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mircea_popescu: which is why i'm kinda curious of what you mean, cuz it doesn't seem much represented.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i don't think it's a settled matter
mircea_popescu: i didn't think they had one. how did it go ?
jurov: dunno, i just think the ussr eugenics program was overdone
mircea_popescu: jurov well they kept the us mentally in check, so to speak. they're muppets in the fields of kansas, the best they can do is "we're better than x", very limited meanness. once no more x, there isn't a good reason not to patriot act all over the bed. i suppose that's the strongest reading of that.
mircea_popescu: it was a very enjoyable experience to piss in the chalice in byzantium, looking forward to pissing i nthe chalice in rome.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this is why the death of ussr is a global calamity - even folks like jurov and mircea_popescu, who saw the underside of the colonial boot, might see the argument as to how << i certainly do not see such.
Duffer1: looks like everyone they sent to is in WoT, but i don't see some of the bigger names from this chan
kakobrekla: i didnt get shit :(
Duffer1: so here's a first for me, i got advertising dust today https://blockchain.info/address/1LaxoTrQy51LnB289VmoSAgN6J6UrJbfL9
decimation: asciilifeform: I doubt that there is anyone in usg that is empowered to use garotte wire within the us
decimation: I suspect it's particularly obvious to anyone who lived in the ussr
decimation: asciilifeform: as a Christian I find these 'godless anarcho-whatevers' to be amusing because they want to make usg into their god
asciilifeform: but today, 'respect my rights because i have rights'
asciilifeform: jurov: i like to tell them, 'come back when you've invented a pocket neutron bomb that can be made from sticks and grass. until then, enjoy the state (tm) .'
decimation: jurov: and I suspect that the solution was not to give every breathing biped a nanoslice of power
decimation: I blame the french.
mircea_popescu: if i have more friends than you, you're fucked, even if you may be better than me.
decimation: right? Guest: Government wasn't even a--close to Montana at the time these were formed, these were people saying, 'Gee, our cattle are mixing with one another and are breeding and maybe we don't want that. And if you put all your cattle where I put mine, there will be a tragedy of the commons.' "
decimation: mircea_popescu: there's a good story about that in the podcast link I put up yesterday: "But even without Russ's lectures, people began to recognize the potential for the Tragedy of the Commons. And quite quickly formed Cattlemans' Associations--the kind of thing that Elinor Ostrom would, you know, love to talk about; and I've talked about it with her. Russ: These are voluntary restrictions on the use of resources, not government,
mircea_popescu: "must has the state for i can't open the fucking door"
mircea_popescu: had a good lol when i woke up.
mircea_popescu: i mean i clearly recall ths experience where i was falling asleep, and my through process in the remainder part of the brain was "oh my god what if i don't know how to open the door anymore"
mircea_popescu: and conversely, once i'm about to invade the us, you can bet your sweet ass it will be to rectify ancient evils
asciilifeform: i'm not even convinced that the ceremony where ua voted for 'independence' happened as advertised.
decimation: I guess putin isn't happy with having a 'near abroad' anymore
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: I've accepted that job offer from RagnarDanneskjol btw :)
mircea_popescu: what am i not following here ?
mircea_popescu: jurov ah yea. well, i agreed with his "it's factual", but i never took an absolute view of this factuality. just, as far as it's worth determining, yeah, that's what it was.
jurov: ascii says it's "factual"... so i'm asking about the facts
jurov: <asciilifeform> because i have no quarrel with anything in that piece - imho, entirely factual. << did anyone confirmed kiev started by murdering civilians?
asciilifeform: i.e. - a place to which thinking men could defect.
decimation: I guess as an american far away from everything I would vastly prefer russian hegemony over asia than crazy islam rule, but somehow my 'leaders' see things differently
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't have any issue with anything in that piece either, but this isn't the criteria. the form specifically is what one uses to identify these things.
asciilifeform: because i have no quarrel with anything in that piece - imho, entirely factual.
decimation: asciilifeform: one can see a copy hanging in the nsa museum as I recall
mircea_popescu: oh, no, it's just that putin i mean roberts "does not understand how the world works"
mircea_popescu: but as far as i recall, it was a serious source of friction between the third reich gauleiters and eastern european nobility, that the latter despised the former on the grounds of... well... this, exactly.
decimation: Re: Thiel working with usg << I can't imagine anyone running a 'bank' or 'bank-like' service and not being a spy for usg, it's the law yo
asciilifeform: '"Do you have guest status with any resident?" The robot asked. "No." "Do you have means of support unknown to me?" I suppose I could have stashed a cache of gold under my mattress, and this question allowed me to declare it. Such a cache would, of course, be grounds for arrest, so I was screwed either way. "No." I was without any means of support. "In accordance with ordinance 605.12b, you have been assigned ro
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: lol!!! i read that years ago
asciilifeform: i recommend attaching a replacement battery using conductive epoxy.
asciilifeform: i regret to say that i do not run a repair shop.
thestringpuller: :( I guess I'm not saving games anytime soon
mircea_popescu: i guess the author doesn't realise it or something, but this lays bare a much used, fundamental, very valuable exploit of aes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think you're thinking of the case where you compile your thing and install it as bytecode. i was thinking of the case where you compile locally.
mircea_popescu: i wasn't aware this is public knowledge. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: but ideally - while i can live without running a webserver off this - i still want to have bash
mircea_popescu: jurov no. i am talking about an os that only processes encrypted data.
jurov: i got an idea about virtualization - i foubt any hypervisor erases SSE registers betweeen guests
mircea_popescu: i don't read fast enough.
mircea_popescu: i came back to say "wait, that's only part of the story"
cazalla: i've read that before, i assume because the fathers need sleep to hunt the next day
asciilifeform: i suppose a handful of natural schizoids, and slavish imitation thereof, can substitute for dope.
mircea_popescu: you know, this was the first mice i've seen in a decade.
asciilifeform: usg caught an alley cat, tamed, and implanted a listening device, then released (in moscow, i think)
mircea_popescu: i thought it's just the young/shitty ones
mircea_popescu: mice i mean.
asciilifeform: i actually 'liked' the rats in that flat quite a bit more than the mice. the latter - shat every quarter metre they walked, or so it seemed. the rats - more disciplined, organized, had battalions, detachments - respectable.
mircea_popescu: when they start with the "we're not animals" bits, i tend to glaze over and think "no, you're not, are you".
mircea_popescu: it's also why i tend to be suspicious of people that despise animals. generally it's the sign they're not as intellectually respectable as the average field mouse.
mircea_popescu: which is why i eventually stood up from my fucking work, took it to a vacant field further down and let it be.
mircea_popescu: eventually i was oh enough of this shit, and so put the vessel on its side.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that the lid was you know, on a thread for crying out loud. and since i punched the holes from outside, notwithstanding that there were jagged shards of metal pointing his way, which he could i guess sorta- avoid. tho he mostly looked to be jumping blindly.
mircea_popescu: and i get a good look at the guy, you know ? after all, this had been his land for a long long time, generations of his forefathers had hunted for hayseeds and whatnot on complicated , traditional walk patters all over the field of my garden
mircea_popescu: a little later, the guy is caught, of course. so i put him in a large glass jar with a metal lid, after punching some holes with a screwdriverr in that lid.
mircea_popescu: so i know it's a mouse, right ? and so i get a large bowl, and tape some floss to a pack of ciggs. put some cheese under the propper bowl and get back to chatting.
mircea_popescu: something like that. so one night while in here, i see movement in the corner of my eye ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: so last autumn i was living in a recently developped residential area - i guess what would be a gated community in the us, except romanians don't gate.
artifexd: I need to DCA
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: oh yes in that sense! i was thinking of how there is an increasing cost to keep the car moving
artifexd: The reason is simple: I bought some.
artifexd: If anybody is curious, I know why MPOE is falling.
asciilifeform: 'Recently I heard a story on NPR about a poor family that went around looking for discounted food items at various groceries and stopping at the food pantry—in their own private minivan! And so here is a poor family that owns what in many parts of the world would amount to a bus company!' (orlov)
thestringpuller: i guess this is why Uber is becoming so overvalued...
mircea_popescu: i never biked.
thestringpuller: I have to bike 7 miles to the nearest bus stop
thestringpuller: public transit doesn't reach where I live
mircea_popescu: you know i lived there just fine w/o driving or owning a car.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: 'tis one thing if you like oil, dirt, metal (matter of fact - i do) but another if you're stuck with them whether or not you do
thestringpuller: i just saw an turbo charged e30 that puts ~450hp to the wheels
mircea_popescu: i've seen much worse.
asciilifeform: then again i'm not certain any country will recognize american driver's licenses when the hour comes.
mircea_popescu: i don't see much in that. so some asshole kid thinks himself special, got roughed up in the slightest.
mircea_popescu: "Currently the leadership of the House of Savoy is contested by two cousins: Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, who used to claim the title of King of Italy, and Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, who still claims the title of the Duke of Savoy. Their rivalry has not always been peaceful — on May 21, 2004, following a dinner held by King Juan Carlos I of Spain on the eve of the wedding of his son Felipe, Prince of Astur
ThickAsThieves: i thought i did too, seems to merely be an observation for now
mircea_popescu: i thought you had a theory
mircea_popescu: it works splendidly here. i guess depends on the cab quality
ThickAsThieves: my wife is the one that gets new cars, i get the hand-me-downs. yesterday i was positing that i should just sell mine and take cabs or uber or whatever everywhere
mircea_popescu: i can't stand sucking cock either doesn't mean i hate blowjobs. what's driving to do with it.
ThickAsThieves: <+thestringpuller> you know how I know you're not american mircea_popescu : you hate cars /// i cant stand driving and all the stuff about cars other than that they get me places
mircea_popescu: you think i write complicatedly, try morley for a spin
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the original copy-paste point : i feel like i could practically translate my romanian articles mocking the romanian "press" and its associated "blogosphere" word for word, just substitute names.
mircea_popescu: but i guess that's what you actually meant.
mircea_popescu: i dun think much of the concept of everyone being able to have their "own" car
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i dun hate cars ?
thestringpuller: you know how I know you're not american mircea_popescu : you hate cars
mircea_popescu: i could prolly write a book of psychoantropology on the topic, but sadly it'd be rather incomprehensible in english without a ton of notes which kinda ruin the whole thing, and for 5 romanians able to read and write it's scarcely worth the year o' work.
ThickAsThieves: now i'm confusing myself
ThickAsThieves: not secret, mike_c is gonna check i think