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asciilifeform has nfi whether the locals buy from Official shop, or grow 'christmas garden' under uv lamp, or which.
lobbes: lol "just doin' some christmas gardening. family tradition"
BingoBoingo: And in other Christmas stories https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/navidad-en-malvin-fiesta-que-termino-en-botellazos-y-piscina-en-la-calle-no-tenian-autorizacion-20181225135243
BingoBoingo: Update on the Christmas tradition known as "Hay ladrones por Navidad. Ladrones de los barrios pichis van a Pocitos a robar": God damn this place is rural. Two off road style 4-wheelers seen being ridden by kids in the streets and Police tucked away everywhere drinking Mate and dicking around on their cell phones.
mircea_popescu: christmas week, why not :)
BingoBoingo: Not New Years quality, but Christmas quality
BingoBoingo: I will. The last time a dhl package got held here (Christmas cookies from mom), there was a manilla envelope with retrieval instructions delivered after Aduanas reached their verdict.
asciilifeform: ^ next: the little pe that saved christmas
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/12/28/the-little-elf-that-saved-christmas/ << Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - The little Elf that saved Christmas.
BingoBoingo: There's chicas everywhere so if that fell through no big deal... The concerted effort put for by the locals on the Latino Christmas show, I lack the patience and means to make that happen on a whim.
ben_vulpes: also it is *snowing* on *christmas eve* in the northern suburbs of the socialist paradise
BingoBoingo: Y en otra inglesas: "In other news, The Times reported that, for the first time in modern history, no Royal Navy fighting ships – destroyers, frigates, amphibious assault ships or carriers – would be operating away from Britain over Christmas and New Year."
The20YearIRCloud: Yeah but I'm voiced, must be a early Christmas present?
The20YearIRCloud: It's a Christmas Miracle!
ben_vulpes bbl, a deserving lady has a christmas movie i'm not grinching about for once
BingoBoingo: En otra preguntas: "Are we honering that stupid one year plant policy for Christmas trees?"
mats: l0l an amzn frontend engineer friend has to work all through christmas week, got his vacation request denied by upper mgmt
trinque: well... aren't you playing "down with usg except for the bill of rights; really we just mean usg but we want christmas back"
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: pajama boy :: An insufferable Man-Child. About as threatening as Michael Cera and so nerdy he could guest-host on an unwatched MSNBC show. The purpose of Pajama Boy is not to get people to buy health insurance, but to get a rise out of more powerful personas. [ex:] Pajama Boy is an insufferable Man-Child probably reading The Bell Jar and looking forward to a hearty Christmas meal of stuffed tofurkey. If (2 more messages)
Framedragger interviewed one guy "down there" (he had part of "cave" and christmas lights on wall, said he spend lots of time there, yeah not sure about dampness, i mean god damn), said "oh yeah i'm used to taking acid and getting lost here", nonchalant
mod6: Today is like christmas.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Not Quite News Roundup Xtend 15 (TM)(R) – Pence In Our Time ...: <http://qntra.net/2016/11/not-quite-news-roundup-xtend-15-tmr-pence-in-our-time/>; Mike Pence's Hateful Laws Almost Kept Me From My Dying Wife - Time: <http://time.com/4576513/mike-pences-hateful-laws/>; Mike Pence Shares a Moving Christmas Message – TruthFeed: <http://truthfeed.com/mike-pence-shares-a-moving-christmas-
ben_vulpes: http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.lindesign.se/uwp/guitar/m/misc_christmas/hark_the_herald_angels_sing.tab << usenet liiiives
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2016/12/grinch-netanyahu-deliver-christmas-scolding-to-ambassadors/ << Qntra - Grinch Netanyahu Deliver Christmas Scolding To Ambassadors
mircea_popescu: speaking of fertile topics, seeing how it's christmas and all, let us revisit http://trilema.com/2015/quantum-mechanics-today-a-machine-to-turn-penis-projectile-vibration-into-eyelash-flutter/
Framedragger: http://trilema.com/2014/the-complexity-of-life-a-triad/ << was planning to go to sleep easily and wake up with light christmas spirit. dreams will now be filled with automata
ben_vulpes: chiptune christmas, if you want to give any olds a migrane
BingoBoingo: In similar news, Christmas Shopping for the frugal: Buy a Christmas Tree. Have the bottom limbs stripped off and cut it in half so the top becomes a small tree. Slice the now detached bottom log into disks. Score the bark on the disks with a knife. You now have a tree and tree scented disks to give as presents.
Framedragger just placed an order for FG-USB and feels very christmas-y!
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: huh not the worst idea! i'll see if i can arrange when i'm back for christmas week after next :P
BingoBoingo: From the local police blotter: "Five juveniles, a 9-year-old boy, a 10-year-old boy, two 11-year-old boys, and a 10-year-old girl, all of Highland, were charged with destroying property for allegedly breaking light bulbs on Christmas displays belonging to the city"
Framedragger: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror) - episodes are disjoint in terms of narrative and actors, and are stand-alone.)
Framedragger: (also, if there was one tv series you may want to watch, it'd be "black mirror". i watched their "christmas special" ("white christmas") yesterday, and somehow on an emotional level it made me feel easier about not having much hope in the "populace". the smarter the technological tools that the populace gets to play with, the more they fuck themselves and others up.)
ben_vulpes: http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20161118&t=2&i=1162278312&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=780&pl=468&sq=&r=LYNXMPECAH1KE << CHRISTMAS TREE
ben_vulpes: ahaha "a demonstrator disguised as santa clause gestures next to a christmas tree with signs demanding aid plans and reform bills"
jhvh1: pete_dushenski: Mariah Carey 'embarrassed' over Gaddafi concert | Music | The ...: <https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/mar/04/mariah-carey-gaddafi-concert>; Mariah Carey celebrates Christmas with another dictator | Music ...: <https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2013/dec/22/mariah-carey-celebrates-christmas-dictator>; Beyoncé, Mariah Carey and Usher Performed at Qaddafi Family ...: (1 more message)
pete_dushenski: http://archive.is/Ri54e << uk betting website 'paddypower' to pay out double after paying out pro-clinton bettors THREE WEEKS EARLY BECAUSE HOW NOT. omfg this is like the lulz christmas.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally those "accidental"-deliberate fucktards : fixed whitening scheme ? really ? what the FUCK! if there's anything in the entire fucking os the user must be able to customize, it's NOT the fucking glyph table / window size for the love of christmas fucks!)
BingoBoingo: Thing covered thanksgiving and christmas all by itself
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: why couldn't you have figured this out before last christmas ? first it's the amazing pogo, then the amazing eizo... AND NOW IT'S NEITHER
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-15#1452346 << hm. only about $100 eh. maybe if i'm good this christmas i'll splurge. ☝︎
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Walmart | The local 3-generation mom & pop store was run out of town by Walmart. ... C' mon Louann, we gotta go to Wal-Mart and get Mama her Christmas present.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> pete_dushenski: being the pig is also +ev until christmas. << he has a point. "renegotiable" when your side of the negotiation is pack it and leave and their side is "take it or leave it" is insanity on a stick.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: being the pig is also +ev until christmas.
asciilifeform: PeterL: he suggested (i still can't tell if seriously!) to plug them in ~series~, like christmas lights, to a high voltage line.
Azelphur: started to get really annoyed when I had the choice of taking money out of my cold wallet or taking a loan from my parents to make rent over christmas - not cool :/
Azelphur: Indeed it's not, had no money over christmas. His misinformation has cost me money too
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381663 << obligatory ancient uncle al: 'i sat down the angel on top of the christmas tree... i think... she ~liked~ it!!11' ☝︎
asciilifeform: landlord at my last office liked to leave 'christmas package' in every mailbox. it had 'food': items like 'cheese' that was good INDEFINITELY at room temperature, 'meat' where ditto, etc
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PeterL: The silliest mascot is Stanford's, my wife calls it "the happy dancing christmas tree"
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> brown christmas is lame though, we had a perfectly timed cold-snap. -20C all last week. bizarrely, JUST what i wanted for this time of year. << Spring bulbs are putting up green on the front garden
pete_dushenski: brown christmas is lame though, we had a perfectly timed cold-snap. -20C all last week. bizarrely, JUST what i wanted for this time of year.
junseth: Sounds good to me. Just push Maxwell to bring us fungibility by next Christmas
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 02:11:02; asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/12/on-19th-day-of-christmas.html << add the 19 ukr fission plants to list-of-thing-you're-no-longer-down-wind-of
pete_dushenski: mats: well, this christmas you can be thankful that you don't have to contest with other chinese doods in b-a for that little niche (yes, there are niches in b-a, as anywhere else).
punkman: http://www.e-sylwester.pl/galerie/3253/VGLN-GROLOUSK-9.jpg and the traditional christmas tree is actually a christmas boat
thestringpuller: mod6: was this started from a /clean/ env or is this trying to load up a blockchain from christmas past? << I completely nuked the datadir .bitcoin with rm -rf *; whenever I do an rpc call after the thing _tries_ to spin up, it borks. crashes without anything except what was in the db.log. I'm almost certain it's an issue with bdb because no blocks are downloaded or anything. cause it connects to the node I specify gets basic
mod6: was this started from a /clean/ env or is this trying to load up a blockchain from christmas past?
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 02:11:02; asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/12/on-19th-day-of-christmas.html << add the 19 ukr fission plants to list-of-thing-you're-no-longer-down-wind-of
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asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/12/on-19th-day-of-christmas.html << add the 19 ukr fission plants to list-of-thing-you're-no-longer-down-wind-of ☟︎☟︎
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adlai: there's your lsd, let's hope christmas comes early on the next bet :)
pete_dushenski off to (another) christmas concert. tis the season !
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mircea_popescu: as far as her dumb ass is concerned, the best possible train is a ghetto blaster with the volume welded to low, playing christmas carrols from under the mirrors-ensconced speakers.
asciilifeform: butcher was his friend. until thanksgiving came << h. c. andersen had same story, at some length elaborated, but with a pig and christmas
punkman: po-mo christmas tree
pete_dushenski: "Mayor Don Iveson will welcome Santa from the North Pole, to officially light the 72-ft Christmas Tree! The tree is adorned with 14-thousand LED lights, cascading snowfalls, sparkles, and stars. After the tree ceremony, a spectacular, fireworks show will light up Downtown skies."
assbot: Holiday Light Up - Christmas on the Square (Santa and Fireworks!), Edmonton | Events | Yelp ... ( http://bit.ly/1QDW9n8 )
pete_dushenski: http://www.yelp.com/events/edmonton-holiday-light-up-christmas-on-the-square-santa-and-fireworks << la raison
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BingoBoingo: We didn't "descend" from them. We split after an angry christmas holiday.
ascii_field: and mircea_popescu is right, i was thinking in reality of the Christmas Offensive
pete_dushenski: there are too many lulz in the auto space today. what is it, christmas ?
assbot: Rick Hillier says military can help bring in 50,000 refugees by Christmas - Politics - CBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1UNtkZp )
nubbins`: unrelated: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-rick-hillier-refugees-military-christmas-1.3225732
jurov: what's surprising on christmas being pagan winter solstice adoption?
thestringpuller: “The truth is Christmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia, a winter festival where men gave gifts to each other. They also would get drunk, have sex with each other and beat their wives”
thestringpuller: “Actually Grandad Christmas is a pagan holiday and Jesus probably hates you for celebrating it.”
assbot: A True Church - Christmas ... ( http://bit.ly/1hUKIJM )
danielpbarron: santa isn't mentioned in the Bible at all. that and the whole christmas thing are totally wicked abominations. see: http://www.atruechurch.info/christmas.html
mircea_popescu: "come to america - where coca cola has created christmas and the government has created democracy!"
BingoBoingo: Gus the Christmas ornament of course being one of the antagonists in the original blockbuster film
BingoBoingo: Maybe this is the wrong epoch's fiction being contrasted. Maybe 'Uncle Tom' and 'Gus' the christmas ornament would cover a larger range of outcomes.
mircea_popescu: this has been the most distant christmas in hystory, but! apparently it's coming.
assbot: You rated user asciilifeform on 30-Nov-2013, with a rating of 4, and supplied these additional notes: He came up with the Cardano For Christmas marketing plan. Also phuctor..
mircea_popescu: !rate asciilifeform 4 He came up with the Cardano For Christmas marketing plan. Also phuctor.
recon_eric_: That pic was taken at a christmas party :) but thanks for the compliment? I think?
mircea_popescu: "it's called CHRISTMAS CHEER GOD DAMNED IT!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know that's an age honored thing in usia. which is why all the brouhaha over "intelle;ctual property" and "bla bla theft" is so funny for people who aren't either born yesterday or to stupid parents in the great plains. srsly, someone stole from murica ? what, christmas ?
nubbins`: no joke, in my cubicle life, the christmas social/dinner/dance was called (i'm really not making this up) an ELEGANZA.
the_scourge learned nix over christmas and thought about learning haskell
ben_vulpes: jewish christmas. 'tis a blessing.
pete_dushenski: i was inelegantly saying that i too have spent a good number of christmas and boxings days on the slopes
ben_vulpes: christmas for me entails chinese food and skiing