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asciilifeform: afaik this normally happens because the wife breaks down
mircea_popescu: most people don't bother fucking their wives. why'd they bother with some random dude.
asciilifeform: i can believe this
asciilifeform: pet could quite likely walk until its legs give out, without finding the fact
BingoBoingo: In USia this is an elite athlete >> http://deadspin.com/cc-sabathia-gained-a-bunch-of-weight-on-purpose-1687422053
mircea_popescu: but it's fine, send the pet out on a fact finding expedition.
mircea_popescu: now multiply this by a reddit, and you see where we are.
asciilifeform on typical day doesn't see any women other than one kept as pet
asciilifeform would have to leave the bubble dome to do mircea_popescu's suggested experiment
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform stop the first woman over 30 you see, ask her if she had sex today.
BingoBoingo: I don't have children so would like to avoid prison and buggery. Still my survival strategy would consist largely of join the first white power gang that comes knocking.
mircea_popescu: most people don't bother fucking their wives, why do you imagine they'd bother with some dude.
mircea_popescu: ever seen someone in that demo be BORED ?
asciilifeform: how's that
mircea_popescu: they're petrified of it, of course, but it'd be a rational move for them.
BingoBoingo: I've heard reports that county jail isnt so bad, worst part is the stigma from people on the outside
asciilifeform secret connoisseur of 'rotting in prison' literature. has most of a bookcase - and none is in eng. doesn't know of any in that language worth keeping
mircea_popescu: god forbid you misbehave. they may jail you!
mircea_popescu: they're so fucking free they despair for a guide of "how to behave" in prison.
mircea_popescu: "No matter how many episodes of Orange Is the New Black you’ve binge-watched, the experience of life behind bars is basically unfathomable to those of us who have only ever known freedom."
BingoBoingo: Just extended basic though
mircea_popescu: why not ? bad for the economy.
BingoBoingo: They have cable in the county jail I've heard through reports
mircea_popescu: do they have pay per view in prison yet ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Seems to from what I can find on the subject.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo is it like the "baby delivery" school, in that it involves "all family members" for maximal bezzletronicity ?
mircea_popescu: does it go "kill someone on your first day, the flimsier reason the better, the more blood the better" ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: "Get ready for prison" camp is actually a thing is USia
BingoBoingo: "Kerness says she sends the manual to anyone who writes to her organization asking for one. Until recently she had no trouble getting the materials into people’s hands, but recently, she says she has started receiving pushback from some facilities."
asciilifeform doesn't have the link handy
asciilifeform: as in, expensive 'academies' where... something or other.. is taught
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lulzier still, there are -schools- for 'white collar' derps who are expecting prison
mircea_popescu: pretty soon derps in prison so numerous actual prisoners are too wtf'd at these idiots running around dreaming a little dream they just hang themselves ?
mircea_popescu: they're going to have a dating/selfhelp for this, too ?
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BingoBoingo: No, just means you have to sort through "literate" scum to find literature
mircea_popescu: some idiots somewhere put pen to paper cca 1700 to communicate the idea that "if only we made the children of the scum literate the word would be a paradise"
BingoBoingo: And it's no coincidence that Elmo was played by a chomo
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: And in every "about" derp they mention the "better world" being governance via reddit and tumblr ethics
cazalla: that oscar was such a troll, down voting
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo only retrospectively. prospectively, it was designed to bring about "a better world", as some people imagined it.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> it also means no meta nsa you know. << That show in particular was designed to bring about reddit society
asciilifeform: meta-nsa can also take out of sample, no ?
mircea_popescu: but what that does is... it takes them out of sample.
asciilifeform: not a uniform infection, this.
asciilifeform: nor any of the people i associate with voluntarily in meatspace, really
asciilifeform: nor was the woman
asciilifeform: but the folks i work with weren't raised by tv.
mircea_popescu: not how this works. biological samples are either uniformly infected or not infected.
asciilifeform: why'd that be
mircea_popescu: baby boomers checked out of society, their kids were raised by the tv set, the result is the current usg.
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/05/cookie_monster_becomes_aware.html << actually tlp has excellent working theory on 'what happened'.
asciilifeform: should've noticed the earmuffs
asciilifeform: i was still thinking about the wave detector!
mircea_popescu: in the gif. is what you meant ?
asciilifeform secretly imagines the opposite of this firm
BingoBoingo: If Intel can plan on sending silicon to abadon anything is possible
asciilifeform: can connect alarm out cable to whatever?
BingoBoingo: Mega lol, where's the robot's Mosin?
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BingoBoingo: And since we are bringing up the hometown behold the drive Federalis made to visit, note the major city very close to the destination https://maps.google.com/maps?q=peoria+illinois+highland+illinois&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ei=1tbrVNKsHMKmNqeWg_AH&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&output=classic&dg=brw
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or, more specifically, what is the flying object
BingoBoingo: https://d1u1p2xjjiahg3.cloudfront.net/775124f3-9ed9-4b6d-b22d-513441a12b51.jpg << 2012 with Cellular turds
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's that ?!
asciilifeform: in addition to the classical horns
asciilifeform: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=highland+silver+lake+park&ll=38.761728,-89.692103&spn=0.002812,0.001632&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=38.761673,-89.691976&panoid=HPZxYzCY4v-Tms2dG9AMcA&cbp=12,354.34,,1,-19.35 << BingoBoingo's tower definitely has cellular antennae now
asciilifeform: elevation thing
BingoBoingo: Well no reason not to. Just maybe it is an elevation thing but CT bunker seems like it could have moar tower
asciilifeform: probably not sold at time of photo.
asciilifeform: can even see the cracks on the asphalt.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: looks quite like the others.
BingoBoingo: Common arrangement in the Middle West
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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: We have a big microwave tower on the north side of town
mircea_popescu: you thinking cellphgone microwave drums ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there are horns where you live ?!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure, but The towers around here tend to have more horns and more tower for mounting horns
asciilifeform: and the horns themselves were merely backups for the more famous underground coax
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you need one (or two, redundant) for each direction of link
asciilifeform: so mircea_popescu is not the only one who wasn't impressed
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Definitely a particularly interesting site. Microwave tower is rather thin on antennas so facility must have had other serious justification
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: according to the historical docs, the sites in question were rated for particular 'overpressures' - and some were 'graded down' upon inspection after constructed
mircea_popescu: i'm not terribly impressed with the depicted blastdoors, but anyway
asciilifeform out of date on the subject
asciilifeform: (from earlier thread)
asciilifeform: found that site by sheer accident, while idly looking for what's commercial state of the art in shock wave detectors
BingoBoingo: Ah, more toilet springs
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That too. Still some people do brisk business selling corrugated steel tubes
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: private 'gtfo' arrangements are the new racket
BingoBoingo: Well, private bunkers are the new racket
asciilifeform: and afaik nobody cancelled bunkers, but the 'golden age of usg' gigantomania is gone.
asciilifeform: at one time
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I find the historical bunker bezzel fascinating. Especially with the missile sites that were getting outdated and replaced within 5 years. The ATT bunkers though... some nice real estate
mircea_popescu: i wonder what they think "nuclear hardened" means.
asciilifeform: unrelated/historical >> http://coldwar-ct.com/ATT_Chesterfield.html << 'not a bunker w/out spring mounted toilet!'
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: it's needed if you have no serial cable and want to screw with uboot
danielpbarron: is the netcat thing even needed?
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: what kind of output were you expecting to see without a serial cable ?!
ben_vulpes: end up ripping the fixture out of the wall and soldering things together.
ben_vulpes: i generally know the thing needs plugging in but frequently find myself unable to line up the right pins with the right sockets