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cazalla: wow, some tumblr pics that aren'
t 320x480 for once
mircea_popescu: "Multi legionari ar fi dat orice ca sa-i insoteasca in aceasta Cruciada. Insa lipsa fondurilor si previzibila impotrivire a guvernului fata de o expeditie de amploare au facut ca Legiunea sa trimita pe front o echipa alcatuita din numai sapte oameni." << "everyone wanted to go but too poor to afford the trip, and besides, parents wouldn'
t approve. so they had their own 7 man condor legion."
mircea_popescu: she looks like a would be porn starlet that didn'
t make the cut, tbh.
ben_vulpes: anyways, feds can'
t pull their heads out of their arses. apple, otoh, targets you and yours specifically for pain.
ben_vulpes: "why are you using macintoshes anyways - don'
t you get government stipends to buy the 10k windows laptops?"
ben_vulpes: call cali: "oop, sorry. we don'
t like your kind."
adlai: the marks deserve what they get, but i wouldn'
t want my daughter marrying the dealer
adlai: asciilifeform: all i know is an HN headline which i didn'
t bother opening: "[yc company] (YC '15) finds cures for diseases which don'
t yet exist"
nubbins`: ...i can'
t afford another macbook when this one dies?
pete_dushenski: i don'
t have a ton of personal interest either, just the least stinky poo, i guess.
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: "reasonably reliable" sounds like drug dealer who shows up 5 hours late, but still doesn'
t short you.
pete_dushenski: quardriga hasn'
t done anything exceptionally derpy to my knowledge
mircea_popescu: apparently incredibly loved in the harems, which hadn'
t yet met the yanks (who had not yet met buffett) so there was no wrigley's.
mircea_popescu: it's damned pine resin you noob! if you can'
t tell pine from turpentine you've really no business sniffing aromatics!
mircea_popescu: PeterL either that or fairy farts, i don'
t remember. that whole day's a haze.
PeterL: didn'
t we decide propane would be a good substitute gas for the whipped stuff?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i guess they weren'
t terribad. but still, the push is the lulz.
nubbins`: really don'
t see the problem w/ swapping out for ogg
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i wouldn'
t know either way, just saw a wikipedia page!! after googling
mircea_popescu: i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a butcher. i don'
t revive dead cows, i just cut them apart.
decimation: not only will usg be paying all of its tax revenue to debtors, the fed's $4.5 trillion worth of 3% mortgages won'
t look so good
mircea_popescu: decimation you don;
t mega hike it, you put it on a pain plan.
decimation: which doesn'
t mean shit for actual economics but means alot for the magic fed decision meter
mircea_popescu: it just doesn'
t make sense for g+ to only have a few mn profiles for all the resoureces they poured into it.
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 21:27:52; asciilifeform: i might exaggerate slightly, but at any rate it won'
t be accomplished by a fella with a day job.
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 21:00:46; danielpbarron: i'm probably in the *worst* place to be when this stuff goes down, although asciilifeform's locale doesn'
t sound very pleasant either
mircea_popescu: the reason there even is a remnant in the first place - vz, the collapse - is that they didn'
t have enough virility in the system.
trinque: the gas isn'
t involved in the food production
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 20:41:27; asciilifeform: trinque: as i understand, this isn'
t ru circa 1917, the hypothetical rebels don'
t 'just want to be left alone' - not one in ten thousand is able to grow anything edible without regular deliveries of petrol, pesticides, etc.
mircea_popescu: mike_c anyway, the demographic that supposedly "doesn'ty exist" and "doesn'
t matter" and "never wins elections" and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: right. the tlp described phenomenon of "oh, this class of medicine is now generic ? guess what, on a review of the data available it turns out it wasn'
t effective anyway, so we're using Y now instead".
mircea_popescu: and new cars also don'
t really come with lead batteries.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn'
t be so sure you'll get permits for new development in the us, eithert.
mircea_popescu: you can'
t run out of carbon, ie, the element. but you can run out of, say, sugar. venus is a fine example.
danielpbarron: what is to wipe on a phone that they don'
t already have? It's not like my keys are on the thing
jurov: well... if i wasn'
t on this chan, i'd easily ended up carrying any to/from canada
mike_c: you just haven'
t heard the name. it's the winklevii etf.
pete_dushenski: i'm under the impression, though hardly an expert, that there isn'
t.
jurov: <mircea_popescu> i don'
t recall why we didn'
t like the pi for this purpois << alf proclaimed it as depending on binary turd (that supposedly leaks key material by any channel conceivable), thus unworthy
cazalla: ;;later tell bingoboingo enjoy :) i didn'
t end up drinking last night so no issues there
mircea_popescu: i don'
t recall why we didn'
t like the pi for this purpoise, but it's in teh logs.
sjsqd: and I don'
t think I have redirects disabled
trinque: I don'
t want help; I have my own businesses
PeterL: asciilifeform: danielpbarron: it isn'
t foolish, but the time to do so is strictly -before- << surviving is dependent on having useful skills and wot connections to others with skills, the time to gain these is also strictly -before-
danielpbarron: i'm probably in the *worst* place to be when this stuff goes down, although asciilifeform's locale doesn'
t sound very pleasant either
☟︎ danielpbarron: i don'
t think i'll be rich enough to bribe my way out until -after- it begins
trinque: asciilifeform: I don'
t mean that I'd return to the city 3wks later
danielpbarron: i still have those gloves and hat. not gonna say it isn'
t high quality.
trinque: PeterL: you don'
t need infinite amounts of tools, once you have them
danielpbarron: I once visited a false church community in waco, tx (no relation to that other thing) and they seemed capable of sustaining themselves independent of any supply lines. But maybe all the ground tilling was just for show -- I didn'
t stay there year-round; just for a week for their "harvest festival"
chetty: right? left? too the moon might as well be. right and left don'
t make sense anymore
trinque: asciilifeform: I don'
t think things have gotten bad enough yet for them, the rednecks
chetty: walk softly and carry a big stick won'
t ever change, at least not the big stick part :)
trinque: I don'
t see how national-scale weapons control could be implemented in the US