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trinque: how they internalize such contradictions I'll never know.
ben_vulpes: i'd like to hear what constitutes nontoxic masculinity
ben_vulpes: i never did muster the energy to track down that photoset
ben_vulpes: what's the lafondism? never pick fights, and only engage on fronts you can win decisively on the grounds of overwhelming force and surprise?
trinque: "omg you can't do this to *me*" on all sides of the day's nonsense. ☟︎
ben_vulpes: "oh you mean to tell me that you let a nutter on the train troll you into fisticuffs and then cut your neck open? hey it coulda been worse, he coulda stabbed you with a hiv needle and let you die slowly."
ben_vulpes: i'm waiting for the max video to come out showing a complete failure of the two "victims" to "deescalate"
trinque: seems even the portland nazis are long-haired derpy stoners.
trinque: that statue in huntsville is near the state prison; convenient for "antifa" round-up
trinque: http://sanangelolive.com/news/live-thought/2017-05-27/group-disregards-history-tirade-against-sam-houston << Channel 2 (NBC) in Houston reports there will be a counter-protest over the statue by open carry groups. Channel 2 quotes the vice president of Texas Open Carry David Amad, "Our event is to make sure they understand that one way or another that statue is not going anywhere." ☟︎
pete_dushenski: k wiring is fine. dunno how one would even fuck that up but anyways. more likely baud rate.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: compare with the photo
pete_dushenski: "The researchers investigated two fossils of Graecopithecus freybergi with state-of-the-art methods and came to the conclusion that they belong to pre-humans. Their findings, published today in two papers in the journalPLOS ONE, further indicate that the split of the human lineage occurred in the Eastern Mediterranean and not - as customarily assumed - in Africa."
asciilifeform: betcha the output has ~0 entropy also.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-30 04:38 pete_dushenski: mod6: openbsd commands worked! thx muchly. though i'm still getting crazy low bitrates with fg. consistently under 1000b/sec and some runs as low as 100b/sec.
pete_dushenski: mod6: openbsd commands worked! thx muchly. though i'm still getting crazy low bitrates with fg. consistently under 1000b/sec and some runs as low as 100b/sec. ☟︎
shinohai: Just nature removing the less desirable from the gene pool.
mircea_popescu: what is the charge, practicing identity politics without a dnc permit ?
asciilifeform: 'Detectives said he used an Army surgical kit that contained a scalpel, lidocaine, medical dressing, and other medical equipment.'
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/re-reading-is-the-most-powerful-tool/ << Trilema - Re-reading is the most powerful tool...
ben_vulpes: have we tried it with 3d fonts yet?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes every time i hear the "pop" nonsense i think of the guy with the dropshadows. makes the font pop right off the page!
asciilifeform: theoretically one could distinguish the cases of this caused by organic stupidity of the one doing it, from when it is done with cold calculation, to bamboozle investor/customer/misc. idiot
ben_vulpes: "i just don't think it pops enough yet"
asciilifeform: but familiar to anyone who ever met 'web d00d' who spent a year on colours and 'styleshit' and 0 on mechanics
mircea_popescu: well yeah. the terminology of the proponent.
asciilifeform: fictional, then, story.
asciilifeform: 'The requested page title contains invalid characters: "%27".' << lel
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Parkinson's Law of Triviality - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality>; Wikipedia:Avoid Parkinson's Bicycle Shed Effect - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_Parkinson%2527s_Bicycle_Shed_Effect>; bikeshedding - Wiktionary: <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding>
asciilifeform: yes but how does the legend go. where, and why, did this take place
mircea_popescu: i thought it was a literal case of a bike shed becoming the sink of discussion.
mircea_popescu: "are you with the mainstream or with the resilient communities ?" "oh, we're ~seeing past that~". etc.
asciilifeform: believe or not, i do not know the story behind the infamous 'bike shed'
mircea_popescu: basically, to the original point, this "soft alternative" approach to a present problem is a transcription of the bikeshed approach to decision making.
mircea_popescu: right, the law became complex as interest in legality plumeted.
asciilifeform: ( in the contrary, there would be 'troikas' instead of courts presided over by preet )
asciilifeform: or consider the elaborate dog&pony show of ameri-courts. also works strictly in absence of much serious organized uppitiness.
mircea_popescu: leaving behind the present situation, meaningful to no one and effectual in no way.
mircea_popescu: so basically, in that example, people defecterd from vhs-america, through creating "tough on terrorism" pantsuiterica. but then ALSO defected from that, because really.
asciilifeform: aaaah yes this
mircea_popescu: if there were actual selective pressure, it'd change or disappear. but there isn't.
mircea_popescu: to my eyes that's still a match : inasmuch as there's no actual terrorists actually bothering with it, the "dept of homeland security" may continue to departmentr of homeland securitize about.
mircea_popescu: "don't bomb me, i have two wives" ?
mircea_popescu: they have that ?
asciilifeform: (or fast forward to modern ameristan and antiterrorist talismans)
mircea_popescu: similar example, say, "homeopathy", is a level of complexity in nonsense inexplicable on the basis of simple dynamics. but the necessary requisite for its appearance is very good general health services -- then people can afford to "not trust doctors" and "practice alternative medicine" but in the sense of... not really practicing anythinbg in particular.
asciilifeform: how much this even changes when it ~is~ put to test ? e.g. the folx during the plague who carried around paper talisman, word 'arsenicum' (because obtaining actual arsenic for talisman costs a little more..)
mircea_popescu: but the point is that their temple will never be put to the test.
asciilifeform: afaik they could be earnest believers in the postapocalyptic value of the harley.
asciilifeform: i have nfi whether this applies to the bunker aficionados
mircea_popescu: ah, yes. but the thing is -- the clueless could in principle be clueless about anything in any way, and on the basis of such simple model you'd expect normal distribution, with most not doing anything in particular. whereas the theory here is that ellaborate nonsense is always driven by this situation when a broken ideology encounters a weak reformist group and then idiots end up double-defecting, once into the reformists and
asciilifeform: ( this re the indoor gardening bit. it is not difficult to try it, the surest cure for 'bunker garden' notion is to try the indoor tomato thing )
asciilifeform: well, d00dz who don't bother to figure out, how many joules of light even hit the 'garden', even supposing more than a few % ended up in food... ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-29 18:36 mircea_popescu: it's a level of superficial idiocy that can't be matched outside of these double-defection situations, for which it is typical in the exact way stench is typical of filth.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-29#1662911 << moar of an elementary 'those who refuse to do arithmetic are doomed to talk nonsense" (tm)(r)(vonneumann) ☝︎
asciilifeform: how it slowly went to shit.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-29 19:32 phf: (actually i'm not sure if it's the right book, but i got "hara-kiri: japanese ritual suicide" by jack stewart)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-29#1662933 << correct b00k, phf . was most interesting imho re its discussion of the ~debasement~ of proper seppuku. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and there were also a bunch of germanz doing their take of french cuisine etc. but anyway.
danielpbarron: i stick to shoreline CT. don't know much about things up north. been to hartford maybe a couple times
danielpbarron: yeah there. I posted the rest in another comment which is pending moderation
mircea_popescu: But consider instead that Christ was <
danielpbarron: i forgot a " on my trilema comment, unrelated to the "chop up" mentioned above
mircea_popescu: anyway, the only restaurant i ever saw in ct was something weirdly named in the middle of hartford.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-25 14:05 mircea_popescu: danielpbarron you gotta have a talk with your client, it's not ok to cut your overlong sentences, must send as multiline.
danielpbarron: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-25#1661693 << thought i had it configured to chop up. not sure what happened there ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-25 14:28 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-25#1661639 << wait, in ~connecticut~ ? they have pretty decent restaurants there, which were the top 3 ?
danielpbarron: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-25#1661728 << Boom at Pilot's Point in Westbrook, The Chelsea in Fairfield, Little Pub in Greenwich ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-27 12:23 mircea_popescu: i'm not bad, writing scathing religious tract, kinda curious if danielpbarron won't like me anymore after he reads it.
danielpbarron: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-27#1662730 << trilema.com/2017/and-dont-go-around-upgrading-the-testaments-either/#comment-122136 ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-04-28 03:58 mircea_popescu: i've been contemplating the point of whether more than 1 in 1000 humans actually have need for electrical power.
phf: i believe that's already been propose in the log
mircea_popescu: there's more people dead through domestic electrocution than there's underage-married-girls dead through domestic abuse. BAN ELECTRICITY IN THE HOME!!11
mircea_popescu: who can even take the libertard bullshit seriously ?
mircea_popescu: eh, what is this retarded bullshit.
shinohai: "Stop teh rape!"
shinohai: I see your impressive tightness and raise you 11-year-old virginal tightness ..... http://archive.is/m4JhF
mircea_popescu: and in other impressive tightness, http://i.4cdn.org/b/1496086339138.webm
mod6: ymmv as far as the device name... just thought this might help someone
mod6: *PLEASE NOTE THE SMALL -f* instead of the analog capital F on linux machines.
mod6: anyway, incase anyone cares, on openbsd once I connect my FG via USB-TTL, i was able to use device 'cuaU0' to read from the FG:
phf: (actually i'm not sure if it's the right book, but i got "hara-kiri: japanese ritual suicide" by jack stewart) ☟︎
phf: asciilifeform: i picked up that harakiri book, enjoying it so far
mircea_popescu: (for the innocent -- the reason armstrong limit is an abolute limit on the height of the roof is because by the time it rains in your room you can no longer claim to have a roof above it.)
mircea_popescu: "i'm gonna construct an angle fiddler, it's clearly to do with the angle"
mircea_popescu: now, is there any merit to armstrong roof ~in your closet~ ? no, there fucking isn't.
mircea_popescu: depends how tall you build!
mircea_popescu: point being : there's these inflection points, yes ? is there any merit to this "atmosphere indoors" notion ?
Framedragger: so that, then. :) right, quite a bit of space for stacking, heh.
mircea_popescu: let me ask you this. what is the objective limit to the height of the roof ?
Framedragger: (one example i've been sorta following is https://automicrofarm.com/ - they don't have much to show tho, not sure if ever will)
mircea_popescu: well i mean what, in the general ? of course there's merit to it, that's how... earth works.
Framedragger: aquaponics - having a (umm) self-contained plant growth and fish system for food? i'm not even sure what it is. "save lots of space" is one of the arguments iirc
Framedragger: never bothered to find out if there's any merit to that ^
mircea_popescu: it's a level of superficial idiocy that can't be matched outside of these double-defection situations, for which it is typical in the exact way stench is typical of filth. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: anyway, the ridiculous item in question reserved an immense space for "motorbike garage" and a tiny space for "aquaculture" in the shape of cubic foot fishtanks ; in same room, rabbit cages, same size.
mircea_popescu: "Our proprietary-engineered design makes our underground bunkers the strongest and safest on the market. We have revolutionized the underground bunker industry by placing our main structural frame on the inside to protect your family and belongings from moisture on the outside. Ghe exterior 1/4-thick steel skin is coated with Epoxy Coal Tar to guarantee your new 10 x 20 Underground Bunker will last a lifetime." this, of cours
Framedragger: attempting to grok "causal structure" of "modern web" is recipe for madness, best to avoid!..
mircea_popescu: wtf happened here, the site's still on, still SELLING the shit. what, they saw it linked from logs, and deleted it ?
Framedragger: http://web.archive.org/web/20160311124607/http://ultimatebunker.com/wp-content/uploads/6000-sq-ft-underground-bunker.jpg great feeling when the ~whole "web" experience is a matter of using third party archive providers to dig up shit that has dissolved hence