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asciilifeform: it's the evening's entertainment for these folx. plug in the hoses, fire up the coals, turn on tv for background
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The sixties didn't have contemporary ganja nor the contemporary mass of dreamers, though the baby boomer generation was pretty dreamer fucked
mircea_popescu: problem with pot is that it doesn't kill them nearly fast enough.
asciilifeform: srsly asciilifeform lives in a nowhere uni town, and there are no fewer than 4 shops on 1 street selling hooka, hoses, etc
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the 'dreamers' have been living in their ganja dens since '60s, what
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> incidentally, now that they've made pot "legal", the chandoo-khanas where the niggers go when ? << They've had theirs. The next step is something similar for the dreamers though the dreamers seem to be breaking towards approximating the same in their own squalor holes.
asciilifeform did depressing tour of duty in 'add a methyl, take a methyl' for the reich, but fortunately on the theoretical end, not the eating end
mircea_popescu: add a methyl, take a methyl, it's all in good fun.
asciilifeform: ( iirc we had thread, re how ~100% of usg.psychopharma 100y consists of 'let's reimplement 2000 y.o. plant dopes in patentable form' )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: today. ( but naturally not classic opium, given as it cannot be patented, but usg.strange, and 'prescription' )
mircea_popescu: wouldn't it be ironic if that's the future, chinese-sponsored usg-"law"-immune extrateritorial teahouses in every county.
mircea_popescu: evidently best way out for most of extant dreamers, PLUS IT WOULD SUPPORT THE TAX REVENUE!!!1
mircea_popescu: incidentally, now that they've made pot "legal", the chandoo-khanas where the niggers go when ?
asciilifeform: for their part, the dope makers also drop the ball : it's perfectly possible to make a usable dope that does its thing and breaks down into unremarkables; the assassination poisons people had the right idea in the 1920s
BingoBoingo: Ever since Madame Kenesaw Mountain Landis took the business out of baseball, its been downhill everywhere. Olympic fappery is simply toxic.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Replied again, but it isn't the game engines killing anything. It's that every "federation" and "governing body" that's captured competitive pursuits is femstate uterine scar tissue.
mircea_popescu: lotta things chinese did lot more honest. the black lotus retirement plan way the fuck more effectual, secure, reliable AND PLEASANT than https://i.eprci.net/thorazine-ad ; not to mention the chinese didn't give it to children.
asciilifeform: rly the old chinese system was moar honest, where they took their balls off right off the bat, when they signed up to serve the reich, and put in a jar, 'proof of work'
BingoBoingo: He's got balls attached. Their just dormant.
mircea_popescu: (you will indulge me in observing that forcing 13yo girlies one's fixated on to read certain things is not substantially different from forcing them to do certain things ; especially if the fixation has entirely nothing to do with the particular little girl in question, but stems from more general
mircea_popescu: maybe it's moving to be closer to the conference grounds.
BingoBoingo: In local developments the growshop across the street which made a big point of paying and having a booth at the expocannabis appears to either be shuttering or moving. Conference monkeying for the win!
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile, found in the mines: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/dCD7E/?raw=true
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/03/worlds-top-bridge-player-suspended-over-doping/ << Qntra -- World's Top Bridge Player Suspended Over Doping???
feedbot: http://bimbo.club/2019/03/philosophical-transactions-for-the-months-of-july-august-and-september-1716-part-iii/ << Bimbo.Club -- Philosophical Transactions. For the months of July, August and September, 1716. - Part III.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-02 23:34 mircea_popescu: diana_coman btw, can i get you to "update posts set post_content = REPLACE(post_content, 'http://polimedia.us/trilema/', 'http://trilema.com/');" ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> in fact -- almost NOTHING is EVER a theoretical process. << I'm going to decorate with this point so it gets through the skull case
mircea_popescu: in fact -- almost NOTHING is EVER a theoretical process.
mircea_popescu: it's an ~empirical~ process ; !!!!NOT!!! a theoretical one.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you're polishing the wrong end of the spear. with 0 experience it's impossible to meaningfully improve this "payload". make two even if they're made throwing darts ; a/b rtest them ; pick one, make a.1 / a.2 in response whichever you picked, test those, and so following.
feedbot: http://blog.mod6.net/2019/03/a-cuntoo-adventure-part-two/ << mod6's Blog -- A Cuntoo Adventure Part Two
mircea_popescu: diana_coman btw, can i get you to "update posts set post_content = REPLACE(post_content, 'http://polimedia.us/trilema/', 'http://trilema.com/');" ? ☟︎
BingoBoingo: They might even catch up to 2019 by 2034
mircea_popescu: ethereum next, then mit, then "mission district", then ...
BingoBoingo: ^ In the news of the slow
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/03/forbes-catches-the-ripple-scam-six-years-later/ << Qntra -- Forbes Catches The RIPple Scam Six Years Later
mircea_popescu: i think it's one of the better pieces ever penned in the style ; feel free to put up some of your usenet selections, i'm curious.
asciilifeform: just when i thought the genre died with usenet, mircea_popescu resurrects!
mircea_popescu: how the hell sinocommie party manages to have such excellent control is a mystery, but really, brejnev had less smooth a reigh,
asciilifeform: this is much in line with historic asian pov tho. 'there's $maxint of us, what's 1 less'
mircea_popescu: usg ~still~ has issues in pakistan over that doctor chick.
mircea_popescu: the one important point, to my eyes, is that they don't seem to have much of the "face" problem. somehow. thirty years ago the whole fucking country'd have been up in arms, "give back our cunt!!!"
mircea_popescu: mice similarly don't seek out teh elephant nests of do bloody murder.
asciilifeform: entirely other, and much above my paygrade to say what
mircea_popescu: well, it is conceivable the little yellow men have other priorities.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i admit, mine is entirely a 'exterminate the brutes' pov
feedbot: http://trilema.com/2019/sieg-heil/ << Trilema -- Sieg heil...
mircea_popescu: to the chinese... meh.
mircea_popescu: to you, showing them their place, putting mommy naked on her knees, carries a very high subjective value.
mircea_popescu: basically, the difference between you asciilifeform and chinese bureaucracy is that you're psychologically very dependent on teh usg.
mircea_popescu: the chinese are the world's largest holders.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, for instance -- a clear display of usgistani impotence could perhaps put an end to the paper charade.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You are thinking mohs surgery. Start thinking Chinese medicine instead.
asciilifeform: ( the 48-cut variant of ling chi. 1 cut per day of white devil intransigence . )
asciilifeform: but possibly i'm thick.
asciilifeform: imho the correct pill was to take e.g. intel ceo and coupla board members to beijing and publicly ling chi.
BingoBoingo: Well they have the socia credit thing which acknowledges that there are enumerable bipedal units, but... how do you do soft power from such a position? You start enforcing against once tolerated foreign nuissances until the white worms stop being so acutely pestillential
mircea_popescu: also i suspect BingoBoingo has it, the chinese have no notion of individual.
BingoBoingo: Well so far they have been catching a lot more Canadian drug traffickers this year
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because ~nobody wants to be stuck with the cost of "administering" the shithole.
mircea_popescu: hence the "HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW!!!!" meme
a111: Logged on 2019-03-02 17:26 feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/03/canada-begins-process-of-extraditing-abducted-huawei-cfo-to-us/ << Qntra -- Canada Begins Process Of Extraditing Abducted Huawei CFO To US
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-02#1900087 << possibly i'm thick, but i dunget why beijing doesn't catch a coupla dozen usg daughters and send'em to washington 1 finger at a time until the matter's resolved. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform point being, if "the powers that be" burn their powder on little things, what will they do when teh big guns come out.
BingoBoingo: I though Nessie died from anti-freeze poisoning because British cars leave piss puddles like puppies
BingoBoingo: Don't forget the cock socks which they ignored in 2015 when the fork wars were derping up http://trilema.com/2015/prophylaxis/
mircea_popescu will now write moar scandalous things, since the "civil society" choked long ago, and on "socks and cocks!!!" of all things.
BingoBoingo: ">USG uses printed money to dump Bitcoin" never mind that does the other thing
mircea_popescu: "i haven't been doing my reading back in 2013-2014. this totally means the shit i don't understand in 2019 is fascinating to everyone else and important, rite guise ?!"
BingoBoingo: That there are more C-notes than singles and almost all of them are abroad
mircea_popescu: keksy comment, too.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: We've flirted with that fact in the logs, and the story making the headline isn't earth shattering news, but... Gotta have something to link for that fact
mircea_popescu: diana_coman isn't it how it always goes... most of the "internet population" populating (by its own lights) the place sports a life expectancy insufficient to justify the genetic outlay of the average mouse.
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/03/canada-begins-process-of-extraditing-abducted-huawei-cfo-to-us/ << Qntra -- Canada Begins Process Of Extraditing Abducted Huawei CFO To US ☟︎
diana_coman: meanwhile the sock fell off the internets and the bike moved or something so almost none of the links in there work anymore
feedbot: http://trilema.com/2019/rome-open-city/ << Trilema -- Rome, Open City
asciilifeform: in other negative results , 'Fuji Super HR-T' film dun budge 1 whit under 'Cinestill DF96' developer. tho in principle oughta.
mircea_popescu: eh, we're still at the http://trilema.com/2010/extemporal-la-venerologie/#comment-33269 moment.
asciilifeform: those, them'd be the top of that particular mmm pyramid, neh. they show up and shown 'yes indeed money for phree, but only if you can get 9000 rubes to show up for erry 1 of you, and deposit penny to play'
asciilifeform: that's how fresh-off-the-plow peasant sees city always, neh -- 'where money for free'. not so much leap from that to this.
mircea_popescu: and yet, i keep encountering this apparently archetipical romanian -- coming up late to a party he can't even describe.
mircea_popescu: i retorted to him that if by this age he hasn't yet figured out such a place doesn't exist, there's no helping him.
mircea_popescu: there's this iconic moment at the peak of "caritas" (cluj-based MMM pyramid) where an old man in traditional peasant garb asked me on a bridge "if i know where's this place where they give money for free".
mircea_popescu: romanian bloggers, i swear. showing up years late to a party they can't even describe.
mircea_popescu: iptomonede, opinii" but even manages to write a piece on the celebrated http://trilema.com/2011/romania-cea-de-basm-partea-i/ item (four years later) without somehow managing to at all EVEN MENTION let alone fucking address the whole reason public funds were even misdirected towards printing that (meanwhile melted down) piece of crap. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2014-12-08 05:33 mircea_popescu: "Sunt fondatorul uneia din cele mai mari retele de bloguri de nisa din Romania (Stepout Media), cu siteuri precum: www.construimimperii.ro," i am the founder of one of the biggest niche networks in romania, with sites such as webuildempires
a111: Logged on 2019-01-25 17:05 mircea_popescu: in any case, in 2011, as in 2001, as in 2021 i can say "academia romana keks" or http://trilema.com/2011/stimata-academie/ whatever ; but they can't say "trilema.com", because holy shit.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-25#1889862 slash http://btcbase.org/log/2014-12-08#948046 lulz : the dork i used above for a source for the commie radio pictures (not that he originates them, they actually come from http://www.latrecut.ro/2006/05/ric-stramoshul-ipod-ului/ which is significantlly better contextually, but I was lazy) not only passes himself as a "Ministrul Cyberculturii | Recenzii, cronici, cr ☝︎☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: but it's the web, you know, instant access to all human knowledge.
mircea_popescu: can't argue with you there.
asciilifeform: i find the howling vacuum when looked 'who tried this' suspicious, tho.
mircea_popescu: no, i'm saying, this is the problem. if you don't have sufficient crystalline surface to provide separation, you end up with the microequivalent of a disco ball.
asciilifeform worked for a while with crystallographers and their output, but in 'traditional' domain, nuffin pertaining to semiconductor
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, the refracted beams also interact.
mircea_popescu: but again, i've not sat down with maths for this, just first pass "you got any suspicions ?" thing.
mircea_popescu: crystallography generally works poorly on microfractured crystals, which is what this'd be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but you don't get to distinguish ~one from another~.
asciilifeform would luvv to read
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that 'noise' is sorta whole point. distinguish the dopants.
mircea_popescu: but afaik this hasn't been seriously tried since diana_coman did it.