mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so what is this forrestv thing, does the guy have like a little leak programmed into the code ?

mircea_popescu: "this is a plant made out of cells that could not stand on their own, and if they did would form a circle pattern. it's macropattern is linear. clearly there's something external hodling it all in place"

mircea_popescu: you can tell them from a mile away. mostly because while they make no sense, they proceed liniarly in a way that's not warranted by their internal logic.

mircea_popescu: notsakamoto don't be a fuckwit and read the logs.

mircea_popescu: nobdy here gives a shit, on account of us being both richer and more powerful than the usg.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes this is a soft system being attacked.

mircea_popescu: here's an idea for a kill switch : everyone in the pentagon is hanged.

mircea_popescu: PeterL: not usually explosives, but I have had a few things go up in flames (note: dumping pyrophoric powder into a container of flammable liquid is a bad idea) << one of my favourite "experiments" as a 12 yo with a chemistry lab was setting on fire a mix of potassium chloride and sulfur powder, with various metals mixed in for coloration.

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: this is an easy way to create a fraudulent scenario. <<< i can actually confirm this. clueless intern paid .2 btc coinbase invoice, had to be slapped across head. the bitcents are and have been in limbo since friday.

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: if you can recommend a shop and they give you a cutback on the order "finders fee" or something i would consider <<< what you're contemplating is actually fraud, and a hanging offense you know.

mircea_popescu: dub well she did say she was a stripper.

mircea_popescu: there's just so much bridge a person can play.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's not all it's cracked up to be. i spent a while with old farts in costa rica, they bored me stiff.

mircea_popescu: like, it's bitter, add sugar, less bitter, less bitter, wow sour, not bitter, a little sweet, sweeter etc

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: even worse than bitter is a sour espresso << i think coffee tastes sour at a certain point of sweetening it.

mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> hm, what's a normal temperature for a normal desktop videocard to normally run at ?

mircea_popescu: well done to potheads, this is like not having any coffee for a decade and then it being like... wait i didn't recall it being like this.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` i knowed a woman that killed herself when her (old) husband died

mircea_popescu: #b-a, the source of special father-son moments

mircea_popescu: pretending to interact with things of unknown origin is a ridiculous position to take.

mircea_popescu: it's more a matter that you actually want to.

mircea_popescu: it's not even a matter of "you must", any more than "you must read a fucking book" when you're 12.

mircea_popescu: is that my kid will have a name.

mircea_popescu: well that's not a fair statement of wat happened, and the noticing is noteworthy for the same reason it's noticed in the first place.

mircea_popescu: And the Reddit link cites the source as... Reddit of course. Because apparently nobody creates anything anymore, and it all belongs to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Instagram, right assholes? Why bother doing journalism when you can wave a magic wand and say "INTERNET DID IT!"

mircea_popescu: my favourite example of this business is a gypsy guy by the name viorel lis. at one time the mayor of bucharest, a decade later he was living in the street, but still appearing now and again on tabloid television sets as "an expert" and "ex mayor" for the 2-300 euro fee that brought him