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thestringpuller: Burns are incredibly fun. And honestly it doesn't feel like roughing it. You just bring what you need and just exist. It's freedom from
the default world.
phf: i
think it's starting
to happen, i've heard from a few new york socialites now,
that
they've been going
to carefully crafted versions of burning man like events. sort of coachella or edc, but smaller, with a pretense
to roughing it, and with more psychedelics
thestringpuller: reminds me of Cowboy Bebop. We'll all be elderly
then, "Back in my day..."
phf: that's
the problem, i don't know anything on
the list. someone released some album, someone else said something
to someone else during something
phf: i recently
talked
to a 15 year old, who
told me
that 2015 was more culturally significant
then all
the years since 1970 combined, he
then proceeded
to name
things
that happened in 2015
that i've never heard of. i said "excuse me" and walked away, but i still can't grok it.
thestringpuller: 19 year olds are all whiney "I'm going
to change
the world by doing X, but I have no idea how
the world works so I'm just going
to ignore
that part!!!!11"
phf: i once saw a rope suspension of a rather large lady done by a dedicated kinbaku student, instead of pretending like she's not fat, he worked with
the material with honesty, and
the result was so grotesque
that
the image got stuck in my head.
that's what "milking
their girlfriends" brings up in my head, a bunch of docile, suspended cows being
thestringpuller: yea. like 40 year olds who went
to lollapalooza and stuff in
the 90's
phf: it's an interesting idea, but
the kind of stuff
their girlfriends eat, i prefer cow milk
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: didn't you state a straight male should prefer
the company of women over men?
mircea_popescu: and yet another reason i prefer women over men comes
to light!
phf: my redneck friends
took me
to a state fair once, probably best "american" food i've had around DC area. icecream reminds me of
the soviet one,
that doesn't exist anymore. rich, fatty, none of
them "substitutes",
they were probably milking cows straight into
the icecream mixer
thestringpuller: gf is good about working out and having good body. mine is
turning
to mush with all
this work in
the salt mines.
mircea_popescu: can even
take
the pick-ups of a
to b for bonus points!
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller can't even decide if
texas or mass is
the capital of good bbq.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people spend 5k
to buy 300 dresses fob. send
the girls over
to pick up.
phf: i'm not surprised
that
that's a
thing, but
that sounds awesome
mircea_popescu: phf you mean used by random idiot ? ever been
to one of
their competitive bbq-offs
things ?
mircea_popescu: of course
the us is pretty huge on
the whole bbq
thing. i can attest i had charcoal-made pulled pork and other such stuff and was wunderbar.
phf: so fully depends on how smokeless
that charcoal actually is, and
those
that i saw used for grilling
tend
to produce a nasty chemical miasma
phf: hmm,
that's actually worth a
try. you still need
to heat up
the
teapot
though, so it goes on
top of samovar, which means
that whatever you burn is going
to change
the flavor of
tea
mircea_popescu: afaik samovars were in fact used at
the
table. iirc even in
the us you can get smokeless charcoal delivered
phf: well wood samovars are out for home use, electric ones i
think are mostly gimmicks, i mean i might as well have a
trained bear at home
mircea_popescu: "Russian Soviet SAMOVAR 3L
there are violations of nickel hull see photos. A fantastic collectors item! Regards !!"
thestringpuller: i
thought alf would be like seinfeld episode
there. "You gonna return it without cheese-y fingerprints over it?"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller not afaik, but you know...
the man without an oscilloscope goes and visits alf's house whenever he needs one.
phf: it's mostly
the variety and availability. i can combine various kettles/teapots and get a decent result
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: your friends import
tea/grow it
themselves?
mircea_popescu: i mean i can't justify paying a few grand for one on
the grounds of
the
two cups a year i drink, but you're paying more for
the
tea as it is.
phf: i have a wood samovar, but i only use it on camping
trings. no, i use iranian method, put a porcelain
teapot on
top of
the kettle
mircea_popescu: i myself am
the absolute worst : i rarely drink
tea, but i only drink good
tea. makes it practically impossible
to drink my own. so, i usually
tea per
the charity of friends.
phf: i go
through 3-4 kg of
tea a year
phf: i've noticed
that arab lipton yellow label is much better
then lipton you get at a general store in u.s. i've made
turkish
tea for myself with arab lipton in a pinch, but
twice i was in a situation where i was brewing
tea for random people, so i bought drug store lipton and no matter what i
tried doing with it, it just was not drinkable.
adlai has yet
to read latest statement; also, yet
to leave pub for dinner date; also, yet
to order bill, due
to israeli ineptitude at peripheral vision/hearing...
mircea_popescu: and i'm not even going
to pester alf about making another one for 2016 expiry.
truth be
told i'm rather pleasantly impressed with how s.nsa work is coming along of late.
adlai has paid well over current market price for btc... what if
those are
the btc
that ascii would've got?
adlai: the beautiful
thing about
the btcfiat market is
that it means different
things for different people
mircea_popescu: adlai let me put it
this way : s.nsa (which according
to some doesn't even exist) just
threw away ~5 btc over a delivery bet it didn't even HAVE
to make. and i forgbot all about it until pete_d said something.
☟︎ adlai hopes
that at least one other lurker [knows somebody who] will blink more
than once at a 3btc
tax deduction
ascii_butugychag: and just about any serious deviation from your social stature in
the spirit of 'peasant doesn't get
to own a rembrandt, wtf' will attract auditors very, very quickly in usa.
mircea_popescu: "this vase so and so was donated
to us by x who bought it at an auction held by sootheby's valuying it at 4mn".
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu>
the museum doesn't issue
the fucking receipt lol. whoever you buy it from does. << Actually in USia receipts are given by museums/charities for donations
mircea_popescu: the museum doesn't issue
the fucking receipt lol. whoever you buy it from does.
adlai: (not necessarily in
that order)
adlai: all you need is somebody
to drive
the
thing
to a museum and negotiate a little
adlai: but please,
this is applicable
to ANY USG
TAXPAYER in
the audience. 3btc = nice
tax break!
adlai: you have
to get a receipt (/me is not enough of a
taxpayer
to get
the exact word right, maybe it's something else?) attesting
to
the value of your donation
adlai: you have
to get a receipt (/me is not enough of a
taxpayer
to get
the exact word right, maybe it's something else?) attesting
to
the value of your donation
mircea_popescu: adlai notrly. as long as
they
take it, it's not
their job
to value it for fiscality.
adlai failed his arbitrage on
this basis - usg-sponsor doesn't want
to engage museum(s) in negotiation, but maybe $alertLurker does
adlai: mircea_popescu: you do need
to get
the museum
to agree
that your donation was worth anything
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag from his pov,
the value of
the machine is entirely in "what you paidf for it"
adlai: so break it on
the way over, i don't care! but all else aside, it's more educational
to
the budding usg-arsonist if
they can play with a working doodad
ascii_butugychag: adlai:
this is a sad joke,
the machine's value is more or less ENTIRELY in
the fact
that it WORKS
adlai: BingoBoingo: cl blogotrons exist,
these days my blog-time is spent 'auditing' coleslaw vs hyde. scalpl, otoh, is pretty much one of a kind; cf ascii_butugychag on professional vs plebescite
tooling...
kakobrekla: it not like
they will be
turning it on and it will stop working over
time with noone
to fix it around
kakobrekla: i dont really see
the point in
the 'working' part
adlai: ofc you (or
the other end of your arbitrage) need
to already be paying usg
taxes, but
there are a bunch of people who do
adlai: in case
the signal was
too noisy right
there: buying a working lisp machine, and donating it
to a museum (of which
there are several in
the DC area), will get you a nice
tax break
adlai: in other phamily-related news, my lispm arbitrage has failed, due
to usg-sponsor eagerness
to sponsor as much as possible... but
therein lies
the arb, and anybody who does sponsor usg (or have family who do) is welcome and encouraged
to pursue
this further
BingoBoingo: adlai: Anyways wouldn't writing a simple CL blogotron for your own use be a welcome sanity break from
the scalplsd
BingoBoingo: adlai: But shitting in your own garden is actually beneficial.
The plants like it.
mircea_popescu: for all you know chicks will read it and fill your inbox with written
tits.
adlai: the
trouble with a blog is
that it rapidly fills up with your own bullshit. people get so sick of my bullshit at ~100x dilution, in here; imagine how bad it'd get in my own garden
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo he's still recovering from
the castrating influence of bad parenting, doesn't quite feel at ease rubbing loser's nose in
their own shit.
BingoBoingo: * adlai notes
that bitcoin.org's latest "Appendix A" is basically a restatement of his latest qntra's "footnote #3" << Make a blog point
this out. If ben_vulpes can blog so can you.
adlai knows at least one person who graduated from not-choosing
to linux, and
that's one-too-many for moloch
mircea_popescu: the people who run "whatever i just want
to" and
the people who "fuck you, drop dead" are
the only remaining division, and in
this context
the
two staying unmerged is nonsensical.
mircea_popescu: pfff. nobody actively makes
that choice anymore. it's like encouraging
the choice of stick vs nonstick driving.
adlai: mircea_popescu: "illusion of choice" aka pretty much
the only
talent
that .il still encourages youngsters
to hone... salesmanship
mircea_popescu: they stole some foss and filed
the serials off, butterfly labs style.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: I did
the make a dot and let
the heatsink smash it into place
thing.
There is a
tape shim
that goes over rest of CPU already, but old paste found its way under
there before I removed it.
mircea_popescu: then some dumb broad could preside over it
to get all
the social media femitards hot and bothered
mircea_popescu: i bet you i could justify 100mn in bonuses for myself + 1-2bn in consulting fees for everyone involved doing a hp-compaq deal out of
these
two
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone can conceive of any reason NOT
to have an apple-microsoft merger ?
ascii_butugychag: i get paid
to make xyz happen. and
the budget makes provisions for shooting, say, up
to six rabid weasels. BUT NOT 6,666,666.
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo but you dont smear it over
the whole cpu do you ? an also you can just
tape over any elect conducting parts, no?
ben_vulpes: either under
the reign of steve or others.