BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Seriously when is your Elliot fanfic starting?
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-24#1558563 << i definitely hammered home the notion that i'll write about anything today, but the fanfic requires some serious research into the mental vacuum that is elliot, research that just isn't on the agenda this week. between being out of town and renos at a couple suites and presentations and learning basic python, elliotology doesn't have much room to breathe
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-10-24 04:19 BingoBoingo: You know I haven't wondered about pete_dushenski yet. pete_dushenski writes about everything. Where's his fanfic?
BingoBoingo: How are you going to renovate spaces for North Americans without knowing the pinnacle of their empty spaces?
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: how are you figuring your chances are against the mighty diana_coman ?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well diana_coman seemed to do a single contained narrative. She could serialize to my shock and awe. I figure my chances are marginal considering writing fiction is the opposite of writing qntra.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-24 20:39 mircea_popescu: now shoes on the other hand, they're different. there's certainly the "i'll buy you this 30 dollar pair of red stilettos, which you then forget in the cab and nobody cares". there's also the fine italian leather shoes which are worth whatever they cost. so dunno.
BingoBoingo: And quality leather workboots cost $400 to $maxint, similar success
pete_dushenski: we're talking dress shoes like the ones i had on today. hugo boss. made in italy. c$700 (~usd$500)
pete_dushenski: work boots will be made in usa or china or hecho in mexico
BingoBoingo: Well, who the fuck would want Italian leather boots for working? Italian cows likely reflect Italian people, lazy. The hardworking ones left. What you want is made in US by Mexican immigrants for maximum quality.
pete_dushenski: "waiwut pete paid 700 for SHOES??!" ha. hardly. i dun pay retail for clothes n shoes anymore than i pay retail for mcm furniture. plus, i actually negotiated a 1500 gift card to high-end meanswear store a few months back so had to spend it on schmany attire accordingly.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: italians aren't lazy so much as taxed into being "effient" with their taxable labour.
BingoBoingo: If they weren't lazy they wouldn't take to being taxed like that. Once again see Mexican immigrants to the US.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: lol! here i was thinking i was being all fancy and spangly and mr. 'imapauper4lyf' is wondering how it is that i'm scrimping and saving so!
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: it's not really 'taking' being taxed if you're... not paying. and no one else is either.
pete_dushenski: is alf sitting on stash of coin so far up his arse that he forgot about it when it was time to bid on bitbet auction ? or am i dreaming in technicolour here ?
pete_dushenski: when i find shoemaker who isn't jamaican / ethiopan bum i'll have proper footwear made.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: except on monitors... and shoes apparently
pete_dushenski: what did such a pair cost in arg ? $150 worth of pesos ?
pete_dushenski: while parading around loft in handmade italian leather shoes and cognac in-hand... with nothing else besides.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-24 23:25 asciilifeform: (philips, at&t, etc. make various junk.)
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: shops at stores with gift cards?
BingoBoingo: I thought ancient Joodom wasn predicated on coupons
BingoBoingo: By contrast ben_vulpes You're more... Amish
ben_vulpes: then there are the priestesses of ishtar, with whom we're forbidden congress for all but the solstice days
trinque: this "Asian" thing they do is cute. they're too scared to look the people in the eye.
trinque: not even their 4 year olds.
mircea_popescu: to quote some idiot covering the ever-famous catholic diner, "trump failed because a healthy dose of self deprecation was required".
mircea_popescu: which is funny, coming from a chick in drag, because i am unaware of this notion that self deprecation is even socially acceptable in males, let alone in any dose required
mircea_popescu: or that there's such a thing as a healthy dose of neurosis now.
trinque: potter county went 71.6% Romney, and that guy was half-dead
trinque: and amarillo's redneck as it gets
mircea_popescu: i guess it's the soul of timeliness that phf figured out how to replicate it huh.
PeterL: Is anybody else getting "error" back from archive.is when they try to submit links? the past three links here all just got "error" back?
PeterL: talk about useful error messages, bleh
PeterL: oh, I guess I should read logs before complaining, see above
mircea_popescu: in other news, trilema now publishes the republican surgeon's warning re reddit.
phf: when i was growing up my parents would by my italian shoes for $200 or so, which was an exuberant amount. i have one pair still. i went hunting for the same kind recently, and not only is it impossible to find similar quality, once i had a friend of a friend recommendation it was in the $2000's. and it's not even proper dress shoes, more of loather kind, with incredibly soft caoutchouc soles.
phf: (i actually don't know if those $2000 ones are even the same, i vaguely suspect it's just a "high end brand" scam)
jurov: My best shoes were adidas zappans, very soft and pliable soles but lasted about 5 years... would hate to buy new ones only to find out they "optimized" them
mircea_popescu: phf it's actually a very smart move, that 200 bucks will both encourage the kid to act sanely, which in itself is priceless, and otherwise cover the ground of a dozen pairs which would have been 20ish each anyway
mircea_popescu: but yeah, turns out this entire "progress" bullshit is not even limited to software.
mircea_popescu: at least we're not women. those - can't have shoes. period. at no price.
phf: in related news i don't understand punkd. it's a very expensive feature phone. yet one of the top FAQ is "how to reset the software when it hangs". i'm using this guy right now,
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T139-Flip-Phone-T-Mobile/dp/B00387FAC0 it's $30 used (i think it was $25 from t-mobile store, i'm not sure how amazon is selling it for $90) and it never had to be "reset"
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i don't want to expose my actual IP to the world, cause...yea. But the only IP i can forward is an AWS one to my house.
mircea_popescu: phf i been using whatever dumbphone i put in the logs last we had this. it's never hung either. or in general done anything remarkable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's funny, especially seeing how the addition of soy to salami practiced by the commies was widely unpopular, and a significant case of the revolution.
mircea_popescu: ceausescu got shot in part because of the fucking soy.
BingoBoingo: Ceausescu lacked marketing. 'Murican soy is new age, asian (cool Yoga aszn not dweeby starcraft azn), and hip.
mod6: thanks for the nice titty pics last day or so
mircea_popescu: their problem was that society was sufficiently connected, and so in spite of the state "empowering" women in their usual way, family endured, even strengthened because of it.
mircea_popescu: they tried to ruin gender relations by forbidding anticonceptionals, but it failed to actually sour men on women or women on men.
mod6: so when you say 'soy to salami', you're saying they tried to make salami out of soy product?
mircea_popescu: there's two kinds of deli products / cold cuts / salami / what you call them.
mod6: yeah, but, holy shit.
mircea_popescu: kind one, like the two hundred bucks a kilo soppressata i buy, or the romanian molded horse salami, or etcetera, are actually ~improvements~ on the component meat.
mod6: wow, she's easy on the eyes 'eh
mircea_popescu: kind two, however, like spam, or baloney, or whatnot, is simply a technological answer to the "five people want to eat a pound of meat each but we only have six ounces of the thing".
mod6: I love pickles btw. I'd probably enjoy having them every meal.
mircea_popescu: so they add hydrogenated vegetal oils, starch, soy paste, whatever can be found to you know... expand it.
mircea_popescu: so you know .salami is great and romanians are huge salami makers/eaters.
mircea_popescu: but like you say, turn it into a scam and they'll fight.\
mod6: yeah, for sure. don't scam a man on his fuckin salami.
mircea_popescu: it's one of those things where it's hard to check so if you fuck it up you should hang.
mod6: yeah, these are artisan things, can't be fucked with.
mod6: i buy salami like ~weekly. its wonderful. if they started replacing it with some sort of soylent substitute... rage.
mircea_popescu: and in europe, esp central europe (but a generous central expanding all the way into france and northern italy) it's a 10-15 century tradition.
mircea_popescu: so much so that it influences village life, like at pig cutting time everyone'd make their stuff and then they put it to dry in the church bell tower, which was only opened on day x
☟︎ mod6: also, i feel like i've got some interesting things to try from the idea of non vinegar pickles.
mod6: not super often. i do like homemade bread tho.
mircea_popescu: that's the thing. step one in all "proper" ie ceuropean foodmaking is, you must have a room, which a) never freezes and b) bread is made in regularly.
mod6: church bell tower has better air draft/breeze?
mircea_popescu: this selects a mold of the place. then you can start making all sorts of other things without a care in the world. like proper pickles.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it's high enough and easy to lock i suppose were the criteria.
mod6: this is instructional. thanks :]
mod6: haha, now im hungry. better get some cured meats...
mircea_popescu: backed by the history of skillful women collected in a room, many impossible tasks are trivial. salt pickles a fine example of this.
mircea_popescu: romanian dude that "doesn't like me" (because how dare i be this cool) deleted his blog, then a year later came back with an english thing which is all about... how the planet is broken!
mircea_popescu: no mention of the logs or anything, of course. because overly ambitious, intelligent but idiotic ro-jwz can has ideas all by himself and of his own! so there!
ben_vulpes: on my desk today: "ACCOMPLICES NOT ALLIES: abolishing the ally industrial complex (an indigenous perspective)"
trinque: ben_vulpes: who did that to you?
a111: Logged on 2016-10-25 16:16 mircea_popescu: so much so that it influences village life, like at pig cutting time everyone'd make their stuff and then they put it to dry in the church bell tower, which was only opened on day x
a111: Logged on 2016-10-25 16:17 mircea_popescu: mod6 do your woman(z) make home bread ?
phf: despite the schadenfreude, the amount of entropy is disconcerting
mircea_popescu: heh, i see the registration is still unchanged. i thought the deal included the guy's obligation to change them wtf.
trinque: the whois tells a tale of lulz
mircea_popescu: wouldn't surprise me if he lost the domain because of this.
trinque: asciilifeform: worked fine with bitbet.us added to hosts
trinque: not like that's a compliment
mircea_popescu: then when the new owner got it i'm pretty sure i had a "make sure you change these" i nthere.
shinohai thanks mircea_popescu for improving the view this afternoon
shinohai saves the pic to his callipygous files
shinohai: You don't have a callipygous pic collection? >.>
ben_vulpes: interestingly 'dbmail' also uses parens-delimited expressions
trinque: do I read this correctly in that it's crying over a woman?
shinohai: trinque has a point, no tears.
trinque: see, there's another one right there!
shinohai: I had bad luck with the Colombian girl, turns out she has commie ideas.
ben_vulpes: that's what the cranial steel wool is for
shinohai: Well, Marxist ideas, such as everyone is somehow equal and wealth should be distributed.
mircea_popescu: she's a poor chick in colombia, what do you want her to think ?
☟︎ shinohai: No one was trying to turn her into a housewife
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the reformation is very difficult process in american society
mircea_popescu: ah, notrly a process. just, some eventually decide to settle down. it's an internal thing.
thestringpuller: oh those. I work with an entire department of them, they pay for themselves if they get job then get pregnant then get paid to be pregnant.
trinque: most of the sluts I knew in early 20s are two kids deep in momhood by now
BingoBoingo: lol, people bitch about corn and soy but forget to bitch about potatoes when complaining about glyphosate. Potatoes get sprayed with glyphosate before harvest because they are NOT resistant.
BingoBoingo: Anyways Mesotrione is a far sexier herbicide atm.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron it's hard dude. even finding a chick worth bothering with the training of is <1 in 1000 sorta shot. but what you're looking for... you gotta go to either amish land or preferably middle east and see there.