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pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo can you check the qntra spam filter for a comment of mine ? i think it got scarfed.
BingoBoingo: I'm slowly coming to terms with this.
pete_dushenski: i'm getting old, what
mircea_popescu: You may think that I'm too much with the rum or too hard on Wolf-- "he seems like such a nice man" but it's not Wolf's fault. He's a cog in the Matrix. The next day Meredith Vieira interviews the family live on the Today show. While the father is denying to her it was a hoax, the boy suddenly says, "mom, I need a cup" and vomits. Vierra's response to this is nothing. Forget about the implications of the boy's vom
mircea_popescu: If you agree with this, then you have to also face the fact that Wolf didn't consciously plan, "no matter what happens in this interview, I'm going to cover it up"-- it was a reflex, an instinct. Get a drink, think about this: a reporter's instinct wasn't to go for the truth, but to go with the scripted story. ☟︎
pete_dushenski: oh, i guess helicopter does that eh
pete_dushenski: the black tesla i saw at the racquet club yesterday was driven by trophy wife with two kidlets in tow
phf: i suppose you either amazon it or else "shop local" i.e. within walking/biking distance
BingoBoingo: I actually saw a Tesla here driving in backwater exurban town. Have no Idea why.
mircea_popescu: "here's my very expensive excuse as to why i'm not going out of the house. it's not that im borderline autistic, it's that i save the environment. from myself."
mircea_popescu: phf> i suspect that failures in this case are seen as being on bleeding edge, sort of meta-meta-maker << maybe the truth is, the people who buy teslas don't have anywhere to go anyway.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Kinda why if I replace it I am looking at incredibly common compact trucks
phf: i suspect that failures in this case are seen as being on bleeding edge, sort of meta-meta-maker
BingoBoingo: I don't get how they can be happy with just a 200 mile range before refilling
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo i have fond memories of those saturnmobiles. some fillies in undergrad had them.
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2015 17:51:01; mircea_popescu: speaking of condoms... for many years, i was using imported magnums. broke like...i dunno, twenty over a decade ? easily 1%.
pete_dushenski: aha. which reminds me, i need to put that on my grocery list !
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-10-2015#1303764 << i bet that cisco box contains shrunken heads of usg wreckers ☝︎
pete_dushenski: the essences made far more sense than they did whenever i read them last, maybe 6-9 months ago
phf: <ascii_field> BingoBoingo, ben_vulpes, other aficionados: http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-VINTAGE-COMPUTER-SYMBOLICS-XL1201-LISP-MACHINE-/221915599560 << given that prices on symbolics hardware gone 3x in the past five years, i expect that same machine to fetch $40 000 in a year or two
pete_dushenski: also re-read the essences trifecta on trilema today. i guess it's an expressions and changes kinda day.
pete_dushenski: for all i know pepsi is giving away free blowjobs with every 12-pack
BingoBoingo: Back in 2012 I was exposed to far more of that shit.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: That I guess could also be it.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo how'd you know ? i sure wouldn't. hardly ever see advertising tbh
BingoBoingo: I'm surprised how little marketing it has gotten
pete_dushenski: oh well, good thing bellucci is still makes movies i guess
jurov: maybe it's just me but i don't like porn zooming all in to genitalia and spending minutes there, especially in this time of huge HD screens ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i suspect it's where the thing got started.
ascii_field: or am i confusing with pete_dushenski's eagle.
ascii_field: i thought we already had, horst wessel
jurov: ^ i can nominate it to b-a anthem
ascii_field: http://i.imgur.com/uHx2JS2.gifv
mircea_popescu: oh right right, i guess im ruined in fetlife (bdsm ?) because they banned some random people just in case we were connected. lolk.
shinohai: I'm at a loss on that one too. Not like I can't just make another friggin account, or that I even care what they think, etc.
mircea_popescu: no but i mean, "ruin you on twitter".
shinohai: I dunno, I tweeted something some time ago about them being no better than scammers for their support of GAW, they threatened to have me removed from twitter, etc.
shinohai: It resulted in a block. I'm scared.
mircea_popescu: No they weren't. Leaving aside morality, cheating on your wife means that you haven't fully connected to her, or have lost some of that connection. You don't have to be Don Draper to pull that off. "Well, I want to be as suave as he is, I want to pick up girls like he can." It's the same disconnectedness. You could do it, too, then you'll lose the ability to be deeply connected to someone. You can't do both sim
mircea_popescu: "But I want to be a ladies man like Don Draper. Back then it was easier, because affairs were more acceptable."
funkenstein_: i had never heard of him but hey, I also hadn't heard of Big Lurch
funkenstein_: aha i was not missing translation, just ignorant
mircea_popescu: oh, i didn;t eat it there. i was just mixing it as we had the discussion.
ascii_field: looks not so different from my desk, except that i can't bring myself to eat there
mircea_popescu: i had the fucking box packed specially for a monitor lifter.
ascii_field: thestringpuller: if i had to guess - he nails'em to the wall, as i do
mircea_popescu: i guess i gotta show this now
mircea_popescu: i don't need any cable where i can't see it nor anything but cable tyvm.
ascii_field: i mean, ones hundreds of metres long
mircea_popescu: so do i.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: rumour has it there are still usg facilities that have problems with the newfangled electric things. fbi headquarters (the brutalist monster death start in washington) has, i'm told, ethernet snakes on the floor
ascii_field: 'how many connections and interfaces they have for every communication device I would want to use' << l0l, srsly!!? 'come to us, we have thicknet and token ring!!'
gabrielradio: oh, i thought it was "buna" in the other sense
ascii_field: i never did or saw either
mircea_popescu: but the adolescent wakes up with "i wonder what insane demands will my chosen identity put on me THIS TIME"
mircea_popescu: adolescence is not childhood. the child wakes up with what SEEMS "what shall i do to amuse himself", except to him it';s a dealdy grind.
ascii_field: he 'grows up', which means he no longer wakes up and thinks 'what shall i do to amuse myself' but 'off to the salt mine' and when comes home 'what do i eat and have i enough spare change?' and then tired, and then again a day of living death
mircea_popescu: "i just work here."
ascii_field: (i am told there is actually a subculture of 'hipster keyboards' but they are not collecting 1980s workhorses but actual oddity art objects, of mahogany, ...)
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> how is this a mistake? << see there. i don't say such.
ascii_field: and you'd say i am supposed to react to that ..?
ascii_field: to the point that just about everyone i know in meatspace bought what i had...
ascii_field: my garbage collector kicks in long before i can get to this point.
mircea_popescu: mr o didn't, best i can tell.
ascii_field: i suspect there is a 'cargo cult' aspect - they can see other people laugh, and say 'i could also laugh!'
mircea_popescu: i wonder why women don't dig in!
ascii_field: i thought it was ~my~ job to mystificate like this!
mircea_popescu: and i would suspect he was never intimate with a woman, either.
ascii_field: made of some kind of polished stone so slippery that it was all you could do to keep on your feet. In addition they were always blocked. Now I have plenty of other disgusting things in my memory, but I believe it was these latrines that first brought home to me the thought, so often to recur: ‘Here we are, soldiers of a revolutionary army, defending Democracy against Fascism, fighting a war which is about something, an
ascii_field: 'One of the essential experiences of war is never being able to escape from disgusting smells of human origin. Latrines are an overworked subject in war literature, and I would not mention them if it were not that the latrine in our barracks did its necessary bit towards puncturing my own illusions about the Spanish civil war. The Latin type of latrine, at which you have to squat, is bad enough at its best, but these were
thestringpuller: I was under the impression a soldier is nothing more than a political tool.
mircea_popescu: more importantly - soldier doesn't havfe the choice of "i'm too good for this"
ascii_field: this works because infantry is a machine (yes) not man. i.e. soldier hasn't the choice of 'i don't feel like it'
mircea_popescu: i guess so
ascii_field: see, i am at a loss here as to the logic.
mircea_popescu: somehow working together it was 1 minute, i am confident it'd have been half a fucking hour of my life otherwise.
mircea_popescu: it IS a search problem. "i want X". "can you put X in X' ?" "no but i can tell it to alf"
ascii_field: 'i need to compute the volume of hydrogen in this bottle' 'compute volume, take the pressure....' 'i've never seen the bottle!'
mircea_popescu: problem is i didn't know what to search for.
ascii_field: i dare say that 99% of my search itches are entirely scratched by grep on my own disks
ascii_field: i did make use of #b-a search
mircea_popescu: well, i got my link about 500x faster than if i searched for it. somehow. ☟︎
ascii_field: at one point i swallowed the whole tlp
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-11-2014#927735 << the thread i recall ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 16:22:05; mircea_popescu: because why would they ? if they know the topic they don't need to search google, what the fuck is that you know, "i would like to see what the republican party says, i wonder if they have a website". on the other hand if you don't know it, why would you trust google. "i wonder if thye have a republican party in bali. o look, republicanpartyinbali.blogspot.com comes up first."
mircea_popescu: im sure they did. i would say overal there's no stupid thing the us haven't tried
ascii_field: instituted by the school to begin with, as i understand
mircea_popescu: i don't get this nonsense. who the fuck gave her the autority to overturn the election.
ascii_field: no. i do have a secret pasttime of reading just about anything written by prisoners, in all times and places, with emphasis on modern americans. but i cannot pretend to be an expert.
mircea_popescu: because why would they ? if they know the topic they don't need to search google, what the fuck is that you know, "i would like to see what the republican party says, i wonder if they have a website". on the other hand if you don't know it, why would you trust google. "i wonder if thye have a republican party in bali. o look, republicanpartyinbali.blogspot.com comes up first." ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "oh, but i'm gonna be the exception". sure you will baby. heck, maybe she actually will be. THE EXCEPTION. geddit ?
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> But oh, I saw 100million written down so, lets just believe that shall we? << that's not even it. the tlp article has the story, and it's rather obvious : they ACCEPTED to be extras in HIS movie. that's what it is. rihanna, of course (of course ? madonna didn't do that for ritchie, not really ; angelina jolie didn't do that for brad pitt ; moreover nobody told them to get the fucking crazy out of their
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-10-2015#1303415 << at this point i firmly believe there's something lost ; in the reading. in other words, im vaguely persuaded you do not actually have the ability to read (yes, you can follow the letters, but it's not the same). so earnestly, in full view of this censure of your intellectual faculties, without any attempt to hide from it or to pretend an imaginary, unwarranted s ☝︎
mircea_popescu: /#selection-217.0-221.245 ; see http://trilema.com/2015/on-how-the-factored-4096-rsa-keys-story-was-handled-and-what-it-means-to-you/#selection-685.0-685.123 and the whole fucking corpus already. when "they" come for the derps i'll be fucking there shooting pregnantg mothers in the uterus and stepping on baby derp necks.
assbot: On how I ended up suing Phoenix NAP, LLC ; on how Ira R. Cadwell's mom Stephanie's going to lose her Chula Vista home ; on how Marcus Bohn is going to catch a lot of shit for that ; on assorted other drama. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1NlQkI6 )
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> first they came for the derps. but I was not a derp, so I said nothing. << no community with the derps. see http://trilema.com/2015/facebook-sends-traffic11eleven/#selection-421.189-425.0 ; see http://trilema.com/2015/on-how-i-ended-up-suing-phoenix-nap-llc-on-how-ira-r-cadwells-mom-stephanies-going-to-lose-her-chula-vista-home-on-how-marcus-bohn-is-going-to-catch-a-lot-of-shit-for-that-on-assorted-othe
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/09/kanye_west_and_the_video_music.html << reading this thing i come to the realisation that having a GREAT kids show on tv is the worst fucking thing you could ever do. the muppets was probably better than anything else that was on tv for three decades, and contrary to what everyone imagined, it DIDNT help kids.
lobbes: CableDude: "Sure I understand, but this IS an exclusive offer. So can I sign you up today?"
lobbes: Me: "I don't want to spend more money"
lobbes: CableDude: "May I ask what's holding you back?"