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mircea_popescu: gotta make trilema moar appealing to the derp generation.
mircea_popescu: brb, writing "here's five old tshirt types you'll find at hot topic" article
mircea_popescu: assbot: 5 Cryptocurrency Caricatures You'll Meet on r/Bitcoin - CoinDesk << so coindesk is at the gizmodo/mashable/demand media "stale meme list" phase of post-shark-jumping ?
mircea_popescu: fine. i blame them, their stupid fathers & bovine mothers, the fucking gooses masquerading as "educators" in a ten mile radius
mircea_popescu: she definitely seems to think that's what she's getting, the other end of "lul what can we make her do ? shoe on head ?"
mircea_popescu: which aren't particularly sexy, the whole sport is, "let's humiliate / torture her"
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many of the online derps got their start/education on camwhore sites
mircea_popescu: the woman with the kickstarter makes an excellent point.
mircea_popescu: enough? Do you feel you got your due? That you were able to violate my privacy and dignity enough to feel I'm worthy of ten pathetic dollars? Less than a damned movie and popcorn?"
mircea_popescu: nsparent do you want it? Do you want to know that one of the reasons I am very private about connecting my pen names is because the man who raped me enjoys making fake profiles and friending me every few years, just to get off on sending me a message and getting blocked? Do you want to hear how I shake all over and panic and relive everything he did to me when that happens? Does that do it for you? Is that transparent
mircea_popescu: "4. You don't deserve to know any of that. It's none of your business. I invited my readers to chip in on a project--or not. I did not invite you to worm your nose into every aspect of my life, hunt down pictures of my home, call me names, or tell me I was worthless, arrogant, greedy, and undeserving. But you want to rip me bare and expose how awful you're sure I am. I get it, you want me transparent. How much more tra
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well yeah, obviously. however, teh prison people try and prevent stuff like you know, perfectly private comms.
mircea_popescu: if it were, all drug lords / mafia kingpins would be in jail, offloading the cost of their security to the state, while they kept at their biz.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: you need to get one of those cardanos. << lol it wouldn't be legal.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: works here << new sort of imperceptible ddos.
mircea_popescu: but an airgap is not a semiconductor. the technical argument can be brougth that obviously semiconductors insulate
mircea_popescu: it doesn't work on electric flux, but "communication" flux
mircea_popescu: a diode is exactly this : current goes one way but not the other.
mircea_popescu: i meant, your directional, or message-aware or otherwise "airgap" is a semiconductor in the flux
mircea_popescu: like a diode yeah. conceivably. not what an airgap is toh
mircea_popescu: davout for all you know the internet is already automatically airgapped to all hell.
mircea_popescu: yeah obv. just, imo better economics all around once that's on the table.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's one for you : suppose the stavka website sported a "Afghanistani cock -> Russian eager asshole plox ty. We love real men, we're all transvestitties over here!"
mircea_popescu: "WASHINGTON — The Twitter and YouTube accounts of the Pentagon's command for its forces in the Middle East have been hacked, according to a defense official Monday." lawl
mircea_popescu: a bum, like a total, street dwelling bum, accosts some random guy begging. and the random guy goes like "ain't got nothing now", and hands him his coke bottle.
mircea_popescu: soo... i go to see my private banker, her office's like four blocks down. and as i walk on the street, i see a thing that's still with me.
mircea_popescu: qntra has a link to webirc, iirc anyone following it shows up in here as qntranet
mircea_popescu: if i want to talk to preet, i can talk to preet directly.
mircea_popescu: what exactly do you imagine anyone may wish to have to do with you after that ?
mircea_popescu: heck, if i can stop reading shit online for five minutes maybe i do it this month. or whatever.
mircea_popescu: i have servers i shoud probably turn off that i was too lazy to turn off that cost more than that
mircea_popescu: fucking seriously ? 12 hour days to write that pulp ? for 2.3k a month ?!
mircea_popescu: "And as anyone in indie romance knows, the waters are getting crowded, the competition is getting fierce, and I have to hustle my ass off to move books that sold themselves a year ago. I work twelve hours a day with promo, writing, and ad planning--sometimes more."
mircea_popescu: no, merely the definition of rateless is "no rate can be computed" instead of "this constant divided by infinity"
mircea_popescu: otherwise it's like saying the halting problem doens't exist because no computer runs forever.
mircea_popescu: decimation infinite time's not needed, is it ? just as long as you're not done yet
mircea_popescu: y own problems. "It's not my fault that I didn't pursue a romantic relationship with her, she's just a friendzoning bitch." This projection would then just grow and grow to encompass all women.
mircea_popescu: ationships. I've had crushes, sure, but whenever the thought of actually forming a romantic relationship with that person would come up, I instantly shot myself down. Through shooting myself down, however, I also shot down that person. "She's shallow," I'd say, "she only wants hot jocks and douchebags. She's not worth my time." I would project all of my self-hatred onto this woman so I could avoid actually working on m
mircea_popescu: e a "fat fucking faggot" while I was walking home from the grocery store. I know he was probably drunk and not necessarily in the best state of mind, but fuck that shit hurts. Because of that bullying, I really don't have much confidence at all outside of my own work. The first thing I think of when I meet a new person is "I wonder how disgusted he is with me." And because of that self-hatred, I've never sought out rel
mircea_popescu: Up to probably three or four years ago, I would absolutely be that self-hating nerd Chu is talking about. Generally, I'm not that good looking. I'm fat in a bunch of weird places, tall, and pretty much just strange to look at. For most of my life, I was bullied, and even at 23 years old, I still experience a bit of bullying, and I internalize every insult I hear. Just a few days ago, a random guy in the street called m
mircea_popescu: Ooof, this article hit a bit too close to home for me.