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mircea_popescu: you want
to
take possession of a billion or so barrels, amoco is more
than happy
to cool you off, get in
touch.
mircea_popescu: anyway, his discussion of oil is pretty much afield. for one
thing, inventories are way
the fuck up (tho i don't expect he has an inkling of a clue as
to how
to look it up, and besides - so much easier
to pronounce stupid shit), and deliveries are actually stalled by
the buyers!
mircea_popescu: i regard my principal education in college being
this.
mircea_popescu: really should be
taught in highschool. "Objectivism - a class on how
to object. It's mandatory unless you figure out how
to get yourself out of it."
mircea_popescu: this is, incidentally, how snake oilism survives and perpetuates. negotiating and exploiting
the general inability
to form objections properly.
mircea_popescu: "no
they don't! horses don't even have collarbones and
they're mammals!!1"
mircea_popescu: the "it must have keel" objection is akin
to protesting spina bifida on
the
terms of "mammals must have an atlas bone".
mircea_popescu: because many folks don't have
the ability
to express nonsense at
the right level, and
the few who do don't have
the
time or patience
to deal with random blogspot nuts.
mircea_popescu: see, my reaction isn't "this doesn't look like what i'm used
to see". my reaction is "this looks specifically like what someone'd make
that has no idea".
mircea_popescu: he doesn't disagree. he doesn't know.
to disagree you must first understand.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there's a difference between
this and
that.
mircea_popescu: this changes
the shape of
the item in question, from what you'd expect based on
the context,
to what best fits
their own ignorance.
mircea_popescu: it is
the characteristic macula of
the idiots unaware of
the context
to stick all
the stuff
they want in all
the spots
they don't understand
mircea_popescu: to be specific : any item, no matter what sort of item, as long as it exists in some sort of context, no matter
the context, has some parts drawn under
the pressure of
that context.
mircea_popescu: it's not merely just bad. it specifically looks like
the fundamentally broken vision of one who does not understand
the
topic. like
that fixed jesus image.
mircea_popescu: only someone who has never sailed in his life would describe
that abomination as a boat.
mircea_popescu: so hu
the manatee says : in chinese pigdin, english vocabulary is used
to cover chinese grammar. consequently she
the cow of a pig, ie a sow, had kittens ie young ones ie pigglets.
mircea_popescu: wow check it out, apparently
that's not on
the internet ?! OMG
THE WHOLE KNOWNOLEDGE OF HU
THE MANITEE AT MY FINGERTIPS!!1
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there's a fucking reason "basic money" appears
to basic kids.
that's why
they basically have parents!
mircea_popescu: (ftr, for
they innocent of history -
the entire cromwell debacle originally started with disputes over whether charles can or can't ask for a few measly
thousand pounds in
tax)
mircea_popescu: what, does anyone know or does anyone not know
that
they're currently not getting anything even remotely like a college education, for more money
than charles
tried
to raise but got instead a civil war ?
polarbeard: I'm a 'basic income' supporter,
the earlier
the govs default
the better
mircea_popescu: it's god-awful. and
they "pretend"
to not know in
the sense
they're
too fucking stupid
to figure it out.
mircea_popescu: there is "basic roquefort" right here, in
the future-usa
that is argentina.
mircea_popescu: and
they WISH for what
they wish
to matter above and beyond anything else.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they do not WISH for
there
to be a hierarchy.
danielpbarron: >> of
total revenueFacebook reaches new << not sure here
danielpbarron: >>
This is a strange label when you consider
than all personal computers << consider *that ?
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: monsieur pantagruel can fend for himself. hell, he can defend me
too !
pete_dushenski: speaking of germany, i was actually just looking at
this leather belt i bought in berlin last
time (ok,
the only
time) i was
there, found myself admiring it (it's defo my fave), noticed
that
the shop's url was stamped on
the inside of
the belt, realised
that i actually need a new black leather belt, and so ordered one from
the same shop... only
to be assraped by
the woeful cad-eur and shipping costs. alas,
there
pete_dushenski: having been
to
the other major centres in germany, it's
time for
the second-tier.
BingoBoingo: Can't
take
the child
there.
They are already being
targeted in Sweden for being defenseless.
pete_dushenski: klm has direct yeg-ams flights now. so. cool. and a big loss for air canada. (and even iceland air, who recently opened up routes
to europe
through rjekjavik instead of
toronto or london, which was a big deal until
this new klm route stole its
thunder)
pete_dushenski: "no one could've predicted 100x inflation after we gave everyone a million free sign-up miles and a million more every
time
they filled up with gas!"
pete_dushenski: in related currency news, i'm
thinking
that a stop in poland (after a stop in amsterdam) is a more cost-effective european destination
than germany
this summer. fuck
this cad-eur rate, i'll
take
the eur-pln even if it means a plane instead of a
train.
BingoBoingo: It's jsut a
temporary
thing happening while fiat dies
BingoBoingo: Sweet, someone else claiming
the 4 word "sorry for your loss"
mats: and on
the subject of bitbet,
third party audit of reserves isn't coming back, huh
mats: there is an interesting opportunity here for folks
to analyze bitbet outcomes
to date
danielpbarron: i
think Paul's gonna have a comeback now
that
trump free'd up a spot in
the debate for him
BingoBoingo: And we all of course know
that
the BitBet favorite is still
the real favorite in spite of all protests
to
the contrary
BingoBoingo: Ah, 10 BTC was still not enough
to make
Trump
the BitBet favorite nominee over Rubio.
mircea_popescu: who has persian rugs in
the bathroom ? romanians,
that's who!
funkenstein_: anyway looking forward
to banging my head against
the wall figuring out what shiva is supposed
to do
mod6: and again, i have no way of
telling if
they were named correctly in
the first place or it was
the ML. but... its certainly something
that should be in a log file or something, you may wanna have a look.
mod6: im not sure what happend just now with
the re-submits
that alf did, one made it
through ok,
the other did not.
mod6: but
these didn't come
through like
that. it's missing
the 'asciilifeform' between 'vpatch' and 'sig'.
mod6: they should have signatures
that are named as follows:
mod6: jurov:
the original emails -- either asciilifeform named
them incorrectly or
the email server munged
the names.
☟︎ mod6: mircea_popescu: yah, im more inclined
to just wait until a new sig, properly named is sent.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude looks so out of place in
the desert
the only
thing
that conjures up is "nigga gettin' killed".
assbot: Logged on 28-01-2016 02:00:27; mod6: and its because of one line
that i'm not being strict enough with my regex.
jurov: i'm fully aware it's infuriating but i don't see a way how
to prevent repeated posting of stuff
that changes only by unsigned data (like, attachment names)
jurov: when reposting, you must change
the
text and clearsign again
jurov: if so, it was eaten as antispam protection (to prevent someone
taking any existing clearsigned doc and repeatedly sending it $maxint
times)
jurov: asciilifeform: did you submit
the same clearsigned
text
twice?
mod6: haha, it's like
trying
to get one
through
the golies legs.
mod6: in
the mean
time i'll update
the mirror with
the good sig from malleus
mod6: you wanna roll
the dice and see if you can get one
through for PVS
that isn't mangled? or should we wait for jurov?