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danielpbarron: that meowmix character found me on another irc network -- i recognize
the hostmask; it appears
to be from my area as well
mod6: mp: you run .ar now right? just
tell 'em im comin and it's all good.
mod6: <+asciilifeform>
the ar entry fee gizmo,
that is << lol wtf, you have
to pay a 'reciprocity fee'?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I've seen
the "amusement park
ticket" requirement for Argentina.
ben_vulpes: they actually won't let you on
the plane without
the paper printed out.
ben_vulpes: it's my own statal agents i've gotta convince
the papers are legit.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform:
the link in question is about amazon's use of emacs in
their frontline customer support
ben_vulpes: i have
to pay
the reciprocity fee again don't i
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: yeah i saw
that last year
mircea_popescu: you will not behehehelieve
the improvements of productivity once you simply do not any longer support
the methods of
timewasters.
mircea_popescu: if anyone claims something beats
text he means
that a) he's stupid and b) given a it's easier for him. fuck
that person with old
transformer cores.
mircea_popescu: i can accept
that SOME PEOPLE actually need
their monitor
to graphics. so make a gamestation. otherwise, we're fucking literate, we're not women, nothing beats
text. ever.
☟︎☟︎ assbot: Logged on 08-03-2015 19:03:30; asciilifeform:
the folks who are willing
to use 'lynx' for 100% of
their www needs already know who
they are.
assbot: Logged on 08-03-2015 18:48:35; asciilifeform: whereas
the real issue is, whether google should be permitted
to stuff arbitrary strange into mainline kernel on
their say-so
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2015 19:44:57; ascii_field: 'i counted, read
the cards on
the wreaths. said
things like, 'from wife', 'from son', 'from mother-in-law' - but none said 'from vodka.' nobody died from vodka.'
saifedean: dont
think he's affiliated with icke or lizard people
saifedean: if you want
to go a little bit beyond
TLP,
try a man by
the name of Jon Rappoport, and don't be intimidated by
the cookiness...
this guy was onto
this stuff decades before
TLP... and is far ahead
mircea_popescu: in
the 70s,
the occasional girl
that went "i prefer older men" was kind of a freak. in
the 90s, it was common enough. by now... i don't
think any girl with options goes for boys her age. and so...
there's your overclocking.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that was a different generation of kids.
that weren't mentally retarded.
mircea_popescu: i don't
think
the average smartphone user is smart enough
to know what
the cpu does.
saifedean: my brother is in med school and
today he reported
to me
that according
to
the latest DSM, 25% suffer from psychiatric disorders... won't be long before
they get
this up
to 100%
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so is
this sheer incompetence, or is china ever so delicately strangling
them ? "first, you get
them made for free.
then, you get
them made for
ten dolla, but you have
to give us
the blueprints.
then, we only make
them for you out of 2nd best items. and
then... wait, you're still here ?!"
mircea_popescu: i wonder if diabethes and gout will become punishable offenses in
the us
the way all sorts of "psychological" imagined stuff is.
saifedean: "and hey! When I exercise my god-given right
to diabetes... Obamacare will be
there for me"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and unlike
the nkvd,
they didn't even have
to
twist anyone's arm
to keep quiet.
mircea_popescu: saifedean people generally have an inborn, deeply selected ability
to only hear parts. so,
through
this approach "we pay you 10k in salary on
the condition you spend no less
than 11k a month" sounds like a good deal.
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2015 18:20:42; ascii_field: lol re: new apple hardware released
today being -slower-
than previous
saifedean: i don't really understand how anyone could want
to live in
the US in
this day and age... anybody who chooses
to go live
there is essentially an other-determined dweeb who cannot
think for
themselves and just follows what
the
tv
tells
them
mircea_popescu: i dunno...
the "i'm not a snitch"
thing floats
to
the point of "what is an american' in my head.
saifedean: the lawyers are
the best people in DC, and
that says a lot
saifedean: i lived in DC for a summer and interacted with
the residents... my
theory is
that DC has collected every single shitty asshole/teacher-pet/snitch/scummy loser from every single high school in
the world
to go live
there... no matter where you were in
the world, if you were a
terrible piece of shit in high school, you found a way
to get
to DC by age 30
saifedean: yeah,
the debt is enormous, and
the CB keeps
the government on a
tight leash with it... banks are all well-capitalized and keep rolling over
the debt for
the government... but
the government can never go crazy and do 5-year-plans or giant infrastructure projects or whatever
saifedean: but DC is
the major league of stupid...
the stupidest and scummiest of beirut and bucharest and everywhere else go
to play in
the majors in DC
mircea_popescu: imagine all
the stupid of wash dc done louder by stupider people. also in a swamp.
saifedean: pegged
to
the dollar, but since
the dollar is always falling, and
the CB's gold reserves aren't,
this makes
the CB very comfortable
mircea_popescu: punkman actually exports are funnay 20% gold 5% jewelry 5% diamonds.
total jew country.
saifedean: washington is a fucking shit-hole, i wouldn't live in it if you paid me 20k a week instead of rent,
there's no city worse on
the planet
punkman: saifedean: hard money, dude! << but pegged
to
the dollar?
mircea_popescu: saifedean sounds a lot like very early romanian. what do
they speak even, misr ?
saifedean: i've
traveled
the world and never seen a place better,
the more i
travel
the more i fall in love with
this place...
mircea_popescu: saifedean yes, but
they support "ideas", and
then soon enough vote, and riot.
mircea_popescu: saifedean from where i sit
the only sane reason
to go
to lebanon would be
the same as 1k years ago :
to start a crusade.
saifedean: there's
tons of refugees from syria, but
they mostly come here and work,
there's no welfare state
to speak of so immigration is not really a problem
saifedean: this place went
through 15 years of civil war
though, everyone has had
their fill, and nobody wants a repeat, and people are far, far, more careful
than in other places... people hjave just learned
to ignore all
the drama and live
their life... all
the "violence" and "insecurity" after all, does not amount
to half of a chicago
mircea_popescu: no but seriously,
there's what, half a million muslims refugeed
there now ?
punkman: maybe good
time
to invest in sailboat
saifedean: yeah,
the fear of
the country falling over is what keeps it so wonderfully beautiful, as it keeps out all
the unwanted visitors :D
saifedean: im not even lebanese, i went
to university here,
then lived in london and new york...
the move from beirut
to
these anglo shit-holes was a culture shock,
there is no comparison... as soon as i finished my phd and got an offer from a lebanese university, i didnt hesitate move back