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mircea_popescu: phf wut srsly ? i
take it YOUR soviet state wasn't friends with china back
then huh ?
phf: pete_dushenski: hard
to source
that sort of stuff in
the middle of nowhere, by
the
time we would even consider destroying a shuttle, i'd be shredded beyond any sort of reasonable aerodynamic characteristics
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: real men dance on hot coals with other real men on
their shoulders. in a blizzard.
mircea_popescu: real men skinnydip in
the marian
trench. DURING SHARK SEASON ONLY.
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 22:55:27; mircea_popescu: lol im sure
the "blue" is purely concindental. not like
trying
to pretend it's not piss.
mircea_popescu: two or
three more
twists of
the difficulty knob, you'll be almost at
the level of archeologists
trying
to read some stone
they found.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: [...] it isn't. but it doesn't help
that my
translation efforts are ~starting~ with post-phd-level writings
THAT DON'T EVEN HAVE ACCENTS << he has a point
there lol.
pete_dushenski: isn't it incredible
the hoops
that plastic-badge-loving maroons will jump
through ?
cazalla: BingoBoingo, sure i read even heimlich stopped promoting
the heimlich at some point
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 22:53:12; *: BingoBoingo still astounded
that if one wants a new diesel vehicle
thanks
to
the EU it will refuse
to run if you don't fill up a second
tank with pisstein (urea)
assbot: Logged on 22-09-2015 00:17:16; phf: i
think ping pong balls and badminton shuttlecocks (oh man european sport hobbies) was closest we've gotten
to plastics
phf: we actually did have fuse at some point. one of
the kids had one of
those "engineer" fathers, who, i remember gave us, of note, soviet spectrum knockoff, rc plane engines of various sizes. he's also
the one who converted part of forest glade into a "proper" badminton field, and
then, with his wife as a partner, proceeded
to regularly slaughter us in regular
tournament matches
mircea_popescu: you'd have
to be fucking insane
to build
things flammably.
mircea_popescu: come
to
think of it... no fucking wonder romania doesn't need fire alarms.
mircea_popescu: we had specialist "turner" (kid who was adept at
turning 1/4 wire around shoelace in a corkscrew pattern making ready
to go puncher for ball.)
mircea_popescu: phf what fuse, stick a length of shoelace in
there, good
to go.
phf: oh man ping pong balls
the versatile weapon manufacturing device, i'm surprised
they are not yet banned in u.s. stores. make a small hole, fill it with stuff, attach a fuse
BingoBoingo: What, weapon can be limited
to use only from
top of cliff
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> it would be a devastating - if expensive - weapon, with armour being of little
to no use - provided
that you could find a way
to avoid incinerating own barrel. << Probably ought
to be dropped
mircea_popescu: phf yup, it was so bad at some point sports suppliers refused
to sell ping pong balls
to boys.
phf: i
think ping pong balls and badminton shuttlecocks (oh man european sport hobbies) was closest we've gotten
to plastics
☟︎ phf: not for flamethrower
though, for "molotov"
phf: BingoBoingo: we've used all kinds of stuff during childhood experiments. motor oil,
tar (there was plenty of
that in
the country house area), bicycle
tire shavings
BingoBoingo: Spz. I need a harbor? How long would
that
take
to dig with ANFO vs. Nuclear?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo do
the math, you'll see nuclear's not on
the
table.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform except
they're not low
tech at all. heck, fuel bombs are
today state of
the art even. << Only because enviro-frauds keep nuclear shaming
mircea_popescu: "the amount of engineering effort
that went into
these machines far outweighs what you might get in a modern computer, and
that’s something i don’t
think
the world will ever see again" << he's wrong, fwiw.
the amount of competent work
that went into art as
the empire got fucked in
the ass exceeded
the amount before.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform except
they're not low
tech at all. heck, fuel bombs are
today state of
the art even.
mircea_popescu: the whole reason we EVEN
THINK of software as user-serviceable is
this.
mircea_popescu: "
there was also a demand for systems
that could be easily introspected, debugged, and changed by individual engineers, which was something mainframes couldn’t easily do as one mistake by one engineer could bring down a system serving dozens" <<< since we're doing
the entire underappreciated point
thing.
BingoBoingo: <phf> for effective flame
thrower you really want a gelling agent << polystyrene
phf: so according
to
the website, "Officially approved fuels: Gasoline (unleaded), gasoline-diesel mixture, alcohol." and "tilizes a high pressure electric fuel pump, powered by a 3S lithium-polymer battery
typically used in R/C aircraft"
mircea_popescu: mmm,
the way
that ONE
trail looked
to me was, she's firing it at a puddle of flammable something
cazalla: yeah
that line is what caught my attention, story sounded familiar
to something you have said here before
phf: punkman: yeah, i've realised
that i was wrong after seeing little
trails on
the ground
mircea_popescu: you want
the flame
to be HEAVY so you can put it on
the enemy from under cover by shooting an arc
mircea_popescu: two problems :
the flame is "light" so it flies off and you can't get it ON
things.
phf: for effective flame
thrower you really want a gelling agent
mircea_popescu: golden standard is
this ru 8 gallon pre-pressured mix
thing
hanbot: i've got a fever, and
the only prescription is moar dakka.
mircea_popescu: i gotta
teach her how
to work
the backpack flamethrower.
mircea_popescu: she fucking shoo'd a political campaign away from
the fucking downtown landmark!
mircea_popescu: let it never be said
that woman can not break
things. woman can break men's spirit, and
that's major.
mircea_popescu: so she went down
there and
they stopped. and
then... were quiet for like...
ten minutes.
mircea_popescu: *hanbot* i am going out
there
to
tell
them
to shut
the fuck up.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu>
those fuckers. NOBODY FUCKING QUIERES.
mircea_popescu: so dumbass "political campaign" for some
twerp here
tried
to have a huge rally (which is how i woke up, fucking drummers). but it's been raining, and nobody gives a shit about
their crap, so
they
took refuge under a huge awning and
there
they've been, playing
this inept 2 minute political soundclip (lo que la gente quiere, blabla fuckhead rodrgues) etc.
this for a while, until
mircea_popescu: it has all
the symptoms of childrearing apparatus gone berserk.
mircea_popescu: it's a great
thing.
the main by-product of
the knitting culture. little clothes made
to measure by bored old women for
things like
teapots.
shinohai: Sent 20 emails out
today regarding your art commission, get one chick
to reply 10 minutes ago. I gave her a link
to chat.
phf: man can't keep up with
that guy, first email, now books