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mod6: my hands are so numb, can barely even
type.
mod6: -19 deg F.,
tonight -30
spyked: apologies for
the feedbot join-part spam.
the latest outage has helped me discover a subtle bug in pm message delivery; feedbot checks whether a nick is online using
the ison irc command, and it didn't handle
the corner case when
the ison response is empty.
BingoBoingo doubts spray painting "Pocitos" on everything in Cerro would deter
them instead of encouraging
the behavior. Most of
the graffiti from my earliest walks in Montevideo survives, including and especially
the low effort
tagging.
BingoBoingo: And
the kids from Cerro keep coming into Pocitos and Buceo
to spray
the name of
their Barrio on my Rambla
BingoBoingo: Apparently at some point
the local socialists called up Rudy Giulianni for advice on countering petty crime. But...
the pichis still get
their pasta base and
the number of rapiñas keep climbing.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: On
this side of
the river
they keep
the streets labeled while doing 100% pinched mains current. At least until
the police do one of
their post-dawn raids on a local "boca de pasta" and
the electricity police accompany
to "regularize"
the pinched mains.
BingoBoingo was under
the impression most cities containing over 250,000 bipeds were majority favela by land area
BingoBoingo: My chunk of
the Rio de la Plata has a problem which is
the bane of retention ponds and small creeks back in old country
BingoBoingo: (To be clear
the blue problem is Cyanobacteria)
BingoBoingo: Though
this week
the big fount of discontent is
the heatwave and blue freshwater of Montevideo's beaches.
BingoBoingo: A lot of
the current Uruguayo malaise is being blamed on Mujica/RaulSendic/Kircher/Macri Kirchner and Macri can flip places, but
that's roughly
the order of blame assignment
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Given Argentina's long sink into irrelevancy,
the locals
tend
to
think of Argentina as a diseased extension of Uruguay.
BingoBoingo: Do
the Chinese and Indians even want Miami? I suspect
they have
their own favored cities for capture.
BingoBoingo: Apparently
they want
the Chicoms accomodate
the white worm desire for an English Single Language bubble
BingoBoingo: Drama at Duke med school, email sent
to students by some apparachick
BingoBoingo: What lol, biggest possible news of
the day.
mod6: Just combine
that with your find/xargs and you should have it.
mod6: I
think something like `grep -v "^$"` will give you all
the non-empty lines from a file.
mircea_popescu: so apparently
took >1k pics on latest harem outing. wtf am i gonna do ;/
BingoBoingo: Well,
that does explain why
the CIA picked such a manicured numale in
the
tradition of Canada's princess, and France's Ms. Blakkked.
Ty for feeding
the local media outlets.
diana_coman: yay, m-r on ffa; now I'll really have
to schedule ffa feast during breaks from work, lol
mircea_popescu: in other words, it's perfectly fucking clear ~what exactly~
the
talking cunthead dun like about venezuela, and
the world in general.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and public consensus around
the idea of restoring broad-based institutional democracy in Venezuela." bla bla bla bla bla in
that inept vein untill she falls over.
mircea_popescu: . His successors, including Jose Antonio Paez, Antonio Guzman Blanco, or Juan Vincente Gomez followed in his footsteps
towards personalised power. ;
they were more preoccupied with personal aggrandisement
than building strong institutions in
the
the nascent Venezuelan state. ; Personalised power, elitism and authoritarianism continued
to dominate
the Venezuelan political arena ; His only focus should be on building alliances
mircea_popescu: point in case : Maryhen Jimenez Morales ("is a PhD candidate in politics at University of Oxford.") : "
the system of personalised power and governance which
the country has experienced for decades did not begin with Hugo Chavez ;
The charismatic aristocrat Simon Bolivar ; He was a man in search of glory and a military officer who believed in
top-down decision-making. ;
The caudillo rule did not disappear with Bolivar's death
mircea_popescu: anyway, since
there's ~0 results FROM ACTUAL FUCKING VENEZUELA on any kind of google/bing/duckduckgo/whatever
the fuck for a search of venezuela, let's link here some actual venues :
mircea_popescu: anyway, should be lulzy
to see if china moves in
to buy
the oil.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-28 17:47 BingoBoingo: Airstrip One probably made some smooth pitch about how doing so was
the only demonstration
they would accept if Vzla wanted access
to
their fx markets. But... unlike republican spain was not in
the gold extraction business... empire running away and all
that, Vzla is.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-29 03:04 BingoBoingo:
The latest noise is stroked out John Bolton doing a press conference while holding a notepad with 5000
troops
to Colombia written on it.
https://archive.is/TYi6x a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 07:34 mircea_popescu:
the problem is, cartels not particularly impressed with usg
these days. all was needed
to keep assad in power was russia, but a colombia-venezuela-mexico wondertriangle is a lot easier defended.
lobbesbot: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: The problem with Incan
topology is how hard it is
to see
the lost
teeth for
the people wagging dogs
BingoBoingo: Noriega wasn't really sitting on much other
than CIA friendship before getting stuffed into a hole
mircea_popescu: there's not going
to be anymore "invade", after
the
tooth were lost in afghanistan, even syria is
too much
to chew.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 22:36 asciilifeform: north kr is simply a large-scale version of
the
thing wonderful civilized americans like
to do
to prisoners, chain'em up
to a post until shits himself.
shinohai: So more sanctions are answer since Moscow says "nyet"
to military invasion by US ?
BingoBoingo: All
that's realling missing is a "Maine"
to remember
BingoBoingo: ^ Breaking, bolder
than normal world "policing"
BingoBoingo: Airstrip One probably made some smooth pitch about how doing so was
the only demonstration
they would accept if Vzla wanted access
to
their fx markets. But... unlike republican spain was not in
the gold extraction business... empire running away and all
that, Vzla is.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Appears more NeeBee'd, contrary
to implications in
the Anglophone media
that ~1.2 billion USD in gold (why not cite
the
thing in its own unit of measure) is all
the gold, Vzla mines gold
BingoBoingo: Odd how all
these "repressive dictators" seem
to have a much lighter hand
than European "Champions of Demoocrity"
BingoBoingo: ^ Small supporting lul, Vzla opposition folks are reporting ~700 protester arrests over
the weekend which is about an order of magnitude under
the numbers Macron was was detaining when
the Yellow Jacket
thing was new
a111: Logged on 2019-01-15 22:09 mircea_popescu: but
tbh,
the "stochastic convergence
test" seems
to me worth A LOT more
than any bs "ent" ultimately meaningless "squares of pi" bs.
Mocky: wasn't it shannon with
the otp proof?
mircea_popescu: it's an incredible role reversal,
the past decades wrought, when "our subgroup has special knowledges, making
things readily-er obvious
to us rather
than general public"
turned into "our subgroup has special pleadings, making
things passed unlaughed at
that general public would fall over
to hear."