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gribble: nubbins` was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 1 day, 19 hours, 8 minutes, and 30 seconds ago: <nubbins`> oh right, yeah
mircea_popescu: ;;seen nubbins`
mircea_popescu: this would be the purpose and the mark of art, right nubbins` ?
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> nubbins`: if i did not have a full-time pet to handle the food problem, i would probably have to survive on something like military rations. << Sprats come in can, RATIONS!!!
ascii_field: nubbins`: if i did not have a full-time pet to handle the food problem, i would probably have to survive on something like military rations.
ascii_field: nubbins`: you are quite right, that the situation is very different in usa.
felipelalli: nubbins`: don't worry, selective memory.
felipelalli: nubbins`: you said "don't worry, you're new" something like that.
ascii_field: nubbins`: academic, though. food is scarcely a tenth of it
ascii_field: nubbins`: go try eating, e.g., plankton for the rest of your life
ascii_field: nubbins`: not even chinese live on rice alone
felipelalli: mircea_popescu: thank you for your considerations, you're right. nubbins` thank you for comprehend.
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> nubbins`: if i worked in a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy a pogo and mess with it << what did you buy and play with instead? a nagant, testing how it feels in the mouth, as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ? <<< not in so many words :P
ascii_field: <Chillum> his hostile code should have sat dormant for 6 months, then someone with no obvious connection to him should have got the ticket << i suppose this is when nubbins` says 'learn the dark marketz, anyone can!' and mircea_popescu tells us about the superiority of human dark org vs relying on machines
ascii_field: nubbins`: the only thing that'll make alf walk away is alf << nubbins` would probably be rather surprised to learn that - other than the physical separation from wildlife (e.g., nubbins`'s roommate) - i have very few luxuries
ascii_field: nubbins`: maybe once you get enough toys it'll be a fair trade << all the toys i buy put together are dwarfed by the cost of living like a human being (e.g., not having rabid hyenas in my home, nor within 100 metres, etc.)
ascii_field: nubbins`: if i worked in a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy a pogo and mess with it << what did you buy and play with instead? a nagant, testing how it feels in the mouth, as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ?
ascii_field: nubbins`: but i'll note that this is a problem with alf, not with walking away << i've noticed that even you have exhausted your patience with the bipedal rabid dog in your home...
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: how is it that longer trips don't suffice ? suffice for what ?
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: oh you're busy nao ? what happened to mr. man of leisure of twodogslandia ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` how so ? house is house.
nubbins`: i'm serious: <+nubbins`> lobbes truly foolhardy is the man to whom i serve as an example
mircea_popescu: nubbins` or body mods or w/e.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know, just because your job sucked doesn't mean work sucks.
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: lolk
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: guessing that 61k is pre-tax, i'll guess 20k savings. i'm guessing you've got skill in this saving domain.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` alf likes gadgets.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's when you stop contributing to an idiotic community and just keep for yourself.
mircea_popescu: not everything's insurable nubbins`. specifically : insurance works for individuals. i was discussing the country/western world.
adlai also wonders wo what degree nubbins` has "gone galt", perhaps without being consciously aware of the concept
mircea_popescu: nubbins` how much is teh interest on that 200k ?
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: ya how does that actually work financially ?
adlai: nubbins`: well you can have all the right puzzle pieces on the table, yet not see the picture
mircea_popescu: nubbins` to the degree that one's action is prevented by organised debris in his head, then this process may clear a path he can finally act upon
adlai: well it's more towards nubbins` who seems to have trouble getting across what was said quite aptly millenia ago
mircea_popescu: nubbins` all about how and why would one go in the water, whether there's breathing, ample considerations.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` honestly i thought you were kinda dumb for the entire interval, but in a reserved sort of way.
nubbins`: <+nubbins`> now, at this point, i'd like to take the opportunity to inquire as to what the general consensus is, among those present, regarding my intelligence, wisdom, and overall sensibility
asciilifeform recalls a thread where nubbins` spoke of having some sort of actual assets to his name
asciilifeform: nubbins`: you did mention a paid-up house. so whatever the intelligence and wisdom, nubbins` is rich
mircea_popescu: nubbins` discussions on teh side of the pool.
adlai: nubbins` seems content to swim, or clutch driftwood, after taking the hatchet to his yacht
asciilifeform: to comprehend what nubbins` meant.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: walk where?
asciilifeform: nubbins`: walking away with a zippo tossed over shoulder is the only way to find out.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: again the lsd
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because nubbins` has this incomplete thread with me, re: 'you too can learn to be me'
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i'd like to hear honest take from you, on this matter. would you say that the 20 years i spent learning to do what i do, since was a boy, a waste, like career of a bureaucrat? or does serenissima world have some use for the type of thing that i do.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-04-2015#1095008 << thread re: same ☝︎
asciilifeform: nubbins`: no.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: share the lsd ?
asciilifeform: nubbins`: the partizan armies of iraq, afghan, etc. are like zoo cats
asciilifeform: nubbins`: in mircea_popescu's world, as i understand, every soldier is naked but for his parachute, and ought to take what he needs from the locals
assbot: Logged on 13-04-2015 15:53:31; nubbins`: consider how quickly your tongue healed the last time you bit it hard enough to draw blood and oaths
mircea_popescu: !up WoIf`
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: that cop is pretty fucked.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: nubbins`it's that pain in general is bad, and to be avoided
mircea_popescu: nubbins` what i don't get with all the libertards is why exactly they imagine oppression is a bad thing.
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: lol yea
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: for the same reason
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: i can barely imagine your face the first time you bought a bitcoin
mircea_popescu: nubbins` for the record, traditional (european) cooking happened around this large flat table of very thick oak ☟︎
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it makes in two days ?!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` nah, just, wood stuff was cheap. you'd go through multiple sets each year np
mircea_popescu: nubbins` end of day.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` what i said was that the kitchen's the worst place to share with some whoever. it is.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` uh i dun follow.
mxtm: oh, well WoIf` is imitating Wolf`
mircea_popescu: !up WoIf`
mxtm: `bittrex-richie is impersonating bittrex-richie, by the way
BingoBoingo: !up `bittrex-richie
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2015 00:25:57; nubbins`: or, what was it the guy tried to pass off? "the peerage"
mircea_popescu: is Chillum hotter than nubbins` ?
ben_vulpes: <nubbins`> [03:53] and i walk around for a half hour... rolling it << i chased myself around my brain trying to get a look at myself for an hour or four on acid this one time
asciilifeform: nubbins`: patients at chemotherapeutic clinics are often given weird sodas, etc. to drink, for this reason
asciilifeform: nubbins`: or the american expression, dating at least to civil war, of 'biting the bullet'
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i suspect that it will turn up being an elementary proprioception quirk
asciilifeform: nubbins`: <nubbins`> anyone who claims to have a grasp on the processes behind these decisions is blowing smoke up your ass << the amputation folks do appear to converge on certain threads in their explanations, iirc
trinque: nubbins`: yeah I see your point
trinque: nubbins`: I am invariably dull when it comes to expressing my feelings to others
trinque: nubbins`: identity-wise? I don't tend to think about it. maybe something to do with a job
trinque: nubbins`: I'll agree with that
asciilifeform: nubbins`: they won't be taken in by a cruel sham
asciilifeform: nubbins`: in a way, the folks who 'by 1000 want' to be dragons, are better off
trinque: nubbins`: but was the guy getting his dick chopped off one of those?
trinque: nubbins`: yeah this one time..
trinque: nubbins`: I am
trinque: nubbins`: what do you think it is?
trinque: nubbins`: I was talking about the guy who chops his finger off
trinque: nubbins`: I was actually looking for an explanation for the thing
trinque: nubbins`: nah it seems like... a big deal
trinque: +nubbins` | like, say, the lineup at the dick-scissor store. < ahahha
trinque: nubbins`: this gets into "everything's relative" and I don't really subscribe to that
trinque: nubbins`: I'm not gonna stop him
trinque: nubbins`: he could simply decide that he is going to ask for the thing, and do it
trinque: nubbins`: whatever bullshit rituals work for him
trinque: nubbins`: by magical thinking I mean the kind which simply tries to declare things to be other than they are
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it wouldn't work, imo. 1984 so deeply depends on very male erotic sentiment.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i knew of a guy who was a total slob, ended up giving himself renal failure.