mircea_popescu: i very much doubt there will be a signle employable engineer graduating from ivy league this year.
mircea_popescu: community colleges still turn out the occasional useful bloke, but really, there's no comparison with china.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Error: "buttseks" is not a valid command.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Error: "" is not a valid command.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Error: No closing quotation
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Error: "\"" is not a valid command.
BingoBoingo: Possible that mebbe your local water system sucks and the pressure spiked to break the plastic.
BingoBoingo: Occasionally neighborhoods in USia will experience much broken plasic and galvanized material when pressure goes from reasonable 40-90 psi to 140-240 psi.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 00:37 BingoBoingo: Did you try casting a replacement out of pewter?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: yes. You don't drink out of toilet do you? Lead should be no concern.
BingoBoingo: shape to fit with emery, cloth, and patience
hanbot: asciilifeform perhaps the mongoloids merely sealed your valve completely with their affronts to geometry.
hanbot is having a fit of ignatius j. reilly-isms doubtlessly conjured up by the current trilema rodger telenovella
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Error: "bc,stats" is not a valid command.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Current Blocks: 427139 | Current Difficulty: 2.1737548275723764E11 | Next Difficulty At Block: 427391 | Next Difficulty In: 252 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 day, 19 hours, 12 minutes, and 0 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
jhvh1: You are very welcome Daddy
jhvh1: shinohai: Error: "lazerkittens" is not a valid command.
jhvh1: And so I called the Roundhouse the Roundhouse
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Error: "My" is not a valid command.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Error: "My" is not a valid command.
shinohai: yeah ill change it to be error
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Error: "puppies" is not a valid command.
deedbot: gabriel_laddel voiced for 30 minutes.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 00:46 asciilifeform: (betcha gabriel_laddel makes valves. and nails)
deedbot: gabriel_laddel voiced for 30 minutes.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-26 17:25 mircea_popescu: has anyone a spare bedroom/garage/whatever willing to rent to me for a reasoble sum and park gabriel there for a few months ?
BingoBoingo: If gabriel_laddel's stimulant habits didn't seem so threatening to the sobriety there might be an offer, but I doubt he'd approve of my rural spider hole.
BingoBoingo: lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch now hosting pharma spam
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Time since last block: 22 minutes and 51 seconds
BingoBoingo: "I tried to ask him why he was overreacting about an argument we had two months previously, but he just glared at me coldly and told me to ”keep my proximity”. I was highly offended." << Shoulda stuck it in James' pooper when he had the chance
BingoBoingo: In the decades that come applicants to join the TMSR subpeerage will be made to audition by authoring Elliot/James slashfic
BingoBoingo: " I saw obnoxious slobs who dressed in basketball shorts and T-shirts walking with hot girls. And there I was, decked out in Armani, all by myself. It was preposterous!" << SHoulda dressed in carhart coveralls soaked in either mud or used oil
BingoBoingo: Just think, if the late an hero only would have followed the path of other failed sk8er kids and went punk and heroin.
mircea_popescu: sunt atitea meserii frumoase... si trebuie-ncercate...
mircea_popescu: but anyway, with this opportunistic opportunity i now found out one alexander ludwig exists.
mircea_popescu: an entire generation of jennifers and joshes being "actors" and "successful" in these dubious e!-like productions...
☟︎ BingoBoingo: And this is how an aristocracy comes to necessarily be selected by GPG and IRC, the new one was too broken in its broken
mircea_popescu: just looking through the publicists going to town with this jennifer lawrence chick. she's... marginally not ugly. best that can be said about her. dudes got her into fucking forbes, "most influential woman" etc blablabla. reheheheally ?
BingoBoingo: She's got an average face that is disproportionately chubby compared to the rest of her body. Perfect synergy of girls in the audience feel pretty and teenage boys can still get off to the leaked n00dz
mircea_popescu: and both groups are idiotic enough to actually imagine this relates to power.
BingoBoingo: The perfect post-pre-post modern leading teenage girl played by a late something
BingoBoingo: "a crowd of pathetic fans who reminded me of sheep cheered from the other side" << Aka hired from craigslist. Beats McDonalds where burgers actually are not flipped, but "cooked" on both sides at once.
mircea_popescu: though tbh, since there's bluetooth, i'd do it with butt bullets.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 05:58 mircea_popescu: an entire generation of jennifers and joshes being "actors" and "successful" in these dubious e!-like productions...
mircea_popescu: to quote that usg official, "what the azn wants are loose shoes, cheap lattes and a tight pussy to shit in"
mircea_popescu: his objection is that for some reason the toilet in his bathroom keeps overflowing, while it seems to work fine for everyone else.
mircea_popescu: ftr, if this happened to you for a decade straight you'd be pissed off too.
mircea_popescu: the beauty of the guy's work is that it is, in fact, quite reasonable in its own terms.
mircea_popescu: not to mention that impungning those terms is a much more difficult task than average vanilla derp intuits.
mircea_popescu: so he says women are items ; and you say women are persons. how do you resolve this dispute ? "obviously" ?
mircea_popescu: well what sort of contest is this, where you get to decide the goalposts.
mircea_popescu: suppose we run a simpler tiered system : people with his killcount or more may speak against him. seems a pretty reasonable implementation of your "in the arena, with retiarii" idea of adjudication. and he doesn't come out too bruised from it, either.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but this leaves a pretty serious hole for the rest of us, who you know, have pleasant relations with women and don't quite grok this "not person" immensity.
mircea_popescu: (enormity also means "monstruous nonsense", for the record. even if it's a secondary meaning forgotten on the web.)
diana_coman: hmm, doesn't it break this view of his right at the core when he expects then items to "choose" him?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman not more than the idea of the sword in the stone breaks old monarchy.
mircea_popescu: note that they don't get agency, he still knows how they ~should~ have chosen ; and the objection is they're malfunctioning in their alloted destiny.
mircea_popescu: which explains the complete disinterest in any sort of inductive approach (which is also how he didn't end up one of those long term abduction rapists)
diana_coman: ah, there is that indeed, he uses to choose in a certain way
mircea_popescu: more like "recognize", like they were retina scanners that ceased working.
mircea_popescu: maybe. my interpretation is that he took a very strict view of my earlier stand in our dispute re corectness. it was simply not possible for any sort of result to be obtained through example.
mircea_popescu: the process is evident throughout, "lottery exists, therefore it must have a winner. i am great, therefore i must win it."
mircea_popescu: he may be the last case of an intellect genuinely baffled at the process of lottery.
diana_coman: ftr what I find more mind boggling is the degree to which nobody around him actually has anything to do really and I mean first his parents; at least from his account all they do is to throw at him money above what he can in fact handle; in one view I could almost frame this as poor kid got thrown into a station so much above himself that the difference between what he *knows* he is worth (nothing) and what he has been forced t
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im not sure his equivalent has yet been produced by his country. he seems quite a brand apart.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman you'll be pleased to find no doubt that the enitre population of that part of the world spends all its time doing exactly this :
mircea_popescu: they take money that was thrown at them by idiot barbarians in foreign lands, and wisely expend it exactly thusly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was the man personally insulted when he didn't win ? the crate isn't the criteria here.
mircea_popescu: ah wrong bafflement. need something more like "how dares it!"
diana_coman: asciilifeform, the guy with the crate seems to miss the "but I was SO worthy, how did the winning ticket DARE to choose someone else"
mircea_popescu: and very right and proper of a historical aristocrat, at that. like you know, the charge of whatever brigade.
diana_coman: still, there are in fact inconsistencies in elliot's narrative: one second he's fighting off those boys in the truck (even with a knife!) and the next second he flees because one (ONE) boy...shouted at him
diana_coman: and for all his supposed knife, all he does is to pour coffee or juice on people, I mean seriously
mircea_popescu: nah, this is how undisciplined boy behaves. he has about three seconds of bravery until norepinephrine is metabolised.
diana_coman: similarly one second he is supposedly totally and absolutely disgusted with his father (ftr I don't know who wouldn't by the sounds of it) and the next second he makes friends again because... he has been asked to by his nan
mircea_popescu: actually, by and large men are very much like fizz in soda. which is why the practice of keeping reserves in military conflict. after the first wave, fresh fighters can utterly wreak havoc on the other side.
diana_coman: he certainly wanted the money (well, any money) but to me he sounded more like he was in fact searching very much for someone to finally tell him what to do
mircea_popescu: i dun see that. you mean, "what to do" as in, how to arrange the curl on forehead so girls finally behave properly ?
diana_coman: well, that is what he would have answered if you asked him, certainly; but in practice it seems more like what to do: get back with daddy, go to that college etc
diana_coman: he actually keeps saying he wants someone to take care of things, of him etc
mircea_popescu: mayhap only a woman would see that in there. i can't readily discern what part is in the painting and what part is in the natural "i'll change him" eye of the beholderess.
diana_coman: I don't think it has to do with changing him
diana_coman: what change? he finds it too much to actually be in this nasty "unfair" world, he wants someone to make him a little bubble at least to keep it all away
diana_coman: I suspect he would find *that* too much too
diana_coman: more like his "happy" childhood days as he says it himself
mircea_popescu: the minor tragedy of this major tragedy is that he would really have been very happy with james.
☟︎ diana_coman: he begs his mother to get married to a rich guy to ...save his (elliot's) life
diana_coman: and he even directly says that she should put out with whatever because ..him; and she just...refuses; nothing else; wtf
mircea_popescu: but you know this is how it worked, and still how it mostly works.
mircea_popescu: woman'd better suck some rich dude's cock so her kids can get luscious brides.
diana_coman: I'm still waiting to get to his view of how they called the police/why
diana_coman: uhm, by the looks of it so that she can have a shit for a kid
mircea_popescu: male shyness is actually quite common, in all mammal species, and also with womans. if i had a satoshi for every historical case where the poor mother in law had to stick her worthless son's penis into some girl by hand, i wouldn't even be poor.
diana_coman: yes, it is common; that still doesn't mean that they shouldn't be kicked to deal with it themselves; but clearly something to be started way before he was 20, there is that
mircea_popescu: if you do that, they'll jsut gather in some cave / internet forum and bitch and whine about "hypergamy"
mircea_popescu: ie, all the bitchez go to the same three dudes. FOR NO REASON
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform , is georgy gapon the first case of russian autoerotic asphyxiation ?
☟︎ diana_coman: bet in morroco he would have had all the caves to "gather" in and saved the shiny paint on that bmw
mircea_popescu: yeah, very ridiculous that he left, it seems to me definite they'd have paired him forcibly.
mircea_popescu: though it goes well with his complete disinterest in you know, a brothel. i suspect even if he had had a "hot sexy girlfriend", she wouldn't have necessarily known it. prolly more hand-in-handwalks than handjobs on his menu.
thestringpuller: When did Pump and Dump become a viable business strategy? It's like 1990's albania up in here.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 14:05 thestringpuller: When did Pump and Dump become a viable business strategy? It's like 1990's albania up in here.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 06:57 mircea_popescu: "but your penis doesn't work" "LIFE IS SO CRUEL!!!"
a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 06:48 mircea_popescu: the minor tragedy of this major tragedy is that he would really have been very happy with james.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform chiefly because he never had a chance to test it.
mircea_popescu: azn kid, short for his age, anxious and shy. you wanna take bets ?
mircea_popescu: the "life is so cruel, my penis is small" half billion males out there are merely slightly-better-elliot, what.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 06:58 mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform , is georgy gapon the first case of russian autoerotic asphyxiation ?
mircea_popescu: extant snuff/porn he left seems to suggest it, visually.
mircea_popescu: well, drawing, but yes. that's the typical pose of autoerotic asphyxiation victim.
mircea_popescu: you understand, death is not instantaneous. takes years of practice.
mircea_popescu: "i've lost all control of my pelvic floor! what can happen!"
mircea_popescu: i once covered myself in such copios amounts of kohl off a single pretty moon of a face it took a week to take it all off.
mircea_popescu: it's not so far removed from the experience of fucking an old, well used web printing press.
deedbot: covertress voiced for 30 minutes.
shinohai: swimming in the corn porphyry no doubt
a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 02:52 mircea_popescu: not much in the way of offers so far.
ben_vulpes: keeping ethernet cables away from tiny fangs
mircea_popescu: "come... as you are... with tattoos or altogether bare... as a friend... as a friend. as an old enemy.
mircea_popescu: take your time. hurry up. the choice is yours, but don't be latte..."
covertress: ty for the music suggestion, mircea_popescu. happy sunday to you.
covertress: i'm entertaining suggestions to prevent a recurrence. adding addl hashing power and/or forking to a POW/POS hybrid are my only solutions, atm.
mircea_popescu: i heard. actually iirc alf pointed out to you teh reading material, as to the unsustainability of the thing.
ben_vulpes: > affected blockchains may consider merging POS with POW
jhvh1: ben_vulpes: Error: "affected" is not a valid command.
ben_vulpes: is close angle really going to be jhvh1's command trigger?
ben_vulpes: "POS with POW" << because we have no idea how any of this works, bolt the laser stabilizer to the side of your kalash to keep rando pakis from walking off with it"
ben_vulpes: covertress: what did your dev team do to "resolve the problem"?
shinohai: no ben_vulpes i have a fix per mircea_popescu 's suggestion !~
covertress: ben_vulpes: we have no fix implemented, atm. bittrex and yobit wallets remain in maint.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron lol at buttcoiners, "oh, look, bitcoin does exactly what mp said it likely will back in 2013, i wonder how come and what gives".
ben_vulpes: covertress: y'see the parallels to 'woes of altcoin' yet?
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> is close angle really going to be jhvh1's command trigger? < no. shinohai : fix it today or ima have to devoice it.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: relatedly, are you wearing +o in perpetuity now?
mircea_popescu: cuz i left it on cuz it was going to be a one minute thing yesterday. damn it.
ben_vulpes: "you don't understand how irc works!!1"
mircea_popescu: i had the command ready. meanwhile i fucking lost it. god damned bullshit.
mircea_popescu: for the past fucking three minutes i've been trying to dig up how the fuck you do this. what a waste of evereyone's time.
mircea_popescu: reverse the stupid shit i did yesterday with the new bot.
danielpbarron: there's two decent subreddits I like to check out: /r/RATS and /r/watchpeopledie
danielpbarron: also i'm subscribed to recieve updates from that captainspoogmeister guy who tells tales from fat camp
ben_vulpes: after that you gotta be in the borg's wot
BingoBoingo: Dd you spray first or cut first? Because if cut first you are doing it wrong.
BingoBoingo would have advised spray with glyphosate/triclopyr mix today. Cut in two weeks, plant annual ryegrass next day, move before ryegrass dies in May
BingoBoingo: Then don't spray it on the trees. And if it gets on the trunk you can rinse it off. You are doing a folliar application. Not a basal application, for that you'r use the triclopyr that mixes with kerosene as a carrier oil. Not water!
Framedragger: (ah. znc is not running in utc it seems, whereas that script is.)
BingoBoingo: Triclopyr with water carrier though also likely sufficient for most green hells. Nice side effect of sparing desirable grasses and browning the bermudagrass weed.
covertress: BingoBoingo: thank you for the qntra :)
BingoBoingo: covertress: It's the kind of news that tends to not lead to more news
shinohai: made the not-quite-news roundup :D
trinque: heh, qntra gives covercoin 0 more mentions til death.
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> made the not-quite-news roundup :D << Roundup Xtend (TM)(R)!!!
BingoBoingo: covertress: It's not really a recoverable thing. WOuld be more recoverable if reimbursement for lost coins was a challenge or better an impossibility.
BingoBoingo: WTF is a gratitude list? Moral inventory is far more useful.