mp_en_viaje: land in zimbabwe was never free ; and besides, this zimbabwe freeranges decent cunt.
mp_en_viaje: nothing wrong with owning a few acres of top slut pasture.
mp_en_viaje: result of irradiating 1mn sluts might be +ev, actually.
mp_en_viaje: we were discussing business not living arrangements.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-26 10:33 diana_coman: what can I say, to me it reads over-and-over again like all the group-thinking ever did: if we do it, it's all right because we are ALL doing it, if s/he does it, it is wrong because it's outside the group
mp_en_viaje: cocksuckers actually had the gall to charge MILLIONS in fees. for doing what the fuck, ernst & young is only famous for fucking up everything they touch.
mp_en_viaje: it also provides ~useless "services" to usg.corps still living
mp_en_viaje: it's what;s called a money sink in ( badly made) computer game economies.
mp_en_viaje: sucks out the "excess" gold resulting from welfarist approach to corporations
mp_en_viaje: also spent 9k in "advertising" and 35k in "media services" and so on
mp_en_viaje: why the fuck woyuld it be paying google money now.
mp_en_viaje: i expect an ad in whatever nova scotia shit paper go for 10-20 bucks, wtf.
billymg: asciilifeform: new residency is primary goal, yes
billymg: i'm hindered by my ESLness and spanish seems like one of the easier languages to pick up, so that factors somewhat into where i'm looking
billymg: buying property in tropical_beach_location also seems like least questioned way of moving fiat, seeing as how retiree expats do it all the time. otherwise would probably just rent first
BingoBoingo: Lots of ads here for beachfront "lots" that are... frequently on the other side of the land/water border
billymg: i wouldn't mind going there either
BingoBoingo: Well, Costa Rica is tropical. Here I'm at roughly the same latitude as St Louis. We have a winter. Not particularly cold, but the days get short.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 22:13 mircea_popescu: you can't legally do anything but die quietly in a corner.
trinque: asciilifeform: any history writers you recommend on the soviet era? I watched that garbage of which Orlov wrote, characters might as well have winked at the camera and sang "take me out to the ballgame"
trinque: can't say I buy Orlov's flag-waving either ftr.
trinque: eng isn't a requirement; it'll just take me longer
mp_en_viaje: trinque, i do not believe you will find such a thing as a useful history of rus' 20th century in this language, like you have say a useful history of the latin centuries 3-5.
☟︎ mp_en_viaje: nor does this exist in russian, to my knowledge. nor in romanian -- there are fragmentary bits that are useful -- to the very finely informed. no synthesis, however.
mp_en_viaje: the only apptroach available, short of learning russian, polish, romanian, german, and going blind on reconstructive work through archives and choice secondary sources (chosen how ?) -- which is precisely what "we"'ve done, if passively and over time nevertheless still to the tune of thousands of hours, the difference between one "from there" and "not from there" is like the difference between "familiar with windows" and "unfamiliar" : it's not l
mp_en_viaje: ike the former read the one true book as there isn't such a thing, it's that the former spent days upon days and weeks and weeks and years fucking around with a broken thing and its disparate legs and probiscii -- would be picking up sheila fitzpatrick's swansong (revisionism in soviet history).
mp_en_viaje: you can read as much of its links and references as you have the time / stomach / patience for ; you will not become knowledgeable thereby, but you will become more capable of distinguishing between useful and useless source material than you are now, and importantly : capable enough to trust yourself (though to some degree you're evidently capable even now, i suspect the absence of that last element's what irks you).
mp_en_viaje: after that, things will snap into meaning as time goes by and you happen to read things, which is exactly what a local intelectual (or however you'd call the cultural dominant class) does anyway.
mp_en_viaje: but, fundamentally, what you ask for doesn't exist because the russkis are morons ; and not a little morons, as in neglectful. they're thoroughly and fractally fucked in the head, and thereby they've made for themselves such a history of the 20th century, ~through fucking living it~ as no sane human being could readily follow.
☟︎ mp_en_viaje: (perhaps also worth the mention : soviets have the cult of the memoir, and they generally do a much better, or at least differently broken job than the current ustards, who are similarily afflicted. both kosigin [soviet economic main man, a sorta ru isarescu] and gromyko [ur-diplomat of teh soviet union, so strong he's
broken into popcult] wrote memoirs ; they're prolly the highest payoff per time sp
mp_en_viaje: ent source material available when starting out)
mp_en_viaje: and omfg holy shit phf's thing handles nested bracketing. dude this is so pleasant....
mp_en_viaje: this is what "just works" fucking means even, that whoever did it did it right the first pass and you don't have to keep debugging all the corners
a111: Logged on 2018-12-19 18:21 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: puzzlers like those, make e.g. bolix look trivial ( consider, bolix physically exists and is sitting in asciilifeform's tortureroom , whereas beria et al's docs were afaik carefully burned )
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 20:42 asciilifeform: does anyone recall old thrd where mircea_popescu linked to a youtube clip of some idiot kid smashing up ancient car that his father gave him, 'cuz not mercedes' ?
a111: Logged on 2019-06-27 07:12 mp_en_viaje: but, fundamentally, what you ask for doesn't exist because the russkis are morons ; and not a little morons, as in neglectful. they're thoroughly and fractally fucked in the head, and thereby they've made for themselves such a history of the 20th century, ~through fucking living it~ as no sane human being could readily follow.
BingoBoingo: Not so different from the cognitive dissonance that makes Pashtuns thing pants are shit over as they fight empire to stalemate on all fronts.
BingoBoingo: The Pashtun stalement is enough to make Hilary O Bolton desperate to aggress a state adversary, any state adversary at all.
BingoBoingo: I wouldn't call it quite a full checkmate. USG presently has a couple fortified points from which it can dispatch material for destruction thereby creating the "need" to buy more material to keep the MI bezzle loop looped
BingoBoingo: And I suspect they are paying less tribute and purchasing more opium for the suburbs
BingoBoingo: Well, is the CIA recieving its drugs or not?
BingoBoingo: That is not what the overdose thing 2001-now suggests.
BingoBoingo: Well it started with the oxycodone and prescription stuff which got grossly restricted when the Afghan intervention started. The addicts turned to heroin.
BingoBoingo: The recent synthetics is a Chinese move into the US market
BingoBoingo: Well, it was to expand the supply of heroin. The question of "Where?" changed
BingoBoingo: Anyways, it appears CIA has no qualms about marketing whatever drugs it can. During Nam they marketed heroin in the US as well. When they lost flights from SEA they went full bore into coca.
mp_en_viaje: i should prolly publish pics of this apt, it's something else too.
BingoBoingo: <mp_en_viaje> in other news, god i fucking love poland << Land of tits and ass?
mp_en_viaje: BingoBoingo, it's the eastern hound, tall chicks, nice bone structure, some tits and ass but nothing latino/jewish
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, absolutely not. us barely even figures here.
☟︎ mp_en_viaje: much like "african"-american ie some douche who's 1/16th african, so "jewish" here.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-30 17:41 mircea_popescu: but yes, alladin carries a pretty fucking strong scent of "oh, hi, we're ohioan squarejaws wearing bedsheets. totally legit rome sir. rome, ohio."
mp_en_viaje:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-27#1920337 << the culture of literacy is possibly the largest lost point. yes, at a time on this very planet and within
my own personal memory. in ye glory days of the 70s you could, literally, stop people in the street with whatever interesting math problem, and they'd drop whatever the fuck they were doing and seek a solution out o
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2019-06-27 14:23 asciilifeform: as for the peanut gallery folx, unsurprisingly idjit konsoomer likes to remember 'no jeans' but somehow prefers not to remember the 6 weeks of vacation, rent-free flat, or for that matter the culture of literacy where e.g. publication like 'kvant', with topology, theory of computability, etc. puzzlers , of top quality and for popular! audience
mp_en_viaje: f a very internalized sense of duty, like a saint bernard next to a freezing person. "this can not stand"
mp_en_viaje: the typically ustardian notion that it's acceptable to not know, to not understand, to not care even was entirely unknown ; that "i dunno man, i just work here" typical redditism entirely repressed, socially inacceptable and universally deemed morally reprehensible.
mp_en_viaje: (unless, of course, one was blue collar, with no university degree even. then one was not a person, simply put)
mp_en_viaje: i once passed an exam (whatever, highschool term paper) because i introduced as a lemma a clearly absurd geometrical proof ("all straight angles are obtuse") and then on the basis of this 1=2 proceeded to prove the question at hand. the teacher a) gave me full points because couldn't spot the error in the absurdity and then b) took sick leave the next day
mp_en_viaje: because the guy's loyalty was to the fucking truth of the matter, and to intellectual excellence, rather than to a 3 ring binder, and his petty habits and inhabituations of schedule.
mp_en_viaje: ~THIS~ is very much a central aspect of such a culture of literacy
mp_en_viaje: as opposed to a culture of whatever the fuck this "our company policy" bullshit is.
mp_en_viaje: people cared deeply about obscure points of literary theory, topology, solid state physics and whatnot in a manner typical of the time, too -- greenwich village beatniks ~synchronously did ~same thing [minus, of course, a parental state to force them to also work]
mp_en_viaje: (and, therefore, also minus numeracy, but w/e, colonies)
a111: Logged on 2019-03-28 18:20 asciilifeform: when you bought a e.g.
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-15#1896849 , got moar schematics than ~anyone knew what to do with , right in the box . but when buy ipnoje, what you really buy is... what? the privilege to pay crapple for next 1 in 6 mo...
BingoBoingo: In other news, yet another e-scooter livery spotted today to serve the almost non-existent market for such things
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The catch is these are the rent to rides and they charge by the minute.
BingoBoingo: Essentially it is a reverse parking meter with wheels
☟︎ BingoBoingo: nah, the electric bike-ish things are slow coming in but I do see more.
BingoBoingo: But the flood of electric shitboards is ~litter. No idea how any single one of the company expects to make ROI on them. Not with the casualty rate.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: The only thing I can guess is that someone's burning "Venture" funds just to see what happens when they try turkey dollar expenditures
BingoBoingo: Well the first firm was "Mexican" second was Silicon Valley's "Lime" Haven't looked into the newest yet, but likely more Californitards
a111: Logged on 2019-06-27 15:26 asciilifeform: in re: e.g.
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-27#1920320 , i find the 'civilized' world's pov re sovok to be profoundly schizoid, and quite reminiscent of e.g. hitler's of the j00z -- i.e. somehow simultaneously 'imbeciles, incapable of constructive work' and 'devilish genius that controls world'
mp_en_viaje: also the epistemic sign of "we have no fucking idea wtf's going on there"
a111: Logged on 2019-06-27 15:27 asciilifeform: for half century whole 'civilized world' trained for replay of ww2, and shat pants with fear. of whom, exactly, of 'fractally fucked morons' ? who fears moron, and why ?
mp_en_viaje: (the reference here is : all dying cultures are china shops. they become reflexive as they become sterile ; no longer capable of distinguishing the important from the inconsequential, they aim to
machinally "preserve" themselves.)
a111: Logged on 2019-06-27 15:29 asciilifeform: esp. given where the latter 'by morons'
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, it's still in the trilema byline rotation.
mp_en_viaje: BingoBoingo, "dementia risk" as used there is simply the result of longer life spans. the brain decays, all successful medicine carries the risk of dementia in this sense.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, you seriously dun see what i'm saying, or are you just pissed off ?
mp_en_viaje: no, nobody cares about the dorks outside oxford. the monkery itself, just gave up on its own shit. multiple times.
mp_en_viaje: and it's not a technological discussion. it's a matter of philosophy, as in, internalized worldviews.
BingoBoingo: mp_en_viaje: In this case it seems to be dementia hitting at younger portions of the extended life span. Could be the ones affected younger are more defective. Dementia though tends to be a rot of the cholinergic system.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-27 15:58 asciilifeform: ( fwiw i suspect that cia selling dope ~in usa~ really is 'employees using office equp. for personal gain', rather than political project. consider, you have fleet of seekrit planes, airstrips, 0 customs inspections, how couldja ~not~ traffic dope )
mp_en_viaje: BingoBoingo, exactly that's my theory : split 1 : a1 the ones helped / b1 the ones that didn't need help ; split 2 : a2 the ones demented ; b2 the ones not demented. the idea is a1 a2 are ~same, and in this context you can't pretend they're "a population". they're two.
mp_en_viaje: entirely possible, they'll end up with a pile of dementia as a result of smoke bans.
mp_en_viaje: actual ~increase~ in cancer notwithstanding significant drop in smoking, so exact opposite of what was promised ; and also spike in dementia. sounds almost exactly like pantsuit awareness raising campaign.
BingoBoingo: mp_en_viaje: I'm inclined to believe the split happens as described, but given the marketing of medicine in the US can't rule out some dorks taking benadryl for daytime allergies, Prozac for their sexless depression, and other benadryl for sleep chemically shaping their brain into dementia
a111: Logged on 2019-06-27 16:59 asciilifeform: culture-of-literacy was pervasive, and such that is even difficult to describe to the uninitiated today. e.g. virtually ALL manufactured objects of any complexity
came with schematics, exactly like e.g. FG today
a111: Logged on 2017-11-22 00:50 mircea_popescu: but take this forinstance : thorouyghly hated politician active these days MADE his own fucking ARO (70s romanian SUV). OUT OF PARTS. WHICH HE BOUGTH.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-22 00:50 mircea_popescu: people did that sort of thing, back then. and all the fuckbook tards who paint the dude (rightfully or not, i don't give a shit) as the summum malum never as much as put together a fucking lego box.
mp_en_viaje: and yes, sure as fuck my father's oltcit came with complete manual, incl parts inventory, description, etc. you could have MADE one, if had the cnc mills and patience.
BingoBoingo: Winner gene combinations and loser gene combinations, still either can be drugged into greater loserdom.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-27 17:06 asciilifeform: afaik the last english periodical for intelligent non-professional who 'friends with his head' , was 'scientific american'. i have a set of these here, 1960-1990. pretty good, but no comparison with e.g. 'kvant'.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-27 17:10 asciilifeform: radius of error typically was such that could put asciilifeform's home town into iraq.
mp_en_viaje: data scientists, architects and etc. what can you do.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-27 17:42 BingoBoingo: Essentially it is a reverse parking meter with wheels
a111: Logged on 2019-06-27 17:43 BingoBoingo: But the flood of electric shitboards is ~litter. No idea how any single one of the company expects to make ROI on them. Not with the casualty rate.
mp_en_viaje: i think people just step off and leave once out of charge ?
BingoBoingo: There's folks who come by with motorcycle-trucks in the night to collect them for recharging here
BingoBoingo: Like clockwork, everynight, and everynight they come earlier for the scooters.
BingoBoingo: But yes, whether a scooter got used or not during the day it is night collected for charging.
BingoBoingo: Probably more money could have been had building them with a substantial column lock and marketing them for 18 cuatos of XXXX pesos
BingoBoingo: But like US rental property disease, rarely have people paid (or declined to pay) more for less
BingoBoingo: "El subsecretario de Relaciones Exteriores de Uruguay, Ariel Bergamino, anunció este jueves el retiro nuestro país de la 49 Asamblea General de la OEA en rechazo a la presencia de una delegación de representantes de Juan Guaidó en la asamblea como representantes de Venezuela. "