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mircea_popescu: it has a lot to do with the sad situation where "everything not encountered before is surprising" - which is, incidentally, just another way to say "i'm stupid".
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ in fairness, i just got primed by some random okcupid retard. here he is : https://www.okcupid.com/profile/fierceEmpath?cf=messages and here's the derpage : http://dpaste.com/3X9GKFG
funkenstein_: cool, I will check it out thanks :)
funkenstein_: but wondering if you have recommendation for me on should I read mircea eliade
funkenstein_: mircea_popescu, i don't follow bayesian approach sorry
funkenstein_: i was under the impression y'all had never been out of doors let alone camping
phf: i like to have fire when camping, i spent formative years with su engineers doing ural hikes so as long as there's fire something can be cooked, where's grill has its own rules of engagement
thestringpuller: i have to admit, i like having a grill when camping.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking more along the lines of "doesn't know how to wash in a single gallon of water and probably won't even bother splashing it around uselessly unless it's preheated"
phf: can usually spot an eastern european or an american nature freak by how orderly their setup is. "this is where i cook my morning egg, just like i've been doing for the past 30 years"
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt anyone taught them kids how to stay within humanity while camping.
phf: i'm saying it's decidedly not burns, but event planner organized concerts, that have burn like activities also planned. morning yoga, games, camps all done by professionals. but "like you stay in a tent, and it's like nature" hence roughing it
phf: i think it's starting to happen, i've heard from a few new york socialites now, that they've been going to carefully crafted versions of burning man like events. sort of coachella or edc, but smaller, with a pretense to roughing it, and with more psychedelics
phf: that's the problem, i don't know anything on the list. someone released some album, someone else said something to someone else during something
phf: i recently talked to a 15 year old, who told me that 2015 was more culturally significant then all the years since 1970 combined, he then proceeded to name things that happened in 2015 that i've never heard of. i said "excuse me" and walked away, but i still can't grok it.
thestringpuller: well we know how they suck, i guess now why do they suck?
thestringpuller: 19 year olds are all whiney "I'm going to change the world by doing X, but I have no idea how the world works so I'm just going to ignore that part!!!!11"
thestringpuller: i won't hang out with people < 24 anymore ☟︎
phf: i once saw a rope suspension of a rather large lady done by a dedicated kinbaku student, instead of pretending like she's not fat, he worked with the material with honesty, and the result was so grotesque that the image got stuck in my head. that's what "milking their girlfriends" brings up in my head, a bunch of docile, suspended cows being
thestringpuller: i hang out with people older than you on the reg
mircea_popescu: this is how we know i'm old.
phf: it's an interesting idea, but the kind of stuff their girlfriends eat, i prefer cow milk
mircea_popescu: i have nfi.
mircea_popescu: and yet another reason i prefer women over men comes to light!
phf: my redneck friends took me to a state fair once, probably best "american" food i've had around DC area. icecream reminds me of the soviet one, that doesn't exist anymore. rich, fatty, none of them "substitutes", they were probably milking cows straight into the icecream mixer
thestringpuller: i'm getting fat as is.
mircea_popescu: but during your us visit i definitely recommend seeing a) a renaissance faire if one's into easy fatties ; b) a bbq-off competition if one's into delicious fats.
mircea_popescu: i can't even decide, i mean.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people spend 5k to buy 300 dresses fob. send the girls over to pick up.
phf: i'm not surprised that that's a thing, but that sounds awesome
mircea_popescu: of course the us is pretty huge on the whole bbq thing. i can attest i had charcoal-made pulled pork and other such stuff and was wunderbar.
phf: so fully depends on how smokeless that charcoal actually is, and those that i saw used for grilling tend to produce a nasty chemical miasma
phf: well wood samovars are out for home use, electric ones i think are mostly gimmicks, i mean i might as well have a trained bear at home
thestringpuller: i thought alf would be like seinfeld episode there. "You gonna return it without cheese-y fingerprints over it?"
phf: it's mostly the variety and availability. i can combine various kettles/teapots and get a decent result
mircea_popescu: i mean i can't justify paying a few grand for one on the grounds of the two cups a year i drink, but you're paying more for the tea as it is.
phf: i have a wood samovar, but i only use it on camping trings. no, i use iranian method, put a porcelain teapot on top of the kettle
mircea_popescu: i myself am the absolute worst : i rarely drink tea, but i only drink good tea. makes it practically impossible to drink my own. so, i usually tea per the charity of friends.
phf: i go through 3-4 kg of tea a year
punkman: I buy a couple bags of loose leaf once a year and forget about it
phf: i've noticed that arab lipton yellow label is much better then lipton you get at a general store in u.s. i've made turkish tea for myself with arab lipton in a pinch, but twice i was in a situation where i was brewing tea for random people, so i bought drug store lipton and no matter what i tried doing with it, it just was not drinkable.
mircea_popescu: and i'm not even going to pester alf about making another one for 2016 expiry. truth be told i'm rather pleasantly impressed with how s.nsa work is coming along of late.
mircea_popescu: adlai let me put it this way : s.nsa (which according to some doesn't even exist) just threw away ~5 btc over a delivery bet it didn't even HAVE to make. and i forgbot all about it until pete_d said something. ☟︎
ascii_butugychag: and 'what i paid for it' is almost NOTHING
adlai: so break it on the way over, i don't care! but all else aside, it's more educational to the budding usg-arsonist if they can play with a working doodad
kakobrekla: i dont really see the point in the 'working' part
mircea_popescu: the people who run "whatever i just want to" and the people who "fuck you, drop dead" are the only remaining division, and in this context the two staying unmerged is nonsensical.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: I did the make a dot and let the heatsink smash it into place thing. There is a tape shim that goes over rest of CPU already, but old paste found its way under there before I removed it.
mircea_popescu: i bet you i could justify 100mn in bonuses for myself + 1-2bn in consulting fees for everyone involved doing a hp-compaq deal out of these two
ascii_butugychag: i get paid to make xyz happen. and the budget makes provisions for shooting, say, up to six rabid weasels. BUT NOT 6,666,666.
ascii_butugychag: as in, NOTHING which i actually ~need~ on the job, works
mircea_popescu: i suppose.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i never heard of metal colloid thermopaste shorting anything << Apparently with silver colloid a concern is possibility of becoming capacitive after cooking long enough. Silver is always a special case because grand chamption conductor
mircea_popescu: i can maths in my sleep!
ascii_butugychag: and i can't maths in a terminal.
ascii_butugychag: keep in mind, if there aren't at least 2880 pixels horizontally, i'm not interested.
ben_vulpes: listen, i just want a machine that's not running os x with the hardware quality build of the golden-era macintosh laptops.
ben_vulpes: i doubt it's leveraging the gpu at all
ascii_butugychag: and i'm not interested in spending ANOTHER MOTHERFUCKING SIX MONTHS fighting the graphics card driver
ben_vulpes: ascii_butugychag: i'll check in on zzz and ZZZ, ascii_butugychag
mircea_popescu: and what if i take distilled water and add silver shavings ?
ascii_butugychag: and if your 'runs like a dream' doesn't include motherfucking suspend mode, i'm not interested
mircea_popescu: i never heard of metal colloid thermopaste shorting anything
thestringpuller: adlai: i'd rather not have to choose between multiple bowls of shit for dinner.
mircea_popescu: afaik a registrar has the authority to do exactly nothing. that said, i suppose they may try to steal the domain. not like similar stuff hasn't happened in the past (anyone recall the sex.com saga ?)
mircea_popescu: i really don't see how.
adlai: thestringpuller:i'd rather have miners publishing empty blocks instead of confirming nickle-fee TXs, than have them blindly hand over what little power they do have to some random plutocracy
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah a sort of iab for fmcg, i know.
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mircea_popescu: i fuck their daughters, trophy wives et all.
ascii_butugychag: i finally realized, though, where mircea_popescu gets his odd notions of usg life
ascii_butugychag: usg has, like or not, plenty of money to throw around. i have seen the golden toilets.
punkman: mircea_popescu: punkman> shinohai: I wonder what I have to do to get actual "express" shipping << not live in greece ? :D << probably gonna be worse in the places I'd like to live at next
ascii_butugychag: i would like to live in the parallel universe mircea_popescu is posting from
mircea_popescu: punkman> shinohai: I wonder what I have to do to get actual "express" shipping << not live in greece ? :D
copypaste: i should research my family tree
copypaste: i could get an israeli passport
copypaste: maybe i really am one, i could have a jewish ancestor
mircea_popescu: <copypaste> ascii_butugychag: oh, i didn't know that. interesting << eh he's making shit up. usg doesn't have own pot to piss in.
ascii_butugychag: i dare say it was
mircea_popescu: <ascii_butugychag> sorta like the water you get from washing a pot after normal tea << quite exactly lol! i wonder if this is actually what they were shooting for.
ascii_butugychag: ah i misread
jurov: ascii_butugychag: i only know it was targeted to hu minorities that never lived in any version of hu
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i have yet to meet a greek professional who wasn't a) actually jewish and b) abroad.
copypaste: i'll think about it. i bet my mother has proof of her mother's USSR citizenship
copypaste: i have ukranian ancestors
copypaste: but i prefer seeing chinese doctors.
copypaste: because i'm ill, i go to doctors a lot. it's cheap in the third world, and they write me prescriptions for things that are hard to get in the US. so anyway, i always go see chinese doctors.
mircea_popescu: <copypaste> i wouldn't, but plenty of people would. the average person in the philippines views foreigners as being smart and better educated than them <<< this happens to also be right.
jurov: at most i get chinese message that yields (via google translator) "currently not available"
jurov: i never actually saw chinese post tracking site working
punkman: in other shipping mysteries, I ordered some widget from China in August I think, there was a non-working tracking no., 45 days later I ask merchant what's up with it, says they were actually out of stock at time of order, didn't even ship it and they won't be getting any more stock from factory. Couple days ago, I get a notice from post office with that tracking no.
kakobrekla: well i sent two packs of condoms to thailand about 2 weeks ago, arrived in ~3 days, from eu.
shinohai: I could have ordered the shit from some seedy Chinese person and already have gotten it here.
shinohai: ikr I paid the extra $12 in BTC for priority too :/
punkman: shinohai: I wonder what I have to do to get actual "express" shipping
shinohai: I feel your shipping frustrations punkman, I made an order from a guy on 12/27 he marked my order shipped then told me yesterday he had logistics issues and didn't.
ben_vulpes: because i really wanted a shitty wrapper around shitqlite
copypaste: ascii_butugychag: oh, i didn't know that. interesting
copypaste: i'm sure they'd notice quickly if fbi.gov mail went down