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assbot: Logged on 08-07-2015 19:35:21; ascii_field: interestingly, old norse, even, had a very specific word for this trait
shinohai: Vexual: Do you have a helpful photograph of what a murderous tranny looks like ?
Vexual: thats better than staying with a murderous tranny from the internet
shinohai: Yes that is, in fact, a cucumber with a condom stretched over it.
punkman: is that a cucumber?
punkman: then again, not a lot of talking
mircea_popescu: it is ok to seek a twitter wrapper of x, just not x. because twitter gotta eat, and all that.
mircea_popescu: and yes it was a real character. the guy didn't write fiction. he just wrote well and so plenty of his ethnographic notations read more like blogposts.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> re: being loved and/or feared << it's actually a quote from that de niro film :D chaz palminteri says it :D
trinque: hence we are a species that inhabits every continent, and sometimes space beyond
trinque: back him into a corner, and he will kill
trinque: no matter how high a man ascends, he is also that
asciilifeform: and 'The impulse to cling to youth at all costs, to attempt to preserve your sexual attraction, to see even in middle age a future for yourself and not merely for your children, is a thing of recent growth and has only precariously established itself. It will probably disappear again when our standard of living drops and our birth-rate rises.'
asciilifeform: trinque: the thing about fefeleaga in my mind is that the stock off-the-shelf model of existence is a guaranteed suckfest.
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 21:47:45; assbot: Logged on 03-02-2015 23:43:58; asciilifeform: winnie pooh walks into a butcher's shop, asks 'got mortadella' ? answer, 'sure' winnie pooh draws a submachinegun and spins round, round, round with it, mowing down everything that moves: 'for piiigleet!'
trinque: and since such thoughts are usually associated with a sort of brutal perspective, let me ask: which is worse, the mind which accepts the harsh reality of existing or the one which struggles against it?
trinque: not a goddamn thing. as (*clears his throat*) MJK of Tool wrote, "The universe is hostile, so impersonal. Devour to survive; so it is, so it's always been."
trinque: a guy I respect told me that one could maybe hope to change the world in one specific way, but that intending to change the world arbitrarily was the mark of hubris
assbot: Celebrul personaj “Fefeleaga” a fost cât se poate de real. Află povestea fascinantă a eroinei! | Radio Enigma Romania ... ( http://bit.ly/1Mpog7i )
asciilifeform: wtf, http://radioenigmaromania.ro/blog/celebrul-personaj-fefeleaga-a-fost-cat-se-poate-de-real-afla-povestea-fascinanta-a-eroinei_26192.html
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is there a soviet mega-statuelith of fefeleaga somewhere ?
asciilifeform: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Pomn%C3%ADk_Mary%C4%8Dky_Magdonov%C3%A9.jpg << mega-winner of a statue! betcha the kidz think the chick died as a partizan in ww2
asciilifeform on a hardcore cz kick now
asciilifeform: it means: make a stator
trinque: jesus christ my sister just quoted The Prince and called it a quote from The Office
assbot: Fefeleaga. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1hc9l59 )
asciilifeform: mod6: just a replay of patch history, but this time with 'vdiff' in place of conventional diff
cazalla: http://i.imgur.com/LxfsCfc.jpg included in the photobook my missus and other folks bought from local play centre.. because that is what i always wanted, a photo of a photo of my son.. actually surprised they included a dvd minus watermarks all over the images
asciilifeform: nah just a nonmaskable woe interrupt
trinque: ^ has a woe-coprocessor
asciilifeform: i'm not even convinced that mr b knows he's a shill
pete_dushenski: 'never have to' is a long ass time
asciilifeform: to me, a fella who doesn't work and will never have to, is ipso facto rich
asciilifeform: i bet his cock ring is worth more than a container of pogo.
asciilifeform: for one thing, i'm not aware of him working for a living
asciilifeform does not know precisely where buterin grew up, but does know that pretty much every kid from that generation dreamed of running a successful scam or racket
asciilifeform: despite being a fanless little thing the size of a stack of 5 inch floppies.
asciilifeform: it is on a commercial farm.
pete_dushenski: in b-a, user select you.
mircea_popescu: and how i wish for a successful husband.
pete_dushenski: "if i suck and can't have love and children and a successful husband, than neither can you !"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu certainly so that 'teh womenz' don't edit the rag. makes it a two-stage deployment.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of things of which i can't really name anything but hey, a lot of vague vulnerabilities are better than one specifically.
mircea_popescu: i heard this said emptily by a large number of derps, so it must be so.
asciilifeform: best comment: 'I respect him, but he sounds like a mumbling moron.'
pete_dushenski: it has a sufficiently broad cross-section of readership that it doesn't need electing so much
wilbns: ethereum vs manhattan project in a nutshell
pete_dushenski: also, wilbns do you have a blog ?
wilbns: ...in the process of writing a post comparing Ethereum to The Manhattan Project.
assbot: A Guide To Buying 5000 Ether/Bitcoin, 2.5x More Than Ethereum’s Genesis Sale Offers | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1hDkhIK )
pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2014/07/23/a-guide-to-buying-5000-ether-bitcoin-2-5x-more-than-ethereums-genesis-sale/#comment-26239 <-->https://twitter.com/paulpaschos glhf mongotron
pete_dushenski: http://qntra.net/2015/08/montreal-expo-postponed-for-lack-of-sponsors/#comment-41274 << i enjoyed this. a quick googling of 'coin4x' yields a highly active localbitcoins trader, though the '650' area code would indicate california, not quebec, so perhaps a different fella
pete_dushenski: having a masters in femtonism means that you're automagically skilled and whatnot, so being 'taken care of' is the ultimate insult to your intelligence and self-worth
assbot: The user and the rotor. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1hDjA2d )
assbot: Of trumpets and trombones. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1hDjA29 )
trinque: damn cool; I'll take a crack at it too.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, et al: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-August/000146.html << cool! i'll take a closer look at this tonight.
asciilifeform: if someone wishes to do this, he can write a bit of awk/sed
asciilifeform: a versioning system that is merely a few kb of script ☟︎
trinque: what a stupid logo, too
mircea_popescu: somehow, fraud on a massive scale is fine and dandy.
ascii_field: 'My favourite is Retrievor – small GPS tracker. First version promised solar charging. They first stole photos from completely other products (mobile phone app was from real Chinese GPS tracker, while the schematic was from a completely different product). Then they skipped to Indiegogo, and had two additional campaigns, with slightly changed description. Almost 2 years later, no real product.'
mircea_popescu: ah. was announced in chat at some point, but penning a trilema article now
BingoBoingo: I've been to Superman's hometown though. They got a Casino a few years ago. Other than that like Cairo (pronounced Kay-roh) Das racis and the drop in steamboat traffic chased relevance away.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> (speaking of which - there's a recent, very very bad french movie which nevertheless offers perhaps the best image of that girl. << NIkita
BingoBoingo: <trinque> I don't think baseball has been the american "thing" for a generator or more << Well "Latin American" thing still
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> (never, oddly enough, baseball. which i grew up thinking of as ~the~ american sport) << Baseball fell out of favor with the public around the same time as Boxing and Handegg was in a lucky position to replace both. "Civilized" alternative to boxing "Exciting" alternative to baseball "Opportunity" for the oppressed youths.
mats: hard to tell, but the hands may suggest its a man, yes
trinque: I suppose yes, that'd be a male thing
mircea_popescu: trinque that's a guy no ?
ascii_field: (using various built-in radios in a typical modern garbage pc DOES NOT COUNT)
ascii_field: in fact, actually ~receiving~ radio-anything using a stock pc's bus, or whatnot, would be very clever
kakobrekla: Computers over GSM Frequencies - This team used patterns of memory access instructions to modulate a memory bus to generate GSM-band signals that can be read from a hacked baseband.
phf: although there's a 1940s (?) soviet movie, where an american girl flees to soviet union, because she had a black baby, pursued by a capitalist who's trying to expose her. of course the predictable ending is everyone joins in a song "soviet russia, where all are accepted"
mircea_popescu: (there's a black girl in the french film i mentioned above - nobody cared. "wow seriously ?!" yes seriously, the french had chocolat before the usians had chocolate.
phf: oh, i know, i didn't realize there was even such a thing until i came to the states
mircea_popescu: you know, the entyire skin color thing was never a major point in yurp.
phf: first sjw, employed a black feller
mircea_popescu: but the people whio did care thought - and i think today - it was worth a shot.
mircea_popescu: so yes, the french revolution is a "historical necessity". because a king at some point said so.
mircea_popescu: but the notion that the mob in the street invented anything or in any way created something... gimme a break. romanians for a while thought ceausescu was incredibly inventive in his stupidity. these being the folk too uncultured to know carol 2. in fact, the bootmaker was merely immitating, as best he could.
mircea_popescu: it was worth a shot, unequivocally.
mircea_popescu: the guillotine... minor point, and a necessity after thatanyway.
mircea_popescu: not that the beatings stopped, but that luis hated his father, and decided he'll rule with a bureaucracy rather than have more of that shit around.
mircea_popescu: but he definbitely excised a lot of revenge over the people that pointedly reminded him of his opwn parents.
mircea_popescu: talleyrand took a lot of money from the various german princes, yes. bribes ? maybe. to do what with them ? not like he had to buy any woman in paris anyway.
mircea_popescu: dressed up for a few hours like manequins,
phf: i don't think an aristocratic kid has to scream to get what they want, a baseline of ability is always present and taken for granted, in that sense a reddit sjw is not much different from the wealthy version of the same
trinque: right, your "causes vs purposes" is a helpful tool to sort the shit, it seems to me
trinque: seems a matter of whether something beats the mind into accepting that the state of reality is entirely outside the control of a person, aside from a margin of error
phf: mircea_popescu: i don't have a defendable position, i'm not sure i fully understand your "degenerate kids" comment, because it seems like a huge write off.
mircea_popescu: phf the "habitual behaviour" is a good point.
mircea_popescu: as i observed to a friend recently - if everything worked i wouldn't even care to have a name.
mircea_popescu: in any case i would point out that "remaining in power" is not only the terminology of "the enemy" (which, here, means "of the idiots"), but actually meaningless. remain in power ? do we toil towards a bitcoind that can be used to what, "Remain in power" ? do i object to the amorphousness of words when i point out what definitions really are and why definitions must exist, do i object to the amorphousness of pseud-thou
mircea_popescu: if you don't learn to be a man with a horse and a servant, you're beyond help.
phf: there's also that whole tension, in christian nations, between "what christ taught" and what church needed in order to gain resources and prop up the power vertical. how should an aristocracy straddle that line between "kill yourself and your children for us and you'll go to haven" and "sell all you have, give alms to the poor". it seems like a lot of the aristocratic kids in the 19th century were sold the second version (with the full support a
mircea_popescu: (speaking of which - there's a recent, very very bad french movie which nevertheless offers perhaps the best image of that girl.
mircea_popescu: phf there's a reason "hypocrisy" appears again and again in criticism of imperial achievement.
ascii_field: if england (and europe) had a meta-europe somewhere more west, that 'we too can become like!!111!!! if we kill our king' - then they too would have decembrist revolts
phf: thinking about "degenerate children", the disconnect seems to be between what is advertised as a virtue in order to strengthen rule and what is genuinely required in order to remain in power. somehow eton managed to produce generations of british elite, while petergoth lyceum first class of twenty ended in the decembrist revolt (and that was 100 years before soviet revolution)