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kakobrekla: dunno, im just observing its 20k short compared to what it used to be
Apocalyptic: kakobrekla, you're talking about the tx in December ?
mircea_popescu: i bet you the crow was the leader in that team
truffles: "Doves released at the Vatican as a gesture of peace immediately fall prey to a vicious seagull and crow" haha
truffles: 'I gave my husband a kidney to save his life. Then he dumped me. Now I want it BACK' hmmm
jurov: the more the merrier
jurov: ohhh that didn't came exactly right :D
truffles: i always spend 5 more mins than i want to on their site
truffles: u just take it??
truffles: never seen that spelling
mircea_popescu: i thought xtians invented the buttplay.
truffles: yea its hard to shake the christian roots
mircea_popescu: tbh, i always pictured you with a silly goatee and a prince albert truffles
truffles: so its normal for yall to just stick things up random places huh
mircea_popescu: de maintenon made her cry too much foir too long
mircea_popescu: anyway, fun fact : emergency enema is one of the best way to provide emergency fluid support for people in dire straights (massive hemorrhage etc). it's much safer than intravenous support, doesn't require sterile gear etc.
truffles: rules on this matter might differ from men n women
jurov: truffles: anus is full of nerve endings... it just depends how one has them wired up
mircea_popescu: According to Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, clysters were so popular at the court of King Louis XIV of France that the duchess of Burgundy had her servant give her a clyster in front of the King (her modesty being preserved by an adequate posture) before going to the comedy. However, he also mentions the astonishment of the King and Mme de Maintenon that she should take it before them.
truffles: i didnt think u were around
truffles: solutions to crush u sir!
mircea_popescu: truffles what if it were a straight woman getting things up the butt ? would you still worry ?
jurov: you just provide the solution. i see
truffles: id wonder about a straight man getting things up the butt
mircea_popescu: jurov it'd go with a "reader" that's too lazy to think. we could build trufflesenema
jurov: writer who doesn't read? there are sooo many of them
truffles: i did say the irc image
mircea_popescu: i provide the trilema leadership!
jurov: truffles perhaps you don't read trilema?
truffles: or the one ive imaged u to be
mircea_popescu: i daresay it's not the irc image.
mircea_popescu: i provide the intellectual leadership first and foremost, wherever i go.
mircea_popescu: obviously that's a naive view.
truffles: i see u as only providing the finances and the sex though
truffles: gl to the adventureous ppl
mircea_popescu: nobody ordained a harem has to be women.
truffles: is there that many women around
mircea_popescu: why should i bite more than is convenient.
mircea_popescu: no i mean, let other people catch up, put in the work, master their own harems
truffles: i did i took jab at it scroll up
mircea_popescu: i'm already the dictator of my own harem and that's more than anyone else seems to be doing, so. catch up.
truffles: mp i think u would govern as a dictator true false?
mircea_popescu: there's no space in the medium term for democracy. it's dead.
mircea_popescu: that the periphery is following this trend...
mircea_popescu: in fact democracy is altogether tainted by its association with socialism, all over the world, and as such it is intellectually and more importantly socially bankrupt everywhere, fromn the us to switzerland
mircea_popescu: remarkable the blindness of the scholar.
truffles: dostoyevsky kindred spirit, loved to gambol 3>
asciilifeform: btw the mother of the girl in the film, is, clearly, standing for ussr.
mircea_popescu: not least of all, that.
asciilifeform: many differences, yes. chinese have a few thou. yrs. of practice collapsing empire and re-constituting, etc.
mircea_popescu: anyway, not proposing some sort of grand truth here, just pointing out that the differences between the soviets and the chinese are more than the similarities.
mircea_popescu: cccp was type 1. the adventures of little boi han in tibet aren't the same bread.
mircea_popescu: other great empires have them through the ass.
mircea_popescu: yes. but some great empires have them through the heart, like austro-hungary
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ukrainian nation was born out of stalin' famine. it is distinct from the commonwealth.
asciilifeform: ukraine is a complicated beast. most of the folks there with 'national identity' are actually from the western half (really, pre-partition poland)
mircea_popescu: the caucasus is its own thing, not a nation but a patchwork of nations, which are all factual nations, in the manner of the old "sick man of europe".
mircea_popescu: for one thing, china is extremely homogenous, with precious few exceptions. georgia and the ukraine however are both quite distinct nations from the muscovy 'rus
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in as far as the chinese didn't allow themselves to be 'chinese spring'-ed, it is close.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that view is popular, but imo flawed, fwtw.
asciilifeform: chinese cartoon on the subject
asciilifeform: for instance, they see their country as having 'sat for the same exam' as the ussr, and passed, while the latter flunked. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: and was translated (to russian)
asciilifeform: btw the chinese have scholars, of 'soviet collapse studies,' and some of their output is rather interesting and educational ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: just as the chinese replied, in '89, to 'why tanks?', with 'we aren't the u.s., can't afford warehouses full of "humane" riot gear' ☟︎
asciilifeform: poor country cannot afford to jail opposition
mircea_popescu: back when he went to the eastern world.
TATdoesReno: relatives waited too long to exact revenge
TATdoesReno: they just test the water to make sure the dosages they put in it are right
bloctoc: I heard somewhere on the internet that Obama travels with his own bathroom for such reasons as stated above
asciilifeform: so not quite toilet-embeddable yet
asciilifeform: the ones around here are roughly the size of a traditional pay phone
asciilifeform: miniature GC/MS instruments have been churned out in astounding quantity, for the 'homeland security' market (sarin sensors on subways, post-'95)
asciilifeform: TATdoesReno: for this to fit in the spirit of the nsa funfest, it'd have to be something like 'toilets discovered to contain embedded drug sensors and cell modems, rat you out'
TATdoesReno: somehow i find this much more interesting than hearing that spies spy
TATdoesReno: Scientists, increasingly able to detect minuscule amounts of compounds, have begun to test sewage to gauge communities' use of illegal drugs. When people take drugs, they are either unchanged or the body turns them into metabolites before they're excreted."The amphetamine levels go through the roof during finals," Burgard said.
mircea_popescu: ( http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-esential-16389400-video-vanatoarea-balc-organizata-ion-tiriac-desfasurat-parcursul-doua-runde.htm < romanian rich guy organises yearly hunt on his own grounds, the local wanna-be liberal fucktards hold their breath and throw a hissy fit each year)
mircea_popescu: someone still eats pressed duck, even if they have synthetic mayo now, and someone still hunts
mircea_popescu: i think pretty much everyone in the 20+ range active online is on yahoo here.
asciilifeform: they use ms 'bing' for the back end now
asciilifeform: if i recall, their search engine was killed and buried long ago
mircea_popescu: i guess there's no accounting for noobs
asciilifeform: there's even the old folks still renting phones from at&t (this particular racket was sold to lucent, and still brings in ~$20mil/yr. until they die of old age)
KRS1: yes they do
KRS1: wantd to call dead cat but damn, cant be another bubble coming already
kakobrekla: where is this bait material comming from, church forum?
mircea_popescu: 1% of mkt or something. a ways to go.
mircea_popescu: and is that payments processed or their own net revenue ?
mircea_popescu: well, so what did they make in 2013 ?
TATdoesReno: i think so
mircea_popescu: for curiosity sake, other than renting cars for the day, did bitpay actually publish its figures finally ?
TATdoesReno: lotsa a chatter that the mtgox bank run is finally engorged for action
pankkake: mircea_popescu: oh, right. anyway, that's not how it should work; hire guys, ask them which chair they want
TATdoesReno: this way they just keep it simple with forum auctions
TATdoesReno: they are probably left with more coin for having not done that, as they woulda got all wrapped up in pretending to have a real business
mircea_popescu: but rain happens for naught in the desert.
mircea_popescu: course, amusingly enough, if btctalk wasn't run by kids it could have become that yahoo.
TATdoesReno: i sold all my fiat stocks the day before this whole 'emerging markets' problem happened, purely coincidence caused by procrastination
mircea_popescu: well, that and the yahoo advertising.
mircea_popescu: the corps at the time consisted of just the chairs.