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mircea_popescu: how exactly does one defend against
the very sartre-ian angoisses in
this context ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but see
the fundamental problem with
this ? why should i wish
to be far away from my life's work ? what am i, some sort of celenterate ?
mircea_popescu: they ~are~ destined for a blow up, willy-nilly, because
they're not
tanks.
mircea_popescu: finally giving a formal dress
to a long held but not expressed notion
that it is a waste of one's
time
to
try building chumpatrons.
mircea_popescu: that's, i suppose,
the actual point here :
that while building chumpatrons ~is~ feasible ; and in many actually encountered circumstances it ~is~ productive ; nevertheless a chumpatron is not a
tank. not merely by coincidence of design, like a spoon is not a fork, but could pass for a fork in a bind. a chumpatron is not a
tank fundamentally, nor could ever be a
tank of any kind
to any degree, much like a stove can't cool your
mircea_popescu: yes, and
the average piece of fresh river mud can be fucked (in any hole!) even more
times, even more before breakfast.
mircea_popescu: i was amused at what
the us state dept imagines average romanian may believe.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform during ro elections all sorts of "luminaries" of a very evident mercenary bent did pieces about how soros ain't
that bad - wasn't even ever convicted!
mircea_popescu: well in retrospect it may be whatever, but at
the
time it was more of
the same "human potential unlocking" gargle.
mircea_popescu: pretty much everything current in "progressive" circles is built on
that ideological platform.
mircea_popescu: evidently
the correct solution is ~a correctly closed society~, not
the hallucination of an open one. but
then again
the republic
takes
thinking, and so...
mircea_popescu: so it occurs
to me
that
the ~only cold war ideological response
to
totalitarianism (more or less soros' mental construct of "an open society") is kneejerk nonsense of
the prime order, very much in line with
the proposition
that "subverting cryptography increases security" or "gun bans increase security" etcetera.
trinque: probably a
transfer rate switch somebody just had
to have
mircea_popescu: ajajaja wait wait, i could hijack any bot loading
trilema via curl ?
mircea_popescu: but it is CERTAINLY unfair
that he's fucking dumbs as rocks and i am not.
mircea_popescu: it's maybe unfair
that whoever is running
that "shop" doesn't have as much money as i do. it is maybe unfair
that whoever is running
that "shop" didn't go
to as good a school, or have as good parents, or as alf points out, didn't have as well housed a library at home. fine.
mircea_popescu: no see,
that's about education. ie, equality ~of chances~ or whatever
the fuck.
the issue however is equality of substance.
mircea_popescu: "By adding "required"
to
the Answer box input
tag solves
the captcha requirement issue." is prolly
the best part.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, isn't it fucking weird
that
the progre and libtard preoccupy
themselves with economic inequality so, but never seriously considered intellectual inequality ?)
a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 08:58 ben_vulpes: anyways
the notion
that anyone on facebook is anything other
than a non-player character is hysterical on
the face
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587072 <<
the evolution of paul graham's internet : first, ashley madison made a site where scripted "women" interacted with loser men ;
then, a bunch of kids made a bunch of sites where scripted "users" interact with scripted "users" : facebook, reddit, instagram,
twitter, you name it. ALL of
them, simply put.
☝︎ ben_vulpes: anyways
the notion
that anyone on facebook is anything other
than a non-player character is hysterical on
the face
☟︎ Framedragger: nice foreshadowing.. fb appears
to have invented a whole calculus.. "PC speech + PC speech = PC speech", but "PC + NPC = NPC" lol
Framedragger: "A sentence reportedly containing an expletive directly followed by a reference
to a religious affiliation (for example: “f*cking Muslims”) is not allowed. However,
the same does not go for
the
term “migrants,” as migrants are allegedly only a “quasi protected category.” Additionally, Facebook reportedly allows for posts
that could be deemed hateful against migrants under certain circumstances. For example, a statement
Framedragger:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-leaked-docs/ << lulzy. "Facebook does not permit “verbal attacks” on a “protected category,” according
to
the documents.
These self-determined categories are currently based on a number of factors, including: sex, religious affiliation, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or serious illness. Some of
these groups contain sub-categories"
ben_vulpes: in which
the inadequacies of wget for archiving an apache server become apparent or something
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 16:59 asciilifeform: neato ben_vulpes , is
this mirror somewhere /
ben_vulpes: i had a full
transmission swap done on
the civic for less
ben_vulpes: do you also pay for oil changes at
the dealership?
pete_dushenski: in its infinite wisdom,
the city decided
to
turn
the municipal airport into 'mixed use urban development', leaving only international airport 40km from house.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: mostly because airport is further from maison
than offices and properties i frequent.
pete_dushenski: on a plane
there's (ideally) no wifi, no one
talking
to you, just
the pen and
the page. i miss
traveling as much as i did
the last decade as much as anything for
the rarefied air free from distraction.
pete_dushenski: there's literally nowhere better
to
think and write
than at 30k feet.
pete_dushenski loves flying in commercial craft, gliding off clifftops. must be getting more gentilic
than he realised.
pete_dushenski: but ya, i'll move on
to next car at next btc price level, or next kid, or next spring, or something.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I'm just
trying
to help you continue
the natural order of
things and move on
to next car
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: retrofit for manual crank would be free in your world ? or also hire mulch man
to wrench
this into existence as well
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: ofc. discretion is
the name of
the game in jp, posturing
the name in us.
BingoBoingo: Start drive with feeling of accomplishment after having
turned motor over with own hards
BingoBoingo: What is wrong with just
taking out motor and making crank?
pete_dushenski is currently discovering
the not inconsequential expense of new starter motor in ls. $2k! how many g5s and ppcs is
that, goodness.
BingoBoingo thought outside on Monkeystan everyone just had a room
they surrendered
to compact shelving.
mircea_popescu: (pretty clever design - you could hook
the glass pane out by lifting it.)
mircea_popescu: hey, my own library housed
thousands of volumes in
the standard romanian bookshelf, which yes had glass
mircea_popescu: hey,
there is such a
thing as old money, even in
the usa.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 04:33 BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> cedar ftw. << belongs outside or as an unfinished accent. Bookshelves need
to hole WEIGHT!
pete_dushenski: speaking of shortness and weirdness, happy longest night of
the year! edm had just 7:28 of daylight
today, so 16:32 of darkness.
top
that, equitarianists.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which,
they have
this crazy shit here - picconia excelsa.
the wood hardens SO MUCH as it dries you can't fucking work it
mircea_popescu: get
the nice aromatic red, it'll beat about half
the hardwoords you can run across.
mircea_popescu: dude cedar has a bending strength of like 9. better
than chestnut.
pete_dushenski has bookshelves made of indiand rosewood
that he's quite fond of
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> cedar ftw. << belongs outside or as an unfinished accent. Bookshelves need
to hole WEIGHT!
☟︎ BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I don't
think you know how wood is marketed.
There SPF or "Spruce, Pine, Fir" for
the ones
that suck because
the bulk of particular kinds of softwoods all suck in
the same ways.
Then you get outlifers which are also lumped
together like Douglas Fir and Larch or
the 3-ish species of Southern yellow pine.
pete_dushenski: in other canadian softness, looks like 'liam' and 'sophia' were
the most popular baby names for newborn boys and girls, respecitvely, in 2016
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's not just canadian wood ; all sorts of
thing
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: pretty sure
the beating stick my old man used was cedar. metal
tipped
too!
pete_dushenski: anyways bb, if you missed
trump's campaign rhetoric, he often called nafta 'the world deal ever made ever, like ever ever' and much of
that is focused on
the softwood imports from canada 'undercutting good white american biznizmen and
their upstanding famblies' etc.
mircea_popescu: i knew cedar
to make great boats ; but cedar also makes great beating sticks!
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: we grow pine, fir, cedar, and spruce, most of which come from bc. ontario and quebec grow some hardwoods like oak and maple but
these aren't as practical or affordable for general construction so
they're exported in smaller volumes relatively speaking. so depends what you want your shelves made out of. pine can work but obv
the hardwoods are sturdier if also commensurately spendier.
ben_vulpes: also you know who opened
the door, what's with
the passive voice
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: And further what sort of lumber do yall even grow up
there anyways?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: pls
to describe
this war on softwood lumber? Does
this mean I should build new bookshelves sooner instead of later?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i expect once
the land/ownership update makes it in, eulora will give a run for
their money
to a lot of peoples.