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asciilifeform: it absorbs 'i CANT DECIDE WAT DO!11' chix

mircea_popescu: i believe it, if nothing else than because i saw this dorkette.

asciilifeform: #1 major at umd !11 ( i shit thee not ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: and - as always - after these come the 'free market!111 i'm sure to find a place, and Profit!111'

mircea_popescu: i'd say that's fair, 70s us vs 2010s us might as well be different planets.

mircea_popescu: it's an awesome thing to behold, i grant ye.

mircea_popescu: i've had the priviledge.

asciilifeform: and when emigrating, follow same logic as ants when 'emigrating' to my kitchen : 'hey, PILES OF SUGAR!!!' rather than 'i'd like to be Tested!'

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually us has the largest black medical services market of any place with pretense of civilisation i ever saw. and ALWAYUS DID

mircea_popescu: and underutilized elite "i'm a nigger stomper, but '''we just don't do that in my country'''"will find their actual useful levbel.

phf: obviously "i was a surgeon back in my country!1" doesn't ever translate, but ~surgeons~ will easily find their place amongst other countries surgeons

mircea_popescu: whole fucking 1990s fiction is ALL ABOUT this, "holy shit mom, i thought i was a type, turns out reality's untyped!"

asciilifeform: who were 'professorship' types rather than 'i'ma corner the dope market' variety

asciilifeform: thread was largely about '70s-80s emigres, or so i thought

phf: i think that's kind of "fact" that all cab drivers like to talk about

mircea_popescu: this is an iffier point. i didn't meet that many altogether. moreover, i didn't discount the "friend of a friend" stories out of hand.

mircea_popescu: i also met both.

phf: me and asciilifeform have respective selection biases. i don't know any russian professor cab drivers, but plenty of NIH department heads, doing their half science half politikin on the new territory. presumably there's also a world of russian escapees who are driving cabs, that i'm just not connected to

phf: i don't know any properly soviet bureaucrats who are not also licking ass the same way they were doing it in soviet union, for peanuts. people that i'm talking about escaped, or left in the early 90s, and didn't have any problems going from one closed research institute soviet side to an equivalent u.s. side.

phf: people who ~escaped~ from oboronka, back when it still meant something in the early 80s, say, were granted a perceived elite status in u.s. i don't know anyone with that connection who's sweeping floors at mcgrooders, but plently of "NII engineers"

mircea_popescu: phf the point you're not seeing because it's so unexpected and i didn't make it specifically was that the definition of elite scales with society. elite is "who has objective value". in late soviet, much like in late usg reich, the strippers were the elite

phf: mircea_popescu: i thought "elites" were under the discussion, but yeah, we went in the direction of females

asciilifeform: i.e. was put there at great expense of orc exchequer

asciilifeform: i'm yet to read a neutral (i.e. from original documents) account of such a thing -- in modern (1970s+) period

mircea_popescu: anyway, that's the canonical borderline sleeve transactional outpour, "i cant/couldnt" (age dependent) "study/work/move/whatever because son/husband/father/baby jesus on stick needed me not to".

phf: to be fair i heard that one as "i didn't get out, because knew for a fact that $old-relative will get in trouble"

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't comment on ro emigres, but with su world there was a lulzy twist : 1st wave (1970s -- largely j000z!11) wrote home, 'i'ma full professor and it rocks, come on over', 2nd wave went, to discover that market -- glut, and hello cab ☟︎

mircea_popescu: and i dunno re planets, but on mine ~everyone with any market value had >1 opportunities to gtfo.

a111: Logged on 2017-06-08 15:01 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-08#1667079 << i'd like to visit the parallel universe this was posted from. in mine, the sov folx happily moved to 'civilized west', where to enjoy driving cabs ( rather than, say, the valhalla depicted in the bootleg vhs tapes )

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-08#1667166 << #1 bullshit of 20something fuck-market-value females with a chance to get out was "wut if i never see $old-relative ever again!!1". ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'bbbut i know a d00d who couldn't get out' 'did he go to north kr ?' 'yes...' 'was he a baptist missionary...' 'yes...' 'which is a jailable offense there..' 'DISGUSTING untermenschen!!!howdarethey'

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-08#1667079 << i'd like to visit the parallel universe this was posted from. in mine, the sov folx happily moved to 'civilized west', where to enjoy driving cabs ( rather than, say, the valhalla depicted in the bootleg vhs tapes ) ☝︎☟︎

shinohai: That's what I want to see, his bumbling over the whole thing and butthurt.

shinohai: !~later tell whaack I received tu grabacion and will send back suggestions later today.

BingoBoingo: Ah, I would have expected a Unimog given the terrain description

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo actually i don't think i ever bought a non-german car.

ben_vulpes: i still gotta read through that, mircea_popescu

mircea_popescu: esp if there's any glaring holes / errors that i dun wanna discover you know, once the submissions get processed.

ben_vulpes: i kid mod6 i kid

ben_vulpes: i'm going sour on applying heat to fish

mircea_popescu: i distrust any non-cr mangoes.

ben_vulpes: i think...i'll be fine?

ben_vulpes: "i wouldn't be a member of any club that wouldn't fall all over itself to have me in it" or how did it go

trinque: what kind of joyless cunts ban burritos I ask

mircea_popescu: what the hell happened to "dude, if i can't get back it just means IT FUCKING SUCKED!"

ben_vulpes: i burn petrol very intentionally, in a curated set of petrol-combusting platforms.

ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i'd rather pull the guitar off the wall, ty

ben_vulpes: i bleed ke off with the clutch, sue me

pete_dushenski: it's like 'i don't think she'd be a good fuck because too prudish'. well, go fuck and see if your armchair assessment is accurate ?

ben_vulpes: i suppose if you're only shifting when you're clear out of the power band it might not be so whiplash-inducing

pete_dushenski: lol neither did i. until i stopped playing classified carey and drove the bloody things like i stole 'em

ben_vulpes: upstack, while an interesting experience i do not think i will enjoy the experience of HAHA IN ANOTHER GEAR NOW

ben_vulpes: i'd love to whip one around, actually.

ben_vulpes: feel, yes i'm sure.

ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-08#1667012 << i beat the shit out of this girl's vw buttrocket when i discovered it had this, aeons ago ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2017-06-07 22:14 whaack: I've taken a few Spanish classes throughout school, I'm using duolingo, reading Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish http://b-ok.org/book/1160411/3c0465, moving to CR (went there for 10 days, loved it), reading a textbook (Nexos)

mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone even makes an automatic gearbox that handles 15-20% well. cuz why would it, sorta thing.

asciilifeform: i thouht the roads were donkey grade

mircea_popescu: i wouldn't want a purely automatic gearbox in this country mostly because of the grades they got.

mircea_popescu: it's not terrible, though i never owned one before.

asciilifeform: lol i have one quite like it in same vintage jp machine

mod6: now if i can just get this touch-pad to work, i'll have "computrobox"

mod6: i should note, that if you end up setting a default run-level with wpa_supplicant to debug some stuff, ensure that you disable this. you want to remove that with `rc-update delete wpa_supplicant`. then add `rc-update add net.wlan0 default` in its place. this, at least for me, fires up the adapter and negotiates with the AP at boot time.

mircea_popescu: ah i see.

a111: Logged on 2017-06-07 21:12 mod6: asciilifeform: new laptop i grabbed. x86_64.

mod6: <+danielpbarron> mod6, if you get wifi working can i get a recipe? << sure thing

whaack: shinohai: I will take you up on that

shinohai: whaack: seeing as how there is little Qntra market these days I offer (wot based) Spanish tutoring as well.

whaack: I've taken a few Spanish classes throughout school, I'm using duolingo, reading Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish http://b-ok.org/book/1160411/3c0465, moving to CR (went there for 10 days, loved it), reading a textbook (Nexos) ☟︎

danielpbarron: mod6, if you get wifi working can i get a recipe?

whaack: I'm leaving the US and going to Costa Rica in about a month. In the off chance anyone wants to make some btc by renting out a place there send a msg to my key. Any advice is appreciated as well ☟︎

a111: Logged on 2017-06-07 21:12 mod6: asciilifeform: new laptop i grabbed. x86_64.

juantelez: trinque: I wanna know more about this place.

juantelez: trinque: I'm Juan Pablo Telez.

mod6: only thing left i gotta fix is the wireless driver

mod6: asciilifeform: new laptop i grabbed. x86_64. ☟︎☟︎

danielpbarron: the one i got it working on reports a slightly newer version, but i suspect this fix would work on the other one with same version

danielpbarron: strange thing is i can take the drive (that is, that which shows up as /dev/sda) out and put it in an identical machine and it will boot with the lba32 thing

danielpbarron: i also got something to work that i had been stuck on for a while: lilo stalling on the bios data check. seems as though the solution is to use 'linear' rather than 'lba32' in etc/lilo.conf

diana_coman: trinque, I saw that approach in practice, yes

diana_coman: trinque, perhaps; I don't quite buy this cutting off a tit but I can't say I spent a lot of time on it as such

mircea_popescu: trinque i suppose the whole amazon loped tit thing was commentary re "stop being so damned nurturing" and the whole lacedemonian cultural shock.

mircea_popescu: obama i understand. basically, tiganu' satului elected mayor. he's gonna be fucking thrilled, look ma, i'm on top of the world.

diana_coman: tbh I am not sure I see much to really distinguish this sort of "it makes me happy" from the "mud makes me happy"

mircea_popescu: i dunno why the pantsuits were so aggro re trump's twitter account. whole fucking JOB is little more than a pretext for putting "trump official" on your twitter.

diana_coman: mircea_popescu, not sure I'd have less trouble finding a man really; I get what you mean though

shinohai: Perhaps because diana_coman is equal to any 10 other women I know.

diana_coman: I find funny all the talk of no-speak, what

danielpbarron: it's only in church that women shouldn't speak, and I don't know of very many true churches

a111: Logged on 2015-09-14 00:35 mircea_popescu: * trinque [...] a very angry man about why what I did was below what was expected of me << for the record, i don't think very much of this entire "expectations" verbiage/bs. if you think a little about it, so would you. a) what sort of fucking powerless vulnerable schmuck lets himself get into the position of DEPENDING on a kid ? that's what you're saying. don't say that, not only is it not true it's also very stupid.

trinque: for all I know that happened in the translation to turdlang.

a111: Logged on 2017-06-07 19:09 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the circus, http://archive.is/K1Ur0 >> 'I'm clear: if human rights laws get in the way of tackling extremism and terrorism, we will change those laws to keep British people safe.' ( Theresa May )

a111: Logged on 2017-04-13 01:06 asciilifeform: the sheer idiocy of 'voice command' -- in particular, when device offers no other ui, there are cars now that can only be configured with voice ( are these only sold in anglotardistan? i can only with difficulty picture them elsewhere )

shinohai: "Perfect! I'll take 3!"

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the circus, http://archive.is/K1Ur0 >> 'I'm clear: if human rights laws get in the way of tackling extremism and terrorism, we will change those laws to keep British people safe.' ( Theresa May ) ☟︎

mircea_popescu: i expect the indirection layer between "reality as is" and "reality as perceptible", rudimentary as it is, should be entirely suffcicient to go from hurr durr as displayed by academics to actual science.

mircea_popescu: i am in my quick days!

asciilifeform: a board entirely like this, but minus all of the superfluous peripherals, and with sram in place of dram, would be quite spiffy ( i've a half-drawn one here, but it sits and waits for its hour )

mircea_popescu: the whole dispute re theory of future of computing, years ago, was you making the (otherwise very solid) case for nsa/tivo-ization, and me saying "i betcher the chinese will break it, inadvertently".

asciilifeform: but major step ahead in laziness, now i dun have to draw this board