mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-10#1654011 << because ben_vulpes went through a day or two of screaming and drilling with me on the topic many many years ago and we fixed the process. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-10#1654007 << this only means it saved it correctly in the db. wp does another filtering pass when displaying, which does munge. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: in case not found yet : "mod6.sig\n\n\nT" vs ".mod6.sig</a>\n\nT"

mircea_popescu: https://68.media.tumblr.com/4889bbd61efa1b6b8d4d0e04797caf9f/tumblr_ngqpti13u21tctanyo1_1280.jpg << incidentally, did we already do ballgirl ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-09#1653759 << no, no. the sad fact of the matter is that what people want is without exception stupid and harmful. not even one, both. a functional civilisation provides people with a good story as to why they're getting something other than what they want. whether what they actually get happens to also be a) what they actually need, as opposed to $random ; b) actually competitive with the vario ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653635 << hire more "security", you totally need it and besides -- look how much it helped trump! or for that matter didius julianus. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653632 << needs to be SEEEEENNNNNN ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653615 << well, first and foremost, being at the same time a food conduit that works in conducting food, AND something cool to tell chicks at obscure http://trilema.com/2017/from-the-bounty-of-the-internets-mp-was-right/ parties. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: "In future, it would be great if I could just accept any old patch, from any urbit down to the merest comet, as long as it was sealed by ~zod. In general, I would find it comfortable, knowing that everything my urbit was running was a collection of patches, each of which had a signature, or a chain of them, originating in the urbit claiming authorship of that patch." << wtf.

mircea_popescu: "Thank God for those strict gun control laws in Chicago, otherwise the place would look like Texas." << i lelled.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653607 <<< aaahahahaha. fitting, fitting. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653603 << you're starting to get in touch with your feminine side! welcome to the ancientest experience of alterity still in common use today! how do you find it ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653599 << happened all through south america. it's not "considered food" i nthe sense that "it's expensive", and they have some vague intuition as to the whole "in parismadrid they go to mcdo to experience american -- and SO DO WE111" ; however they are poor and cheap food is cheap food and they have local shitholes that "invented foccacia" sell them "pizza" or whatever, produced according t ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653594 << the problem with this theory is that culture is reposited in the elite in all cases. the arab world at the time it was saving the classics from the idiot hordes of europchristians ALSO mostly made of arablite by mass. if i pile up a bunch of coal over your heirloom diamonds can i thereby convince you to throw out "all this pointless carbon" ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653590 << quite. their situation is complicated by the fact that pre-oral "culture". you don't build much of an identitarian resistance along 12 yo values, a love for colorful skirts and dancing. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta love the folx who buy 12-cyl mazeratis to go REALLYREALLYFAST!!! between same red lights as the toyota goes << oh i had the lulz of all time with this yest. so we were coming back, in cab. on other side, porsche SUV! black! dude just peels off like crazy, in the middle of the night. i go "hey, i think he won" and dun think more of it. till... guess who's lined up at next stop ? oh, us and them. so i turn a

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653054 << lel! ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653033 << this is a terrifyingly stupid idea. gf knocks your glasses off next you drive into me then ima have to get out, beat you into a pulp and set the rest of the eu on fire because htye'll be all "hey, why you beat guy into pulp, that's against eu regulations" and i'll be all "fuck you and your stupid mothers" ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653027 << but no, not really. you don't wear them continuously, and the lacrimal soup isn't very conducive in the first place. it's true plastic is great bacterial substrate, but really material science has come a long way, this is not much of a concern. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653031 << it does, yes. though the better doctors will just do it over time, take 3-5 years to shave you down to .1 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653024 << it's fortunate then that nobody gives a shit about glasses except in hot women, if at all. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653018 << you know, maybe a proper probe might even make sense for nsa. ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653003 << doesn't aries sell them anymore ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1652992 << not much, but still better than "skateboarding", i guess. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1652989 << no, i have no objection to it being incomprehensible, it strikes me as nutty also. perhaps a major part of the explanation is that whenever i don't remember something i just pick a girl who likely doesn't know it, ask her about it, and when she doesn't know it she gets ordered to research it. another part of it, maybe even larger, is that the stuff that actually interests me isn't ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1652986 << used to, until this year. i like the fresh air scent of clothes / can't stand detergent perfume bs. unexaminedly i didn't even consider non-open air drying of clothes to be acceptably hygienic in the first place, as per ro traditionz. ☝︎