pete_dushenski: given that it'd be 9 months since zooko's pathetic 'white paper' i thought usg.idjits had given up on him altogether, but i guess the etherape forced them to reconsider even their most ill-advised projects and implement anything at all if even just so they could keep talking about themselves
shinohai: pete_dushenski: did my comment get lost or does it have to be moderated ?
pete_dushenski: it's there so chances are it was a cache hold-up and you just need to refresh the page to see it.
shinohai: how dafuq did covertress avatar show up there?
shinohai: They fucking "LIVE STREAMED" the Genesis block.
shinohai: Did they at least have lemonade too?
BingoBoingo not sure if the lack of discussion on the fanfic is a good or bad thing.
BingoBoingo: Perhaps now that the slash is done next entry should take a more traditional fanfic turn.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform empire is really dedicated to "not a sperm is wasted". all teh holes gotta be always kept.
trinque: dunno why that's filed under texas
trinque: are they pandering to my demographic?!?!
shinohai: Asses are better for snorting coke off of
mircea_popescu: you really don't want to mix the hygroscopic cocaine with skin brine.
BingoBoingo: <trinque> dunno why that's filed under texas << No, filed under news *FOR* Texas
BingoBoingo: "One of the people who was sought in the probable cause action was killed. Another person was injured and transported to an area hospital where he was later arrested, according to an FBI press release obtained by Breitbart Texas at the time." << Pussies at Breitbart won't give Lavoy Finicum his NAME!.
shinohai: LOL vexual should have put that one in format for the Qntest
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mod6: lol, how's it goin?
ben_vulpes: "we even picked them out together online" wahaha
ben_vulpes: i ain't even take remedial kink and that shit's retarded
BingoBoingo: Motherfucker *wants* to get cuck'd by a couple bits of plastic
BingoBoingo: It's only time before he finds a boyfriend with "frame" to bring home.
ben_vulpes: relatedly, hijinks on the corvette hood jammed the right side release
ben_vulpes: i think it's a mechanical jam, possibly the glass is now out of true
BingoBoingo: PB Blaster, Patience, and Pushing is the amended prescription
ben_vulpes: source of and solution to the world's woes
BingoBoingo: But the PB Blaster is pretty much nothing but solution... except in locks... or electronics
BingoBoingo: Nah, because wear items always evade permanent solutions. They aren't plinths.
trinque: the guy who has to ask an authority how and whether to fuck truly is another gender.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes corvette is for fucking 50lbs of 17yo not 100lbs of married woman!
trinque: also hooning in circles when wet
ben_vulpes: schedule is a matter of personal taste
mircea_popescu: i wonder if they actually had a hood engineer sit around thinking about this
ben_vulpes: replacing that bumper is going to cost me 450 in plastic and another 175 in shipping oil
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it may interest you to know i first met / picked out / hired my best driver ever when he was 17 and was doing "spinnies" with a group of similarly minded idiots
mircea_popescu: which consisted of accelerating and then steer-locking the car in a gravel pit.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, you know how you can make the car skid if you steer it ineptly ?
trinque: this is what texas "beaches" are for
mircea_popescu: ah yes, but on gravel! ro standard gravel has this 1cm ish shards thing, it's a horror.
ben_vulpes: so in other related plastics, ford is shipping a focus with "drift mode"
ben_vulpes: featuring computer controlled front/rear differential
ben_vulpes: when yaw rate exceeds some envelope parameters it dumps power back to the front and yanks the car back under control (in theory)
ben_vulpes: local club has a great story about a noob slamming a brand new focus into a rock wall playing with this
ben_vulpes: missed the front of the pile of parked club cars by ~10 feet
trinque: this is now called cuckatronics
ben_vulpes: WHY do yams and sweet potatoes fry so differently from ordinary american idaho potatoes?
mircea_popescu: best excuse ever for girl not liking condoms : "there's barely any room even without!"
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Because they are compeltely different things. White potatoes are a nightshade tuber and sweet potatoes are a morning glory tuber.
phf: i don't get sweet potatoes, i've been trying to work with them, but they don't seem to ever come out tasty. i even tried them as fries..
BingoBoingo: And yams are something else entirely. Fucking inedible underground cyanide factories.
mircea_popescu: i don't much care for the sweet stuff, so i don't usually eat it. i think it's acquired thanksgiving taste.
ben_vulpes: hey i just said "PROCURE ME A DIVERSITY OF TUBER"
mircea_popescu: at least you didn't end up with horse radish / nightshade mix.
BingoBoingo drives by a field of cultivated horse radish with regularity
ben_vulpes: is there anything to this "nightshade allergy"?
☟︎ trinque: phf: they're good with something savory on 'em, say a fried egg and some sausage
BingoBoingo: Well depends on the person? There's a bunch of stuff there that could be variably toxic depending on the specific person. Probably less allergy and more varying vulnerability to poison.
trinque: chopped up, fried in sparing amount of butter
trinque: you can throw in a chopped up green apple too
BingoBoingo: phf: trinque is right. Don't think of them as potatoes. Think of them as a sort of underground squash.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 17:51 trinque: the guy who has to ask an authority how and whether to fuck truly is another gender.
phf: hmm, yeah, i have hard time with that whole direction, squash, eggplant
phf: mircea_popescu: oh it's great as a zakuska, i was just thinking that i should make some "eggplant caviar" (no idea what the proper translation is)
BingoBoingo: The best summer squash is the Pattypan squash. There is no contest here and assertions to the contrary are crimes (libel, defamation, fraud) against nature.
phf: hah, that's why i like baba ganoush, but i don't know the recipe for later. when cooked russian style it's somewhat different from what they sell as baba ganoush in u.s.
phf: interestingly french call baba ganoush caviar d'aubergine a la libanaise
mircea_popescu: and i have nfi why they call "caviar" things which remind them of ... cheap roe salads. but w/e
phf: there's a joke in a su commedy set in 16th century russia, where a character is listing dishes at a lavish feast, black caviar in a giant container, red caviar in a smaller plate, and "caviar from foreign lands, eggplant caviar" barely a spoonful. i sort of always assumed because of that movie that at some point eggplants were near impossible to source around where the term "eggplant caviar" originated
mircea_popescu: seems improbable, they come from the russian motherland of armenian ssr.
phf: armenia wasn't part of russia until 19th century, and in 16th century it wouldn't yet be under iranian influence, so it's possible that it was brought all the way from iran as bademjan
phf: i have to add this as an asset in an ongoing hostilities with my iranian colleagues over "things that we have invented and you stole from us", which started as this things do over my casual remark that samovar was invented by russians
mircea_popescu: what do you mean how so ? like tv killed the radio star, they were there and jewing the place up then the jews came along and stole it from them.
BingoBoingo: Wait, does this mean Iran or Russia did WTC?
phf: i don't know what to do with that knowledge, like ark of the covenant, it might be ultimate weapon
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo 40 bucks a bottle is actually pretty great price for the merchandise i'd say
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You'd be surprised. One of those things with quite a bit of variation depending on the particular time and liquor store.
mircea_popescu: just going by it generally. esltards pretend whiskey to be an actual drink (it utterly is not, fruit alcohol is the only stuff worth drinking), and if we grant that faulty premise then 40 bucks for a quart of flawless whiskey compares favourably with a middle of the road cognac going more in the 100-200 range.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: But not flawless or even graded. Sold in private wool over the eyes "experience" swindle.
mircea_popescu: well, if you buy by the barrel you should in principle get a barrel.
BingoBoingo: Likely barrel were to far out of spec for blending into standard 20-30/bottle product so "exclusive" label attached.
BingoBoingo: And definitely too far out of spec for bottled "single barrel" origin product.
BingoBoingo: Anyways even if barrel itself is included, ACTUAL used whiskey barrel is of... limited value...
shinohai: "The Republic's efforts to locate Peace on Earth, going as far as the gates of Hell, resulted in SFYL as the forum admins selectively scammed MP for 0.1 BTC"
shinohai: I left that goddamned page up for 3 days
shinohai: For that Mexican gardener look?
BingoBoingo more worried about carb'd engine in hostile ethanol containing fuel market
shinohai: I dunno if it was intentional or what ... but no way to contact admins or anything that I have found thus far.
shinohai: They could at least include a sigaint address or something since already on tor
shinohai: anywho is I find a way to contact them I'll hit you up if you don't mind signing a message from that addy.
mircea_popescu: besides, it's not my job to chase him. guy scammed, let him put the elbow grease in to fix it.
shinohai: Lucky me all these berry claims are close together. :D
mircea_popescu: basically the right way is to get 14 bundles, put them in table, walk over there, move them into one claim, then take them out one at time exploit claims then when done put product in table walk it back
shinohai: I'm an idiot, I should have put bundles in table.
shinohai: meh they are close to town anyways
mircea_popescu: nothing harder in this world than stuff which require pascal's esprit de geometrie.
shinohai: The brunette with the tat on side, one star for each gargled dick ?
mircea_popescu: not possibru, unless she sheds her skin every three months like some sort of naga
diana_coman: eh, on the other hand he might need to train in between claims seeing how his skill is not that high yet so a trip back to town anyway
mircea_popescu: also, for the amateur entomologists : the body of work published by the us agitprop wrt to vladislav surkov during the past five years is a splendid mirror to interpret the decaying empire itself. all that hero worship, all that fake fear that "someone", obviously "somewhere far away" may be you know, mixing democratic rhetoric with undemocratic intent, creating a "post truth" world and generally constructing a menacing unrea
mircea_popescu: lity is entirely self-deconstruction of the most transparent ilk.
mircea_popescu: like a contemporary fable. really, the WOLF did that ? a speaking wolf ? wow!
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 19:28 mircea_popescu: Apparently Surkov used Microsoft Outlook.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 19:24 mircea_popescu: just going by it generally. esltards pretend whiskey to be an actual drink (it utterly is not, fruit alcohol is the only stuff worth drinking), and if we grant that faulty premise then 40 bucks for a quart of flawless whiskey compares favourably with a middle of the road cognac going more in the 100-200 range.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 18:05 ben_vulpes: is there anything to this "nightshade allergy"?
danielpbarron: which is very strange to me because, i'm 1/2 armenian
BingoBoingo: Prolly the Nineveh thing, likely confused it with Babylon
BingoBoingo: Assure him daniel is safely in Connecticut or wherever