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ThickAsThieves: so there must be all kindsa great song names
mircea_popescu: the shit i learn from the internet.
nubbins`: we (dick surgery) played a show with them once
ThickAsThieves: we try not to get emotional about it the20year
nubbins`: heh, there's a 6'7" metal guitarist guiding a dump truck down my dead-end street
ThickAsThieves: yknow there really is room for a bitcoin-famous and themed band
ThickAsThieves: you can be the webmaster
mircea_popescu: i could perhaps get chicks to show up for nude vids to go with teh muzak
nubbins`: there's an album right there
ThickAsThieves: didnt think so
ThickAsThieves: does bitbet know about the bitcoin song?
mircea_popescu: failure to kiss my pinky ring will be downfall of woman.
nubbins`: no, legalization of marijuana will be the downfall of government
ThickAsThieves: legalization of marijuana will be the downfall of man
nubbins`: honestly believe plastic will be the ultimate downfall of man
mircea_popescu: the reason would be that phtalates are toxic, and unbound to the actual plastic, so they leak out as the thing breaks down through age/sun exposure
mircea_popescu: this is especially true of any pvc items, if you can recognise pvc
mircea_popescu: an especially good time to do so is when preparing the house for the first baby.
mircea_popescu: actually since we're on the topic, it's good policy to throw out all old plastic in the house (>3 years or so) and replace it with modern plastic (if made in the us or eu, past coupla years)
nubbins`: i'm told lego sandwiches are a danish delicacy
nubbins`: and everyone eats those
nubbins`: generally they use ABS and PLA plastics, not sure about the specifics of either
mircea_popescu: good excuse for a little acetone trippin'.
nubbins`: if anything, that's the dangerous step
nubbins`: the hip thing these days is to use acetone vapor to take the jagged edges off rough 3d prints
mircea_popescu: now, as far as solvents go toluene (used to be widely used in the 70s etc) is actually carginogenic
mircea_popescu: yes, but for the solvents
mircea_popescu: (cause too expensive/difficult, mostly)
mircea_popescu: afaik 3d printing doesn't use them
mircea_popescu: afaik the phtalates (softening agents) are the main problem with "normal" plastics
nubbins`: likely for a very long time
nubbins`: what, as opposed to all the other plastic you come into contact in the run of a day?
ThickAsThieves: reminds me of the fear i had loading Xerox machines
mircea_popescu: article about lezzie that got raped "curatively". comment section ? lezzies dating
ThickAsThieves: I have the original
mircea_popescu: y good honor to meet you…and you may call me V .
mircea_popescu: s vivified…and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice…and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.The only verdict is vengeance,a vendetta…held as a votive not in vain,for the value and veracity of such…shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose.So let me simply add that it’s my ver
mircea_popescu: But on this most auspicious of nights…permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet…to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.Voilà!In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran…cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate.This visage, no mere veneer of vanity…is a vestige of the vox populi,now vacant, vanished.However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stand
mircea_popescu: cynicism is good protective serum. these people are nutty.
ozbot: Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA - Slashdot
asciilifeform: no reason this one should play out any differently
asciilifeform: nah, only a handful of KGB brass offed themselves in the '90s
nubbins`: at least they'll use a name-brand drink.
mircea_popescu: honestly, the sad mental state of people still showing up to work for the various usg agencies suggests we'll soon see jamestown-like mass suicides.
mircea_popescu: but nothing other than those three
nubbins`: from the comments: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ba42Z0lCMAAfkzM.jpg
mircea_popescu: and please stick to cloudflare and tor.
asciilifeform: bunch of 'cubesats' in there, too: http://www.cubesat.org/index.php/missions/upcoming-launches/134-l39-launch-alert
nubbins`: Conditions on board which may lead to the spread of disease: TBD
asciilifeform: better than fiction: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/new-us-spy-satellite-features-world-devouring-octopus/
ozbot: Back from the Moon, Apollo Astronauts Had to Go Through Customs | Space.com
mircea_popescu: basically all the us is these days, is one giant cartman
thestringpuller: we'll need to check you for moon meth
nubbins`: wow, apollo 11 crew had to pass thru US customs & immigration upon returning from the moon
nubbins`: ah, just because there's blood everywhere and people are crying doesn't mean it's a riot.
mircea_popescu: in total there were maybe two dozen
nubbins`: prairie girl was the blond one
ThickAsThieves: there was the riot grrl, then artsy girl, and the prairie girl
mircea_popescu: a no, the one with the nice tits.
mircea_popescu: i think i still have pix somwhere
ThickAsThieves: no the pretty one
mircea_popescu: because eiother or both betrayed the holy cause of pussy rioting ?
mircea_popescu: and then is this the blondy with small tits and an annoying personality that split up with her hubby
nubbins`: and went missing on the way
nubbins`: i think one got sent to a gulag
nubbins`: best thing to come out of this was watching stuffy newscasters have to say the phrase "Pussy Riot" so many times
mircea_popescu: keep them naked in gaol 4ever!
nubbins`: nah, period talk
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nubbins`: but in my defense, there's three of us
nubbins`: i do that
mircea_popescu: god knows they're already doing it when speaking as if "their company"
mircea_popescu: it'll be funny when private individual dorks start actually refering to themselves in the 1st person
nubbins`: i bet that took some wrangling
mircea_popescu: at least they don't go "we're a well known" etc.
nubbins`: thestringpuller: ah, i see you have a +10 rating from 'danieldaniel' with the comment "Fuck you."
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well he's well known to yourself.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> honestly, i wouldn't trust most of the people in -otc even if they sent first. <<< neither would they.
nubbins`: not sure if the horse should have a huge drooping cock, or the rider
thestringpuller: how do I know you're going to deliver mah paintin one day
thestringpuller: apparently I shouldn't trust you nubbins`
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user thestringpuller to user nubbins: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=thestringpuller&dest=nubbins | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=nubbins | Rated since: never
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user thestringpuller to user nubbins`: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=thestringpuller&dest=nubbins` | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=nubbins` | Rated since: Wed Oct 16 19:58:53 2013
nubbins`: honestly, i wouldn't trust most of the people in -otc even if they sent first.
ThickAsThieves: lol at the Cex.io ad on that page
nubbins`: pink eye print company is in the wot.
nubbins`: and even those are just literal rips of other brand logos, with "FOG TOWN" emblazoned in place of the original name
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah, but they ain't in the wot.
ThickAsThieves: a brand is supposed to be a trust profile
nubbins`: afaict, the only thing they produce is stickers with their logo
nubbins`: there's this "company" around town, "FOG TOWN BRAND"
nubbins`: you see this at all scales too, from local to worldwide
mircea_popescu: somehow the point where you gotta have a business to be a business is eschewed, in favour of merely having a "brand", which really is a logo + advertising bills package
mircea_popescu: yeah! actually, what the sex tape is to the starlet, the brand is to the no-business "busioness"
mircea_popescu: but now a brand is like a rap album, or a sex tape
mircea_popescu: brands as the classical thing made sense
nubbins`: way to buy a fuckin' logo, y'know?
nubbins`: yeah, brands are a funny thing
nubbins`: "know what's a good idea? charge whitey $70 for a pair of $5 shoes, and give another pair for free to some poor african kid so his folks lose their job at the shoe factory"
mircea_popescu: but i guess nobody realises stuff like adidas or vevo are in the same boat.