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mircea_popescu remembers this epic one time when dude filmed half a set with a cum dribble on his lens.
mircea_popescu: also paging shinohai. repeat after me, you! "it's raining, it's entertaining, its butt's lost retaining".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: apparently they take what you say as an inverses signal.
mircea_popescu: guess what - whenever the problem of expression seems to be resolvable by chucking the alphabet, the problem's not of expression.
mircea_popescu: fcking basic literacy vs all the ustardians hellbent on being so fucking emospecial they need "symbols" and other illiterate obscura to "express themselves".
mircea_popescu: if ye got a story to tell and ye can't draw, don't make a "stick figure cartoon", write it. if ye got a story to tell and ye can't act, don't make a youtube of it. WRITE IT.
mircea_popescu: yes they show a marked preference to drooling in front of flickering monitor than empty book. but this is like saying cats prefer the christian science monitor over the new yorker. to what, to piss on ?
mircea_popescu: there's this misperception that "people wouldn't read, they prefer to watch video". it's a misperception for many reasons, but obvious here : those people AREN'T WATCHING VIDEO, EITHER.
mircea_popescu: in a very important sense, "don't blame the parrots if the sermon's bad"
mircea_popescu: it all depends if there exists a superior power (france, england, etc) for them to copy or not.
mircea_popescu: of course, it cuts both ways. some people like the indigent simplicity (see, eg, babbage).
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1508507 << the problem with americans, by which we denote obscure people from the colonies with no history or identity of their own, is that if something becomes desirable they'll just copy it. "as best they can", "with locally sourced items". hence the mormon shredding of the hebrew texts and jordan pearson.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: ftr, i get different hashes for the dlded zip file, but identical contents for the extracted index.html (ie, diff reports no diff.)
mircea_popescu: anyway - from what i see old cli zip does take the (correct sized, 32kb) file and spit it out as a single file of binary crap, instead of as a directory of 3 files of which one a html and two jpgs
mircea_popescu: well, fortunate that this oddity should pick the reverser among us to bless.
mircea_popescu: basically looks like some versions of zip fuck up the directory structure, extract it as a flat file.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i unzipped the result of curling the url.
mircea_popescu: i was able to reproduce teh "weird binary with html tags" by running cli zip 3.0
mircea_popescu: i get different hashes every time also ; but they're all legit zip archives.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the zip you download, is it 32748 long ? if shorter, maybe incomplete transfer ?
mircea_popescu: e162a9f7cef30be7d517a6a0103863ddedeea0597f11134e7952bbb28462ece45b570926d9cc42a1088bea8dd3a0e4eeb741a72a9c831799b06bd3a9041496cd /home/mircea/Downloads/ia3zY.zip
mircea_popescu: i suppose one thing we could do is change how a111 works so that on every outbout link posted here it a) makes an archive.is copy of thje page ; b) downloads the corresponding zip
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there pointedly isn't some "god of the rolls" that this is to be offloaded to. if you can't be arsed to save the .zip files after someone did all the fucking hard work you don't even know how to do nor can motivate self to even attempt in the first place, there's exactly no value you have to save.
mircea_popescu: there is no way out of this. inept, infantile bitching about how "php is too hard for me" and "archive.is might not survive" etc is just so much wasted breath.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, keep a blog, keep it well backed up, so that if phf asks, you can link him
mircea_popescu: if your thing dies, this says you're not worth my time.
mircea_popescu: this being a large part of why i'm not impressed with, eg, schwartz ; or naggum ; etc.
mircea_popescu: we don't have a survival plan for www in the first place!
mircea_popescu: and IF it goes away, and that happens BEFORE www goes away, which is the fucking plan in the first place ; THEN maybe we worry about this, neh ?
mircea_popescu: when it "goes away" you will still have all the copies you made.
mircea_popescu: did your objection change from "this free service doing a very good job won't last forever" to "my abilities to make copies it also provides won't last after it goes away" ?
mircea_popescu: not like archive.is doesn't present you with downloadable copy, preprocessed, if you're too lazy to make own html deturdifier.
mircea_popescu: jus' saying, i take such a dim view of branding i'm not even willing to consider projects ; merely the people doing them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with shit in trilema is that people go "lalala nobody cares" and then five years later they're begging for a reprise. kinda too lazy to go digging for the various comments of smartasses of the sort.
mircea_popescu: though honestly, the whole "vice empire" is very much the same sort of redundant object.
mircea_popescu: ftr, i'm going to negrate anyone giving interviews to this "jordan pearson" shithead.
mircea_popescu: anyway, whatever, suing the government. what's the problem, let them have fun.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly same place it gets them now. folks more than ready to believe, wish to believe, that "poloniex" exists, is trading etc,
mircea_popescu: i dun personally give much of a shit, for exactly the "Wasn't in wot, isn't a person, can't be buried" reason.
mircea_popescu: if hitler built schools in ukraina, they were still fascist schools ; torn down.
mircea_popescu: it is a crime to allow stupid people keep their money.
mircea_popescu: the presumption everyone's illiterate in the anglosphere is so fucking strong...
mircea_popescu: what does idiot do, next month after blowing up own penis ?
mircea_popescu: "This is how I know that anyone who says, "If only I could live in Mad Men time where you could pinch a girl's ass and not get in trouble for it" is going to be way disappointed if a TARDIS shows up, because they wouldn't pinch them back then, either, not because they are afraid of trouble but because they are afraid of girls. Exhibit A: you know what a TARDIS is." << guy rocks lol
mircea_popescu: the only thing that nobody could have predicted being the obvious future.
mircea_popescu: they can't of their own power say "we learned this was a stupid idea and will not be pursuing it any further." it's there, they must keep pouring money in the sand.