BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> basically if you drink more than a coupla liters in six hours (saturated) you're done. << Seems like a safe way to thin out some hamplanets, while preserving people who aren't quite HCFS addicts
punkman: drinking is not breathing it though
punkman: I do wonder what heliumkola burps sound like
mod6: s/The Pursuit of Happiness/The Pursuit of a Bag Over Your Head/
mircea_popescu: punkman this is true but in the particular case of co - it is very permeating.\
mircea_popescu: they look kinda like "that mainstream ugly bitch and that mainstream insecure hipster make a porno" cast.
mircea_popescu: back when she was of sexing age you'd have thought her faceless too
mircea_popescu: but all things consider, i'd rather the adult woman carry the lines i give her.
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2015 23:41:21; BingoBoingo: Maybe put Nitrous Oxide in the fizzy drinks, sure makes most people a bit giggly, but worth it for the 1-0.3% of the population that becomes rage monsters on it. Much lulz potential there.
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BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> so make the cola oil rather than water based. << Ether based
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (NO you will find in the gasenwagen.) << NO is nitric, but yes available at the kitchen shop, auto shop, and tooth shop
BingoBoingo: Auto shop though tends to adulterate it to prevent "abuse"
BingoBoingo: "Decriminalising drug use and possession for personal consumption is permitted by the international drug control conventions and is a key element of the HIV response among people who use drugs"
BingoBoingo: The BBC reports that it has now been formally withdrawn after pressure from “at least one country”
mircea_popescu: lmao. the end of the fufcking world, when the empire's TAIL starts using imperial HEAD tricks
mircea_popescu: "these words don't say what you thought they did, they say what we want them to say, eat it up Washington!"
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BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> not to mention that 'decriminalize' is an idiot newspeakism << A lot of this. Basically code for enforce with greater arbitratity and seize moar funds.
BingoBoingo: I have to say though that Nisshin Maru might be my favorite ship in the ocean
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assbot: Logged on 19-10-2015 16:04:39; trinque: side note of yey people are trying to verify the thing, which is very important.
adlai still hasn't figured out deterministic newline munging in multideed bundles
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 00:24:08; asciilifeform: (which is where you will typically find n2o in the kitchen shop !)
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trinque: adlai: yeah later in that thread you'll see me chattering about fixing it
trinque: my parser was ignorant of \r\n
trinque: did that one never get resubmitted?
adlai: now... two bundles, each with a double divideed. nice :P
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BingoBoingo: A bit of that. A bit of fuck reddit censorship.
BingoBoingo: Also now that I know cool black people and cool Jooz, need socially acceptable utternmenschen and the Food Stamp supermorbidly obese are kinda it.
mircea_popescu: oh i thought that part was gendered not social. ie, "what is the 1 in the 1 to 10 scale for women" rather than for people in general.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> oh i thought that part was gendered not social. ie, "what is the 1 in the 1 to 10 scale for women" rather than for people in general. << This is why 'Murica is failing. Not enough mundane nouns are gendered
mircea_popescu: Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969),[2] known by his stage name Jay Z (formerly Jay-Z),[3][4][5] is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America. In 2014, Forbes estimated Jay Z's net worth at nearly $520 million.
mircea_popescu: He is one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records, while receiving 21 Grammy Awards for his musical work, and numerous additional nominations.
BingoBoingo: Most of it came from apple buying out his startup lottery ticker
mircea_popescu: the curse of aging is that the world seems to keep getting smaller. srsly, that's it ?
mircea_popescu: this is a different identical fake hood dood isn't it ?
BingoBoingo: Jay-Z is not dre, but everyone buys the same lottery tickets
BingoBoingo: Jay-z sings better. Dre plays with synthesizers better. Otherwise...
mircea_popescu: alternative title, "videostudy in stress shear of the posterior fourchette"
BingoBoingo: Nisshin Maru seriously best boat on the ocean.
mircea_popescu: what are they gonn a do, ask the us navy to shoot down the harasser ? :D
BingoBoingo: Japan also nearly has enough Navy to shoot harassers nao
mircea_popescu is finding a discussion of some 2009 "mass" (really, 4 people at a gym) shooter on tlp's blog quite informative.
mircea_popescu: "Imagine after tanning for a month and lifting weights, he met a girl at the gym who fell in love with him."
mircea_popescu: what the fuck ? WHAT would a woman fall in love with ? the guy is as vacuous as an ipad. he "does a good job" programming .net crap and tans.
mircea_popescu: how the fuyck is a woman supposed to fall in love with cubical fungus ?
mircea_popescu: no see, im starting to understand a lot of things, or moreover : the tlp wash has put pieces in my head into a sense.
mircea_popescu: so : it's not narcissism that's the problem, not per se.
mircea_popescu: yes, deeply coherent people APPEAR to be narcissists, and then it's easy to mistake THAT as driving the whole show. but it is not. narcissism is merely a defense mechanism.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform even deeper than that. the guy is so smooth, so flat, there is no possibility for a woman to get caught in anything.
mircea_popescu: it's not subjective (hobgoblin small mind etc), it is outright objective. he's so smooth you can drop him in the ocean and pick him up dry.
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BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> so how do we know the smooth << When one spends too much time in MS .NET they become it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a legitimate if complex question. i'll approach it from very, very far away.
mircea_popescu: why does the classical hero have to be flawed ? why not superman-perfect ?
mircea_popescu: it never, to my knowledge, EVER worked on the silver screen as such. but the idea, even if never passibly implemented, still is valid
mircea_popescu: ah, that crazed fag hag liz taylor. sure. nevertheless, the story works BECAUSE the kid's not coherent.
mircea_popescu: priscilla lane snubs eddie bartlett in the roaring twenties, and this is perceived as a visceral crime by the audience. why ?
mircea_popescu: why ? because the insipid lawyer is smooth ; cagney is clearly the one she was meant for. and we have no difficulty understanding panama smith's fixation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform explain to me the topology of the wrinkle in 1-dimensional space with a quantified rule =1.
mircea_popescu: (is this how you say it in english ? "function that measures distance", the geometric equivalent of the sorting function, rule)\
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mircea_popescu: tlp observes "what the fuck is with the kids today, they all wanna be black ?" "they don't wanna be black, thgey wanna be masculine".
mircea_popescu: why is black = masculine ? why, because black needn't wrinkle.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: why does black not need wrinkle ? because so many blacks are in jail, black women can't afford to choose.
mircea_popescu: EXACTLY for the reason superman could be a ball. in 19fucking50.
mircea_popescu: works in demographic imbalance. otherwise, you gotta make some sense, somewhere, somehow.
mircea_popescu: at which point, i'll definitively confuse the matter by going on the least expected tangent :
mircea_popescu: the churchly doctrine has always been that absent the possibility of sin, and the wilful rejection of sin, salvation is impossible.
mircea_popescu: the REASON they said this, and stuck to it, is the correct observation that absent a very certainl possibility you'll fucking kill her, from which you wilfully abstain, the woman's not even slightly interested.
mircea_popescu: (chiefly because you'll probably not give her children, which has its own knot of evolutionary logic behind it)
mircea_popescu: and now : how the fuck is superman going to provide the manifest possibility he's killing the woman ?
mircea_popescu: "the evil guys" who are obviously and necessarily an affixion upon him, provide it!
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mircea_popescu: it's really hard to go through america's main cultural product and not come to the notion that the country was born with down syndrome.
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assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: "Are there really so many people with such troubles in your country to make such medicine such an important matter?" ... (
http://bit.ly/1NRUZVe )
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BingoBoingo: The concise explanation of why parents who aren't poor and even some who are don't let their kids play 'Murican football
BingoBoingo: Because why put your kids in the position to suffer likely murder to people doping with shit that works when... you can tell them no for at least a few years.
BingoBoingo: The point people are chemically engineering themselves routinely to be better at the sport in school is the point where the sport had went beyond what makes sense as a school sport.
mircea_popescu: from what i could gather, the sort of kid that plays football comes from the same pool of kids that "sing rap" or get shot in turf wars.
mircea_popescu: if you're gonna go, might as well go whatever way it happens
BingoBoingo: It is the exact demographic now. The demographic that used to produce boxers like Ali now produces 300-400 pound sprinters
BingoBoingo: Just now the demographic's parents are either Denzel Washington in Training Day or Madea sitting on the school board
BingoBoingo: The thing is he has to consider getting on gear because the sport he chose inevitably means he will be smashing heads with people who did
ben_vulpes: b-a can't distinguish the jigga man from dre, thestringpuller
BingoBoingo: I know alf has an aversion to the American Football talk, but the sad thing is that was likely one of the saner people getting into the game
BingoBoingo: I just gotta say Jay-Z's girl Beyonce better consider a calorie deficit before she ends up like Kim Karsashian who bloated up.
mircea_popescu: there's no saving the 30yo black woman. she'll balloon, tis the genes.
BingoBoingo: She can keep it in her ass. Older black Women manage that. That is good. Kim though was not black and just went full FUPA.
mircea_popescu: This is how famous people die: they take stimulants to party all night, and sleep very little. Finally, on day 3 they're too wired to fall asleep naturally, so they take a few extra sedatives (because they feel so wired.) However, the full dose of the pills doesn't happen until after they fall asleep; the sedation is worsened even further by stimulant withdrawal; and, of course, the natural exhaustion that comes with
BingoBoingo: Just if Jay-Z was doing really good he'd be able to cycle them out
BingoBoingo: Though hints in his papers suggest he aspirated on the vomit too
mircea_popescu: "Mass murder is the violent expression of being a pussy. The people killed are almost never the people who actually hurt you-- they are the nameless collateral damage of your fear of confrontation. Every person who Sodini felt hurt him is still alive. Every person he shot was nothing but polite to him, if they had any contact at all. This is almost universally true about mass murderers. In other words, the people w
mircea_popescu: the problem with this safe, sanitized, society-first view of individual action is that it deliberately avoids the problem of class.
mircea_popescu: what if you mass murder accountants ? irs accountants ? black women ? people working at the southern poverty law center ? congressmen ? etc.
BingoBoingo: Can't talk about that. "Ideation" in psych lingo.
mircea_popescu: anyway. tlp's idea about how to report the stuff in the media to prevent its repeating is entirely correct (and also exactly what china does, which he doesn't notice - tho he notices correctly that it's what the dod forced everyone to do for the wtc bombings)
mircea_popescu: the probolem with THAT is that it only works for as long as the press is firmly attached to the public mind, but the more it works the more tenouous it makes that attachment. so... notrly.
BingoBoingo: Kind why qntra works like BitBet as a truth finding mechanism, also time weighted
mircea_popescu: lol all this shit that supposedly at some time existed.
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shinohai: "An increase in violence was reported as Jews begam kidnapping Arabs just to obtain the discount."
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funkenstein_: for more on this topic, go watch Remí Gaillard prank videos, and think for a while about who is really being pranked
punkman: I don't think I'd buy gold coin off random guy on the street either
funkenstein_: "Americaner sind hüre dumm! Ich habe im Youtube gesehen."
punkman: though, it is a fact that guy on the street does not know what an ounce of gold looks like or what it's worth
funkenstein_: likely true, though a video made by some people you don't know doesn't verify it
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funkenstein_: first they came for the derps. but I was not a derp, so I said nothing.
funkenstein_: there must be something lost in translation. How is some random mentally broken corpsemuncher anything like a prof. wrestler, or a real wrestler, or a gangster, or a gangster rapper?
☟︎ funkenstein_: and related later, how many people do you know that paid for a recording of Jay Z? But oh, I saw 100million written down so, lets just believe that shall we?
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funkenstein_: anyway "reasonable doubt" - "friend or foe" is worth a listen :)
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2015 20:03:53; Xplosionist: I mean, I'm very glad we have people that do it. Most of whom are actually nice and do a good job. But, wow, I would never want to deal with as much crap as you have to put up with fore that job.
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 04:33:24; mircea_popescu: why is black = masculine ? why, because black needn't wrinkle.
funkenstein_: i'm thinking of something bigger, can you guess what it is?
funkenstein_: if the speaker had any actual information to convey, they forgot to complete the sentence
funkenstein_: unless the "at what" is specified, it's just a phrase used for effect
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funkenstein_: this concludes my driveby bitcoin-asseting, I'm off now to go cut bill-sized newspaper strips :)
thestringpuller: ;;later tell funkenstein_ I've bought a lot of Jay-Z albums. The Black Album on vinyl is sick. Jay-Z is good at moving albums tho...
lobbes: so cable company just called me; 'Because you're such a loyal customer, I'm going to give you this exclusive *unadvertised* offer! For MORE money per month, I can give you faster internet!"
lobbes: CableDude: "May I ask what's holding you back?"
lobbes: Me: "I don't want to spend more money"
lobbes: CableDude: "Sure I understand, but this IS an exclusive offer. So can I sign you up today?"
mircea_popescu: in fact, it might actually be a large part of why said kids are broken in the head.
mircea_popescu: but in any case... "The audience-- people, Twitter, performers, Leno, The View, the President-- are can't help but comment on the show. They don't understand that they are actually part of the show. They aren't getting paid, but neither were Statler and Waldorf. And they were the funniest part of it."
mircea_popescu: jurov << instead of all this shitgnomery << eh, the problem with exceptions is that they have to be managed.
jurov: if the alternative is to add new syscall per exception...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ;;later tell funkenstein_ what is your definition of "nothing" ? be the careful you wish to see in this world. for instance as an exercise : compare the "nothing" you falsely claimed with the "something" that was actually there, see if the conclusions ACTUALLY DRAWN by the people you read were in fact commensurate with the something that there was, IRRESPECTIVE of what your kneejerk [based on nothing] interpretation of
gribble: Error: "based" is not a valid command.
mircea_popescu reads tpbit thing, is unimpressed. oh you mean people wanna blather about nothing rather than do work because a) it's easier and b) they don't wanna do anything anyway, they just wanna appear so and so ? mmmkay.
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mircea_popescu: there is no community with the derps. a world without them is a better world, under ANY circumstances.
mircea_popescu: in fact, the reason prison is better than the web (no, it's not "the internet", fucking reddit facebook and washpo aren't "the internet") is preciely that they fuck up the derps in prison.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-10-2015#1303415 << at this point i firmly believe there's something lost ; in the reading. in other words, im vaguely persuaded you do not actually have the ability to read (yes, you can follow the letters, but it's not the same). so earnestly, in full view of this censure of your intellectual faculties, without any attempt to hide from it or to pretend an imaginary, unwarranted s
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 13:47:06; funkenstein_: there must be something lost in translation. How is some random mentally broken corpsemuncher anything like a prof. wrestler, or a real wrestler, or a gangster, or a gangster rapper?
mircea_popescu: uperiority over it, go read the fucking thing again and answer this question yourself. HOW is it that they are exactly the same ?
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mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> But oh, I saw 100million written down so, lets just believe that shall we? << that's not even it. the tlp article has the story, and it's rather obvious : they ACCEPTED to be extras in HIS movie. that's what it is. rihanna, of course (of course ? madonna didn't do that for ritchie, not really ; angelina jolie didn't do that for brad pitt ; moreover nobody told them to get the fucking crazy out of their
mircea_popescu: heads and OF COURSE already, it's their guy which means he owns them), but that other chick what's her name, and oh really, "nobody's cavalcade is coming tarram tarram tarrarram tam tam" ? what the fuck is this shit, put the nigger back in the prison he squirmed out of an the white women back in the fucking ofcourse.
mircea_popescu: because otherwise, OF COURSE some random derp is gonna be the symbol, and in this sense "100 mn" is purely symbolic. it's not the number, and you are drastically naive to contest the actual number. the point is somewhere else.
mircea_popescu: "oh, but women don't wanna be extras in a man's movie just for being women". tough.
mircea_popescu: im sure alf doesn't wanna be an engineer either, he wants to be a hunter. what of it ?
mircea_popescu: the jobs available are the jobs available and you fucking like them.
mircea_popescu: "oh, but i'm gonna be the exception". sure you will baby. heck, maybe she actually will be. THE EXCEPTION. geddit ?
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assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 15:27:14; jurov: if the alternative is to add new syscall per exception...
punkman: "Google’s growing problem: 50% of people do zero searches per day on mobile"
mircea_popescu: because why would they ? if they know the topic they don't need to search google, what the fuck is that you know, "i would like to see what the republican party says, i wonder if they have a website". on the other hand if you don't know it, why would you trust google. "i wonder if thye have a republican party in bali. o look, republicanpartyinbali.blogspot.com comes up first."
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assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 15:39:52; mircea_popescu: in fact, the reason prison is better than the web (no, it's not "the internet", fucking reddit facebook and washpo aren't "the internet") is preciely that they fuck up the derps in prison.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, it's not hard to meet convicts. there's a program you can sign up for, host one getting out of prison for a few months.
ascii_field: no. i do have a secret pasttime of reading just about anything written by prisoners, in all times and places, with emphasis on modern americans. but i cannot pretend to be an expert.
ascii_field: 'Van Haren went on to say that she is considering a variety of fixes to the problem, including appointing several new positions in order to ensure more minorities are represented without kicking out those who actually won the election.'
mircea_popescu: yeah but of interest here would have been the convicts that don't write.
mircea_popescu: i don't get this nonsense. who the fuck gave her the autority to overturn the election.
mircea_popescu: you can't have a toy election anymore than you can have a toy pregnancy.
ascii_field: instituted by the school to begin with, as i understand
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: funnily enough they tried 'toy pregnancies' in american schools
mircea_popescu: im sure they did. i would say overal there's no stupid thing the us haven't tried
ascii_field: and at any rate this is a beautiful election. teaches the childrenz how ~actual~ usg works
mircea_popescu: in line with the "sane measure to be applied just as soon as all alternatives exhausted"
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 16:22:05; mircea_popescu: because why would they ? if they know the topic they don't need to search google, what the fuck is that you know, "i would like to see what the republican party says, i wonder if they have a website". on the other hand if you don't know it, why would you trust google. "i wonder if thye have a republican party in bali. o look, republicanpartyinbali.blogspot.com comes up first."
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mircea_popescu: ascii_field do you happen to have link to log where we discuss idiocy of "bayesian" approaches to stuff ?
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2014 19:17:32; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's the connection << organized abuse of statistical concepts for satanic purposes
mircea_popescu: btw, you ever read that article by tlp about how "asking another is the best bias reducer" ?
mircea_popescu: the experience he discusses (afaik this is amply documented) is the strange situation that if an idiot guesses, he's off by X, if he "tries" to think about it, ie, meditates on the answer and why it could be wrong he improves the guess (reducing he errror)
mircea_popescu: but if he simply asks another idiot and averages the two out, he reduces the error 3x
ascii_field: (the canonical experiment involves a jar full of coins or the like. but if you were to put the jar behind a door, then no signal. only noise.)
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mircea_popescu: well, i got my link about 500x faster than if i searched for it. somehow.
☟︎ ascii_field: when such a thing exists for a subject, it is clearly the winner, yes
ascii_field: i dare say that 99% of my search itches are entirely scratched by grep on my own disks
ascii_field: 'i need to compute the volume of hydrogen in this bottle' 'compute volume, take the pressure....' 'i've never seen the bottle!'
mircea_popescu: it IS a search problem. "i want X". "can you put X in X' ?" "no but i can tell it to alf"
mircea_popescu: somehow working together it was 1 minute, i am confident it'd have been half a fucking hour of my life otherwise.
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ascii_field: (lolzy. built-in key generated at factory; other key is entered through a winblowz proggy!)
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ascii_field: 'Comparing this plot to 10000 4-byte values retrieved from /dev/urandom ( Figure 6 ), gives us a strong
ascii_field: hint that the RNG of the JMS583S is not cryptographically safe, showing clear patterns in Figure 4.'
ascii_field: it is one thing to subtly, secretly sabotage a thing.
ascii_field: it is another where it is encrusted with so many mines, of such variety, that you can hardly make out what the thing was (a bridge? a railroad ? what?)
ascii_field: aha. the trees do not get together and decide 'there is room for three oaks'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'And it is because the real estate prices in Beijing etc have made it so that young women are unaffordable.' << what does this mean?
☟︎ ascii_field: they are not shipped in from mars, no. so how is it that 'they are unaffordable' ?
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ascii_field: how does it work? politburo hoards all the womenz ?
mircea_popescu: ah. suppose you have 10k soviet fuckholes, and 11k dudes want one. 10k dudes pay 10k per fuckhole each, and spend the time alternatively fucking the hole and laughing at the 1k.
mircea_popescu: suppose they're 10k american fuckholes. 11k dudes want one, on which basis 100k more dudes are made to think they want one
mircea_popescu: 3k people pay 1.5mn each per fuckhole, have no time to do anything but run arround trying to service the 2.8mn they owe
ascii_field: so this is more like the 'pay' you pay in auschwitz, work until you drop with the hope that you get moved down, and not up, in the chimney queue ?
ascii_field: and the gurlz play the equivalent of the role of chocolate bars ?
mircea_popescu: notably, the 10k fuckholes aren't "more valuable" in either scenario. they ARE however LESS UTILIZED in the second.
mircea_popescu: so in the only sane paradigm, the latter is actually more impoverished.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, in the "value is what people want" paradigm, the former is incredibly poor.
ascii_field: thing is, a situation like this is impossible without barbed wire & guards (in one form or another)
mircea_popescu: barbed wire and guns are more of a sign that things are improving than anything.
mircea_popescu: be worried when no barbed wire and guns, like the us 60s.
mircea_popescu: why aren't you all the things you aren't doing, like putting your cock in the mouth of girl sitting across the table ?
ascii_field: barbed wire largely works on the expectation.
mircea_popescu: it is there to JUSTIFY one's own lassitude, even as that becomes socially inacceptable.
mircea_popescu: you understand this ? it doesn't DO anything. it's there so the fucktards can BLAME IT for who they are.
mircea_popescu: like the people who "stayed in statal employment" cca 1992.
mircea_popescu: who exactly kept them there ? why not go into business ? work for businessmen ?\
mircea_popescu: infantry cuts through it faster than infantry can deploy it, think about that.
ascii_field: this works because infantry is a machine (yes) not man. i.e. soldier hasn't the choice of 'i don't feel like it'
mircea_popescu: more importantly - soldier doesn't havfe the choice of "i'm too good for this"
ascii_field: so he is really still boxed in by 'barbed wire' - just not the wire you see in front of him
mircea_popescu: the notion of freedom you carry most closely approximates death.
ascii_field: soldier is in no sense the example of 'man impervious to wire'
ascii_field: if he were, he would shoot own officer & go pirating.
thestringpuller: I was under the impression a soldier is nothing more than a political tool.
thestringpuller: That is, a soldier's only purpose is to "complete the mission".
mircea_popescu: anyway, it is strictly possible soldier actually believes in the war and his side. there's nothing wrong with this.
ascii_field: 'One of the essential experiences of war is never being able to escape from disgusting smells of human origin. Latrines are an overworked subject in war literature, and I would not mention them if it were not that the latrine in our barracks did its necessary bit towards puncturing my own illusions about the Spanish civil war. The Latin type of latrine, at which you have to squat, is bad enough at its best, but these were
ascii_field: made of some kind of polished stone so slippery that it was all you could do to keep on your feet. In addition they were always blocked. Now I have plenty of other disgusting things in my memory, but I believe it was these latrines that first brought home to me the thought, so often to recur: ‘Here we are, soldiers of a revolutionary army, defending Democracy against Fascism, fighting a war which is about something, an
ascii_field: d the detail of our lives is just as sordid and degrading as it could be in prison, let alone in a bourgeois army.’ Many other things reinforced this impression later; for instance, the boredom and animal hunger of trench life, the squalid intrigues over scraps of food, the mean, nagging quarrels which people exhausted by lack of sleep indulge in.'
mircea_popescu: and i would suspect he was never intimate with a woman, either.
ascii_field: in most people's understanding of the profession - he was a soldier.
ascii_field: so now 'that wasn't soldiering' and 'that wasn't sex' ?
ascii_field: i thought it was ~my~ job to mystificate like this!
mircea_popescu: soldiering it was, but his protestations make it obvious he didn't reallyt have any business there.
ascii_field: this was true of perhaps all but a handful of folks on eastern front
mircea_popescu: see, all the other dudes are there for whatever reasons - he's there because of who he wants to be. "the sort of guy who fights in the civil war - if only the latrines weren't barbed wired"
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ascii_field: a good number of people were there for identical reason as mr o
mircea_popescu: and he wants a girl - if only the women would understand how great a sense of humor he has.
mircea_popescu: sense of humor, you know ? there's a reason all the frustrated dudes on forums picked this from a sea of random crap.
mircea_popescu: sense of humor. aka faux hipster irony. in other words, a facility with the faux.
ascii_field: i suspect there is a 'cargo cult' aspect - they can see other people laugh, and say 'i could also laugh!'
mircea_popescu: and sure, a bunch of boys get married because who they want to be.
ascii_field: this is why we disagree on 'them fools think they're too good'
ascii_field: mr o did not think he were 'too good.' he tried to become a limonov. and failed.
ascii_field: ergo honesty is better - if you are constitutionally unsuited to being limonov, be someone else
mircea_popescu: the irony here, true, unadorned irony of the greek sort, is that the champion of the faux, out of a misguided desire for authenticity metastasized out of his own problems with the faux and handles thereof, stuck to the infantile version instead of individuating into the adult.
mircea_popescu: the big secret being that juveniles have no soul. they're not individuals, they're the zerg creep.
mircea_popescu: they individuate out of this, maybe, into adulthood. ironically, adults are apparently a lot more similar than the adolsecents are.
ascii_field: (although limonov is prolly not the metric here, as he was almost entirely the same animal as orwell - complete with 'ritual' visit to a war, even got to fire a rifle, yes! cummed in his pants)
mircea_popescu: this could, apparently, be misinterpreted as a reduction of individuality. but it'd take a teen to make the mistake.
ascii_field: when ben franklin wrote that 'most people die at 25 but aren't buried till 75' he was describing a very real thing.
mircea_popescu: lemme see if you ever had this experience. was it ever the case that you enjoyed a product, only to be confronted with some idiot enjoying the same product for the "wrong reasons" ?
mircea_popescu: suppose you like cohiba because it tastes good, and you're at a party and this chick you used to fuck DELIBERATELY introduces her current derp, who goes on a rant about how he loves cohiba and did you see that commercial ? maks him feel like who he really is!11
mircea_popescu: and there she is, the cat, with her smile that deserves a caning just for that. she knows what she's doing, quite exactly. so what now ?
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ascii_field: my garbage collector kicks in long before i can get to this point.
mircea_popescu: so : we can sit right here and smoke the same cigar for different reasons altogether.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, individuality is not a matter of appearance.
mircea_popescu: because to the adolescent it seems like the same thing.
ascii_field: everybody is stuck smoking it for different reasons
ascii_field: everyone pushes same buttons, but for different reasons...
mircea_popescu: quite. and how much of one's passion with rare keyboards is driven by a fear of this issue ?
ascii_field: to the point that just about everyone i know in meatspace bought what i had...
ascii_field: and you'd say i am supposed to react to that ..?
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> how is this a mistake? << see there. i don't say such.
ascii_field: (i am told there is actually a subculture of 'hipster keyboards' but they are not collecting 1980s workhorses but actual oddity art objects, of mahogany, ...)
mircea_popescu: what franklin spoke of was a different time. a time when adulthood was unavoidable, and as such lazy people simply succumbed to the hollow form. "hey, if no kid can tell me from any other adult, why bother."
ascii_field: he 'grows up', which means he no longer wakes up and thinks 'what shall i do to amuse myself' but 'off to the salt mine' and when comes home 'what do i eat and have i enough spare change?' and then tired, and then again a day of living death
mircea_popescu: just like that, go to school, take a job that's "not the real you", on it goes.
mircea_popescu: adolescence is not childhood. the child wakes up with what SEEMS "what shall i do to amuse himself", except to him it';s a dealdy grind.
mircea_popescu: but the adolescent wakes up with "i wonder what insane demands will my chosen identity put on me THIS TIME"
ascii_field: the folks who came to think that 'this is the real me now' threw themselves on the wire
mircea_popescu: ironically, auschwitz has a LOT more in common with the "boost self esteem" version of us schools than with actual education.
mircea_popescu: it was in fact exactly the same : an exercise in esteem engineering.
mircea_popescu: as a result, no amount of pain suffering or violence could have matured the individual. on the contrary - it drove infantilization.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile you don't even need much caning to get a willing slave into a sane head space.
mircea_popescu: caning. what's that even ? barely noticeable biologically.
ascii_field: because you cheated by using a willing slave to begin with
mircea_popescu: if your solution does not include cheating what even makes you think it's a solution at all!
shinohai: Your enemy sure as hell cheats.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: recall our conversation re: wunderwaffen ?
ascii_field: (which is to say, massively disproportionate roi)
ascii_field: 'Another, even better, way that can be executed pre-authentication was found later. In fact, when looking deeper into the firmware code we noticed every time the status VSC is called, the raw RNG bytes are masked with a static value. This static 4-byte value, 0x271828af, is xored with the 4-byte RNG output. Further this value is xored with the last 4-byte SY N value before sending the value to the host computer. Using the
ascii_field: Algorithm 4, we can unmask the 4-byte values returned in a status VSC response to reveal ”raw” RNG bytes from the hardware side. Since this is done pre-authentication, any attacker can generate this from any locked drive.'
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mircea_popescu: " what a hottie of a secretary " << no. pointedly not. what a miracleworker they employ in the front desk.
gabrielradio: oh, i thought it was "buna" in the other sense
ascii_field: 'how many connections and interfaces they have for every communication device I would want to use' << l0l, srsly!!? 'come to us, we have thicknet and token ring!!'
mircea_popescu: not through any fault of his. it's what the text says, on account of it being written in romanian for romanians.
mircea_popescu: ie, lots of businesses still use paper archival exclusively.
mircea_popescu: also lots of proprietary gunk. "stop sending docx, it is NOT USEFUL"
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: rumour has it there are still usg facilities that have problems with the newfangled electric things. fbi headquarters (the brutalist monster death start in washington) has, i'm told, ethernet snakes on the floor
ascii_field: the sort that one normally stuffs behind drywall
mircea_popescu: i don't need any cable where i can't see it nor anything but cable tyvm.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu's flat must be a very merry place
ascii_field: thestringpuller: if i had to guess - he nails'em to the wall, as i do
ascii_field: l0l cisco box. mircea_popescu took it off a dead nazi, or what.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i had the fucking box packed specially for a monitor lifter.
mircea_popescu: exactly the right height. all the useful engineering cisco ever did.
ascii_field: looks not so different from my desk, except that i can't bring myself to eat there
mircea_popescu: oh, i didn;t eat it there. i was just mixing it as we had the discussion.
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mircea_popescu: He's dressing himself in red lines, tempting you to see if they're real or not.
mircea_popescu: If you are tempted to look more deeply (if you're watching it, it's for you)-- like the smitten girl does-- you'd see this appearance first, then through it: "if you got to know him, you'd see he's really a...!" And then you'd pat yourself on the back for having intellectual courage to not judge by appearances! But you've been fooled by the commercial art illusion, thinking that because you saw through the illusion, th
mircea_popescu: Those who don't come to it from exactly the right perspective are infuriated, "this guy is a douchebag!" You think you see something more real than she does, but you aren't supposed to see more deeply-- she is. You are supposed to be infuriated-- that's why she looks more deeply. She doesn't like him, she likes what liking him says about her. She likes what your hating him says about her.
mircea_popescu: "How the hell come she can't see through this poser?" She does see through it, you don't. She sees something fake, then something "real" underneath, and falls for him; you see something fake, stop there, and hate him.
mircea_popescu: the meaning of "red lines" to be found in the article previous to the quote.
mircea_popescu: he could have a ball ravishing teenagers. in fact, possibly the blog hiatus is the direct result of his having figured this out
funkenstein_: aha i was not missing translation, just ignorant
funkenstein_: big lurch was not an allegory, but a real rapper.. thanks ;)
funkenstein_: as to the youtube vid stuff, who knows maybe Mark Dice has some worthwhile stuff
funkenstein_: seems like more of an Alex Jones than an Remé Gaillard
mircea_popescu: who even knows. my lack of time/patience for teh youtube is certainly to my detriment
funkenstein_: the guy wrote a "resistance manifesto" a decade or so ago
funkenstein_: a quick scan shows a lot of references to Christianity and Satan
mircea_popescu: is the guy notable other than "forced youtube to undo a ban" ?
funkenstein_: i had never heard of him but hey, I also hadn't heard of Big Lurch
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ascii_field: 'The MD is always 16 bytes here because it's always MD5.'
mircea_popescu: "In PGP and GnuPG, the public-key cipher is probably the weaker of the pair. Fortunately, however, if an attacker could decrypt a session key it would only be useful for reading the one message encrypted with that session key. The attacker would have to start over and decrypt another session key in order to read any other message."
ascii_field: interestingly, rfc3447 (section a.2.4) allows other hashes, up to sha512
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mircea_popescu: "But I want to be a ladies man like Don Draper. Back then it was easier, because affairs were more acceptable."
mircea_popescu: No they weren't. Leaving aside morality, cheating on your wife means that you haven't fully connected to her, or have lost some of that connection. You don't have to be Don Draper to pull that off. "Well, I want to be as suave as he is, I want to pick up girls like he can." It's the same disconnectedness. You could do it, too, then you'll lose the ability to be deeply connected to someone. You can't do both sim
mircea_popescu: and why not ? "because it wouldn't be fair to the working man" ?
mircea_popescu: "we're all equal and equally the same and thus therefore clearly - either the H binds to another H or to the end of a C or to something wait, C doesn't exist. EVERYONE HAS ONE VALENCE AND THE WORLD IS MADE OF HYDROGEN"
mircea_popescu: sure gramps. early history called, they need you back there three seconds after the big bang.
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assbot: Here's what you don't know or understand about Facebook : everything. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1M69PXV )
ascii_field: don't recall any dark-skinned folk in that b-a
mircea_popescu: or, if you prefer, a transcript of the chicken coop session on "things and the world"
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mircea_popescu: except nobody calls them that. live from SOCIAL MEDIA.
ascii_field: incidentally you can get very spiffy endoscope, 10 or more metres cable, for 20 or so usd
mircea_popescu: problem is rats are a lot smarter than their human counterparts. they're immune.
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mircea_popescu: yes. you can surveillance them until you fall over, they're gonna do whatever they did before.
mircea_popescu: you can run a bunch of tv specials about "ratcism", they're still gonna do exactly what they did before
mircea_popescu: 0 feedback, which puts them WAY ahead of what your AVERAGE human being achieves.
ascii_field: that's gotta be some kind of longevity record..
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> it isn't in any sense 'new' either << New is failed Altcoin scammers resorting to it
ascii_field: ^ this is the box amex used to keep entire dc of
mircea_popescu: "In keeping with this development, sometime in the future cord bloods will be taken routinely from birth and used to delineate the individual's DNA so that genetic information will be readily available under emergency conditions to assure proper assessment of violent people. Hence, a patient presenting with an episode of violence and a history to support that will have their DNA contrasted with norms to determine if th
mircea_popescu: ey have a predisposition to aggression and violence..."
mircea_popescu: but as he points out, "we've agreed, it's just what's done".
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at sanity ranch : punch an enlightened douchebag today. the fact Maya Angelou, diane keaton, Nancy Reagan et all haven't died with a cock shaped icepick through their eyes is bad enough.
ascii_field: their eternal fantasy is, unsurprisingly, 100% yield of homo redditicus ~at birth~.
mircea_popescu: the eternal fantasy is, "omnivore basically means herbivore, rite ?"
mircea_popescu: rape, for the wails, kill, for the evolutionary considerations.
ascii_field: to borrow from old west, 'ain't room enough in town for the both of'em' - the humanist and humanity, that is.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, there's no room in attention for the thing and its copy, which is why isms are for the stupid and the poor.
shinohai: It resulted in a block. I'm scared.
shinohai: I dunno, I tweeted something some time ago about them being no better than scammers for their support of GAW, they threatened to have me removed from twitter, etc.
shinohai: I'm at a loss on that one too. Not like I can't just make another friggin account, or that I even care what they think, etc.
mircea_popescu: oh right right, i guess im ruined in fetlife (bdsm ?) because they banned some random people just in case we were connected. lolk.
shinohai: De verdad no se, son imbeciles.
mircea_popescu: aaand ethereum is back to doing it's 10% a day loss dance. 0.00166 now
mircea_popescu: "oh, im just going to drive this plow against the fluid front, creating a wave off center and all will be well because..."
ascii_field: thinkin's for them eggheads. the spartan - speaks with his truck!
jurov: ^ i can nominate it to b-a anthem
ascii_field: or am i confusing with pete_dushenski's eagle.
jurov: eh, pete's trying to paint us fourth reich or whatevs
mircea_popescu: im trying to cater to both heterosexual and homosexual prurient interest.
ascii_field: 'we'll make trucks over five tonnes switch sides first!'
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but it is seriously teh traditional panacea for female/passive element of youthful complexion with midrif sores.
jurov: mircea_popescu: sorry to disappoint you, male model isn't more fully visible
jurov: maybe it's just me but i don't like porn zooming all in to genitalia and spending minutes there, especially in this time of huge HD screens
☟︎ jurov: and the pic is halfway there
mircea_popescu: omaigawd you watch pr0n like a girl. what do you want next, fucking scents ? feelings ? CONTEXT ???
mircea_popescu: the hd is there so you can see what a good job the bikini wax salon did on her perineal raphe.
mircea_popescu: (idle thought : if internet porn "objectifies women" / "contains experts", where's all the articles expertly discussing the relative value of a whorl on said raphe ? what do you think, do women with twin hairline do better in bed than the normal (single line) ?
mircea_popescu: where's the whole whorl - and - sexuality discussion anyway!
ascii_field: in the same shangri-la as the little vs big-endian debates.
mircea_popescu: (but, to keep things sophisticated - the raphe is more visible in males than in females ; also males lack a penis bone, much like the horse lacks a clavicle. it has been suggested that THIS is what the adam rib story is all about - god took man's penis bone and left a cvasi-scar.)
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mircea_popescu: the trully horrid Meeks and Jeste "study" on "wisdom" and that fucktard Henry Nasrallah's repackaging of the same are splendid anecdotal points to drive this entire "the difference between a libertard and a religious bigot is that the religious bigot is actually anachronistic, and in this sense MORE CULTURALLY ADVANCED."
mircea_popescu: that's right : voting obama is NOT more advanced than being a redneck. it is LESS so.
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assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 00:11:51; mircea_popescu: Zack & Miri Make a Porno
pete_dushenski: oh well, good thing bellucci is still makes movies i guess
pete_dushenski: haven't seen a movie in theatres in a few months, thinking the new bond flick will break the seal.
BingoBoingo: I'm surprised how little marketing it has gotten
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 01:07:48; mircea_popescu: so so very 400 ad.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo how'd you know ? i sure wouldn't. hardly ever see advertising tbh
pete_dushenski: blocked in browser, none in here, don't pass many billboards, don't hardly watch tv
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: That I guess could also be it.
BingoBoingo: Back in 2012 I was exposed to far more of that shit.
pete_dushenski: for all i know pepsi is giving away free blowjobs with every 12-pack
pete_dushenski: or justin trudeau is buying every canadian a phree double-double
pete_dushenski: first dynasty, young handsome charmer, because why not put the best of bush and obama into a blender and ship the product up north ?
pete_dushenski: like romanian kids wanted to work for 'international firm', canadians want politicians like usistan has.
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 17:33:01; ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'And it is because the real estate prices in Beijing etc have made it so that young women are unaffordable.' << what does this mean?
pete_dushenski: also re-read the essences trifecta on trilema today. i guess it's an expressions and changes kinda day.
pete_dushenski: the essences made far more sense than they did whenever i read them last, maybe 6-9 months ago
pete_dushenski: much as tlp is finding new life here, with fresher, more mature eyes
pete_dushenski: phf almost as good as bitcoin, that. just harder to ship.
mircea_popescu: phf and what's this say about inflation ? note that they are artwork in any sense.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "note that they are artwork in any sense" sounds funny. like it should either be "not that they are artwork in any sense" or "note that they are NOT artwork in any sense"
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 19:06:16; ascii_field: l0l cisco box. mircea_popescu took it off a dead nazi, or what.
pete_dushenski: aha. which reminds me, i need to put that on my grocery list !
BingoBoingo: "The brake rotors tend to warp. And the door handles often fail to “present” themselves as drivers approach their cars."
BingoBoingo: "The main problem areas involved the drivetrain, power equipment, charging equipment, giant iPad-like center console, and body and sunroof squeaks, rattles, and leaks."
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2015 17:51:01; mircea_popescu: speaking of condoms... for many years, i was using imported magnums. broke like...i dunno, twenty over a decade ? easily 1%.
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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's pretty bad compared to my more than a decade old Saturn plastic car
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo i have fond memories of those saturnmobiles. some fillies in undergrad had them.
BingoBoingo: Every couple years something expected to wear out wears out, but other than that it's not needed much other than maintenance
pete_dushenski: "Despite the problems, our data show that Tesla owner satisfaction is still very high: Ninety-seven percent of owners said they would definitely buy their car again." << now that's a fucking cult
pete_dushenski: "was raped and beat-up and left for dead. a+++ 10/10 would do again!"
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo that's the mark of an actual car, as opposed to a 'smartphone'
BingoBoingo: I don't get how they can be happy with just a 200 mile range before refilling
phf: i suspect that failures in this case are seen as being on bleeding edge, sort of meta-meta-maker
pete_dushenski: "oh you broke your screen/headlight ? that'll be 3/4 of the cost of a new one."
BingoBoingo: Maximum cost for parts on plasti-saturn is ~$2000 for a donor car in great condition
pete_dushenski: phf lol inb4 3d printer option in-between backseats so kids can 'innovate' while on road trip
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phf: some part of car is replaced by a 3d printed equivalent, there's stl models and tutorials on maker.tesla.com, details on how to print your own, spiffier version
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pete_dushenski: but mechanical components are always readily at hand. can only imagine tesla ownership in backwaters such as these
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BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Kinda why if I replace it I am looking at incredibly common compact trucks
mircea_popescu: phf> i suspect that failures in this case are seen as being on bleeding edge, sort of meta-meta-maker << maybe the truth is, the people who buy teslas don't have anywhere to go anyway.
BingoBoingo: But great work on that panel pete_dushenski
mircea_popescu: "here's my very expensive excuse as to why i'm not going out of the house. it's not that im borderline autistic, it's that i save the environment. from myself."
BingoBoingo: I actually saw a Tesla here driving in backwater exurban town. Have no Idea why.
phf: i suppose you either amazon it or else "shop local" i.e. within walking/biking distance
pete_dushenski: the black tesla i saw at the racquet club yesterday was driven by trophy wife with two kidlets in tow
BingoBoingo: It is exactly the upper limit of bike range nearly
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu then he loses his trophies for 'juicing'
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> mircea_popescu then he loses his trophies for 'juicing' << Unless bicycle cop, then promoted
pete_dushenski: the expansion of means and methods of police mobility in just the last decade is pretty astounding.
pete_dushenski: now : foot, car cruiser, truck cruiser, armoured transport, bicycle, segway, and who knows mebbe jetpack
mircea_popescu: "What happened is that Wolf was in the middle of a story some people suspected was a hoax, but was still being reported as a "thank god he was hiding in the garage" drama. So he tried to protect the story. He tried to pretend he missed the comment so that everyone could go on with the story as it was being told.
mircea_popescu: If you agree with this, then you have to also face the fact that Wolf didn't consciously plan, "no matter what happens in this interview, I'm going to cover it up"-- it was a reflex, an instinct. Get a drink, think about this: a reporter's instinct wasn't to go for the truth, but to go with the scripted story.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: You may think that I'm too much with the rum or too hard on Wolf-- "he seems like such a nice man" but it's not Wolf's fault. He's a cog in the Matrix. The next day Meredith Vieira interviews the family live on the Today show. While the father is denying to her it was a hoax, the boy suddenly says, "mom, I need a cup" and vomits. Vierra's response to this is nothing. Forget about the implications of the boy's vom
mircea_popescu: iting, she does not even acknowledge that he vomited. Is she heartless? No. She's flustered: her instinct is to preserve the show, like a stage actress, keep the scene going no matter what else happens."
BingoBoingo: Hometown definitely had bike cops at least a decade and a half ago.
pete_dushenski: it used to be "omigerd a decade is fo-ev-ah". gonna take some getting used to, this.