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pete_dushenski: congrats be
to cazalla BingoBoingo and mircea_popescu for
the qntra announcement!
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decimation: heh
the next post: "Huh? You had a choice
to go
to uni and further your education. Be a man and stand by your decisions. "
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decimation: sounds like
the people who just stop paying
taxes, irs comes, gasenwagen, gulag
mircea_popescu: Why? Because I don't want
to fund
the evil banksters who prey on impressionable young 18 year olds who don't know jack shit about
the world, 18-year olds who are pressured by society into college
they can't afford."
mircea_popescu: "Fuck yes we can. I have student loan debt. Am I going
to pay it ? Nope. Not ever. Over my dead fucking body will
they get a penny from me.
ben_vulpes: anyways, sleep beckons and i gotta be on point for
the boys next week.
ben_vulpes: quite literally, decimation. our hill is so high
that our water supply flows from it.
decimation: asciilifeform: I'm sure
there are. In NYC
the famous example is
the jews
decimation: "the hills are high and
the emperor is far away"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you live in
the heart of
the beast. i live in
the heart of cascadia. our worlds are light years apart.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i had
this grocery store owner (african woman)
that actually imported shit at my request. and delivered it,
too.
ben_vulpes: i know a few
tricks,
that's about all.
decimation: I've settled a few 'ebay'
transactions where
the
tax was 'forgiven' if paid in cash
ben_vulpes: ofc i have
to book
the withdrawal as "profit", but...
decimation: go
to local store, run a
tab, owner knows where you live..
ben_vulpes: actually mircea_popescu
this is why i don't carry cash. all of my local providers know who i am and extend me credit at my request.
decimation: yeah
that's how
they did it in 'frontier
times'
ben_vulpes: decimation: more likely
to run a
tab with your local providers, as I do.
mircea_popescu: decimation i
think he may have a point with
the cop robbery
decimation: ben_vulpes: how quickly do you
think people in
the us would start using cash if suddenly say
the FDIC went away?
mircea_popescu: man must always carry enough cash
to bribe a first instance judge
ben_vulpes: roll with cash in
the states, get robbed by cops.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: and i've not carried cash routinely since i stopped doing
that
thing
that entailed always carrying cash. so?
Adlai: he was really nice considering my friend's dog got cabsick all over
the backseat
decimation: London cabbies are amusing
too. I remember one bitching about Pikeys squatting on some farmer's land and appealing
to
the EU court of human rights
ben_vulpes: i have a healthy relationship with my cab co's and
they don't lock
the door on me
ben_vulpes: and we have a functioning economy, so cabbies don't lock
the door
Adlai: mircea_popescu: actually
the one cabbie i had an heart2heart with
tracked us down
ten minutes later
to return my friend's iphone whateverthelatestis
ben_vulpes: you can even derp your card in before
the
trip ends
to expedite egress from vehicle
mircea_popescu: whole
thing
took
ten minutes,
that guy probably did more for me
than half
the gradschool educated people i ever employed, on a percentile basis
Adlai: mircea_popescu: you should see
the
touchscreen computers
they have now
to keep passengers from yakking at
the cabbies, complete with a GPS map of your path
through
the city... almost feels like an airplane
mircea_popescu: he
takes me
to a hotel like
ten blocks away, costs me 100 a night. nice room and everything.
mircea_popescu: i
take a cab out of grand central,
tell
the kid i want a hotel, kinda close and not
too expensive
ben_vulpes: i mean you pay
them,
they go places, it's a simple exchange
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> how can one love anything about nyc << i love
the
taxis
there
too
ben_vulpes: portland already wants me
to sort my compostables for
them
mircea_popescu: "sure we have very good everything here sir, made of straw, good quality
top notch"
decimation: why do you need a 'tour'
to pub crawl?
mircea_popescu: basically in another decade
the us will be like africa.
ben_vulpes: but
the 'choclatier' next door was always
the wackness
decimation: one wonders if usg didn't pressure corning as part of
the 'war on useful objects' err 'war on drugs'
Adlai: what's not
to love
Adlai: junkie-proof walls keeping
the cabbie secure
ben_vulpes: also
the giant wall of black slush during snowfalls
Adlai: getting locked into
the cab until you pay
Adlai loves
the
taxis in NYC
tho
decimation: "As a result,
the drug
trade needed
to find another way
to obtain borosilicate glass.
The unintended consequence of World Kitchen’s switch? An uptick in
theft from an unlikely place. As PopSci so eloquently notes, “[the crack-making] industry was forced
to switch from measuring cups purchased at Walmart
to
test
tubes and beakers stolen from labs.”"
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ben_vulpes: 'cept
that pyrex doesn't shatter when dropped.
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The War Against Pyrex
mircea_popescu: anyway,
this device would have been fine, if she knew how
to pour
ben_vulpes: decimation: so as
to not just crack when over-stressed, but
to rupture catastrophically!
decimation: mircea_popescu: in
the us all of
the old 'glass cookware'
that used
to be made of borosilicate has been switched
to plate glass
ben_vulpes: half
the
time it's entirely on purpose, as
the
thing was never built for use outside delicate programmer hands.
ben_vulpes: the office has dubbed me
the {{oaf,hulk}}
ben_vulpes: i'm content with being
the dish-breaker and singer of
things around
these parts.
ben_vulpes: known for
the "not a bad premise" book
ben_vulpes: this leads
to a breeding of
the populace for luck
ben_vulpes: one of
the more entertaining devices is
the human "birth lotto"
Adlai: sounds like
that's what she was
trying
to do
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you put a high powered flashlight against your palm you'll see some light go
through a mm or
two
ben_vulpes: no no you
train
them
to cook *for* you.
Adlai: we can draw
the line at microwaving leftovers
Adlai: well you could
train people
to just not cook at home, either eat out or order
takeaway
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes she was
the fucking stereotipical dumb hottie.
ben_vulpes: ain't no
training going
to fix
that kind of stupid
Adlai: how do you even find all
the shards in a case like
that
mircea_popescu: doctor spent like
three hours extracting hot oil and glass shards from her crack and legs
☟︎ mircea_popescu: she spent
the honeymoon in
the hospital because she rendered some fat, and
then poured in a large,
thick glass container
mircea_popescu: incidentally,
this guy married
the hottest chick i ever saw. like 19
too, some hick chick.
Adlai: at least i had
the good sense not
to
throw water on
the burning oil O_o