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mircea_popescu: for all we know a & b are ACTUALLY happy doing nothing worth
the mention in
their london cell.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, maybe
the answer actually has little
to do with a "west worship"
thing, and simply is
that
the sort of people who have goals and set about
to pursue
them simply no longer exists. for all i know
the problem of mauretania is exactly
the problem of missouri : everyone in sight principally desires
to sit down in front a
tv.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ask me
that once i run a military coup in fucking mauretania
pete_dushenski: ;;later
tell gabrielradio fantastique ! i'll
take a look over
the weekend and whip it up into a piece for contravex.
BingoBoingo: He has
that story about
taking
that police lady's gun.
ascii_field: it's a religion,
the worship-the-west
thing, and doesn't die easily
mircea_popescu: pig squealing last words of berlusconi were "fuck
this stupid shit, i wish i was younger so i could just go kidnap nato
troops at sea"
ascii_field: y'know,
the classical 'london exit' of a ru oligarch
mircea_popescu: he's more in a swiss chalet in orclandia
than anyone, including Pres. Bahamas, ever has or could have.
ascii_field: i suspect
that
the standard alpha orc still wants
to 'make it in
the west in
the end' (tm)
mircea_popescu: and no,
there would be NO reprecussions.
those have been out on order for 30 years now.
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 21:29:53; mircea_popescu: what
the fuck,
the 150.
mircea_popescu: why aren't
they out
there shooting bazookas at us shipping from fishing boatds.
mircea_popescu: the country formerly known as
the country
to be in
the future known as myanmar has been in exactly
the same situation of mauretania / ukraine / iraq / what have you for what, 20 years now ?
ascii_field: iirc it's standard british method -
the chieftains have childrenz at princeton who could 'have problems'
mircea_popescu: kidnap
the fucking uss cole crew, sell
them back for a suv a head.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
the concept mostly went away in 1865
mircea_popescu: but states ?
the only fucking reason
the concept even exists is
that it should be fearless.
mircea_popescu: i sitll have nfi why all
these dubious regimes don't go on a shoot first policy.
mircea_popescu: if
they do want
to move in, you sure as fuck musta have been doing something.
mircea_popescu: in other news : what you do in your house has no correlation with
the police knocking on your door.
the only criterion is, whether
they want
to move in or not, is all.
mircea_popescu: he's been strongly condemned since about
the
time saddam had wmds.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field was having a private lulz earlier at
the "strong condemnation" of
the aziz fellow in mauretania.
mircea_popescu: btw, i humbly submit for your consideration
that for
the future qntra does s/Obama/President <a href=qntra.net/president-bahamas.jpg>Bahamas</a>/
mircea_popescu: kinda reminds me of academia catavencu,
this 1990s romanian rendition of le canard enchanee
mircea_popescu: <jurov> lol actually
that's
the future. cars will come barely working with obligation
to leave
them every other night go for "bugfixes" <<< good god he's right.
BingoBoingo unsure if cat safe space need is worth a qntra. Maybe some wordsmith can give it an adequate
take
BingoBoingo: "If your cat has a high exposure rate
to cucumbers, it's probably not going
to
turn around and
think it was anything other
than a cucumber. We worry about
the ones
that have never, ever seen a cucumber before."
BingoBoingo: "If you've already played
this prank on your cat, Chan said, you may have inadvertently made
them afraid of cucumbers — forever."
BingoBoingo: ""What I actually worry about is long-term psychological problems. Some cats are quite delicate," said Lara Chan with
the Calgary Cat Clinic."
assbot: Spooking cats with cucumbers could cause 'psychological problems,' says Calgary vet
technician - Calgary - CBC News ... (
http://bit.ly/1SMVyyd )
ben_vulpes imagines what it must be like
to go from software
to safety-critical hardware
jurov: lol actually
that's
the future. cars will come barely working with obligation
to leave
them every other night go for "bugfixes"
BingoBoingo: Sure just put
the destination in
the autopilot, set a brick on
the prissy pedal and wait for it
to come home.
jurov: i guess
they can drive
themselves
to service
punkman: "but we estimate
the cost is not material and shows
Tesla’s heightened focus on safety,” said Ben Kallo"
punkman: "In early November, a customer sitting in
the front passenger seat
turned
to speak with occupants in
the rear and
the seat belt became disconnected"
thestringpuller: When I get pulled over
tends
to go like, "You were speeding." "Sure" "Okay here's
ticket. Uh you have dreads are you high." "Uh no." "Okay have fun be safe."
mircea_popescu: next
time, bust a cap in cop's ass before gets chance
to open mouth.
thestringpuller: i kno right. and if he goes
to court
to
try and get
the money back
they'll be like "nope."
thestringpuller: i mean it's his fault for keeping it in
the open so cop was like "what's with
that roll of 20's
there"
thestringpuller: "this is going
to be used for a crime we need
to
take
this"
thestringpuller: buddy just called me up and said police confiscated 500 bucks cash he was holding
to spend during
the weekend since he doesn't like using debit cards.
gabrielradio: 'Cynics (...) who are especially good at seeing
through bullshit pay dearly for
their gift. I suspect
that being able
to see past nuance comes at a cost.
The ability
to rapidly reduce complicated moral questions into simple either/or propositions is probably a function of an absence.
To wit:
the moral clarity of most cynics is probably a function of some sort of emotional colorblindness.'
gabrielradio: 'the colorblind can see
through many kinds of camouflage. Because
they’re not distracted by colors,
they can often see
the contours of a
thing—it’s outline—with unusual clarity. Even so, despite
this upside, being colorblind is, on balance, a net handicap
to
the colorblind individual.
They’re missing out on a great deal.'
mircea_popescu: it's just accidentally a feature of life ever singe octopi came about a bazillion years ago, with
their barely functional eye.
mircea_popescu: other
things "surely nature has not specifically prepared us" for : movement detection, gradient orientation and other bacteria-level
tech.
jurov: medicine already prepping for
the day most of
the population will be diabetes-blind
jurov: surely a
task for which nature has not specifically prepared us."
jurov: "Even distant relatives—like people and pigeons—are adept at perceiving and categorizing
the complex visual patterns
that are presented in pathology and radiology images,
punkman: isn't
that what buttfinex does
phf: i like
to do overnight
trips with local fishermen at whatever exotic locations i go
to, and i can say
that most of
the
time you burn calories by simply sitting in
the cold (not
to mention stabilization, or actual work)
trinque: thestringpuller: reminded me of
the rabbi and
the ewe
too;
that was a good footnote.
mircea_popescu: that was
the objection
to spencery
tracy in old man and
the sea :
too plump
mircea_popescu: in other news : no fisherman ever, in
the lengthy history of htat
trade, was obese.
thestringpuller: wow reading
the footnotes on
the new
trilema
took me straight into idiocracy
punkman: BingoBoingo: plausible, if you are familiar with
the fragrance of
the olive oil mill
mircea_popescu: ascii_field meant
to say ssd. he wtfs me on it later on.
BingoBoingo: From
the mines: "There's actually only a finite amount of olive oil in
the world. All
the natural stuff was used up by
the late 1700's.
The stuff you're eating now has actually been recycled from obese Greek fishermen.
There island of Naxos holds a festival every year wherein fishermen with a BMI over 40 are rolled into huge presses called 'Obesitinia' and
then slowly crushed, releasing
their fragrant oils. "
ascii_field: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu '20GB with 2x 1000 GB non-SATA HDD' << ??? >> didja mean it? really, PATA ? or meant
to say 'ssd' ?
ascii_field always found
this interesting, how you shoot from a 'barrel' in engl, but from ствол -- 'trunk' (as in
tree) in ru
phf: ствол is
the most important part of course
jurov: phf forgot gold
teeth
trinque: it'll be some kind of ru
thug quinceanera
trinque: phf │ i'm going
to stick
to my cultural heritage, gold chains, rolex and adidas << I hereby invoke "pix or didn't happen"
ascii_field: ion about research it has performed,”
the statement reads. “The university abides by
the rule of law, complies with lawfully issued subpoenas and receives no funding for its compliance.”'
ascii_field: 'In a
terse statement Wednesday, Carnegie Mellon wrote
that its Software Engineering Institute hadn’t received any direct payment for its
Tor research from
the FBI or any other government funder. But it instead implied
that
the research may have been accessed by law enforcement
through
the use of a subpoena. “In
the course of its work,
the university from
time
to
time is served with subpoenas requesting informat
phf: i'm going
to stick
to my cultural heritage, gold chains, rolex and adidas
thestringpuller: <+mircea_popescu> mo money mo problems. << didn't
take mp for a biggie fan
thestringpuller: <+BingoBoingo>
thestringpuller: Now'd probably be a safe
time
to move
to Argentina << I wanted
to check out japan first where
they adore
the negros for some reason or another. Or at least from what I can gather from Kareem Abdul Jabars auto biographical works of living
there on stints with Bruce Lee.
phf: well, wealth eliminates problems, higher up
the scale you go, less
things are problems, with some maximums like
the jewish princess, or other stereotypes like a completely out of
teach rich person. my point is
there is long
tale of sufficiently wealthy people who can hang out with rednecks, and
then hop on a plane
to goa for a month
mircea_popescu: everything
that doesn't put your own ass on
the line is reasonably adaptive, sure.
pete_dushenski: comforted by
the knowledge
that
they COULDN'T HAVE DONE BETTER
pete_dushenski: and
the jap's parents smile
to
themselves knowingly as a result