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BingoBoingo: And if the leak is legit.
BingoBoingo: I guess it's worth a mention if you keep it short and end it with "Was this yet another social media liberation by Peace? Him in our time."
shinohai: I personally don't know anyone there.
BingoBoingo: *anyone with such a vehicle that isn't making better money burning down houses to steal the brick*
BingoBoingo: But that weedpatch is at least 10 USD in gas away from anyone with a motor vehicle capable of transporting a mower.
BingoBoingo: ~225 usd and I'd turn it into grass this fall when its planting time ~350 usd I'd even return in the spring to make sure it is still grass over summer 2017
BingoBoingo: No way in fuck is that shit grass.
mircea_popescu: maybe the windows reboots.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, could just connect it to airplane body frame, see what happenes.
asciilifeform: dun need no stinkin' modern electronix, see, to make trouble.
mircea_popescu: the jack off tabernacle. rub for jesus!
mircea_popescu: but come to think about it, you're damned right, could re-roll 1km of hard tin foil + plastic wrap on an empty roll, charge it and kill whoever.
mircea_popescu: pro memoria : if she's even marginally worth fucking, there's going to be 40+ inches which is more than 1 meter around various points.
asciilifeform: iirc somebody sells a handy shrinkwrap gizmo for this
mircea_popescu: i bought more plastic wrap than that.
mircea_popescu: in other happy news, industrial strength and size tin foil here (1km) comes wrapped around this lovely hard cardboard roll that actually makes a fucking great beating implement!
mircea_popescu: there's more things that sound reasonable than there's reason to go around.
asciilifeform: whereas buying and snorting the coke - is unambiguous spend
asciilifeform: the way i read pg's thing, it was reasonably sane, hypothesis being that bad investment is more like pouring petron into a leaky tank, you don't ~think~ you've destroyed it
asciilifeform: how's that? eskimo will blow maxint on coke and not even blink ?
asciilifeform: people trying to sell you expensive things say "it's an investment."'
asciilifeform: 'In most people's minds, spending money on luxuries sets off alarms that making investments doesn't. Luxuries seem self-indulgent. And unless you got the money by inheriting it or winning a lottery, you've already been thoroughly trained that self-indulgence leads to trouble. Investing bypasses those alarms. You're not spending the money; you're just moving it from one asset to another. Which is why
mircea_popescu: "i thought she meant she's affraid for the world on my account! honest i did! but no, turns out..."
mircea_popescu: where the fuck'\s the part where the idiot goes "oh, NOW i get what mom meant!"
mircea_popescu: then as the blood's fattening the dust, it's all silent.
mircea_popescu: funny how this works, with inept kids. first it's all "but i wouldn't shoot without a cause, i'd gun nobody down"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they're all poor like church mice, and somehow they can't afford the paper to publish the retraction.
asciilifeform: even he had article on precisely this!
mircea_popescu: hey, paul graham was harping about how "that's important" and "the core of america's prosperity", that he and the rest of his inept friends, govt lottery winners, "invest" and so cause economic growth
asciilifeform: and iirc many (most?) lottery winners go broke precisely from inept attempts to attach wings and engine to their rock.
mircea_popescu: and let us laugh together for a moment : http://buenosaires.backpage.com/Events/ http://buenosaires.backpage.com/Bars/
asciilifeform: as in the threads re lottery winners.
asciilifeform: where he grabs a bunch and can't get hand out, and then hunter comes
mircea_popescu: most women sexually active in the 70s had a very similar looking piece. for curving eyelashes.
asciilifeform: for some reason, whenever i think of 'early adopters' and voorheeses who 'lost it all', i think of the proverbial monkey trap with the gourd full of goodies
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mircea_popescu: should prolly have googled for "anal retractor", they're pretty... elaborate.
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mircea_popescu: the difference between theory and practice is that in practice theory wears anal retractors.
asciilifeform: but this is not entirely applicable to btc planet - unlike fiatola, it does not evaporate at room temperature
asciilifeform: hm i recall this for some reason
mircea_popescu: companion piece to http://trilema.com/2010/moartea-ca-o-veste-buna/ which is the exact same story in the other perspective.
mircea_popescu: haha nah, the one with this guy's daughter.
asciilifeform: the one where 'and then the stone convinced the animals of the forest to throw him up into the air' ?
mircea_popescu: is old trilema article, re rocks and birds, and envying people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, losts of people started with very promising qualities ended up making all the wrong choices.
shinohai: I dunno re: voorhees. Ver seems to have poured his into some shitty gambling page on his btc site.
asciilifeform: wtf did the man do with his mountain of coin?
asciilifeform: imho that's the peculiar thing
shinohai: And playing the victim to anyone that will listen, ala Roger Ver.
asciilifeform: but after that, voorhees moved on to illustrious career of spamming, mlm, and usg collaboaration..
asciilifeform: sdice was a pretty good 'torture test' of the network tho!
asciilifeform: iciently many layers of isolation between him and the chumps.'
asciilifeform: ftr, what i said re voorhees's dice in feb. '13: 'Satoshi Dice is a can of worms which almost deserves its own discussion. It is, at its core, a simple “numbers game.” That is to say, an industrial-strength harvester of chump money, precisely the kind of thing which Popescu expresses his disdain for at every opportunity. But listing its stock on MPEx does not bother him, because there are suff
BingoBoingo: Sometimes stupid takes time to reveal itself if the package is polished and the rest of the crowd is covered in shit it can be hard to discern the smell of shit inside the box.
asciilifeform: iirc he was well-regarded in #b-a at one point (but largely before my time)
asciilifeform: was voorhees ~always~ scum or was he hit once too many in the head or what .
trinque: Today it was me who was wrong. << cannot help but read this in the voice of randy marsh
deedbot: [Qntra] US Loses 40% Of Women To Mayo Gender Transition - http://qntra.net/2016/06/us-loses-40-of-women-to-mayo-gender-transition/
shinohai: Yeah, that's 4chan.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-08 19:03 shinohai: I'll take "Thing you might see in mircea_popescu's beasement" for 0.5 BTC, Alex. http://i.4cdn.org/b/1465410271608.webm
a111: Logged on 2016-06-08 19:03 shinohai: I'll take "Thing you might see in mircea_popescu's beasement" for 0.5 BTC, Alex. http://i.4cdn.org/b/1465410271608.webm
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1479006 << incidentally, that's a fucking c section innit. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: kinda how these scams work.
shinohai: And I thank you. Incredible that public officials blindly send funds like that.
shinohai: ;;later tell BingoBoingo http://ix.io/QlF <<< possibly lulzy enough for inclusion
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shinohai: ;;later tell http://ix.io/QlF <<< possibly lulzy enough for inclusion
shinohai: I'll take "Thing you might see in mircea_popescu's beasement" for 0.5 BTC, Alex. http://i.4cdn.org/b/1465410271608.webm ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they have a roughly nsa-like relationship with folks who discuss their 'trade seeekrits' in whatever public context.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: scientology internal term for 'work of the devil'
a111: Logged on 2016-06-08 02:36 mircea_popescu: ie, more "visits" than average usg fishwrap gets in a week. none of them yielded anything ~whatsoever~, which discorages exactly no one.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1478942 << who's bunnie, and look at that, 2k views. wired is exactly http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1478650 ☝︎☝︎
mircea_popescu: what's supressive then.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-08 16:21 phf: i think there are different levels and roles within the system, but i know for a fact that sci people are effective at bureaucrat, there's a number of them at capitol hill, doing internships with senators... (if we haven't before, t-a is now definitely suppresive)
a111: Logged on 2016-06-08 16:45 trinque: how bout the valley is the shenzen of useless apps and ponzis
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1478944 << or wants to be. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: phf what's t-a ?
asciilifeform: 'i'm boooored.' 'i'ma pound a nail through my scrotum'
mircea_popescu: what makes womenz "want to get married an have childrenz"
a111: Logged on 2016-06-08 16:21 asciilifeform: i admit, i've always been fascinated with the folks who show up to be eaten. what motivates them? is it something like the participants in pyramid scheme ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1478934 << boredom, quest for "meaning", human desire to belong, what. ☝︎
deedbot: [Qntra] Social Media App Interaction Times Decline - http://qntra.net/2016/06/social-media-app-interaction-times-decline/
asciilifeform: their 'join' is tax-writeoff tho.
mircea_popescu: speaks loudly of what a shitty deal the us is to begin with.
asciilifeform: at one point - a sort of paramilitary / mafia thing, even.
mircea_popescu: iirc that was the whole shebang, get have-been hollywood stars to "join" in exchange for getting a few white slaves allocated.
mircea_popescu: well basically what is it IN the us, a sort of central casting for cheap white maids ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: best as i can tell it has ~0 traction outside of usa now.
mircea_popescu: i equally can't explain the hair.
mircea_popescu: tbh i never met anyone who was into the dumb shit. imo it's an 80s thing.
davout: just put your hands on these secret electrods, buy these books to reach level 1 and put your check in the box
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1478899 << at the very least get a senator. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-06-08 16:21 asciilifeform: i admit, i've always been fascinated with the folks who show up to be eaten. what motivates them? is it something like the participants in pyramid scheme ?
davout: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1478934 <<< people see that "someone wants to help them" ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-06-08 15:57 phf: yeah, there were a few options, but too far of a drive from philadelphia. now that i'm in dc, i might take a stab at wv
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1478878 << nfi why you'd prop land values in us with all that effort. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-06-08 15:47 phf: perhaps when there was less leverage, it made sense to apply whipping enough to men, now you need not bother, have all kinds of tools
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1478860 << see this is the problem, now you need it more than before, because the more leverage, the more small defects end up magnified. but, the bitch is, now you also can more than before avoid this responsibility. and since people do what they want rather than what they need... ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-06-08 15:43 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1478846 << defect in man that could be 'fixed by whipping enough' is effectively permanent. just like, e.g., a defective cpu, might be hypothetically fixable with an ion beam machine, but NOBODY would ever even think of bothering.