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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i kinda wrote around it. but it turns out it was one gary alford
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo do you happen to know offhand where on qntra is the affidavit of random usg derp that claims ross ulbricht was found through whatever experts sex change website ?
mircea_popescu: the world, if you had the misfortune of being spawned by a dumbass with a drunkard, mostly consists of things "you couldn't possibily want", let alone need.
mircea_popescu: very instructive example in how anglotardism works, imo.
mircea_popescu: baked in everywhere, to the level of fucking glibc (what fucking business does glibc have with offering a spurious aliasing service for ips AT ALL ?! that shit belongs three levels below glibc!)
mircea_popescu: in other lolz, the interwebs offers exactly 0 information on how to turn dns lookups off, or itable it away, or ufw/csf/etc it shut, or any of that. because apparently this is not something one could want to do. it will break your internet! why ? dns is about as useful as painted wings on a cow, there's exactly nothing internet-wise that needs (or for that matter even significantly benefits from) dns. nevertheless it's
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other news, qntra is on the first google page for the thing o.O
☟︎ mircea_popescu: splendid bit in there, right in the final sketch, de funes is this breton dude. "ils m'ont liquide!"
mircea_popescu: they're valuable in themselves plus they make a good investment. furs ftw.
mircea_popescu: what's that, women that never queef and dudes that don't go bald ?
mircea_popescu: all they need is some sluts in furs smoking out of hookas or some shit.
mircea_popescu: look at the item in question, it's faintly cog-like, and mysteriously made of parts bla bla. same exact play, for same exact reason.
mircea_popescu: not in 1820 when it was kicking pensylvania's teeth in.
mircea_popescu: hence new york was elegant in 1920, by the time it was just starting to no longer matter,
mircea_popescu: elegance is specifically the scent of early putrefaction.
mircea_popescu: and this is EXACTLY what elegance is. no fucking farmer in the midwest, building an empire and about to kick the fuherer's teeth in can POSSIBLY be elegant.
mircea_popescu: fact of the matter is, when it comes to technology we're all bums. nobody can make a fucking car he'd want to drive.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and they're not pitching to people who could buy the damned cars, but to twentysomething derps in college.
mircea_popescu: there's a naked woman in a fur and a shot of some shiny cogs working together.
mircea_popescu: look at "european cars", they've been selling the same damned thing for 30 years now. you ever watch one of their ads ?
mircea_popescu: note that i picked the bum specifically. for derps in "secure neighbourhoods", showing off to the neighbour is arguably a +ev move. who knows, maybe neighbour's daughter comes to do your house work in the nude or something. as faint as it may be - you're not going to get in fucking trouble for being an asshole. not so for bum. for bum, veblen goods are suicide goods.
mircea_popescu: for one thing - who the fuck is he going to call ? for the other - how is he going to even get it to work ? for yet another, it matters not so much if the thing even works in the first place.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the value of the phone for the bum is unrelated to its utility.
mircea_popescu: let's go at it this way : ever seen how much bums value cell phones ?
mircea_popescu: phf no, it's the porsche for a new generation. tho i'm unsure whether anyone here understands or cares to think about what those things ~are~.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: seems to me rather obvious these are intended as decorative accessories.
mircea_popescu: i never cared, myself. nubbins` is the resident expert really.
mircea_popescu: weren't ppls bitching that purse.io went scam or was that a different thing
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski_ nah atm noobs are making a pretty penny mining.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i never played it, but is it inflationary ?
mircea_popescu: the girl/boy ratio in eulora is starting to skew the wrong way!
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski_ did you get that gaming system made ?
mircea_popescu: eh girls get discounts everywhere nudity's even vaguely involved.
mircea_popescu: so... how about you pay the fine establishment a visit phf ?
mircea_popescu: hey, were you running a russian bath thing or am i completely delusional ?
mircea_popescu: hey, history is written by a dude Ira and his studious.
mircea_popescu: even ended up in some slashdotty-like thing w/e it was
mircea_popescu: amusingly bitbet is the largest pool on that topic on the whole internets, nobody seems to be aware of the situation.
mircea_popescu: and wrote down that you're not supposed to flint, michigan.