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I learned exactly 4 things at school:

1) crime actually does pay, quite well in fact

2) osmosis is the passage of water, through a semi permeable membrane, from an area of high concentration of water to an area of low concentration of water

3) the square of the hypotenuse is in some way calculable (something something sides something)

4) if you cut a hole in your trouser pocket, it makes it harder to concentrate on the class, but easier to concentrate on the girl across the room. Teenage boobs defy gravity!

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SNAPE KILLS RICHARD DAWKINS ON PAGE 137

After a company changed hands, the new owner fired all the existing employees.

"Pack up your desk, be gone by Friday. Here's one week severance pay."

On Friday, the employees filed out of the building with low heads and low spirits. The HR Manager stood by the back door, handing each one of them the contact info for the temp agency which the company would be using from now on.

By Tuesday, every single one of the employees (except two) were back at their desks...

with a two dollar pay cut and fewer benefits.





these are the dangers of modern living.

Like most of you guys said, I think, it's a matter of changing your perceptions so that The Machine begins to work for you.

Maybe. Personally, I'm trying to change other people's perceptions so that the Machine which I live in works how I want it to work.

Eventually, people in my neighborhood will accept this crazy stuff I put up as part of the neighborhood, instead of some intrusion into it.

It starts with you though.

Last night Chloe and I went out a-postering.

This activity really recharges my batteries. If I'm ever feeling Low Quality, this is one of those things I try to remember to do. It makes me feel like all this talk we do about surviving on the lunatic fringe isn't just abstract masturbation - I'm actually out there doing it.

whatever it is.



But anyway, so we put this one Volume Dingus poster... The BABY FOR SALE one, which turns into an apartment ad.

This guy, about my age, was walking home from his car, and turned the corner as Chloe and I were snickering and putting the final staple into it.

After we passed him, he stopped and read it, and FREAKED OUT. He was laughing his guts out, saying "that's awesome... that's soo awesome." just repeating it over and over again.

In the distance we could still hear him cackling.


It really made my day.

So far I have devoured about 70 pages and it just keeps getting better.

This has been an excellent find, though a little dense for casual reading.

I really like the author's usage of the word "magic." He pushes that if magic is only good for personal, subjective things, we should at least take some of the other cool ideas that have arisen from Chaos Magic et all and examine them under the lens of other disciplines. The term Egregore, for example, seems so much more tangible to me when we talk about it in cybernetic / memetic terms than as some sort of magic living collective thoughtform.

Moar thoughts when I have time.

Anyone could be president.



ANYONE.

When I was a 17 and I thought about the Office World looming over me like the sword of damoclese, it filled my mouth with bile. After watching Fight Club, Office Space, reading too much Cyberpunk, etc etc I thought that being a fucking independant, self-actualized individual might be negated by some sort of white collar slavery.

But ya know, I've been sitting in this little gray cube for over a year now and it really ain't that bad. Today is April Fool's day and I'm hanging up prank signs from the MGT. My cube is filled with art by Magritte, Brandon Bird, Perry Bible Fellowship, and my own stuff.

And you know, over here in the belly of The Machine, people actually seem to appreciate free thinkers. I do think people recognize those who are more colorful than their environment, and it IS inspirational.

And that's the whole gimmick, right? How to sell out without trapping yourself? How to rearrange the local parts of the Machine until it's the Machine you want to live in?

I don't think the 17 year old version of me got it yet. I'm 26 now and Yes I'm a white collar slave, and really now - it ain't so bad. It beats being a starving artist with scabby knees, or an actor / waiter, or a screen writer / shoe salesman. Because when I'm not in the 9 to 5 I'm living a guitar solo. what I do professionally isn't the focus of my life. Last night I went out and put up a hundred fucking posters, and it recharged me like WOAH I'm fucking awake again.

hahahah this board is so xenophobic sometimes. If Disorder posted more than on sentence everyone'd be all like tl;dr! STFU!


Anyway, I think a lot of people would die, but I don't think I would die right away. I'd try to get in on the first wave of looting and then stay low profile until all the noise died down. At the risk of being cocky I think I would survive until I got a kidney infection or something. I'm just cuthroat enough to make it work.

I tell ya this though, I'd get the fuck out of Yonkers NY. Lot of opportunistic motherfuckers in my 'hood.

I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF HIS SCROTIFEROUS BEARD AS WELL




THIS ENDS HERE!

Come back after you learn to distinguish one poster from another.

reread threat and point taken, apologies.

what horse? (im gonna Regret asking that)

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1739698,00.html

there's a video of this which you shouldn't watch if you're easily freaked out.

[one that just occurred to me:]

one that just occurred to me:
(though this isn't really a good topic for Lollercaust)

on this forum we encourage people to come up with new ideas and to think for themselves.

but when people do, it's tl;dr 

A Google search reveals that we did, in fact, make this word up.

Now it's time to figure out what it means.


I take it to refer to an instance where you're so horrified that it's funny. It describes the STFUBAR state of modern living - a series of contradictions and paradoxes which are both surprising and predictable. Current events which are disgusting but amusing at the same time. It's the thin line between laughing and screaming.

ITT, list things which evoke horrormirth





My number one horrormirth moment this month was watching the "anti-corruption" governor of New York get busted for ... you guessed it: corruption. But not just that - you know how they found him? They peered into his bank transactions using the Patriot act. 





There's this beautiful spot I pass on the way to work. An elegant bridge crosses over a beautiful brook. The beauty of this scene is compromised by a big green sign on the bridge which says "NO GRAFFITI". Nice job keeping thugs from scumming it up!





My roommate is against music piracy. He buys all the music he owns, and has an extensive legal digital music collection. Upon downloading the latest version of iTunes, it installed DRM crap in every single one of his songs. Now he can't play them on his laptop. BUT AT LEAST HE ISN'T PIRATING THEM!






Roger informs me that laughing/screaming was the original use of the  icon.