tmsr - Log 2018-12-21

mircea_popescu: http://irreal.org/blog/ << for the lulz files. incidentally, when i think "emacs user" i think of this moron, "omg you guys .org -> .tex -> .pdf is a great work-flow for sharing information. It's like #inception though - first #emacs became my OS and now everything I create in Emacs is becoming an #Orgmode file. First I started doing all my writing in Emacs (and later, of course, as much of everything else as I could) and the ☟︎

mircea_popescu: It occurred to me that Org is like the Borg: it absorbs everything that gets near it. So laugh all you want but you will be assimilated." and reddit links.

mircea_popescu: too lazy to dig up his github profile fulla amateur astronomy, "omg guise did you know you could put fries on pizza and it would taste amazing" cooking recipes and assorted http://trilema.com/2014/agency-and-other-notes/#selection-31.0-31.271 ☟︎

spyked: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-20#1882413 <-- sounds good. I'll be online starting about 12PM UTC until late, so give signal and I'll /join from the feedbot side ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-12-20 16:19 lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-20#1882350 << ty sir. How about this Saturday for the swap? I'll take lobbesbot's RSS-o-tron offline that day and you can have feedbot join #eulora

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-21#1882424 << i'ma bet you found the d00d through asciilifeform's links sect, where he has a well-deserved place for useful elisp material. ( does mircea_popescu have something specifically against 'orgmode' , or simply in the habit of spitting on anything he dun use personally ? ) ☝︎☟︎

a111: Logged on 2018-12-21 06:29 mircea_popescu: http://irreal.org/blog/ << for the lulz files. incidentally, when i think "emacs user" i think of this moron, "omg you guys .org -> .tex -> .pdf is a great work-flow for sharing information. It's like #inception though - first #emacs became my OS and now everything I create in Emacs is becoming an #Orgmode file. First I started doing all my writing in Emacs (and later, of course, as much of everything else as I could) and the

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-21#1882427 << most damning sin of the 'irreal' fella is.. failing to come up with a unique handle. the shithub by that name has 0 to do with the linked blog, it's fulla microshit and 0 emacsism ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-12-21 06:30 mircea_popescu: too lazy to dig up his github profile fulla amateur astronomy, "omg guise did you know you could put fries on pizza and it would taste amazing" cooking recipes and assorted http://trilema.com/2014/agency-and-other-notes/#selection-31.0-31.271

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually found him because (inexplicably) popped in trilema referrer list.

a111: Logged on 2018-12-19 22:21 mircea_popescu: yeah but i mean, capable when producing what etcetera. i never pursued a woman in my life, nor do i intend to ever start ; i hold no grudges for those who do, but you do understand ~an entire half of the species~ survived to the present day by ~exploting~ this behaviour of yours, yes ?

mircea_popescu: it is a ~fact~ that the empire only perpetuates through the ~willing~ and ~deliberate~ sin of republicans, who ~elect~ to feed the morons. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: moreover, no amount of buying sodas & popcorn for miss princess rottencrotchstein two doors down so you fight her over her tits in the darkness of the cinema hall is EVER going to produce a useful slavegirl.

mircea_popescu: there's no "progression". the place for the "well brought up" daugthers of the middle class is the furnace, naught else.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this was the basic thrust behind asciilifeform's http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-19#1882088 jumper setting. ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-12-19 20:59 asciilifeform: phf: observe, asciilifeform's approach to breaking 'seekrets' is not entirely ineffective. and yes it is 'unfriendly', in particular to folx keeping the seekritz. which by extension is ~anyone~ who knows and aint saying.

mircea_popescu: and besides, and just as importantly : the boy who puppyloves some girl ~is in no way different ; IN NO WAY DIFFERENT~ from the erastes who "loves" some man's kiddy bait whore.

mircea_popescu: if i have a woman going out who pretends to put out so that i walk in on you, throw a fit and fuck you in the ass -- whether i show up to actually do it or not MAKES NO DIFFERENCE TO YOUR STATUS. you're still my cock rag.

mircea_popescu: and whether you're both 16 and i'm her father-owner rather than her master-owner ALSO MAKES NO DIFFERENCE TO YOUR STATUS.

mircea_popescu: either you own the woman, or else you're just there to anally please her owner. that's the outlay, there's nothing else there.

mircea_popescu: which is the deep problem with http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-19#1881912 : you want to be a lord within the walls but play the erastes outside. it's ~not easy~, yes women can do it remarkably well, but http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-20#1882319 ☝︎☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-12-19 19:24 phf: so i'm not trusted at all?

a111: Logged on 2018-12-20 00:45 asciilifeform: y'know full well that engineers can't find own head from arse in 'fields easier to observe'

mircea_popescu: now where's the link to that story about the man who lent some money and ends by wondering whether he keeps going back to "get his money back", fuck the guy's wife or take up the ass ?

mircea_popescu: it's not some fucking joke, which is why it's funny. it's why these are always funny.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the one thing that blows my mind is the compartimentalization. "you either own the computer or else work for the usg" is somehow self-evident ; "you either own the woman or else work for the usg" is magically not, because "it was not clear to me dks was the woman in our relationship, what is the similarity between the dangly-bait cunt in each case ?!?!?!"

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to add moar weird to the story, last night dks actually answered, with 'i'ma dig for some PAL stuff, will write back after newyear'. old man simply moves slowly. ( and notice that i did not have to swear masonic oath to him !111 )

asciilifeform: the sinners in the story aren't even dks et al, but the http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-21#1882442 folx, the 'masonic oaths' they swear are largely ~to each other~, creating a hitler out of vacuum ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-12-21 14:53 mircea_popescu: it is a ~fact~ that the empire only perpetuates through the ~willing~ and ~deliberate~ sin of republicans, who ~elect~ to feed the morons.

BingoBoingo: Masonic oaths don't create hitlers. They do worse. They create oxford boys playing soggy biscuits while bucket crabbing.

asciilifeform: old folx want to 'feel relevant'. if you throw'em this bone by preemptively 'promising to seekrit', they'll eat it up. if you throw different bone, will also eat.

mircea_popescu: i never witnessed this phenomenon where the same young hussy giving some age-peer a hard time puts out unasked as soon as some gypo shows up.

asciilifeform: i realize this aint news to mircea_popescu , but gotta put in the l0gz for all the folx who aint 10,000 y.o. olympians

asciilifeform: ( and even if ~won't eat bone~ -- in asciilifeform's eyes, it is far better to take bloody irons apart ion by ion for 20yrs than to get commented sores at the cost of selling soul )

asciilifeform: it's 1 thing if yer stierlitz and sign whatever 'seekrecy agreements' with the reich so as to then have what to radio back to stalin, laughing all the way. it's quite another if yer actually infected and start taking the 'promises' to reich seriously.

a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 20:50 mircea_popescu: fact of the matter, for ~these reasons~ i don't even believe mit told original symbolics&co fucktards to be fucktards.

a111: Logged on 2018-05-14 23:22 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, mit is the owner of ~nothing.

a111: Logged on 2017-04-09 22:51 mircea_popescu: phf this part is fine. now, why did they fail to a) band togetgher and b) control, deliberately, the product.

asciilifeform: and observe that asciilifeform is somehow able to discuss this point without 'ohnoez, but what if x,y,z read the log!'

mircea_popescu: much like the usg hook in campus intimate relationships is "rape", (also as the usg earworm, has ~nothing to do with rape in any sense)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i happen to know that the 'mit tyranny' consisted of standard patent agreement. which some folx 'ohnoezed' and 'preemptively' bowed over, and others -- simply raped, and laughed all the way to bank.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as fucking if anyone reading the logs is anything but that one's immediate obligation.

mircea_popescu: but anyway, there's a ~reason~ for http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-28#1875908 ; that reason is ~RAISING AWARENESS~. ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 23:29 Mocky: these jobs requiring 'clearanced' is actually quite handy, easy filter criteria

mircea_popescu: they know it works (as it evidently does, phf wasn't even born there i have to point out to him that http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-20#1882391 ) and so they want every last indian in some remote hunting lodge somewhere to have at least one blanket. ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-12-20 15:46 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform on meditation, that piece makes it plainly evident redditardation is ~generational~, not ideological. there sit the russki kids, who'd be in a fine position to understand the problem. god knows they have much better access to much better priors that readily illuminate it.

asciilifeform: it's essentially replay of ye olde 'do not build own jail inside yer head' thread.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-21#1882432 << mircea_popescu believes orgmode is ~stupid~, which carries no further import than this, and mircea_popescu does not begrudge the users their usage. he however also notices that what it LEADS to is fucking anathema ; because if indeed orgmode is in your mind a stepping stone from emacs to pdf, then indeed orgmode is exactly as stupid as i fucking thought it was. ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-12-21 14:15 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-21#1882424 << i'ma bet you found the d00d through asciilifeform's links sect, where he has a well-deserved place for useful elisp material. ( does mircea_popescu have something specifically against 'orgmode' , or simply in the habit of spitting on anything he dun use personally ? )

mircea_popescu: nfi what there's to like about orgmode, and especially it's not clear how you distinguish it from "excel vbasic for emacs"

mircea_popescu: "literate programming" MY FOOT! that piece of shit is the ~exact antithesis~ of literate programming, it's illiterate excel-ing. and i do not for a second believe that the "misnomer" is accidental -- it's exactly usg-deliberate. nor do i think the mention on the original dork's blog is accidental.

mircea_popescu: "oh but mp, while it can be used that way, that's not the way i use it". whopee.

asciilifeform: loox like he was quoting some rando's use case. himself, he uses it to write .txt for the blog.

asciilifeform: ( fwiw asciilifeform tried 'orgmode' at length, decade ago, but didn't like, found that it does ~90% of what i needed, and the remaining 10% felt like same amt of work as simply using plain txt files + grep entirely. )

asciilifeform: as for the quoted d00d, who '.org -> .tex -> .pdf', dollars to doughnuts he's an academic and chained to that oar.

mircea_popescu: is it you protest the exact flavour of anathema ("oh mp, it's not usg.corporate idiocy, it's usg.academia idiocy" ?) or what exactly.

asciilifeform: so mircea_popescu quotes all sorts, e.g. gavin, in various pieces. does this mean that mircea_popescu endorses gavinism ?

mircea_popescu: when ~i~ quote from an idiotic third party, you know this is going down, by the presence of the word idiot in there.

asciilifeform: so is orig thread re how orgmode rots brains, or that linked blogist writes insufficiently mircea_popescuinely?

asciilifeform: ('orgmode' per se aint very interesting, it's just an elisp script that lets you shuffle wads of txt as linked lists)

mircea_popescu: "reproducible research", do you know what they actually mean by ~that~ term hijack ?

mircea_popescu: i dunno if you follow this, but the way through which "golf club pattern" idiocy existed is exactly this sort of "automation" : i """scientist""" downloaded an excel from the internet and it spat out in my cell what the website said it spits so therefore EXPERIMENT VERIFIED

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: quite familiar with academi-scam, having been sadly involved on production end

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ~that~ is good % of what passes for tooling errywhere. i.e. mechanisms to clean up piles of shit left by others.

asciilifeform: i dun even ~like~ or use 'orgmode'. but must dispute the 'folx who write elisp proggies are destructive zombies and class enemy' blanket.

mircea_popescu: not "piles of shit left by others". specifically, i pompously declare myself "literate programatician", what this does is, vbasic autorun ; i pompously declare myself "respectable scientificist", what this does is, i download an excel script, watch its vbasic reproduce the same errors of http://trilema.com/2013/why-mpex-is-better-than-fiat-institutions-part-349085-we-dont-use-excel/#selection-143.0-153.147 and declare i have

mircea_popescu: whether you're aware of this or not : 2000s era standards of usgtronic "science" had decayed to the point where, running some random virus off the internet was deemed as "independent verification". literally this, "i downloaded a bunch of numbers and a vbasic script off a website, it ran on my machine to the same result as it ran on publisher's machine, THEREFORE ALLEGED EXPERIMENT HAS BEEN INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED"

asciilifeform: there's euglena in the water, yes. but in this case mircea_popescu is seeing dust on microscope lens.

mircea_popescu: this was the wikipedia golden age, and it left us with "social sciences" and "earth sciences" and code of conducts and so on.

asciilifeform: afaik the 'golf clubs' people are 100% using actual microshit spreadshit, not emacses.

mircea_popescu: and speaking of wikipedia : "Almost orthogonally, Org-mode has functionalities aimed at executing code in various external languages ; these functionalities form org-babel, "A Multi-Language Computing Environment for Literate Programming and Reproducible Research."

asciilifeform: you can put whatever you like in an elisp, incl. shell callouts, just like in bash, noose at 11

mircea_popescu: "oh mp, just because orgmode evidently made by a certain kind of idiots to support their specific idiocy doesn't mean anything ; and also, when the necessary fruits of that labour of love start pdf-ing their way to the surface, that's just coincidental 3rd party linkage". how far ?

asciilifeform: i suppose for certain kinds of people, 'hammer' is what you use to smash own thumb. for some other kinds, heads. but as far as i'm concerned it's for nails.

mircea_popescu: dood didn't "accidentally omit" the string "idiot" in "check out this moron, spits out pdfs". it was omitted for reasons that have something to do with what orgmode fundamentally is.

asciilifeform: if maggot had never found emacs, as most do not, will maggot on top of sumthingelse.

asciilifeform: ( and the thing, as detailed at length in prev threads, is groaning under the weight of actual wreckers, who poettering-'obsoleted' the working, useful plugins and replaced with ruby, etc 'kraft cheese', e.g.,

a111: 65 results for "flycheck", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=flycheck

mircea_popescu: and if you do, how's irreal dork supposed to ever figure out what he's doing is morally reprehensible ?

asciilifeform: i can't think of any reason to tolerate. but i also dun have a from-the-ground replacement for emacs per se.

mircea_popescu: if nobody ever tells greenblatt "do not play on monkey team", what, is greenblat supposed to what, figure it out all on his own ?

asciilifeform: ( he's pretty close to full-bore snoar naodays, tho. i delouse that linkbar not nearly as often as oughta, beginning to suspect )

mircea_popescu: you asked me if i spit on things merely because i do not use them ; i explained teh reasoning thereof. i dun expect you to ~do~ something as a result of this, besides i guess saying "oh, i see what your issue is"

asciilifeform: some people dunlike dogs, for instance, and refer to'em as armored personnel carriers for fleas. in this case so happens that i like dog. so interested in whether mircea_popescu was going from a 'dogs, who needs'em' angle or spotted flea in particular.

mircea_popescu: or not see, either way, i'm just saying, "no, it's not that i spit because i do not use ; but vice versa".

mircea_popescu: in other vaguely related line, person recently pointed out "you know, your screen+vi&bash combo is almost like emacs for retards", to much private merriment. ☟︎

asciilifeform: in point of fact there are serious design flaws in emacs that make dog/flea separation extremely difficult. but iirc we already had that thread not long ago.

asciilifeform: for instance, asciilifeform has '9000' processes on this and other boxen, where uses 'screen+bash+etc for tards' even though theoretically 'could emacs' ( see also e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-03#1869024 ) , because they ~must not crash~ and emacs is unthreaded and hosable ☝︎☟︎

a111: Logged on 2018-11-03 00:16 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-02#1869016 << this is prolly a neato item but (to the possible surprise of some people) asciilifeform doesn't 'live in emacs' in the sense of using it for things that ain't files-on-disk editing

asciilifeform: and , not unrelatedly, asciilifeform sees the great crime of rms , to specifically be his pushing of 'kraft cheese' emacs + toolchains as 'just as good as real thing', witness e.g. https://archive.is/ws2qk#selection-5591.110-5591.271

asciilifeform: and, like mircea_popescu , i also dun buy the excuse that 'lispm was expensive, i HAD to write kraft cheese for cheap micros'

asciilifeform: it dun take THAT many moar transistors to build non-overflowable-arithm etc. iron.

asciilifeform: ( certainly not the 2 ~billion~ intel crapola put for tlb cache so that microshit can be slightly less molasses )

asciilifeform: lm was 'expensive' cuz hand-sewn from 74xxx. but just 4 yrs after rms went off to derp with unix, thing fit on single crystal, just like i386, it's the item in asciilifeform's vivisection table in fact.

asciilifeform: ( and in same interval went from aston-martin to toyota price. and could've proceeded to motorcycle price if the co were run by smart folx.)

asciilifeform: from my pov it's hilariously funny, that rms et al ~set the table~ for microshit.

asciilifeform: that's what peddling 'just as good as actual cheese' does, in the end -- sets the table for 'hey i have a just-as-just-as-good , with flashier gui and endorsement from ibm' etc.

asciilifeform: intel did 'even better', by rolling the field back to ~before time of babbage~, who, recall, managed to eat ~20% of brit empire budget simply on promise of baking ~log table~ without eggogs ( and , arguably in a kind of 19th c. bolix affair, succeeded but overran cost to death )

a111: Logged on 2018-08-15 14:52 mircea_popescu: incidentally, since we're doing lost arts, where the fuck did i state the pantsuit's problem of integration (ie, that pantsuitism doesn't stand a chance in the republic because the republic integrates it) in the terminology that "this sword cuts for them a portion of the way and for us the whole way" ? ie, that they're always dependent on state, whatever shit they come up with gotta be carefully ~stopped~ on various slippery

mircea_popescu: i dunno, original portion of the way sword cuts thing seems much older than 2018.

feedbot: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2875 << Loper OS -- Finite Field Arithmetic. Chapter 14A-Bis: Barretts Modular Reduction. (Physical Bounds Proof.)

asciilifeform: it's funny, or perhaps only to asciilifeform , that one can buy a kilometre of dead tree, in multiple langs, re 'crypto', and not find this illustration therein.

asciilifeform: ( not even in the ridiculously 100bux/copy oxford press 'finite precision number systems and arithmetic' backbreaker for chip maker folx )

asciilifeform: i still suspect that proof won't 'Officially Count' cuz 'not pdf.' (tho hey, i have a coupla uniturds, and even a lolcat!111 )

feedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/12/trump-makes-end-of-year-push-mattis-out-syria-and-afghanistan-withdrawals-and-shutdown-showdown-over-border-wall/ << Qntra -- Trump Makes End Of Year Push Mattis Out, Syria and Afghanistan Withdrawals, and Shutdown Showdown Over Border Wall

asciilifeform: hey it's how they dethroned nixon. ( the unforgivable 'crime' was not the burglar derpery, but withdrawal from vietnam )

trinque: chairman orange has already said "half the country will revolt" if dethroned. wouldn't mind to see what if, not that I'm holding my breath.

asciilifeform: usg.red wants withdraw from viet^H^Hganistan like usg.blue wants withdraw from syria like flea wants dog to be washed.

feedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/12/chest-issues-continue-piling-up-for-octagenarian-pantsuit-bench-warmer/ << Qntra -- Chest Issues Continue Piling up For Octagenarian Pantsuit Bench Warmer

asciilifeform: trinque: mcfood-eaters will 'revolt' (by whining on reddit, or, in best case, oregon-ranching around) , and even that strictly if mcfood supply interrupted.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: d00d won't even use the few buttons that still connected to anyffing. (e.g. could've easily pardoned those derps of his that the pantsuits recently jailed ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: there's 0 on paper to keep him from 'you can have all the freisler trials you like, i'ma pardon erryone'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'his' judges aint even his in any particular sense. ( observe that he had to appoint 'respectable' derps, rather than e.g. his own children or whatever loyals , to court )

asciilifeform: iirc i said this after end of yr1 of trumpreich, 'guess what, still can't tell who is in white house by looking out of my window'. and can say it again at end of 2nd yr. machine is built for continuation of 'biz as usual' at all costs, and will work while it has physically with what.

asciilifeform: d00d knows that if he tries to push buttons that are nominally connected to sumthing, will 'slip in bathtub' and replaced with bush III or whoever.

BingoBoingo: As far as I can tell other than the young Barron, his children ain't all that loyal

asciilifeform: cattle dun revolt, and castrated cattle dun even stampede. during obummer reign, police pushed, what, 10mil ameri-sads out of 'their' houses, which left to rot; and at cost of what, 1, 2 dead sheriffs ?

asciilifeform: even the gassed jews, to this day infamous for boarding the trains 'orderly', nailed moar germans than this.

asciilifeform: ameritardia boasts, what, 1 john stack ? who killed what, 1 night-shift usg janitor.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if sad old man had even 1 squad of actual loyal men, there's be tanks bulldozing harvard and rape camps for the http://trilema.com/2013/rape-is-fun-or-lets-fuck-up-adria-richards etc

asciilifeform: but instead, 'biz as usual', no tanks on street, only the garbage truck (which is late again..)

mircea_popescu: pretty much the only way left to go, to these ~irrelevant~ old men with their imaginarily valuable bolix stack : they're cordially invited to withdraw into eternal slumber, like fucking moses. in three to five thousand years some virgin in rural bumfuck somewhere can quote to us "what the truth REALLY WAS 'according to the democratic party'".

mircea_popescu: if you think about it, no other possible solution than "we weren't defeated by events, we merely withdrew into imagination" ☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-21#1882599 << could have done a lot more than that : could have dissolved cia ~and~ declassived all documents, permanently, in same executive order. ☝︎☟︎

a111: Logged on 2018-12-21 19:50 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: d00d won't even use the few buttons that still connected to anyffing. (e.g. could've easily pardoned those derps of his that the pantsuits recently jailed )

mircea_popescu: since you speak of nixon (whose principal problem upon assuming office for the first time was 'how to limit influence of pantsuits over at cia')

BingoBoingo: Given both Bush and Hussein Bahamas are CIA legacy admits, it is possible to reread Snowden as a possible CIA plant sent to knock down ambitions of growing competitor NSA

mircea_popescu: in other minutia, i just took possession of ~custom made house slippers~. because you can't fucking buy leather slippers anymore for the love of fuck, "plastic should be enough for everyone". ☟︎

mircea_popescu: by "cia" i mean 100% of government-sponsored "intelligence community", including all "agencies" and the respective subreddits.

mircea_popescu: simply defund the entire thing. not like it does anything useful ~for trump~. 100% janissary corps. ☟︎

BingoBoingo: Well, good chunk of CIA.DEA.NSA.FBI revenue is their own drug trafficking operations (though apparently the Chinese are now beating them in the opiates market)

BingoBoingo: The popular MAGA-redditista theory appears to be Trump playing to take intelligence community shit to give to Immigration and Customs Enforcement as new A-team

a111: Logged on 2018-12-21 21:38 mircea_popescu: hopefully soon to be permanent, that shutdown.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-21#1882616 << per legend, it's exactly what was on kennedy's desk when he ate bullet ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-12-21 21:46 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-21#1882599 << could have done a lot more than that : could have dissolved cia ~and~ declassived all documents, permanently, in same executive order.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-21#1882620 << funnily enuff, brother had slippers from su, lasted ~decade; whereas today i buy visually-identical chinesium that's good for ~6mo. tops ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-12-21 21:56 mircea_popescu: in other minutia, i just took possession of ~custom made house slippers~. because you can't fucking buy leather slippers anymore for the love of fuck, "plastic should be enough for everyone".

asciilifeform: ( tried the 'premium grades', it's == crapola but for idjits, like most ameri-'premium' materiel )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-21#1882622 << it's exactly janissary corps. ( and so i suppose we'll know that he tried if his head ends up 'defunded' like the last d00d's ) ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-12-21 21:58 mircea_popescu: simply defund the entire thing. not like it does anything useful ~for trump~. 100% janissary corps.

BingoBoingo going to primarly be consuming Lechón as the dietary protein while it's in season. Shit's running ~200-300 per kilo.

BingoBoingo: Last year this time a 100 peso note was roughly similar to a 4 USD bill. Now the same 100 peso note has almost fallen to be a 3 USD bill.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-21#1882615 << the ameritards 'retreated into imagination' when they gave up industry. it aint precisely news. ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-12-21 21:43 mircea_popescu: if you think about it, no other possible solution than "we weren't defeated by events, we merely withdrew into imagination"

asciilifeform: it's pretty surreal experience, in asciilifeform's archaeology room , when going over pile of boards stamped 'made in usa'

asciilifeform: speaking of 'made in usa' weird : asciilifeform finally hunted down a rom burner that'll do those PALs : it's a 5kg behemoth that's driven by... dos box, via parallel port.

asciilifeform: the vendor, 'bp microsystems', interestingly still in biz. and STILL offers the dos proggy for dload!

asciilifeform: ( talk about longevity. turns out , PALs/GALs still used in all sortsa critical systems, errywhere, from nuke plant to bulldozer )

asciilifeform walks on just this side of the razor's edge of 'fucking, i'ma make own shoes' ☟︎

BingoBoingo: Whorehouse around the corner also still in business, "Fabrique de Pasta" on the corner however is not.

asciilifeform in other noose, generating coupla 10k test vectors for ffa ch14b. theory is great, and 'test can reveal presence of bugs but not absence'(tm)(r), but imho gotta have these