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benkay: and while I *know* that nothing is new under the sun, i still learned last night that cuntshaving's been a thing forever.
benkay: okay so in this book of historical erotica i was browsing at the party last night in place of the utterly inane conversation of drunks and the unemployable i discovered a print titled 'the barber', where some woman was having her cooch shaved
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asciilifeform: best done by one skilled in the art.
asciilifeform: light coat of high-boiling fuel on skin won't burn the latter - watch a stage magician set own hands on fire, etc
mircea_popescu: benkay you have no idea how far the female threshold is.
benkay: dissolves the hair, asciilifeform ?
asciilifeform: (reminds me of the russian ww2 recipe for a quick shave - petrol.)
asciilifeform: go find the fellow who'll agree to shave with this.
benkay: it seems to cook the follicle...
benkay: http://www.remingtonproducts.com/womens/ipl/i-light-pro/i-light-pro-intense-pulsed-light-hair-removal-system.aspx << does this shit work?
mircea_popescu: " the spark of static one sometimes gets when touching grounded objects in winter time" << he means, when wearing mixed wool and plastic clothing
asciilifeform: for those who don't own this toy - it is rather like the spark of static one sometimes gets when touching grounded objects in winter time, but - constantly
asciilifeform: i can picture this
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually it's jolting if inserted up the cunt
asciilifeform laughed when, decades hence, saw the same in american sex shops
asciilifeform: benkay: my parents had a soviet gizmo that consisted of exactly such a tube, with small tesla coil in the handle (dermatological crackpot medicine) so i got to see/feel mr t's tube on own hide.
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cowloon: but, I'm just here to lurk at the moment
cowloon: oh, thanks
mircea_popescu: it means you can talk.
cowloon: what's that mean
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asciilifeform: (or the valve aficionados)
asciilifeform: if you want an analogue part with known 'curves', you usually have to work at it.
mircea_popescu: and to push a point, im pretty sure the mosfets are unchanged
asciilifeform: funny that you mention roms, because vintage arcade machine enthusiasts go through astounding gymnastics to replicate the behaviour of '80s roms.
asciilifeform: that was the objective. some semblance of guarantee.
asciilifeform: what computer-based product, on the shelf today, can be guaranteed manufacturable 50 years hence?
asciilifeform: (naggum is known to have worked in ada. hence his familiarity with the matter)
asciilifeform: one of the last gasps of reason from that institution
asciilifeform: us dod realized that computer would remain 'a thing' - wanted hard specced formats.
asciilifeform: remember, this is pre-sgml even
asciilifeform: svg is a very recent thing
mircea_popescu: as in tables ?
asciilifeform: all of this took place in the long-gone era when usg insisted on full blueprints, chip masks (!) etc. to ensure longevity of a complete design
asciilifeform: they could have, in principle, picked tex, but the latter has no hard spec for graphics.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: with the idea that under no circumstances would the death of one, two, hundred vendors lead to unreadable texts
mircea_popescu: holy shit what is he on about. what happened to tex.
benkay: i don't know that the women *can't* have kids so much as the men aren't interested in being fathers or even men
Mats_cd03: gems abound in today's log
Mats_cd03: 17:14:14 mircea_popescu: i live in fear of this, btw, one of these days one of you assholes is going to script the noob and then i'll have to close down the whole operation ;/
mircea_popescu: "dead or dying software projects lie around all over the place, like a horrible war zone between ignorant users and frightened managers"
moiety urgh is all i have to say
benkay: it's a weird place, but that's why i like it.
benkay: families also paint great big huge murals on their intersections to slow cars down.
benkay: dunno what's going on down in buenos aires tho.
benkay: there are a lot of underemployed hipster girls about tho - and none of 'em can make a life where they can afford babies in the states anymore. ergo, tree-sweaters.
benkay: thestringpuller: transients come, transients go. part of the nature of...transients.
mircea_popescu: pretty lulzy how accurate this is.
mircea_popescu: t into the Lisp world. they don't have to. if you want to learn Lisp, you go learn Lisp and talk to nice people who probably have time for you, and you make yourself good at it. then you go do complex stuff that insecure losers who lie about their Java skills can't even imagine, and therefore do not consider part of the competition."
mircea_popescu: " Lisp is not the kind of language that insecure losers would use. people do not want to learn Lisp because they stand a better chance of beating another unskilled fool in the job race. fact is: you don't get a job by lying about your Lisp skills. all of this means that there is very little activity at the front gate, where all the journalists and the media are. there are no people struggling like mad to ge
benkay waits for the scathing critique of all things America
benkay: oh and not just trees - bike staples as well.
benkay: you'll see them down in bsas as well.
benkay: or the World Naked Bike Ride, or Pedalpalooza in general.
mircea_popescu: for trees ?!
benkay: or...performing Original Star Trek in graveyards.
benkay: people are into their stuff entirely unabashedly. although here, it's knitting sweaters for trees and not sawing off epic hunks of meat.
mircea_popescu: nah just random trilema pic. from http://www.laurieandcicero.com/index.html
mircea_popescu: so actually trading under nav huh
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mircea_popescu: well of coursethey want something. all living things want stuff.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: I've been surrounded by 20 year olds for the past decade...they always want something...
benkay: maybe she's just doing what all the other girls are doing
benkay: and it's lady v to you, sir.
benkay: mp has better stories on this.
benkay: thestringpuller: more like she gets the girls primed
mircea_popescu: basically her refusal to give him what she gives the whole pack is a slight, but one he has no redress for : she's already an outcast.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the idea being that an utter whore denying the pack leader any fucking has a decent chance to drive him mad and end up in some sort of "that obscure object of desire " situation.
thestringpuller: instagator how? Like "you should get some hugs from them cute girls" ?
benkay: relatedly, lady v and i were saying goodbyes at a dinner party last night, all of the girls with whom i'm friends with at this thing lined up for hugs and kisses - and then the new girl in the room gets up and right in line as well, demanding hers giggling and blushing all the while
thestringpuller: i assume "back to work whore"
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mircea_popescu: ;;google trilema whore strat
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nah, that's ancient whore strat. i even wrote it up im pretty sure
thestringpuller: sluts who play hard to get: oxymoron or profound truth?
mircea_popescu: well yeah. but by playing hard to get you may get +10 on your average catch, but also get the guarantee you're never getting in the bed of that 0.whatever% ☟︎
benkay: obvs the top of the top enjellify legs without really even trying
benkay: judging competence is hard, though. ergo heuristics like playing hard to get.
mircea_popescu: if she doesn't have thesense to realise she's accidentally run into the absolute best, she can't be all that smart in the first place.
benkay: well if we can rathole on the evolutionary psychology thing playing hard to get raises the bar for potential impregnators.
mircea_popescu: it so happens that i won't even consider women that don't, i'm pretty sure the top generally doesn't, and so it's a quite dangerous strat.
mircea_popescu: sure. and he goes into full retard mode right after, proposing that somehow "not givingit up easy" helps a woman's position.
benkay: going back to yesterdays conversation about the dearth of leadership and stones etc
benkay: those post-25 year old females punch below their weight too - only way to recruit a provider at that phase of life.
assbot: The Rules Revisited: The Upper Hand In Relationships
mircea_popescu: intriguing theory off random derpy blog http://www.therulesrevisited.com/2011/10/upper-hand-in-relationships.html
mircea_popescu: hem than they do about the girls, even if only by a small amount. In other words, men only have the upper hand because they have this tendency to play below their league."
mircea_popescu: "And more to the point here, it is the reason why women often feel that men have "the upper hand" in relationships. That feeling doesn't exist because men are dominant over women or have some kind of real advantage; it is just because men are strongly motivated by sex, and therefore get into relationships with girls they don't really care about - or at least, they get into relationships with girls who care more about t
publio: did it just to spite :)
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moiety: there are plenty that try*
moiety: as an organiser, i find it rude telling me how to run things without a decent backup argument/reason and here are plenty that try. its just a hmnmo thx but i take note of the ideas
moiety: not at all mircea_popescu it's actually a good test for me, tells me how someone would be to work with. if the argument is articulate, it makes a huge difference right?
decimation: re: age: I've found that "adult children" are common in the us anyway
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mircea_popescu: moiety don't you find people tend to be less argumentative ?