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asciilifeform: (then or now)
asciilifeform: is there a 3rd jar i'm missing ?
asciilifeform: so if that ain't you, young cn fella with aspirations, study the bloody poems and deposit balls in this here jar.
asciilifeform: because he had folks bowing to him when he was 3 or whatnot.
asciilifeform: the war genius already knows who he is.
asciilifeform: let's revisit spandrell's mandarins. you could take mandarin exam, or sell salt on the black market and be 13333333337 w4rl0rd
asciilifeform: but was it funny in 1990 ?
asciilifeform: this is funny today, because there is no 'bright fyoootoor of communism' and it is obvious to a sea slug
asciilifeform: (same frenchman involved in both)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu was prolly thinking of a mosin.
asciilifeform: http://i2.guns.ru/forums/icons/forum_pictures/005932/5932881.jpg
asciilifeform: once upon a time, mircea_popescu met a cabbie and gave him a broomstick. but original legend did not tell us that he also gave him a 1941 nagan, complete with 'tula' and red star, loaded with 1 round, and the learned man said to the cabbie, 'when you get bored of sitting on the broomstick, here - you can stop'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu did not grow up as the monkey in the puzzle and beating experiment. which is all very good for him.
asciilifeform: aha. he had asked 'whaddayaexpectmetodo'
asciilifeform: (tm) (r)
asciilifeform: 'no mr bond! we expect you to die!1111'
asciilifeform: and fill stomach with what ?
asciilifeform: say his psi superpowers quit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has NEVER been in a weak negotiating position in his whole life, has he.
asciilifeform: it's a bloody fiat co.
asciilifeform: l0l aaaaaahaha suuuuure.
asciilifeform: which is ?
asciilifeform: but what is alternative ?
asciilifeform: noshit?
asciilifeform: because cannot afford 1 false positive.
asciilifeform: i clean it manually.
asciilifeform: i have a box that gets 400+ pieces of shit every day.
asciilifeform: and the ruins of email.
asciilifeform: had to pollute the backs of newspapers instead.
asciilifeform: there was a time when derps and derpfarmers were not given net pipes.
asciilifeform: (was a thing.)
asciilifeform: it's a thing.
asciilifeform: nope. death of fuck-strangers-but-no-syphilis.
asciilifeform: noshit.jpg
asciilifeform: in my, as mircea_popescu called it, 'countereconomic rathole'
asciilifeform: i did, at various times, as a very heavy cost of this 'earning bread' thing.
asciilifeform: you can choose to call whitemail 'email', aesthetic preference i guess, but it is NOT same.
asciilifeform: whereas once there was such a thing as email.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu does not use email, he uses whitelistmail.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: shannonizers.
asciilifeform: consider something as well-known as the death of email.
asciilifeform: and will eventually bury the universe in shit.
asciilifeform: i'm with the latter. but also observed that 'resistance of the medium' is a thing, and that if cranking out crapolade costs 0, then the most prolix idiot is winner.
asciilifeform: hanno bock did his thing for the cost of a glass of schnapps or whatever. whereas in, say, 100 yrs ago, he and i would both have to pay for typesetting etc.
asciilifeform: and required dedicated, usually known, fella with axe to grind
asciilifeform: but it was EXPENSIVE
asciilifeform: 'proof of work' did not prevent snow jobs (consider steven j gould's snow job targeted at 'bell curve', say, or 1,001 other examples)
asciilifeform: and it is approx. like the situation of blog.
asciilifeform: whereas now there is ~not.
asciilifeform: detail re books is that at one point there was a certain 'proof of work' implicit in getting the thing on the market.
asciilifeform: which this
asciilifeform: anything can be.
asciilifeform: sure!
asciilifeform: hence why i pinch my nose and hear out the scavengers.
asciilifeform: and have been.
asciilifeform: books can be buried.
asciilifeform: did mircea_popescu's intel inform him that spandrell's translations are in fact no translations at all and he pulled it all from his thumb ? or what.
asciilifeform: it is, and it would appear that we are beholding somewhat different inputs ?
asciilifeform: what other do i need ?
asciilifeform: mechanism is that he finds the trufflez.
asciilifeform: talented truffle pig != rando shit vulture.
asciilifeform: nope.
asciilifeform: 'in the great birdlessness, my arse is a nightingale' -- my grandfather
asciilifeform: until mircea_popescu learns it and replaces him. etc
asciilifeform: fact is, until i learn cn myself, spandrell's me man for cn.
asciilifeform: and no others.
asciilifeform: it excuses dog who gets results.
asciilifeform: i dun see this dichotomy.
asciilifeform: and perhaps not.
asciilifeform: and will meet 777 virgins at 17.
asciilifeform: i know nothing of spandrell's doom - perhaps he is raising his children in a madrassa, where they have perfect marks in shaheed belt preparation.
asciilifeform: and he has no dirigible! the nerve!
asciilifeform: in so much as q concerned my appetites, it did.
asciilifeform: that i would not otherwise encounter.
asciilifeform: or truffle pig, if you prefer.
asciilifeform: can be mules, for all i care.
asciilifeform: they dun need to be 'blue blood' or whatever, because they are bringing to me pieces from archaeological dig
asciilifeform: it is pertinent
asciilifeform: possibly not world's best, but is the one willing to tell me about the emperor's bow etc.
asciilifeform: is a TRANSLATOR
asciilifeform: spandrell, notice, likewise :
asciilifeform: and links to original txt.
asciilifeform: mr mold was at his best when his articles were 90+% quotation.
asciilifeform: not anyone. and not any bookz.
asciilifeform: 'anyone' l0l
asciilifeform: is dung beetle qualified to describe chemistry of puterfaction ?
asciilifeform: very much helped in my head to set the permanent bozo bit on so-called 'civilized society.'
asciilifeform: before there was bitcoin.
asciilifeform: he was also my introduction to the mechanics of fiatola.
asciilifeform: iirc this was his original interest.
asciilifeform: he excavated a great boatload of lulz re u.s. civil war and subsequent smoke, likewise.
asciilifeform: 'mold bug' is actual engl. expression for this.
asciilifeform: aha.
asciilifeform: mr mold was a hilarious source of trivia re 100 yrs of usg rot. e.g., how kgb owned state dept., how prestige farming works in detail, etc. none of it original to him, he simply dug up the primary sources, best as he could. hence his nick.
asciilifeform: waiwat
asciilifeform: they didn't turn into 'agreement club' until much later.
asciilifeform: and i personally gained much from (early) mr mold.
asciilifeform: i find it to be such a thing. e.g., spandrel from earlier thread, is quite readable.
asciilifeform: and lucky if 1m of air.
asciilifeform: even there, there are lines where you have 2m of air and shit to yer knee, but in some you have 2m of shit