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mp_en_viaje: but, get this -- these idiots DID make the elevator not work if you don't have your magical key card, so i had to comandeer
a maid to get me to my floor. cuz that's fuckinguseful, needing your key for the elevator
mod6: nothing looks funnier than two dudes on
a bike, dick to ass.
mp_en_viaje: o btw, recently they passed
a law here (like, last fri) that it is no longer permissible for males over 14 to ride bitch
mp_en_viaje: mod6, nope. moreover, i think if they had an uzi they'd hock it and buy
a helmet
mod6: were there
a lot of young kids on motorcycles with uzis?
mp_en_viaje: imagine this, here i sit in bogota, columbia, like
a man in
a desert.
mp_en_viaje: the 90s were
a lot better for partying, i'll tell you that. it's not clear to me that out of the entire world as it stands you can produce enough night life for
a middling 90s town.
mp_en_viaje: bogota night life is like buenos aires night life, present in the form of
a choir invisible only.
mp_en_viaje: as far as anyone knows, the only bdsm thing in this 8 mn strong city is an item calling itself "club sweet perversions" and limiting self to
a facebook page, because why the fuck not, right. if you call their number (319 2137590) some dorky woman tells you it's on caracas and 62nd. except when you actually get there and there's no such thing (just
a buncha three story love hotels with overexcited porters trying to get you to park in!!!). then she tur
mod6: bdsm club was
a bust?
phf: given the general going ons i wouldn't mind "basic instinct of manhood" as
a kind of working baseline, to improve upon later
phf: particularly when all these scenarios have
a consistent "and she turned out to be
a pretty girl" punch line
mp_en_viaje: i expect the "observe whore, invite to work for me" is more like
a phase in sexual life of adolescent.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform,
a no, lower middle class sorta gals beffudled at "omg lobster is so much more expensive than hamburger paste" "
a dollar ?" "YES!"
phf: when i was
a child i wanted to be able to catch
a pickpocket, in the process, and then invite him to work for me (i'm not sure doing what, but you know build
a team of highly skilled thieves or somesuch), kind of like how it was in the opener of Thief game. unfortunately by the time i actually had money to cary, it didn't seem like
a particularly interesting idea
mp_en_viaje: anyway, pickpocket is
a sort of picking pennies in front of steamroller, which is why desperation art, rare when food's abundant. every success is pocket change, failure can be
a severe beating or worse.
mp_en_viaje: phf, there is such
a thing as
a snatcher, and such
a thing as
a pickpocket. though... social behaviours serve social purposes. "it's dangerous!!!" for instance works very well for selection. anecdote : ro consul introduced pretty girl, intern at embassy. over sushi she confessed her unimpressment in local boys, "i was walking down candeleria and these dorks were lke o no, it's gotten dark, it's dangerous and soon enough made themselves scarce. wel...
mp_en_viaje: they're
a false macho culture. like the us is
a false technical culture.
phf: i thought they were
a macho culture though, seems like it would be "zapadlo" to make woman protect your possessions for you
phf:
a societal markov chain
mp_en_viaje: i fully expect that aspiring middle class adolescents do this as
a courtship thing, dood asks girl he fancies to "hold on to his wallet" in her purse or something.
phf: well, they won't see it either, the whole adventure is organize by
a swiss middle man, utmost discretion
mp_en_viaje: eh gtfo, nobody here has seen 5k in
a pile like ever. what 20k.
phf: that's where you're just groped by two brazilian lads. of course there's also the executive package, 20000eur, where you're forced to perform mildly degrading sexual acts in front of
a masked audience
mp_en_viaje: i can see who'd go for
a kidnap as an activity.
mp_en_viaje: ie, "there's this neighbourhood, they kidnap 2-3 tourists each they. but generally they reappear
a day or two later, clothes all ragged up and all dizzy like" "sounds like
a helluva party"
phf: in 2009 or so, if you did ue at night, there was always
a person who was body aware, who would've heard of parkour or was practicing it. shit, half of america was doing parkour in the 05? 15? i don't remember
mp_en_viaje: "african is only good for muscles/big dick" + "do not step on the grass" => parkour. "we tell you when you can have
a drink" + "MILITARY SIKRITS" - this thinghow you call it
phf: actually, yeah! it travels, sometimes directly sometimes indirectly. i mean, there's definitely
a direct connection between 1990s parkour and early 00s missile silo photography
mp_en_viaje: (note the parallelism is VERY marked -- that was attempt of body-fetishized africans to retake
a space that was very hostile. this -- muchly also)
phf: well, but ue has
a long line of doings, likewise livejournal has
a long line of doings. so happens that the two long lines connect at some historic point, because both on certain trajectories
phf: mp_en_viaje: new biostock, but rarely invents anything new, mostly just copies something they read in
a magazine they found in the attic
trinque: "why, they sit at
a big table in
a skyscraper and shout 'business!' at each other"
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, ro consul here thinks its
a lot of you know, money laundering.
mp_en_viaje: but there's plenty of other things. utterly inept real estate market, exact same thingas buenos aires -- 500k+ units on market, high prices for no reason, 500 close
a yeat at MOST, rest happy to wait.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, girl called desk to call me
a cab. desk wanted to know where it's going. insistently. when they didn't get what they want, they OPTED NOT TO DO WHAT TOLD.
mp_en_viaje: i have
a new theory by the way. so bogota is ~8mn inhabitants. and there's DISTINCT signs of argentinetardation. but i mean itemized, multiple strands, quite visible. eyt the folk themselves aren't at all similar, not fenotypically nor culturally.
BingoBoingo: Not at all, but it imagines it is
a place that can keep enough Brasileros happy to not turn into
a small Argnetina
mp_en_viaje: spiderman got bit by
a strange bottle, right ? it wasn't
a prepubescent girly some dood in british academia was trying not to actually fuck. it was spiderman!
BingoBoingo: The great geopolitical risk is that the stoners do to Uruguay what the trannies are doing to USia...
a malignant species of nothing
BingoBoingo: <mp_en_viaje> here, not so far smelled any. no visible intoxication, no methgirls... << Here lots of cannabis and they discovered edibles so you see
a lot of intoxication without the smell. Only they very poor and New Zealanders seem to seek out stims.
phf: but i think that it died on the tail end of "asians who were all black outfits made of space materials", which is
a kind of postcyberpunk think that happened in the 00s.
mp_en_viaje: dc is
a shithole. but... i dunno, im unconvinced by the theory "kids today" = ded. the mass is about as motile as
a fish in vinegar, yes. but .. they always were.
phf: actually i don't know! i'm in
a bad place, spatially, DC is literally the worst place to keep tabs on this kind of stuff. everything seems dead, but i know if i were to just travel two hours north there's going to be updates on what's happening
phf: well, that's good, cause then i can relax for
a bit!
BingoBoingo: <mp_en_viaje> they seem 100% unaware us exists. at all. "americano" strictly means newworlder and other than this there is 0 reference. anywhere. << AHA, this weekend I heave heard the word "gringo" more than any other time so far because
a New Zealander tried to insist he and I are gringos to
a couple of Chilenas, and they Chilenas had to keep telling him BingoBoingo es un gringo, pero the New Zealander was just
a very tall, pale asian
phf: oh right right, that was
a while ago though, i suspect that photographing ue for livejournal has been
a decade long activity. they've just been increasing the boldness
phf: there's
a strange lul in the scene, because necessary aged youngsters are glued to ipads. and i'm not just being an old grandpa, there's literally
a whole generation missing at the outside activities
trinque pulled
a rack and couple servers out of the trash behind some biotech lab when ~16
phf: there was
a fat guy at 2600 meetups in dc (in crystal city, which are unfortunately no more), who was doing infosec for mil and who always had cool toys. i mean coming from moscow in the 90s, all these people casually showing off the $3000 equipment, talking of dumpster diving whole computers, it was kind of like moving into The Hackers. culture ~completely~ dead
phf: and
a powermac g4, that i haven't booted in
a while. i'm pretty sure it has netbsd on it though
phf: i don't remember specific designators,
a g3 ibook that was
a hand me down when i was poor and just came to this country,
a g4 powerbook that i bought since it was "last model to run os 9",
a wallstreet that someone game recently (i like the "my name is the plague" kind of feel to it, but have no use for it)
phf: "walther ppk, 7.65 millimetre. only three men i know use such
a gun and i believe i've killed two of them."
ben_vulpes: hey it was
a nice one!!1 "don't laugh, it's paid in full" or whatever that bumper sticker says
mp_en_viaje: ITS
A FUCKING NISSAN FFS. seems to me you just deliverd my point right there.
mp_en_viaje: yes but how many billions does
a nissan cost.
mp_en_viaje: losses are
a product of optionality. wtf optinality does saudi have ? if they don't sell it they could also... sell it ? o wow. such options.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-26 23:54 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-26#1777305 << 'One of Japan’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges said that about $400 million in NEM tokens ...' >> asciilifeform was replacing
a ceiling light and lost
a screw, which he arbitrarily will value at 500 trillion unified reformed dubloons
mp_en_viaje: no, but this is fantasy fullfillment wank among the girls themselves, "oh, the gringo paid gordita x 599 and i'm so much better then her so every time i suck it for
a 20 i lose out 579". rrrrrheheheheally.
mp_en_viaje: so you know, how did whore "lose
a trillion" ?
mp_en_viaje: russia, saudi arabia, or
a random streetwalker are in the same position : the cunt they sell has little relation to the money people make in an economy they're no tpart of.
ben_vulpes: likely
a large factor in this "corruption" witchhunt even "omfg blew trillions trying to put the us shale market out of biz, need to recoup from somewhere"
shinohai: yeah thats
a point mp_en_viaje
mp_en_viaje: you should see fucking $200
a month clombia. it is SO BAD they have two colors of plates, and yellow (normal people) can only go every other day
mp_en_viaje: eh, at some point it was
a major mainstream item, late 00s or so. kinda bicoin of the period, $item every office drone hasta know about / if you don't have "formed your own oppinion
a111: Logged on 2018-01-03 16:05 asciilifeform: but in very unrelated lulz,
https://archive.is/bON1p >> 'It’s
a bit absurd that
a modern gaming machine running at 4,000x the speed of an apple 2, with
a CPU that has 500,000x as many transistors (with
a GPU that has 2,000,000x as many transistors) can maybe manage the same latency as an apple 2 in very carefully coded applications if we have
a monitor with nearly 3x the refresh rate.'
mp_en_viaje: (the transsexual army is not
a rhetorical flourish. think : what is
a transsexual ? one
a) unoccupied enough to question something as fundamental as his sex and also b) dumb enough to get the wrong answer. meanwhile what is army built of ?
a) people who obey orders. so...)
mp_en_viaje: but hey, the fantasy that it works for them is
a large part of why bitcoin corrupts so well.
mp_en_viaje: apache is
a terrible mess even today ; you might recall my regular meltdowns whenever tryin g to get it to work.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-29 17:10 asciilifeform would like to see
a complete wwwtron in ada. but does not have any spare arms presently for such
a thing.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-29 17:06 ave1: Hmm, I'm using mp-wp and I cannot find
a setting that is supposed to scrub links or allow them. I am looking into it...
a111: Logged on 2018-01-29 16:01 asciilifeform: thinking of switching to
a 2week interval; these are not coming out quite the way i want'em
mod6: heh, for
a moment i read 'pursuits' as 'pantsuits'
trinque: "well I have an addy up" is not selling
a product
shinohai: there is
a surfeit of tits, years of znc in btc
trinque: shinohai: might even consider making them pay. gotta be years of znc in
a pair of tits