asciilifeform: fella wasn't quite certain what he wanted, and soon after the publication, devil approached him with bargain.☟︎
asciilifeform: the release was quasi-forced, i found where he kept it and linked publicly (it was not well-hidden)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was pre-urbit-release
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo will be stimulated to learn that there is some sort of comic book convention going in washington and i saw 'land whales' last night in a train, headed from it to dinner
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i've seen them, they simply aren't to be met with regularly anywhere i've been
asciilifeform: stick existed but obsoleted by water gizmoes
asciilifeform: having seen in real life the circa freaks in question, i find it plain as daylight that they cannot reach own arse
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu you still have a bunch of old l0gz links on your www, because didn't massage the 'log1.bitcoin-assets....' cases.
asciilifeform: try flipping some other bit and uploading. (anybody bored?)
asciilifeform: mutant simply registered as 'yet another key for this name'.
asciilifeform: can i pick sitting on my arse and smelling ze flowers and dying of hunger in ~2~ month ?
asciilifeform: result a whole nation flings itself at his feet'
asciilifeform: that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flag and loyalty-parades ... Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a grudging way, have said to people “I offer you a good time,” Hitler has said to them “I offer you struggle, danger and death,” and as a☟︎
asciilifeform: '[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive” thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows
asciilifeform: and then he is taken by the turks and is on a galley.
asciilifeform: what's the operative, as mircea_popescu would ask, difference ?
asciilifeform: why peddler respectable, but programmer - not ?
asciilifeform: i read a very distinct 'yarrrrrrrrrrrr i'ma a pirate and yer all landlubbin' scum' in mircea_popescu's earlier observations re 'negotiating position' and 'why not try not eating'