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pete_dushenski: the breadth and depth of his cross-references between la commedia and
the entire western cannon is not
to be downplayed
pete_dushenski: but at least
the guy's well read,
there's no denying
that
pete_dushenski: can't say i'd really recommend manguel's book, it was a bit
too much about him being old and his life and
times living all over
the world
pete_dushenski: it just so happens
that i just finished alberto manguel's 'curiousity', which is in essence a long-winded essay about la commedia.
BingoBoingo: We really need
to flatten
the circles a bit
pete_dushenski: ;;later
tell Adlai your
transliteration broke my (online)
translation skillz !
☟︎ pete_dushenski: but if i say
that 0.5% is
too small, what's a better proportion ? double digits doesn't sound unreasonable.
pete_dushenski: ;;later
tell asciilifeform nice finds. yes,
treblinka wasn't -only- rebellion, but 0.5% of jews killed in 'shoah' fought back in
the way depicted in
those films. not great.
BingoBoingo: Madness?
THIS IS SPARTA (or about 30 miles away from Sparta, IL)
BingoBoingo wonders what it says of Anglo society
that Dante is exalted while William Blake is mentioned only in horror
tales.
mod6: ;;later
tell jurov nevermind, i reformatted it a bit and resent, went
through
this
time.
BingoBoingo: EARTH, WATER? You will find plenty down
THERE!
decimation: indeed once he has
to show up and explain it
the gig is up
decimation: asciilifeform:
the amusing
thing is
that lord rothchild need not even make his position clear, it's already imagined and
taken into account
decimation: the mind boggles at
the various little staffers dreaming of ways
to ensure
the survival of
the present usg regime even long beyond
their own retirements
decimation: of course,
the answer is
the same as your powerplant
theory: usg-unapproved power centers must be strangled in
the crib
decimation: yes but
this particular feature is interesting: why would usg want
to ensure
that
the children fail
to gain 'independent wealth'
decimation: you can gift your
tax free account
to your spouse when you die, but if your kids get it
they must begin drawing down
decimation: asciilifeform: I was pondering
this
the other day with
the supposed 'tax-free' retirment scheme called Roth
decimation: asciilifeform:
that's
the 'bootleggers'
to
the 'baptists' -
the enviro-nuts
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> it isn't even about selling coal << During my
two years at Mizzou
they installed a Wood Chip furnace at
their power plant.
decimation: plus, coal plant shits more radiation everywhere in
the form of C14
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (can you say 'petrodollar', kidz?) << Shame when everythig is forced
to move
to corn plastics
decimation: the coal lobby hates
this idea, for one
decimation: it's not hard
to do
the math and realize
that a few hundred kg of U is way cheaper
to supply in
the long run
than massive quantities of coal
BingoBoingo: Gotta preserve
the existing ones by population centers
BingoBoingo: <decimation> even
though
they have
turned out
to be extremely profitable << Fiat arbitrarity prevents
this
decimation: even 40 miles from ascii is a nuke plant
that has been relicensed for another 20 years as I recall
decimation: even
though
they have
turned out
to be extremely profitable
decimation: sure
they can. designs exist
today
that would self-quench under any disaster, without power
BingoBoingo: Problem is stupid nuclear plants
that can't sustain cooling... Like my laptop
decimation: of course, it's always 'because reasons' - certainly it's not because in
their heart of hearts
they wish
to destroy
themselves
decimation: after
the fukoshima
thing showed how
the worst-case scenario wasn't particularly dangerous
decimation: asciilifeform: also
the germans did something similar
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> wind blew'em back in << Ru shares
the problem with US east coast
decimation: lol
turns out
they didn't need
to blow
them up
BingoBoingo: lol, small difference between studio apartments with gypsum drywall and mudhuts which happen
to have a lot of gypsum in
the walls. Just normally
the huts are more durable
BingoBoingo: It reportedly
takes serious glass
to make serious glass
BingoBoingo: If university lab offers glass and hard
to find reagents why not?
assbot: Logged on 24-07-2015 04:03:36; asciilifeform: i have no idea if
this makes sense
to anyone but me
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'll have
to dig up what
the minecraft casino was called. Forums figured ~150 BTC. Happened if I correctly recall right around
TradeFartress deflated
mircea_popescu: i recall back when he was promoting it, it having a very distinct bitcoin-insanity vibe
to it.
assbot: Logged on 24-07-2015 02:24:55; BingoBoingo: cazalla: Yeah. Dude ran
to. Exit scam.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Apparently
that article has drm preventing my access
BingoBoingo: Eh, only 600 ml of vodka in
tonight so far. Got
the sads over Judge rotation.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: This is La Monde! Where do you expect anything
that isn't nasty!
BingoBoingo: <phf> (or, for
the curious, expected ethanol, but got methanol) <<
This is why I greatly prefer distilled spirits
to beer
phf: (or, for
the curious, expected ethanol, but got methanol)
phf: i assumed same
thing as asciilifeform, because sop in soviet union. my uncle died like
that, botched centrifugation
to extract alcohol from whatever was available, at his lab
decimation: my former high school chemistry
teacher complained about chemical engineers;
they seemed
to
think nothing of boiling hexane
decimation: not
that it would be a
terribly wise course
decimation: you have
the mental capacity & resourcefulness
to make some
decimation: it strikes me as more likely
that it was some lowbrow schmoe with a gand scheme
mircea_popescu: course we nuked dns meanwhile, but
the power rangers will have problems.