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moiety just watched the bitcoingirl vid
moiety: princessnell: what did you just do to me?! what did you just do yto me senses!
princessnell: i am happy to see that she is diversifying with doge
mircea_popescu: princessnell the sense to not put her legs forth among them ?
princessnell: i am expecting big things from this bitcoin girl.
BingoBoingo: That was Tillikum's 4th confirmed kill of the revolution
assbot: Whale Kills Trainer at Sea World - YouTube
moiety: ohgod nell im frightened to click!
moiety: i feel like i have an attachment to this thing that i thought you had made up enitrely!
princessnell: i am sorry to be the bearer of bad kitsch, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEthXBHsEac
BingoBoingo: I'm more wondering if Tillikum can have fluff and still surface to breathe seeing that Tillikum is Sea World's resident maneater
moiety: can tillikum really have the fluff and still retain it'[s social standing?
BingoBoingo: I'm just wondering what happens if manul fluff could scale up to arbitrarily large beasts, like rhinocerous, elephant, or Tillikum
moiety: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand now you can calculate why im support staff rather than a forerunner....
assbot: Cravendale - Cats with Thumbs #CatsWithThumbs - YouTube
BingoBoingo: Well, they don't yet...
moiety: BB, horses are bigger and they dont eat us....
moiety: what did yous think of that hand held checmical scanner?
BingoBoingo: moiety: My concern is that it seems any cat of ridable size is probably going to be person eating. Now if you could get a horse with Manul hair...
moiety: my ambition in lfe is to have a picture like mircea's pyramids, but with me on a giant manul instead
BingoBoingo: mike_c: I think giant orange arrows on both sides of the histogram would prolly be least obstructing
moiety: dont try to deny it
mike_c: btw, jurov, that mid-line on the history chart what you had in mind?
mike_c: oh, my strategy? no, just the house has been on the losing side the last couple games.
mircea_popescu: mike_c does that actually do anything ?
mike_c: BingoBoingo: yeah, i kind of like that.
mike_c: recommended strategy: which ever way the house is leaning on the pre-game bets, go the other way.
BingoBoingo: mike_c: If ther is anything to learn from the Atc games, bomb sniping is going to be "a thing"
mike_c: i notice death sniped the last paid bomb :)
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: As you ease yourself into unixy environments consider this advice if you decide to run a full desktop environment http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/06/24/choosing-a-linux-desktop-environment-for-newbs-and-n00bs/
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: It is a RHEL clone so pushes a person to look towards general Unixy admining habits instead of very OS X type solutions like apt-get
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: *nix basically refers to everything after AT&T Unix 7
mircea_popescu: takes too long.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you'd have to diddle the NIC directly, i suspect, but what does that matter.
mircea_popescu: its how they call unix inspired oses like linux when they're being cool.
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asciilifeform: ;;google something that shoots and a bus ticket there
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah, swing the thing as hard as you like and on a forgiving surface it has a maximum impact force.
asciilifeform: 'something that shoots and a bus ticker there' >> magical formula! described what i suspect every adult male alive really wants
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 wisdom comes to they who get burned :)
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: I might suggest playing around with something like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sun-Ultra-10-Workstation-333MHz-512MB-RAM-40GB-HD-/380441777151?pt=US_Thin_Clients&hash=item589418d3ff
Duffer1: new habits all that
mircea_popescu: as the situation is reversed however... no amount of derpage can possibly help.
mircea_popescu: if teh muricans really just wanted "something that shoots and a bus ticker there", i'd have been really worried about the afghanistani. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: but anyway : the eventual winner doesn't quite have the same needs from his equipment as the eventual loser does.
assbot: Intel Core i5-4670K, Sapphire Radeon R9 290, Rosewill THOR V2 - System Build - PCPartPicker
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Reading about "vacuum cleanning tubes" was life changing
mircea_popescu: the only problem is... well... in his 38 years of 'being a dom" so far, he's had a slave for a total of 3 years, if you add it all up.
Duffer1: bingoboingo they never got anything, just control of my email, new comp parts get here thursday and friday
mircea_popescu: plus assorted tools and weaponry.
mircea_popescu: some other dood somewhere has this truely ellaborate and complex punishment station, cost him 18`000 dollars
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to put this in a better perspective : i do not have dedicated tools to discipline my slaves. i use whatever i feel like using at the time, or nothing at all. i've used vacuum cleanning tubes, wire hangers, braided electric cord, belts, chunks of wook, rolled up newspaper, whatever. cooking spatulas.
mircea_popescu: and the latin influence comes from the veterans that settled there, much like a us army guy retiring to vietnam
asciilifeform: zulus, amerinds, etc eagerly picked up rifles, however. so this tells us something.
mircea_popescu: germania and gaul are still fucking germanic, notwithstanding all the genocides cesar & co drove there.
mircea_popescu: "didn't care enough to use them"
mircea_popescu: no matter how many he may throw.
asciilifeform: greek fire << interestingly, i recall that opponents captured siphons, couldn't figure out how to work them, threw them out
mircea_popescu: think of the young russki kids and their street culture. who is going to be respected who doesn't know to take a punch ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform debatable which is the chain of causality. imo it's just because they promote a wrong approach to fighting.
mircea_popescu: that's what makes greek fire et all the weaponry of the losers.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mostly because they tend to get discovered close to an empire's peak complexity (i.e. collapse prelude)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the winner wins specifically because doesn't care about scathing.
mircea_popescu: and better strippers, at that.
BingoBoingo: The eventual loser doesn't always allow the winners victory unscathed
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a population heavy on the young is not more stupid, it's more strippers.
mircea_popescu: the weapons which the eventual loser uses.
mircea_popescu: basically nuclear weapons, as well as tomahawks, aircraft carriers and so on are further elements in a class of weapons inaugurated by the byzantines, with their greek fire :
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: except in extreme cases (fissiles concentrating up the foodchain, zapping anything more interesting than a slime mold) what you get is precisely 'more stupid' - that is, a population heavy on the young.
mircea_popescu: sounds hardly threatening.
mircea_popescu: some of the weak and shitty die, life expectancy a little shorter ?
mircea_popescu: and the result ? not even 1% culling of the herd ?
mircea_popescu: second off, it's fucking difficulkt to achieve uniformity. most likely you'll have to get peaks and lows, needing even more fissiles.
mircea_popescu: first off, that'd take very much fissile material.
mircea_popescu: what inconvenience exactly ? suppose the current level of radiation in japan becomes worldwide.
BingoBoingo: fallout prolly ought to get its own category for its inconvenience
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: More possible, but I dunno I'd count that a pollutionacolypse.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that it ain't gonna happen.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: For sure. I imagine at somepoint biotech polution may fit the bill, but we are talking about the difference between getting a straight flush and a royal flush in a game of Blackjack.
mircea_popescu: one needs to come up with very exotic avenues to realise it, now that simple coal soot isn't gonna cut it
asciilifeform: people generally end up believing in the things they wish to see happen.
mircea_popescu: but sure, as the ice moves around we may get to various mineral riches in siberia, canda etc
BingoBoingo: Pollutionocalypse is possible, more likely than specific carbonacalypse
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect that orlov's personal wank fantasies have clouded his mind. e.g., he proclaimed, gleefully, that the uninhabitable wastelands of russia will become arable land due to warmocalypse, and the era of anglo-yoke will give way to a russian mega-hegemony
asciilifeform: orlov's 'patient' is all of technological civilization, roughly steam age and up
asciilifeform: even with an incurable patient - the approach is rather irritating.
mircea_popescu: you mean what, teh us ?
asciilifeform: his 'collapse' writings are excellent in many ways, but one gets an inescapable feeling that the 'doctor' is not really interested in curing the 'patient.' instead, he would like to see the patient - and his children, and his children's children - croak asap.
mircea_popescu: that's how all the "worse than before" stories work.
mircea_popescu: kinda naive approach. there's nothing worse than winning with the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
asciilifeform: i'm not even 100% convinced that orlov actually believes in anthropogenic climatocalypse. what is more or less certain is that he wants industrial civilization off the gameboard, asap. and is willing to support just about any ideology which promises to help the process along.
mircea_popescu: see, on some level he understands this. expel PEOPLE.
mircea_popescu: This is why every successful community I've looked at knows how to exclude (shun, expel) people. Every successful community jealously safeguards its separateness from the surrounding society. This is critical to their survival and for achieving much better outcomes for their members than the surrounding society.
asciilifeform: he's one of the folks who only like conversation on their own terms.
asciilifeform: actually it is. he started censoring comments when noticed that 99 out of 100 are 'wake up, climatocalypse is a sham'
mircea_popescu: it's still not germane to the discussion.
mircea_popescu: fuck him. the pretense that liars & scammers, which is without exception anyone who fucking "moderates" are somehow ethically superior to actual people is morally offensive.
mircea_popescu: "Her blog's comments section is a sort of Land of the Lost: people who inhabit the comments sections of unmoderated blogs, and who are perpetually miffed that no half-decent blog will post their comments."
mircea_popescu: what happened to "who the fuck even cares" already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what the fuck is going on in this guy's head, engaging in a debate on these terms ?