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mircea_popescu: i thought mta ran on public funds. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-05-01 16:43 asciilifeform: usg luuuuvs to know at the borders if you're pissing neutrons (note what price of helium on the market did in past 20 yrs. us dhs bought up most of it, for tubes)
a111: Logged on 2015-10-19 21:14 assbot: NYPD caught using X-ray vans to search the public, refuses court order to release details | ExtremeTech ... ( http://bit.ly/1PCA1cv )
asciilifeform: bridges and tunnels, Cedrick Fulton, dodged Carlin’s questions Wednesday. “I said no comment,” he said.'
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://archive.is/GhTjl ( and elsewhere, e.g. https://archive.is/uvS7m ) >> 'Jose Lugo said the tall metal towers quickly appeared up after the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel tolls booths came down. “We don’t really know what’s the purpose of this,” he told Carlin. It’s a $100 million MTA project shrouded in secrecy, with 18 of them for tunnels and bridges. So what are they exactly? The MTA’s man in charge of the
mircea_popescu: (dogegoin, which "still exists" has a "market cap" of whatever, >100mn, according to the websites printing arbitrary values next to text strings ; similarily myspace.com is worth $70 mn according to "Worth Of Web Calculator - World's #1 Website Value Calculator")
mircea_popescu: and all this "forking" and "bitcoin cash" and "segwit" and "protocols" and "agreements" bullshit readily brings to mind the old age discussion of all the "alt" bitcoin flavours, back when the item was called doge and the idiots with delusions of self importance were called jackson palmer, kevin rose etc : http://trilema.com/2014/why-dogecoin-is-a-scam-why-the-people-pushing-it-are-assholes-why-business-insider-is-a-contemptib
mircea_popescu: (the principal limitation of the instrument is that the sound is directional. that's why the twin players is so tempting.)
davout: check the mirror dudes out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=635ljhj4guQ
mircea_popescu: competent romanians will tell you the instrument's required in serious gypsy band yes.
mircea_popescu: and yes django'd have conceivably loved it, it's specifically toned for his interests.
mircea_popescu: known as "vioara cu goarna" in romanian (higheghe cu tolcer in local dialect ; stroh violin in other local dialect) if you want to look it up yourself. it's the chosen / symbolic instrument of bihor country in transylvania, but widely used in teh nortern countries (of romania).
mod6: interesting instrument there
BingoBoingo: And Scottish firefighters are being trained to address the increase in Machete injuries afflicting TheQueenzDemoocracy https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/856238/Scottish-firefighters-trained-help-terror-victims
BingoBoingo: And a real butt bandit, pls no turdburglars https://archive.is/8fmuQ
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's a 'designated marksman' version firing ye olde winchester long round. but less common , among hobbyists
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i was thinking of the large rapper stuff automatically.
mircea_popescu: ah this ar thing fires the short nato round does it.
asciilifeform: modern tinybullet thing has precious little recoil tho
mircea_popescu: i don't mean they can't fucking drive a car. i mean that they can't throw it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they fired from platform yo.
asciilifeform: and there are photos, the chix looked all right.
mircea_popescu: (i don't even mean bulk per se. most fucktoys have eg delicate wrists. can't really use guns effecutally if your two fists together weigh less than a gulp of beer.)
mircea_popescu: contrary to usg media depictions, women that can fire infantry weapons are not usually women you'd like to fuck.
asciilifeform: you wouldn't do that to a rifle you actually expected to use as-designed tho.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-30 01:00 mircea_popescu: hey, i made respectable woman buy herself glitzy gold sequin shoes. it's a sex thing.
asciilifeform: point being that pink m16 is equally ceremonial item
mircea_popescu: those items were ceremonial. you've seen the sword of king who actually used it,
asciilifeform: or for that matter sultan's yatagan with kg of j00lz
asciilifeform: hey it isn't so much moar idiotic than the ubiquitous, in monkeystans, gilded kalash
mircea_popescu: "can you paint the rifling on ?"
mircea_popescu: lol. what'd you like the barrel to be ? rifled OR PAINTED ?
asciilifeform: dun think you can anodize to pink
mircea_popescu: pretty sure you can chrome them in colors.
mircea_popescu: "but i look like a bimbo" "that's precisely the idea"
asciilifeform: pink, i shit ther not, stocks, grips, straps, etc
mircea_popescu: hey, i made respectable woman buy herself glitzy gold sequin shoes. it's a sex thing. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but it wasn't fiction, this is actual product, i saw it in store
asciilifeform: can't think of where else on planet3, pink scenery
a111: Logged on 2017-09-29 21:05 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it's so as not to stand out from the scenery when fighting on planets with pink vegetation and soil, clearly
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-29#1718385 << which is to say up her own snatch. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i always like people who can't distinguish its value from it's time to suck my cock.
asciilifeform: ( is there a name for these in engl?? )
mircea_popescu: for instance, a "conference" ; an "Agreement", other consensuses. the so and so protocol. you name it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, numerically, mit&co burned some money to try and make the dead cat bounce towards .11, failed miserably within an hour, .1 looking doubtful.
mircea_popescu: apparently there was an announced pump of the bch scamcoin
asciilifeform: dafuq's that
asciilifeform: qualia! tulpas!!
mircea_popescu: don't ask me wtf sense they';re supposed to make, i dun see it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they somehow got accepted by "scientific" efforts in ethics etc at harvard and so.
asciilifeform: ( which is what the 'whom to kill' rebuses always remind me of )
mircea_popescu: (gentle reminder : the odds of father being same race as mother is a hefty 99.5% today ; about same as it was in times and places where it was actually illegal.)
asciilifeform: can also ask the sacramental 'вилку в глаз , или в жопу раз ?'
mircea_popescu: unlike the run of the mill pantsuit, they usually don't have the canned "we don't shoot anyone" cop out
mircea_popescu: anyway, plenty of lulz to be had with the idiots. ask usgistani "extreme right" socialist flavour whether he'd shoot quadriplegic comatose septuagenarian white guy to save life of pregnant woman, race of father unknown.
mircea_popescu: then of course it meets the pattern, you defined it on its basis.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was speaking of 'movement' in the pol.agitation sense, rather than 'there's gold in them hills'
asciilifeform: exclusivity applied to homo redditus gives the null set.
mircea_popescu: would you call the push west a mass movement ?
mircea_popescu: depends how you define "mass movement", if you define by the pattern then definitely.
asciilifeform: all 'mass movement' types fit this pattern
mircea_popescu: in a sense, the "fascists" are more progressive than the "progressive" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: these schmucks are not in any sense that ; they wish to "everyone", and wish it so deeply they are willing to take some COLLECTIVE limits, is all.
asciilifeform: d00dz who fell through the floor of their civ for whatever reason
mircea_popescu: genuine fascists shot the fucking infirm.
mircea_popescu: there are no marginals. this is the important point.
asciilifeform: original fascists also had to make use of marginals
mircea_popescu: the principle is evident in their tracts, too. "a guide so that ~anyone~ meet girls. you're not fundamentally broken, you just miss this software". right ? the important part of socialism, preserved. or you know, "racism" but never in the sense of "you joe are no good, go away", always in th4e sense of "we are so dedicated to collectiove salvation, we want to sacrifice a soandso identified auslander collective"
mircea_popescu: i can picture too. that tribe, like the yarvin tribe, like the yukowsky tribe, like all the "alt" bullshits, exactly like "debian was an early apple appstore" and so on.
asciilifeform: over tor tails
mircea_popescu: my memory is that the summation read "o wow, you guys rock, i am very influential in my own tribe will redirect leadership tomorrow"
mircea_popescu: oh, mr. brian brainwashed her back into the inzone ?
asciilifeform: i expect somewhere with open mouth, towards sky
mircea_popescu: and it's evident they both work for hitler, by all sorts of signs. remember the straggler chick that ended up in here, and found out by accident about how yiuy know, there are alternatives ?
asciilifeform: ( why are there not digital shortwave crackpot stations
mircea_popescu: hence why they are called socialists ; just as much so as their brethren pushing ourdemocracy.
asciilifeform: by all rights they oughta be using shortwave, not www
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i see it, the dersturmer+dns folx are fixated on 'pushing', i.e. 'if i use raw ip, how will audience who sits with open mouths waiting for rain, know where the replacement box lives if isp evicts'
cazalla: shame about qntra, off to eat my steak now, hope you're all doing well
mircea_popescu: socialists tend to worship the north apparently.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they've fixated on this "swedish system". somehow they believe the eskimo are not shit.
cazalla: it was claimed that for them to steal the .is domain, it'd have to go to parliment or some shit but they just skipped that and nuked it anyway heh
cazalla: iceland but same thing
mircea_popescu: not tru. it is merely NORMALLY DISTRIBUTED around path of least resistance
cazalla: BingoBoingo, ah okay :\ dailystormer just got shoah'd again, this time from .is extension heh ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "what forced the idiot to do something stupid" orly ?
asciilifeform: the real q is what forced to steal disks etc
mircea_popescu: it'd have proven more lucrative than the outlook bs.
mircea_popescu: i didn't forbid them from growing a wot presence.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the shameful piece is that it's a forced mistake, anyone still using email-with-civilians is stuck in the google-microshit corral nao
mircea_popescu: as buggy as everything else they got.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why, because they can't do anything else right, they'll magically manage THAT one ?
BingoBoingo: Outlook.com in 2017 is pretty fucking disqualifying too
asciilifeform: srsly wtf, can't just use the fritz chip like civilized stasi?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Sure, that too.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo well, also the ole "we'll need to tap your servers kthx" nonsenser.
mircea_popescu: at least the bribri had the excuse of being born subhuman.
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Qntra is down until The Republic has one or more ISP providers, latest hoster commited mortal sin of using USG.MS.EmailProvider
asciilifeform: not in the coin, bill, etc
asciilifeform: the strongest fence is always the one in the head