asciilifeform: accidentally inspired (long after his disappearance) the 'manosphere' people
asciilifeform: vanished mostly without a trace some time in the mid '00s
asciilifeform: retired chemist (afaik), was a kind of mircea_popescu in the sense of playing designated torturer to a long-dead derp reservation on usenet
asciilifeform: replacement tech for bio 'product' has an almost inescapable attribute - very little resemblance to the original, in the end. 'airplanes are also birds, they merely don't flap their wings...' (russian, forget who)
asciilifeform: herr mocsny spent most of a decade discussing this very subject on usenet.
asciilifeform: not that it is impossible in principle - the tech simply isn't there yet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: japanese robodog has not replaced biodog. similar case here.
asciilifeform: '—Y mientras tanto qué comemos —preguntó, y agarró al coronel por el cuello de la franela. Lo sacudió con energía—. Dime, qué comemos. El coronel necesitó setenta y cinco años —los setenta y cinco años de su vida, minuto a minuto— para llegar a ese instante. Se sintió puro, explícito, invencible, en el momento de responder. — Mierda.'
asciilifeform: nubbins`: marquez << lol! that was my favourite line in the entire book!
asciilifeform: never understood folks who beg for airplane tickets. what do they intend to eat at the destination ?
asciilifeform: when strain gauges and computers became a thing, this was no longer necessary
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: originally, 'phillips' screws caught on because a (motorized, factory) driver would slip automatically when the screw tightened
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: do you know why 'torx' exists?
asciilifeform doesn't use that machine often, battery has probably rotted and ripe for replacement
asciilifeform: mac battery << idk about the more recent machines, but the one on my (circa '09?) unit is replaceable. just need to pop 8 torx screws.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: why? you have an example of the item i posted ad for ?
asciilifeform: moiety: what made you think i still own a typewriter?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aye, suspected as much. but worth a shot.
asciilifeform shopping for object that is gathering dust in many a garage, but would cost 10x the offered price if bought new from reputable vendor. see logs, 'golden toilet.'
asciilifeform: anybody here buy physical objects -otc ?
asciilifeform doubts that anything will come of this, but tries anyway
asciilifeform: ;;buy 1 "CNC x,y,z stage, any manufacturer, with motors and controller." at 2 BTC
asciilifeform: zulus, amerinds, etc eagerly picked up rifles, however. so this tells us something.
asciilifeform: greek fire << interestingly, i recall that opponents captured siphons, couldn't figure out how to work them, threw them out
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mostly because they tend to get discovered close to an empire's peak complexity (i.e. collapse prelude)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: except in extreme cases (fissiles concentrating up the foodchain, zapping anything more interesting than a slime mold) what you get is precisely 'more stupid' - that is, a population heavy on the young.
asciilifeform: what's wrong with good old fashioned fallout ?
asciilifeform: people generally end up believing in the things they wish to see happen.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect that orlov's personal wank fantasies have clouded his mind. e.g., he proclaimed, gleefully, that the uninhabitable wastelands of russia will become arable land due to warmocalypse, and the era of anglo-yoke will give way to a russian mega-hegemony
asciilifeform: orlov's 'patient' is all of technological civilization, roughly steam age and up
asciilifeform: even with an incurable patient - the approach is rather irritating.
asciilifeform: his 'collapse' writings are excellent in many ways, but one gets an inescapable feeling that the 'doctor' is not really interested in curing the 'patient.' instead, he would like to see the patient - and his children, and his children's children - croak asap.
asciilifeform: i'm not even 100% convinced that orlov actually believes in anthropogenic climatocalypse. what is more or less certain is that he wants industrial civilization off the gameboard, asap. and is willing to support just about any ideology which promises to help the process along.
asciilifeform: he's one of the folks who only like conversation on their own terms.
asciilifeform: actually it is. he started censoring comments when noticed that 99 out of 100 are 'wake up, climatocalypse is a sham'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: orlov is an incorrigible believer in an impending pollutionocalypse.
asciilifeform: we're well into (5) but perhaps it remains possible to throw a wrench in (6)
asciilifeform: 'progressive' algo: 1) infiltrate everything 2) ??? 3) profit 4) begin to get euchred out of the driver's seat 5) wreck it all from spite 6) blame wreckage on вредители.
asciilifeform: these folks will indeed 'upgrade' any computer they're left alone with to 'pink and round.'
