mircea_popescu: phf so who did you get into a fight with then!
_FeltPen: @thestringpuller - I feel you, nobody likes competing against a wet paper bag.
phf: out 5 years ago. now i can't go there without getting the anger shakes, it's a fucking millenial central. i got into a fight at johnny brenda's (mentioned in the article) a year ago, and everybody backed down, which made me even madder. fuck that place
phf: saw it happen in fishtown, http://articles.philly.com/2016-02-19/news/70734651_1_fishtown-kensington-community-development-corp-johnny-brenda the place was amazing 10 years ago. dead, cheap, bunch of weirdos living there. there was a bookstore, called "germ", that would invite these totally insane performers. their book selection was ufo, nazi, conspiracy theories and right hand magick. they had like a hitler telegram on sale for $2k, it closed ab
BingoBoingo: These things happen from time to time
mircea_popescu: possibly the lulziest "dedicated copywriter" result i've seen to date : http://theacneproject.com/does-accutane-work-for-acne/
mircea_popescu: (note the importance of the gay army in taking land from savages - today as 3000 years ago)
mircea_popescu: one of the better known example being 1950s greenwich village
gribble: The operation succeeded.
deedbot: [Trilema] Nobody could have foreseen their using a woman as a weapon - http://trilema.com/2016/nobody-could-have-foreseen-their-using-a-woman-as-a-weapon/
phf: the insane borderline chick that was my radar for these things wanted to move to williamsburg in 2002 or so cause that's where here friends were, by 2005 they had awesome parties there, by 2008 everybody knew they had awesome parties there, by 2012 the rent started to climb, by 2014 yuppies moving in, 2015 it's a joke that everyone's in on
phf: yeah, the non space eventually actualizes into a named thing, and it can be "hipsters" like what happened to brooklyn or "gays" like what happened to dupont circle
phf: you get a balmore workshop not because it's a conan thing to do, but because you're insane and need to paint astral vaginas whether or not there's market for it, and you can afford to pay $90/mo (sometimes late) for your apartment and $100/mo (mostly late) for your studio
trinque: "the gayborhood"
phf: once landlords or developers are involved the area has long been considered "interesting" by suburban types and "done" by the gentrification avant guard
phf: so i've lived on the gentrification line before and it's never "white kids", they move in when after the whole thing is named "gentrification" and by then there's already a whole foods in the works. gentrification is brought about by utter misfit john waters crowd, and they prime the area for couple of years by throwing parties and making things happen, large portion of them is gay and otherwise insane.
mircea_popescu: well, slumlord phf buy the place for them, then charges them 100 a month for a dildo to sit on
thestringpuller: that's why they move back home with mommy and daddy rent free
thestringpuller: oh. i don't even know if those white kids could even AFFORD to live in the hood.
mircea_popescu: nah, not to gentrify. they're not gentry. just, to scumiffy in a different direction.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: uh. white kids who move to the hood tend to "gentrify" it...
mircea_popescu: in practice, they're much too passive to matter.
mircea_popescu: theoretically the millions upon millions of pointless white kids that tear down the universities each year and the nation's finances would utterly dilute the hood into meaninglessness.
BingoBoingo: Gangs obsessing over their London and Rotterdam expansions and whatnot
BingoBoingo: Who knows, maybe startup culture has a tin pest sort of effect on the hood?
mircea_popescu: ironically, you'd be in a dark cone of immunity because the derps can't quite argue that YOU are responsible by putting kids in harm's way, because they can't say black people are the harm.
BingoBoingo: If they can't leave their hug bubble because James Lafond presents, then they get to build up all the delusion still hotter
mircea_popescu: phf well, depends if you're looking to monetize the scandal.
BingoBoingo: I think it would be good for their morale
phf: that's definitely not the types i would want anywhere near a baltimore ghetto workshop. not only are they useless, they are also going to do something stupid, get shot or raped and next thing you know we're in the middle of scandal
phf: one guy (support) got it in his head that he's going to open a london branch of the company, he regularly arranges meetings with random uk business representatives to discuss along these lines. i heard he had some kind of meeting with richard branson as part of a small select group, etc. etc. mind you this has long been shot down by the owners as utterly insane and shut the fuck up. doesn't deter him.
phf: everybody's talking about how they are going to be bought, who got bought, who has an opportunity to get bought. we have our support team there, because they are in their 20s, need external stimulation, etc. but on the flip side they periodically come back with grandiose plans "for the company"
phf: i'm not even exaggerating to pander, the whole thing is a parody of itself
phf: 1776 is the biggest one, they have daily talks on how to succeed as a woman ceo, workshops on how to learn ruby. probably a good subject for a blog post, a tour of 1776 on an average day..
asciilifeform bbl, off to get teeth drilled sans anaesthesia
mircea_popescu: oh incidentally, all this has stimulated me, ima go write a follow-up to http://trilema.com/2013/nobody-could-have-foreseen-their-using-a-plane-like-a-rocket/
phf: yeah, basically. you get a floor of a building, put a bunch of tables, a few "closed door" closets for people who are willing to pay $400/mo, a printer, a coffeemaker, and then you charge people $100/mo to have a place to sit and chat all day
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> everything's is cheap to the folks who already have it. and $maxint for those who don't. << I did not have a pipe wrench yesterday morning and yet $2 got me one before bed time on the same day.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which they
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, they do have it. work a day, get a grand or so. who ever heard of this, rent < 1 day's honest work ?
asciilifeform: everything's is cheap to the folks who already have it. and $maxint for those who don't.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform correct response to waco buildup is thermobaric not atomic bomb.
phf: mircea_popescu: oh i agree, but i'm not telling other pufferfish how to do things, i'm talking from my school :> i'm not even saying it's somehow special. it's just very cheap to put a workspace area in ghetto if the people working it are basically ok with manual labour, "community building" all that jazz
asciilifeform: for when they come.
mircea_popescu: be the next "black lives matter" dude.
asciilifeform: if i wanted to give my gear to scrap iron thieves, i could do it FOR PHREE, without paying 10k for the container
asciilifeform: and they've run out, apparently.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why would i work for the us ?
mircea_popescu: lafond correctly shows that the whole "race riots" is just demographic rearrangement after some dudes decided to reclaim 1920s buildings downtown
mircea_popescu: best be prepared to shoot the president if it comes to it.
mircea_popescu: phf this is a monopoly trade. if you're not in the right lawyer club you'll end up in the middle of a scandal.
mircea_popescu: so then not so great how ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they are locals.
asciilifeform: i have friends living there. it isn't so great time.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: they all require heavy terraforming.
asciilifeform: or rather, ~how~
mircea_popescu: oh and in other mews, i give you the peacock tail! http://67.media.tumblr.com/c3bf23bc0126e2abc63617477522c9d0/tumblr_o2tvnzL6Ze1v2ot9zo1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: perhaps they are sorted by ip, and thus far we've done only mitsubishi's ip blok or sumthing.
asciilifeform: but somehow not in the 170,000 samples.
asciilifeform: they exist on nearly every consumer line.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and these embedded gadgets do not exist on ssh ?
asciilifeform: somehow i am being asked to believe that the first 170,000 of Framedragger's samples contained 0 of this.
asciilifeform: the historic ~0.1% popping rate of ssh keys has nothing to do with flips, and everything to do with embedded gadgets with no rng
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, you know, wtf, "flipped bits" except in the one most likely fucking spot it never happens ?
mircea_popescu: i dun think the butterfly collection warrants any action yet, but it is pretty stranger.
asciilifeform: well consider the behaviours of random nums, or flipolade, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i genuinely have nfi. but a little more of this and i'ma start verifying the keyz, possibly Framedragger was mitm'd when he scanned. or fucked up in some other way.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-27 14:21 asciilifeform: ;;later tell Framedragger interestingly, not one of your ssh mods has popped yet, despite the historic 0.1% popping rate claimed in previous experiments (we're about 170,000 in)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-27#1491103 << i was meditating upon the same wonder. wtf is this.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Seriously these things exist and you don't even have to travel far!
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-27#1491092 << i'd be very much to see exactly what uk economy consists of, altogether.
BingoBoingo: Well, what else can one expect of a failed Actrauce (-auce is the way to gender job titles mayo)
asciilifeform: the one mircea_popescu showed me !
a111: Logged on 2016-06-27 16:41 mircea_popescu: she looks almost exactly like this chick at the bdsm club.
phf: debbie harry as the antagonist
phf: huh, i kind of want to see the original with Divine now
deedbot: [» Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] The Producers. - http://www.contravex.com/2016/06/27/the-producers/
BingoBoingo: In mean which chick at the BDSM club?
mircea_popescu: the one you linked
mircea_popescu: she looks almost exactly like this chick at the bdsm club.
BingoBoingo: Never underestimate the time spent by labelmakers
BingoBoingo: And this is the butter huffer who spewed the froth asciilifeform astutely identified as "rubbish" https://archive.is/zjHuF
BingoBoingo: ccustomed to playing comic roles, tossing around names such as Robin Williams, Steve Martin, and Tom Hanks.[10] However, Travolta was aggressively sought after by producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron for this role because he had starred as Danny Zuko in Grease, the second most successful movie musical to date, beaten only by Mamma Mia!."
BingoBoingo: "John Travolta as Edna Turnblad, Tracy's mother and agent, an agoraphobe ashamed of her obesity. Travolta's casting as Edna continues the tradition of having a man in drag portray the character, going back to the original 1988 film, which featured drag queen Divine as Edna and at Hairspray's Broadway version, which featured Harvey Fierstein as Edna.[10] Executives at New Line Cinema originally expected the part to be filled by an actor a
BingoBoingo: John Travolta was the fat tranny, for srs
mircea_popescu: they made a movie ?
mircea_popescu: romanian to this day uses "a invedera" as part of common please (to bring to the court, to put in the record). so the change isn't either that new or that central.
phf: interesting how the first few syllables get lost with time, "vedas" and "story" both pointing in the same direction
phf: so, i just learned that historia is produced by an istor or widstor, i.e. a wise man or a person who knows/sees, i.e. the one who вид-ит
mircea_popescu: lest anyone goes blind seeking the impossible.
asciilifeform: aaactually there is also a theory that it got lost in the echo chamber of suetonius, who was quite possibly his era's equivalent of, e.g., michael moore
phf: it is certainly a fine troll and a strong way to make your point, still it gets lost in the echo chamber
mircea_popescu: i'm pretending the way you say "equum consulem declarare non erubuit" in english is "racist".
BingoBoingo: Nero held the race of Horses in high esteem
mircea_popescu: "he made his horse a senator" <=> "stated his horse would make a finer senator than most of them"
mircea_popescu: aha. heroic figure, the more you think of it.
mircea_popescu: in any case, it's not some sort of rational process. it's merely "the secret" played straight. if they will it enough it'll matter.
mircea_popescu: for the delusionists in question, the "couldn't have been expected" and "inexplicably" part of their narrative are actually more important than the events themselves.
mircea_popescu: you know the hipster chick that went down the ghetto road by her lonesome in nothing but six inch heels one fine late summer evening ?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-27 13:13 phf: i'm not quite grokking how this was an unexpected outcome. prices drop because of smaller things and this was a massive price signal. from my naive perspective you have a bunch of people saying "eu sucks" and "britain has standalone economy" both assertions need to be explored and nobody particularly wants to explore them
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-27#1491091 << "Polls can be this wrong because a thin sliver "at the top", The Delusionals, have an investment in reality turning a certain way. So they falsify. "
deedbot: [» Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] Where the sun’s up past 10:00pm. - http://www.contravex.com/2016/06/27/where-the-suns-up-past-1000pm/
_FeltPen: oh, dang it. will have to wait until later then.
_FeltPen: its there, but i just added it again. will try to register again.
trinque: I'm sorry; docs are wrong. You only need the fingerprint
trinque: make sure you have the nick you want first.
trinque: box isn't overloaded. I'm gonna give freenode the points for that one.
trinque: odd.. the bot's not saying anything back on any command. all that was changed was an if conditional inside the $up command.
asciilifeform doesn't use them, because he can't stand noise transitions.
asciilifeform: in other nyooz, https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1606/1606.05915.pdf >>> http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/12fe3f69-0ae2-4a96-8cb4-b0f6b33bd490 << from the tel aviv rsa key lifting folks.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell Framedragger interestingly, not one of your ssh mods has popped yet, despite the historic 0.1% popping rate claimed in previous experiments (we're about 170,000 in)
asciilifeform wonders when we find the first polonium'd schmuck via his flipolade.
phf: i'm not quite grokking how this was an unexpected outcome. prices drop because of smaller things and this was a massive price signal. from my naive perspective you have a bunch of people saying "eu sucks" and "britain has standalone economy" both assertions need to be explored and nobody particularly wants to explore them
thestringpuller: nvm they are both plummeting. wtf
thestringpuller: holy shit is the pound really worth less than euro?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-25 19:58 mircea_popescu: it's okay, and i dun recall, but the past is not dispositive. future girl that dun show isn't getting paid.
ben_vulpes: and until they have a representative in the forum full-time, they are each and every one gestapo, regardless of how many 'phreedom phighter' claims they make, or their handlers make on their behalf.
ben_vulpes: mk well they can show up here where we coordinate the /actual fight against statists/ and answer a whole lot of questions
a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 15:38 Framedragger: but to suggest that folk from within are in on it, as in usg agents whatnot, is bull. i know that in terms of effects there may not be much of a difference, but whenever you say "prolly controlled burn by those idiots", i want to smack you because those friends are not dumb at all.
mircea_popescu: naughtygirl you'll have to put your head in there. take the other girls for a model.
mircea_popescu: then they burn the black people. for being ~12% of the population and "corrupting the youth through their control of media".
mircea_popescu: next the commies are going to make a "revolutionary army", various right wingers various sb/sa/blabla,
mircea_popescu: naughtygirl you here for the tits ?
BingoBoingo: ^ in the interim you are welcome to register a public key so that you may voice yourself
BingoBoingo: hello, all of our Romanian millionaires are busy at the moment. if you stick around one will be with you shortly
mircea_popescu: the antifa bs is more in the early stage, 10 to 20 confused kiddies who just want to crack a skull to one "manipulator" derp.
mircea_popescu: "lgbt" is 2/3 to 4/5ths niggers by mass, the actual people with an actual sexual preference are lost among the aspirants to eating off the treasury.
BingoBoingo: Eh I thought they were just tards who wanted to belong to something.
mircea_popescu: "anti fascists" being a bunch of obnoxious libertards abusing the naivite of this generation's punks.
asciilifeform: they dun have plenty of things
asciilifeform: (it appears to be the closest thing to a biography of the man in any language i can think of)
asciilifeform: ( he wrote 2, 1 about 'the atom', other - about how The Answer Lies in the Sewers (tm) (r) )
asciilifeform: did you folx know that the man wrote 3111117 B00KZ!!
asciilifeform re-read the alba y yeltes mega-piece for umpteenth time, blames mircea_popescu
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's hot and I'd have to get in the car to get it. Pipe wrench merely required happy accident of walking past driveway sale.
BingoBoingo: Well gasoline won't leave an oxide after it breaks through the rust to actual steel
phf: but i guess that'll remove the finish
BingoBoingo: phf: To remove the rust and leave a black oxide finish in its place.
hanbot: so you know, someone who needs to know this stuff for their job fails, which means someone further down the line idem, no wonder no sense comes out of anything touching the atrocity.
mircea_popescu: maybe he's the secret agent magistrate judge
hanbot: <mircea_popescu> the mess in the paperwork i swear... << and that lack of data via northern tx's listing, the best i've seen so far, all other judges have year of appointment and the holy grail, year of birth (inconceivable!), but this Hal R. Ray guy, absolutely nothing. google him, ditto, buncha mugs with the same last name. i suppose he was signed up this morning.
mircea_popescu: phf nah, because a) must be "proper" ie "standard" and b) they already sold out the headcount to a private company
asciilifeform: and what can you turn yourself in for ? and is there discount if multiple crimes ?
mircea_popescu: he wasn't appointed, he was just born there.
hanbot: fwiw, here's a couple more: northern ny: 7 mag. judges, all disqualified by appt. date. northern tx: 9 mag. judges, 1 qualifies and is not on list (Clinton Averitte), 7 disqualified by appt. date, 1 no appt. date found.
mircea_popescu: http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/CR/htm/CR.2.htm << lists some crap. but does http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/CR/htm/ list the index, like with sane people ? NO! WHY WOULD IT!!1
mats: some magistrates are appointed by the senate, so could be i believe
mircea_popescu: spotcheck for the 13 enumerated nocal ones ?
hanbot: twelve appointed after 1993. no info found on the chief, spero's appt date.
hanbot: thirteen. motherfucker.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if northern california is the outlier it usually is, we could judge this list to be maybe 3-500 total ? somewhere there, as a guesstimate.
mircea_popescu: clearly, these people understand things as well as matters.
mircea_popescu: mats but allow me to quote, "· The large number of blank fields in most records is to accommodate those judges who have been appointed to multiple judicial positions in the federal courts. This makes the data easier to drop into a spreadsheet program. "
mircea_popescu: there's 13 on that page (eureka courthouse + visiting judge)
mats: there's a field for 'Bankruptcy and Magistrate service'
hanbot: 2/3 in nocal for instance definitely don't belong, very unlikely on the third
mircea_popescu: mats those seem to be proper judges tho, we're looking for the glorified police station detectives aka "magistrate" judges.
mats: the csv looks broken though...
mircea_popescu: if it is the case that 94 districts average between 2 and 3, then it's quite possible that we have ~all or at least most of the list, considering the pretty draconinc age restricons involved.
hanbot: northern california for instance yields http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/judges , total of three, and lemme see
mircea_popescu: so then what's counties to do with all this ?
hanbot: well worst comes to worst, could be done county by county, seems they all have a list, independently.
mircea_popescu: and in other mews, http://66.media.tumblr.com/f53198b7fe4af57b04275b92aa31aa50/tumblr_mkqb30ar5Z1s9hv2no1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: anyway - this is what it was, we had a list of unclear provenance, mats processed it well, then more names were found, and it became a question of, well, gotta make a complete proper list.
mircea_popescu: phf not how "democracy" etc works now is it. of course people make lists, they gotta be afraid. very, very afraid.
mircea_popescu: mats if you manage to dig out some sort of you know, official publication listing them that'd be golden.
mircea_popescu: it boggles the mind ; they want to issue id to livestock, you can't get a list of "magistrates" ?
mircea_popescu: well what the fuck do i do here, the guy has a reasonable stand, but i mean... is this country so orcish it publishes no such thing as a god damned judges list ?
hanbot: yeah mats def did solid work on that thing. dubious if it's complete, dubious how close the measuring could get. mircea_popescu as i recall i googled for related terms, specifically avoiding lists
mircea_popescu: where did they come from hanbot ?
mircea_popescu: no i saw, she threw up some names and you added them, it's very good work. but the point is... are there more ?
mats: http://trilema.com/2013/so-whos-running-the-courts-circus/#comment-114900 is my response to hanbot's query about those judges
mircea_popescu: mats the major problem is how the fuck does one get an ~actual~ list of all these schmucks.
mircea_popescu: ah i remember, you had a solid list but then it turned out there's a bunch of ther judges.
mats: mircea_popescu: what can i do to bring the courts-circus project to a close?
mircea_popescu: anyway, this squarely counts as a maintenance item that cost more than not bothering i guess.
mircea_popescu: apparently you're supposed to say /mode #trilema +b *!*pablo___@213.152.162.94 rather than /msg chanserv FLAGS #trilema *!*pablo___@213.152.162.94 +b
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform these people with the ads. there's two google shits AND a popup overlay wtf already.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://66.media.tumblr.com/0aba33567459e7e3ed7b0970f991a9a6/tumblr_nq576pVTiw1t3kg4lo1_1280.jpg
a111: Logged on 2016-06-25 23:48 asciilifeform: and the whole 'favela' looks nicer than most of baltimore.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-25#1490596 << that may be, but the point was the sewage ditch in the middle of the [obviously pedestrian by default] thoroughway, typical for the medieval town.
deedbot: [Trilema] How I convinced some jailbirds I'm more demented than they could ever hope to be. - http://trilema.com/2016/how-i-convinced-some-jailbirds-im-more-demented-than-they-could-ever-hope-to-be/
asciilifeform: *beast of the field
mircea_popescu: this, i propose, is what ALWAYS happens when ANY consideration is given to purpose rather than remaining entirely grounded in cause.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 16:43 mircea_popescu: anywya. your definition of dumb is not useful, because being smart is no particular defense against being dumb. i can readily grant that they're smart, in the sense of trained monkey : give it a fiddle and watch in amazement. but without the fiddle it's just a monkey, and just like the horse that can count to five is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable matematician - these friends of yours are particularly
a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 17:24 mircea_popescu: it's what i see here. can't be a god damned waitress, gotta do waitressing "ironically" like she's seen in clerks, because otherwise WHAT COULD HAPPEN!
mircea_popescu: anyway, as to the punctual objection, yes very much directory should be dht.
mircea_popescu: would you prefer "build correctly the it" ? which is how a sane language would say it, but english gotta homogenize everything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's also not clear there's such a thing as "perpetuum mobile" that is still recognizable. this is no license to sell "state of the art perpetuum mobili"
asciilifeform: nor is the centralized 'directory' nonsense anything but pure usgtronics
a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 16:48 mircea_popescu: and what they can do is build it correctly, rather than "build it brokenly and pretend it's correctly because that's what nsa needs of us"
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-26#1490811 << it is not clear that there is such a thing as 'correct tor' that is still recognizably similar (i.e. real-time)
a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 16:47 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-26#1490758 << for one thing, i know for the fact he ran nodes (to find the holes your friends PUT IN). so no, and no, and really nao.
mircea_popescu: "we have all these plastic knives and cardboard shoes. don't walk in them. best civilisation."
a111: Logged on 2016-06-21 15:22 mircea_popescu: and in other lulz : wordpress interface dies if one tries to publish a 10mb text article with "unknown error". apparently this has never happened before.
mircea_popescu: in other non-news nobody cares about, awstats (apache log processing tool) now crashes silently on trilema. because, i am certain, derpage of the nature of http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-21#1486235
mircea_popescu: can't be a soldier, can't be a father, can't be an anything for reals, just tryin' ta bla bla bla.
mircea_popescu: it's what i see here. can't be a god damned waitress, gotta do waitressing "ironically" like she's seen in clerks, because otherwise WHAT COULD HAPPEN!
mircea_popescu: not like there's a draft on
a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 16:49 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-26#1490778 << lol. why, because the run from responsibility is so deep ?
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-26#1490812 << just fyi this was me quoting the cia dude, i was lol'ing that he literally said "THat is an incredibly rude question to ask a vet" - but yeh
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-26#1490778 << lol. why, because the run from responsibility is so deep ?
mircea_popescu: and what they can do is build it correctly, rather than "build it brokenly and pretend it's correctly because that's what nsa needs of us"
a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 15:45 Framedragger: did you ever run a god damn tor browser? you prolly didnt because usg. it has banners and warnings all over. what else can one do. they're transparent about the bugs (incl upstream firefox) etc. not saying that i'd use tor for important things now.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-26#1490758 << for one thing, i know for the fact he ran nodes (to find the holes your friends PUT IN). so no, and no, and really nao.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-26#1490752 << well, you have the advantage of reading trilema ; the rest of the world has the advantage of "community science" and "being skeptical". so to them, very much news.
mircea_popescu: kinda destroys the value proposition of the whole thing. im sure that just as soon as the delusion dries up, and their bubble finally gets punctured, be it because we finally smash the fed presses, or for any other reason, they'll find it within themselves that the need to eat exceeds the disinclination to not repent.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 15:40 asciilifeform: Framedragger: the only thing for useful idiots to do, to possibly reclaim some dignity, is to repent. publicly.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-26#1490748 << yeah, the churches are so full of repentant whores.
mircea_popescu: anywya. your definition of dumb is not useful, because being smart is no particular defense against being dumb. i can readily grant that they're smart, in the sense of trained monkey : give it a fiddle and watch in amazement. but without the fiddle it's just a monkey, and just like the horse that can count to five is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable matematician - these friends of yours are particularly bright idiots, if
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, it's not a thing. she's not female because she says she's female, nor does she become male if she says she's male now, nor is her name jane because she calls herself jane.
mircea_popescu: and obviously this has expanded cancerously and out of all proportion in the past coupla decades to "anything".
mircea_popescu: i understand there's this anglosaxon tradition of "pronouncing a man's name like he himself does" come out of the bizarre happenstance that all of england decided to drop historical pronounciation and follow the airs of random whore history has forgot to mention just about the time they realised it'd be a good idea to mark down how the language works.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 15:38 Framedragger: but to suggest that folk from within are in on it, as in usg agents whatnot, is bull. i know that in terms of effects there may not be much of a difference, but whenever you say "prolly controlled burn by those idiots", i want to smack you because those friends are not dumb at all.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-26#1490744 << it doesn't matter if the whore has accepted she's a whore in her "inner soul where she is writing her own story". she IS a whore. this is not in her hand, not anymore than she being "female" is in her hand. i decide this, not her, and she can't touch it if she stands on her head.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-26#1490732 << "mp saying so" is actually material. bs the derps in question publish hardly meets any conceivable definition of materiality that i can see.
mircea_popescu: whether some are actually imbeciles and, kakobrekla-y, "really really believe" in their idiocy is not a point of interest. between the gestapo man who did it because sadist, and would have done it for free or even paid to have the job, and the gestapo man who did it for the money there's no difference on the gallows.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-26#1490707 << ~the only value of that thing is to show fucking derps don't have a weblog. "and where's the kitchen table ?" "in our house we don't do kitchen tables." "so what do you do ?" "well if we're hungry there's that trough" "oic."
a111: Logged on 2016-06-26 12:27 Framedragger: (if there was to be one more bot around these parts, i assume having a prefix char for it be "@" would be fine - i think it should be fine.. this can be changed of course)
BingoBoingo: In other news, from the department of just buy a fucking generator already: https://archive.is/uS5Gx "cordless table saw"