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asciilifeform: re: earlier thread, am i the only one who is slightly astonished that scientology does not yet - afaik - have own altcoin ?
asciilifeform: granted i have nfi what is or is not 'small cost' to phf.
phf: i think there are different levels and roles within the system, but i know for a fact that sci people are effective at bureaucrat, there's a number of them at capitol hill, doing internships with senators... (if we haven't before, t-a is now definitely suppresive) ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'i will be a chump but if i play cards right, i will have sub-chumps...' ??
asciilifeform: i admit, i've always been fascinated with the folks who show up to be eaten. what motivates them? is it something like the participants in pyramid scheme ? ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: i can imagine that a modern cult could be built around, e.g., mri machine.
asciilifeform: i am not mega-expert on it, but did at one point (by accident, even) end up in their museum in washington.
phf: i'm saying "why would they need a nuke"
phf: for example, i'm going to http://www.4qf.org coming weekend. place throws all kinds of insane parties (used to have the best east coast psy trance party before organizers moved elsewhere), but they presumably do that in addition to their default offering of what looks like "earth mother gaia healing" nonsense
phf: perhaps i could apprentice at one of those operations first
asciilifeform: (possibly i dreamed this)
phf: yeah, there were a few options, but too far of a drive from philadelphia. now that i'm in dc, i might take a stab at wv ☟︎
phf: i was looking into buying land in Pennsylvania for the purposes of turning it into a kind of hippie retreat, kesey's "La Honda" style, and the amount of hoops you need to jump through in order to arrive at a cookie cutter american suburbs solution (and nothing else possible) is insane
phf: well, it's something that struck me when i went to india, how poor there are mostly left the fuck alone. can live in a fishermen village, fish, make few rupies doing chores for tourists
phf: https://i.sli.mg/FSZWtA.jpg << that's the best one
asciilifeform: (i assume everyone knows that one)
phf: mircea_popescu: i missed the vietnam reference
asciilifeform: i said > not <.
mircea_popescu: i dunno lessee
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has good point but i am still hard-pressed to see a difference between postin unsigned rubbish to one place vs another, in respect to confession.gif strictly
mircea_popescu: but certainly god fucking help the harem where I ACCEPT THAT.
asciilifeform: i.e. heavy and won't help if they get the drop on you etc
mircea_popescu: god fucking help the slavegirl that says "oh, beating me's not worth it, i'll do the bad anyway"
asciilifeform: hey i expect pastes to last a few hrs at most anyway
mircea_popescu: i also can't mathematicaly prove that "no more bugs will get in", nor is this a consideration when i fumigate.
mircea_popescu: so what's this fallacy called then, i forget ? "classification fallacy" ?
mircea_popescu: and a platonician will protest that "they're all the same kind" and you'll say "no i can subdivide them as i like". sure you can, but it's not necessarily meaningful. depends what you aim to do with the classes.
asciilifeform: i dun do that kind of blog
asciilifeform: anyway i'm usually disinclined to post img at all, it is normally a waste of bw
asciilifeform: dun matter if i paste on nazipaste or mircea_popescupaste.
mircea_popescu: and the fucking agents will go "here's some pics he put on imgur, and we know they're authentic because he used to put pics on imgur", and i'm going to say...
mircea_popescu: i'd really like to understand this shithead mechanism.
mircea_popescu: because you do it too, and when i tell you not to do it you do it more out of spite.
mircea_popescu: he just spent the time before dropping bombs alone. i even commented in the logs re this, at the time.
mircea_popescu: also - idiot had no actual power. i can already see a jwz in the making when someone is "on twitter". bitch, you don't own twitter, and when you'll want to embarass the handler they'll just mothball it.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu has time i would enjoy expanded bit re why appelbaum was a jwz.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-08 13:13 mircea_popescu: which, should be pointed out, is the fate of ALL JWZ's. whoever doesn't get butchered at the hands of the accursed state they so promoted, will be butchered at my hands once i'm done raping the state.
mircea_popescu: oh oh, right. the thing we do, that they don't like. i remember now.
asciilifeform: btw i can hardly wait for 'compiler is kyriarchy, all strings are equally valid program'
asciilifeform: i dun get it. you gotta want to ~something~
asciilifeform: i still have nfi
mircea_popescu: which, should be pointed out, is the fate of ALL JWZ's. whoever doesn't get butchered at the hands of the accursed state they so promoted, will be butchered at my hands once i'm done raping the state. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-06-08 12:58 mircea_popescu: i don't get it. not like he was an employee or anything.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it. not like he was an employee or anything. ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'There are strong indications that the website was created by Tor Project contractors and/or employees. Today, the website says "Before launch, we had placeholder text for the initial site design which we did not expect to become public. We never meant to impersonate Jake or to trick anyone." but the original tweet button (which many people clicked) produced a tweet saying "I just read on @ioerror's homepage ..." which shows this to
ben_vulpes: ahaha i had so much fun with lj
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i need playing 'social net' gamez like i need a second arse.
asciilifeform: anyway, linked because earlier thread, and as illustration of what i think proper chix work like.
BingoBoingo: I thought it still thrived in .ru as what VK pretends to be
mircea_popescu: 5.135.17.28 (ovh sas - tons more from these) ; 188.120.41.9 (launchhost.net) ; 185.103.109.246 (bitcanal.pt), whatever A class, you name it, i've got it.
asciilifeform: lel these come in by the megatonne ~everywhere i know of
asciilifeform: and i forget where else.
trinque: it's what I get for going the official route instead of screen scraping
trinque: and I guess this google custom search doesn't do related searches?
mircea_popescu: i can picture the quality meatsacks they attract.
asciilifeform: (long gone, as far as i can tell, from the net.)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1478598 << maaaaany years ago i chanced across the blog of a young (university student) math chick, who appeared to GENUINELY believe that she can become 'great' by cultivating the nervous ticks, compulsions, and miscellaneous dysfunctions paul erdos was infamous for ! ☝︎
trinque: I just added qntra to the custom search panel thing explicitly; let's see if that did anything
shinohai: I only spoke with him a few times, but he seemed ok. Twas reading on tardstalk where someone doxed him over a 5 BTC loan or something.
trinque: I used that for search a while back, ought to try it again
shinohai: I switched search to ddg on my bot, but I think I broke it some time back.
trinque: I would rather search the aggregated browsing history of my WoT than google
BingoBoingo: Back to the Yudocow cognitive dissonance disease https://i.sli.mg/LqRavv.jpg
BingoBoingo: https://i.imgur.com/ZDpQQAZ.png
shinohai: I need more sauce, just a bit
BingoBoingo: Why am I learning about that in this channel and not a submission?
asciilifeform: (eons ago, i actually used it)
asciilifeform: i keep getting spam from 'goldmoney' for 'buy with 0 fee'
asciilifeform: but i was speaking of archetypical cargo cult derp, who is eternally male.
asciilifeform: ah lel i did not even read linked piece
mircea_popescu: well... odds are he's a principal in a charity somewhere that cooked the books. "seemed the right thing to do" "i just took people's word" "i just wanted to" etc.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's a major factor in the "i can't explain why the fuck this guy went all usgtronic".
asciilifeform: but i suspect that ~all american 'nonprofits' operate some variant of this chumpatron.
asciilifeform: but that part i can see how it works (mule sends the money on).
asciilifeform: and i find it mind-boggling that thiel would choose to pay him this way, vs hiring him as 'consultant' or fuck, gardener, or whatnot, and just handing him bags of money
mircea_popescu: i spent a lot of my life going through exactly this sort of bs.
mircea_popescu: not under table again. 8664, i'm telling you.
asciilifeform: i mean, if whole statement is a fiction.
mircea_popescu: i have the "independent accountant review" right here.
asciilifeform: had links to something claiming to be detailed audit dumps but i can't be arsed.
mircea_popescu: bullshit through and through, i have no idea how they even summon the gall to publish this unauditable nonsense.
asciilifeform: one, the other, both, neither, could be a fiction, i have nfi.
mircea_popescu: i doubt it, seeing how they actually credit him for ripple.
asciilifeform: i have nfi.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Anyways the people who sucessfully substitute vapes for cigs tend to run at 400-500 degrees which cooks many of the glycols theys use to maintain nicotine suspension into preservatives. If preserving lungs I'd rather do it with good old fashioned creosote.
shinohai: Nope, the burn and taste is part of the reason I like it.
trinque: I've quit before and got lazy, picked it back up
shinohai: Applicable tho .... I have unsuccessfully tried quitting several times.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: I'm making runs at just pulling the bandaid off and learning a lot about physiological processes nicotine involves itself in that they don't really teach the kids about in school. For example: Nicotine causes causes stored sugahs to be released into the blood stream which means a substantial portion of the pain of acute nicotine withdrawal is related to the Beetus.
trinque: BingoBoingo: I'm working on kicking cigs too
asciilifeform: waiwut what was i right about..?
BingoBoingo: Good. Happy, Joyous, and well... not as free as I like but maybe I'll kick the nicotine problem in the not too distant future.
trinque: I hear it's a progressive place, stanford
gabriel_laddel: O? I have an event in an hour. Lemme catch up on logs...
asciilifeform: i thought of you.
gabriel_laddel: trinque: I don't know / use rsync. What should I have done?
gabriel_laddel: Masamune update while I'm here:
mircea_popescu: and accepted his offer to hint to a guy I like that this is the case; I hit on someone at a party right in front of my primary. I haven't suffered a hiccup of drama or a twinge of jealousy to speak of and all evidence (including verbal confirmation) indicates that I've been managing my primary's feelings satisfactorily too.</bragging> Does this sort of thing appeal to you? Cross your fingers and hope your brain works enoug
mircea_popescu: "Everything went according to plan: I can now comfortably describe myself and the primary relationship I have with MBlume as poly. <bragging>Since moving back to the Bay Area I've been out with four other people too, one of whom he's also seeing; I've been in my primary's presence while he kissed one girl, and when he asked another for her phone number; I've gossiped with a secondary about other persons of romantic interest
mircea_popescu: it was a very entertaining few years, i definitely recommend the study of "fratire" to the entomologist.