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asciilifeform: kidz alsowanted to know the 'why'. is, i suppose, why they did it.
phf: that was basically what it was. i think there was maybe 3 total "cyberdrug" programs, but the rest was basically visualizers and sound generators lifted from all over
mircea_popescu: wtf is the "psychedelic" supposed to do, i never could figure out. all sort and manner of kids were into all sorta manner of "psychedleic" bullcrap, from special light-things to "interpret" the music (installed eg under car seats! made the whole experience fucking nauseous) to what have you. but... why ?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:30 phf: asciilifeform: i actually bought, at some point, at "garbushka" bazaar, a cd with a psychedelic design, that had an entire collection of all kinds of "computernarcotic" softwares
asciilifeform: ( consider the often-used 'light' punishment in su penal code : 'the 101st kilometre' . i.e. exile-from-moscow. )
mircea_popescu: i expect lol.
diana_coman: at least that: in ploiesti you could get it ...probably even directly from the air I suppose
mircea_popescu: you could have i dun recall, maybe 10 galons/mo ? and the queues looked almost like modern traffic jams.
mircea_popescu: i don't recall the power ever going out.
phf: i don't think i've ever seen a non-working lift in moscow! certainly never two (and there's always two in those 15s) at the same time
asciilifeform: i ended up, briefly , in a 15 . gotta wonder where the 15 came from , possibly it is 'tallest that folx can endure regularly walking up to with groceries , given that lift ~never works'
phf: i suspect downtown, where they had "early 1900s flat"s, it was a bit different, but on the periphery of the city, where they had "sleeping neighborhoods" it was pretty much the same as described. (we had 15 storied buildings with a slightly more space in between instead)
mircea_popescu: i am somehow not surprised.
mircea_popescu: possibly the lowest precious cuntlet factor i ever encountered in my life ; and i personally credit the active male population and high density.
mircea_popescu: honeslty i much preferred the density. made all sorts of буржуй bullshit untenable and plain-evidently not desirable. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i recall asking why is the ceiling low, and nobody had answer.
mircea_popescu: all those were there when i was 5
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i lived (with 10`000 other kids all my exact age) in a purely hruscheba neighbourhood ; to the point i was SUSPICIOUS of traditional houses.
mircea_popescu: as a kid what i did with my time was that i ran up three flights of stairs to drink (straight from the faucet, who the everloving fuck has the time or the patience for glasses!) a stomachfull of water, then run back down and keep fucking running.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:29 phf: apropos, i was always curious if that old school binaural sound generator program from the late 90s could be used to pacify children, but never had a chance to try
mircea_popescu: affiliate. "Hi, this is Bill from Cleveland, and I blame liberals." Son of a bitch, why didn't I think of that. The system not only pays poor people, it employs lots and lots of almost poor people. I'm not saying this is a good thing, or a desirable thing, I am simply stating a fact. Some of these are direct government jobs (e.g. staff down at the SSI office) and some are pretend private sector jobs. If you're a psychiatrist ☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-13#1750654 << well i wasn't proposing it hasta be on ipads obv ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know. but i sure as fuck am not contemplating "a woman for every man and who cares what she looks like" nonsense.
mircea_popescu: to prove this, i bring the following point : in http://trilema.com/2017/jud-suss/ the lord of swabia complains that the city council won't get him stuff that, by the standards of the empire';s holds in belgrade, would be very modest.
asciilifeform: what 'rich' means muchly depends on locale. 'rich chukcha' has moar deer, i imagine. rich plantator -- moar ground. but there is not a habsburg house for him to live in, he cannot buy it any more than he could have bought a pdp-8
phf: american "founding fathers" in a lot of ways remind me of the three musketeers" "i sold this ring from a countess that i fuck, let's go have some proper food"
asciilifeform: i dun think anybody imagined the plantators being loaded by euro standard.
mircea_popescu: a lot of smarter folk put A LOT more work than i ever did into "modern computing plarform" and didn't get as much out of it.
mircea_popescu: amusing what iniquity this brings, seeing how fucking terrible i am, and yet by 8bit priviledge...
asciilifeform: i have yet to meet, i think, a d00d worth half a shit on a comp , who didn't grow up with a 8bit micro
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:32 phf: ben_vulpes: have considering buying him a commodore or somesuch, i.e. a basic repl machine that you can also use to teach him about the meaning of peek/poke?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-13#1750682 << in retrospect, regarding the matter cooly and with the disinterest of old age, i can affirm that this is ~the only important and enduring portion of computing as an education tool in my life. it's what feeds eg http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-11#1749457 and everything in between ands up to that : the 6yo mp's discovery that there exists a numeric universe underneath, and that it's t ☝︎☝︎☟︎
ben_vulpes: i actually caved for a plane ride recently, procured a set of entirely unobjectionable 45-minute videos of various animals tearing each other apart. imagine my fury when the downloadotron had failed to save these for the flight!
phf: ben_vulpes: have considering buying him a commodore or somesuch, i.e. a basic repl machine that you can also use to teach him about the meaning of peek/poke? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: this convo somehow ended up so fucking dense i keep having to re-read from behind
mircea_popescu: i think so.
ben_vulpes: i speak stricly of the miserable agglomeration of transistors with no purpose
phf: asciilifeform: i actually bought, at some point, at "garbushka" bazaar, a cd with a psychedelic design, that had an entire collection of all kinds of "computernarcotic" softwares ☟︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i used to work with a number of d00dz who had young chillunz, they all bought rubberized tabletrons for'em 'as soon as knew how to hold it'
phf: apropos, i was always curious if that old school binaural sound generator program from the late 90s could be used to pacify children, but never had a chance to try ☟︎
phf: ben_vulpes: as far as i understand some of those videos are actually algorithmically generated?
ben_vulpes: lol right, salary last time i checked as a kid was what, 100k? sounded like lots when i was a kid but today...
mircea_popescu: between these two i can't discern.
asciilifeform: now that i couldn't know.
mircea_popescu: i've yet to encounter this wonder, correctly parented hussy. but who knows, maybe it's just me.
mircea_popescu: the reason i deal with 16yos not 6yos becoming ever more apparent.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 16:48 asciilifeform: 9x << i thought that was fishing mode
asciilifeform: ( other than the obvious way observed by uncle al, i.e. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-17#1671450 ) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: speaking of mother's milk, britt sells these macadamia nuts covered in black chocolate here. they go fabulously well with danish cookies, but i have the following complaint :
mod6: I think those guys in alaska have something figured out with those full walk-in smokers they built with logs, etc.
mircea_popescu: mod6 and the thing is, meat age matters IMMENSELY. unless you operate a smoking thing, which fwis is all but unknown in the us, and unless i guess you know how to rot it properly (whicjh again, is nice, but MAYBE once a month sorta thing, like the romeo&juliets), in order to eat a steak shot-this-morning i'd pay, but really i wouldn't eat a "straight from the freezer" steak unless i have to.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, in re milk thread ( http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728908 and elsewhere ) -- i found out that there is apparently nao an Official loophole -- while it lasts -- in usgistan : raw milk sold 'for cats' , for piles of money , wink, nudge, posh clientelle fills up thermoses ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i guess if all the "exclusive gated community" schmucks weren't so schmucky thery could have a delegated hunter, get your steak in the mail by 10am. << In old country missouri village of "Town and Country" licenses hunters, but only as far as reducing the traffic hazard posed.
mod6: I really want to get some elk steaks, but no where to be found in immediate area.
mircea_popescu: i guess if all the "exclusive gated community" schmucks weren't so schmucky thery could have a delegated hunter, get your steak in the mail by 10am. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: but in temperate zone, really, ima pay to freeze that much meat for months so as to have month-old meat for months ? BUT I DUN WANNA!
mircea_popescu: ikr ? i'm at like 1.25 or so.
mod6: I love those venison burgers, we mix it 50/50 with ground up pork butt.
asciilifeform: 9x << i thought that was fishing mode ☟︎
mod6: mircea_popescu: its quite a lot of work. i helped dress my buddies buck this year. took ~3 hours.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i am in hunter mode, applying numeric factor of 2x to 9x as need be.
mircea_popescu: i shot a grand total of 1 doe. and honestly the excstasy wasn't worth the laundry.
mircea_popescu: yeah. i always was more of the ... how to put this, defensive hunter ? "i don't mind killing things but i really dun wanna carry them" sort.
BingoBoingo: <mod6> Last weekend I was hunting and saw 5 huge bucks across the open field. Was like O_O. << Vermin!
mod6: Last weekend I was hunting and saw 5 huge bucks across the open field. Was like O_O.
asciilifeform: sometimes i see flattened ones
mircea_popescu: and also, i guess, fox.
asciilifeform: pretty sure i once saw a pheasant.
asciilifeform: mod6: so far all i found : corn
asciilifeform: outside of a picture, i mean
asciilifeform: one day i'd like to so much as see one
mod6: Yeah, for sure. I've never been grouse hunting tho.
mod6: I think it'd be good exercise if nothing else.
mod6: i wanna give turkey a try too. i hear it's a lot of walking, but lots of fun.
mod6: Ducks fly fast tho, ya. I should give that a try next year.
mircea_popescu: i think duck is usually #2 or i guess #4
mod6: Does the job. I try to shoot 'em within 20-50 yds.
mod6: I use .12 ga lead #6 shot.
mircea_popescu: you'd use something like i dunno, 1oz tungsten shot ?
mod6: haha. i imagine.
mod6: I can't imagine trying to hit a fast-flying anything @ 100 yds with a rifle much less a mile and a half.
mod6: I'd imagine that there wouldn't be much decent meat left after getting hit with a rifle round.
mod6: I don't have a low-land dog either, no. Definitely need a newf or lab or whatever.
mod6: Duck is good eating. I don't have all of the equip. for it. Most guys have a lot of decoys and a blind or boat of sorts.
mircea_popescu: ro had very few (for some reason most ppl prefer to go for pheasant, i have nfi) so it was like... one week in oct and one week in jan, pretty much 1 to 7
mod6: i've got a long way to go. I'd like to get ~50.
mod6: I've bagged about ... 11 or 12 so far this year.
mod6: There are ducks here ya. I hunt pheasant tho.
BingoBoingo suspects they want to make friends with my friends after I presented expected revenue from rack (10kusd gross) and expected number of clients per rack (less than 10).
BingoBoingo: The venezuala? Not yet. I will probably ask her if she wants me to have some food ready when she comes for spanish lesson tonight.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I saw a teeny bopper with a shirt that said "Acid Please" in montevideo shopping.
a111: Logged on 2014-08-30 21:57 mircea_popescu: "i dunno... maybe stop sending niggers ?"
mircea_popescu: oh and in other randoms : yest i saw girl shirt reading in big thick font "blowjob is still better than no job"
BingoBoingo: Ah, the locals dress in all sorts of manners. I am not obviously a foreigner until I open my mouth. And then... They still mostly guess Brazilian...
shinohai: I need a red shirt with Birds on it so I kinda look like Quagmire for this party I'm going to.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo aha. i had it in... missouri, i think. quite excellent.
asciilifeform: ^ yeah at this point i got
asciilifeform: twilight, i guess
asciilifeform: ( i in fact dun know any other that begins with 'tw' )
mircea_popescu: in other statistics nobody cares about : out of 1817 females under 30 with an interest in kink that checked out http://trilema.com/2017/galati-yachting/ this month, OVER 900 !!!! thereby inferred that saving turtles is what i do for a living, my job or in some manner similarily my profession or occupation.