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mircea_popescu: they had a viper mustang, and a beautiful belair, and a thunderbird and things.
mircea_popescu: in other news, went for glass of wine with friends at this coquette french bistro ; old car exhibition decided to occur just outside.
mircea_popescu: brazilish considering how much you're worth atm, it'll be good enough for now. can always switch it out later.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: meanwhile intellectual dispute in mp household over who came up with calling marlon brando a potato ; resolved by "eh, shut up and go do some dishes", followed by suspect silence.
mircea_popescu: could tell the mysterious someone to look on localbitcoins
mircea_popescu: you don't understand, the imperial republic-lite is liek totally serious biznis!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo btw, i don't get it, why the fuck would some bar apologize for pick-a-whore offering a free trick ?!
mircea_popescu: aaand in other lulz, "IssueCrawler >> Log-in A software tool that locates and visualizes networks on the web. See www.govcom.org/scenarios_use.html for more information."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, it's how "research" gets published on all sorta "topics" in the empire of idiots.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman well, possibly no-number not implemented yet! am i being helpful yet ?
mircea_popescu: it never happened, but it never happened at the cost of the 60s.
mircea_popescu: there was ~a very good reason~ for mccarthyism, as it turns out, specifically this fear among the warren buffett class of the period that the kids are just about going to desert them.
mircea_popescu: as far as uneducated, "hard" ustardian kids were concerned, the dilemma stood between stories of killing injuns and "building a civilisation out of a wilderness" by then two generations expired, or else ~kids just like them actually doing it~, driving motorcycles through the endless dusts of the middle earth and erecting oil pumping metropolises across the siberia.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: it makes a very in interesting point re "cultural wars" and "rock and roll killed the soviet union", namely, that cca 1950 the su was winning the cultural war, very much so, the larger of the "allies", the most accomplished, sending dogs in space and building the new frontier
mircea_popescu: btw, asciilifeform phf or other conaisseurs of ye olde mosfilm : you'll prolly much enjoy
http://trilema.com/2012/the-lords-of-flatbush/ ; it's basically the tough youth of soviet agitprop, in all the formal particulars, except functionally he runs away like a rabbit and sees no problem with this.
mircea_popescu: (particularly fucking hysterical bit of nonsense about how salo needs "defending" and inept "press" moral panics about "child abuse" could conceivably be taken seriously)
mircea_popescu: in other random thoughts re pizarro, anyone asked ncyclopediadramatica.rs how much they want to replace those god-ugly banners to usg.whateveristan ?
mircea_popescu: indian can't be arsed to figure out english plural ; but knows from his mula & stramula how "anonimity" works for cock roaches.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you wanna write out a prediction, you got about an hour or so ?
mircea_popescu: trinque this also gives teeth to the reject-invoice semantics, because you'd better fucking reject the ones you don't intend to pay
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ill publish later a sad story, should make it obvious to you.
mircea_popescu: there's been a definite uptick in schmucks trying to pretend they're me on fetlife. and i suppose similarly on obscure webshits i don't know about.
mircea_popescu: thereby freeing me from a) the need to dns-check and b) the need to communicate my kyc history every time i pay ?
mircea_popescu: trinque aaand if that can be relied upon, can i also rely on the semantics of !!pay-invoice lobbes 1 to pay the !~first curtrently outstanding~ invoice
mircea_popescu: and also, you wanna pay me the extra back in ecu in eurloa or keep it on books as prepayment for future auctions ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and lobbes don't invoice for 9 digit figures because bitcoin has 8 digits!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so trinque could it be possible to not be possible to pay the same invoice twice cuz that's the point of invoices in the first place, they should die once paid
☟︎ mircea_popescu: at first i looked for a weird bug that turns 010742 into 100800 ; buyt then it turned out he had already sent me an invoice, for that amt, back in oct 2017, which i re-paid
mircea_popescu: trinque lobbes in other weird : <deedbot> Invoiced mircea_popescu 0.00010742 ; which i paid, and which shows in ledger as me having paid him 00100800.
mircea_popescu: spyked evidently, if adalisp isn't tabletop systems engineering, then what is it.
mircea_popescu: a damn, i bet this wasn't first invoice. aite ima look into this tomorro.
mircea_popescu: lobbes "<deedbot> mircea_popescu paid lobbes invoice 1"
mircea_popescu: WHERE IS MY ELECTRONICS HAMMER!!! NOT THAT ONE, TOO LIGHT. THE HEAVY ONE!
mircea_popescu: ie, just because you didn't get almond puree doesn't mean you weren't served desert.
mircea_popescu: hey, i have a dime out or w/e waiting for a guy who's gonna do it this month cuz prev month was busy or w/e.
mircea_popescu: i would certainly not mind a "fuck you -- power control replacement" item just for the fuckshow of it.
mircea_popescu: but i don't believe you when you say there was no cheese.
mircea_popescu: now, i believe if you say we ate all the cheese that was in that trap, no further point in fucking with it.
mircea_popescu: this, again, not needed, in the sense "obvious". yet, there they are, same deal.
mircea_popescu: the other class, is that specific statements, such as the above, "item may not manage its own power" had opportunity to be stated.
mircea_popescu: obviousaly this was never ~needed~, but then again oil deposits were not ~needed~ either. yet in its wisdom mother nature has provided.
mircea_popescu: and along these lines, i'll dispute your ~0 to show for it. there's two classes of (very important!) things to show for it. one class is that now when i tell amstan he's the repugnant son of a stupid whore, there's loglines backing it up ; and when we discuss google as an instrument of evil, also.
mircea_popescu: maybe there's a cut in between. anyway, as a matter of principle -- laptop may not manage its own power.
mircea_popescu: no more of this "item manages its own power". it's insanity, and moreover very much of the same feather as "usg manages its own currency"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the whole stack has to be broken. if it takes giving up li ion, fine. whatever it takes.
mircea_popescu: ie, exactly the opposite way apple tries to go, with its "proprietary cables" bullshit.
mircea_popescu: i want my own, wholly separate, universal charger/manager.
mircea_popescu: this arrangement where "laptop manages its own power" is bullshit.
mircea_popescu: honestly, a replacement chareger dongle would be a very good thing.