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assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 23:06:34; nubbins`: and much realer than rololol's basilisk
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1061025 << i suspect the importance of that is strictly local. ie, some club of idiots got owned by this concept specially constructed for their particular disabilities. ☝︎
nubbins`: i actually ran into this guy in berlin last summer, hey?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i recall discussing that guy last year.
mircea_popescu: (there's a widely known, at least in europe, welt der kunst, world of art. /me had classmates going for a while that it simply means "wealth of cunts")
mircea_popescu: plus it only takes ten minutes or so.
mircea_popescu: DEFINITELY a better approach to the entire eliezer/potter bs than either of the proponents.
mircea_popescu: possibly the best song of all time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform allow me to answer that!
mircea_popescu: hey, did you know trauma is "dreaming" in german ?
asciilifeform: suppose a man were disassembled into components, sorted by atomic mass. then, next day, reassembled. answer - a) this cannot be done for Reasons b) he died and was replaced with soul-less copy c) he simply got paused and then resumed, will wonder where the day went but nothing else d) none of the above ?
asciilifeform: let's have gedankenexperiment (is trinque still awake ?)
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 22:56:06; trinque: there's a mental defect where one considers himself to be an idea
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1060994 << this is more of an infantilism than a defect. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: then on the other line alf was going nuts about kbd emanations good for 20 meters even!
mircea_popescu: that had me for a chuckle, you know ? "too lazy to type it in, it's like characters and shit"
asciilifeform: iirc it was 'not sop therefore chew for us and feed into mouth or else'
mircea_popescu: was in some court case or other during the great assault on private email providers of 2012-2013
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i remember correctly, usg is on record saying they lack the ability to input a printed gpg privkey.
asciilifeform then remembered that the legend featured american 'thompson' brought on lend-lease
asciilifeform trying to find ancient thread re: drunken red army folks having a duel with submachineguns and blocked by greatcoats
nubbins`: asciilifeform the only material difference between one and the other is the substrate
mircea_popescu: it did work. bullet didn't even make it through the whole ~200 leaves.
nubbins`: 50% transparent mask layer on top
mircea_popescu: except he was shotwith a .38 and he was carring money. so it didn't go through.
mircea_popescu: you know, there's this legend that actually happened of romanian mobster that got shot coming out of a restaurant
nubbins`: s.nsa cards w/ cardano pcb traces silkscreened in copper ink
asciilifeform: ^ this possibly
asciilifeform: who was it who had the steel businesscards.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not at that time.
assbot: Print Page - MPEx owner in danger of being extradited to US to face charges ... ( http://bit.ly/1FOv8bb )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not a gpg-enabled lawyer, i take it
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that gold looks more like bronze
nubbins`: not quite the best shot to show it off, but yknow
mircea_popescu: hired another lawyer the other day, left him my card, then when we met socially later he was like... well the office tried to figure out wtf. first we thought those must be like mail codes of your country. but then that didn't make sense. so susie said you must be in porn.
nubbins`: not sure if i have pics handy, but i know there's a couple cards downstairs
mircea_popescu: course, not so easy to pull it off, need just the right kinda asshole.
nubbins`: puzzle or word search on the back maybe
nubbins`: now it's all flared nostrils & running fingertips over things
mircea_popescu: but the film could definitely have done with a lot more and a lot better nudity.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu i never understood the concept of a "paper erection" until i got into this biz, ya know
danielpbarron: i don't think i've seen that movie
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo here is your very helpful trigger : ^
nubbins`: i actually need to print more for myself
mircea_popescu pictures danielpbarron doing that thing with the cards in american psycho
danielpbarron: i collect the things
mircea_popescu: later tell bingoboingo here is your very helpful trigger : ^
mircea_popescu: you think ? pics usually make cards look cheap
mircea_popescu: i guess it's time to come up with a byline for it hm.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` : name/surname ; nick ; gpg/gpg on one face, dunno exactly what should be for qntra on the other.
danielpbarron: i like simple / white background black text sorta thing
nubbins`: any of the above who have particular ideas about how they want their cards to NOT look, best speak up
mircea_popescu: im thinking cazalla bingoboingo thestringpuller danielpbarron right off the bat, cazalla lemme know who else should go in the magic dozen.
nubbins`: we index all our graphics & films, totally
mircea_popescu: i can go for that as a qntra perk. you gonna be willing to keep the design and make more of the same if these folks run out / for new folks ?
nubbins`: contrast the economy of scale here to alf's $200 book ;(
nubbins`: mircea_popescu say 600 bezzlars for a dozen people to get 250 cards each, design + shipping at actual cost
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 22:51:23; jurov: someone go grow a finger from yudkowski's dna and tell him you have the rest of his clone in cellar
mircea_popescu: kinda why people go to school : so they can be in the company of their betters (something us kids have serious mental issues with) where they can create this sort of braindamage, be bullied for it, fix it, and so end up sane.
mircea_popescu: he, superficially, has an autodidact's understanding of the basics. that means they are subtly broken. he then proceeds from there, and errors compound.
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 22:48:21; trinque: you cannot interact with you
mircea_popescu: same design, name/surname, nick, gpg key on one side, qntra this that on the other ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` hey, what;d you cost to make qntra business cards for a dozen ppl and ship em ?
mircea_popescu: how did that inept quote go, "citizens ask for permission."
asciilifeform: in that if obamitler wished, he could hunt the last panda, or fuck 12yo thai
mircea_popescu: only as a result of having taken ownserhip of teh citizenry.
asciilifeform: well there, certainly. but i'd argue that usg implicitly takes ownership of the wild things here
mircea_popescu: similarly in the recently invented "sex tourism" trials, you're not on trial for there bering a fgucked 12yo in thailand, but for there being a usian citizen that had some fun.
asciilifeform: possibly some mix (i can think of a situation where it is precisely about ox damage)
mircea_popescu: you will not be on trial for ox damaging, but for human misbehaving.
mircea_popescu: that's your owner, not the ox's.
asciilifeform: (the crown, who will go after me if i show up with a rifle and a kebeb grill ready to go)
asciilifeform: even an ox wandering loose in mumbai (the locals call'em 'brakes inspectors' on the road) - has owner
asciilifeform: but the less trivial one is that there no such thing as ownerless cattle
asciilifeform: but this is a trivial observation.
asciilifeform: the head of cattle, taught by d3m0cr4cy111!!111!1 that he ought to have some kind of control over his stall, goes apeshit outside.
scoopbot: New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/bitbet-history/
mircea_popescu: or the one before that. or i suppose most of his links.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> tries to exercise a delusion of control over his environment via the only means he knows how - by smearing his surroundings, and if you let him - entire planets - with his shit << this, is, fundamentally, "social media", as the recent maddox link amply explains.
mircea_popescu: directly anticultural, and through that mediation, civilisation-destroying.
asciilifeform: it refers to precisely 'this is how we use'
asciilifeform: incidentally, notice how english speakers use word 'training' outside of the context of spinal reflex (sport)
mircea_popescu: one's civilisational, the other's brainwashing.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to "this is ~how we use this~."
mircea_popescu: it starts with "you will be beaten daily until you know how this works"
asciilifeform: to rephrase - i'm not certain that anyone knows how to 'civilization' without producing more of this material than anyone knows how to pour into concrete and bury
mircea_popescu: so what if it does. tb goes with pallor, we don't call one the other.
asciilifeform: is the correct word.
mircea_popescu: "well... that'd be because you're an idiot."
mircea_popescu: "o look, the usual crutches i use to hide my idiocy don't work, now it's nude on display".
mircea_popescu: the word for this can be "civilised", but it just as well be "fucking stupid".
mircea_popescu: that's the long and the short of it. has nothing to do with people.
mircea_popescu: bs. the problem there isn't anything to do with "people". dependent cattle behave outrageously if taken outside of their pens.
asciilifeform: and having the temerity to whine if a white spot remains
asciilifeform: tries to exercise a delusion of control over his environment via the only means he knows how - by smearing his surroundings, and if you let him - entire planets - with his shit
nubbins`: permethrin woulda been great for my hammock when i went to colombia ;/
nubbins`: actually yeah permethrin+cats, i remember that one
asciilifeform: at any rate, i enjoy the picture that one day the correct gas may be found for the degenerate.
mircea_popescu: but in context this'd be a reasonable expectation.
asciilifeform forgot precisely what. but leafing through old crap reveals that permethrin is not anticholinergic. so couldn't have been it