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BingoBoingo: diana_coman: Do you routinely
take hime
to
the good playgorund (i.e.
the hardware store)?
diana_coman: phf, quite; basically "white squiggles" from his point of view atm really; he noticed
the letters, yes, because
those he recognises as symbols but otherwise in any case, screws and cables way more interesting
phf: diana_coman: right, i guess it doesn't have any symbolic value, when
there's no underlying concept associated with it
phf: asciilifeform: i wanted
to add your mpi
to btcbase patches, but realized
that it's not a valid vpatch, since it doesn't have a genesis. i'll add an exception
to mechanisms (right now it just 404's and all kinds of broken, basically), but!
mod6: shinohai: werd. about
to log back in actually & checkout
the mining
today
phf: diana_coman: did you also explain
the logo?
diana_coman: aha,
try explaining
to a 5 yo what
that is and what it does...
☟︎ shinohai: "I am disappoint Mom,
took
this out
to pasture and it did not fuck goat"
diana_coman: asciilifeform I guess I can vouch now for FG being "safe for kids" - 5 yo spotted one on my desk and asked
the usual
ton of questions BUT he figured out by himself
that "it has a manual
too, look!"
hanbot: anyway having spent a few years fulfilling copywriting specs i'll admit a fair amount of
the work was absorbed in weighing whether a given spec-producer seemed likely
to pull
the penny-revision stuff
hanbot: ^ in latest
trilema, i mean, mircea_popescu
phf: i
think i heard it called a "cultural honkey"
mircea_popescu: well, it's a large country. richer
than
the us per capita, and certainly culturally stronger. so...
mircea_popescu: diana_coman well for his good fortune he's married
to some local chick, so i expect he'd just you know.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and 1910 romanian market is NOT fucking walmart, but "that place where we have reason
to suspect more other people will come". << Well,
that's sorta what walmart is in a more retarded fashion
diana_coman: that might be I guess; he certainly does write at least more
than
the 100 words
thrown at
the blank page half-randomly, certainly; not so sure if
there is anything more
than
that
mircea_popescu: and 1910 romanian market is NOT fucking walmart, but "that place where we have reason
to suspect more other people will come".
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the arguments he presents don't work --
travel is much more likely in a country devastated by war
than in one stable. in
the latter case people feed
themselves by
tending
to
their crops ; but if no crops,
they feed
themselves by... GOING
TO
THE MARKET.
mircea_popescu: basically, every
time he doesn't use his own gut feelings, he's
tolerably in
the vicinty of
truth.
mircea_popescu: he has
the original well researched revisionist piece.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, ugh,
that guy always stank
to me of americanism of
the most annoying sort; and
this "how could
they have
travelled" is precisely of
that sort; "oh noes, how can one WALK a MILE???"
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's a case of "i came up with
this
theory which is mine".
mircea_popescu: but whatever, "i can't see how people
travelled before
they had electric cars or why would a wife benefit from
the occasional beating"
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding
that
this is
the 1900s, whereas peopel routinely
travelled large distances in
the cold and ate just five five centuries prior, and before
that. because a)
the cart of
the
time was intended as and functioned as a whole-family-mover, which is exactly how oregon
trail happened ; and because
the grain->bread and corn->mamaliga cycle permit something
to
the
tune of 2mn calories per
ton, ie enough
to feed a family o
mircea_popescu: tl;dr dood who knows when automobile was invented "can not see" how 100k people could have
travelled "in
the cold" of early december over "long distances" and "what
they would have eaten".
a111: Logged on 2015-02-21 01:19 mircea_popescu: "she's been going
through 6-7k each month since autumn, but i get
to go visit p diddy whenever i feel like it. it's a wash"
mircea_popescu: i don't credit
the "oh, marketing is
the only employee with ROI, everyone else just contributes
to costs, marketing contributes
to revenue". somebody's gotta make
the shit you package and sell.
ben_vulpes: buy 'em, own 'em, fuck 'em, put 'em
to work.
mircea_popescu: hey, a slim minority of
the girls actually market
their own produce
to
the point of obtaining cash for it. i see no serious problems with
this situation.
mircea_popescu: this should be
taught in "civil class" or w/e
they call it in hs. but in any case -- don['t mary below your station, what.
mircea_popescu: actually it says
that a) marriage is a corporation in which b) each spouse owns 50% and c) unless specifically excepted prior, all income of either party is assigned
to it.
trinque: says your frou owns half of what you earn over
the course of marriage
trinque: ah son of a bitch,
texas is a "community property" state
too
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: no doubt, but statal mandate
that wife picks hookers?!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes from experience i find
the girls pick much better hookers
than i do.
ben_vulpes: in
tangential lulz, one of
the "children rescused in fbi child
trafficking sting",
touted as an "18 month old, rescued from sex
trafficking!" was in fact hooker's baby and is now a state ward
trinque: pretty sure it's state by state,
that
ben_vulpes: next
they'll want wife's signature
to lease hookers
ben_vulpes: well duh, but wife's signature
to change
tax status?
mircea_popescu: those circumstances being
that
they are so fucking
touchy about woman not getting all
that she possibly could alloted her by divorce court.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: "in some circumstances", when electing
to
treat an llc as s-corp, irs demands spousal consent
mircea_popescu: yes, but let
the empire of Named
Things carry its own struggles.
ben_vulpes: i need a fiatcorp
to make
that happen like i need an uncooled 42u cabinet
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes at least name it Preemptive Asset Hiding Corporation For Use In Later Divorce Proceedings
To Circumvent Governmental Attempts At Nationalization And Assorted Activist Judge Idiocy And Also
To Make Sure
The Dumb Fucking Whore And Her Repugnant Spawn Fucking Starve, Inc.
ben_vulpes: "baby, it is moments like
this
that i sincerely regret not just signing a declaration and broadcasting it
to
the republic"
mircea_popescu: im kinda hoping
they reintroduce
the "village community". want you
to buy a car, ask first
the мир for permission.
ben_vulpes: you wanna hear about fascism; fuckin irs wants spousal consent for electing
to
treat a certain corporation a certain way
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz of all
time, a
terribly bad
test "for fascism" gives me 43%, ie fellow-traveller status.
mircea_popescu: dja know
that ancient joke
that if you hear a hungarian speaking foreign languages you know he's a jew ?
mircea_popescu: but yes, back
to it, by
the
time
tmsr has its own isp it will have become more of an actual country
than say romania.
the eu member.
mircea_popescu: they "create"
the "environment" for "Government digital communications". ie, like nsa issues
trump a smarthphone, sms issued my mother an email or w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
transylvania, all of it, is
the largest part of both
the kingdom of hungary and
the kingdom of romania. it was part of both for about equal intervals, and also independent for a while
mircea_popescu: come
to
think i actually like
this guy. asciilifeform see if he wants
to join ? does he have a contact ?
mircea_popescu: "Therefore, it’s pretty obvious
that a handful of Moldovan avitation enthusiasts were better informed and had a better grasp of
the strategic situation
than
the entire Romanian government."
mircea_popescu: there was such a
thing as a professional solider, let's put it
this way. as a class.
mircea_popescu: signed up in
the way afghan signed up
to use us provided weapons
to defend "us interests".