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diana_coman: asciilifeform, dunno; but take this re fish since you mentioned your experience in Timis;
I can still remember when one found a rotten fish among the frozen "fish" with which communism improved one's diet forcibly.
diana_coman:
I don't recall; but
I'm sure that at/after the revolution in Romania the idea was quite the same
diana_coman: si in sfarsit, ca sa citez din profetul care le stia bag seama inca de mult dinainte ca doar nici nu-s noi: "Se cladeste un mare stabiliment artistic, un teatru, de exemplu. De ce? fiindca un stat modern are, intre alte organe de cultura, si astfel de stabilimente. Ei? cauti artisti - ia-
i de unde nu sunt. Iti trebuie literatura - nu exista. Iti trebuie public - publicul nu vine la exhibitiile d-tale. Ce-ti mai ramane de facut in aceasta c
diana_coman: and that's valid for the 1000 bakeries too;
I suppose one can argue that it's still an achievement to have bakeries with no bread than to have no bakeries and stale bread but
I don't buy it; and note that in the 80's the latest brightest idea (in the same vein, all hail!) was to further do this sort of great "improvement", to wit the communal "neighbourhood kitchen" to get rid of such waste as having individual kitchens in every hruscheba
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2019-01-04 17:15 asciilifeform: in other olds, apparently
i slept through this, but in early 2000s some ru d00d actually built a ~non-grazing~ lens for xray. for pennies, at that.
mircea_popescu: dunno argument was "low hanging fruit". they wanna see what happens at high energy. the only way to see is to make. approximately situation of "when it comes to cooking, don't have to order out. alf has this method of making polenta, works well!" "and if
i want lobster ?" "well then you gotta buy a lobster". getting indignant over how "wanting lobster only serves to drive an impossible wedge between budget and mariscos mercha
BingoBoingo: Which
I merely captured from the fat people hate movement
mircea_popescu: it is a constant complaint of the actual females, this. and one
i always agree with -- when they bring it. because yes, there's nothing fundamentally female about the pig.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 16:25 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform>
i dun have a better algo to give for how to reformat a cultural hdd , afaik that's still the state of the art. << Well there is the US Socialist Disney block by block reformat algo as well
mircea_popescu: "
i made chair, for man to sit in, with my hands as directed by my head, and an endless supply of stirpituri & tirituri, with my cunt, as directed by the cock going into it. WOE IS ME!"
a111: Logged on 2018-12-02 16:06 asciilifeform: nao, on other hand, 'cyclical histories' where 'confederacy of dunces' gangs up and dethrones their betters, and then whole edifice turns to shit, from shit grows sumthing new, etc. -- this
i can buy, we're quite evidently in the trough of that sinusoid just nao
mircea_popescu: is the only distinction that
i don't actually hang the various negrated morons ? because
i can swear it is to me a merely cosmetic matter,
i would not lift finger one to stop it if they were in fact beheaded for it, and stalin did MORE than me in this vein, hence
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-02#1877763 ☝︎ mircea_popescu: and
i daresay that the thing is working admirably well ; but not nearly as well as the sovok mechanism did in fact work -- the imperial officers would never have beaten the wehrmacht, for one thing.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform>
i dun have a better algo to give for how to reformat a cultural hdd , afaik that's still the state of the art. << Well there is the US Socialist Disney block by block reformat algo as well
☟︎ diana_coman: also re stale bread vs new bread
I disagree mircea_popescu ; people used to make their OWN bread; not stale
mircea_popescu: diana_coman what, the horses ? the "killed elite" thing would be what,
i gh duca ? (and guess what, digging for that reference
i also ran into -- apparently there's
a piece re the afore mentioned prince)
☟︎ diana_coman: for completeness,
I can say that
I know from direct experience both force-peasants-to-town-into-big-houses and vanish in the night for having had too much wealth beforehand; none of it (in either case) is an achievement as far as
I can see
diana_coman: mind ~exactly the same as current "equality!!!" quotas and whatnots,
I consider that the moment one does this systematically, there is right to complain that he ends up with idiots
diana_coman: asciilifeform,
I suppose one of those days
I'll sink the time in and properly write-it all up and at least be done with it;
I knew people who were not allowed to study at university because of "poor background" meaning that there parents had university studies;
I also knew people who were pushed to the university because of "good background" although they did not have either inclination or desire for it; and leaving aside how this is to my
mircea_popescu:
i don't imagine the concept of "god" is per se harmful. greeks also had, and various others.
mircea_popescu:
i suppose matter should remain open for he who can be arsed to read on it ; that's the best
i have for a theory in the meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: "why should
i be bothered with a bunch of them". henry also serial-monogamized, rather than make them eat eachj other out.
mircea_popescu: b)
i would deliver ~the wife~, naked other than for being beaten black and blue, straight out of the trunk into the courtyard of her ancestral home, and publicly explain to her father that if
i ever hear of any of their intolerable kin he'll hear obituaries.
mircea_popescu: a)
i would ~ignore~ the sons. you've seen me do it before, yet it's not obvious to you. death of heroes belongs to they showing some promise, why muddy it up. what if
i mixed some mud in your cocktail ?
i would not insult the heroes-in-baking by this addition.
mircea_popescu: but anyway -- disgustingly fat, yes, pinnacle of asskissing, yes, sent weekly letters "tov. shoemaker, to whom
i remain most loyal servant" in prison, yes.
mircea_popescu: to this day
i remain most proud of this particular instance, out of all of trilema's time-bending achievements.
mircea_popescu:
i can see it, "worked for stalin coincidentally, had ceased working by 70s". notwithstanding that the EXACT picture perfect rendition of said bootlick :
http://trilema.com/2010/la-moartea-lui-adrian-paunescu/ (a fellow who
i declared dead on trilema a week before he actuallty died, ro press "omitted to notice", by the way, a week later, when the "suprising event" occured)
a111: Logged on 2019-03-12 22:09 asciilifeform: an asciilifeform who had never touched microshit,
i suspect, would be a better man than asciilifeform who did..
a111: Logged on 2019-03-11 16:29 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-11#1901354 << spyked -
i was thinking, 'let's make torrent', then realized that torrent is some (afaik) largely unexplored heathenware, possibly due for a civilized replacement. might be worth expanding on if anyone has free hands.
BingoBoingo:
I'm back from the walk.
I have an "alfajor oreo" in front of me, and
I the retardartion of the cunt snot pile still pisses me off.
trinque: in my brief dive
I have yet to find evidence that anyone on xmpp talks about anything other than xmpp
BingoBoingo: <mod6>
i'll also state that mine was never huge either. had ~2-3 channels, ~20-25 users. the biggest thing
I recall was just having enough b/w so peeps stay connected. << They all want pipe
BingoBoingo: But as awful as IRC documentation is the XMPP thing...
I tried to read some explanations of what XMPP is and how it works, but the 2004 era buzzwords and "keep updated" stuff is thick
BingoBoingo:
I feel much dumber and angrier than
I did when seeing the news of Freenode retardation
BingoBoingo:
I have spent a lot of years reading very stupid things, but reading docs to try to distinguish IRC networks today...
mod6:
i'll also state that mine was never huge either. had ~2-3 channels, ~20-25 users. the biggest thing
I recall was just having enough b/w so peeps stay connected.
mircea_popescu:
i happen to think this is a thing they got right (accidentally, and for purely historical reasons).
mod6:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-12#1901578 <<
I'll see what
I can do about standing up an ircd sometime this week. It'll take a bit to lock down the conf of the thing, but eventually, if all looks good, we should be able to link up our nodes, trinque.
☝︎ trinque:
I'll go poking around in public jabber servers and see how lively they are
mod6: For what
I can see,
I'm not so certain that we're married to IRC, but
I suspect that our bots/loggers are a bit more closely wed to the protocol.
trinque:
I've run an ejabberd before too, quite familiar.
mod6:
I could stand one up somewhere, my time is a bit limited this week. Might have some time this weekend.
mod6:
I myself used to run an ircd-hybrid, but that was srsly like 20 years ago. So
I'm not sure how much active knowledge
I have on the subject, currently. Anyway, whatever or where ever we go, it's just a temporary place until we have gossipd.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-12 18:43 hanbot:
http://trilema.com/2019/the-freenode-issue/ <<
i'm for moving, seeing no compelling reason to stay. pinging asciilifeform ave1 ben_vulpes bingoboingo danielpbarron diana_coman lobbes mod6 phf spyked trinque for inputs.
mod6:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-12#1901514 <<
I'm of the thinking we should move too; however,
I've been thinking the same thing all day, 'where?'. Looks like the court is investigating some options for existing networks, as well as considering one of our own.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
i don't get it, you object to antique motd ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at first
i thought you went through the list of old dns responses/old servers and fished out one inexplicably not on mine
trinque: ah,
I hadn't even realized he couldn't connect *at all*
trinque: absent the "this will be somehow instructive" there's the practical need for infrastructure with which
I 100% agree
a111: Logged on 2018-07-21 21:18 trinque: in compounding ironies,
I stood up my own ircd_ratbox earlier out of curiosity