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shinohai: Currently, bot just sends all the weekly bashims to pete_dushenski in
a gpgram for him to publish, kinda low-tech :/
jhvh1: thestringpuller: znort987 was last seen in #trilema 3 days, 17 hours, 59 minutes, and 34 seconds ago: <znort987>
A fresh set of opinions on the topic would be welcome
thestringpuller: like i guess for instance, trent reznor went through the same shit and became
a rock god.
thestringpuller: like srsly. "Waaah. My stomach hurts I'm gonna do heroin. Courtney Love is such
a bitch. Waaah I hate being
a rockstar."
thestringpuller: grunge is such
a shitty music, and it wasn't really surprising Kurt Cobain was
a self loathing piece of shit.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron it's hard dude. even finding
a chick worth bothering with the training of is <1 in 1000 sorta shot. but what you're looking for... you gotta go to either amish land or preferably middle east and see there.
BingoBoingo: Anyways Mesotrione is
a far sexier herbicide atm.
mircea_popescu: ah, notrly
a process. just, some eventually decide to settle down. it's an internal thing.
shinohai: No one was trying to turn her into
a housewife
mircea_popescu: she's
a poor chick in colombia, what do you want her to think ?
☟︎ shinohai: trinque has
a point, no tears.
trinque: do I read this correctly in that it's crying over
a woman?
shinohai: You don't have
a callipygous pic collection? >.>
mircea_popescu: then when the new owner got it i'm pretty sure i had
a "make sure you change these" i nthere.
trinque: not like that's
a compliment
trinque: the whois tells
a tale of lulz
mircea_popescu: romanian dude that "doesn't like me" (because how dare i be this cool) deleted his blog, then
a year later came back with an english thing which is all about... how the planet is broken!
mircea_popescu: backed by the history of skillful women collected in
a room, many impossible tasks are trivial. salt pickles
a fine example of this.
mircea_popescu: this selects
a mold of the place. then you can start making all sorts of other things without
a care in the world. like proper pickles.
mircea_popescu: that's the thing. step one in all "proper" ie ceuropean foodmaking is, you must have
a room, which
a) never freezes and b) bread is made in regularly.
mircea_popescu: and in europe, esp central europe (but
a generous central expanding all the way into france and northern italy) it's
a 10-15 century tradition.
mod6: yeah, for sure. don't scam
a man on his fuckin salami.
mircea_popescu: but like you say, turn it into
a scam and they'll fight.\
mircea_popescu: kind two, however, like spam, or baloney, or whatnot, is simply
a technological answer to the "five people want to eat
a pound of meat each but we only have six ounces of the thing".
mircea_popescu: kind one, like the two hundred bucks
a kilo soppressata i buy, or the romanian molded horse salami, or etcetera, are actually ~improvements~ on the component meat.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's funny, especially seeing how the addition of soy to salami practiced by the commies was widely unpopular, and
a significant case of the revolution.
phf: in related news i don't understand punkd. it's
a very expensive feature phone. yet one of the top FAQ is "how to reset the software when it hangs". i'm using this guy right now,
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T139-Flip-Phone-T-Mobile/dp/B00387FAC0 it's $30 used (i think it was $25 from t-mobile store, i'm not sure how amazon is selling it for $90) and it never had to be "reset"
mircea_popescu: phf it's actually
a very smart move, that 200 bucks will both encourage the kid to act sanely, which in itself is priceless, and otherwise cover the ground of
a dozen pairs which would have been 20ish each anyway
phf: (i actually don't know if those $2000 ones are even the same, i vaguely suspect it's just
a "high end brand" scam)
phf: when i was growing up my parents would by my italian shoes for $200 or so, which was an exuberant amount. i have one pair still. i went hunting for the same kind recently, and not only is it impossible to find similar quality, once i had
a friend of
a friend recommendation it was in the $2000's. and it's not even proper dress shoes, more of loather kind, with incredibly soft caoutchouc soles.
mircea_popescu: or that there's such
a thing as
a healthy dose of neurosis now.
mircea_popescu: which is funny, coming from
a chick in drag, because i am unaware of this notion that self deprecation is even socially acceptable in males, let alone in any dose required
mircea_popescu: to quote some idiot covering the ever-famous catholic diner, "trump failed because
a healthy dose of self deprecation was required".
pete_dushenski: what did such
a pair cost in arg ? $150 worth of pesos ?
pete_dushenski: "waiwut pete paid 700 for SHOES??!" ha. hardly. i dun pay retail for clothes n shoes anymore than i pay retail for mcm furniture. plus, i actually negotiated
a 1500 gift card to high-end meanswear store
a few months back so had to spend it on schmany attire accordingly.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well diana_coman seemed to do
a single contained narrative. She could serialize to my shock and awe. I figure my chances are marginal considering writing fiction is the opposite of writing qntra.
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-24#1558563 << i definitely hammered home the notion that i'll write about anything today, but the fanfic requires some serious research into the mental vacuum that is elliot, research that just isn't on the agenda this week. between being out of town and renos at
a couple suites and presentations and learning basic python, elliotology doesn't have much room to breathe
☝︎ phf: that's
a good place to be
mircea_popescu: moreover, all this was before internet. nowadays, i can scarcely comprehend how it'd work that i'd degrade
a text link into
a dumb voice link with someone who is intelligent enough to safely maintain and use otp.
a111: Logged on 2013-12-12 17:34 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the lolphonograph they had on
a ship during ww2 ?
mircea_popescu: if you ever talk to 1 other box calling this
a telephone is nothing short of idiotic.
mircea_popescu: what dude, it's hard enough to get
a girl's phone, you want her to write down her fucking otp for you ? while drunk at 3am ?
adlai: "The DP 01 has
a visual answering machine which sorts recorded messages by date and time... messages are accessible from any other paired DP 01 handset." < looks like
a decent landline, probably
a more resilient niche than dumbphone given the holeyness visible in
https://opensignal.com/ BingoBoingo: "There are also mentions of McAfee’s propensity for coprophilia—not that it’s
a crime, of course." << lol
ben_vulpes: "just how bad does coffee go in
a week?" and other mysteries
ben_vulpes: great thing about keeping
a decent fidelity scale in the office is impromptu coffee tasting experiments
shinohai: AT least one person is going to look at you and wonder why you are speaking into
a calculator ben_vulpes
mircea_popescu: until/unless they import the republican license, there's no market for "good" phones. because
a phone that's not predicated on breaking the law can't be good.
ben_vulpes: nothing says "you are useless and your career wasted" than
a conversation with
a man who spent three hundred dollars on
a device that precludes your 'lifes work'.
mircea_popescu: "Pre-order the MP 01 in white or brown to beat the rush – and receive
a copy of Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle,
a pack of Punkt. postcards, and
a stylish tote bag."
mircea_popescu: "Avoid easy selections, such as qwerty or password. If you want to pick an easy-to-remember but somewhat unique password, consider
a variation of
a word, such as a1rPl4nE for airplane."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "challenges teams to leverage technology to empower communities with
a transformative solution that ensures women’s safety" is basically "find
a way to extract magical energy from the ether to power
a machine that'll make men give
a shit about how women prefer to be fucked" ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is maybe worthy of
a future news xtend ?
mircea_popescu:
a figure which strangely mimics the way publishign works otherwise. what % of the sale value of books ends up with the authors ? what % of cd sales end up with the studios, let alone the artists ?
mircea_popescu: ot without safeguards (because yes, they're THAT dedicated to security) : first email received didn't get delivered, instead they just sent
a notification from facebook explaining... how to opt out. after which they sent all further emails straight up. consequently emailing the entire facebook userbase was ~trivial.
mircea_popescu: summary : facebook gave everyone @facebook.com address back in 2012 (and forced everyone to download
a meanwhile failed "facebook messenger", before buying some thing meanwhile forgotten for more play money than ever seen before in any game of monopoly). the user was simply the facebook user. then they axed this service... and started forwarding all mail to the user's personal inbox. because yes, they're THAT important. but n
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> lol diana light
a fire under bingo's butt <<
a butt of
a fire
BingoBoingo: The legally mandated disclaimer on Cisco reads: "This is not
a wine cooler 8 servings"
ben_vulpes: in other nyooz, i have discovered the neighborhood bar with: fast wifi, wine that is not ripple, and
a playpen
shinohai: Like Butt-injections, can't get Retin-
A in Argentina ?