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trinque: the
thing would stay connected for a week or more while I was developing it
a111: Logged on 2016-04-18 17:13 mircea_popescu: check
that out, poor deedbot. blackholed on
the hour like clockwork
mircea_popescu: check
that out, poor deedbot. blackholed on
the hour like clockwork
☟︎ mircea_popescu: eh, and man without "an appetite for labour" will have
to do pretty good on
theft ?
mircea_popescu: "community" has gotten
together and made it obsolete. *rolleyes*
mircea_popescu: politics are easy ;
technology is hard.
that some people would dedicate
themselves
to
the hard without any whatsoever effort put into
the easy is both scandalous and suicidal.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-18 16:36 mircea_popescu: why is it
that you
think yourself
the crystal dragon jesus of wrighting boats when you can't as much as punch out another chimp ?
mircea_popescu: i know no such
thing, and you're lucky you don't have
tits,
there'd be a whipping in it for you by now.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless.
the cure is
the cure ;
the dicking around is
the dicking around.
mircea_popescu: but it is actual lived experience, not just
theory. i have a female human right here whose
task it has been
to
talk
to women each day for
the past months, and it has driven her
to
tears and
the very brink a few
times already.
mircea_popescu: mno.
there's
the end where you
try
to build a gyroscope-stabilized microscope on a small sea platform ; and
there's
the end where you start going
to bars and picking up women you're not
the slightest bit interested in and marrying
them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this is a problem. for some reason you're approaching it at
the very wrong end of
the funnel.
mircea_popescu: fuck, seawater great solvent, will solve a lotta
things.
mircea_popescu: this heuristic is about as idiotic as
the heuristic
that you consider men approachable for sex but women not.
mircea_popescu: why is it
that you
think yourself
the crystal dragon jesus of wrighting boats when you can't as much as punch out another chimp ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nevertheless you do not consider
the former a feasible approach
to
the problem of
tax ; but you without as much as batting an eyelash pull
the former out fo ass in response
to a challenge you hadn't even considewred!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not
the point.
the point was
that YOU COULD, actually, wring a
tax accountant's neck. you could not, as a factual matter, plug a leak.
phf: asciilifeform: you really need
to be a mythical la-fondian character from robert howard stories
to pull it off as "escape from rent", but
then you won't be escaping
to begin with, since you were never it
BingoBoingo: Oh, is
that what was going on at
the Marina?
mircea_popescu: the problem of old people is
that
they don't
think
they may have permission
to exist.
phf: it seems important
to die from
time
to
time
mircea_popescu: "i need X for X" "wouldn't it be cool if X
then i could Y" etc.
mircea_popescu: easy
to be recognized because
they come in a few standard flavours :
mircea_popescu: the reason
this is so, is because as you age you become enmoored
to various idiocies.
phf: it seems like a fun
thing
to do when you're young
though, as long as you don't sit in
the dock all
the
time ermagerd
mircea_popescu: guaranteed not
to even notice
the inconveniences of
the lifestyle.
mircea_popescu: if you're going
to do
that might as well move
to rural georgia, pick a blondy and a mulatto woman and smoke meth for your remaining years.
mircea_popescu: the folks "doing
the boat
thing" are a 1% subset of
the folks doing
the RV
thing.
mircea_popescu: if
the rent is 2k
the leak fixing is 20k. for
the same reason.
mircea_popescu: costs have a structure
that is idependent of your perception.
mircea_popescu: no, "live on boat" is more of
the same adolescentine male fantasy displayed by overfed neotenic preteens captive in aging, sagging bodies
that won't grow up for
the life of
them.
BingoBoingo imagines converting uninhabitted island
to kentucky bluegrass monoculture and setting loose solar robot mowers has potential for lulz.
phf: live on boat is a slightly more proactive
take on "wait for zombies
to come"
mircea_popescu: you're going
to fix leaks alone when you couldn't as much as buldgeon
to death a puny
taxman.
mircea_popescu: too fat ? eat more junk food.
too lazy ? get comfier couches. wanna escape rent ? move on fucking venus! no rent
there, it's all costs!
mircea_popescu: and if you can't
talk
to women - BE MORE SELECTIVE AS
TO
THE WOMEN YOU
TALK
TO!!11
mircea_popescu: hey you know what ? pay more
taxes,
thatg'll malke
them go away!
mircea_popescu: the notion
that escape from rent is
to go into a hostile element
that's not self-sustainable is about as retarded as you'd expect from americans.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform suppose you spring a leak and must have it fixed RIGHT NOW. or at least be
toed in drydock.
mircea_popescu: ie, if you can't afford
the
toilet paper in monaco,
that doesn't mean it's because ofg
the cost of
tp you can't move
there.
mircea_popescu: nowhere it is relevant for STRUCTURAL reasons.
that it appears significant
to you in x context it's only because you're not accounting for
the other, more important costs, which also scaled up.
mircea_popescu: trinque
thanks god you made it come back after getting fucked, seems an hourly occurence
these days.
mircea_popescu: the point being,
that
the mooring costs of a small vessel are about as relevant
to such decisions as
the cost of
toilet paper
to choosing your eventual residence.
trinque: I've got a few more
tasks left
then I can kill
the old bot, couple of days
trinque: mircea_popescu: ah hadn't read yet; I was just
throwing
that in here because deedbot- was unvoiced
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform costs a lot less
than
that
to park it in colonia on
the rio de la plata.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But how would I get
to engage in my lawncare hobby living aboard? Seawater isn't exactly a great growth medium for
turfgrasses.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, lead doesn't belong in
the decanted fluid. It belongs in
the glass of
the decanter.
mircea_popescu: o wow i suspect
this means i wrote over 65k footnotes
to date
phf: yeah if you do nc -v chat.freenode.org 6667 couple of
times it gives you different ips
mircea_popescu: at least in
theory. but
then
they went from 20ish entries
to like 9.
mircea_popescu: ah no, it's handled as a round robin. you ask for it, dns server gives you
the least loaded ip