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mircea_popescu: whereas english speaking world on the contrary, is still a reimplementation (5th ?) of the "angevin empire", ie that ridoinculous construction of the house of plantagenet, kings in england, dukes of normandy and aquitanie, counts of anjou etc etc.
mircea_popescu: (ie, soviets saw themselves as a national state, not as a mongrel empire. consequently population must be produced, can't be imported. consequently, all women must marry and bear 2.x children. consequently etc all the way down)
mircea_popescu: dumb orcs had a very feudal system of allocating the cunt - whereby the pretty ones would be married off and then used by the guy's bosses.
mircea_popescu: if the only way to get an ipad were to be on the list approved by bill, then bill'd have a direct incentive to fill u-of-m with physics dudes.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason medieval empires always included sumptuary laws, which prevented the margins from benefitting from the discoveries/technologies. yes this has a cost in terms of aggregate productivity, BUT that cost can, and in practice usually is, offset by the benefit in political structuring.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-05 15:22 mircea_popescu: epstein is one of many such squires, let's call them. the squire's estate consists of a brothel, which may be obv multiple physical locations but generally arranged in a star pattern, a harvesting operation, his connections to the democrat party (in this case via abedin-clinton-obama). he doesn't do his own marketing, the people running the whole thing do.
mircea_popescu: the logic is judicious from the pov of socialist empire : the marginal utility of stem is actually nil, because whatever rocket they invent the russkis will steal and the chinese will make cheaper anyway ; whereas the marginal utility of http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-05#1563151 is manifest : however many are needed to brew a head of fucktoys required by bill de blasio to forget the monkey at home. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: that's not much reason. it is a cause, obviously, but that's a different story.
mircea_popescu: it's altogether unclear the "social" "sciences" actually have reason to hold a chair at all. and this includes ALL of them : physchology, economy, what have you.
asciilifeform: of firing a bunch of monkeys redundantly appointed in 101 various 'studies' depts.
mircea_popescu: it's a motley crew, some are deeply inept, like say the journowhore ("new york elite"!!!) woman that got kicked out. it's a wonder why the few and far between competent ones accept to sit at that table.
asciilifeform: well, just as with the last 'system' and its children, this one took a buncha folk who ought to have grown up washing the decks on godforsaken rusty freighters, or playing piano in whorehouses, and raised them onto suburban thrones, 'macmansions', 'professorships', etc.
mircea_popescu: could have declared same a week after coronation.
mircea_popescu: the fact that she was absolved makes more of a case against her than if they just let it lie.
mircea_popescu: aha. i have nfi why they thought this is a +ev move, but whatever.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-07 15:34 mircea_popescu: i wouldn't hire a 70yo sales manager, why the fuck would i tolerate a 70yo politician ? go home.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't hire a 70yo sales manager, why the fuck would i tolerate a 70yo politician ? go home. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: go the fuck home, raise some grandkids, work a garden. there's such a thing as retirement. for a fucking reason.
mircea_popescu: this is ridiculous, what the fuck is a 70yo gonna do ? lead ? what, the bathroom beeline ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, roflmao at the ustards. "newt gingrich is positioning himself to benefit from trump". what the everloving fuck, the dude is 70. meanwhile at the democrat side, "oh, once clinton wins elizabeth warren should say she'll run against her in 2020 if she's not bold and progressive enough". nigga, what the fuck, warren, other than being a total ditz, was born 1949. she will be seventy by 2020.
asciilifeform: there is a substantial difference b/w the linux that a literate user, with some notion of hygiene, ends up with, and 'africa', and the treatment of modules is part of it
mircea_popescu: right. why they don't use the actual words that exist for the purpose of describing the situation, "it's a kernel module", even should it be qualified with "ubiquitous" or whatever i haven't the slightest idea.
mircea_popescu: i guess that's a point, huh. i c.
asciilifeform: it's a driver !!
a111: Logged on 2016-11-07 12:18 mircea_popescu: no, he engaged into a bunch of pages of commentary on the margins of trilema articles is what he means.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-07#1563290 << eh he did write a bunch of fairly good qntras ☝︎
asciilifeform: iirc the original d00d by that name may even have lost his head last year, and replaced with a ???.
mircea_popescu: the bid is 0.00021367, the ask is 0.0003418, there's no open bids, there's no daily range, the average volume for the past 30 days is 139, worth about four bitcents give or take, or in other words a tiny fraction of qntra';s (MPEX:S.QNTR) 1.1999952 btc.
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/HuZpy << this was a genuine pwnhole but the style of writing is quite peculiar.
mircea_popescu: for the curious : salon (QTCQB:SLNM) was made by some derpy journos fired by 2nd rate san francisco outlets back in 1994. they "explored the web" accruing ~100mn dollars in losses by the end of the dotcom bubble. it is still unprofitable to this day, if more moderately, losing a few million each year hence.
PeterL: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-07#1563267 << do you mean the crypto.me link? looks like it is a problem on the archive.is end, bot submitted link and got back error, I just tried to submit the link manually and got error ☝︎
mircea_popescu: kids who go to real college where they learn real science also learn intrinsically this, that to asq a question is to beg for money, and to disguise your questions as anything else is felonious. so they get an over-active self censor. meanwhile the idiots who do not go to real college, but to fake empire college learn that they can overpower their better peers through sheer gab. because "human rights" and "freedom of speech" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: communication to your superiors always carries a cost. if you write to your professor to ask him a bunch of dumb questions you're going to hear from him ; and if you try to disguise your questions as aything but questions, you belong expelled. there can not possibly be any other interaction between you and him. similarly with the other magisters, if you write your lawyer he will want 500 bux just to open the letter. for this
mircea_popescu: ng and today he is the superior i am beseeching so let's call it a wash as this seems likely to repeat in the future. but this is fantasy, not reality. nothing wrong with it, by itself ; but also not something found in nature.
trinque: diana_coman: "you don't do anything" -> "your mother is a whore"
Framedragger: i consider his blog to be a public service
mircea_popescu: no, he engaged into a bunch of pages of commentary on the margins of trilema articles is what he means. ☟︎
jhvh1: 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
thestringpuller: yea. when i dived in eulora code and was told "this is a supermodel" i kinda started to question quite a bit, but okay!
mircea_popescu: i couldn't give less of a shit. the linked article is actually pretty good ; your categorical judgements don't interest me in the slightest, because in the five or so years you've been hanging around you did exactly nothing i can recall. anyone here can write a script to be you in an evening and that'd be the end of the matter.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cryptome is a little odwn ?
BingoBoingo: a lollerpop http://www.radixjournal.com/journal/2016/10/20/found-out
mircea_popescu: and in today's free luxurious decadency ideas : when i'm going to be rich, i'm going to have 734 bushels of popcorn popped, then fill a pool with the proceeds and have a bunch of girl swim in it
a111: Logged on 2016-11-06 03:51 mircea_popescu: let's put it this way : would you let a bunch of dorks working for bahamas & friends take you away from a gathering of your own supporters ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-06#1563231 << if mr t were serious, he'd have a 'night of long knives' for these folks. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: let's put it this way : would you let a bunch of dorks working for bahamas & friends take you away from a gathering of your own supporters ? ☟︎
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Frank Sinatra - "Let's start the action!": <http://www.jwpitt.com/sinatra.htm>; That Kind Of Woman · Sinatra's Rules “For me, a tuxedo is a way of...: <http://thatkindofwoman.tumblr.com/post/472480887/sinatras-rules-for-me-a-tuxedo-is-a-way-of>; Golden Years: My Brief Bromance With Frank Sinatra - Ivy Style: <http://www.ivy-style.com/golden-years-my-brief-bromance-with-frank-sinatr
mircea_popescu: apparently someone reading the logs got nervous as to whether they can or can't pull it off in a pinch.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what is a 'dry run' in this context?
ben_vulpes: would you go so far as to say that he has done you a violence?
mircea_popescu: oh i see, it's a scene.
ben_vulpes: doubtful, they're all a part of the 'tech scene'
mircea_popescu: just to be on the safe side /me nipped https://archive.is/ksb0T#selection-4343.0-4351.5 's wings a litte ( http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/d1wcf/?raw=true registered as comment 149). curious if the guy publishes it or not.
mircea_popescu: as punishment ++, his beloved son rose in rebellion decades later, and to cement his claim to the crown he... publicly fucked a dozen of david's concubines.
mircea_popescu: except a nosy prophet (sent, of course, by the lord) reproached him, so david confessed. as punishment - his kid with the woman died. that's how you punish a dude!
mircea_popescu: so he fucked her to pregnancy, after which he tried to recall the husband, figurting he'd fuck her too and never know the difference. except the guy was having too much of a fun time with the other boys over in the barracks so he wouldn't come. so david had him killed (classical "behead the bearer of this letter" sorta thing) and married the woman.
mircea_popescu: and in today biblical study : david, the ever so wise king of the jews, got up one night with an itch. he walked around on his roof, and spied the poor wife of one of his soldiers, who was taking a bath in the middle of the night because with those nuts and their door manners it wasn't fucking safe to bathe in the daytime like normal people.
shinohai read that as pooping there for a sec ...
mircea_popescu: lol i'm too busy popping in eulora to give a shit about retarddit
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2016/11/05/public-vs-private-goods-or-why-theres-no-bugatti-comp/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - Public vs. private goods, or why there’s no Bugatti-comp.
mircea_popescu: would be a lot more interesting if roger ver actually had enough money to pay for his gas.
mircea_popescu: pretty funny, seeing how a product code FUTIPEMATA is definitely in the books.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-05 13:32 mircea_popescu: "suciders" don't you know. that's totally how i'm going to list the dead usg agents if/when they actually get their balls in order and try a move : "here's a list of usg suiciders".
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-05#1563116 << betcha it was a mistranslation from rt, 'смертники' ☝︎
mircea_popescu: anyway, afaik the chinese are a lot bigger on the whole new organs biz than the us. i dunno that there's so much market in it - the doctors generally take a dim view.
phf: i suspect they are not necessarily framed as whores, there are layers of deniability there. k street parties will have girls, sourced from local sororities by enterprising promoters. it could be factored in the "price" of admission and if you're there it's for you. but you can also say that "oh i was there discussing business, i didn't much mind the semi naked drunk supermodels staggering about, for i'm a married man"
mircea_popescu: in either case there can be no sane construction in which this makes the first hair of a difference. really, you wish to know whether the oil merchant spilled any ? because why, in treelogic this makes a difference ?
mircea_popescu: because rarely they get to skim as much as 10% of a public works contract, this is from an economic perspective a much better deal. unfortunately it doesn't scale - but in the end days of the empire scale is the last of the concern of the scurrying rats.
mircea_popescu: and also a major reason why eg european politicians take "irrational" measures such as allowing refugees in. yes it's true that a thousand refugees will cost the local community in excess of ten million before it's all settled. BUT, importantly, a thousand refugees contain at least a dozen harvestable bodies, which provide for the politicians ie "modern democracy" criminal organisation a hefty 1mn+ in revenue.
mircea_popescu: and yes they're VERY fucking busy all around mosul these days. tons and tons of "ngos" "charity workers" and whatnot. apparently preteen muslim meat is at a premium for some reason.
mircea_popescu: generally they don't maintain their own muscle, but rely on the krysha to force the local police depts into acting as muscle for them, which is a major centralizing effect of the scheme (historically this worked under the hand of the local police, providing THEM the revenues - as seen even today in eg argentina)
mircea_popescu: epstein is one of many such squires, let's call them. the squire's estate consists of a brothel, which may be obv multiple physical locations but generally arranged in a star pattern, a harvesting operation, his connections to the democrat party (in this case via abedin-clinton-obama). he doesn't do his own marketing, the people running the whole thing do. ☟︎☟︎
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-05#1563102 << judging by a bag of chips and many gnarly waterproof slippers it's one of those turkish/russian baths ☝︎
mircea_popescu: it's a very... self-hating world, this us.
mircea_popescu: mats prostitution was always a major money maker throughout history. in idiotic societies such as the us, preteens and other unfit for whoredom (boys, whatever) are both prized by the patrons contrary to sense (you really want to fuck a 13yo rather than a 26 yo ? because why, you like fucking walls ?) and useful for the madams because hey, blackmail afterwards.
mats: is keeping kids a purely economic activity or are they kept around for intel operations like these?
mircea_popescu: (and no i don't think this is a coincidence, i think they simply imported the serbian apparatus, physically when feasible, or else rebuilt from recipe the missing parts.)
mats: because it looks like a smear, and a weak one at that
mats: if i was a participant, i'd offer one of the other two half of the winnings if they supported my bid
mircea_popescu: (the part where mosul is a town apparently made out of villages i can understand - so is buenos aires. the orcs dun do urban life.)
mircea_popescu: "suciders" don't you know. that's totally how i'm going to list the dead usg agents if/when they actually get their balls in order and try a move : "here's a list of usg suiciders". ☟︎
BingoBoingo: I don't think mine was that gory. All I did was create the necessary space for Elliot to die a bloody but natural death while also becoming a hero a Britain.
diana_coman: contest anyway; considering however that it was set for Halloween, I guess I'd go with "goriest" and therefore BingoBoingo should win; as a side, I must say I don't quite follow the point of "all possible positions expressed" since they were quite clear/obvious anyway; ☟︎
diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-04#1562957 <- unsurprisingly this simply means decision is back to mircea_popescu ; fwiw and in the interst of a last attempt to reaching a decision on this, the way I see all this is that hanbot's is the merriest, BingoBoingo's is the goriest&most willful, mine is the most truthful to the original; so a decision would be a choice between those three aspects and I'm unsure what was the goal of the ☝︎
hanbot: reminds me of that old maddox bit on kids' drawings, "holy shit, i've never seen a fire truck that needed to be shaved before"
mod6: I here by nominate hanbot for the Song of the Year Grammy Award for http://thewhet.net/2016/elliot-and-james-a-drinking-song/
mircea_popescu: truth be told the us is a whole lot more entertaining in sinking than it ever was sailing.
shinohai: http://archive.is/IGurI <<< so my TV is a samsung, I am assuming it isn't long until it blows up and takes me with it. I hereby bequeath my Eulora loot to mircea_popescu
phf: but they sometimes have this guy cooking, who i think is owner's relative, and he always looks like he just came back from a party in eilat or herzliya, completely out of place for the area. he knows how to cook a shakshuka really well
phf: but no in this case israeli is the reason why i was there (for a burek) but the dodgy is everything else about the place. it might as well be starbucks, except they don't have those fancy starbucks machines so the "baristas" can fuck up however they want and they do
phf: oh i see, some movie Brooklyn stereotype, in my experience though israelis run a tight ship
pete_dushenski: when i think 'israeli owned dodgy coffee shop' i think of a place with open baklava on the front deli counter, flies buzzing, dirty white linoleum floors, dusty ceiling fans, etc
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski well they're the only ones with a voice in there.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-04 02:03 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562665 << yeah thinking about it i'm gonna do a democratic thing here. so the recognized participants being diana_coman hanbot and BingoBoingo - agree amonst yourselves to select a winner and let me know who it is.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-04 14:34 phf: there's a dodgy israeli coffee shop in the neighborhood (they make shakshuka and burek though, which are good, when the israeli guy is running the kitchen), which is a favorite meeting spot for local "career" women. i just spent about an hour half listening to a conversation, and for the love of me i can't figure out what it's about. "yeah should reach out to such and such i was on his board" "yeah such and such is now at such and such
pete_dushenski: http://archive.is/EJZTx << $82 for frozen collard greens in neiman marcus xmas catalogue. because being a poor black person is en vogue!
phf suspects hackgod.me has a significantly higher snr than google.com
mircea_popescu: this is more of the same bullshit "oh you asked a question, OF COURSE you wanted an answer from wikipedia, because in our arbitrary private listing "wikipedia" is what answers questions because we say so, and therefore here's a "search engine" which is a machine of returning the "most relevant" results for your query according to our handmade list of what should be relevant and therefore is."
phf: modern browser will helpfully render that url as "google" for you, so as not to confuse with such complexities as domain hierarchy, protocols, paths, queries, etc. so once they went down that path of madness incorrect parsing becomes a "YOU COULD BE TRICKED" situation, because you could, thank you google
asciilifeform: also yer browser takes every www page it loads, synthesizes into peptide, and injects straight into the nearest vein on yer neck. so going to WRONG!1111 www is a Bad THing.