asciilifeform: The soldiers parade at Ft. Meade! / From crib sheets the Generals read, / 'Our battles we'll win, / - for we've cracked ROT-13! / Our enemies shall learn to bleed.'
asciilifeform: Cryptography master McGee / said, 'no use I've for this RNG, / I can eat bags of bits, / mix 'em up when I shits, / I know they'll emerge pattern-free.'
asciilifeform: There once lived a fellow named Hearn; / For to ravish the blockchain he yearned; / Cried, 'I'll squirt in my seed, / And your heart - it will bleed!' / But got only laughs in return.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: There once was a man named Ken Thompson / Who had a peculiar Johnson; / For park it he will / In no hole he 'adn't drilled; / Lest the hole tap a thread that's unwholesome.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: originally found it exactly there.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: innocence-lost << 'a habit obscene and unsavoury / kept a cs professor in slavery / with maniacal howls / he deflowers young owls / which he keeps in an underground aviary.'
asciilifeform: the original piece was, largely, about escape from thebezzle
asciilifeform: results - and from this comes strength; the fight now turns, from a draining, futile floundering - to a merry, wrathful clobbering of a dying vermin, who with us - men - has nothing whatsoever in common. But it all begins - with nonparticipation.' (Беркем аль Атоми, articles. translation mine.)☟︎
asciilifeform: sheath, you have traded places with the *pederasti* - now you are sighted, and they are blind. Now you no longer struggle in the darkness with something foggy and omnipresent, which softly absorbs every blow - instead, you can now clearly make out a pathetic piece of shit, which has smeared itself over the most important part - the eyes - of a large and powerful man. You can now deal blows, directly seeing the☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Learn not to participate - to the point of utter impossibility of meeting the enemy 'half-way' - and you will see that inside there lay a very useful mindfuck: in learning to 'nonparticipate,' in fact you drew out your *will* from its scabbard - to which it seemed so securely riveted by your upbringing. The appearance of *your will* changes everything and forever. With your own will slipped into your boot knife☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: kakobrekla, mircea_popescu: when you stop bothering << :
asciilifeform: jail >> pay yer bail with bailstarter.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's just a popped pyramid
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now if you can house the servant personally, sure, it doesn't matter what the local slumlords charge
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is like to say, i want a tractor, don't care what it costs to fuel it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: people wanting a job... income on the terms of what living costs << unless one is a necromancer, it is difficult to hire folks who can't live
asciilifeform: bitcoinpete: so easy to throw out the baby with the bathwater! << esp. when said water in fact contains no baby, but only some quantity of jizm and menstrually jettisoned eggs
asciilifeform: incidentally, this scene could very well be the genuine article. post-'90s russian police routinely search fleshwallets.
asciilifeform: what would become of the folks in uniform who insist on following the 'no tp' order to the letter?
asciilifeform: imagine usa were to ban... toilet paper. who would actually profit from the ban being adequately enforced? no one. from lackluster enforcement at every level? everyone.
asciilifeform: on the contrary, there is an eager recipient for the cock
asciilifeform: the reason why aztlan hypothesis strikes me as weak, is that it is not clear that the mexicans are one-sidedly thrusting unsolicited cock across the border
asciilifeform: as i understand, the customs inspectors who understand that certain trucks are not to be fucked with, certain hours they should take a smoke break and look away, etc. - are still alive.
asciilifeform: i.e. were they plugged because they insisted on following the 'letter of the law' re: their duties, with complicity of their own brass
asciilifeform: now, doesn't it matter whether these corpses became corpses in spite or - or because of - own management?
