lobbesbot: Logged on 2017-07-23 00:00:12: <bluthw> ok this is what I did (6:39:01 PM) bluthw: !!register wotpaste url from above
mircea_popescu: 1990s was great in the us for one thing only -- cartoons. dexter's lab, cow and chicken, animaniacs... true revival of the genre.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i've yet to be stung by anything. reports of dangerous wildlife experimentally exaggerated.
☟︎ shinohai: The 47 lbs in `147` must be in the tits
mircea_popescu: i'm giving it even odds it's some ethereum expert in his spare time.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> 'you are now a tasty sandwich' << kekekek
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo i've yet to be stung by anything. reports of dangerous wildlife experimentally exaggerated. << Well what caterpillar of doom can penetrate your impecable suit jackets on a casual brushing?
a111: Logged on 2017-07-23 01:07 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i've yet to be stung by anything. reports of dangerous wildlife experimentally exaggerated.
BingoBoingo occasionally get bitten by mosquito and less frequently collides with Cicada killer wasp
BingoBoingo: Middle west is wet enough, but not consistently hot
mircea_popescu: it should be noted that i have at least a dozen different wasp nests actively maintained all about.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ( there was a proposal to introduce lions to u.s. flyovers. but afaik went nowhere, insufficient bison ) << Mountain lion is restablishing self at own pace
mircea_popescu: one particularly active hive is trying to eat up a whole window.
mircea_popescu: actually, savannah lion does not actively hunt people. mountain lion - does.
BingoBoingo: actively if bicycle is involved apparently
mircea_popescu: so basically somali was playing with gun, accidentally discharged it ?
mod6: lot of mpls news lately 'eh
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-23#1689354 << i like rick&morty but i think it suffers from the whole human element thing as far being "tmsr like". for example if you take original sherlock holmes, there's not really any attempts to either humanize or dehumanize him, he was just doing his thing, brilliantly, and it was the raison d'etre. take on the other hand modern remake, where half of the narrative is devoted to "oh, he's brilliant, BUT CAN HE SOLVE
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-07-23 00:09 asciilifeform: i actually liked a recent (gasp) item, 'rick & morty'
phf: THE MYSTERY OF HUMAN LOVE". they go at it from all kinds of angles, his relationship with watson, his relationship with cops, his relationship with random english suburban twats; all written from a perspective of "he's alien, but maybe he's just the rest of us blokes, once you get to know him like, maybe grab a pint on sunday". an element completely missing from the originals.
mircea_popescu: kinda the splooge that makes usian copywriting unreadable.
phf: so in rick&morty you have the whole "rick is an asshole", but they can't just leave him be an asshole, they have to deconstruct it, show the human side, etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: can't have a faux media piece without "on the day of the moon landing i was eating an apple pie" '''human''' bullshit.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 20:00 phf: "helllooo springfield!!!1 --- omg it's us, he's talking about us"
mircea_popescu: of course the deep reason is that 1800s brit didn't need to be told he's human ; because he spent ~0 hours of any day wondering on this topic.
phf: it's very tlp, media telling you how to be human
phf: i was thinking of the british tv show with benedict cumberbatch, but same thing, yes. the one where they made him addicted to nicotine patches.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is imo the great value of that applegate film.
mircea_popescu: "The sad truth of the matter is that the ustard male inverses the story of his revered antecessors. If a century ago the youth, inept like all youths, stubborn like all youths, took a whole two minutes to start on his journey of exploration and then proceeded to actually journey for an hour and a half, the manchild of "modern democracy" takes about an hour to finally, grudgingly, angrily proceed to travel for a whole two minu
mircea_popescu: tes before the story rapidly folds as if this horror of horrors, the fucking trip, is so scary it can't even be contemplated, just a glimpse suffices and should be immediately forgotten."
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 20:05 mircea_popescu: says the fucking words, you know ? "you should be stronger than me". dood...
BingoBoingo: Shot blondie from inside oppression wagon while bondie approached
BingoBoingo: <phf> i was thinking of the british tv show with benedict cumberbatch, but same thing, yes. the one where they made him addicted to nicotine patches. << I though people got addicted to the gum
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Patches have horrible kinetics for addiction
deedbot: ziiip voiced for 30 minutes.
deedbot: Birdman voiced for 30 minutes.
BingoBoingo: Birdman: What bring you flying in around these parts
Birdman: better to fly around here than elsewhere, dont mind me
BingoBoingo: Ah, I mean from eulora. Just wondering if there's something bringing you over to this side of the tracks now instead of any other time.
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BingoBoingo: Lulz: "During the day I would work hard to promote the agenda of people who stood to make millions of dollars off of the addictions of chronic users like me. For some reason nothing about this clicked in the way that had happened when I learned about the tobacco and alcohol lobbies; for some reason I still clung to the idea that these were mom-and-pop growers and dispensaries when in reality they were places that often had millions of do
BingoBoingo: llars of capital—the amount necessary to register and establish these stores and legal grow-ops. I ignored the warning signs of the industry pushing for higher levels of THC and lower levels of CBD"
BingoBoingo: You know how it works on glaucoma... GEM: "I got a brain scan and after eight years of chronic use the vasoconstrictive properties of the substance had made my organ’s surface go from smooth and uniform to pockmarked and lumpy. I was told that I was lucky that it hadn’t turned out worse."
deedbot: scr voiced for 30 minutes.
deedbot: Scronty voiced for 30 minutes.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wait, is this "large scale pot usage undercovers pot not being panacea" ?
BingoBoingo: The venue sucks at webbing, but the text is pinnacle of pantsuit's favorite herb being critiqued by one of its victims
BingoBoingo: A WINNRAR: "The anxiety of being dankrupt horrified me and so I’d keep around waxes and vape pens and various other concentrates (even though they were too strong for my taste) just because I knew they’d be there when the flower inevitably ran out. I tried to get midis, strains with lower levels of THC, from the dispensary but they looked at me funny from behind the counter when I said I didn’t want to get too high."
mircea_popescu: this is like not even horrid, as far as coinages go. where do they find flocks of seagulls with still firing neurons anyway ?!
ben_vulpes: > "I momentarily resented having to misgender myself by attending a women's group ( I'm non-binary ) ..."
mircea_popescu: wait wait. you mean to tell me every time i walk into a damas lavatory i'm misgendering myself ?
BingoBoingo: Well, "spiritual experience" is important for sobriety.
mircea_popescu: here's a temporary moment of clarity : ALL physchoactives are neurotoxic. this is the DEFINITION of psychoactive.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like how all window-piercing ammo is glass shattering. actually, strike that. not sort-of. exactly like.
mircea_popescu: "maybe these broadleaf plants are hepatotoxic" "you know... how could they not be ?" "umm... well, if the horse were spherical and didn't need a liver at all..."
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Seriously though, that piece is a very unique glimse into the very un-unique pantsuit plan for future health
BingoBoingo: 1 bed, 1 tv, 1 ounce of weed, and all the petro cheese
BingoBoingo: Well, you know how wrinked things can be smooth about their wrinkles. Scrunched up silk vs scrunched up burlap may be what the stoner as going for
mircea_popescu: "Attendance was scant—three people including the leader and me—" <<< aaaand it lost me.
mircea_popescu: what the everloving fuck. they dare call this crap "a group" ? fuck this dumb shit.
BingoBoingo: Cannabidiol, boring chemical that has very big pharma like not-intoxicating effects
a111: Logged on 2017-07-23 04:52 mircea_popescu: "maybe these broadleaf plants are hepatotoxic" "you know... how could they not be ?" "umm... well, if the horse were spherical and didn't need a liver at all..."
mircea_popescu: let's wonder whether the most serene republic can actuallty dictate us policy and let's not wonder whether our "groups" of 3 idiots including the speaker and the "leader" are worth the mention. hurr durr and gtfo already.
mircea_popescu: i've kinda waiting fgor the "veggies ... are actually bad for you" trend reversal. because you know it's coming.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "Attendance was scant—three people including the leader and me—" <<< aaaand it lost me. << Well, hard to rock bottom boring shit
mircea_popescu: (perhaps nobody noticed that the large 70s push away from "bad" meats exactly coincided with the failure of us agro to produce enough meat for the enbulkenking middle class.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha. the "meat is bad for you" totally got people off ribs and tbone steaks and onto mcd patties and soycrap.
BingoBoingo: AHA, lists of "toxic" produce with maximum organophosphate because California also circulating
mircea_popescu: i have no idea how a pound of bloody porterhouse can possibly be worse for you than ~anything else ; but hey, who's gonna make 300 mn pounds of prime cut for all the idiots each day.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo they do have a point though ; costa rica imports some stuff from the us, and you can always tell. don't even have to taste, smell is enough 90% of the time.
mircea_popescu: most crap works that way. from ddt to hwat have you. it's not the safe dose. it's the fact you'll never clear it.
mircea_popescu: there's a number of factors : water solubility ; electric philoreactivity ; specific enzimatic pathways ; molecular size in rough order.
BingoBoingo: Well, the part getting mangled in the receptor, so clears... When nerve cell decommisions receptor
mircea_popescu: touch two of the four you're probably taking it to the coffin.
mircea_popescu: sure. there's however also this tendency to fat store that correlates with mass.
mircea_popescu: also with other things -- heavy metals are conjunctive-stored in preference of fat, but let's not go so deep.
mircea_popescu: i'm thinking of the whole palette of anthropogenic chemicals.
mircea_popescu: which is not a trivial proposition ; and can kinda allow you to decide who to convict.
ben_vulpes: in other penetratives, i've gotten mild mileage out of topical thc/cbd potions for 'programmer hand' leftover from laptop-on-train days
a111: Logged on 2017-07-23 00:08 mircea_popescu: might check out cow and chicken. very iconoclastic.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-23 02:29 phf: so in rick&morty you have the whole "rick is an asshole", but they can't just leave him be an asshole, they have to deconstruct it, show the human side, etc.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 23:50 mircea_popescu: trinque ^ ?
trinque: I'll ship some better-sanded edges when the wallet stuff ships
☟︎ trinque: oh shit, this guy burned his private key?!
trinque: "I've made a terrible mistake."
a111: Logged on 2017-07-23 16:33 trinque: I'll ship some better-sanded edges when the wallet stuff ships
mircea_popescu: it's just that it was so far of left field i dinged you before actually looking into it. because "did you attempt to reg your privkey" was not on my "you are speaking english online and therefore dumber than rocks" checklist.
lobbesbot: Logged on 2017-07-23 03:05:46: <elleross> ok so I did and I got the username and password but when I try to log in says no such user
mircea_popescu: incidentally, broken ssh key of a mail.pape-dawson.com server is kinda how you get all those hilarity emails isn't it ?
mircea_popescu: well, i imagine people connect to their local email account on the basis of ssh ? so you can masquerade it and read their mail.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Pape-Dawson will continue to emphasize character and moral integrity; develop solutions in the best interest of the client and public; constantly re-evaluate and sharpen our engineering skills; provide an environment that encourages employee development and satisfaction; actively participate in professional, religious, and civic associations; nurture trusting relationships; and offer services only in our area of technical ca
mircea_popescu: they're industrial plumbers, you realise, they stick those meter-wide pipes in the ground.
mircea_popescu: the politruk blather has reached absolutely soviet levels by now. what the fuck are they about even ?
a111: Logged on 2017-07-23 18:34 mircea_popescu: well, i imagine people connect to their local email account on the basis of ssh ? so you can masquerade it and read their mail.
mircea_popescu:
http://roilandtv.com/the-real-animated-adventures-of-doc-and-mharti/# << "I actually made this as a way to poke fun at the idea of getting cease and desist letters. At the time (October 2006) I had nothing to lose and my original intention was to call this “back to the future: the new official universal studios cartoon featuring the new Doc Brown and Marty McFly” and then I’d just sit back and wait for a letter from the
mircea_popescu: ir lawyers to arrive. That’s actually why it’s so filthy. I was just looking to “troll” a big studio. Then, as I began editing the radio play and boarding it, the two characters ended up becoming something different than just a bad impression of Doc and Marty from BTTF. They slowly became two of my favorite characters that I’ve ever voiced. I backed down on the cease and desist bait and changed the spelling of their
mircea_popescu: fuck justin roiland with a spiked hot poker what the fuck is this poisonous crap.
mircea_popescu: "at the time (october 2006) i was spending a lot of time jacking off to stuff i downloaded from the piratebay and i saw their hilariously republican blog ; so i figured... hey, i'm an american and therefore worse that a shitstain in a paki's undershorts. how could i possibly try and run off with as much of that as possible to sell to my nigger masters for some mountain dew ???"
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i expect "Before the lecture was through, I had formed a very clear picture of the mythical photographic memory simulator. With only a few keystrokes, it would allow me to enter any thought which occurs to me, along with any associations. The latter set would be expanded by the program to include anything which logically relates to the entry in question." is pretty much exactly what emacs users expect to obtain,
a111: Logged on 2016-12-13 14:48 mircea_popescu: depends what you use it for. if you msotly use an editor to create de novo text, not good fit. if you mostly use editor to adnotate other people's text, very good fit.
mircea_popescu: vi very fucking definitely isn't even vaguely attempting to support this upwards expansion. it rather dedicates itself to trying to compactly symbolize the diffs downwards.
mircea_popescu: (for the record -- while i do believe that IA (as opposed to ai bullcrap) is both perfectly achievable, in many ways achieved, and the ~only reasonable use of the machine in the first place ; i nevertheless think the problem is catastrophically ill posed in the "you know, like bullzoder" sense. yes there was such an application for digital computers, it is called "the numeric method" and still not widely deployed notwithstand
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 18:44 mircea_popescu: im hiring a uci.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 19:57 mircea_popescu: what the hell is the difference supposed to be.
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mircea_popescu: (much more of a torture implement than commonly realised btw)
mircea_popescu: ohohoh this is pure gold. "To achieve this, you must first study the Gestalt laws and learn to Gestalt-program your own mind. For, we are self-programming Gestalt-computers, Stanislaw. Relax and look at these five patterns while sensing their perceptual force. Note how they are self-defining in any language. Through perceptual induction they govern all the logical deductions that you will ever be able to make:SIMILARITY | | |
mircea_popescu: | | | | PROXIMITY || || || | CLOSURE ][ ][ ][ ] DESTINY >>>>>>> CONTINUITY —|—|—|— Modus Ponens is made of this… To achieve mastery of Gestalt self-programming you must start using the method of mentat computation (after Frank Herbert, of course) that I describe in the paper in this link:"