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decimation: hehe yeah but
they should. I suspect more chickens live and die in
the us alone every year
than all of humanity
mircea_popescu: i
think when people
talk of saving
things,
the don't mean save
them in
the sense cockroaches are saved.
decimation: his solution
to "save
the wales"? attach
transponders so
that humans can claim ownership
decimation: yeah, pretty much, but car driving is a 'human right' in
the us
decimation: I have a simple solution
to small aircraft accidents: don't let humans fly
decimation: "I will be
there on June 5 at 6:00 pm." Pilots of light aircraft who utter sentences of
that form are very high risk pilots, regardless of skill level.
decimation: re: small plane safety:
http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/safety " If you don't want
to die like JFK, Jr., who became disoriented on a dark and hazy night over water, don't fly at night or don't fly at night unless you're absolutely sure
that it will be clear with a bright moon. If you don't want
to die when a 25-year-old part fails in mid-air, get a new airplane. "
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mircea_popescu: <chetty> asciilifeform, forget
the gasenwagen you'll get a nice little lab
to build
toys (with bars of course) <<
the special wagenb :D
chetty: asciilifeform, forget
the gasenwagen you'll get a nice little lab
to build
toys (with bars of course)
mircea_popescu: "our strategy is
to win by covering everything in plastic"
mircea_popescu: (you know,
the folk who know how
to kite duel and cut wires ?)
mircea_popescu: "the amazing
technicolor rainbow suit. more effective
than kevlar!"
mircea_popescu: " for use against incoming rockets, artillery and mortar strikes"
the man said.
mircea_popescu: it's quite obviously
there
to protect
the us spy ships from
their own drones, which apparently
the chnese are mostly lifting
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why
they imagine it'll be useful against "rockets" and mortar shot.
mircea_popescu: the funny part here being how
the line of
the us agitprop was "o laser can't hurt our drones" for as long as it
took em
to finally get a laser mounted on a
truck.
assbot: Army’s New Laser Cannon Blasts Drones Out of
the Sky, Even in Fog | Autopia | WIRED
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ;;rate ben_vulpes 2 Met IRL for drinks and neither of us murdered
the other << lol neither of you strike as
teh murderin' kind
mircea_popescu: technology keeps empowering betas
to be weird
thus pissing women off
mircea_popescu: A young lad who climed up in a
tree was stung in
the balls by a bee.He
then made oodles of money by oozing pure honey every
time he attempted
to pee.
assbot: For Sale Soon:
The World’s First Google Glass Detector |
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ThickAsThieves: ;;rate ben_vulpes 2 Met IRL for drinks and neither of us murdered
the other
punkman: how's
this for a coin inscription: ducunt volentem fata, nolentem
trahunt
ThickAsThieves: ha! i know
that girl in
the stock image on punkman's link
punkman: that's why you sell
them online, and let
them pay for shipping
to return
mircea_popescu: and
then she went under as 90% of
that was returned within another week
mircea_popescu: at some financial risk. but
then her worries were rest at ease when > 25% of stock sold within a week
mircea_popescu: i recall
this particularly instructive event when derpy noob woman started her own couture brand & shop
mircea_popescu: punkman afaik
that's how 90% of white women uder 30 shop for clothes.
assbot: At last,
the clothes store
that lets you shoplift for a day -
Telegraph
assbot: ERCO Ercoupe - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
mircea_popescu: in costa rica,
the wonderbread supplier is called BIMBO
mircea_popescu: punkman
true story : one of
the cab companies in
timisoara is called "bimbo vest"
mircea_popescu: "you know what'd be best for you ? if after a long harrowing day you get
to worry about
thge weather and
take off stressed in
the dark"
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell mike_c hey is
the wol chainwatcher behind on blocks ?
assbot: Let me give you ideas pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: the entire fucking
thing is basically cargo-cultism
trying
to re-enact
the sounds of scania. somehow.
mircea_popescu: and now you know more of business
than virtually any business major in
the continental us.
mircea_popescu: not people but
things, nevertheless
things have
their own substance
too.
they exist.
mircea_popescu: however, we know better right. so why did
the fish regularly engage in a behaviour which
the other party considered suicidal ?
mircea_popescu: moving on : as far as
the at-the-time humans could
tell,
the fish were "a gift from god", who ordered
them
to surrender
to human interest.
mircea_popescu: but
that every single other step was always althrough history equaly conveniently "just as long as
the baby's shins"
mircea_popescu: making it
thus possible for stable solute
temperatures - althrough in principle
there's no absolute reasons requiring
this fortuitous coincidence life requires absolutely
mircea_popescu: conveniently, salt was very easy
to mine, and
the process
to cure very simple. it never ceases
to amaze anyone who seriously studies anthropology not
that water is conveniently a universal solvent AND AT
THE SAME
TIME has a huge caloric capacity,
mircea_popescu: this created a cheap source of protein as well as incentives
to industrialise, because salt was needed
to cure
the meat so it kept.
mircea_popescu: was
this peculiar behaviour of fish,
to congregate in
this particular spot up north,
to
the point
they got so
thick you could fish with a sword.
mircea_popescu: the reason
the hansa existed, as a basis for german style civilisation and
the fundament of what was later dutch (and, after
the blodless dutch conquest of britannia, english commercialism)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you familiar with premedieval economy in
the north of europe ?
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why
that bet is so lopsided on yes. for
that matter,
there could very well be a single block retarget before oct.
assbot: dpaste: 2ZAFGC5: Coinbase Inquisition, by
tat
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
to give
the usg
the false impression
that its idiocy may work ?
assbot: dpaste: 2ZAFGC5: Coinbase Inquisition, by
tat
mircea_popescu: fluffypony decided ah what
the fuck, i can't sell
this btc for paypal, might as well dump it on gambling.
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