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ascii_field: but this site is not angled at folks having this half
a neuron or more
ascii_field: ^ anyone with half
a neuron in usa knows that schools have nothing directly to do with the fed. gov.
ascii_field: or, 'What happens to schools in case of
a shutdown?'
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's
a good model for it's market (middle america!!11), that enchanted fargo where meryl streep still falls in love with clint eastwood every late summer.
mircea_popescu: it's
a sort of wikipedia meets that old women selling pots thing, i forget what it's called.
mircea_popescu: they do
a sort of curated "pro-am" blog network. claim 3k new articles
a day.
mircea_popescu: you don't have the same options once you're in
a retirement home.
mircea_popescu: the only true drawback is that unlike real estate, this is
a constant maintenance racket. everything you have at any point won't be useful in 5 years, or even 3. things move too fast. so its not one of those "do this right once it's done forever" stories like alf likes. it's more of
a "hold this lamp up".
pete_dushenski: ima mull it over and research
a little further into this 'pr' business
☟︎ pete_dushenski: this may well be the right kind of b-
a 'contribution' for me, given that i can't code worth
a damn.
mircea_popescu: this is one of those things "anyone" could do except anyone is
a socially awkward fuck and anyone lacks the focus and discipline for doing thigns more complex than microwaving.
mircea_popescu: haha time doesn't scale. but anyway, for it to exist in three years you'll be spending
a lot of time on it throughout
ascii_field wonders what interesting things may become part of the picture once enemy can no longer pretend to live in parallel '#b-
a never existed' world
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu i certainly traveled plenty pre-monstre, though this will be decidedly diminished for at least 6-12 months. also, such trips only once coincided with
a conpherence. going forward, as most traveling i do is personal touristing, these are unlikely to coincide again.
pete_dushenski: it's surely more than just
a make work project for me in your mind
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu but that's really just
a practical matter, there are other ways to build rapport. the bigger question is 'why
a pr agency' and 'why now?'
pete_dushenski: not to put too fine
a point on it, but when and how is 'finance' or 'tech' journalist coming to buttfuck edmonton ? afaik they stay at home, work in nyc, or go to 'conpherences'
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski as to the 2nd list : you want to build raport with those people. make
a habit of taking one to lunch every week, if at all possible.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu and #2 is
a list of journalists who may require quotes from time to time, which i would then provide directly or send them here to ask b-
a directly ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field every circus worth its name has
a flea sled.
mircea_popescu: nobody gives
a shit about extant social media accounts. their value is not even
a fractrion of the work they put in
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no, it's more like, spend all your time on fiverr and craigslist and wherever the hungry congregate, spend
a little money buying their ample time.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski arrington's success, you have to understand, is very little more than this. it's not
a difficult recipe to read or follow. it just takes the hard worker to execute.
ascii_field was under the impression that this is
a waste of time
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski
a pr agency is in this day and age
a very simple affair, but somewhat time consuming. in principle, it can be reduced to
a lone dude with an internet connection and two lists. one, longer, of useful social media derps. the sort that are willing to do the hard work of upvoting, derping on reddit, etc. the other, sadly shorter, of actual important people can talk to directly. like say "all newspaper column
ascii_field: just the man for
a 'Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.'
mircea_popescu: and the process of her starvation was that she starved on her own devices, b-
a got her
a place to stay and then she ran off.
mircea_popescu: here's the thing in my head : b-
a is by now at
a stage where it kinda needs its own pr agency. and you might be just the asshole to do that, if you swing that way. do you swing that way ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu property manager of
a small, older commercial building that my father owns. 6 tenants, 100 occupants, fun little project. also manage two residential properties. also manage
a small start-up in the construction materials space, we make the first/only/bestest fibreglass composite curtain wall framing. and then there's the little one. le petit monstre...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you have no idea how clueless people in the streets of
a quaint european town are.
ascii_field: i confess, i lack the full vocabulary to describe adequately
a scamatron of this complexity.
ascii_field: (what is it called when honest folks end up doing this duty for
a chumpatron..)
ascii_field: there are
a few indie computer games etc. sprinkled in for legitimacy
jurov: well.. laser depilation is
a thing
ascii_field: when i see something like this, i cannot help but wonder if 'kickstarter' is
a straight money laundry for siphoning stolen cc#
ascii_field: addendum now has film of the sc4mz0r burning his skin with what is - bet your arse -
a hot nichrome wire
☟︎ ascii_field: 'My recommendations are to follow The Making of the Atomic Bomb and The Los Alamos Primer (see "Books", below) with
a few nuclear engineering and physics texts, at which point you'll be well-equipped to daydream about your own neutron initiator ideas and radical implosion symmetries. ' << without exception engl. language material is crawling with deliberate and potentially lethal disinfo, on this and many other subjects.
mats: fun fact: an 'Untrusted' process can use
a bug in COM impersonation with WMI to escalate to 'High Integrity'
mircea_popescu: it used to be latin, affero, where it meant to bring (ferry comes from the same fero root). it moved into french, where it meant to take over. it then slowly moved into
a more figurative "to give oneself the airs of an office one does not yet have", at which point it moved into english, "to give oneself airs".
ascii_field: or ru films where
a murder suspect is not even in handcuffs!
ascii_field: at one point, it was understood (at least by urbanites) in usa that killing
a cop means the electric chair first and questions later.
ascii_field: 'The police major—perhaps in mind of the nationwide spate of police killings by thugs—decided to speak to this loitering person. The content of the conversation is not yet known. The cop did tell the idiot to show his hands. The idiot refused to show his empty hands. The cop shot him in the leg—I bet that shit hurt! The major then took off his own belt and used it as
a tourniquet and the last I heard the boy bl
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 04:42:57; mircea_popescu: the only just desserts of
a castrated population is the humiliation ratchet.
ascii_field: 'I asked
a professor for help with
a problem. He talked to me for
a bit and then said “You’re having trouble with this problem because you don’t know anything and you’re not working very hard.”' << win
mircea_popescu: magda realised she's dealing with
a fraud so she killed herself and her kids. logic!
mircea_popescu: According to the FBI, Steve Schneider—Koresh's top aide, who "probably realized he was dealing with
a fraud"—shot and killed Koresh and then killed himself with the same gun.
mircea_popescu: it's more complicated. the benefits that acrue from living in
a sane society are not directly apparent in insanity-land. best one could tell the porter of 1950 was way happier than the bill de blasio of 2010.
mircea_popescu: this is broadly missing the point, because the sides you'd know about pre aren't
a good representation of the sides that actually exist post.
ascii_field: strong state does not degenerate to
a point where you can ask this question.
mircea_popescu: if you're thinking an ailing, falling under its own weight bureaucracy - not even this one in particular, any one - is actually brimming with the virility of youth and ready to escalate until nothing's left you're seriously from
a different movie.
mike_c: yeah.. my available gaming time is down to nil right now. Busy working on
a sekrit project.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i do not for
a moment believe the ridiculous antics of nutty neoprotestant biggots in rural texas are
a nucleation for anything.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it was the very textbook example of usg powershow modus operandi - pick on the borderline retarded, preferably ones who practice voodoo to
a degree repugnant to the tvtronic public
mircea_popescu: and challenged his opponent to
a RESURECTION CONTEST ?
mircea_popescu: like, for instance, the one time that dude vying for power with some other dude DUG UP
A CASKET
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2014 00:55:48; asciilifeform:
a 'kinder, gentler' tontine, where you don't have to plug your rivals, just help them forget to check their mail
ascii_field: this is
a passing mark in this day and age.
mircea_popescu: "According to
a 2004 Harris Interactive survey, nearly two out of three Americans (61 percent) are unable to recall all of the words to The Star-Spangled Banner"
ascii_field: i suppose this is
a technical, mircea_popescuing sense of 'nobody', where million half-imbecile schoolchildren singing the anthem don't count as 'body
mircea_popescu: pushing
a point, but no, even the teeth clenching arabs were in love with the usa.
mircea_popescu: nobody seriously professed
a hatred of the usa, or professes
a love of the us.
mircea_popescu: it was replaced by "the us", but much in the way things changed from the pre-brejnev soviets to the post, it is now
a label to distance oneself from.
mircea_popescu: there WAS, briefly,
a thing called usa. it started cca 1905 and ended cca 1960
mircea_popescu: "usa" was the brand name
a few disparate centers of population and of
a few slightly more coherent centers of production used for
a brief interval between two european wars.
ascii_field: usa is
a 'divide and conquer' affair from the very start.
ascii_field: we are looking at
a crafted system, no less than so than
a pentium
mircea_popescu: what remains here is :
a) that the usg is very vulnerable, has always been, and far from
a "you can do nothing to us"
a top guy is killed every few decades, and the lower agents get popped daily.
mircea_popescu: it not being
a terribly populous state, this makes the percent markedly higher than say ny or la