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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo not so smart ; outside of us nobody ever uses anything other than 100s
mircea_popescu: but then they got deskilled a little and well...
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> btw i keep resisting but now gotta ask, how big exactly is a 'gangstaroll' ? when i went to ro i was able to pack a coupla kilobux , is all that will comfortably fold in normal human wallet << I packed $20 bills for convenience
mircea_popescu: back before 2001/1990s/bush/etc happened, the remnants of "male culture" were actually headed towards a boaty paradise, i suspect.
asciilifeform: not as if typical 1990s usainmate ever went on boat.
mircea_popescu: all these kids born after the world went to shit. "vhs america" indeed.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> oh and in "social media was invented to entertain me" reprints, me : how goes it ? 19yo f iowa : "dying inside casually. you ?" me : "here's yachting pics." << win
asciilifeform: or the goxes, ah. 16409.02 vs 15899.8 is not 'in 1%'
asciilifeform: lol the goxes forgot to agree on a magicnumber
mircea_popescu: she married some idiotic lawyer turned lobbyist by the name piper
mircea_popescu: i don't expect the hyphenating kind would put the husband first.
asciilifeform: whence the hyphenated monstrosity
asciilifeform: i also thought!
mircea_popescu: at first i thought made up name
asciilifeform: 'Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper es capitán de la Armada norteamericana, ingeniero, y por dos veces parte de la tripulación de misiones del Shuttle. Pero Heidemarie no es famosa por poseer este impresionante currículo. Lo es por haber perdido una bolsa de herramientas en la misión STS-126 y por haberse desmayado dos veces en la rueda de prensa que dio la tripulación del STS-115 (su primera misión) nada más aterrizar.'
mircea_popescu: well, "last set". i'm not talking collector cunt here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc last set of tickets was 20k ea. or sumthinglikethat
mircea_popescu: bout a trillion a year's worth or so.
mircea_popescu: nobody does a line for any other reason than to THINK they're there. so make it a reality, more margin that way.
mircea_popescu: talk about "efficient market hypothesis". this is A LOT more in demand than pink ipad covers, for instance. "oh but mp, pink ipad covers aren't illegal!" o ya ? ALSO more in demand than cocaine.
mircea_popescu: bout 10% of the 3bn male population would save to go just to be able to say "Went"
asciilifeform: i think they already have a 10k. but without stripper.
mircea_popescu: sell the tickets for 10k or w/e, it'll be more than the strippers make anyway.
mircea_popescu: .7 attendants per passenger, "no means yes, of course" as company policy, and they feed you grapes manually.
asciilifeform: ( granted not on the 1stclass deck with comfy sofa bed. but -- buys. )
asciilifeform: kilobuxxor per biped buys a weekend trip to ro, ftr, and several doses of RealPhood
mircea_popescu: that's not the problem ; the problem (esp in the "western" world ) is that it'll still be sysco.
asciilifeform: i just have nfi what drug would have to take to want to pay kilobux for americana
mircea_popescu: im not even sure how they run it stateside anymoar, for lack of much caring.
asciilifeform: few hundy i saw. grand -- not yet, these are probably the ones where you gotta know somebody, knock on the unmarked door five times etc
mircea_popescu: i get it, you don't powerlunch there every day. but if you run into a gal that takes your breath away... wouldn't it be the proper time ?
mircea_popescu: most starred restaurants are a few hundy to maybe a grand a plate.
asciilifeform: or does the figure include plane ticket to a place with actual food
mircea_popescu: what happens if you run into http://trilema.com/2014/the-romanian-language-for-other-people/ "hey babe wait right here i gotta spend an hour queuing at the bank" ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the us is pretty ridiculous. upscale dinner for two can readily run you a grand or two, yet none of the walkers have that much on them.
asciilifeform: flies on the antonov, naturally.
mircea_popescu: flying tank ?
asciilifeform: 'why would i carry money, i just put it in glove box in the tank'
asciilifeform: i almost expected mircea_popescu to say 'what airport, i have own diplomatic pouch system'
mircea_popescu: but anyway, part of gangster notion is that conspicuous is other people's problem.
mircea_popescu: hey. they did want to count mine when i landed. i... didn't cooperate (but i did let them watch while i did, so there was that)
asciilifeform: sounds conspicuous-at-airport tho.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 20:49 hanbot: I don't recall ever seeing cleaning crews near the river. or anywhere other than the esquinas of convenience stores. anyway, if they're anything like their southern neighbors ~everyone you meet will warn you about pickpockets/bag snatchers, to the degree someone who doesn't offer such warnings is by that sign a potential friend ;)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748293 << in ro, zookeeper admonished asciilifeform's pet for letting her passport be seen in the daylight, with 'helpful' pantomime of purse-snatcher dancing away with it ☝︎
asciilifeform: and was thinking 'whose face did BingoBoingo have to break for what scooterdork...'
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 20:53 BingoBoingo: How ever gansta roll comes with gangsta responsibilities, so had to break friendly gringo face momentarily for the scooter dork
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748296 << i initially misread as 'had to break friendly gringo's face' ☝︎
asciilifeform: btw i keep resisting but now gotta ask, how big exactly is a 'gangstaroll' ? when i went to ro i was able to pack a coupla kilobux , is all that will comfortably fold in normal human wallet
asciilifeform: 'the title to something worthless can always be monetized by making it even more worthless' or how did it go.
mircea_popescu: im sure they have epsilon. guess what, so does my staffordshire terrier.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how to break this to you, but "money" is here defined as > 1 gangster rolls.
asciilifeform: e.g. they could sell passports to usa inmates
asciilifeform: dunno, i saw 'sofas' there that hadn't 'gone to the oven' yet
mircea_popescu: yes but what's that do.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i ever met an argentine who had any money. at all. ever.
mircea_popescu: they didn't get it for a purpose. they got it because they think owning subs is how you further the pretense of countryhood.
mircea_popescu: the only way to correctly represent argentina, joint or several, is by thinking of the dumbest whore you can possibly imagine.
mircea_popescu: they used it to spy on fishing boats.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 20:57 mircea_popescu: anyway, the pretense of argentina, in all fields, is nothing short of hysterical. they lose a sub, 100% through being TOTAL FUCKTARDS. they act as if adult country had some sort of problem ; as if people on it were qualified -- not to run a sub, but to run a dishwasher and so on.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748301 << until hearing of this owngoal, asciilifeform had not the faintest notion that argentines ~had~ a sub ☝︎
mircea_popescu: she thought the conversation was going to be about her or something.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno, hipster chicks these days
asciilifeform: the only other one i can immediately think of is flynn. but that's recent.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 21:00 mircea_popescu: "oh, we are currently fibbing about you have immunity, therefore your constitutional protection is null and void, cuz that's how constitutions work now, therefore... oh what do you mean we'll change our mind later ? OF COURSE! you don't understand how the world works ?!"
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748310 << would be interesting to learn whether linked item is first case of its kind, or 9000th ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 21:05 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748231 << don't tell me, usg-run "exchange" periodically "victim of own success", as usg imagines this to go.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748319 << i dunno what exactly a gox with an empty btc tank looks like, but i suspect it looks not unlike today's shitfinex ☝︎
asciilifeform: she dun look like a toiletplunger wielder, either
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 22:15 mircea_popescu: and in further "i can't believe that shit still exists" lulz, coupled with "here comes the self-eating shit sandwich", http://perezhilton.com/2017-12-07-melanie-martinez-rape-accusation-fan-merch
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 22:12 ben_vulpes: kirchner facing treason charges: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/argentine-ex-president-cristina-fernandez-charged-with-treason/2017/12/07/e3e326e0-db80-11e7-a241-0848315642d0_story.html
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748333 << loox like she'll have to take another contract on another prosecutor eh ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 21:07 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748242 << eh get out, when did you see garbage truck go faster than maybe 10 km/h
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748321 << i take it they dun have hills where mircea_popescu lives ☝︎
asciilifeform does not know how to parse $item
mircea_popescu: oh and in "social media was invented to entertain me" reprints, me : how goes it ? 19yo f iowa : "dying inside casually. you ?" me : "here's yachting pics." ☟︎
mircea_popescu: and in further "i can't believe that shit still exists" lulz, coupled with "here comes the self-eating shit sandwich", http://perezhilton.com/2017-12-07-melanie-martinez-rape-accusation-fan-merch ☟︎
ben_vulpes: pantsuits are on the case: ...[the judge] is under investigation over allegations of money laundering and illicit enrichment, with some critics suggesting that he may be targeting Fernandez's (sic?) as a smokescreen"
ben_vulpes: kirchner facing treason charges: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/argentine-ex-president-cristina-fernandez-charged-with-treason/2017/12/07/e3e326e0-db80-11e7-a241-0848315642d0_story.html ☟︎
BingoBoingo: brb, sober time... en Castellano!
BingoBoingo: I figure I have to use the advantage while it lasts.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, right now I am being the friendliest gringo TMSR could retain as an ambassor. Leaning heavily on dumb gringo stereotype while calibrating listen and write heads to the local Castellano and screening potential contacts
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 20:53 BingoBoingo: How ever gansta roll comes with gangsta responsibilities, so had to break friendly gringo face momentarily for the scooter dork
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748296 << never truer words were spoken. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: he walks the highways of his native land ?
BingoBoingo: Eh, they go on the interstate back in home country en route to landfill
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 18:18 asciilifeform: if i had to decide whether to find a picasso, or to be side swiped by a garbage truck, it would not be easy choice
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748242 << eh get out, when did you see garbage truck go faster than maybe 10 km/h ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 18:14 asciilifeform: meanwhile shitfinex : 'Over the last few days, we were hit by a mixture of huge real customer demand for deposits & withdrawals, at the same time as we experienced ddos in the form of malicious microdeposits and withdrawals (a heavily funded attack). On top of this, both the Ethereum and Bitcoin networks were under high congestion (blame the kittens, not us.)...'
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748231 << don't tell me, usg-run "exchange" periodically "victim of own success", as usg imagines this to go. ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 18:08 asciilifeform: 'Unlike some states, Florida has no law establishing "parent-child privilege," which would keep communications between them confidential' << interesting detail.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748220 << makes exactly 0 difference. typical pantsuit move, pick irrelevant detail, try and make it stick. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: what defies reason is how anyone can NOT go on a rampage shooting random people, bombing government buildings and setting toddlers afire in old tyres over there.
mircea_popescu: cat would rather burn down the house than live in washing machine ; and normal human being would rather crack the earth into a trillio nshards than live in the "united states" pantsuit has imagined. what's so hard about this ?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 18:08 asciilifeform: '"We're not only trying to build a case against the defendant, we're trying to ask the broader question of why - a question that the victims' families and the community deserves' << prettygreat
mircea_popescu: "oh, we are currently fibbing about you have immunity, therefore your constitutional protection is null and void, cuz that's how constitutions work now, therefore... oh what do you mean we'll change our mind later ? OF COURSE! you don't understand how the world works ?!" ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 18:05 ben_vulpes: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parents-of-tampa-serial-killing-suspect-refuse-to-answer-questions/ << refusing to answer questions is contempt of court!
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748215 << lmao trhey finally dfid away with the 5th ? ☝︎
BingoBoingo: North of Montevideo Shopping and then traveling past the cowork
BingoBoingo: I really have to work on my camera speed, a trash donkey was spotted twice.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo oddly enough latinos don't really believe in "how about you doin't dirty las playas in the first place".