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mircea_popescu: theoretically
the millions upon millions of pointless white kids
that
tear down
the universities each year and
the nation's finances would utterly dilute
the hood into meaninglessness.
phf: oh
that was in response
to BingoBoingo's idea
trinque: I recall a hilarious "board meeting" in an episode, I
think.
phf: pretty sure
The Wire made fun of
the whole "gangs
trying
to play white people games"
BingoBoingo: Gangs obsessing over
their London and Rotterdam expansions and whatnot
BingoBoingo: Who knows, maybe startup culture has a
tin pest sort of effect on
the hood?
mircea_popescu: go
there and compassionately offer
them rape kits, or something.
mircea_popescu: ironically, you'd be in a dark cone of immunity because
the derps can't quite argue
that YOU are responsible by putting kids in harm's way, because
they can't say black people are
the harm.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: If
they can't leave
their hug bubble because James Lafond presents,
then
they get
to build up all
the delusion still hotter
mircea_popescu: phf well, depends if you're looking
to monetize
the scandal.
phf: that's definitely not
the
types i would want anywhere near a baltimore ghetto workshop. not only are
they useless,
they are also going
to do something stupid, get shot or raped and next
thing you know we're in
the middle of scandal
phf: it's like
they are cooking in
the 1776 delusion soup, completely detached from reality
phf: one guy (support) got it in his head
that he's going
to open a london branch of
the company, he regularly arranges meetings with random uk business representatives
to discuss along
these lines. i heard he had some kind of meeting with richard branson as part of a small select group, etc. etc. mind you
this has long been shot down by
the owners as utterly insane and shut
the fuck up. doesn't deter him.
phf: everybody's
talking about how
they are going
to be bought, who got bought, who has an opportunity
to get bought. we have our support
team
there, because
they are in
their 20s, need external stimulation, etc. but on
the flip side
they periodically come back with grandiose plans "for
the company"
phf: i'm not even exaggerating
to pander,
the whole
thing is a parody of itself
phf: 1776 is
the biggest one,
they have daily
talks on how
to succeed as a woman ceo, workshops on how
to learn ruby. probably a good subject for a blog post, a
tour of 1776 on an average day..
phf: this is a spinoff from ycombinator, where you're not paying for
tangibles, like "such much space", but instead an opportunity
to connect, blah blah blah
phf: yeah, basically. you get a floor of a building, put a bunch of
tables, a few "closed door" closets for people who are willing
to pay $400/mo, a printer, a coffeemaker, and
then you charge people $100/mo
to have a place
to sit and chat all day
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> everything's is cheap
to
the folks who already have it. and $maxint for
those who don't. << I did not have a pipe wrench yesterday morning and yet $2 got me one before bed
time on
the same day.
phf: that's not for a room,
that's essentially "club membership"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey,
they do have it. work a day, get a grand or so. who ever heard of
this, rent < 1 day's honest work ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform correct response
to waco buildup is
thermobaric not atomic bomb.
mircea_popescu: you go, put a "designer etsy girl" community in ghetoo.
take pix.
phf: mircea_popescu: oh i agree, but i'm not
telling other pufferfish how
to do
things, i'm
talking from my school :> i'm not even saying it's somehow special. it's just very cheap
to put a workspace area in ghetto if
the people working it are basically ok with manual labour, "community building" all
that jazz
BingoBoingo: Whatever happened
to "Every pet a rifleman"?
mircea_popescu: one needs a sort of patriotic dweller
to engage in
this sort of
thing.
phf: asciilifeform: speculators sell in
to markets, some
things just don't have easily identifiable markets
mircea_popescu: lafond correctly shows
that
the whole "race riots" is just demographic rearrangement after some dudes decided
to reclaim 1920s buildings downtown
mircea_popescu: best be prepared
to shoot
the president if it comes
to it.
phf: i know people who did
that in detroit before for a hackerspace, but with motorcycles
mircea_popescu: phf
this is a monopoly
trade. if you're not in
the right lawyer club you'll end up in
the middle of a scandal.
mircea_popescu: ftr, contrary
to what whiteboys
think, "lafond zone" is much better zone
than drycunt zone.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and
these embedded gadgets do not exist on ssh ?
mircea_popescu: ftr, 0 out of 200k is just about consistent with a
TRUE rate of "random bit flippage".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, you know, wtf, "flipped bits" except in
the one most likely fucking spot it never happens ?
mircea_popescu: i dun
think
the butterfly collection warrants any action yet, but it is pretty stranger.
mircea_popescu: the ur example of
this being charles, emperor of
the nonsunsetting-empire.
mircea_popescu: but
that is an independent politics, not an independent economy.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-27 14:21 asciilifeform: ;;later
tell Framedragger interestingly, not one of your ssh mods has popped yet, despite
the historic 0.1% popping rate claimed in previous experiments (we're about 170,000 in)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Seriously
these
things exist and you don't even have
to
travel far!
a111: Logged on 2016-06-27 13:14 phf: *wanted
to
mircea_popescu: ie "everyone agreed he's capable
to empire until he actually did."
mircea_popescu: o right,
tacitus on community consensus : omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset.
BingoBoingo: Well, what else can one expect of a failed Actrauce (-auce is
the way
to gender job
titles mayo)
a111: Logged on 2016-06-27 16:41 mircea_popescu: she looks almost exactly like
this chick at
the bdsm club.
phf: debbie harry as
the antagonist
phf: huh, i kind of want
to see
the original with Divine now
BingoBoingo: Never underestimate
the
time spent by labelmakers
BingoBoingo: ccustomed
to playing comic roles,
tossing around names such as Robin Williams, Steve Martin, and
Tom Hanks.[10] However,
Travolta was aggressively sought after by producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron for
this role because he had starred as Danny Zuko in Grease,
the second most successful movie musical
to date, beaten only by Mamma Mia!."
BingoBoingo: "John
Travolta as Edna
Turnblad,
Tracy's mother and agent, an agoraphobe ashamed of her obesity.
Travolta's casting as Edna continues
the
tradition of having a man in drag portray
the character, going back
to
the original 1988 film, which featured drag queen Divine as Edna and at Hairspray's Broadway version, which featured Harvey Fierstein as Edna.[10] Executives at New Line Cinema originally expected
the part
to be filled by an actor a