asciilifeform is behind the times, had never even heard of 'al smith dinner' until today
asciilifeform: fella is reminiscent of the zombies in 'quake', apparently 1 death doesn't kill him quite enough
asciilifeform: in other 'news', antonouwhateverderp apparently gave a talk to 'sv investors' et al where he plagiarized protocol-vs-promise wholesale and made up own terminology, etc.
asciilifeform: 'The freedom to access resources: because we all should have access to economic & monetary resources'
asciilifeform: ^ reading this, i could not shake the 'this has to be a gag' -- but apparently it is not
asciilifeform: in re the 'crackpot alts' thread, apparently attempts at 'communist coins' are still a thing, e.g., https://archive.is/RSOF4 -- 'When new Bitcoins are created, only some Bitcoin users (the miners) are given new Bitcoins, while everyone else get nothing. We believe this is the first injustice.'
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/jX4Fd << from same rag, 'GERMANY'S infamous “Nazi Grandma” – an 87-year-old Third Reich fanatic repeatedly up before the courts for denying that the Holocaust took place – has been handed down a new 11-month term behind bars.'
asciilifeform: 'In a police interview, Amir A. confessed to the crime; telling officers the incident had been "a sexual emergency", as his wife had remained in Iraq and he "had not had sex in four months". ... However, in a bizarre twist, the Supreme Court yesterday overturned the conviction, accepting the defence lawyer's claim that the original court had not done enough to ascertain whether or not the rapist realised the child was saying no.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the tale is not interesting because microshit phones home, this is known even to schoolchildren, it is interesting because 'open sores' now INSISTS on MICROSHIT update enabled
asciilifeform: so microshit folk can 'enjoy' the 'best of two worlds'...
asciilifeform: but now the wonderful 'dependency hell' has been IMPORTED there.
asciilifeform: this is imho worth putting on record, because the perhaps one and single edge ye olde winblows world had over open sores was 'self-contained, static-exe' etc.
asciilifeform: soooo here's a tale 'from the crypt.' it recently fell to asciilifeform to turn on a winblowz box and install a python there, to run a lab instrument. and guess what, the Official installer RUNS WINBLOWS UPDATE, KBxxxxxsomethingorother!☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: domain 'investment' was so closely a premonition of modern shitcoinery scams, that it is almost of a same relationship to them as nipkow's mechanical televisor to modern tv.
asciilifeform: 'he worries that the lack of trust is dangerous. It is one thing to not trust government, but quite another to doubt the election process. “Then the entire premise of democracy comes into question,” she said.'
asciilifeform: phf: afaik d00d is one of thiel's court clowns, since '11 or so, and free to do mostly whatever he wants so long as it remains reasonably quiet.
asciilifeform: looking ridiculous is not imho a mortal sin, i also cannot claim to be great orator, or photomodel. but i never try to do these things, do not go around plastering self-portraits, or dance on stage.
