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a111: Logged on 2017-02-16 14:24 mircea_popescu:
that phone is
the palpable (it has
to be! hipsters don;'t have souls), certain mark of apartenence.
they are people
too, because of
that phone, you see ?
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the point being, for
the anglos,
that
the axe is
the
tool you use
to chop down forest, and
the axe handle is made of wood.
phf: i was curious. mt uses
to produce pretty accurate
translations
that i would not have guessed, but it's been wikipidiotized at some point, so now it gives every single possible relevant
translation
phf: multitran has gotten completely useless, it gives grip, shank and
tang,
though
the last
two are
the metal parts (at least in case of knives)
a111: Logged on 2017-02-14 15:34 mircea_popescu: for it
to count it can't be denied, which comes down
to, because michael flynn contains nothing, encryption doesn't help him in any way.
mircea_popescu: depends for whom. syphilis and staphilococcus infection also difficult
to distinguish, for layman.
mircea_popescu: former is starvation behaviour ; latter is retardation behaviour. starvation of a different kind, of a different part. no blood supply
to brain.
mircea_popescu: do you see
the difference between
trying
to use
transformer as capacitor and
trying
to use
transformer as father ?
mircea_popescu: ie, chicken CAN be fucked in
the manner described ; but chicken CAN NOT be your companion.
mircea_popescu: mkay. 1. animals don't matter. ducttaping around a chicken and fucking it for fun is not animal abuse ; 2. people are at
the center. imagining
the chicken is your companion IS animal abuse, in
that you abuse
the animal.
trinque: nah you let people be inane by
themselves
too long,
they get self-important and will return
to foist it upon you
mircea_popescu: animals are not your fucking "companions" anymore
than you're an oil rig.
mircea_popescu: and she went "oh,
they're art silly, you hang
them on
the wall"
mircea_popescu: and AT FIRST i
thought she's
the
tits, because hey, seemed like she's aware of a by now 20 yo mockery of
the exact genre.
trinque: not out of cat, mind, but for
them
trinque: met a chick in portland
that literally made cat bowties
mircea_popescu: oh,
THAT'S what you do. how about when you're not being 5, what do you do
then ?
mircea_popescu: trinque
they're hysterical with
the self-identifying,
too. "i do x-with-y dorkitude". you know, like "i'm a doctor". "i paint seashells with nail polish"
mircea_popescu: just about. 20yos
too lame
to fuck being kept busy so nobody has
to notice
they're actually
too lame
to fuck.
trinque: nah
they're baristas
that
teach yoga and but really someday my (obscure pointless hobby) will be discovered on etsygogo
mircea_popescu: mostly "students". recall
the chick being educated over phone ?
mircea_popescu: ever wondered why people who literally do nothing online, spend all day on quora or wikipedia or whatever, get so irate if
their signal dies ? "omaigawd no internet" "bitch,
this is good for youcoin."
mircea_popescu: "for as lord as i hear
the voice of google and all
the websaints, i am not properly alone in
teh valley of where mp rapes my buttonhole daily."|
mircea_popescu: the notion
that meryl streep is in any way different from bruce lee of bucharest's sewers, or for
that matter you-name-her-nameless-activist-du-jour is possibly contemporaneity's best lol.
mircea_popescu: mark of
the covenant, with
their ancestor lord-saint graham bell.
mircea_popescu: that phone is
the palpable (it has
to be! hipsters don;'t have souls), certain mark of apartenence.
they are people
too, because of
that phone, you see ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that old phone provides a fundamental lifeline. maybe god will call him on
that phone any day now.
mircea_popescu: tell you what :
those people are
the quintessential hipsters.
that's what a hipster is, exactly
that : a bum. like orwell, like all
the ironic waitresses / actresses of
the west coast. bums.
tramps. PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT AT HIME HERE.
mircea_popescu: yes but did you notice
the old phone kept as a statuette ? and
the rest of
the hipster dumbassery ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did you notice anything in
the interiors of
the sewage system dwellers asciilifeform ?
a111: Logged on 2017-02-16 07:20 ben_vulpes: i know a gent who is cursed with one of
the later, more expensive models and he keeps it in a piece of leather
to hide
the ads.
ben_vulpes: place entirely fails
to achieve "delightfully busted" unless you really go looking for it
mircea_popescu: yeah
they're abhorrently bad at allocating real estate.
ben_vulpes: in line with
the wannabe shabby chic of
the place
ben_vulpes: upstairs of
the cafe where asciilifeform and i had coffees with chetty was hugely bathroom, and
the space
that wasn't bathroom unused
mircea_popescu: i ask
the maitre d' "so what happened
to your bathroom ?" "uh... it's always been like
that."
mircea_popescu: you can also step into hole in
the wall nothingery, ask for
toilet, discover
that it's immaculate, and slightly larger
than
the dining hall.
mircea_popescu: here, it's
totally disconnected. you can go
to a pretentious restaurant,
take an ill advised left and find oyurself in
that scene from
trainspotting.
mircea_popescu: it;s something else with
the
toilets. in any other place, you can guess : cheapo place, dubious shitter ; expensive restaurant, nice shitter.
ben_vulpes: anyways, 9/10 places charging more
than
twenty dollars a place had at least one busted shitter
ben_vulpes: i ever
tell you about how i
took sport in fixing
toilets in ars my first
trip
there?
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck wants a used 10 dollar screwdriver from
the sidewalk ffs.
mircea_popescu: eh, cheap chino item. i set it on
the windowsill. stepped inside for a moment. wind rolled it into
the gap. when i came back, 5 mins later... gone.
ben_vulpes: the mind boggles at
the conspiracy of circumstance
that would let a someone near your
tools
ben_vulpes: a+ steaks and entirely friendly horsefolk
too
ben_vulpes: still. no
train
to an airport
that far from 'downtown' is bogus.
mircea_popescu: well, it's about
the size of a medium sized mall's parking lot.
mircea_popescu: buenos aires HAS NO DIRECT FLIGHTS. you understand
this ?
they're like omaha, nebraska, you can fly
to flordia or madrid.
that's it.
mircea_popescu: istanbul airport processes about 5-10k people/hour, every hour, every day. i haven't seen anything like
that since before maga.
mircea_popescu: let me make a point here. buenos aires and instanbul are about
the same
thing, 10mn+
towns, largest in
their area etc.
ben_vulpes: train
to jfk always beat cabs on price and speed
mircea_popescu: i am relatively proud
to say i have by now seen just about every inch of
this ~largest
town on earth.
ben_vulpes: have
they run one
to
the airport yet ffs?
ben_vulpes: surely not i
thought
that was an actual subway