user705: read somewhere that the whole eating pussy thing has gained popularity only recently because of big dicks in porn
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> honestly i'd rather work on that tuna. << Tongue is a collection of muscles that can condition for endurance!
user705: yeah flexibility will always be a losing battle since their bodies were designed to pop out clones but stamina is just a matter of conditioning
mircea_popescu: honestly i'd rather work on that tuna.
mircea_popescu: so i joined the whores going to the gym. my first time in a gym at that! it was discovered that yes i'm a lot more powerful than they are, but i have neither the flexibility nor the endurance.
user705: even on qntra and trilemma it asks for one I guess the question is what option is less bad
asciilifeform: not really. what's the point
asciilifeform: i find it interesting that -- afaik -- nobody in actual asia thought of EITHER approach.
asciilifeform: a clever man might be able to think of something involving vectorized 'brush strokes' rather than raster. might be moar searchable. but inevitably moar complex also.
asciilifeform: and it 'sits on the cock AND eats the fish', in that hieroglyphists get ( if painfully ) to have their nonsense, BUT they also get to feel what it actually costs. and at the same time NO explicit support for any particular hieroglyph clutters yours or my box.
asciilifeform: now cut it down the middle vertically, and walk left to right, and you get the 32 bytes.
asciilifeform: there we go.
asciilifeform: at the cost of a bit of log clutter, let's indulge asciilifeform's crackpottery, and lay out 妓 ( U+5993 : whore ) :
asciilifeform: i dun even give a fuck whether chinese get to write their hieroglyphs . but i'd like to insert occasional nabla or whatnot , greek etc without swapping code pages.
asciilifeform: ( and keeps compressor where it belongs - simple and on the generic outside, rather than specific per monkeylang )
asciilifeform: incidentally, the 32byte thing will compress ok. just like earthling langs do.
asciilifeform: and what day of menses the menstruade used as ink was from aha
mircea_popescu: chinese matron requires to know whether author was drunk at time of writing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im pretty sure 16x16 "is not enough" because, for instance, "you can not tell if the strokes were made in the correct order"
asciilifeform: but bitmap oughta be the canonical form.
asciilifeform: if they want fancy calligraphy, let'em recognize and substitute the 16x16 bitmap with a fancy.
asciilifeform: the sane solution , if hieroglyphs are your thing, is http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684293
a111: Logged on 2017-07-15 16:48 asciilifeform: they wanna say 妓 -- let'em be stuck saying 32 bytes (16x16 bit matrix, more than enough for any hierohorror) rather than 2 bytes !!!
mircea_popescu: and this is not to count the various jokes, and puns, and that in turn is to not count all the cases where i'm fucking with the fucking with it deliberately.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, sometimes my a is /a/ and sometimes /ə/. and even some other times /ɨ/.
phf: but that's an alternative solution, since unicode claims taxonomy of symbols. "A" as written by mp in 2017 is not necessarily different from "A" written by mp during other times (but it might map to different A's within taxonomy, e.g. latin or cyrillic one). in case of japs they claim that the new symbol actually carries additional meaning
a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 15:40 phf: the whole font changes meaning take two is coming from the japanese. they were actively promoting this idea back during early unicode standardization days, where there was a strong drive to include every idiosyncratic version of kanji in the standard, because "that's how my family writes it in our last name".
mircea_popescu: "the letter A as written in summer 2017 by MP" seems almost sufficient blather doesn't it.
mircea_popescu: the only correct unicode, is, obviously, dated font tables. whereby i write in the year-specified letter a. and to read my modern story typeset in fraktur you have to set your computer clock to year 1199 or else the machine will refuse to print ("error! temproally-unavailable fonts detected!") much like gedit refuses to open files in gnome.
mircea_popescu: the reason they did not wish to do this is plain racism : they were afraid of me, and all the humour i was about to heap on them (the above x is not h but p is r very much apropos), and they understood (correctly) that no such scholarsip is available to yellow men.
phf: vaguely relatedly: if you drink unicode cool aid, shouldn't cyrillic latin subset like "a" be unified with the latin equivalent, along the lines of han unification? and then you introduce "linguist context surrogate" or whatever to actually give the glyph proper i18n aware shape? or perhaps that information should be contained purely in font, i.e. "russian" font has latin A rendered with russian typographic conventions. #makeunicodegreatagain
mircea_popescu: csaba the csaker could be a grandiose character, though.
phf: yeah, scratch the second part, i confused myself
phf: come to think of it, for non cyrillic readers, xakep is how you spell "hacker" in ru, written in this case with latin alphabet, because it just happens that the subset of cyrillic required to write the word "hacker" in ru is also latin
mircea_popescu: but most go around with this puta, neither cock nor cunt imature device.
asciilifeform: makes a diff whether yer milk or meat, neh
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you like to have your wine surrepetitiously drunk by such rather than the melanogaster ?
mircea_popescu: adding a "well, the detector pointed this way" answer to the repertoir wouldn't hurt jack.
asciilifeform: ( faith healers, esp, ufology, were on MAINSTREAM ru tv at the time. so a 'counterculture' mag ~had to~ avoid'em, see )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i do all sorts of weird shit. there's iirc trilema telling the story of me calling chick out of the blue. "how did you get thsi number ?" "i had you followed".
asciilifeform: it was not the bizarre cocktail of mental illness exhibited in 'mondo'
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 18:20 phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-20#1686972 << in the same vein, though a slightly different subculture there was a super trashy ru magazine XAKEP, which was sort of combination of game/hardware reviews and script kiddie writeups in the style of 2600. they have their archive online https://xakep.ru/pdf/xa/002 https://xakep.ru/pdf/xa/003 https://xakep.ru/pdf/xa/004 etc.
asciilifeform: revisiting http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-22#1689019 : 'XAKEP' mag stands head and shoulders above 'mondo' et al rubbish : it may be lame, but (most of) the things it describes ACTUALLY EXISTED, long-forgotten dos games, vapourware, electric schemes for 'detect ufo' that would at least detect passing truck certainly, tv jammer would in fact jam tv.
asciilifeform: ( or are they released in the forest to find later, like safari lions in 19th c... ? )
asciilifeform: i thought mircea_popescu-style fun consisted of sitting in chair and watching the gurlz fight over which one gets to go in the door
asciilifeform: what you'd want here is a vortex tube, that lets dust/heavies settle into exhaust drain, air per se -- out the side pipe, and the magic fraction concentrated 100+x -- to nose.
asciilifeform: there is an 'olfactometer', instrument that pumps known volume of sampled air from the room into expert nose, for gas leaks etc but is NOT same thing as subj.
asciilifeform: where asciilifeform admitted that in preference to gc/ms or other usgairport-like fancy junk, it could very well be a simpler matter of concentrating odours from air and simply piping into own nose
asciilifeform: did we ever do the concentrator thread ?
mircea_popescu: otherwise moth's have huge ears instead of those fuzzy chemcapture devices we call antennae.
mircea_popescu: i't put it on the car in preference of "radar detector". who fucks radars.
mircea_popescu: rather than deeply dubious "disease scanning arrays" from whatever stupid ho, how about the equally dubious but deeply fun "go this way" aerosol evaluator.
asciilifeform: same place as other barely plausible martian tech, lol
mircea_popescu: phf no but i mean, directional. like the metal detectors.
phf: article on "hacker style" "how does he dress? where he buys clothes?" "how does a real hacker speak?"
mircea_popescu: you would expect the one useful tech could do for 15yo neh ? "left, right, left, left, there she is"
mircea_popescu: laugh, but from the trouble it gives randos i would expect "how to trilema" is like sitting on a warez pedestal somewhere.
phf: yeah, pretty much. but 2600 has the whole "fight the powa!!1" vibe to it, this is more of a trashy 16 y/o internet club rats learning how to deface websites.
phf: xakep magazine is sort of like "the hackers" movie. everybody made fun of it, and everybody bought a copy every month
asciilifeform: aint these folx ever heard of djvu
asciilifeform: holy mother of fuck
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 00:47 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-19#1686933 << when phf first described subj, asciilifeform thought 'what if i saw it then, would it have made sense, appealed?' but now i know -- no
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-20#1686972 << in the same vein, though a slightly different subculture there was a super trashy ru magazine XAKEP, which was sort of combination of game/hardware reviews and script kiddie writeups in the style of 2600. they have their archive online https://xakep.ru/pdf/xa/002 https://xakep.ru/pdf/xa/003 https://xakep.ru/pdf/xa/004 etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the game has no actual use for cards, it just uses cards to generate some random numbers. it's not a card game, properly speaking, not anymore than using your car engine for powering your laptop makes the assemblage "it"
mircea_popescu: (in fact, the do, it's called barbut).
asciilifeform: well they still play cards, that get shuffled, just like 500 yrs ago. unless i misunderstood the rng remark.
asciilifeform: ( though today they ~mandate mechanical shuffling machines, for some reason )
asciilifeform: so can't be the rng
asciilifeform: could be simply camera angle, or could be that there's actually somebody home in that head. i've nfi.
mircea_popescu: her eyes are kohl'd, there's powder on the cheek, and well chosen rouge on the lip... what more, really ?
mircea_popescu: she's made up about to the evening level.
asciilifeform: i didn't imprint on the kabuki and find it repulsive, is all.
asciilifeform: probably by accident, kabuki makeup sweated off etc. but nevertheless.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 17:58 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-22#1688972 | http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-22#1688963 wut do you both see in random club slut like ~any other ?! this is interesting already.
mircea_popescu: but the point : there's always winds. whether men blow the winds against the mechanisms, and create the prison card playing world ; or whether mechanisms blow the winds against people, and create the "company policy" and us office, there'll still be wind, and there'll still be some towers, and some ground down mounds were other towers could have stood.
asciilifeform: ^ some huawei rubbish or other
mircea_popescu: a sort of fairness-and-equality-through-simplicity-and-poverty is required for such things. kinda why orange revolutions work, when they do.
mircea_popescu: in town. much like, of course, representative democracy belongs to the simple and them alone ( http://trilema.com/2015/why-representative-democracy-doesnt-work-and-doesnt-make-sense/#selection-79.0-85.2 ).
mircea_popescu: anyway, the discussion of card cheating brings us to an inverse of that ancient towers point ( http://btcbase.org/log/2015-10-31#1312420 ) : it is only in prison that technology is sufficiently limited for the "cheating -- allowed" approach to work. yes, it does work well, and yes it is very warmly human. but it is also a strong part of the rural vs urban dispute, in that it is strictly a matter of rurality, and can not live
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-22#1688972 | http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-22#1688963 wut do you both see in random club slut like ~any other ?! this is interesting already.
asciilifeform: faro interestingly was ~the~ 19th c game
phf: atch your opponnent, it's your right, know how to cheat yourself, know how to dispute a questionable win. a game is always between two people -- one on one. none of the pros would degrade themselves by participating in a group game like ochko. none would be scared to play against a strong “performer” either -- like in chess a real pro looks for a strong oponnent."
phf: (a rather butchered translation) "it was sevochka, a famous expert at terza, stos and bura, the three traditional card games. he was a master of the extensive ruleset, strict adherence to which was mandatory in any real confrontation. they said about sevochka that he is an “excellent performer” that is he shows the skill and the agility of a card sharp. of course he actually was a card sharp; an honest theifs game is a game of deceit: observe and c
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 16:46 asciilifeform thinks back to the rather complicated philosophy of ru prison re when it is 'kosher' to cheat at cards, and with whom
mircea_popescu: you know i wasn't ever in jail either.
asciilifeform: my education consists of secondary sources, i'd rather mircea_popescu expanded.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 23:54 asciilifeform: hether there was any likelihood of being passed a false banknote and whether he could pass on a false note himself. There was no definite system involved in all this. Sometimes a fist like a hairy water-melon would appear in the little window, but it was obvious that Tatarsky could quite safely send its owner to hell and beyond. Then sometimes Tatarsky's heart would skip a beat in fright at the sight of a slim female hand
asciilifeform thinks back to the rather complicated philosophy of ru prison re when it is 'kosher' to cheat at cards, and with whom
asciilifeform: i thought it was the cockwidthcalibration.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not limited to that, either. what do folks feel cheated of, when they declare to have been cheated on by spouse ?
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 16:35 mircea_popescu: suppose you go to the casino, yes, and lose some money playing with the fates. if you discover that the game was fixed, will you go "ah well, i had lost it anyway" ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-22#1688938 << this is actually a great puzzler ( what is it that folx feel cheated of, when they are cheated at cards )
mircea_popescu: there's edges of this observable everywhere in nature. why make car insurance mandatory ? so that every idiot with a donut has a certain kind of principal behind him, so accidents can stay accidents and you can actually get your car fixed rather than "hurr durr i'm anon pothead, lolz".
mircea_popescu: but the point remains -- it very much matters whose principal thje agent is.
asciilifeform: at any rate mircea_popescu is welcome to walk into my yurt and drink all the kumys he wants whenever.
asciilifeform: not being a gurl, i dun see any blur in the line between the willingly and unwillingly given wine , b/w friend and foe
mircea_popescu: suppose you go to the casino, yes, and lose some money playing with the fates. if you discover that the game was fixed, will you go "ah well, i had lost it anyway" ?
asciilifeform: this mixing of unlikes, dirty thinking, mircea_popescu barfs when other folx do it.
mircea_popescu: sure, rarely. yet you can be robbed of your heart and not mind the loss any.
mircea_popescu: the "it was not robbery for [insert reasons]" is the common, but also nonsensical escape from this fix. the correct way out is to notice that yes you were robbed, but it matters who does it.
mircea_popescu: im taking some wine to the bathroom in any event.
asciilifeform: dunno, didja take the couch home?
asciilifeform: all robbers are entirely the same type of thing from my pov, and vary only in skill and size.
asciilifeform: how would it make a diff to me how the robber spends it.
mircea_popescu: but not otherwise.
mircea_popescu: so you just wanted the money ?
asciilifeform: robbed just the same, neh
asciilifeform: i.e. whether it is because luciano wants new yacht or new whore
mircea_popescu: all the difference in the world, neh ? what difference does it make for whom the postman brings letters ? well, if he brings othello letters from desdemona, he is a sort of cupid ; and if they are from the doge, a sort of mercury.
asciilifeform: what diff does it make for whom the bagman bagmans
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-22#1688906 << the classification of agent depends on the classification of principal he agents for.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 10:15 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688217 << the whore gets paid because ~you~ think she should be. the robber gets paid because ~he~ thinks he should be. very unlike items, these.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 10:14 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688195 << are you satisfied re this point, by the way ? trinque's "not a man" item wasn't much pursued, but it is substantial enough.
mircea_popescu: which is the whole item here : yes usg seduces a bunch of dorks, but what i am saying is that a) i'm not seduced myslef and b) i do not think very much of they who are.
mircea_popescu: these are very much not the same : i can say "i'm not interested" in the woman case only.
mircea_popescu: the case of the whore is not of "man who walks into room and overpowers all those present", but instead "woman walks into room and seduces all those present".
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688217 << the whore gets paid because ~you~ think she should be. the robber gets paid because ~he~ thinks he should be. very unlike items, these.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 04:43 asciilifeform: however, i gotta ask, what happened to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-17#1685436 ? usg beat and imprisoned the rabbis, at the end of the day. so how come it does not 'prove superiority' in mircea_popescu's lens ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688195 << are you satisfied re this point, by the way ? trinque's "not a man" item wasn't much pursued, but it is substantial enough.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/why-representative-democracy-doesnt-work-and-doesnt-make-sense/#comment-114493 >> whole discussion very much on point re the whole ru 99 / ro 2004 thing, for the antiquarianly minded.
mircea_popescu: ^ in celebration of the "recent events" that... weren't.
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/the-practical-costs-of-hallucinated-freedom/ << Trilema - The practical costs of hallucinated freedom
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> what future fucking administration. << 'tis kinda true, with each successive one the twilight wanes.
asciilifeform: i recall when obummer was supposed to be the last.
mircea_popescu: really, not obvious this is the last one ?
BingoBoingo: And the latest from the delusionists: "If Trump abuses his presidential powers to pardon in a way that obstructs justice, he could be prosecuted under a future administration."
mircea_popescu: that's because they weren't spiked approprioately.
BingoBoingo: In other quotes from the wild: The question that needs to be answered is, was this shooting a mistake or was it a cultural seizure by a Muslim officer who snapped and acted irrationally at the sight of a woman in her pajamas?
mircea_popescu: you don't understand the humour.
BingoBoingo: If he fails to find me through having the wrong rats read applciations, it is his failure. Unlike Obamacare he owns this failure to hire.
BingoBoingo: Of course he was going to suck. Didn't believe in "The Great Again" and tried repping Trump like a Lindsey Graham oldster.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the old "gop" dorks fell over like so much paper candles, the traditional senatorial refuge in disease and bodily weakness. guy won his home front, no question.
BingoBoingo: In other Yesterday on Qntra http://qntra.net/2017/07/trump-issues-ultimatum-to-gop-senators-start-selling/ , as of noon-ish today Sean Spicer is out as Trump's press secretary.
mod6: im just lucky that the woodpeckers go after the trees as opposed to the structure, or i'd be spending a lot more time in the backyard like rambo
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: !~later tell pete_dushenski So, question of the day. How does infant car seat handle in Blackzilla?
mircea_popescu: and back to cabaret, it's plain to everyone joel grey's role is quite literally morte, the ace of spades, the xiiith card ? which is why he's in the morgige tag scene right at the end.
mircea_popescu: the us splendidly qualifies.
mircea_popescu: pro tip : most rapists prefer the body subdued but still warm.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the latest DoD studies as to things and matters wrt AMERICA!!!, http://68.media.tumblr.com/b45ce77c449df83a8bff2b3411d181fb/tumblr_og1n394flC1ueyc9co1_500.gif
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> now if they only made the spiked bb already. << They do sell for air rifle.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 02:50 BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no. i recall the faggots, not yet VERY overweight, going to the things that meanwhile got captured by apple, much like coca-cola captured xmas << In elementry school historical context for the then present was established to be "on the verge of paradise, if only we stop littering"
BingoBoingo: <trinque> I'm 30 now; 90s amount to a vague memory of "people might've done things before. maybe in the 80s?" << AHA http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-20#1687077
mircea_popescu: poppenkorken expected thereupon.
mircea_popescu: wrong parts mounted on the chassis, car dun werk.
asciilifeform: i thought the springs were springy, but ratchets rusty, or how it went
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 02:15 mircea_popescu: and they existed very much because ro girls, unlike russki stupid cunts, did NOT perceive themselves at some kind of liberty to not whore up for the gangster class.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688436 << especially tyhe genius of having the 2nd standing up to be that fairzuka balk sow-esque girl, all small eyes and animal zeit.
asciilifeform: in other mircea_popescutronic lulz, https://archive.is/jH9iJ >> 'U.S. prosecutors on Friday said they plan to drop criminal charges against two former JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) derivatives traders... ... Prosecutors said their efforts to extradite the defendants have been unsuccessful or deemed futile..'
phf: 27, she's a member of the 27 club
a111: Logged on 2017-07-14 19:08 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-14#1683618 << 'at your age, sergei lazo was already circling around the locomotive!'
mircea_popescu: says the fucking words, you know ? "you should be stronger than me". dood...
mircea_popescu: "keen eye for the superficial" is not much of a qualification.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 16:15 phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1687972 << i'm not sure that's a criticism that can be leveled at pelevin, he's got other traps though. he has a keen eye for the present, but then he adds a layer of interpretation very much in the style of This Is What's Really Happening, which is usually of esoteric nature. his bratki take psychedelic mushrooms "to get fucked up next level!1" and accidentally break into the a shared buddhist realm of higher being, t
mircea_popescu: especially if you ask them.
mircea_popescu: phf in fairness might be an age thing again. a few years make all the difference in humor like in war.
mircea_popescu: it IS shocking to revisit, though. "quite ?!" overpowers the mind.
phf: heh, you know for how iconoclast petshopboys were i never even thought about "go west" being tongue in cheek. at the time pet shop boys were moscows bards of freedom so of course they would sing go west in earnest. fwiw, they tried warning us, but you had to be in the know to get it
mircea_popescu: i suppose the period was ironclad to sarcasm...
mircea_popescu: very good band to do it, too, the mannerists.
mircea_popescu: the mockery is like aspic all over it.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 19:32 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688395 << there was no real us 90s. whole thing was just a derpy kumbaya of inept hipsters crawling out of the lousy studios with "i told you so" placards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmpNZ31CXw is about all of it.
mircea_popescu: "dream awaaaayyy... in the " etc.
mircea_popescu: "to the magic of the moment on a glory night... here's more words without any particular meanings... it's the way of tomooooroooo"
mircea_popescu: "and don't forget to release the nuclear dancing bear..."
mircea_popescu: "totally... and tomorrow in school these assholes are gonna have sukhois and we'll get an F in algebra"
mircea_popescu: the cold war was won in the manner of soccer game behind the apt building being won by other team's mom calling kids in for dinner.
trinque: strikes me every time when I get a whiff of the apparent.. "placehood" what american folks would've referred to as the "post-soviet collapse space" of the 90s, had
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 16:12 trinque: I'm 30 now; 90s amount to a vague memory of "people might've done things before. maybe in the 80s?"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688395 << there was no real us 90s. whole thing was just a derpy kumbaya of inept hipsters crawling out of the lousy studios with "i told you so" placards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmpNZ31CXw is about all of it.
ave1: I see it was just so that a little id could be printed in the end, very stupid
asciilifeform: ( on a box where i already happened to have it, it got past the hg thing. but pretty ridiculous that it even exists. )
ave1: hmm, the musl-cross repository was hg but should not be needed, will remove
asciilifeform: i thought we were cremating the dependency maggotry
mircea_popescu: dun worry about the rest unless you for some peculiar reason actually want to
mircea_popescu: really, having one working point is all the job.
ave1: I'll look into getting it to work with 2016 in the mean time...
a111: Logged on 2013-12-22 16:56 asciilifeform: 'what people want is a function of what they learn is available. e.g., do Americans want three-ring binders, and Europeans four-ring binders? or do they want binders and take whatever number of holes they come with? or do they want something that can help them organize their papers and take whatever is available? or do they really want a less cluttered office and ease of storage and retrieval of the infor
ave1: asciilifeform: for http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688362, it looks like you are building with adacore 2016 edition, could you try with the 2015 edition (no need to do a real install, just unpack it and set path to the bin dir will be enough)
mircea_popescu: BUT THEY TAUGHT ME IN SCHOOL!
mircea_popescu: i naively thought industry is all about serving the market ; not about trying to impose strange ideologies upon it.
phf: still they try
mircea_popescu: not rly, if you look closely most have dumbass ridges lips etc in the way.
mircea_popescu: you know it's the only common element in the preteen masturbatory history of all girls i met ?
asciilifeform: i thought they did
asciilifeform: with the dildo + pen
asciilifeform pictures the scene from 'numbers'
mircea_popescu: i have a naked girl in my livingroom on all fours with a brush going at the carpet. whom should i call ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688535 << briefly revisiting this thread, imho ideal masquerade is... cheap lost pen. just the right length, fits quarter-wave or so antenna inside, plus lithium batt etc. and looks entirely unremarkable wherever it falls.
mircea_popescu: this is something a certain sort of mind can simply take or leave ; but another sort absolutely desperately craves.
mircea_popescu: there's great relief, you see, in my own mind, by simply noticing that, "hey, i was dead about twenty years ago ANYWAY. what do i care".
asciilifeform: he got his -- but a little too low, into the neck
mircea_popescu: no. but the acting as if.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe he is correct re similar, but incorrect in the anchor. he, and most other folks who went, were actually looking for the golden excuse.
asciilifeform: yeah but for him ~end~ of ww1 was the trauma.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688380 << the ww1 trenches were no fucking party. foot rot and malaria, nevermind. narrowly missing out on the 20s, now that i can see. be like 17 in 1928 sorta shit.
mircea_popescu: i was ungodly young, by all accounts, to the point of giving the older people pause. and this was WITH my great benefit of easily passing in person for significantly older than i actually was.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 15:44 phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1687977 << mostly age, the few years that i'm younger than you i think made all the difference in the 90s scheme of things. by the time i "queuing up in the recruitment strip" it was tail end of the epoch
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 15:22 asciilifeform: '“Fact-toxic” information pertains to actual truths which, the document complains, are “exposed in the absence of context”, and therefore poison “important political discourse.” Such information is seen as being most potent in triggering outbreaks of civil unrest , because it: “… fatally weakens foundational security at an international, regional, national, or personal level. Indeed, fact-toxic exposures are those lik
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688372 << is this the orange revolution come home to roost ?!
mircea_popescu: so the bidniss case is here. mostly a matter of whether we can get the ops together.
mircea_popescu: besides, a mail point in the empire of the future can't hurt anything, and so on and so forth.
asciilifeform: it wouldn't hurt to get illicit cheapo cn knockoff cpld either.
asciilifeform: actually the 8266 episode taught me to eschew 'magic, rare' ic
mircea_popescu: in any event, the business case is right here : if hireling gets 2k/month and takes less trhan a week to find alf's above 5k esp8266s at 22cents each, we in fact have positive roi on the scheme (for that week).
mircea_popescu: gotta give proper tasks, there's no imperative c.
asciilifeform: could then, work
mircea_popescu: i hired chicks to write on their tits. also recipe ?
mircea_popescu: is this something the foundation may maybe consider ? open us an embassy in beijing, hire a chick to sit there 4 hours/day or such ?
mircea_popescu: sort-of like the manul chick, except moar dedicated.
mircea_popescu: need someone lives in beijing. maybe hit the want ads
asciilifeform: ( now i recall, he found the 1$ pcb people for me earlier. but that was as good as it got then )
asciilifeform: i dun actually know whether this has any hope of working.
mircea_popescu: by the time it'll be 5 years old, like the "we should have isp expert" thing is, we'll have it just as solved as the isp thing is solved.
asciilifeform: nao if mircea_popescu knows how to get to the ~right~ chinos...
asciilifeform: i did, but must be doing it wrong, they only offer a) the pcb 2) chip, but for >= price the pcb sells at.
asciilifeform: maybe in another 3y..
mircea_popescu: well stop flavouring us with it then!
asciilifeform: recall the $billion balloon of all-seeing sauron from 2014
asciilifeform: ( and must also ask, if they are already here, why wait for baloon, wai not my head )
mircea_popescu: "the obvious solution to acoso callejero is to not go around where horny males can see you"
mircea_popescu: ima link to this next time you say anything in the vein to me.\
asciilifeform: the obvious pill is to not get into the position of where olympic skeet shooters are following you around the world..
mircea_popescu: you could prolly get the street urchins involved, if only you can provide rifles for them. this is becoming a sort of "isis in mosul" deal
asciilifeform: ( other obvious recipe for headache for balloon hunter - bouquet'em , with 5x redundancy. now he needs a machine-gun )
mircea_popescu: this convo with the "fin!!!" thing is eerily reminescent of early crypto discussion s, at that.
mod6: yeah they turn on dimes.
asciilifeform: 1player makes baloon, other - shoots
mircea_popescu: they run-stop, it is optimized for antishooting.