ben_vulpes: wahaha mircea_popescu sauce for the nyt bit?
assbot: mike_hearn comments on Linus regrets how insults damaged the Linux community and we can do better ... ( http://bit.ly/1KUUwKD )
btcdrak: read the last paragraph of mike's reply a year ago https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jhzxq/linus_regrets_how_insults_damaged_the_linux/clbz87r
mircea_popescu: "Here are the seven most important sciences according to the NYT:; ; 1. Sociology; 2. Political science; 4. Climate science; 5. Science fiction; 7. NPR; ; 8. Law"
assbot: "You're the guy who wasn't good enough to sling dope." on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1KURshq )
lobbes: ascii_field: I can now confirm that both verify, and the checksums match. odd indeed
ben_vulpes: dang, thestringpuller.
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: http://trilema.com/2013/youre-the-guy-who-wasnt-good-enough-to-sling-dope/
assbot: Logged on 21-06-2013 22:58:29; mircea_popescu: "The relationship between the fandom and the actual profession is always, absolutely always and without exception one of extraction. Specifically, resources are sucked out of the fandom for the benefit of the profession."
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2014 03:04:39; asciilifeform: i've argued in the past that you have to ditch... binary. if you want to be rid of the 'floating point' abomination.
ben_vulpes: any time I see these "oversaw/responsible for revenue of blablablah" all sorts of alarms go off.
assbot: Logged on 09-05-2014 20:30:36; bitcoinpete: hashfast vp of engineering: Amy most recently came from Engine Yard, where in less than two years she went from Senior Developer to Director of Engineering. She oversaw the development of the flagship product, EY Cloud, growing revenue by over 60% in one year.
mircea_popescu: yeah but we'll just call all of them kristen wiig
ben_vulpes: the "and i'm with my me" bit was kinda chortleworthy but it was written by snl staff.
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-11-2015#1313926 << A lot of 'Muricans develop an aversion to a certain kind of comedian who does the exagerated voice thing. Prolly blame Pualy Shore et al.
mircea_popescu: "Also, who gives a shit about what you buy? Everyone buys all the same things all the time; that's why those items are always stocked. You're not special. Nobody cares."
ascii_field: lobbes: didja diff it with the wget'ed copy ?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ascii_field: ;;later tell mod6 feature request for your 'v' - degrade gracefully if the graphing lib thing is absent plz
lobbes: ascii_field: I can confirm the same behavior on my graphical winblowz browsers (Firefox, Chrome). On Firefox, I get additional message of 'MrTAHIXE.sig.part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.'
mircea_popescu: hopefully she leaves him money, it's a lot better when the cuck also "owns" the place
thestringpuller: Samuel: "mommy why can't humans work together like ants?" - good question. << the actual fuck?
mircea_popescu: if only men had the unyielding dedication of cockroaches.
mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/msjamielynne << remarkably, chick is still there a few years later doing the exact same thing.
thestringpuller: interestingly, the goths burned down a hot topic to get rid of the teeny boppers in south park, but 3 more popped up.
thestringpuller: trinque: quite depressing how the majority has the same mindset as the teeny boppers.
ben_vulpes: oh come now, didn't macsyma do the same thing?
ascii_field: wtf with the stripped parens
ascii_field: or so claims the site.
ben_vulpes: I DON'T KNOW EITHER
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 20:16:13; mircea_popescu: leaseweb netherlands ? srsly ?
mircea_popescu: now go out and make sure there's enough men, forget climate fucking change.
mircea_popescu: what, ustards are amazed that they applied the principles of 1950s soviet feminism, got the results of 1970s soviet society and WHOA WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: heh, fucktarded douchery. soviet romania had female everythings, and they all beelined to home where they cooked for the family anyway.
mircea_popescu: The real question is why it's popular among 15 year old girls? 15 year old girls should, in theory, have grown up without 1970s sexism. Schools are hypervigilant about fostering girls development, and there are enough female everythings that it's not remarkable that there are female anythings."
mircea_popescu: "Deconstuctionists like to ask easy questions like, "why is a story for 15 year old girls so popular among middle aged women?" They asked this about Twilight, too, but it's not at all surprising that these books are popular among middle aged women who still secretly believe women are second behind men. Not in terms of theoretical potential, perhaps, but they've grown up in a world with enough experiences that they ca
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: confederated tribes of grande rhonde is a convenient political box for a myriad of small tribes along the length of the willamette and parts of the columbia.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "repatriation schemes" would be "kiss the ring and the usg will pressure holders of your holy artifacts to return them"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "curation standards" would be "lock all of your holy relics up in slidy climate controlled shelving units and never let anyone touch them"
ben_vulpes: in other nyooz, i learned that the confederated tribes of the grande rhonde very intentionally do not meet curation standards or participate in the repatriation scemes.
mircea_popescu: leaseweb netherlands ? srsly ?
mircea_popescu: i gotta host with whoever's hosting these dudes.
ben_vulpes: of course it will. she was just flailing in the presence of apparently the first rigid cock she'd seen in a decade.
mircea_popescu: http://disneyporn.com/category/disney-jasmine-porn/ << check out the awesome protective power of being the richest corporation in all of the us fictive economy.
ben_vulpes: "the doula will tell you more" /scoot
ben_vulpes: in other news, america has retardified even midwives
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 18:09:14; thestringpuller: i also asked him what a kolhoz, and he looked at me funny and said, "Those haven't existed in a long time. Although we are probably in one right now."
mircea_popescu: and stubs on the faucets and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: for the wall to be covered in wax drip so you can attach candles to it so they drip in the bath!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes not that i imagine i can keep up with the vulpes, but - i ok'd remodelling of a bathroom. in wax.
mircea_popescu: how about fucking athena, to this day the avatar of agency - stupid bitch came out of her father's head pointy end first
mircea_popescu: and psyche is supposed to be a fucking object. that is THE POINT of that particular story (fuck you myth legend bs words you don't even comprehend. story is good enough for pedestrians).
mircea_popescu: god damned it... "this is better than the greek myth because i like it more"
mircea_popescu: make choices and take risks along the way, though.) There are also loads of Native American fairy tales with women who have agency."
mircea_popescu: in other news, "There are, in fact, fairy tales about women with agency, and your article would have been even stronger if you knew them (but it's understandable that you don't). "The Girl Without Hands" for one, and a fairy tale retelling of the Psyche and Eros legend, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon". (The retelling is better than the Greek legend, where Psyche is deus ex machina'd at the end. She does at least
gribble: Daft Punk - Robot Rock - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFZjqVnWBhc>; Daft Punk - Robot Rock (Official audio) - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdeYwObD-j4>; Robot Rock (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Rock_(song)>
mircea_popescu: i just looked, it's there.
mircea_popescu: maybe if the piston was tungsten tipped or some nutty shit.
mircea_popescu: wellookthen
ascii_field: the piston.
mircea_popescu: supposedly the failing chamber pierced that ? with what.
mircea_popescu: tbh i have no idea how these accidents are supposed to occur - every air cusjopm i ever saw had this 2mm steel plate protecting the butthole.
ascii_field: http://business.asiaone.com/news/woman-badly-injured-exploding-computer-chair << not this one, but apparently ~another~ similar breakage
ascii_field: and is that piss on the front ?
mircea_popescu: where's the butt!
phf: "he knows english better then any american i know" well, that says something about ~americans you know~
mircea_popescu: the problem is he isn't fucking applying it to himself!
mircea_popescu: TU QUOQUE, MOTHERFUCKER!
mircea_popescu: n as customary.... who they are. America is a branded-identity nation, which means hearing yourself speak in not-your accent, with not-your vocabulary sounds very not-you, which is why when an American tries to speak French he feels self-conscious, but the Frenchman hearing it feels you aren't even trying. He'd be wrong, you are trying: trying not to become French."
mircea_popescu: he CIA learn as adults, are they all using different science? An American describes another American who is fluent in French as "oh my God, he's so smart, he speaks French and everything" but this statement is easily unmasked as a defense by getting him to describe a Frenchman who speaks English: "well, they all speak English over there." The bilingualism is robbed of the "intelligence" signification because it's see
mircea_popescu: makes shit like "Short of cauterizing your own genitals, nothing seems like it would change who you are like speaking in an-other's language. Blech, I'd rather wear someone else's underwear, no thanks, I'll take the 12 credits but no way am I retaining anything. "Well, science says you lose the ability to learn languages as you get older." Oh, did NPR just interview TED? Dummies in other countries and dummies in t
ascii_field: reading tlp 'the aspirational images in ads makes you even more xxxxxxxx' feels quite like martian telling me 'your tentacles ache every day, which drives you to drink'
mircea_popescu: the reason you can't translate trilema from romanian to english IS NOT that you can't move the references. but he doesn't offer much in the way of this benefit.
mircea_popescu: but when i use throwaways i use them on the basis of something, whereas with him that something's not actually fully formed behind the throwaways
mircea_popescu: it's not even a problem of references per se, is the fucking issue. "don draper", big fucking deal.
mircea_popescu: btw : my first impulse when you made that quote was omfg i left it out of my last article, it should be in there! mad chase ensues to find it in source material, by the time i have contextualizatio0n ready i know where it should be in my article
ascii_field: a thing in the objective sense
mircea_popescu: one major problem is that he has some major fuctardry embedded. another one is that he insists in using shitty references.
ascii_field: paragraph, to some demented mutants who i neither ever were nor ever met nor ever expect to meet
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'Worse, cynicism and aspirational branding aren't two opposite ends of a pole, they form a cycle: the chasm between your cynical view of real life and the perfect definition of the aspirational images in ads makes you even more cynical towards real life; which drives you further into the safety of branding. Which is why you drink.' << y'know, i'd appreciate tlp moar if he were not talking, in every odd
assbot: Xen Patches VM Escape Vulnerability | Threatpost | The first stop for security news ... ( http://bit.ly/1P6ibiT )
ascii_field: in other nyooz,
ascii_field: and even 'Versions 0.2.5 – 0.3.x saved the decryption key (with other data) in their own service file, key.dat. The area containing the key was zeroed out in the file only after completing encryption, making it possible to save the key by interrupting the encryptor’s operation (e.g., by turning off the computer). After this, the key could be extracted from key.dat and used to decrypt all files.'
ascii_field: 'C&C servers are located on the Tor network; the malware communicates with the C&Cs via public tor2web services.'
ascii_field: last quote was, rather,
ascii_field: 'The AES-256-CBC algorithm is used to encrypt files; all files are encrypted with the same key... In spite of the scary stories about RSA-2048 shown to victims, this encryption algorithm is not used by the malware in any form... The AES-256-CBC algorithm is used to encrypt files; all files are encrypted with the same key.'
ascii_field: which would these be
thestringpuller: i printed off your best bash's and showed them to him, and he was quite amused
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: https://securelist.com/analysis/publications/72087/the-shade-encryptor-a-double-threat << example of ransomware written by folks who aren't retarded
ascii_field: the no-dick system
mircea_popescu: "the nordic system"
mircea_popescu: they got a whole system down there i hear, hussies babymomma while derps fuck up linux and wash dishes in the buff.
mircea_popescu: what, being german ? the new black ?
ascii_field: funny how the mug shot looks quite like poettering's
mircea_popescu: right but i mean you don't know the face you don't know the name, i guess "nobody" ?
mircea_popescu: what shall i answer to the who ?
ascii_field: it happened on that other planet where folks derp about 'desktop linux' and configure their boxes with mice etc
mircea_popescu: ascii_field wasn't it in that time traveling british thing with the guy with wild hair and the two kids ?
mircea_popescu: ftr : i've been here over a year and i've not pinched a single butt (the plain variety - on the street, uknown - let's not get into perversion) because a) they're short and b) they're petrified.
mircea_popescu: never read blogs, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience!
mircea_popescu: motherfucker i only know what it is because i looked it up because you're fucking obsessed with it.
mircea_popescu: "This is how I know that anyone who says, "If only I could live in Mad Men time where you could pinch a girl's ass and not get in trouble for it" is going to be way disappointed if a TARDIS shows up, because they wouldn't pinch them back then, either, not because they are afraid of trouble but because they are afraid of girls. Exhibit A: you know what a TARDIS is."
mircea_popescu: wait, we deny there's a climate ?
asciilifeform continues on the way.
davout: the smell from afar is going to be more than enough for me
mircea_popescu: how's the pluranium mines
gribble: The operation succeeded.
thestringpuller: hearn's newest article is so desperate, I can taste the fear.
mircea_popescu: (psa : if you're female, in your 20s and ~couldn't~ replace either girl at my option, you fail at life. practice more, this is important. reading jezbel is not.)
shinohai: Just what the doctor ordered.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, back to the basex. http://38.media.tumblr.com/4be8d52ee4358192d8ba7163e9b9b23c/tumblr_mp4c8gZKqs1sqhhcto1_250.gif
mircea_popescu: There's only one thing it can do: say that these women don't know better, that they're broken women from broken homes... that they're not real women."
mircea_popescu: what does the system do?
mircea_popescu: "That's the trick of Shame. "He's an attractive, wealthy, guy with a big penis (did you see it, ladies?) but he's not using it properly..." Brandon's sex addiction makes him very un-desirable, no one watches Shame and says, "wow, I want to be Brandon" and no woman says, "wow, I want to be with Brandon." The opposite is true for Tucker Max, who is popular with women, especially the very women that he "degrades." Now
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/03/shame_is_the_desired_outcome.html << ayup, definitely. old farts trying to maintain relevancy by controlling the fucking activities of adolescents ? check.
mircea_popescu: really makes more sense for you to buy her a diamond than for her to turn tricks and bring you the money.
mircea_popescu: " Sex addiction rarely breaks laws so it can't be punished, and there's no God so the immorality of it is debatable, i.e. inconsequential. It must be a disease, that way other people don't want to catch it. All psychiatric treatment of constructed syndromes isn't about cure but about regression to the mean, where mean= cubicle drone. " not even, just... please believe that monogynous fambly is the only fambly and it
mircea_popescu: "i know nothing about how kernels work but i'm 36 and i don't think the nielsen box in my house does enough to mess up society - here's some rephrasing i've done in my mysteriously abundant spare time"
mircea_popescu: or, "how the women nobody can be bothered to fuck anymore are getting into everyone's business any chance they get".
mircea_popescu: ddicts we see in movies and on the news are: rock stars, politicians, sports guys, CEOs. If you think about the demo primed to receive this depiction of lothario as sex addict-- women over 35, i.e. the demo for Shame-- sex addiction needs to be seen as terrible because it is terrible for them. It may also be terrible for the sex addict, but fuck you, we have a society to run."
mircea_popescu: "Take a look at Brandon. When media wants to depict a sex addict they depict the wealthy, the good looking, the powerful, the well hung. There are plenty of slimy basement dwelling janitor sex addicts out there, but they are represented as sex offenders. There are also plenty of gay sex addicts out there, but they are represented as gay. Both of you are dismissed, the world has no time for your nonsense. The sex a
assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: Thank God The 'Heart Attack Grill' Is A Great Name; Also, How To Learn French ... ( http://bit.ly/1ixW46v )
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/05/thank_god_the_heart_attack_gri.html << pretty great explanation on how psychological defenses work.
punkman: why does parallel universe matter? local app must find the key in blockchain, verification is when the key works
mircea_popescu: you don't need the chain.
asciilifeform: the only reason this is not already sop is that loading a 40GB blockchain is rather conspicuous, even on a lamer's box
asciilifeform: nor ought there be a 'c&c' box in the usual sense of one that is ever connected to by the trojan.
asciilifeform: (not from the luser's tx, but from a second one, where the robot on the artist's end moves the coin)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and you prolly meant 'derives the decryption key from the payment tx'
asciilifeform: (short version: it is almost inevitably by being 'part of th3 l337 sc3n3!!! k00l d00dz!!1111' or any variant thereof)
asciilifeform searches in vain for the logz where he described ~how~ malware artists typically get caught
mircea_popescu: i suppose it goes on the to-do list once someone myseriously disappears.
mircea_popescu: could be a spv wallet even. it just checks for a speciffic address being paid, derived from the key.
asciilifeform just described the recipe for it above.
mircea_popescu: not like you can't make one of these as an actual autonomous system sitting in hdd cpu
mircea_popescu: i suppose "an actual cryptovault you will never, ever crack" goes into the pile of things the republic is going to strike back with if rattled enough.
asciilifeform: the one thing i don't get is why the fuck these people never set up a btc node on the victim's box
asciilifeform: (everything build with vs, plenty of identifying strings littered therein, as is the custom, uses hardcoded dns turds, etc.)
asciilifeform: but given what it describes, the idiot prolly confessed on some phorum
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: describes only the exe
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda too lazy to read, but what did they do, caught some derp's gf's mother's (she was underage) cc on coinbase or what.
asciilifeform: https://securelist.com/blog/virus-watch/67699/a-nightmare-on-malware-street << their paper re: 'coinvault' (one of the two trojans in question.) good for some lulz for mats, diametric, and anybody else who goes in for this
mircea_popescu: "so then what hope for anarcho-syndicalism is there ???" you mean that enchanted land where you don't have to work because you're somehow rich and yet idiots being rich does not degrade richdom ? plus you have "all the choices" but never have to take one to get there ? "yes!!!!"
mircea_popescu: this is the overarching point. idiot : "bitcoin empowers idiots just like me". no, it doesn't.
mircea_popescu: ofcoursetheywere.
asciilifeform: these were TARDS
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 13:22:47; punkman: "The ransomware authors are arrested and all existing keys have been added to our database."
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-11-2015#1313820 << oh for fuxsake, did you READ the analysis ?
mircea_popescu: Short of cauterizing your own genitals, nothing seems like it would change who you are like speaking in an-other's language. Blech, I'd rather wear someone else's underwear, no thanks, I'll take the 12 credits but no way am I retaining anything."
mircea_popescu: "If you want to watch these invisible unconscious defenses play out right in front of you, in real time, in a real way, watch an adult American try to learn a second language.
mircea_popescu: no better dad, BE the better dad.
mircea_popescu: it's like the matrix, see. take the red pill of escaping censorship into the loving embrace of the nsa ofshots!
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 13:55:14; mircea_popescu: eagerly awayting the amir taaki - mike what's his name NEWTHEREUM!!11 next spring.
shinohai would not be surprised to hear of XThereum soon http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-11-2015#1313837
mircea_popescu: seems the entire "bitcoin is for crymynalzzzz" is more of the same "i wish i was cool, maybe if i put this hat on ?"
mircea_popescu: all the pants wetting about "Assasination markets" and whatnot is probably misplaced.
mircea_popescu: so far there's been "o noes drug market!11"
punkman: mircea_popescu: it's not so bad for the competent, is it?
davout: just not the same retarded stuff, "but nao with chinese translashun!1"
mircea_popescu: davout what exactly are they gonna do, go take up gardening ?
mircea_popescu: <davout> "Bitcoin XT: a project run by two men << who are the men ?!
mircea_popescu: <btcdrak> Mike is an outright liar. << this is neither surprising nor remarkable by this point.
mircea_popescu: "There is no information there. It is there in order for you to talk about it-- so you have something to talk to others about, through a screen darkly or face to face, because if it weren't for these meaningless media stories which includes all partisan politics people would have nothing to say to each other, and society's collapse into hikikomori narcissism would be total. Which is why it is correct to say that pop
mircea_popescu: "The Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, Nev., has come under scrutiny since one of its patrons suffered an actual heart attack while eating a Triple Bypass Burger there earlier this week."
punkman: "The ransomware authors are arrested and all existing keys have been added to our database."
mircea_popescu: btcdrak BashCo hi theee
shinohai: Not like anyone is twisting anyone's arm and forcing them to run core, or anything else for that matter.
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 11:06:23; btcdrak: can you smell the desperation now? https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-block-sizes-e047bc9f830#.eflnvw6u2
btcdrak: the whole thing is so crass
davout: "Bitcoin XT: a project run by two men who already shipped a compromise solution that reflects the demands of miners, users and companies." <<< it strikes me as weird then that "users", "miners", and "companies" aren't running it, why could it be?
davout: and obviously, most of these stances are taken by the marketing derps, while the actual people who actually hold their business together are too busy not caring and working on actual problems anyway
btcdrak: What he means is a few companies that dont even run their own full nodes but have millions in VC capital have said they support BIP101
btcdrak: "In talking with miners and companies, one thing I’m hearing repeatedly is “we will wait for the second conference in December. If there’s no progress by then, we’ll switch to BIP 101”.
davout: btcdrak: the "chinese translation here" is pretty lulzy too
btcdrak: can you smell the desperation now? https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-block-sizes-e047bc9f830#.eflnvw6u2
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assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 07:15:28; BingoBoingo: Very swift was Buterin's fall from writing like a 19 year old to writing like a 29 year old desperate to keep the VC cock interested in his fading twink looks so he could keep up the gay for pay
BingoBoingo: But for srs, isn't that the Startup incubators eating college kids racket in a nutshell. 19 year old buterin taking it in the ass for money. Aged as though he's thirty he can't the the VC money, he gets the crack rock every fifth blowie in an alley money.
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BingoBoingo: Very swift was Buterin's fall from writing like a 19 year old to writing like a 29 year old desperate to keep the VC cock interested in his fading twink looks so he could keep up the gay for pay
ben_vulpes gaily refuses to give a shit about ethereum
mircea_popescu: supposedly there exist suckers buying into this. like supposedly there existed suckers buying into the original "sale". right-o.
mircea_popescu: on 4 oct, last time it was 3, the "mkt cap" was 50mn. now 80mn. because sure, 60% inflation month to month, this works now.
mircea_popescu: YO STUPID WOMEN : SHUT THE FUCK UP. nobody, really, literally, nobody wants to see or hear you. the kitchen is good enough.
mircea_popescu: for fucks sake these dumb bitches. \
mircea_popescu: "Disclaimer: I am not a kernel programmer, so I may have am certain I have misinterpreted some of the technical aspects of Linuss original post."
mircea_popescu: The reason I think women are hot today is that they are today, not that they are hot. I watch pornos from the seventies and I think to myself, "well, it would be better than bestiality, I guess."
fluffypony: it's just ircing on the cake
BingoBoingo: Apparently bear fight like the morbidly obese: "According to court records, Hopkins went to feed the bears, which was part of his job. He entered the bear pen and began to place food out. Once inside, nothing separated him from the bears. At some point while Hopkins was working, the largest bear, Red, attacked him. The bear knocked Hopkins to the ground, sat on him, and bit his leg, knee and rear-end."
BingoBoingo: From same place as Ukranian bear story https://www.thefix.com/content/grizzly-bear-gets-all-harsh-stoner
asciilifeform: server log spam >>>>> 'http://www.twitter.com/tweet_anything_bad_about_a_fee_paying_customer_and_the_tweet_gets_hidden-its_what_you_call_mafia_protection'
BingoBoingo: Bears are supposed to be a measure of culture though. If meet a bear and it mauls you your culture sucks. If you meet a bear and it shares your booze, your culture is enlightened. If the bear buggers you stop hanging around furries.
asciilifeform: first they ban old fashioned bear baiting, before long it'll be mandatory patek philip and butt piracy for everyone
BingoBoingo: The stories at Thinker's Anonymous have to suck
asciilifeform: 'To this day I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. It reached down and cupped me in Its hands, lifting me up from my hole. As I sank to the ground clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked. You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster.'
mircea_popescu: there's nothing to fix here. these aren't problems people get. these are problems things trying to masquerade as people get.
mircea_popescu: EVEN IF they find some way to "fix it" what they'll have found is a way to make empty bottles fake fullness for longer than anyone'd care to inquire.
mircea_popescu: this acting like every vessel that didn't happen to get a soul at fill-up is nevertheless full and should be given attention... sigh.
mircea_popescu: "go kill yourself. now. this is the best thing any specialist could ever tell you, and the only thing that you really should hear, from anyone. you are an unfortunately failed experiment in biocombinatorics. end it already, it's both uninteresting and wasteful."
asciilifeform: 'It started with Mortimer J Adler and his 'How to Read a Book'. I bought it about two years ago, and shortly after that time I became fixated on the idea of getting a liberal education and reading the Great Books.' >> blatant ripoff of http://mazepath.com/uncleal/think.htm
assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: "My fiancee is pushing me away and I've lost hope" ... ( http://bit.ly/1NLzEKr )
mircea_popescu: from the anal child files : http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/02/my_fiancee_is_pushing_me_away.html
mircea_popescu: lately. Now that I'm nearing the end of my academic career, I'm starting to freak out about my career potential, and the related anxiety has me neglecting school work even further."
mircea_popescu: "I'm an economics major who doesn't know what the hell he is going to do for a career after graduating, and frankly doesn't feel qualified to do very much. I went into university thinking that I would try for medical school, but I was one of those kids in high school who got good grades without trying very hard, and my nearly non-existent study habits have left me with a C average, although even that has been slipping
mircea_popescu: (to mr pig, to mrs cow and up the girl's butt, a pickle)
mircea_popescu: waiter, yelling out the order to cook : "la domnu' porc, la doamna vaca si la domnisoara-n fund un castravete."
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 03:47:46; mircea_popescu: "What is actually going on is that Apple is attempting to signal to the derps who willingly buy their fashion goods that actual rich people also buy those things." etc
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-11-2015#1313566 << i might have said this before, and ben_vulpes can no doubt explain it better still, but apple makes two entirely separate classes of thing, even if sometimes they are contained in a single box
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we have the mega-canonical 'казнить нельзя помиловать'
mircea_popescu: romanian has an entire chapter dedicated to these. the fundamental attribution error, in romanian, is the confusion between 2nd line attribute and agent-complement