asciilifeform: ( chinese folx are observably clever enough to sometimes signal 'we kowtow' without actually ~doing~ any such thing -- as per the infamous july '15 forklulz
asciilifeform: ... or could simply be snow job to put the 'international komyooniti' off the scent
asciilifeform: lol did they finally surrender to stupid
asciilifeform: witness the 'smart brits of 1700s' -- how many indian gardeners?☟︎
asciilifeform: witness the chinese folx in africa -- they do no such thing, first thing they do is to put up a perimeter of barbed wire, mine field, and interlocking sectors of fire. and ain't nobody darker than proverbial paper bag, permitted inside, ever again.
asciilifeform: it still boggles my mind : would you hire, e.g., a talking grizzly bear, to 'tend garden' ?☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: since mircea_popescu is away from his terminal, i'll fill in for him : 'tru men!' 'nature's garbage collector' etc
asciilifeform: could have been worse - say, short+fat
asciilifeform: trinque: it isn't clear that there was anything physically wrong with elliot ( aside from being, by his account, a very short and thin d00d )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: stalin, supposedly, once said to his friends, 'history divides into three eras, matriarchate, patriarchate, and secretariate'☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: it was not immediately obvious to asciilifeform , for instance, at one time
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on other hand, the fact that a wot is a local object ( and doesn't 'decentralize' ) is not necessarily obvious, even to thinking folx
asciilifeform: sn0wmonster: trinque's wotron ( which is in use here ) gives you a complete copy of the wot on demand. how would you make this 'more decentralized' ?
asciilifeform: theoretically, if d00d has a brain, it could be explained to'im
asciilifeform: ( alternatively -- yank the nic and put in the serial port card, they're a few bux secondhand )
asciilifeform: shinohai: if you get one with a nic, make sure to segment it away from anything interesting
asciilifeform: from also same rag, moar gold, 'A Pennsylvania man was convicted Tuesday of sexually assaulting six young sisters married off by their parents in return for financial support.... The verdict came almost a year after police said they found Kaplan living with 12 females at his Feasterville home, including an 18-year-old who prosecutors said was "gifted" to him after he provided financial support for her parents.' ( https://archive.is/x
asciilifeform: in other amerilulz from same rag, https://archive.is/Bxot3 >> 'In a report published Sunday, Pyongyang's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) accused US Department of Homeland Security officers and airport police of taking a diplomatic package away from the delegation, which it said carried a valid diplomatic courier certificate. KCNA called the incident "an illegal and heinous act of provocation," adding that US authorities b
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's a pretty long list of things that being shot by police - beats
asciilifeform: '"It got to the point that he was apologizing to her, ... apologizing to her for not being dead yet,"' << lel
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: elementarily, 'unless' - e.g. d00d shot by cops in his own house (plenty of these every week, and the white-skinned ones ~nobody documents in usa) gets neither judge nor jury, etc☟︎