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mircea_popescu: what makes you think there exists a difference between "feds" and "local police" ?

mircea_popescu: you'll notice that the simple solution to any unpleasant event is to divide the object into a good and a bad side, yes ?

mircea_popescu: splitting is common in adolescents, and supposedly healthy to a degree.

mircea_popescu: splitting is a term from psychology, denoting a tendency (seen mostly in borderline cases, but a variant is central to narcissists of both types also) to resolve contrasts through alternating pure views.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: feds were not, and are not, getting beaten into a pulp.

mircea_popescu: but i will say this "hey, getting beaten into a pulp WAS THE PLAN ALL ALONG" only goes so far

asciilifeform: if a white army tries to retake and hold streets in bmore, you can bet your arse the feds will show up. and will defend their beloved pets.

asciilifeform: i see a subscripted '4'

BingoBoingo: Reed’s statement was issued Thursday afternoon, hours after social media users expressed outrage about the Atlanta Police Department’s contention the scene was consistent with a suicide. An autopsy has not been performed."

BingoBoingo: "The case of a black man found hanging from a tree in Piedmont Park has been referred to the FBI, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said.

mircea_popescu: next they're going to put a mahjongg set

BingoBoingo: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/police-body-found-in-piedmont-park-a-suicide-victi/nrtJq/

asciilifeform: 'Calling in black is essentially an excuse for a day of self care, wrote Slack engineer Erica Baker in a Medium post called "Processing." The move comes in the wake of the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two black men who died at the hands of police officers just this week. Their deaths aren't anomalies by any stretch: Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and Tamir Rice are just a few of the names that have made headlines in the

phf: asciilifeform: lobste.rs uses iching symbols for some unknown internal reasons which i don't have inclination of investigating. somewhere on par with calling a currency "etherium" and a corporation "dao". way to corner those timeless symbols gaiz

phf: su prison system managed to preserve and cook up a special kind of culture

asciilifeform: dun recall such a thing

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i saw a 'forrest gump'-themed restaurant in bmore.

mircea_popescu: they should stick to forrest gump ; touchy feely nobody on a stick works better.

mircea_popescu: but yes, as a narrative it barely holds together in a thousand places. still, ahead of class.

asciilifeform: using someone who learned the language from... a dictionary?

mircea_popescu: the fact that they at fucking least got the tattoos ~right (and no, it's absolutely not out of place that a bunch of dudes in suits gather on fine leather upholstery to drink aged cognac while one of them takes apart a sorry set of 1920 shaver turned into tattoo machine and proceeds.)

asciilifeform: they felt it necessary to MAKE UP a naval anthem

mircea_popescu: phf too much material. us-audience film is a 2kb affair.

phf: i was mostly disappointed that they didn't play up traditional su mafia things. we have our own omerta! where's the songs? where's the slang? seems like a lot of wasted opportunity. all we got is a "carefully researched" tattoos

mircea_popescu: damn, now i know what i should have said re http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-25#1471912 ! http://trilema.com/2015/a-modern-lovestory-ioan-niculaie-diana-guresoaie/ ☝︎

phf: ostap bender, a very popular character in su, was an odessan jew, and a "farsovshik" i.e. a huckster

mircea_popescu: how anyone thinks of this place as above somaliland is entirely beyond me, and strictly a matter of racism.

mircea_popescu: but if you do actually have the intel and get this together, you discover that a) more than half are "religious" ; b) none actually meet the academic level of a ghetto highschool in fucking maryland and so on and so forth.

mircea_popescu: wikipedia has a meagre dozen, ie, abour 2%. "paginas amarillas" like 9. buenosaires.gob.ar a derpy page with large fonts and nice graphics, nothing useful. (in line with the entire government here, they're basically made by apple, 0 substance, harsh colors, foot tall fonts. smartphone sites.)

mircea_popescu: in other "argentines are retards" lulz, here's a challenge for anyone : find a list of buenos aires highschools online. anywhere, in any language.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you think this because the lafond image (niggers=cowards) prevailed by virtue of you know, the gas chambers. but historically it was not a widely held view.

mircea_popescu: hey, there's absolutely no limit to what may figure in a fantasy.

BingoBoingo: I thought their stereotype was more as a sort of castrati

BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Sure that's a jew hat thing and not a hamplanet hate thing?

mircea_popescu: http://henrymakow.com/upload_images/Fat-Evil-Jew-Seduces-a-Good-German-Woman-with-his-Material-Wares.jpg << no shortage of the stuff.

mircea_popescu: no, it's the same old thing. the birth of a scapegoat.

BingoBoingo: is this a new thing?

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform it's a foregone conclusion at this point. most dangerous place in the world for black person is the continental us. << cc: thestringpuller

asciilifeform: 'In addition to his religious and political work, Klassen was an electrical engineer and was the inventor of a wall-mounted electric can-opener.' << lulzy

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a foregone conclusion at this point. most dangerous place in the world for black person is the continental us.

asciilifeform: '"There's a war against our cops in this country, and I think Obama has fed that war and Black Lives Matter has fed that war. ... Obama's words and the deeds of Black Lives Matter have gotten cops in this country killed."'

asciilifeform: 'Former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh declared "This is now war" and called for President Barack Obama to "watch out" in a Twitter post reacting to the Dallas shooting that killed five police officers and injured seven. "This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you," he wrote in the tweet, which has since been deleted.'

BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Tis a problem mostly related to birthing

BingoBoingo: But not like rectovaginal fistula is a rare thing

asciilifeform: btw i recall a report of an idiot who made one of these ~with the saw blade in~

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there was a thread about it

ben_vulpes: it is a lovely little cottage.

ben_vulpes: vinyl, perhaps a bit mean-spirited.

deedbot: [» Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] The Bitcoin Life Insurance policy. - http://www.contravex.com/2016/07/08/the-bitcoin-life-insurance-policy/

mircea_popescu: he has a point ; 1940s tools not nearly as flexible.

ben_vulpes: excellent for sinking a million holes. less useful for sinking holes and immediately filling them with screws.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes drives screws with a drill?!

a111: Logged on 2014-03-22 17:53 asciilifeform: the next day, they 'apologized' by... supplying a crate of free fluke meters to the victim

BingoBoingo: Maybe corn has a latex in the stalk?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'trade dress' << do you recall the incident where fluke corp. had a party of chinese voltmeters confiscated and burned at a customs checkpoint ? FOR BEING YELLOW ??

asciilifeform: if you want so much as a radio made in usa, you have to buy from grumman and it will cost its weight in pu.

BingoBoingo: This is a form of weird known as "trade dress"

asciilifeform: i have a sledge hammer. it is 'made in usa!11'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: speaking of workshops, i finally scored a (smallish) cnc mill. but it will need new motor.

BingoBoingo: Anyways, the made in USA vs china problem in a nutshell http://toolguyd.com/empire-e2g-e70-level/

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo maybe we let it mature a little first. << Prolly for the best. Meme'ing isn't drilling, there's no room to play with 12 volts of conveniece because unlike drill needs to last.

asciilifeform: i heard that things might be a little different on mircea_popescu's planet, but on the one where i live, it is usg who does the givin' and the takin'.

mircea_popescu: "if you work for the government, in any capacity, you're slave not a citizen. pick up a shovel and make yourself useful. bitch."

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo maybe we let it mature a little first.

asciilifeform: and the inevitable: '"When people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately it makes attacks like these more deadly and tragic," Obama told a press conference during a trip to Poland. "In the days ahead we're going to have to consider those realities."' (obummer)

BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'll let you do a piece to introduce the term. Need to be very clear on applications so context is needed.

asciilifeform: 'President Barack Obama, who was in Warsaw for a NATO meeting, said the U.S. was "horrified" by the "vicious, callous and despicable attack."' << gold.

asciilifeform: 'entry is a buck, exit - costs 2.' (tm)

mircea_popescu: nevertheless, not a very good scheme.

asciilifeform: (that you could 'print' it underwater, using a moving print head, liquid N2 jet and pipe for water/sawdust slurry)

mircea_popescu: considering what the current ships are like, pykrete's a much better alternative.

mircea_popescu: but think for a moment... what'd a nylon mesh do for concrete ? what'd graphite strucutre ? etc.

trinque: or have a preference for large prey, yep

asciilifeform: so the search for mythical '100% reliable' mine is a distration. and a useful one, because it keeps usg from deploying the thing.

asciilifeform: they, however, WILL work, for a medieval-style 'no you are not precious snowflake and guess what, your grenade during training has 5% chance of killing you and stfu' army.

trinque: yeah, I don't see a great way of confirming back that it's disarmed

asciilifeform: only gotta send a few kB, and who gives a fuck if it takes half an hour.

asciilifeform: you don't want a radio receiver in them.

asciilifeform: it is a pretty obvious, imho, idea.

mircea_popescu: anyway ; the us "survivalist" folks have the right idea, even if they don't understand the higher level considerations necessarily. "if you're going to build, build a bunker"

asciilifeform: a crypto-toggled mine would be a fine thing.

asciilifeform: or a nuke deterrent.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, a model republican city built specifically on anti-socialist-state principles would be interesting

asciilifeform: EVERY major city today is defined by the turning radius of a tank.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where in usa, exactly, are folks building 'highly defensive "everything's a fortress and with gun ports" bourgeois restructuring' ?

mircea_popescu: usg nightmare scenario is exactly this, highly defensive "everything's a fortress and with gun ports" bourgeois restructuring of the town.

mircea_popescu: so building a castle was ~the only practical way to prepare for war. except as the kings successfuly found out, a defensive item defends whoever's there, not whoever built it.

asciilifeform: thing is not a tank, is a disposable unmanned toy

a111: Logged on 2015-03-26 20:43 asciilifeform: one to break doors, gates; one to threaten bystanders, if any, with 'accidental' fire; one to shoot; and perhaps one with a cage that arrestee -might- be permitted to surrender into, if the bot's voice-recognition system works and if orders included a possible live capture

BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Is that a different one than your shotgun bot from the South St Louis standoff?

mircea_popescu: (it's something like a coupla billion worth, ie just enough to bridge britain through the brexit)

mircea_popescu: similarly fascinating, how women grew hair on head throughout the roman empire, showed up on coins with currently fashionable hairdo nevertheless ; or how they've had two tits and a slit for millenia yet always dressed in period dress everywherw!

mircea_popescu: "rape" is a matter of who, not a matter of what.

mircea_popescu: some derpy chick by the name selin goren got raped by a bunch of arab immigrants, liked it, reported to police that she was robbed by a group of german men.

mircea_popescu: and of course it's perfectly understandable, the whore has a whore's personality not because she's an evil harpy shrew but because it's the only way to survive at the bottom of the shit ocean : batten the damned hatches.

mircea_popescu: anyway, to formalize this, i figure there's people who're looking to take ; and people who're looking to give themselves away asciilifeform . tmsr is entirely and to some degree by design inadherent to the former. it may, maybe, work for short intervals, but not too likely, and certainly less likely over time. this results in a lot of butthurt, calling it a cult, whatever.

mircea_popescu: i could think of a more ridoinculous proposition but not readily.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: re 'institutional' - every other year or so i visit the headquarters of the dept i graduated from, on foot, just because i live nearby and why the hell not. but lately it is almost a challenge to avoid barfing

mircea_popescu: iirc it was more a case of "hey, i'm here to promote ; oh you're not really an audience ? ok, ima go promote down the street"

asciilifeform: this is why i was sad to see spandrel drummed out, he was potentially a window into the other things.