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phf: i have a writer friend who claims typewriters keep him focused on task at hand, but in this case he purchased one of those radioshack devices, keyboard with 64k of text storage
asciilifeform: gotta wonder, why would anybody drag a typewriter to a cafe
phf: but yeah a communal work coffee shop is a space that advertises itself as a coffee shop, but mostly consists of permanently parked people with laptops. i'd say about 7-10 years ago it suddenly was hip to work from coffee shop? ☟︎
asciilifeform: nobody makes a tractor inkjet any more
phf: i remember when laser was a status symbol..
asciilifeform: there ain't a replacement.
asciilifeform: ( go and make a ~scroll~ with laser printer. )
mircea_popescu: i should have kept all those ancient electric ones, made a fortune selling them to hipsters door to door.
mircea_popescu: and i hope it was a Leika typewriter.
phf: i decided to check out one of those communal work coffee shops, and you get every single stereotype here: startup bros, tinder date in progress, political feminists discussing next protest, but what takes the cake is a guy with a typewriter.
asciilifeform: not unrelatedly, asciilifeform now has a working mmap glue for ada.
ben_vulpes: origin story of this particular side quest is that i wanted to remove things from a list without having to jump through the hoops of remove and erase by using std::list remove_if
asciilifeform: in yet-other lulz, http://archive.is/EuCL6 >> 'A three-month old baby was summoned to the US embassy in London for an interview after his grandfather mistakenly identified him as a terrorist.'
mircea_popescu: as a stowaway on a british vessel.
asciilifeform: Adamjee Lukmanjee & Sons (Pvt) Ltd. << 'Our history as Adamjee Lukmanjee and Sons Ltd can be traced back to the mid 19th century when our founder, Adamjee Lukmanjee set sail on a pioneering voyage from the Gulf of Kutch (Gujarat, India) into an unknown future in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)....'
mircea_popescu: doesn't seem to be working worth a shit, but hey.
mircea_popescu: by 2010s it's literally a case of "watch tv and vicariously participate in the salvation of imaginary creatures". the keywords are of course "raise awareness" and "educate the public". fruits of a long shriveled vine, that nevertheless the trained eye can readily distinguish.
mircea_popescu: (i will for the record point out that the bread example is uniquely adequate because the centurial idiocy that is by now the only meaning of "american" started in this exact manner -- upper class bitches got white goods from westinghouse so they could have their precious butts and worthless heads freed from the chores of everyday so they could focus on... on what ? ON CHARITY!!111. review the "a one woman mission for your own
asciilifeform: ^ 'unabomber'(tm) d00d had a very cogent discussion of this principle, with the coffee grinding and meaningless lives, and wheel dog.
mircea_popescu: craziest shit i ever saw, mostly because if one has even a vague familiarity with dogs they seem to look sadder than when they couldn[t move barely at all.
asciilifeform: male office plankton is a similarly abject creature
mircea_popescu: whole thread is a restatement of "machinery is to enhance not to replace human"
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's pet for instance has a full complement of power equipment. and cooks daily.
mircea_popescu: which is why i say -- depends on woman. if she can be useful with a tank buy her a fucking tank, why not.
asciilifeform: how does working with a power tool preclude 'contribute with hands, be a thing of this world' etc ?
mircea_popescu: let the woman be a thing as often as practicable, it sure as fuck beats her being a figment of someone's imagination. and other alternatives DO NOT EXIST.
mircea_popescu: let her ENJOY the fact that she actually is a thing of this world and contributes with her hands to this world. why shouldn't she.
mircea_popescu: what that most productive activity is depends on the woman, or man, or dog. to replace others may be a good idea (or not -- how smart is it to not walk because car and then gym because no exercise ?) but entirely replacing the poor sod out of productive activity and thereby world relevancy is psychological poison.
mircea_popescu believes that it is indescribably stupid to replace the woman with a robot in her most productive activity. EVEN IF the robot would do a better job.
asciilifeform: if you have a wife whose maximalized version is a kind of bipedal coffee grinder -- why not instead buy motorized grinder. cheaper, quicker, lighter.
mircea_popescu: point of life is to be a maximal you, not a maximal someone else.
mircea_popescu: there's such a thing as a beautiful cocksucker too.
mircea_popescu: there can be such a thing as a beautiful dog, though no dog ever proved a theorem.
mircea_popescu: hey, it works because there's a large contingent of morons who "want to move on with their life". what fucking life ? "make money on auto-pilot". bitch... do do what ? i wouldn't make money on auto-pilot if you paid me to!
Framedragger: ^ lots of trust from lending *to* folks, heh (well i got a bit of it via that, too)
BingoBoingo: Which would mean Kenya v Hawaii was a double false flag
danielpbarron: asciilifeform, http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/foIIo/?raw=true ; I don't recall the original amount, and I don't know that I ever paid you for them anyway. I think even then it was to be a gift. I did pay nubbins, and he never sent them, and was supposed to refund payment, but I don't think that ever came either
mircea_popescu: also, rent a pool, get all the girls to do t-shirt only, make video, wear bling.
asciilifeform: i have literally a cubic metre of'em.
asciilifeform: incidentally i still have a crate and a half of s.nsa shirts here.
BingoBoingo: <phf> well, if you assemble a car out of chinese parts in alaska it still wouldn't be an alaskan car, but the line gets blurry << Many proud "USA!!!" mower made in USA, even varied manufacters (even when accounting for companies collecting "badges"). Motors usually now made by Loncin motor company of China. But USA!!! made the mower!!!
asciilifeform goes 'hah, a not wholly ugly!'
danielpbarron: see also: http://atruechurch.info/homosexuality.html >> In its decision to declare homosexual marriage a "fundamental right," the Supreme Court has completely missed its God-given purpose. Instead of being "an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil," they have exalted vileness among the sons of men. And, as the Scripture says, the wicked will prowl on every side (Psalm 12:8).
danielpbarron: >> Leviticus 20:13 If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
mircea_popescu: ~half of euro models are very much "as close to a tranny a female could get", and have been, since ~90s.
phf: otherwise it's an awful attempt to make a modern "rocky horror", with very explicit appeal to the rocky horror crowd
mircea_popescu: i dunno how the us bought wholesale the "straight teeth!!1" bullshit, as if anyone ever gave a shit, or as if the bidet dantures of usians are attractive to any degree. yet the "ALL girls must get proper tits" thing -- not.
asciilifeform: 'happiness lives in a little glass vial, a little glass vial, a little glass VIAL!111'
asciilifeform: 'Based upon income from contributors the Foundation performs a fantastic function -- making worries and problems disappear.'
asciilifeform: 'The decision is not only economical. I don't want the "friction" of trying to achieve high-quality production of collector item data CDs twice a year, in 2017. 6.0 was a high-quality CD release like previous ones, but don't want to expend the effort of producing and testing to make sure 6.1, 6.2 etc are up to that standard. It is better to call it quits on a high note.'
phf: it could be a joke, but the "well-used" part, i dunno if that's the kind joke somebody with a proper pressing plant contracts would make at the end of a long run
phf: like many things discussed here, it is a situation of many causes and effects also known as "the whole spitoon"
mircea_popescu: this is not a substantial contribution. but i suppose assemblage is not that different after all.
phf: well, if you assemble a car out of chinese parts in alaska it still wouldn't be an alaskan car, but the line gets blurry
mircea_popescu: phf so if i paint the car in alaska it's a local car now ?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-16 22:02 ben_vulpes: relatedly, light industry in p-town is gearing up for some serious wailing on the topic of how all of the cheap housing for their cheap labor is ~gone and now cheap labor has to buy a car and fuel/maintain/operate/park it instead of biking ten minutes to the shabby-chic warehouse from their squalid shared living setups
mircea_popescu: FUCK YOU IM A DRAGON!!!
mircea_popescu: get a better girlk to do better coupon clipping
mircea_popescu: if asciilifeform can't split with 40k, asciilifeform gotta find a better shop.
asciilifeform: what's a split ?
mircea_popescu: 40k turkey dollars buys you an ukrainian split, why the fuck would you trade it for a car.
asciilifeform: fact: if you walk in with the 40k in turkeydollarz, you 1) still get a plastic piece of shit that comes apart in 5y ~exactly 2) you're out 40k turneydollarz.
mircea_popescu: o wait, you say buyer because he... umm... what does he do ? "buys it" on "credit" ie govt gives him a car ?
mircea_popescu: "it was a fair lie!"
mircea_popescu: WOULD A LABEL LIE?!
mircea_popescu: mats it's a CONTINENTAL!!11 chinese restaurant nao, beotch!
asciilifeform: meanwhile, they built a 'whole foods' ('high end' food shop) not far from where asciilifeform lives, he went in, and saw : http://www.loper-os.org/pub/wfood.jpg
mats: i've never seen a dinner roll in any asian restaurant in my life
mats: probably bought by a white person
mircea_popescu: also thank you very much internets! http://trilema.com <<< now has a header fit for the times.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> also, she's not white. she prefers to be referred to as "buttery" << i.e. wants to trap a black man and get Obeast on him
asciilifeform: ( orlov had a point re 'notice, they have CO detectors in boats, but not in any passenger car. because the alarm would ring continuously. )
a111: Logged on 2017-04-16 21:54 mircea_popescu: ford made a fucking crib. like for kids, for your house. except it mimics your driving
ben_vulpes: is there a reason to think that it wouldn't?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: unless i've made a terrible mistake, do believe it builds
mircea_popescu will make a better gif.
ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, /me testing a node compiling under c++11 rules, wild vpatch for anyone who wants to play along: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/p2A0L/?raw=true
mircea_popescu: she's like something from a coloring book for mongoloid kids.
mircea_popescu: hopefully it fractured her nose in such a manner she's still bleeding.
mircea_popescu: that dork is precious though. overweight, totally cockroach-headed female going at a very hurr durr pace right into a fist.
ben_vulpes: who could've predicted that a transportation system designed to give every schmuck their own car for driving as far as they can would be so expensive in the long run. who could've predicted the automatic transmission would accelerate the trend, or that robocars idem.
mircea_popescu: but the curious are encouraged to do a court survey of cases of "motorist killed by large road debris", there's been 100s of cases to date.
ben_vulpes: there's a very real lower bound on the savings to be delivered with this vehicle though, and they're probably going to get burnt down by the poor folks who can't afford any better than the plastic having to drive further because must ams cities.
mircea_popescu: i read a novel.
ben_vulpes: relatedly, light industry in p-town is gearing up for some serious wailing on the topic of how all of the cheap housing for their cheap labor is ~gone and now cheap labor has to buy a car and fuel/maintain/operate/park it instead of biking ten minutes to the shabby-chic warehouse from their squalid shared living setups ☟︎
mircea_popescu: ford made a fucking crib. like for kids, for your house. except it mimics your driving ☟︎
mod6: not sure if I mentioned yesterday, but I did start a collection of another ~1Gb of entropy from the same fg as I wrote up the blog post about.
asciilifeform: and every day that an auto lasts past its purchase credit being fully paid in -- is a bug , from lizard pov.
a111: Logged on 2014-05-26 21:42 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: reminds me of a time when i stowed some stuff in plastic garbage bags, then discovered they were... biodegradable. turned to astonishing quantity of dust. when vacuuming old flat, found fragments - years after the fact.
asciilifeform: and, of course, 'inflation dun exist, terrorist. and here, buy a 40,000$ auto with plastic body and soy wires.'
asciilifeform: 'Some newer model cars use materials like soy that are more biodegradable than plastics. It's all part of an effort to make car parts more environmentally-friendly. A Volvo service representative at a Volvo dealer in Michigan confirmed some instances of chewed wires, though they "mostly occurred in rural areas -- not cities." A Volvo spokesperson said that an "initial investigation [into the subject] did not return any substantive info
asciilifeform: http://web1.bookoo.com << 'Hi. Welcome to TEST Bookoo! Our fantabulerrific online yard sale in TEST' >> looks like a faux alibaba
asciilifeform: turns out thing was down, ddosed to death, for a spell.
asciilifeform: there wasn't a 30yo on the ballot, what.
asciilifeform: 'I don't know what happened to Trump. Some muse he may be drugged and we would never know it and it makes sense. The world watched this man for two years to election day. And after Jan 20th, we watched him proceed immediately to walk his talk. Then... in like 24hrs... a full 180. If not drugs and mind control, there is always the secret grassy knoll footage of Kennedy's head being blown off to help Trump "get the message."'
asciilifeform: ( though quiet air rifle might work. still quite a bit like squashing individual ants, to control ant problem. 99% of the time the beasts aren't in the open air, where one might draw a bead on them )
BingoBoingo: You need a redneck kitty that ain't going to let any of those coons/squirrels/mice onto kitty's land
asciilifeform: i've never even seen these fat hogs, climb a roof.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> for instance, squirrels have dug a tunnel into my wall, it would be great if they disappeared suddenly. but they won't, will have to get specialists << THere's a version of polyurethane foam marketed for this purpose.
asciilifeform: took me forever to even find the hole, was behind a gutter, on roof