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pete_dushenski: "When washers and dryers were added to 17 schools through a new program, attendance rates shot up.
pete_dushenski: "Michael, the CEO, introduced himself as the owner of a successful international mining business group, a millionaire investor, and a former JPMorgan analyst." << milliONEaire. the pic's on lastnight.com or whatever that was
asciilifeform: 'What you are seeing is a Photoshopped Google search image that was posed as a real Wells Fargo wire transfer sent to 17 employees via email by the CEO. ... Whoever photoshopped these documents has the intelligence of a 5th grader, but even worse is the person who thought this was a good idea. Think about it. The scam artist sat there and concocted this in his head instead of telling us the truth that the money wasn’t there. He the
asciilifeform: 'Around this time, Bruce and I were sharing personal concerns and he confided in me that he had let Michael borrow $50,000 from his personal savings. Did you read that? A startup employee gave his life savings to our CEO. He wasn’t the only one. Another biz dev team bro who was crashing on the CEO’s couch, Bobby, apparently lent Michael five figures too. In disbelief, I asked why he needed money when he has $2M already committed
pete_dushenski: bought 2k btc for ~$2k in 2010 though so not a complete maroon but that's still taking the 'great divestment' pretty far.
pete_dushenski: i'm a sucker for crotchety old coots.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: taki, just like mr mold, is a snore once you've tasted actual heresy.
pete_dushenski: "Qatar and Bahrain paid for foreigners to compete under their ludicrous flags and won two medals between them. Qatar and Bahrain are ugly places ruled by ugly people who think they can buy beauty. They cannot. Just because a lot of greedy Brits sold their beautiful old houses to them, the two sandy hellholes thought they could also buy Olympic glory. Most athletes are professionals nowadays, so they figured
pete_dushenski: I’m not sure about the last one. Boats are now extremely ungraceful and downright unshapely; they either look like insects or refrigerators on steroids. Once upon a time there was nothing more elegant or beautiful than sailing boats with overhangs on their bows and sterns. Now we have titanium trimarans that can do 50 knots and look like prehistoric ants. If you need to do 50, get a boat with an engine."
pete_dushenski: "Why is it that grace and innocence make my knees go weak? I suppose it is because I have a view of the fairer sex more common in an era more romantic than the present. I feel more alive in the presence of beauty, but I also feel longing, both spiritual and physical. But beauty has been downgraded these past 50 years. Beautiful buildings are no longer built, just ugly, modern, so-called utilitarian ones, and
pete_dushenski: http://takimag.com/article/hooked_on_a_high_jumper_taki/print << meant to link this one. octogenarians writing too many olympic related blergs
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: they had a parachute school near kaunus.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: <pete_dushenski> no kaunus, but not a bad place << my father, apparently, also liked kaunus. (he went to boot camp there.)
pete_dushenski: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160828/from:60/to:60#60 << because moar is better (tm). more protein in your protein bar, more diamonds on your ring, and on and on ad infinitum. that moar lines of code can't replace a competent cabbie is apparently discussion unbecoming of the 'civilised' set
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: there's no other way. except, perhaps, buying yoself a car jack and diy
pete_dushenski: no kaunus, but not a bad place to spend time either. lovely french bookshop on the end of the main square.
pete_dushenski: musta been a bitch to run versailles. coralling cats it is.
pete_dushenski: i thought it was trinque on da playa ? jeez it's a full time job to keep track of all these various netizens
mircea_popescu: it's simple : you get a girl, strip her naked, make her bend her bubble butt towards you, then you take a magic marker, write I on one half moon, C on the other
mircea_popescu: it's the land of dreams, where the normal have something to say -> therefore have a voice -> therefore exist is entirely reversed.
mircea_popescu: because she exists, therefore she has a voice. because she has a voice, therefore she has something to say. don't blame the victim!
mircea_popescu: this the mindset. not of elliot rodger, this is the mindset of a generation.
mircea_popescu: woman "is liberated" so she should get job, right ? she should be respected, right ? he's a liberal, don't forget. he thinks the girls should flock to him because he exists, and because he "never agreed to" they not flocking to him. and similarly buildings - once he decided they should fall down, THEY SHOULD FALL DOWN.
asciilifeform: schmuck could have bit down, went to trade school, learned to be a demolitionist; or become fire inspector, learn how to arson properly; or programmer, and ...
mircea_popescu: which is a mental issue.
asciilifeform: covertress: thread is re a 'postalist' who, like ~all of them to date, could not hit 'broad side of a barn'
asciilifeform: it'd be one thing if fella touched his first pistol when killing a policeman and immediately going off to action
asciilifeform: or even go to the gallery and 'bag' a few plates.
mircea_popescu: it's funny, this, most people^H^H libtards imagine you know, "guns kill people", like a sort of fucking djinn or something, on command. the animated, locomotive sword of 1001 nights. and they flatter themselves with this idea, you know, that if they took all the stops off and bought a gun and went to hunt people, they'd actually bag much
asciilifeform: it is really rather funny, asciilifeform lost a very cushy usg research job years ago because there was never a second aum shinrikyo incident, and bureaucrats largely lost interest in antidotes...
mircea_popescu: the exact same sort of mental issues that make it impossible for him to walk up to a girl and say "hi!" also make it impossible for him to shoot to kill.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Have you ever had occasion to see these obnoxious shits the moment there's shots fired, by the way ? I know of no better illustration of USian subhumanity than that fear. He's right : the moment he took the rifle out and started popping lightbulbs left and right, he was a God to them. Moreso than any god they ever knew or ever had' << fella had a pistol. and apparently his time at the gallery was largely wasted, hit
thestringpuller: ;;later tell adlai thought of you the other day because the name "Adlai" appeared in futurama as a character.
covertress: as we'll have a chance to discuss first ;)
mircea_popescu: which, ironically, is 50% or more of the advance a writer could at best hope to receive from is publisher.
covertress: mircea_popescu i've been asked to extend you a similar offer... to write for steemit xD ☟︎
mircea_popescu: Framedragger also, alternately background lines, and a better font plox. or better yet : wipe that .pre-div { font-family: "Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace;
mod6: trinque pointed this out too about, eh, a month ago or so
mod6: it's ~probably~ not required long term, but it asks for this now. so without having to reconfigure a bunch of buildroot stuff, it goes in.
thestringpuller imagines going to a burn with asciilifeform and him interacting with da hippies.
asciilifeform: lel, 'I first met [Rodger] when he was aged eight or nine and I could see then that there was something wrong with him. I'm not a psychologist, but looking back now he strikes me as someone who was broken from the moment of conception.'
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2016/08/29/but-height-is/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - …but height is.
mircea_popescu: lmao. wait, what, the diebold machines come with a setting, like aks ? you set it on loose or tightened as fbi dictates ?
trinque: mod6: I'm stopping the bitcoind on that box; subsequent ones might be a bit quicker
asciilifeform: problem in the trb case would be that trb is a cpp, and not c, proggy.
mircea_popescu: and hillary clinton was originally a hot piece of ass.
mircea_popescu: the gcc in particular is a monstruous problem.
asciilifeform: iirc palestine has the occasional 'fella with initiative', and the front advances until tel aviv figures out where he lives and drops a few tonnes of c4 on his head
mircea_popescu: "the palestinians" don't want to level tel aviv anymore than temper tantrum child wants to stop breathing. they just like to pretend this want to get mommy-intl community to want to spring for a new bmw.
mircea_popescu: this is, incidentally, also a part time project. buy one acre, dig it up, emplace guided rocket tubes. whenever ready, fire.
asciilifeform: perhaps there is a 'golden mean' lel.
mircea_popescu: anti-aircraft gimme a break. why not submarine jet.
mircea_popescu: the military equivalent of falling through a glass pane. it'll fuck you up.
mircea_popescu: in any case, as soviets found out in ww2 right after the germans found out in ww2, the modern town is a nightmare battlefield.
asciilifeform: self-driving killdozer is a much simpler mathematical problem than self-driving passenger auto.
asciilifeform: (heemeyer was a welder and Knew What He Was Doing)
asciilifeform: he ate a .357
mircea_popescu: "At one point, the police put a gigantic piece of construction equipment out to block Heemeyer's path, but the Killdozer just fucking made that shit its bitch, tossing it aside and nearly flipping it on its back like a cheap hooker in the process." lol guy has at least one fan
asciilifeform: 'Heemeyer took about a year and a half to prepare for his rampage. In notes found by investigators after the incident, Heemeyer wrote "It's interesting how I never got caught. This was a part-time project over a 1 1/2 year time period." In the notes, Heemeyer expressed surprise that three men who visited the shed last fall did not discover the bulldozer work, "especially with the 2,000 lb. lift fully exposed." "Somehow their vision w
asciilifeform: do this. It's a cross that I am going to carry and I'm carrying it in God's name," he said. Heemeyer's actions were apparently a political statement. In the audio tapes, he states "Because of your anger, because of your malice, because of your hate, you would not work with me. I am going to sacrifice my life, my miserable future that you gave me, to show you that what you did is wrong".'
asciilifeform: '"God built me for this job," Heemeyer said in the first recording made on April 13, 2004. He even said it was God's plan that he not be married or have family so that he could be in a position to carry out such an attack. "I think God will bless me to get the machine done, to drive it, to do the stuff that I have to do" he said. "God blessed me in advance for the task that I am about to undertake. It is my duty. God has asked me to
asciilifeform: gotta get to a doctor, get it looked at, because before long you might end up a mircea_popescuýëåêòðèôèêàöèÿ
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu sprouted a new letter in his name ?
asciilifeform: the check. Then he bought a massive bulldozer...'
asciilifeform: own on a fucking rail. But Marvin Heemeyer wasn't the sort of mewling pussy coward who was going to sit there and let a bunch of stuffed-suit bastards fuck him over like a little bitch. He was an insane badass motherfucker with an arc welder and a mad desire for vengeance at all costs, and he decided he wasn't going to take it anymore. Heemeyer paid his $2,500 fine to City Hall, scribbling the word "cowards" in the memo portion of
asciilifeform: years of petitions, appeals and negotiations that proved about as fruitful as smashing his face into a cinderblock, the bastards at the Granby Zoning Commission basically told Marv that he could go fuck himself gently with a chainsaw. They were going to build a concrete plant adjacent to Heemeyer's muffler shop, cut off his business' sewer line, slap him with a bunch of increasingly-massive fines, and ultimately run his ass out of t
asciilifeform: 'Marvin Heemeyer was a professional welder living in the quiet Colorado town of Granby, just trying to make a living for himself running a small muffler repair shop. Unfortunately, he was also in the business of getting royally fucked over by everyone in town, ranging from the paperboy to the asshats in City Hall who wouldn't compromise with him on some crazy fucking wacky zoning issues he was trying to work out. Eventually, after
asciilifeform: heemeyer demolished most of a small town, and pretty much everyone there knew why.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i'm pretty impressed with the readership. seriously, 200k words over a week ? that's like five books.
mircea_popescu: ok, fine. hereby is announced a 1 BTC prize for the best fanfic published on the blog of someone with a gpg key deedbot knows about.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the fabled watch i invented as a 3yo ? iirc was in the log somwehre.
BingoBoingo: That is a point.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Seriously. If he had any potential as a drunk he would have initiated aggression by pissing on people, places, and things
mircea_popescu: kid's a perfect libtard.
BingoBoingo: "Well, technically, he might also be selling it to pay for the next keger where rando drunkards will act beligerently for no reason and generally lose their shit." << More probably it sits safely on the mantle of the party house as a trophy though the drunkards who keep it have no idea how much trophy it is
Framedragger: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160829/from:341/to:342#341 << that's of course a good point - using state's own tools to bring more power to the state *is* lame, and not optimal...
mircea_popescu: note that much like the elections, the bribes themselves are a null value : yeah the average american is too fucked up in the head to bribe traffic cops. yet both in america and in india, the same % of gdp travels as bribes for traffic cops. except in india it is personal ; whereas the us derps JUST TAKE YOUR CASH.
mircea_popescu: what you';re stuck doing in those places is what happened to eg poor lawsky, and others : you are stuck proving to the tools that their state can't protect them. which is why the mexican cartels spent a while beheading "high ranking police officials".
mircea_popescu: what the state always tries is to leverage the impredictability of you to befear its instruments. hence all the charade of "elections". they're not there for YOU to do anything. they're there because a) you're the sort of idiots who would think they're doing something when in fact you're brownian-motioning around and b) this sickening display strikes fear in the hearts of the pretorian guard. who could otherwise easily walk i
mircea_popescu: generally, thinking back to the whole "giant sitting in chair" discussion of supermarkets - the state always and everywhere tries to drive a wedge between you and its instrument. specifically, it tries to leverage the scale issue (see http://trilema.com/2009/de-ce-nu-mi-place-capitalismul/#selection-49.0-49.163 ) : you are many and impredictible ; its instruments could kill it.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the neighbours do not come to punch people in the street because they have work to do. raising a militia was expensive even in 1700. today it's very fucking expensive. hence the police, ie, standing militia.
Framedragger: besides, the cops as force decoupled from very shitty state != the cops as they currently exist. i don't trust the fucking state to manage them, and next time i write about how shit it is i don't want to expect a buncha these dudes to break in and "teach me a lesson in being putin spy by criticizing our great country".
Framedragger: the drunk dude would have tried to swing back, and neighbours would have come to help, and punch the thief. i do of course realize (or so i think) the *vast* naivete of this kind of frame of mind, but note that this is possible in some specific communities which take a piss on "global awareness projectz" and just function on a (very) limited geographical scale.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: regarding first strand, no objection, in principle. that is, encouraging submission in itself my breed larger problems and usg-like structures. regarding latter, yeah i have a problem with cops as such. knowing that this will only solidify my "wannabe naive anarchist kid" image, i should point out that if we had a more responsible, (actually) individualist and conscious populace, there would be less need to defer violence
mircea_popescu: the other is that it is the job of the police to distribute violence. if you don't let them beat up thieves, and cover them in red tape, they'll just get frustrated ; that frustration will keep boiling and boiling and eventually you'll end up with the us situation, which is to say no real cops (a cop is always and everywhere a BEAT cop! that's police work. naught else.) and a bunch of derps hoping to be SWAT. and again you ge
mircea_popescu: one that submission ~shouldn't~ be encouraged. so what if he didn't resist ? fuck him. if you make a difference by "did he resist", the life lesson you teach thieves (ie, everyone poor, which is how this goes) is that submission is a valuable trait. then you get unfucked women and usg-style government.
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160829/from:75/to:75#75 << no, literally, he has absolutely nothing to do with any academic anything whatsoever. back when i was going to [high]school it was considered a waste of your time, fit only for the marginally retarded, to spend your time tickling the tits instead of paying attention in class.
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160829/from:71/to:71#71 << i dunno that most teen girlies have the sense to ask for a fisting.
mircea_popescu: apparently the most expensive thing in this world is a brain.
mircea_popescu: (also, amusingly enough, the judge wore a british garb, and the withdrawing delegate made a speech replete with angloisms. really, it is japan's purpose to "contribute to human welfare" ? as london defines it ? idiots.)
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: "Here" being the good 'ol USG and it's tentacles. Isn't the pop culture start up nothing but pump and dump? Founder talks up a big idea. Gets lots of money for it. Pumps up the bubble as big as possible then exits and lets bagholders deal with "profitibility" etc. << http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-28#1530787 ☝︎
asciilifeform: yes, they put up a statue to r. pal. but usg did a pretty good castration job on the land of the rising sun.
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160829/from:51/to:51#51 << o dude nice, so basically instead of a total index you do a day/and-index split so this way these log references will stay correct later too, once you import the past ? not bad.
asciilifeform: (they made crypto iron for usg, incl. the infamous 'clipper'. but i always picture a malodorous alien mushroom)
Framedragger: god damn it. i wanted to check how limnoria does irc reconnect, and it starts out with a nice SupyReconnectingFactory(ReconnectingClientFactory, drivers.ServersMixin). which doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing, but is in sharp contrast to trinque's short code. lol.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger there's a mp-wp ancient script thing shinohai was massaging.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform trilema uses mysql, of course. but i'm thinking migrating wp to postgres may actually be a good idea.
Framedragger: asciilifeform: seconding that. the devs seem to know what they do, too (postgres-hackers is a nice ML)
mircea_popescu: let's call this a de-facto postgres-as-republic-data-exchange-interface rfc.
mircea_popescu: we will have to have a dxi standard anyway.;