mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: original yes on the brk-a bet is yielding 17.5%, not bad at all << also underwater atm.

mircea_popescu: mike_c: they are really managing to screw up a decent wallet. <<< ya srsly, wtf is going on there.

mircea_popescu: "if i wasn't a snot-nosed worthjless sack of shit back when i was a snot-nosed worthless sack of shit"

mircea_popescu: "Over the years I have told a number of friends that, if I had had access to a nuclear device when I was in seventh grade, there would be a huge crater in upstate New York centered on what used to be West Seneca Junior High School.

mircea_popescu: holy shit what sort of bullshit is this. who wants a MISSION to take battered sluts to the er.

mircea_popescu: "As Sarkeesian points out, you may get a mission to hunt down a brutal pimp, but you'll never get a mission to get the hooker he's just beaten to a pulp to the hospital, nor do you unlock achievements by visiting her at a shelter or helping her get re-established elsewhere. These women exist solely to be victimized, so that you can murder the bad guys without any scruple."

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes hey, how about offering teh interested people a nice drawing of their gpg wot ? they gotta put the address in anyway, you got the dependencies anyway...

mircea_popescu: got this running on a server anywhere ?

mircea_popescu: as if anyone gives a flying fuck what's on "his mind". what's he supposed to be, the hive overlord or some shit ?

mircea_popescu: take sunil dutta, the convicted felon who still has a death warrant outstanding on his head.

mircea_popescu: yes, he wasn't a police officer.

mircea_popescu: Tracy Ingle was shot in his house five times during a no-knock raid in North Little Rock, Arkansas. After the police entered the house Tracy thought armed robbers had entered the house and intended to scare them away with a non-working gun. The police expected to find drugs, but none were found. He was brought to the intensive care, but police pulled him out of intensive care for questioning, after which they arrested

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know, people who live in decent places tend to assume the us is similarly a decent place, and readily forget the sort of rogue shithole it actually is.

mircea_popescu: Two former Los Angeles Police Department officers, along with 13 others, have plead guilty to running a robbery ring, which used fake no-knock raids as a ruse to catch victims off guard. The defendants would then steal cash and drugs to sell on the street. This tactic led Radley Balko, editor of Reason Magazine, to complain "So not only can you not be sure the people banging down your door at night are the police, not

mircea_popescu: The number of no-knock raids has increased from 3,000 in 1981 to more than 50,000 in 2005, according to Peter Kraska, a criminologist at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond.

mircea_popescu: i also ate ~80% of the glass beads of a chinese chess set

mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform ball bearings << was given a large bottle of bearing balls to play with as a boy. beautiful things. << me too. i ate them.

mircea_popescu: pankkake: Perhaps using a name that looks "real" would work << you can prolly legally change your name to say Pan K. Kake

mircea_popescu: so i'd say by prevailing marketplace standards you ARE a violinist.

mircea_popescu: shit that's 90% produced by a govt agency with a clear agenda, is taken as "science". what the holy shit.

mircea_popescu: "The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), as part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. The NIAAA functions both as a funding agency that supports research by external research institutions and as a research institution itself, where alco

mircea_popescu: shovel_boss so you do 4 a day for weeks each, this is no counter.

mircea_popescu: shovel_boss srsly, altcoin scams ? get a job eh.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: I was a TA at a pharmacy school for 2 years. Pretty sure anticonvulsants are they way to go, but they vary so much from person to person. << no, he has a point. a woman is ideal but fail that a dog works.

mircea_popescu: aha. well... mebbe ? give it a shot see.

mircea_popescu: someone bets, makes a special volatility bet right after, wins.

mircea_popescu: a. yeah.

mircea_popescu: rescission is, as far as memory serves, the result of a us law, and works out to the right for backsies on mortgages for 3 days after signing.

mircea_popescu: i thought vulpes was a blowupitem-ist

mircea_popescu: "I hope you do not drive away your existing tech-saavy users, like those of us who signed up back in the fall of 2011, with a dumbed down, simplified and rigid user experience a la Facebook.

mircea_popescu: and this even if we don't go all b-a and consider a hire only something that comes with stock options.

mircea_popescu: who the fuck would hire a librarian.

mircea_popescu: you gotta stop hussling poor innocent ppls tho. ragnar fellow is an actual recruiter, wtf do you want to do as a librarian.

mircea_popescu: poor soviets had it a lot harder, they had to walk to finland. it's fucking cold in finland.

mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: think you need a passpuerto first << you can probably simply walk into mexico. you can definitely cross the border to guatemala on foot. once in guatemala, you can hit the local consulate for a temp passport and that's that.

mircea_popescu: . Staff are expected to interact with every single customer and make it a fun night no matter the size of the group, bad weather, bars closing at the last minute, long walks, drunken behavior, etc. << srsly. this is where the level is, irl, in this world.

mircea_popescu: Sheets and towels are changed twice a week. Maid service is included. Need your clothes washed? We'll take care. Need some help cooking or ordering take out? We can help. Any questions you might have don't hesitate to ask! I'm at your service! << "is the maid hot ?"

mircea_popescu: the exact shape the gulag takes is a lot more a function of what the zeks put up with and how exactly

mircea_popescu: you see, creating a zoolag in the first place is a work of art. the zeks are the resistence of the medium

mircea_popescu: (it was a pun. mobile, alabama)