts of winblowz kernel presently...)
asciilifeform: l0l how're things in the entomology corps !
mircea_popescu: and by "Some girls" we mean "the vast majority of human females of reproductive age", but hey, they don't read random derpy us website nobody reads so they don't count\
ben_vulpes: (but you know they're weird and perverted etc)
mircea_popescu: usg gun git raped in the ass.
mircea_popescu: " there should be no instinct at all to defend such a jerk, and yet----- and yet that is precisely the instinct many people get." << check it out, usg wants monopoly on orcdom now. IT can defend the outcasts so they can terrorize the cattle, i'm not "allowed to" because hey, there can be only one and it can't be me, amirite ?
mircea_popescu: it's not that there should be no controversy THIS way. There should be, and really there is not, any controversy the other way. ~Some guys~ SHOULD tell a girl they'll rape her. If they don't, how are you to stand out ? And "girls" in the general must be convinced in their bones that either they put out with their choice or get collectively raped by everyone. This part seems to work okay, anyway.
mircea_popescu: "There should be no controversy: a guy should never tell a girl he's going to rape her, online or not, kidding or not." umm,... and whence doth that should come from ? what nonsense is this, anyway ?
mircea_popescu: funny how this happens, on perhaps 1% of articles, i actually want to add more stuff in the morning.
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 00:26:51; mircea_popescu: "If Biederman never existed, nothing would be different. You read his resume, you think, wow, he's a big player. You don't realize that if he didn't exist there would be some other person in his exact position, who would also have become a Distinguished Professor, won awards, written 450 publications, etc. The machine was already in place, his slot was going to get filled; his mind didn't discover
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ytou ever found that tlp where he says "x derp is just there because the seat existed" ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and how does it relate to what some idiot sow did ? << because people keep talking about it as if it were important. and so what the hell's the difference.
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 18:49:20; pete_dushenski: http://altwork.com/ << save the 'angel investor' 'prototype' blah blah, this is an intriguing workspace concept. only about a 2016-btc too
PeterL: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1316031 << The first thing I thought of when I saw this thing was the chairs the people use in the movie "WALL-E"
punkman: Disney knows how much stupid shit all the fangirls will buy
asciilifeform: it is difficult not to be reminded, reading this, of the legends re: icbm cables with differing pin counts being pounded in with a sledge (from ru literature, obviously pertaining to sov rockets, but i'd be surprised if similar legends did not circulate in usa)
asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autovon#/media/File:66a3aDTMFpad.jpg << the button. upper right hand of photo.
asciilifeform: is this a reference to the old AUTOVON 'flash override' button ?
assbot: Logged on 07-11-2015 14:51:09; punkman: "The book, Crash Override: How To Save The Internet From Itself, is a memoir", "Pascal Pictures won the bidding war for rights to the book, and Scarlett Johannson is circling the project, apparently very keen to play Zoe."
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-11-2015#1319205 << what in the name of beelzebub is a 'crash override' ?
assbot: Teen Haunted House Hanging Accident Was Mistaken for Scary Prop | The Stir ... ( http://bit.ly/1OvDbjf )
shinohai: http://thestir.cafemom.com/politics_views/145144/teen_haunted_house_hanging_accident <<< thanks for making me waste the afternoonover tea and morbid subjects asciilifeform
punkman: "But the safety vest the actor was wearing under is robe is believed to have risen up across his neck, strangling him. "
punkman: another judas :P
asciilifeform: how did they go about, i might ask, 'determining why the man did not attach it' ? with a seance ?
punkman: I guess the easy way to do it might be a harness around your armpits
asciilifeform: 'The character Judas hangs himself in the musical, but the harness protects the actor. Investigators were trying to determine why the man didn't attach it.' << good timez
asciilifeform: 'Fareweel, ye dungeons dark and strong, / Fareweel, Fareweel tae thee. / MacPherson's time will nae be lang / On yonder gallows tree. / Sae rantin'ly, sae wantonly / Sae dauntin'ly gaed he / He played a sprig and danced a jig / Below the gallows tree.' (tm) (r)
assbot: Logged on 07-11-2015 16:11:21; asciilifeform: i find the subject of 'theatrical noose' interesting. how does it work? are there multiple schemes? have there been notable historic snafus with this device ?
shinohai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-11-2015#1319215 <<< asking those burning questions others dare not ponder ....
asciilifeform: i'm also at least vaguely aware of at least one case where a prisoner arranged to be hanged on a theatrical stage, as part of a performance
asciilifeform: i find the subject of 'theatrical noose' interesting. how does it work? are there multiple schemes? have there been notable historic snafus with this device ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-11-2015#1319176 << when i ran into the linked film, i sorta assumed that something went wrong and at least one of the gallows birds really did hang properly. was very disappointed to learn that this was not so.
assbot: Logged on 07-11-2015 06:51:36; mircea_popescu: i<asciilifeform> 'yellow' is, one might suppose, wet pants ? << dja know the stephen the great jokes ?
punkman: "The book, Crash Override: How To Save The Internet From Itself, is a memoir", "Pascal Pictures won the bidding war for rights to the book, and Scarlett Johannson is circling the project, apparently very keen to play Zoe."
gribble: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: ;;later tell mod6 v99998 tests passed all boxes, tested the < 5.12 perl on all then installed proper.
BingoBoingo: "STEM is soooooo last decade. FAG is the new science.Fatminism, Arts and Gender Studies will train a new generation of educated young womyn and allies to compete with the likes of Asia."
mircea_popescu: or how giving women money fucks up media for everyone. now they gotta cater to what women want, too, and since what women want is probably somethign stupid and without explosions in it, you get two anodyne fagboys to replace harrison ford, at 1/4 the pay each.
mircea_popescu: your feelings-- but because criticism makes women want to be more private-- and the privacy of the women is bad. The women have to be online, they do most of the clicking and receive most of the clicks. Anonymous cyberbullying is a barrier to increasing consumption, it's gotta go."
mircea_popescu: "Keeping in mind that actual stalking has never been dealt with in any significant way ever, the desire of a few female writers to curb online anonymity wouldn't be enough to get an @ mention, except that this happens to coincide with what the media wants, and now we have the two vectors summing to form a public health crisis. "Cyberbullying is a huge problem!" Yes, but not because it is hurtful, HA! no one cares about
mircea_popescu: they gotta have something better than one she-kurd 40 years ago
punkman: oic now " this is the enactment and remambrance ceremony of the female kurdish student Leyla Qasım who was captured, tortured, tried and executed within 20 days in 1974."
mircea_popescu: i<asciilifeform> 'yellow' is, one might suppose, wet pants ? << dja know the stephen the great jokes ?
asciilifeform: for the next go-around.
asciilifeform: same place as the hongkong attempt 6 mo. ago, presumably.
asciilifeform: 'Inasmuch as, you are one of the most influent persons in one of the most talented community (Hackers) in the world, I humbly ask you write about Iran and whats going on there. Please tell the world that Persian people are fight for freedom ....'
trinque: focusing on the things I've neglected sitting at a keyboard too long
trinque: plenty of eye candy over there; I did various machine press, curls, that weighted rowing machine
BingoBoingo: trinque: How was the up and down?
BingoBoingo: But he was the bad guy just as he is when he does drag as rachel.
BingoBoingo: Eh, it was one of those masked hero movies so if he didn't die and asked for too much money they could have replaced him.
mircea_popescu: but in other news, http://33.media.tumblr.com/df2fcf02fd786b354f2a5578d437180d/tumblr_mtjuu9NmgI1ssal8ko1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is rachel maddow
mircea_popescu: "I'm pretty sure that's Charlize Theron, not Scarlett Johansson." And I'm pretty sure they're the same person, and just because now she's Rachel Maddow doesn't mean she's serious.
assbot: Logged on 07-11-2015 03:18:41; deedbot-: [Trilema] How an economy functions ; how the pretense of an economy functions. - http://trilema.com/2015/how-an-economy-functions-how-the-pretense-of-an-economy-functions/
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> who the fuck came up with gyms and why the fuck would you want the women working out outside the home. << To bring grief to the Mayogendered with a demonstration of gender. Also squats build booty.
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> BingoBoingo: 2 legs good, 4 legs better ? or what was it... << In the end it reverses as the pigs become nearly indistinguishable from the humans, except fatter. ESR in that pic seemed to have bagged a descendant of "napoleon"
mod6: thanks asciilifeform. forgot to mention that the new tmp gnupg dir is working well also.
mod6: new code changes seem to be working good with manual testing; tested a bunch of different scenarios including if one does not have Graph::Easy installed, or if one has a version of perl less than 5.12. Working good there. all automated tests are passing.
deedbot-: [Trilema] How an economy functions ; how the pretense of an economy functions. - http://trilema.com/2015/how-an-economy-functions-how-the-pretense-of-an-economy-functions/
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it is very interesting in all the wrong ways
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: consider reading the src to gpg
mircea_popescu: l poison your toothpaste. Be careful: the point is not that a woman shouldn't post her baby pictures, the point is that the system cannot profit from her baby except as a photo, so that in order to get them to do it more-- to be online more-- the system teaches them to overvalue the photo; and this must necessarily be at the expense of the object itself. #porn."
mircea_popescu: "In the world where the media postulates social media as an absolute requirement of the modern era-- the era where everything is fetishized-- no one is permitted to make the distinction between a value and the picture of a value, they are made equivalent, so daring to criticize Randi's baby pictures is made to sound like misogyny or misobaby. It's not. I love food but if you ask me to look at a picture of a food I wil
mod6: because the 'each' keyword isn't supported.
mod6: This version will also have the change where Graph::Easy is not required unless you invoke v with the `g' or `graph' command
pete_dushenski: 'need a reason to get out of the house'
mircea_popescu: who the fuck came up with gyms and why the fuck would you want the women working out outside the home.
mircea_popescu goes by, sees asscrack moving through the doorcrack.
mod6: asciilifeform & all, I've added one more change to V for the forthcoming version of 99998: People have been letting me know that if their system us using a version of perl less than 5.12 that it's been causing problems. So i've added a statement that requires a minimum of 5.12.
trinque goes to pick things up and put them down again, and to ponder this
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 21:07:48; mircea_popescu: stop throwing the motherfucking curve. have some productivity enhancement.
pete_dushenski: 'who is the first mover'
trinque: that's the open question
trinque: a man with will; that is the one harder to define
trinque: mhm, perhaps it is a not a question of whether moved, but by what
trinque: pete_dushenski: I see two things there: a deep, pervasive obedience in human beings and a total lack of sane input
pete_dushenski: it requires demanding and excruciating physical therapy."
pete_dushenski: "Surgeons break the leg bone in two and implant a state-of-the-art telescopic rod into the middle of the broken bones which then pulls the bone apart very slowly, about one millimeter a day. New bone grows around it and tissues like the muscle, the nerves, the arteries, and the skin, regenerate as well. At about $85,000, the procedure is expensive and the process lengthy. It takes at least three months to complete it
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:45:17; ascii_field: there is, iirc, a clinic in ru that does it. booked for years in advance.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:40:43; mircea_popescu: which is why teaching slavegirls to orgasm on command is important. the internalised sexuality is a good and useful proxy for a great many other things they need.
mircea_popescu: i've yet to see a full movie theatre.
pete_dushenski: there's ONE theatre in town with this : reserved seating, wine+beer, hot food, the works
pete_dushenski: speaking of which, how did it take movie theatres however many decades to figure out reserved seating ?
mircea_popescu: well, just like in a movie : actor threatens the other actor AND the audience, but can't really hear the audience.
pete_dushenski: to be sure, but then 'threaten their parents with holding their breath' is really 'threaten their mothers'
mircea_popescu: well you know, small kids. their relationship is to mom.
mircea_popescu: you have no contribution in there.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:26:00; mircea_popescu: ascii_field there are two kinds of three year olds. all three year olds sooner or later threaten their parents with holding their breath. all parents laugh at this, as it's a physiological impossibility : if you do any sort of a good job you necessarily pass out, and once you pass out autosomatic control restarts breathing. the two kinds of kids are : the ones that are dissuaded by this ; and the one
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-11-2015#1318501 << /me looks forward to taunting pantagruel into going all the way.
pete_dushenski: why leave when you own the house ?
pete_dushenski: guess there was really no need
assbot: In which Volkswagen takes aim at the insanity of statal overbearing. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1PcJNBH )
pete_dushenski: so much for pulling the plug on the us market altogether as per http://www.contravex.com/2015/10/01/in-which-volkswagen-takes-aim-at-the-insanity-of-statal-overbearing/
pete_dushenski: if my conception of the average american tdi owner is accurate
mircea_popescu: bedside's the point.
pete_dushenski: these prepaid cards will be used for organic groceries at whole foods
mircea_popescu: "what, drive a wedge between the people and the governmentoregulating fruiting body ? WE OWN THE PEOPLE1!11!"
mircea_popescu: but yeah, i imagine the regulotards are prolly livid.
mircea_popescu: while trying to take advantage of the consumer's disinclination to use it
mircea_popescu: this is obviousy to cover the cost of neutreting
pete_dushenski: 500 and has no restrictions on where it can be used. The second, which may be valued between $500 and $750, will be limited to use at Volkswagen dealerships." << in which vw doesn't even try to 'fix' the problem that isn't and instead distributes cash to owners whose vehicles WILL BE WORTH MORE than the owners of post-scandal neutertronics
pete_dushenski: "Volkswagen of America, in a bid to regain the trust of current diesel owners, will announce a prepaid card campaign on November 9, TTAC has learned. The program, detailed to dealers Thursday in preparation of its public announcement, is aimed at current owners of affected TDI models regardless of whether they bought their car new or used. Two prepaid cards will be offered to those TDI owners. The first one will be f
mircea_popescu: why not just program re-runs of obama's sex tape if this is the level of effort.
mircea_popescu: so wait, now that they lost "cryptoexpert" bruce whatshisname, and the entire zimmerman angle didn't work, the plan is to bring the deceased husk of esr back to complement the recently stolen cryptome into some sort of bitcoin-foundation-3.0-except-with-more-gunk ?
pete_dushenski: at least he's staying within the species
pete_dushenski: "winbloze CONSIDERS deprecating sha1". so it's on the table. just so you know.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is count to do with it
pete_dushenski: "This year, there have been 948 OS X malware samples, compared with 180 in the years 2011-14 inclusive." << nice work, cook. way to limp-wrist it.
shinohai: I was unaware they had that sort of outfit in "Oh my God it's coming toward us!" sizes.
assbot: MacBooks are so hot right now. And so is Mac OS X malware • The Register ... ( http://bit.ly/1lbcTpL )
pete_dushenski: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/05/mac_os_x_malware_explodes/ << or, why the fuck are you running anything after 10.6
pete_dushenski: sure, add it to the pile ;)
shinohai: I must banish that from my memory with a pricey escort. I may send you the bill pete_dushenski.
mircea_popescu: punkman naw, the thing is smooth
shinohai: Someone should perhaps talk with him about the concept of spelling.
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://38.media.tumblr.com/2da60298adcd8ae82533224d5f426e0e/tumblr_n7sz1yzENX1tce9keo1_400.gif
punkman: from the department of titles: "Ben Carson Defends Himself Against Allegations That He Never Attempted to Murder a Child"
BingoBoingo kinda wishes the James Bond flick "A View to a Kill" was a documentary
pete_dushenski: christina hop in the #freenode channel and ask one of the admins for a cloak sometime. it'll prevent your ip address from showing.
mircea_popescu: they ran out of costumes that fit gavin, moved on to whatever sand niggers ?
mircea_popescu: adlai what the fuck is this retarded bullshit ?
assbot: I (Shall Happily) Accept the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics on Behalf of Satoshi Nakamoto | Bhagwan Chowdhry ... ( http://bit.ly/1NUM8iM )
adlai: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bhagwan-chowdry/i-shall-happily-accept-th_b_8462028.html "Satoshi Nakamoto already is in possession of several hundred million U.S. dollars worth of bitcoins so the additional prize money may not mean much to him. Only if he wants, the committee could also transfer the prize money to my bitcoin address, 165sAHBpLHujHbHx2zSjC898oXEz25Awtj. Mr Nakamoto and I will settle
shinohai: Wonder if Qween Purp is one of those blacks like the college professor that believes white people should deposit all their money into black people's bank accounts.
mircea_popescu: http://41.media.tumblr.com/fcfb1d8283bdbd71d50896fb45a81f9f/tumblr_ngnq0hPBx31qfz2j8o1_500.jpg << black is the culture of proliferate!
pete_dushenski: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151102007003/en/Activision-Blizzard-Acquire-King-Digital-Entertainment-5.9 << mircea_popescu's slavegirls really pumped up the value of this game eh
mircea_popescu: "people transacting without involvement from the ministers would be tantamount to the uk government being irrelevant!!!"
ascii_field: only a t3rr0r1st!!111 would reject the interpository tentacle.
ascii_field: esp the chief
mircea_popescu: whole community gotta participate in the fucking!
ascii_field: 'Ministers have no plans to ban sex because it has an important role in the protection of legitimate economic activity such as creating bank users and lottery players. But there is concern over some aspects of so-called end-to-end fuck where only the thruster and recipient of thrust can feel it.'
ascii_field: except possibly for the day.
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 17:49:44; assbot: Theresa May unveils UK surveillance measures in wake of Snowden claims | World news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1PmLrQX )
trinque: meaning no disrespect to shinohai, the thread of "therefore not today" just keeps going. fascinating.
assbot: 0 results for 'http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11970391/Internet-firms-to-be-banned-from-offering-out-of-reach-communications-under-new-laws.html' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuknews%2Fterrorism-in-the-uk%2F11970391%2FInternet-firms-to-be-banned-from-offering-out-of-reach-communications-under-new-laws.html
shinohai: !s http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11970391/Internet-firms-to-be-banned-from-offering-out-of-reach-communications-under-new-laws.html
shinohai: I just like the cemetary, awesum place to get married, quite beautiful in my eye.
shinohai: ascii_field: funeral for one of the Russian air disaster victims.
pete_dushenski has only seen casablanca, can't speak to bogart's other roles.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> though i grant that some actors only have one character, but we shouldn't even know the names of such fungible plebes << like who, bogart ?
shinohai would consider marriage again if his bethrothed agreed to wed here: http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/11/07/world/middleeast/07Plane-web/07Plane-web-master675.jpg
pete_dushenski: but it's another to represent the businesses that converge in this space, be it mpex, mg, nsa, xotika, bitbet, or what have you. this representation wouldn't be voluntary, which means that it'd need to have a measurable output in order to be billable
pete_dushenski: it's one thing for me to represent tmsr~ to fishwraps as a voluntary service, correcting issues in 'news pieces' when and where i see them and acting as a point of contact for future inquiries
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 22:31:57; BingoBoingo: So pete still working on a PR setup? How does their compensation work? One share per tard tear?
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317770 << now that i see this has been awarded a priority at the level of 'Thing,' i'm giving more thought to what this might look like in praxis.
trinque: I think lately he has abandoned the drag to act.
pete_dushenski: though i grant that some actors only have one character, but we shouldn't even know the names of such fungible plebes
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: 'method acting' does raise the question : as opposed to what ?
ascii_field: 'but with [the dope] a page boils with theorems. without - just a piece of paper. mathematics lost a month because of you.'
mircea_popescu: "It is a kind of extreme method acting; call it ironically absurd behavior." << i knew "method acting" was fucking stupid the moment i heard of it
ascii_field: at the end, he said
punkman: from the department-of-mailing-lists-I-didn't-read-but-saved-it-anyway-because-maybe-sometime: http://dpaste.com/16WQEP7 Organizing the World's Delusions
kakobrekla: i enjoyed the subjective time dilation experience
mircea_popescu: What you don't see is that this logic isn't even self-justifying, it is self-destructing. Not "since I have sexual problems, I wish I had the drug"; but, "since I wish I had the drug, I have sexual problems." Since I wish I had the drug, two hours have already gone by. I'm staying in tonight.
mircea_popescu: rdis, then I would know how to pilot it. If such a drug existed, then my sexual problems would all disappear.
mircea_popescu: Because picturing yourself exerting power is fantasy; imagining yourself as victim is easy. Which is why you brought this all up. You spend a lot of your waking life creating elaborate fantasies of power that contain their own self-justifying logic, and those fantasies are so numerous that added together they actually take up a real portion of your day. A portion you're not spending on something else. If I saw a Ta
mircea_popescu: particularly the point where he goes
mircea_popescu: of the greatest interest here is this tlp discussion : http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/03/when_is_it_okay_to_rape_a_woma.html
mircea_popescu: or of the musculature. hence pcp.
trinque: it would seem that most lives *vastly* underutilize the capabilities of the brain, worse even than the mythical 10% figure
trinque: it was the degree of attention being paid to it
trinque: yeah, the world was exactly as it is
ascii_field: or whether nouns smell of petrol
trinque: ascii_field: or perhaps when it's time to quiet the neuroses and ponder the structure of DNA, LSD
ascii_field: and the fiction about 'dysfunction' is quite likely the same order of fiction as with psych meds
mircea_popescu: which takes us round circle to viagra : yeah, i don't take it either. because i happen to be satisfied with the sex. because the women i fuck rock. because etc.
mircea_popescu: and wish you not to be, either.
mircea_popescu: "productivity enhancing software", the surefire halmark of people who aren't productive and don't wish to be.
ascii_field: now, the infestation of genuinely subpar tools feeds into it.
ascii_field: btw the 'poor dancer is hindered by his own arse' dynamic is present in all walks of u.s. like, from shooting to woodworking
mircea_popescu: what they do is go empty magazine after magazine in the worship of "look see, even THIS great gun can't hit anyone".
mircea_popescu: he wants to take the "spear that will pierce any shield" and fashion it into a shield that will stop any spear.
mircea_popescu: the secret hope of boi with stupid shit stuck on all sides of rifle IS NOT that he can now go shoot people.
mircea_popescu: the problem isn't that they want something. they do not. they pointedly not only wish not to have it, THEY WISH IT TO NOT EXIST. because it scares them like penis @ little girl.
ascii_field: 'shit hanging off the side'
ascii_field: recall the kalash thread ?
ascii_field: as i said, most of the takers want 'world for nothing'
mircea_popescu: that useless is there necessarily.
mircea_popescu: "more useless appearance of the desired thing for less work".
mircea_popescu: and no, this is not how steroids work, either. this is how you/people WANT them to work.
trinque: considering the multiple placebo effect threads, I would not be shocked to find believing "I am about to enter a hyper-aware state" is all there is to it