asciilifeform: i laughed the first time, years ago , when i first read mircea_popescu said this on trilema; but since then met whole horde of usa folx who never even had a загранпаспорт
asciilifeform: it wouldn't surprise me, for instance, if one day mircea_popescu said that he made fine shotguns, but only hunted with'em himself. mendeleev made... suitcases. etc.
asciilifeform: and there's nothing outrageous or even remarkable about not publishing something, asciilifeform dun publish and dun intend to 99.999..% of his various attempts, folx routinely make cake of arbitrarily good quality to eat by themselves, whatever.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu says his personal pr0n is of high quality -- why should i not believe.
asciilifeform: lol BingoBoingo type1 sounds like yer personal nsa stoolie attache
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: equally invisible as the 7 ?
asciilifeform: probably goes back to daguerre, and if you count hand-drawns -- to cave man.
asciilifeform: iirc even today 19th c. era 'private porns' regularly turn up in attics.
asciilifeform: speaking strictly in re 'why would ukr not dream of moving to tropical gardenofeden'
asciilifeform: otherwise -- habituation, addiction, 'luxury ratchet' as in the old mircea_popescu article re chix with caviar
asciilifeform has never lived in a perpetual spring. but pictures, possibly naively, that if he were to, would have to take occasional break and go on trip to the arctic, say. just for contrast.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu often writes about the degenerately slothful italians. why do you suppose they are so ? could be the 3 harvests they get ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu you never liked seasons ?
asciilifeform: but to return upstack to thread -- i can easily picture folx who dun want to move to where there are no seasons.
asciilifeform: shit-climate where agriculture is completely impossible -- chukchaizes, sure.
asciilifeform: the 'good climate makes folx lazy and slowly climbing 'back up to trees' ' item is an old saw, but i'm not aware of any major hole in the theory☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: for some reason the beautiful equatorial mild valley bananistans, never grew anything in the way of interesting ~people~☟︎
asciilifeform: yer ac is the lift that goes up to the mountain neh.
asciilifeform: tho i suspect not 'warmer air currents', but americanization, 'eww, sweating' etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: asciilifeform had a relative recently go to the ruins of the old world, and came back with photos of korean air conditioners installed on ~every wall. no such item existed even in early post-sov 1990s, and not strictly from the cost.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: subjectively folx tend to 'feel' climate not as the avg. temps, but the extremes, i suspect
asciilifeform: dunno, is mircea_popescu's 'chix ~must~ be 2m tall' swede-worship ?
asciilifeform: for all we know the 2 are not unrelated, and the pygmies shrunk from lack of wholesome, medicinal frosts.
asciilifeform: room temp is very muchly a subject of taste, neh
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey, if 'null crypt' ( make noises, exhaust gasses, but dun actually do any crypto ) remains a valid mode in 100% of usgcryptocrapolade -- why not also md5.
asciilifeform: what's the even nominal justification. it's a public toilet.
asciilifeform: lol!! gotta wonder wtf the thing is doing with sslolade, crapflare, etc
asciilifeform: theoretically crippled veterans etc got preferential dibs on the 'green' ( the card thing that opens doors and logs into winblowz, is differentially coloured for different types of slave ) jobs. (dod contractor 'purple')
asciilifeform: if u.s. army can do it -- why not google et al.
asciilifeform: long ago asciilifeform worked on just such a contract, for many years.
asciilifeform: everybody from 95% or so of r&d, to mop men, to guards, same thing
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: dunno if you knew , but actual-work-doing ( yes there is some prolly even today ) arms of usg, hire exactly like-so : through contract peonage agencies
asciilifeform: ( i dun think usg coin-operated scamola works outside reich )
asciilifeform: i'ma guess that ~0 live outside reich
asciilifeform: ( gotta luvv the 'creators' newspeak )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking of derpfunders, https://archive.is/grrrK << 'Patreon lets creators hide the amount of money they are actually making, although the number of patrons is still public. Boruta’s numbers are based on the roughly 80 percent of creators who publicly share what they earn. Of those creators, only 1,393 — 2 percent — make the equivalent of federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, or $1,160 a month, in October 2017'
asciilifeform: it is quite depressing that this is even a topic. but there is not, nor have ever been, language where linker etc are standardized along with all else.
asciilifeform: i test these days on 16-gnu and 16-adacore.
asciilifeform: dafuq is that ansii colourcontrol code soup doing in yer shell, ben_vulpes
asciilifeform: w. Wojcicki said that "bad actors" had used the video-sharing site to "mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm" others.'
asciilifeform: in other great-agains , https://archive.is/wbVbJ >> 'Google plans to increase to 10,000 the number of its staffers tasked with tracking down extremist content on YouTube. "We will continue the growth of our teams, with the goal of bringing the total number of people across Google working to address content that might violate our policies to over 10,000 in 2018," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki told Britain's Daily Telegraph in an intervie☟︎
