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mircea_popescu: heh, i see the registration is still unchanged. i thought the deal included the guy's obligation to change them wtf.
mircea_popescu: yeah something about routers.
mircea_popescu: which schadenfreude ?
mircea_popescu: uh
mircea_popescu: word
mircea_popescu: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/g0ttb/?raw=true << in other lulz. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: no mention of the logs or anything, of course. because overly ambitious, intelligent but idiotic ro-jwz can has ideas all by himself and of his own! so there!
mircea_popescu: romanian dude that "doesn't like me" (because how dare i be this cool) deleted his blog, then a year later came back with an english thing which is all about... how the planet is broken!
mircea_popescu: in other obscure lolz : https://archive.is/WsC7m
mircea_popescu: http://66.media.tumblr.com/8821755767d26222374d710a27d5eb09/tumblr_oe6hgbrLYv1ud9ntao1_1280.jpg << the ever more exacting standards for mentorship
mircea_popescu: backed by the history of skillful women collected in a room, many impossible tasks are trivial. salt pickles a fine example of this.
mircea_popescu: :p
mircea_popescu: mod6 it's high enough and easy to lock i suppose were the criteria.
mircea_popescu: this selects a mold of the place. then you can start making all sorts of other things without a care in the world. like proper pickles.
mircea_popescu: that's the thing. step one in all "proper" ie ceuropean foodmaking is, you must have a room, which a) never freezes and b) bread is made in regularly.
mircea_popescu: mod6 do your woman(z) make home bread ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: stuff like that. a whole culture of cured meat.
mircea_popescu: so much so that it influences village life, like at pig cutting time everyone'd make their stuff and then they put it to dry in the church bell tower, which was only opened on day x ☟︎
mircea_popescu: and in europe, esp central europe (but a generous central expanding all the way into france and northern italy) it's a 10-15 century tradition.
mircea_popescu: it's one of those things where it's hard to check so if you fuck it up you should hang.
mircea_popescu: you know ?
mircea_popescu: but like you say, turn it into a scam and they'll fight.\
mircea_popescu: so you know .salami is great and romanians are huge salami makers/eaters.
mircea_popescu: so they add hydrogenated vegetal oils, starch, soy paste, whatever can be found to you know... expand it.
mircea_popescu: kind two, however, like spam, or baloney, or whatnot, is simply a technological answer to the "five people want to eat a pound of meat each but we only have six ounces of the thing".
mircea_popescu: this all has to do with http://trilema.com/2016/ferments/ and the fact that rotten meat, if properly rotten, is actually way the fuck better than fresh meat.
mircea_popescu: kind one, like the two hundred bucks a kilo soppressata i buy, or the romanian molded horse salami, or etcetera, are actually ~improvements~ on the component meat.
mircea_popescu: there's two kinds of deli products / cold cuts / salami / what you call them.
mircea_popescu: to keep teh party going, i give you outdoor ho : http://66.media.tumblr.com/5298576c6d0f2d6f6e1d2b015aeff975/tumblr_ofkdfxoOCP1ud9ntao5_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: mod6 :p
mircea_popescu: they tried to ruin gender relations by forbidding anticonceptionals, but it failed to actually sour men on women or women on men.
mircea_popescu: their problem was that society was sufficiently connected, and so in spite of the state "empowering" women in their usual way, family endured, even strengthened because of it.
mircea_popescu: they actually tried to market it, believe it or not.
mircea_popescu: ceausescu got shot in part because of the fucking soy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's funny, especially seeing how the addition of soy to salami practiced by the commies was widely unpopular, and a significant case of the revolution.
mircea_popescu: rather reminiscent of the old spindial phones.
mircea_popescu: phf i been using whatever dumbphone i put in the logs last we had this. it's never hung either. or in general done anything remarkable.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at the ruined nipples club, http://66.media.tumblr.com/2cacf649d4733f348f1376b5db239cca/tumblr_of5h7ruCzr1uref50o1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: at least we're not women. those - can't have shoes. period. at no price.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, turns out this entire "progress" bullshit is not even limited to software.
mircea_popescu: phf it's actually a very smart move, that 200 bucks will both encourage the kid to act sanely, which in itself is priceless, and otherwise cover the ground of a dozen pairs which would have been 20ish each anyway
mircea_popescu: the code if anyone wants it is : http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/kndqr/?raw=true to go in /public_html/wp-content/themes/trilema/header.php ☟︎
mircea_popescu: in other news, trilema now publishes the republican surgeon's warning re reddit.
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: i guess it's the soul of timeliness that phf figured out how to replicate it huh.
mircea_popescu: still no dice
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform same here.
mircea_popescu: backend server seems gone.
mircea_popescu: just prints "error" for me
mircea_popescu: yes but does it save pages ?
mircea_popescu: hmmm, seems archive.is crapped out ?
mircea_popescu: or that there's such a thing as a healthy dose of neurosis now.
mircea_popescu: which is funny, coming from a chick in drag, because i am unaware of this notion that self deprecation is even socially acceptable in males, let alone in any dose required
mircea_popescu: to quote some idiot covering the ever-famous catholic diner, "trump failed because a healthy dose of self deprecation was required".
mircea_popescu: and continuing tulane, http://66.media.tumblr.com/0b3918ed6b0b2c41f5ad644f6eb578ea/tumblr_ofkdnwlNxI1ud9ntao1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: well tonight's entertainment is here, so ima leave you with a parting shot : http://66.media.tumblr.com/10ce1eaeaae274fb0f12a7fdf8965673/tumblr_ofkdnwlNxI1ud9ntao2_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: oh you assure me do you.
mircea_popescu: "find out if we really went to the moon"
mircea_popescu: and in other propulsion research, http://65.media.tumblr.com/f1aa2cf15536162c7b8d3eccbe5bf41f/tumblr_mzb1f7aQK31sdb53oo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: i used to be a great public speaker.
mircea_popescu: technology, as always to the detriment of the naturally gifted
mircea_popescu: i use plenty of it. but almost never with people i don't fuck.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck has the patience to ~talk~. like, vocally. one on one. wtf.
mircea_popescu: well, it has its place. but its an emotional thing, you call the bitchez up. granny, maybe.
mircea_popescu: moreover, all this was before internet. nowadays, i can scarcely comprehend how it'd work that i'd degrade a text link into a dumb voice link with someone who is intelligent enough to safely maintain and use otp.
mircea_popescu: the royal corps of engineers, that's who. not at&t, that's for sure.
mircea_popescu: especially in the wired variety. who the everloving fuck is going to maintain landlines for you when you aim to use them like battle comms lines ?
mircea_popescu: but this is what the item IS
mircea_popescu: which is why the usecase for the phone is, "i met this chick last night at the rave"
mircea_popescu: the fundamental problem is that the phone isn't this tool whereby you maintain one to one permanent links with aforeknown parties. the phone is this tool whereby you make new links with random new parties.
mircea_popescu: somehow the fall of rutba failed to make it through the usg blocade, too.
mircea_popescu: i was expecting lulz damnit!
mircea_popescu: and wtf is this, no more trump news, no more mosul news, what is this gross failure of the united entertainment machine!
mircea_popescu: what more is needed ?
mircea_popescu: you wanted to know why nobody made crypto telephone. the reason is - there's no market. the reason there's no market, you explained yourself. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: dude... i dunno who this dumb shit works on, but you should probably eschew their company, it makes you stupid. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "use".
mircea_popescu: this scheme is so evidently inept, no explanation as to why nobody tried to implement it is required.
mircea_popescu: if you ever talk to 1 other box calling this a telephone is nothing short of idiotic.
mircea_popescu: what dude, it's hard enough to get a girl's phone, you want her to write down her fucking otp for you ? while drunk at 3am ?
mircea_popescu: an otp phone is not all that practical.
mircea_popescu: kinda narrow bw, not sure you could do voice-over-rsa
mircea_popescu: hey, if you fuck like rabbit, you gotta eat like rabbit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you'd be surprised.
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: no i mean you gotta actually send the pill to it
mircea_popescu: eh to reflash it is comparatively hard work.
mircea_popescu: check out the fine degrees!
mircea_popescu: wel they can't send him pdfs now...
mircea_popescu: now shoes on the other hand, they're different. there's certainly the "i'll buy you this 30 dollar pair of red stilettos, which you then forget in the cab and nobody cares". there's also the fine italian leather shoes which are worth whatever they cost. so dunno. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: so the only thing left for it is to be cheap.
mircea_popescu: until/unless they import the republican license, there's no market for "good" phones. because a phone that's not predicated on breaking the law can't be good.
mircea_popescu: generally the later are the sort of thing where quality is directed towards the state rather than you. like phones.
mircea_popescu: well, some things you buy by quality an' some by quantity.
mircea_popescu: i prefer to get a crate of phones for my 300.
mircea_popescu: just not exposed to you.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes somehow i suspect all the junk is still in there, under the plastic.
mircea_popescu: lol. somewhere there's a jobs wannabe
mircea_popescu: "Pre-order the MP 01 in white or brown to beat the rush – and receive a copy of Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle, a pack of Punkt. postcards, and a stylish tote bag."
mircea_popescu: o hey