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(trilema) nubbins` counts bombs
(trilema) nubbins`: the army is too?
(trilema) nubbins`: i thought boston was strong
(trilema) nubbins`: i'm talking about the "you" that doesn't exist, but in this alternate world where you'd be ostensibly an american in charge of american troops
(trilema) nubbins`: mircea_popescu you most certainly wouldn't. you'd have them fighting overseas!
(trilema) nubbins` shrugs helplessly
(trilema) nubbins`: wood? sounds like die siedler von catan
(trilema) nubbins`: you think if the american military suddenly is awash in bodies, they won't start sending them places for the sake of doing it?
(trilema) nubbins`: romania was a different brand of retarded
(trilema) nubbins`: i think it's a video game
(trilema) nubbins`: too passive
(trilema) nubbins`: once everyone's in the military, they gotta /do something/ with all these soldiers!
(trilema) nubbins`: see, thing is
(trilema) nubbins`: wasn't looking ahead far enough 8)
(trilema) nubbins`: wait, no, i see it
(trilema) nubbins`: a universal draft would fix the west?
(trilema) nubbins`: but, y'know. "earned".
(trilema) nubbins`: upside of this is that every korean male, at least ostensibly, earned a blackbelt in taekwondo
(trilema) nubbins`: i think it's two years tho
(trilema) nubbins`: second-best korea still has this, btw
(trilema) nubbins`: a lot can happen in 6 months in the armed forces
(trilema) nubbins`: i'm not sure what romania was like in the late 70s but i feel like the average age of post-secondary graduation directly correlates to how soft things are in that place
(trilema) nubbins`: ^ why not just be honest to yourself ;/
(trilema) nubbins`: "i'm doing __ for my gap year"
(trilema) nubbins`: "i'm taking a year to find myself"
(trilema) nubbins`: 22yo college grad, now there's a thing you see less and less
(trilema) nubbins` rubs hands together
(trilema) nubbins`: oh, here's one about women wearing makeup
(trilema) nubbins`: better middle lane than middling pain
(trilema) nubbins`: dota 5? /me cuts off dick, throws in trash
(trilema) nubbins`: this TLP blog is fun to read but i feel like reading it makes me feel like i understand things better than i actually do
(trilema) nubbins`: but by then he'll be 28
(trilema) nubbins`: or 13 months from now
(trilema) nubbins`: i wonder what book /he/ took
(trilema) nubbins`: prolly got fed up and moved to the woods
(trilema) nubbins`: how pedestrian an end
(trilema) nubbins`: why did this guy stop updating his blog
(trilema) nubbins`: what can we work out here :D
(trilema) nubbins`: danielpbarron hmm
(trilema) nubbins`: added import charges, marginally higher shipping cost
(trilema) nubbins`: overall slightly cheaper per unit than ordering one
(trilema) nubbins`: dem regulations
(trilema) nubbins`: one pogo, no charges
(trilema) nubbins`: danielpbarron in fact, if i order two pogos on ebay, it automatically adds import charges
(trilema) nubbins`: it drank a beer
(trilema) nubbins`: i feel like i have a sata drive from my last laptop somewhere
(trilema) nubbins`: it really is only like another $8 for the purple logo'd one, hey?
(trilema) nubbins`: you mailing me ten packaged pogos would raise eyebrows at customs
(trilema) nubbins`: i don't think there's any special duty or anything, just american electronics websites usually charge limbs to .ca
(trilema) nubbins`: the customs form, i guess
(trilema) nubbins`: how would the shippers know?
(trilema) nubbins`: phun phact, we order most of our paper from brooklyn
(trilema) nubbins`: danielpbarron insanely cheap for everything but electronics.
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform most electronic items simply do not offer a checkout button for canadians
(trilema) nubbins`: well, no, maybe the same
(trilema) nubbins`: ~$35usd for sata-ful
(trilema) nubbins`: right, someone mentioned the exercise in patience i have awaiting me
(trilema) nubbins`: er no removable lid
(trilema) nubbins`: blue "mobile", no lid. ebay.
(trilema) nubbins`: still notu badu
(trilema) nubbins`: sadly, the cheapest pogo a canadian can land is $25usd
(trilema) nubbins`: o, wait. there we go.
(trilema) nubbins`: is the pitfall incomplete search results?
(trilema) nubbins`: okay, was gonna say.. 8)
(trilema) nubbins`: you're not trying to compile it on the pogo itself, are you?
(trilema) nubbins`: danielpbarron +1
(trilema) nubbins`: didn't alf post some binaries to the ml?
(trilema) nubbins`: well, wait now.
(trilema) nubbins`: no, actually useful enough around the house that i'll need to get a second one for tinkering
(trilema) nubbins`: danielpbarron yeah, it's serving up files via smb right now
(trilema) nubbins`: re: uboot on pogo
(trilema) nubbins`: neat seeing how people do things
(trilema) nubbins`: ^ some of the homesteading blogs are rad too
(trilema) nubbins`: they really do put a fair amount of effort into what they do
(trilema) nubbins`: "The Multiplatform Edition contains files for each year of the magazine in a format that can be transferred for viewing and searching on multiple devices. The content can only be viewed and searched year by year. • The Classic Edition provides a browser-based interface for accessing the archive on your desktop computer or laptop. You can do advanced searches and view content from the entire 44-year archive, all at once!"
(trilema) nubbins`: i probably have coupon codes somewhere if you actually want it
(trilema) nubbins`: ;;google mother earth dvd
(trilema) nubbins`: jurov i'd imagine.
(trilema) nubbins`: you can get every back issue to the 70s on dvd for <sale of the month price>
(trilema) nubbins`: website + backlogs are literally a trove tho
(trilema) nubbins`: mircea_popescu:nubbins`: what's a young anti-consumerist to do ;/ << shit look at that, "mother earth news" is actually a thing. <<< print issues are a bit lacking these days, but for the $20/yr or w/e...
(trilema) nubbins`: mircea_popescu:nubbins`: you know i took a ninety per cent pay cut two years ago? << you actually made money at some point ?! <<< i actually make money *now*, just... less 8)
(trilema) nubbins`: shrillly definitely isn't right
(trilema) nubbins`: shrillishly?
(trilema) nubbins` cackles shrilly
(trilema) nubbins`: apple? best bsd box i ever owned
(trilema) nubbins` prepares to cheer
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform this'll work on purple and blue units, yeah?
(trilema) nubbins`: re: ramdisk awwwwww yeah!
(trilema) nubbins`: my last rental before purchasing had -- literally -- a mold room
(trilema) nubbins`: this place was below 1% vacancy for quite a time
(trilema) nubbins`: well, if nothing else, i get the scarce rental market thing
(trilema) nubbins`: i heard it smells like brimstone there
(trilema) nubbins`: heart of the beast
(trilema) nubbins`: ascii where's here, anyway
(trilema) nubbins`: bitcoin all the things
(trilema) nubbins`: what's a young anti-consumerist to do ;/
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform i sort of gloss over the fact that years of reading "mother earth news" before taking the plunge took most of the edge off it
(trilema) nubbins`: all i'm saying is that one can surprise oneself
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform far be it from me to say this is a cure-all
(trilema) nubbins`: but y'know what? i don't have to lie in bed every morning wondering whether i'll call in sick
(trilema) nubbins`: now it takes me a bit longer
(trilema) nubbins`: i used to make that in 13 minutes at my old job
(trilema) nubbins`: that's two hundred bucks each, per month. $7 a day.
(trilema) nubbins`: my wife and i collectively have to scrounge together about $400 per month to keep this house going
(trilema) nubbins`: mortgage: paid.
(trilema) nubbins`: anyway, i fill two empty bedrooms with like-minded individuals with schedules that suit me
(trilema) nubbins`: yeah, the socialist paradise. i get hit by a car, they fix me for free
(trilema) nubbins`: net 6k, i said 8)
(trilema) nubbins`: my home cost just under a quarter-million for reference.
(trilema) nubbins`: it's not at all the grim spectre that all you guys think it is.
(trilema) nubbins`: but what i'm saying is that while cutting one's income from a gross of ~$60k to a net of ~$6k necessarily involves severe lifestyle changes
(trilema) nubbins`: consider the statement suitably modified
(trilema) nubbins`: how do you suppose i can manage this?
(trilema) nubbins`: and someone with a link to the stats can take a stab at how much time i spend dicking around on irc
(trilema) nubbins`: just so it's not glossed over, i said earlier that i took a 90% pay cut in 2013
(trilema) nubbins`: unless you're leasing said equipment, don't you already have it?
(trilema) nubbins`: you know i took a ninety per cent pay cut two years ago?
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform that's where the tears come in
(trilema) nubbins`: sounds blithe, no?
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform: stop waste and save.
(trilema) nubbins`: fierce, bitter tears. as opposed to a dull, prolonged weeping.
(trilema) nubbins`: i don't /really/ think i need to tell you guys that tears are a necessary ingredient to un-fucking your situations
(trilema) nubbins`: bunch of guys so wrapped up in bezzle trappings that they don't realize their cage door is wide open
(trilema) nubbins`: "i really wanna lose weight, but big macs are just so good and i gotta have 10 a day"
(trilema) nubbins`: why do i get the impression that nobody wants to exit the hamster cage because the wheel and watering tube are really nice and convenient?
(trilema) nubbins`: ;;buy 1 "Collection of laser-cut wood items" @ 0 BTC PM for details
(trilema) nubbins`: oh fuck hold on
(trilema) nubbins`: i doubt he stopped checking the forum ;p
(trilema) nubbins`: prolly shoot him a PM
(trilema) nubbins`: now it's mostly me just antagonizing TECSHARE
(trilema) nubbins`: if there's one lesson bitcoin teaches people mercilessly...
(trilema) nubbins`: <+danielpbarron> "if the pre-req for chatting on irc is being in the WoT, the chat is gonna suck" <<< *cough*
(trilema) nubbins`: if the pre-req for playing is being in the WoT, the games are gonna suck
(trilema) nubbins`: so... shrug.
(trilema) nubbins`: but they also didn't hash passwords, instead opting to store them in plain text
(trilema) nubbins`: i used to work for a national insurance company, every corporate machine was a lenovo
(trilema) nubbins`: guy likes to learn
(trilema) nubbins`: i taught my roomie about CAs yesterday using them as an example
(trilema) nubbins`: alos, dat lenovo
(trilema) nubbins`: ;;google steripen
(trilema) nubbins`: this is one of the nicer pieces of kit i've picked up over years of outdoorsyness:
(trilema) nubbins`: re: cryptosporidium
(trilema) nubbins`: what's 50trn in real money
(trilema) nubbins`: of course you do
(trilema) nubbins`: might as well blame the wind. what's to gain?
(trilema) nubbins`: blaming the public is kinda pointless too
(trilema) nubbins`: was actually wondering if a specific thing'd come up
(trilema) nubbins`: ;;google "death comes quick for these types"
(trilema) nubbins`: !s portatronic
(trilema) nubbins`: he/him she/her zhe/zher
(trilema) nubbins`: oprah is more trusted than almost anyone else alive, doesn't mean i'm gonna take her advice 8)
(trilema) nubbins`: thestringpuller "trusted" is a relative term, yo!
(trilema) nubbins`: "The thing is, I don't think there will ever be mass adoption of the system as it exist today. The 'average Joe' will be using some payment processor and not the blockchain directly. So the blockchain will have transactions from payment processors and early adopters/enthusiasts. The rest will be in closed systems and/or side chains that can solve a lot of the volume issues."
(trilema) nubbins`: being forthright in this manner would help his cause significantly
(trilema) nubbins`: maybe if you just come to the community and openly admit you spent 10k btc on cocaine
(trilema) nubbins`: all this "perhaps if we are just open about our abject failures as humans" stuff
(trilema) nubbins`: i fucking hate this pseudo-intellectual style of writing
(trilema) nubbins`: hahahahahaha
(trilema) nubbins`: you should plan for sucking Hitler's knob in the event that the Nazis win WW2.
(trilema) nubbins`: "millions? b'y, there's THOUSANDS of em out there"
(trilema) nubbins`: "wow, there must be millions of cod in those waters"
(trilema) nubbins`: danielpbarron here, in times past, "thousands" was used as an immeasurable
(trilema) nubbins`: i guess no easy way to count
(trilema) nubbins`: how many nodes right now, anyway?
(trilema) nubbins`: danielpbarron notu badu
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform maybe that's the exuberance
(trilema) nubbins`: kinda tempted to buy like a hundred
(trilema) nubbins`: this pogo thing is gonna make tsunamis
(trilema) nubbins`: i chuckled
(trilema) nubbins`: "holy shit bitcoin core runs on raspi B+!"
(trilema) nubbins`: there was a thread on reddit the other day
(trilema) nubbins`: that's how they get ya
(trilema) nubbins`: in fairness, the same dollar amount is worth less each time you buy one 8)
(trilema) nubbins`: anyway, blue logo guy is nice
(trilema) nubbins`: *i'm* suggesting we seed a blockchain torrent 8)
(trilema) nubbins`: nono, i totally understand
(trilema) nubbins`: i've got 30mbit up, could spare some
(trilema) nubbins`: is anyone interested in donating a modicum of bandwidth to such a thing?
(trilema) nubbins`: danielpbarron now there's a torrent i'd seed
(trilema) nubbins`: - is the absence thereof
(trilema) nubbins`: 0 is a value
(trilema) nubbins`: danielpbarron yeah no doubt.
(trilema) nubbins`: also i think the purple logo won't boot off an SD?
(trilema) nubbins`: i think the purple logo is the one where the top comes off to reveal SATA/USD
(trilema) nubbins`: well that's the one i have
(trilema) nubbins`: top doesn't pop off
(trilema) nubbins`: as an aside, the pogoplug MOBILE (blue logo) does NOT accept SATA
(trilema) nubbins`: anyway, idgaf
(trilema) nubbins`: i think it means alf doesn't like it
(trilema) nubbins`: there's also arch linux arm
(trilema) nubbins`: just needs a 4G+ sd card
(trilema) nubbins`: impossibly easy
(trilema) nubbins`: danielpbarron sec
(trilema) nubbins`: gonna try to pop .foundation 531 on it soon
(trilema) nubbins`: currently serving files from a 1.5tb drive
(trilema) nubbins`: i got debian shoved on my pogoplug
(trilema) nubbins`: PUT THE LOTION IN THE FUCKING BASKET
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