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mircea_popescu: hey, given
two 16yo friends, one of which is in full "he is
totally satan evil guy" and
the other "hey, my current bf is buying me a car, but maybe once he loses his job", which do you
think you fuck first ?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-08 05:21 ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: when is latvia going
to dump
the eu for putin's sweet embrace?
Framedragger:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-08#1563895 << heh! plenty o' russians in latvia. i
think 2020 is
the year when
the eu bribe moneys for
the baltics will begin
to dry up, so maybe about
that
time? lithuania on
the other hand is in full "satan putin is preparing for nuclear" warmongering mode. helps
the centre-right party and its "foreign policy" line
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-11-04 17:48 asciilifeform snored and continues
to snoar
through it.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-30 04:24 BingoBoingo:
Thus concludes my entry into
the Elliot fanfic contest. Your move adlai!
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Haynes, Chilton, or is
there a more exotic
third party manual because cool car?
mircea_popescu: ironically
this makes army (at least in
the pre 90s implementation) very much a college ; which is a determination i stand by.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as oft happens,
they make whore (camp followers, whatever) quarters as close as practicable.
mircea_popescu: he failed
to include
the "please go away", but anyway.
mircea_popescu: college works exactly like greenspun memorialized : "the reason you are having
trouble with
this problem is because you aren't very smart and aren't woking very hard."
adlai: i've yet
to witness a student getting
thrown out of a lecture at
TAU (was done reasonably often by certain
teachers at exeter), although -
they often basically
tell students
to shut up and ask questions privately afterwards
mircea_popescu: should be directly obvious. do
the
teachers publicly rebuff students for being inadequate and ask
them
to leave ?
adlai will keep a rough headcount as
the years pass
mircea_popescu: a fake college is on
the contrary, one built on
the insane premise
that
there's a space and a future for all walkers.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-08#1563912 << anything where half or more of
the hopefuls fail
to make it in, AND half or more of
the first year fails
to pass into 2nd. it must be selective in
this sense, with an understanding
that most extant fenotypes are biological failures of no further interest or value.
☝︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: therefore i proclaim her
the winner, with
the mention
that while none of
the participants are exactly yet shakespeare,
they're certainly much further down
the path of shakespearing
than
the common man, and so congratulations!
mircea_popescu: lly resulting in something like a sugar cube ; hanbot's formal in form, which either
through inhabituation or because poetry is an actual and legitimate artform (which seems rather dubious
to be honest) is less grating
than
the other
two.
mircea_popescu: it is an interesting
task, because
the entries all suffer from
the same affliction, which is formalism, but suffer from it in very different ways. bingoboingo's has a very formal composition - he's deliberately and evidently put anything &
the kitchen sink in
there ; diana's very formally constructed, she starts from a
tiny base in stark contrast
to bingoboingo's all-engulfing endlessness
then follows all
the angles methodica
mircea_popescu: ok, so i'm ready
to adjudicate in
the matter of
the hallo ween st. elliot fanfic contest.
ben_vulpes waits for adlai
to ask "what
the heck kind of chain has a single link, anyways"
ben_vulpes: not unless you're
trying
to ruin
the joke, no
adlai: but iiuc combustion is a pretty
total obliteration of chains. co2 isn't often referred
to as 1,1-methandione, is it?
adlai: er
that's not quite right either. confirming
that i didn't spew nonsense into
the internet reveals
that, while cracking does describe part of
the process of
turning heterogenous crude into several homogenous smaller-chain hydrocarbons, it
typically does involve breaking bonds
ben_vulpes: burning
them is a further reduction in chain length.
ben_vulpes: yeah, i'm aware
that it's a
term of art in
the refining biz.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-07 20:24 ben_vulpes: semi
tempted
to spin up a portland/oregon city water
taxi just
to crack more hydrocarbons apart.
ben_vulpes: odds are
that
The Vacuum System actuating
the blend door is leaking. upside is
that
this may
take my idle from 1050 down
to 800 (and possibly even reclaim some HP) if i do plug some leaks.
ben_vulpes: i have 2 smallish repairs on
the docket: replacing
the seatbelt and fixing
the blend door in
the HVAC system. coming up with a plan for
the first was
trivial, once i had assembly plans for
the seats and restraints in hand. i have a bead on how
to diagnose
the hvac blend as well, similarly derived from
the heat control actuator harness assembly diagrams.
adlai: so, still useful for best ways
to replace parts
that wear?
ben_vulpes: the car is ~intact.
the AIM is a reference
tome on how it went
together in
the first place.
ben_vulpes: adlai: no,
this is an actual assembly manual.
adlai would not object
to
the latter, given
time and space
to work; but doesn't
think
they make'em like
that anymore?
adlai: ben_vulpes: i assume
this is more of an "owner's manual"
type
thing, and you're not now staring at
twenty crates of corvette parts
that you're gonna put
together yourself?
adlai: supposedly "this chemistry department is
the one
that has
the most non-chemistry (ie, physics and math) prerequisites of all chemistry departments in israel, maybe even
the entire world" ...mkay
ben_vulpes also went for a ride in a friend's lotus elise, a car
that basically does not change from year
to year
ben_vulpes: also holy heck computers ruined cars, not in
their automation but in
the inane horseshit
the engineers crapped out once
they could re-diddle every part every year
ben_vulpes received his assembly instruction manual for
the corvette
today, has been a solid remedial american cars course so far
adlai:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-09#1554171 << meanwhile a
tale from
the local unreal-college-cum-kindergarden: "in
this class, i
teach you classical mechanics. we will not cover quantum mechanics, which
tells you how small
things behave over small distances; nor special relativity, which describes
the behavior of
things at high speeds; nor general relativity, which describes
the effect of standing next
to
☝︎ adlai: also !~later
tell vexual or whatever you call yourself
these days,
telling me "you can PM me
too" but
then never being online, and changing nicks, is not a great way
to get PMed
a111: Logged on 2016-11-07 12:26 mircea_popescu: kids who go
to real college where
they learn real science also learn intrinsically
this,
that
to asq a question is
to beg for money, and
to disguise your questions as anything else is felonious. so
they get an over-active self censor. meanwhile
the idiots who do not go
to real college, but
to fake empire college learn
that
they can overpower
their better peers
through sheer gab. because "human rights" and "freedom of speech"
soneelks: oh
those are big screen
tvs sir
soneelks: okay so now i look like a
total faggot. just let me know if you need anything
soneelks: (it's actually goat but
the chef says it's lamb)
soneelks: so
thats 8 zero fucks: enjoy your lunch
soneelks: can we stuff ballets or does
the lordship have a preference?
soneelks: i must confess its not rly sonelks but
the election is near
mircea_popescu: i shall however presently dump
teh irc for ... well, a sweet embrace.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: when is latvia going
to dump
the eu for putin's sweet embrace?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: something like
that. except with more brimstone and firebrand.
ben_vulpes: "baby, we're well beyond 'middle class'. d'you remember how 'middle class' for our parents went?
the 2 cars outside would be new, and we'd not be pent up in 800ft^2. parts of
the country can't drink well water because 'fraking'. when is bad bad enough?"
mircea_popescu: holds discourse on
top of wood pile
that used
to be arts and crafts section.
mircea_popescu: don't worry ben_vulpes by
the
time you're as poor as mark
twain's nigger called jerry, you'll be just as energetic and passionate i'm sure!
trinque: ben_vulpes: why would
they want
to continue
to do
that?
mircea_popescu: there's also no evidence
that a bunch of dorks can make rules for people with money.
ben_vulpes: trinque: do business here, pay
taxes on it here iirc.
ben_vulpes: someone actually advanced
the argument
that "there's no evidence
that corporations will pass
the cost on"
trinque: ben_vulpes: so we're going
to be
taking businesses from OR like we are CA, eh?
ben_vulpes: a) "do you really
think
that will last?" b) "that's pretty amusingly accidentally regressive, as ~all companies 'serving'
the poor satisfy
that"
ben_vulpes: oh and in other glorious socialist republics of oregon, a 2%
tax on corporate sales made it
to
the ballot
this year.
ben_vulpes: i retain hope for
the glorious
trumpenreich
ben_vulpes: cnn: "comey's letter may be
too little,
too late"
mircea_popescu: the reason blacks back
then weren't intelligent and well spoken as now has
to do with
the cruel conditions in which
they lived. back
then, unlike now.
trinque: fucking flatland even
then; it had no chance.
trinque: meanwhile every other search result was some barista crowing about what a man of
the people
to see such wisdom in a slave, and isn't
this such an insight into
the nature of *humans*
mircea_popescu: mark
twain is as much a
threat
to "our" democracy as
trump could ever hope
to be.
mircea_popescu: trinque
that piece is particularly scandalous. imagine,
the only writer worth
two shits
to ever crawl out of
that god forsaken hole, not only a living
testament
to how smoking
twenty cigars a day doesn't give you cancer ; but even daring
to represent black slavery as a carefree life of exact equivalency
to
the shenanigans of
today's barristas and waitresses with jezbel aspirations!
BingoBoingo sometimes dreams of alt-Murica with
Tilden presidency
trinque: heh,
thinking upon it, I suppose it did.
trinque: We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for
thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some
think it
the Voice of God. << I suppose
the great
that'll great again predated Mr
Twain.
phf: funny how apparently everyone knows which side is
the butter on
their sandwich
mircea_popescu: you keep going "if disney were king of
the hill and i had free run of
the studios" sorta scenarios. get off it, kenya dun has a hollywood.
mircea_popescu: anyway. if clinton "wins" we get
to find out just how large
trump's genitalia's were.
mircea_popescu: hey, you're committed
to
this "controlled society" model,
things are gonna go a certain way in yer head no matter what happens.
mircea_popescu: sounds a lot more like
the giddy excitement of
the vicarious rape victim.