asciilifeform: was about to say, mircea_popescu runs'em in martian conditions
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu makes me question the fabled indestructibility of german auto!11
asciilifeform: sent'em to pound sand. 7yr later, bucket -- still runs (only part changed at all -- dynamo)
asciilifeform: this reminds asciilifeform of that 1 time he went to 'dealership' ( the takata recall, phree new grenad^H^H^Hbags ) . they bring what looks like bill. a : 'waitasec, 10k?! whole bucket not worth 5' monkey:'SUGGESTED repairs'
asciilifeform: i'm surprised they dun build from ~that~ yet.☟︎
asciilifeform: phunphakt: bamboo grows wild in washingtonistan.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's exactly 1 (iron, vs 'winmodem') raid card maker, so it's a 'best horse from glue factory'. has been like this for 20y.
asciilifeform: that fresh pile o'printola gotta go somewhere, neh
asciilifeform: it's hilarious, the hovel i'm in, at least has steel frames. nearby they recently built whole street of 100% cardboard/plastic , 'ONLY low 800s!' reads the billboard. 800k orcbux, that is.☟︎
asciilifeform: it was never obv to asciilifeform wai usa builds from rubbish wood + cardboard + aluminum rather than ferrocement like other sovshitholes
asciilifeform: the 'well of stupid' is always right there beside chair , to fall into, whenever one 'wants'. no need to get on airplane or learn to speak orc..
asciilifeform: managed to reproduce the late-sovok 'we'll make cheap broken clones of their shit! where you gotta reseat the cards nightly! that'll show'em!' engineering culture that asciilifeform's father toiled in. without even leaving his rathole.
asciilifeform: sorta what he ended up doing in reality.
asciilifeform: i suppose he could be redoing pdp 'its' for gorby..
asciilifeform: stalin croaked in '53, and the battery he charged, ran down in '83 or so
asciilifeform: rms held on to microphone long past his sell-by date by playing a sort of zhirinovsky against background of microshit empire. but iirc we had already this thrd.
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had a piece where 'empty people make noises to fill the void in their skulls' or how did it go
asciilifeform: it aint tryin' to make sense, particularly.
asciilifeform: most of the material, i suspect, postdates the transition to mushroobm
asciilifeform: he has a number of pieces like this, and they contradict not only sense but ea. other
asciilifeform: or, alternatively, not forgot, but explicitly rejected, i've nfi.
asciilifeform: prattled for 30 yrs re 'four freedoms', but forgot '-1st' -- 'to fit the thing in head'
asciilifeform: point was re rms. trouble with the man is, i dun think he is stupid, in the usual sense, he appears to quite deliberately think that cultivated fungus on ~coad~ is a valid defense against 'microshit will steal'. hence gcc, autoconf, other marvels.
asciilifeform: for men, 'withdraw into biology' means , in practice, to feed the toe fungus.
asciilifeform: ( spoiler : didn't help him much moar than schrodinger's letter to hitler, had helped schrodinger )
asciilifeform: yarvin wins a kind of triple crown of rot -- not only perpetrated the urbit thing, but to get the necessary 'letter from hitler', did a kind of soft-recantation of his earlier 'rezistenta prin cultura' blogisms
asciilifeform: ftr i have nfi re his marriage, iirc it wasn't to heiress or princess or etc.
asciilifeform: not speaking of work in herr newton's sense. or in 19th sense of 'useful commercial activity'. but in re 'show up to office & punch clock' one.
asciilifeform: esr had a similar one, where 'surprised by wealth' or what was it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect it was a veiled laugh-to-the-bank
asciilifeform: it is difficult to dispell even the most outrageous lulhypothesis re koch-gpg. sorta what makes it 'speshul', what, 40MB of ???.
asciilifeform: ( not even to mention the fact that -- rare, for a kochism -- the problem dun even exist in stock gpg, which defaulted to 2 subkeys, 1 for sigs and 1 for encipherments )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doubt that it has anyffin to do with the reluctance to use it ~at all~ displayed by some pubkey-as-arsenicum-amulet folx
asciilifeform: good % of pgp use historically -- resembled the medieval 'plague amulets'. y'know, the one where scrap of leather with word 'arsenicum' (cuz buying actual arsenic costs tuppence, and scrap -- one )
asciilifeform: ( what, if anyffin, was signed with it..? )
asciilifeform: come to think of it, wtf did he even bother with pgp pub.
asciilifeform: i.e. as authentic as the Shards of the Troo Cross lol
asciilifeform: ( come to think of it , i dun think i ever even saw a pgp sig of his coad turds.. )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to the extent anons can even speak... i dun recall shitoshit ~signing~ anyffing post-'09
asciilifeform: pons & fleischmann imho are models of respectability compared with yarvin. ( and wasted 9000x less time of thinking folx.. )
asciilifeform: typical dog who shat on the floor, has moar remorse than this fella.
