asciilifeform: we already know about the spam farms. it's over.

asciilifeform: was it the stooge, proclaiming 'Then you shouldn't be pushing for btcd in the post. Btcd is harmful to consensus. Your proposal to have miners run multiple consensus implementations doesn't require btcd to exist and its existence doesn't benefit it.' ?

asciilifeform: i'm unable to find one

asciilifeform: the_scourge: reddit article << now my turn to ask, what was the interesting part ?

asciilifeform: as for the photo, i happen to like it. and think it would look good in any respectable salt mine.

asciilifeform does not normally repost spam, but this is a serious new (to him) page in spamatronics

asciilifeform: i have yet to see an ad like this on 'google'

asciilifeform: ('guide to recognizing a jew using his face! guide to the jewish face on ...'

asciilifeform: mega-l0l at the Yandex ads:

asciilifeform: https://fotki.yandex.ru/next/users/ugluka/album/463141/view/980008?page=1&context= << this one in particular

asciilifeform: but i'm probably terminally lazy.

asciilifeform: i've been known to do just that.

asciilifeform: pipe to wire - problematic.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: generally, one ought to. 'skin effect' doesn't apply at dc.

asciilifeform: (if you need them in jungle conditions, a copper water pipe hammered flat generally suffices)

asciilifeform: (the massive heat sinks for the rectifier don't do well in enclosed domes. but idiots insisted on placing them therein anyway, torching their hose. never mind that my domes are open to 30cm of air on the top - can't allow fit!

asciilifeform: ever so slightly too big.

asciilifeform hence bought the 1600 lumen units

asciilifeform learned from a previous chumpapade that the ones molded to occupy the space taken by ordinary bulb, are laughably dim

asciilifeform total chump, came back from buying super-pleasure-led light bulbs only to discover that they won't fit in a single fixture he has

asciilifeform: punkman: is that a total de-wxcrudification i see ?

asciilifeform: [insert all other known plato-wanks ever in this space]

asciilifeform: wasn't even arguing against the succession per se (next what, i should argue against snow?) but the bizarre deception games

asciilifeform: but in this case a specific mechanism is posited

asciilifeform: testable hypothesis is that folks presently coming in to officer the upper ranks of the usgarchy (including not merely cia, etc. but the vc circus) , are largely annointees of previous generation therein.

asciilifeform: posits a phase transition some time in early '60s where the 'optimates' (his term, something like 'old money') were dethroned by 'brahmins' (the folks running the show today, socialist functionaries who work 'for the good of m4nk1nd')

asciilifeform: iirc mr mold does not trace the descent of modern elite to the rich of 1960

asciilifeform: recall that apparatchiks are not all, or even most, collecting official federal salaries.

asciilifeform: except to remind n00bs of its existence on such occasions.

asciilifeform: i.e. send children to harvaprinceyaleton, internships in africa saving monkeys or whoever, they are then eminently paper-qualified and no one can possibly object (tm) to their ascendency as apparatchiks

asciilifeform: re: inheritance tax crapolade: the usg elite does not bequeath/inherit via the usual mechanism, but rather by:

asciilifeform: 'all the world's a stage' or how did it go.

asciilifeform: winnie pooh walks into a butcher's shop, asks 'got mortadella' ? answer, 'sure' winnie pooh draws a submachinegun and spins round, round, round with it, mowing down everything that moves: 'for piiigleet!' ☟︎

asciilifeform: 'Tommy Dean Gaa, of Maryville, reportedly told the waitress, after she asked if he wanted wheat or white toast, that he was prejudiced and therefore would take white toast, according to a probable cause statement viewed by the Maryville Daily Forum.'

asciilifeform: orlov himself is in no hurry to trade his computer for a spear.

asciilifeform: he knows full well that it is every bit as possible to transform from what a civilized man is to a stray dog as to the indian.

asciilifeform: why, i wonder, did he pick the indians as an example of 'the true path' and not, say, a stray dog ?

asciilifeform: ^ this article exemplifies everything i personally most dislike about herr orlov.

asciilifeform enjoys mircea_popescu's optimism but cannot as easily partake in it, from the prison-without-doors

asciilifeform: it made palatial micromanagement of an empire at least thinkable.

asciilifeform: telegraph - major boost to the disease.

asciilifeform: (orwell's 'lion and the unicorn')

asciilifeform: tradition, but the job of administering the Empire had ceased to appeal. Few able men went east of Suez if there was any way of avoiding it.'

asciilifeform: dministration. And what was true of the official world was true also of the commercial. The great monopoly companies swallowed up hosts of petty traders. Instead of going out to trade adventurously in the Indies one went to an office stool in Bombay or Singapore. And life in Bombay or Singapore was actually duller and safer than life in London. Imperialist sentiment remained strong in the middle class, chiefly owing to family

asciilifeform: Mandalay. The one-time empire builders were reduced to the status of clerks, buried deeper and deeper under mounds of paper and red tape. In the early twenties one could see, all over the Empire, the older officials, who had known more spacious days, writhing impotently under the changes that were happening. From that time onwards it has been next door to impossible to induce young men of spirit to take any part in imperial a