mircea_popescu: asciilifeform by now the moron's studious ignorance is pretty much his only salient feature. same as that other y schmuck.
mircea_popescu: anyway. on a long enough time horizon all socialism aka militant stupidity converges. of course yarvin merges with ethertards, what's there to distinguish them besides historical accident (ie, the exact converse of timeline, the thing time washes out)
mircea_popescu: right ? it's an absurd standard, dood never did such while living.
mircea_popescu: anyway, item quoted/discussed is authentic, precisely equally authentic to any pre 0.3 bitcoin version.
mircea_popescu: (the view that gpg aka koch-rsa leaks bits via signature isn't entirely dispelled even today)
mircea_popescu: anyway, am i the only one grated by just how much of a cop-out this "kids" thing became ? "oh, im going to play with my kids, which is to say you're OBLIGATED to believe my life has some sort of meaning".
mircea_popescu: i can play with some kids for the cost of a car ride to the park, what's that do ?
mircea_popescu: somehow these morons went from 1980s alec baldwin's "go home and play with your kids" alt-fuck you you're a total waste of space to curtis yarvin's 2020s "i'll go home and play with my kids", direct restatement of "fuck you guise, i'm going home"
mircea_popescu: if you look about, ~all these loud and "successful" narcissistic dorks end up in the ~same arrangement, rescued by marriage of convenience.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they punch the juicer button or w/e it is cuckdads do.
mircea_popescu: i don't understand how these misfortunate kids are supposed to respect the human failures using them for props.
mircea_popescu: teh withdrawal into biology historically works way the fuck better for women than for men.
mircea_popescu: i wanted to put it on trilema, dun recall if i ever did or not, but anyway, quite the item
a111: Logged on 2015-04-02 01:16 mircea_popescu: "/home/stas/bitcoin-v0_5_3_1/ourlibs/include/boost/asio/detail/impl/socket_ops.ipp:2900: warning: Using 'getaddrinfo' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking"
mircea_popescu: it'll be so fucking splendid to link a bitcoin without glibc jaysus
mircea_popescu: my personal "this is a moron" realisaiton occured upon reading some nonsense about how "more fair" division of proceeds from creative fields was to pool all the results and issue them back out by some log function, ie guy with 1mn fans gets 6 units, guy with 10 fans gets 1 unit, something like this.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-09 23:26 asciilifeform: dunno that rms actually ~did~ anything in past 20+ yr. the man is a living flag.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 16:00 asciilifeform: rms is tragicomic precisely ~because~ he won't let go of fundamentally usgistic thinking
a111: Logged on 2016-02-29 03:00 asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: you are still thinking of rms as a self-aware creature, having a thought process
a111: Logged on 2014-09-27 17:27 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: notice that rms will not speak of lisp to this day. the demise of lmi cut him off from the genuine machines (there was no possibility of baking one by his lonesome, or with his band of ragged dervishes, any more than they could launch a mars mission)
mircea_popescu: if only soviet union lasted a decade or two more and had better notions re cs, he could have been so happy. imagine -- re-doing emacs FOR STALIN
mod6: Well, UY1 is still up, and looks like no causation found for the reboots/crashes. Very strange. Best to keep an eye on it. It most certainly did reboot however.
mod6: When I noticed that my blog, and hanbot's, etc were down... I logged into UY1 and found that it had been up for only 50 minutes at the time.
mod6: Then I manually started up apache and mysql so the blogs would be back working again. But then it went down again, perhaps 20 minutes or so later.
mod6: And then when it came back up, I again restarted the services, and then a while later, it crashed again. And perhaps another time as well.
mod6: Thanks for looking over it asciilifeform!
mod6:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-15#1887248 << Yeah, I kinda missed my window here. I'm not sure when I'll be able to get a chance to come down there. Perhaps sometime this year yet, but will look into it and discuss it again at a later time.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2019-01-15 15:43 asciilifeform: iirc mod6 has expressed a desire to fly the next crate. if he still wants, can haz; otherwise asciilifeform will fly it.
mod6: asciilifeform: Ah, ok.
mod6: One thing that's been plaguing me irl for about three weeks here is the finding that I have a rotten rim joist.
mod6: In short, yes, very. Especially in the winter.
mod6: Even the house may need to be put on jacks to complete the repair. I've been discussing with three different carpenters on how they would do the job and approximately how much it would cost.
mod6: Needless to say, and I'll spare you all the deets, but it's gonna put a dent in mod6's budget for a few months at a minimum.
mod6: asciilifeform: Actually, it'll be better if I do, I'm sure. Since all three guys suggest fixing this from the outside (thankfully, from the inside would be 1000s of more $), if we wait until it's warm there's a way less chance of breaking the siding on the house when removing it.
mod6: Once the siding is removed then there might be an easy way to get at the outer joist and pull it off -- which runs the entire length of the frame along the base. Now there could be more rotten in there, or it ~could~ just be the rim joist, but won't know until it's all apart.
mod6: mircea_popescu has it. brick & stone people.
mod6: you'll regret it otherwise.
mod6: :] I was just about to say...
mircea_popescu: well, wood has its place, but a) it's very knowledge-intensive -- notice how some shipwrights make ships that never rot, some others -- rot in a month. and b) by the time you're actually building complexly enough to even have rim joists etc... wooden construction's intended for hunting lodge not townhouse.
mod6: This all started because we need a new door, it's old as shit, and all the weather stripping is bad, etc. So of course, this isn't std door size. So I paid some good money to have a custom one made to size. When the carp came out to install it, the first thing he did was pull off one piece of molding, and stuck his file down in the bottom area where that joist is located, and it pushed right through.
☟︎ mod6: So I had him stop work right then and there, and then had to get the other carps in to assess. So once the rim joist is fixed, then I can finally get a new door.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is what i mean. i saw 300 yo wooden construction, made by ro mountain folk. but that wood...
mod6: This is true, if you have masters of wood, then you get high quality finished product, but this stuff is shit.
mircea_popescu: there's splendid wood in new world, are you kidding me ? no cedar can match redwood.
mod6: Some of the log cabins that I've seen in the US are pretty nice tbh, but they need maint! Need to be scraped & stained every few years, etc.
mod6: "If you take care of her, she takes care of you" or something.
mod6: Anyway, my original plan was actually to go down to UY this week.
mod6: But I put that all aside back in November. And then the whole door/joist thing started. But I'll look into when I might be able to get it together, but may be even after alf's time frame. However, will advise as soon as I know.
mircea_popescu: took chet there personally ; she got to touch everything ; at the end hands so full of splinters i spent an hour digging them out.
mircea_popescu: right, hammer/splints powered oil presses, stuff like that
mod6: Anyway Gentlemen, thanks for listening. Wanted to stop in and let you know I was reading logs while I could today -- I'm running on nil sleep and today was like an 18 hour day. So I'm gonna drop out and get some rest.
mod6: I'll stop back in tomorrow when I have the chance. :] Have a good evening.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because they don't believe in the oppresive multi-generartional patriarchal home.
mircea_popescu: "freedom" of the hallucinated optionality flavour has costs.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-13 17:54 billymg: !Q later tell hanbot mp-wp patches have been updated:
http://billymg.com/2019/01/minor-mp-wp-patch-updates/ -- the only "\ No newline at end of file" strings you should find in .svg refs patch are from before part of the diff (i.e. file diffed had no newline at the end)
hanbot: !!rate billymg 1 Thorough MP-WP patchworker.
hanbot: !!v EE0016B4A5AB8EF600208A336B83295A960522F6353552B289B87DE1B6574A49
deedbot: hanbot rated billymg 1 << Thorough MP-WP patchworker.
jurov has some particle board ceilings on otherwise brick house. it's so incredibly shitty material - when bolted small light LED lamps on it, one fell out later :/
☟︎ billymg: hanbot: approved the comment, ty!
billymg: trinque: i made a deposit on sunday in order to cover my pizarro invoice but it's not showing up in my balance yet. i'm not in a hurry but curious about the status of it
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That sounds solid. If the cargo is 48 Rockchips 1U of server and 1U+ of spare parts, that's still 4U of material.
BingoBoingo:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-16#1887514 << In order of structural value: Spruce (not in the botanical sense), Douglas Fir (also not in the Botanical sense), and Southern Yellow pine are usually the options in contemporary US building. None of these woods like ground contact, and yet all they get to prep them for ground contact is a soak in some copper salts. After 10-20 years when the salts wash out the sill plate will turn into sponge.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 02:27 asciilifeform: afaik ~nuffin built from redwood
BingoBoingo: The only reason mod6's sill plate problem is exceptional is someone looked at his sill plate. In USistan most people don't know they have the sill plate problem because they never look.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 09:21 jurov has some particle board ceilings on otherwise brick house. it's so incredibly shitty material - when bolted small light LED lamps on it, one fell out later :/
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Pine grows fast and is therefore 'cheap'
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but yes, i guess if you put it out there i have no choice but to spell it out : of ~fucking course~ the carpenter "sticks his file in there". it's a sales gimmick, like the new york electrician pointing out to people they gotta pay him a billion to "bring the buildingto spec" because "otherwise he has to report them" because "otherwise he loses his own license". because we're supposed to not notice the whole mob-e
mircea_popescu: ra new york is organized around strong-arming and then charging "for protection" the independent moron, aka hayseed immigrant.
mircea_popescu: and yes mod6 is the mark of all time, always ready to pay for such a superficial and self-evident scam. cuz he's a well bred midwestern man whom you can't help but love (notwithstanding the cockroaches can't help but fleece).
BingoBoingo: Anyways, once the house gets jacked they are going to find more problems where the water wicked up from the sill plate.
mircea_popescu: this reminds me of how gypsy teams "fix cheaply the roof" in the old country.
BingoBoingo: And once they drop the house back down with new wood at best it has another 20 years before someone shanks the sill plate again.
mircea_popescu: except apparently gypsies don't grow fast enough for the us, notwithstanding they marry the girls once they bleed. so the locals build out of pine and then charge to fix it.
BingoBoingo: If you're replacing the sill plate might as well raise the concrete foundation so the sill sits further from gound level and all of a sudden the concrete cabin out in Cerro start to look like a good alternative.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have the converse problem. alternator dies on road, /me takes car back to (otherwise very competent, and very able) independent mechanic who charged 75 an hour for tools and labour to find what needs changing and then install mp's parts (75 CENTS!!!). "why the fuck was not this on the bill ?" "ah, it wasn't really broken yet, still hung on a thread".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you should question the fabled quality of costa rican road.
mircea_popescu: last trip did ~50 mi through gravel road. you even have those back in pinehouse lands ?
mircea_popescu: i was really contemplating getting the car jacked on those APC tyres they had back in soviet days.
mircea_popescu: "artillery observation post" my foot, it's jungle adventure vehicle.
mircea_popescu: you know ? maybe the girls recount sometime that night i nearly drove through a washed out road.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha. tech transferred for i don't recall what economic deal in the 70s
mircea_popescu: it's a pretty sweet item, except for one point : its twin engines together less power than bartholomew.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: should be at least 7-8x, considering what "redundancy" means and how heavy the shit is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in other lulz : in 80s ro was actually making the btr-80 for east germany export. because russkis found it cheaper to license than to manufacture, and the ro had stolen it already anyway.
mircea_popescu: (your
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-08#1885908 courtly comment, which is factually untrue -- ru 5-6x the headcount, sparked some investigation that turned up a buncha lulz like that. turns out mid 80s soviet was INCREDIBLY weak and complacent, for some fucking reason.)
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2019-01-08 18:06 asciilifeform: ( and for all i know, ro actually involved moar 'turkeydollar', as by mircea_popescu's and other accts was 'tighter ship' )
mircea_popescu: it wasn't ~just~ leadership that gave up, let gorby in. i suspect it was just about everyone capitulating by 1985
mircea_popescu: people exactly 100% as african as before -- but capital investment fell off cliff in 80s and never recovered
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 13:07 asciilifeform: largely because of the 'don't clean the air filter' tale mircea_popescu told asciilifeform et al on the shore in buenos aires
mircea_popescu: in the sense of flying their colorful if meaningless flags.
mircea_popescu: in what sense was btr russian ? there's only so many ways you can do armored vehicle.
mircea_popescu: hehe, you did ~the reverse~. you looked at item that looked like the item has to look and went "well, russki is like item does", not "item is like russki does"
mircea_popescu: by same token, moon landing is not american, american is moon landing. a moon landing's just like a moon landing is, your lookup table consists of "who did that ?" not of "what'd this doing indicate". without preloaded history, you wouldn't know.
mircea_popescu: i have an alternate theory, but im not sure you wanna hear it.
mircea_popescu: germans did to platonic tank the wrong thing that you like doing.
mircea_popescu: they made it too big, overengineered, "what if i was the last man and this was the last tank" otherwordly consideration.
mircea_popescu: russkis just went "how about if that abandoned tachanka people take cover to shoot from behind was motorized"
mircea_popescu: of course, in fairness, there's some hidden lulz in there : turns out tank ~seems~ perfect assault weapon, but ~in fact~ is perfect infantry support weapon. which is why t-34 won over both kv and tiger ; and why the best use of tanks came from north africa, where there being no "armored positions to storm", tanks could be used correctly (if uncomprehendingly) by the germans too.
mircea_popescu: turns out the correct cut lay so close to "don't bother", russki not-even-replaceable-parts accidental constructs were closer than the finely zeiss'd german items
a111: Logged on 2018-12-19 19:31 mircea_popescu: phf i expect the accumulated value of the whole pile of "secrets" is about 0. and i further expect the entire value of the whole bolix stack neatly approximates the value of my stock of pogos.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-20 00:44 mircea_popescu: ~if~ those people were smart enough to build the item you describe, the ~reasonable expectation~ is they'd have been smart enough to behave ~muchly variant~ from the ~actual way they behaved~ in fields much easier to observe.
mircea_popescu: in any case, the problem in terms of "1 tiger is said to have been match for 2-3 t-34" is already misstated. the point is : marginal war gain per german soldier from tiger was like .1, marginal war gain per soviet soldier from t-34 was like 6.5
mircea_popescu: THIS is what matters. the per capita productivity gain from capital investment.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, because the t-34 cost 18 units and provided 6.5 to 30 or so sovheads while tiger cost 77 units and provided .1 to 24 naziheads, we can resolve the matter : 18 for 195 vs 77 for 2.4
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform war is specifically this arrangement where you don't count the losses. who's gonna fine the victor for his more expensive tanks in terms of "wildlife-variety" ?
mircea_popescu: this is why people like engineering for war, too. it's a whole of a lot more fun to make a tank than a water boiler.
mircea_popescu: specific example of why i say war is fun -- not only losses don't count, but their replenishment consists of fucking a buncha women, whether they want to or not.
mircea_popescu: unbest for japan, they had very much sparta problem -- dead japanese not replaceable through usual process
mircea_popescu: in the end, the result of war is a perverse "cheapest man wins".
a111: Logged on 2018-12-12 18:21 mircea_popescu: aanyway. labour allocation is broken and nobody has any better.
mircea_popescu: what's the idea, nobody ever fucked an ambitious intern, can't imagine what "law firms" are like ?
BingoBoingo: IIrc the lawyering profession in the US isn't employing law school graduates anymore because what's the point of having ambitious interns if they are afraid to fuck them
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Nah, those are just the LUCKY ones.
BingoBoingo: From what I've seen Law schools produce a lot of substitute teachers nowadays
BingoBoingo: I know few lawschool graduates working for firm. A bunch working for local prosecutor or public defender, occasional ventures into private practice. THe one who got a "firm" job left it to do a stint managing East Saint Louis City government.
hanbot: <asciilifeform> i'm surprised they dun build from ~that~ yet. << i met a chick from the architecture dept at the nat'l uni here whose professed goal was to see all places with native bamboo build with it exclusively. possibly the spiders get her first, but otherwise, "coming soon"...
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Well swamp. Stilts/Pilings for light structures is all that should be in a swamp
hanbot: oh hey i missed that one. yet another reason for pet koala.
hanbot: possibly even your raccoons would eat it
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Might as well get some goats and take control of your local Cheesechain
hanbot: pity these can't be trained
a111: Logged on 2019-01-14 18:36 asciilifeform: ( readers should also prepare themselves for following proof of why m-r worx, i'ma not simply cite the lit )
BingoBoingo: The fur apparently has some marketable value, but like other things in empire... there is a mess of rules
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 15:53 asciilifeform: i'm surprised they dun build from ~that~ yet.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Right. They'll also wank over what kinds of traps. Gotta deal with USG and local conservation police... Gotta plan your havest anticipating how many of what kinds of critters are going to find their way into your traps
shinohai: Edison would be proud that one can print 3-D house using cement, with furniture built into walls.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> shinohai: recall how edison was genuinely convinced that the fyootoor of furniture was... ferrocement << Plenty of people here living the complete ferrocement like without the roof.
BingoBoingo: The US isn't Uruguay. The US can't afford to make ferrocement the residential building material. How will the police break in?
BingoBoingo: There's still the problem of making all that ferrocement
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure, but cement factory pumps out evil carbon
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 02:36 asciilifeform: it's hilarious, the hovel i'm in, at least has steel frames. nearby they recently built whole street of 100% cardboard/plastic , 'ONLY low 800s!' reads the billboard. 800k orcbux, that is.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 16:43 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: last i knew , most of said graduates nowadays , get to take their arse, and its 250k of debt, to work in bureaucracy.
shinohai: I live in comfy brick home built in 1950's or so. Feels many times more solid than average McMansion
shinohai: There was "subdivision" of new constructed homes nearby that had to be abandoned ~3 yrs ago, all were built using sheetrock from China which molded within weeks of being installed.
mircea_popescu: there's no possibility of economic activity outside of human buyer judging things
mircea_popescu: if they abdicate from this, and "just want to", they belong rowing galley.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> shinohai: there's maybe half a mil of these on whole continent, and nobody's building any moar of'em << My hometown has large swaths of brick single family homes built to house workers for now defunct "my pet goat" condensed milk plant.
shinohai: I bought specifically because was brick and has actual hardwood floors, none of that composite/laminate shit.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't believe a single thing pr claims about buffett, seeing how that's the customary treatment for proven liars.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 16:48 hanbot: <asciilifeform> i'm surprised they dun build from ~that~ yet. << i met a chick from the architecture dept at the nat'l uni here whose professed goal was to see all places with native bamboo build with it exclusively. possibly the spiders get her first, but otherwise, "coming soon"...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know what celebrity endorsements are ? "eat your gruel, tommy, just like Nigglet McAthlete does!"
mircea_popescu: dat kasparov brand chess knife thing is epic. ima use it.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 16:59 asciilifeform: unrelatedly ( or maybe not?? ) , asciilifeform found that ch16 is turning into just about a miniature number theory schoolbook, will defo have to be trimmed
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 17:04 asciilifeform: shinohai: iirc they already build this : for 'supermax' prison. but i expect the tech will 'spread to konsoomer', yes
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, german peasant cargo cults
shinohai: it appears homes were slightly better constructed there BingoBoingo ... most "factory worker houses" in smaller towns here are old duplexes, with asbestos siding no less.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 17:31 asciilifeform: i've confronted various (nominally literate) ameri-folx with the brick litmus, was surprised at one pt how many had nfi
trinque: asciilifeform: was hilarious when harvey came through and ripped these brick facades off the suburban wasp nests
trinque: I take these to be the people that shouldn't have houses having been given too much, not *their* decay. they're doing better than they've ever been.
☟︎ trinque: plenty of rich as hell folks in houston living in concrete and steel, like sensible people do in hurricane zones
trinque: I wager the uruguayan suburbs are favela-tier
trinque: where the american burbs oughta be.
BingoBoingo: <trinque> I wager the uruguayan suburbs are favela-tier << Favelas with a lot of concrete
trinque: if they had it, would buy. same reason as when I was in CR there was a huge line of natives for the mcd's and starbucks
trinque: if they had more money, that mcds would sprout a whole suburb of them around it.
☟︎ trinque: I hear hipsters are doing this in detroit these days, not even all getting killed by the natives
BingoBoingo: trinque: Here the culture views McDonalds as classy.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Starbucks is not classy anymore. It is the low rent knockoff version of McCafe now
☟︎ trinque: right, so economics alone are keeping them from the wasp nest neighborhoods, which is my point.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> trinque: they're living in cardboard, iirc. new construction in specially-designated reservations. << AHA, Carrasco where the stores have parking lots! Just like US suburbs!
BingoBoingo: AHA, like the Peruana's pension tucked behind a kiosko!
trinque: in related cardboardization, the girl and I were looking into live vaccines for hypothetical spawn. apparently they're being phased out by the derps that be.
Mocky: howdy asciilifeform
Mocky: instead of an offer for this one prospect I got "one more interview, next week" but still imo looks probable
BingoBoingo: The standard for a pension or residencia estudiantil is 1.5-5 bed lengths deep and 3-5 bed widths wide. But unlike apartments they tend to come furnished. With "placares" even.
BingoBoingo: The mumps outbreak of similar character to US University mumps outbreaks.
BingoBoingo: Here we have an elusive creature. A property offered for rent with hope the person renting it will subdivide it into smaller rentals:
http://archive.is/GAXEp trinque: man I hate people that let materials accumulate like that. oh, that's my palette collection, and here's a single tile, just in case
BingoBoingo: trinque: Much of that was likely accumulated intentionally via dumpster mining
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 17:40 trinque: I take these to be the people that shouldn't have houses having been given too much, not *their* decay. they're doing better than they've ever been.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 17:51 trinque: if they had more money, that mcds would sprout a whole suburb of them around it.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 17:53 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Starbucks is not classy anymore. It is the low rent knockoff version of McCafe now
trinque: saw the mcd's and "aw fuck, it's got spores"
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 18:02 asciilifeform: trinque: iirc in usa you get to pick b/w 'vaccine is the devil's work' and 'load'im up on errything, incl. some radwaste for good measure'
mircea_popescu: the empire of idiots manages to construct two ~equally idiotic non-alternatives out of everything.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: In Uruguay it *is* upmarket
a111: Logged on 2016-02-15 17:58 asciilifeform: specifically how there is no place in usa where one can 'i will pay double for non-monsanto but i don't give a fuck about 'gmo' and i sure as fuck don't want to see homeopathic crud in the shop'
a111: Logged on 2015-09-03 01:38 asciilifeform: e.g. there is no 'i don't care if the chicken ate gmo corn but please no antibiotic' shop
mircea_popescu: heh, usg basically cannibalizing its foreign service. not being able to defend allies is one thing, but who the fuck is ever going to deal with them again.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 14:07 asciilifeform: incidentally : raid verify is set for midnight saturday. which iirc was the time of the first reset.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-15 20:08 asciilifeform: ( invited to pgp ssh key + any particular reqs to BingoBoingo & asciilifeform )
mircea_popescu: come to think about it, locklin fits very well in the impudent imbecile gallery, with yarvin, yukowsky and whatall else, 70s to 90s born fleshwastes.
BingoBoingo: Well, Locklin's only had 5 going on 6 years to surrender and yet...
mircea_popescu: you understand this, yes, there's gotta be something there to surrender, you can't surrender bare swamp.
BingoBoingo: Surrender his determination to imbicil and join a slave galley
mircea_popescu: where he'd be doing exactly the same, plus/minus one red stapler ?
BingoBoingo: Depends where he galleys? He could get aquainted with ball gag lip chafing
mircea_popescu: yeah, there's such demand for middle aged males on that market.
BingoBoingo: If he's pale enough the Saudis or Qataris might take him
mircea_popescu: "This last paranthesis also explains why crime fightin' is never a "the people" affair, in case you're curious. It's not some sort of evil conspiracy to keep "the citizens" ("the people" call themselves that when unsure of their footing) from exercising "justice". It's just that practically, left to their own devices, "the people" couldn't care less." or how did that go.
BingoBoingo: They preferred 2009's homeostasis to 2019's but...
mircea_popescu: kings/march lords hanging people for poaching venison is so unfair, anyway.
BingoBoingo: Hey, the amount of old woman wailing over their pobre angelitos dying is increasing as the angelitos in question get shot breaking into a man's residence/place of business
mircea_popescu: sure. what, the point was to ensure "no highwaymen" ? the point was to ensure ~no highwaywomen~. and that -- fucking ensured, no taming-of-the-shrew era shrew, howsoever "empowered" etcetera, dared highway.
mircea_popescu: vapor pressure, rite. if you hang for piracy as well as highway robbery (1/100 the capital goods costs) competent females will be found in piracy not in highway robbery, because female vapor pressure ~0.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in reverse dirty-old-man-isms, i just bid nude girly dress and go buy me cookies.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to my buying cookies to give girly so she takes her clothes off.