cazalla: muscle turns to fat is right in line with women don't wanna lift because they'll get too big, least is my experience hearing similar stories from people
mircea_popescu: ah, implication works one way. mississippi ends up in the ocean, not all ocean came from mississippi.
cazalla: so i guess all these ham planets were bigger than ronnie coleman at some point or what?
mircea_popescu: because if you aren't going to actually use these forever, shut up and sit down.
mircea_popescu: so you're very well advised to think long and hard before tricking your body into building muscles. will i actually use these forever ?
assbot: Logged on 01-10-2015 00:20:59; phf: in philly i know a handful of "linebacker in college", who got "just a little bit out of shape", i.e. where former muscle if there was ever any all got turned into fat. that's people who are, when drunk, prone to challenging each other and me when i'm there to various acts of physical fitness, usually to fail miserably.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-10-2015#1289105 << the problem is that the fate of all disused muscle is to turn into fat. that's how the body is designed, just like pasture turns to suburbia.
midnightmagic: (Unfortunately for us, I mean. It was a horrible waste of time, regardless of the appearance of winning. Over. And over.)
midnightmagic: And unfortunately, once you get the attention of an educated couple of families with nothing better to do with its time in the far north than make a hobby out of reading lawbooks, it didn't stop with the court case.
midnightmagic: The contract they were trying to sue us under was held invalid by the British Columbia Court of Appeals because they didn't have the right to lease the premises of an unabandoned railway depot for other purposes.
mircea_popescu: eh, due to the complete lack of inflation the past few decades, a multi-million dollar railroad car.
mircea_popescu: "your honor, i direct your attention to page 792,paragraph H of tome 9 of the conspiracy to overthrow the world over! as you can clearly see, it says right there i disagree with things and stuff."
midnightmagic: It is not a fear. I'm not afraid of bashing such nonsense straight out of court, personally. But since when has that stopped anyone from trying to earn their paycheque? As is well-known, the FBI appears to be responsible for most of the terror plots it claims it foiled.
mircea_popescu: i just think he's the introvert thinker type that never actually spent much time interacting with actual courts.
midnightmagic: Ah. That was a statement I *would* use to deny seditionist conspiracy charges because I don't want to leave here, but would direly hate to find some enterprising law enforcement investigator pinning a false narrative on me because by not speaking, it could be argued I am tacitly agreeing and/or sympathetic to it, which would in my view be enough to pin conspiracy on me.
mircea_popescu: because who the fuck knows just how weird things are.
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2015 02:02:19; midnightmagic: dude. seriously plotting or fomenting the physical murder of the USG is sedition, insurrection, and various related crimes and there's no fucking way I'm interested in being associated with it just because I'm lurking in here.
mircea_popescu: well unless you're also stockpiling tanks and depth charges on the quiet, i fail to see how any of this can in any manner no matter how creatively constructive be of any interest to you. yes, rather obviously if you start shooting people and blowing up things you'd better succeed because else you'll be put in prison.
midnightmagic: But their *intent* was insurrection and sedition, if one accepts as premise that Quebec's separation from Canada by force of arms is seditionist to begin with.
mircea_popescu: as in, what the usians know as "terrorists" ?
mircea_popescu: the last five decades, even!
midnightmagic: RCMP currently (as recently as a few years ago) would take drunk people out in the dead of winter and leave them on the side of the road to freeze to death.
midnightmagic: Oh. Okay. That might take a while longer. History texts usually don't include the last few decades.
mircea_popescu: otherwise sure, canadian officers used to convict local women to being raped to death or whatever 1720 nonsense.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic no but these are british ridiculousnesses from ww2. i mean an example from your actual lifetime.
BingoBoingo: Absolute worst part of Eve online though was the space 5-0 cramping everyone's style
mircea_popescu: a ok, maybe im just unfamiliar with the thing then. to me it's a you know, "point of history".
midnightmagic: It's not revisionism: historical documents and eyewitnesses were pretty clear on it. Additionally, the footage doesn't match.
midnightmagic: sure. I'll give two at least just on cursory examination: Oscar Felton in Alberta. There was some commentary about the Lusitania in R v. Trainor.
mircea_popescu: (not sure how one'd go about verifyingthat bit of historical revisionism re de gaulle's visit, but then again...(
midnightmagic: who was in control of the footage. In reality, it was dead silent. The crowd was shocked. The fellow you're describing (presumably because he's the only uncited reference in Wikipedia) would not at all be surprising to me. At that time, Quebecois anti-Canada sentiment was *extremely radicalized*.
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: The Fils de Liberte were likely guilty of it. I don't know if they were actually charged. Yes, a pile of people have been charged, and convicted, of sedition in Canada. Interesting semi-related factoid. de Gaulle when he gave his famous (in Canada) speech "vive le Quebec! vive le Quebec LIBRE!" and the camera cuts to uproariously jubilant crowd, that's an edit by a separatiste
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 22:32:33; mats: skywing (ken johnson, guy that patented 'aslr') reversed the battle.net login protocol, and i used his documentation to write a chat client so i didn't have to keep starcraft open to maintain ops in a channel
mircea_popescu: clearly they got a full load, there's no disputing that. but where are they going with it ?
mircea_popescu: WE can only take so much mediocrity ? andwhere are they taking it to ?
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 21:48:16; trinque: it seems that ply parsers are one-shot, or I've missed something. So far my observation is that if you call parse successively on the same parser object, it misbehaves
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-09-2015#1289053 << finally, the true vocation of the von neumann machine is exposed! SIGNAL PROCESSING BEOTCH!11
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 21:36:04; phf: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/09/30/everyone-you-know-will-be-able-to-rate-you-on-the-terrifying-yelp-for-people-whether-you-want-them-to-or-not/
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-09-2015#1289043 << is this supposed to be some sort of wot vaccine or something ? << Nah it is more like linked in for the Food service se
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 21:36:04; phf: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/09/30/everyone-you-know-will-be-able-to-rate-you-on-the-terrifying-yelp-for-people-whether-you-want-them-to-or-not/
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic for my curiosity, was sedition ever been successfully prosecuted in canada? it'd appear it actually helped rather than hindered that houde character, and that was back in the murky days of ww2.
BingoBoingo: The English could have benefited from diacritics, but now it is too late
mircea_popescu: FROM THE CONTEXT!11
mircea_popescu: but yes, some sort of classical chinese is not even impossible for the future. especially if i can get good at it by being lazy.
mircea_popescu: i suppose kakobrekla actually made microblogging poison just for me! i see them in the log, miniarticles, good enough.
BingoBoingo: And lets not forget that mess that will occur when you move the blog to either Mandarin or Khoisan 'click 'click language
BingoBoingo: You still do movie reviews and random bitchings about Argentina on the Blawg
mircea_popescu: yeah but the bitch is, i'm all stately and portentuous nao. back in romania i used to write about any old random shit nine times a day.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ah. you did yeah but actually lots of other ppl did too. eventually i was like... lazy won't solvethis one. << /me pretty sure he suggested letting the number of English articles catch up as a solution
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> cazalla no, because trilema random rotation no longer displays romanian articles. << This was the exact moment that lead me to stop trying to get better at Romanian
mircea_popescu: ah. you did yeah but actually lots of other ppl did too. eventually i was like... lazy won't solvethis one.
mircea_popescu: attitude! it's all in the attitude!
cazalla: or that's the page that was displayed when he/she visited and figuring a comment field was available, took a turd there?
BingoBoingo: lol, prolly huffed too much ether
BingoBoingo: And Bernie Sanders is just on a field trip from the "Memory Care" home (because Old Folks Home isn't PC)
mircea_popescu: "how to make idiots preoccupied with our thing ? they no longer go for free giveaways" "ask to pay for their ideas"
BingoBoingo: Some actually hate the rest of the crowd, like Rubio. He is better because everyone keeps calling him the spic even though Cruz is a spic too, but he's light/
cazalla: BingoBoingo, aren't they all best buddies?
cazalla: then
cazalla: he'll fit right in there
BingoBoingo: Trumps has said he's been running for president since the 1990's. Everytime he's quit when the polls first put him behind. Trump is a serial quitter, gotta be with multiple bankruptcy's
BingoBoingo: And holy shit, Marco Rubio has passed Jed Bush as BitBet's favored candidate for the Repube'ican nomination through nothing but "No" votes to Jeb
gribble: The operation succeeded.
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ag3nt_zer0: thanks for the original hah
ag3nt_zer0: hello out there....
BingoBoingo: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/sports/catching-up-with-the-obannon-ruling-soon-to-go-into-effect.html?_r=0
gribble: The operation succeeded.
brg444: do they really...? i'm often curious if it is not "subsidized"
BingoBoingo: But generally except for a few lucky chinese miners, the farms have to pay for electricity
brg444: how is it that these variance seem coordinated by one or small group of actors? and if they do control that much hashing why would they have to pay for electricity
brg444: still amazes me someone out there can turn on/off nearly 100,000,000 GH/S with the flick of a wrist
brg444: wouldn't help with the kick in the balls he's gonna continue to get until he dares no more to show his face
BingoBoingo: The Hearnia can likely in this case be treated non-surgically with a Truss
brg444: the Hearnia is really sore, this is good
BingoBoingo: <brg444> I'm generally bored w/ football so far this season, most NFL teams are terrible << I hope the NFL leaves St Louis.
BingoBoingo: Hamplanets in their spiritual poverty.
BingoBoingo: In other news, state of the art in American Fast Food innovation "priority" seating http://imageham.com/images/2015/09/30/imageab1b4.jpg
BingoBoingo: I dunno. West other than Arkansas and Auburn looking good. Prolly Ole Miss or LSU to win the conference. East as it usually is is a mystery until the last day of play.
brg444: What's up with the SEC though :D:D
BingoBoingo: Fournette is... prolly getting the Heisman
BingoBoingo: Yes they do. Mizzou was luck to snag Terry Beckner Jr. this year. Giant from East Saint Louis. No need to redshirt him.
BingoBoingo: And LSU has a tendency to catch shorter genetic freaks that do the same, but due to height slot into running back
brg444: was about to say: depends on the athlete indeed
BingoBoingo: In the college games schools like Bama tend to horde the genetic freaks who can pack on pro-level muscle over the college career.
brg444: lots of time they have to bulk up as well
BingoBoingo: Or the time. They can grow a lot of strength over the four years of college, but often they need more injury free time.
BingoBoingo: Then after college it often takes a couple years to get up to weight at a lean "pro" weight
BingoBoingo: brg444: Pro sure. College they tend to keep a little extra adipose weight on for the blocking potential
brg444: dude is about on the verge of claiming he's Satoshi
brg444: huh, about linebackers, I was under the impression they are all pretty much physical specimen
btcdrak: looks like people are beginning to see past the veil...
cazalla: i guess it doesn't matter anyway as american kids are now trans gender fags so you would have difficulty filling a football team full of boys who actually want to pummel the other team
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Many heavier people like Prince Fielder and linebackers are well exercised with some extra adipose tissue. Hamplanet chooses to utilize adipose tissue as a fortress for their spiritual poverty.
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 23:54:38; asciilifeform: 'hamplanet' as i understand is a mark of rancid, unrepentant, irremediable... spiritual poverty - rather than lack of physical exercise as such
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-09-2015#1289087 <<< what's this.. fat but fit, healthy at any weight meme? i think it more likely that a physically active person is not going to be a hamplanet.. obviously the lack of real food is a problem but only part of the problem
cazalla: obviously doesn't have to be football, but if that's the american past time, then let them play football
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 23:52:21; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-09-2015#1289073 << take up a dog or cat then - far better than footballer kid.
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-09-2015#1289083 <<< dog or cat is not a sport nor competitive endeavour and given we no longer go out and hunt as a group, it's the next best thing for kids to learn how to follow a leader, work with others, learn from other men how to be masculine, physically and mentally challenge others
gribble: The operation succeeded.
VariaVarietatis: ;;later tell pete_dushenski I'd be willing to help with the PR.
phf: in philly i know a handful of "linebacker in college", who got "just a little bit out of shape", i.e. where former muscle if there was ever any all got turned into fat. that's people who are, when drunk, prone to challenging each other and me when i'm there to various acts of physical fitness, usually to fail miserably.
asciilifeform: this'd be the ultimate 'vote with nodes', aha
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu what do you think of the notion of no longer relaying shitgnomatic tx-en - e.g., ANYTHING with 'soft fork' bits set, etc. ?
BingoBoingo: It is the physical manifestation of the spiritual and intellectual poverty affecting the US and reddit generally
BingoBoingo: The hamplanetary lack of physical activity goes beyond lack of physical exercise to lack of ordinary human movement. i.e. using scooty puffs at the Walmart to navigate aisles instead of their own feet.
BingoBoingo: The unnatural dietary and chemical excesses involved in high level football, when you remove the atheletics and chemical excesses amount to hamplanetary fast food consumption.
BingoBoingo: Though former footballers often fall into the spiritual poverty of hamplanetary orbit after their "career" ends
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> 'hamplanet' as i understand is a mark of rancid, unrepentant, irremediable... spiritual poverty - rather than lack of physical exercise as such << Pretty much
asciilifeform: 'hamplanet' as i understand is a mark of rancid, unrepentant, irremediable... spiritual poverty - rather than lack of physical exercise as such
BingoBoingo: Or guide the kid into tennis et al
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 22:14:53; cazalla: if i was american, i think i'd rather choose brain damage in sports over video games and ham planeting for my kids
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-09-2015#1289073 << take up a dog or cat then - far better than footballer kid.
cazalla: yeah but for every one of you mats there is a million hamplanets playing cod, much better to be outside playing football (sure, watching is boring, but playing?)
mats: skywing (ken johnson, guy that patented 'aslr') reversed the battle.net login protocol, and i used his documentation to write a chat client so i didn't have to keep starcraft open to maintain ops in a channel
cazalla: if i was american, i think i'd rather choose brain damage in sports over video games and ham planeting for my kids
assbot: Adults Are Concerned About Sons Playing Football, Especially the More Highly Educated and Obama 2012 Voters | RAND ... ( http://bit.ly/1LkTQoC )
BingoBoingo: In its glory days football was not the monster it is at present
BingoBoingo: * ascii_field would rather read his spam box than anything pertaining to football, and doesn't foresee this ever changing << Oh just highlighting the other aspect, something not meaningful which people are directed to rage about instead of their cattle pen
trinque: seems stupid, yet I don't have the time currently to discover why
trinque: punkman: grammar wasn't the problem, as I did not change it to fix his deed
punkman: trinque: well you can't get nested structures by parsing the same string twice, it's gotta go in the grammar?
ascii_field would rather read his spam box than anything pertaining to football, and doesn't foresee this ever changing
trinque: it seems that ply parsers are one-shot, or I've missed something. So far my observation is that if you call parse successively on the same parser object, it misbehaves
gribble: The operation succeeded.
trinque: ;;later tell funkenstein sadly, new parser ripped up your last deed. happily, the part it ingested included the signature. I've since sent the whole thing back through, and it should pop out shortly.
assbot: I tried out Cuddlr, the ‘Tinder for cuddling,’ and all I got was severely creeped out - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1LkPMVl )
BingoBoingo: Linked from the libelotron piece https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/09/24/i-tried-out-cuddlr-the-tinder-for-cuddling-and-all-i-got-was-severely-creeped-out/
assbot: Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’ — whether you want them to or not - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1RgDFYj )
phf: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/09/30/everyone-you-know-will-be-able-to-rate-you-on-the-terrifying-yelp-for-people-whether-you-want-them-to-or-not/
mircea_popescu still recalls the shock of that.
trinque: mircea_popescu | trinque we need that jobs board yo, teh cup runneth fulleth. << indeed! I estimate having something usable by the end of next weekend
mircea_popescu: the head being actually a more advantageous place to be hit in than the liver, yeah you get hit.
BingoBoingo: Recently they've been introducing new rules to football to penalize you from hitting otherpeople's heads in certain ways, but hitting your head is still mandatory.
BingoBoingo: At least boxing was more honest about the crippling yourself for others amusement there. If you work hard enough and get good enough your head doesn't get hit as much. American football hitting your head against things is kinda mandatory.
mircea_popescu: lafond has a pretty good point re the "yo mamma's gonna cash out on being the mother of a got-shot".
BingoBoingo: The big problem with American Football is that it is actually a combat sport, but a polite consensus has developed around not referring to it as such
BingoBoingo: Then they build a mythology about how Maximum Concussion Sport is the epitome of Opportunity and the chance to earn your own social justice.
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> i have always seen american football as emblematic of usian anti-intellectualism. glorifying concussions, yes. << It's a tournament, or more a lottery market deal. It's for the poor kids to fight for the chance to make all the money they'll be able to for four years after the drop out of college in teir senior year
mircea_popescu: they're still pushing it too hard. not as dangerous in running, sure. but school performance is running the 100meters in fifteen seconds, not trying for eight.
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu maybe for contact sports. But the runners are like one step from being a robot.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/4604d880d504b6a49e4ad43b9bfeeaa8/tumblr_nlosxph2rz1tkiwgwo1_1280.jpg
pete_dushenski: then again, there aren't many avenues for teaching mental toughness and discipline outside of sports in north america
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller give them a decade until all the hair bone cracks and microtorn ligaments start acting up
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu being 'an athelete' is indeed a dangerous and unhealthful proposition.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: unhealthy mentally maybe, but all the athletes I know are physically fit like no other.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu has it. and for sporty types, last i checked, there ~were~ sports that don't guarantee braindamage
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mircea_popescu: i dun think i'd encourage any kid to play "professional" school sports. they don't get paid (no, 'scholarship' is not pay like coupons are not refunds) ; b) it's really fucking unhealthy. i mean being in shape is one thing. being "an athlete" is about as unhealthy as being a diabethic.
phf: mircea_popescu: you know it was just b-a of the 1800s. << i think of b-a as more of a stonemasone guild, then a fraternity. maybe in a couple of hundred years when b-a has hereditary wot ratings and ceremonial pgp keys that are not otherwise used for anything. the way i read that joke is that one has the trappings and the other has a trowel that is used for its direct purpose.
thestringpuller: ^they play tennis
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: The sport really isn't for rich kids from Maplewood anyways.
thestringpuller: the lifespan of a football player's career is fairly small
mircea_popescu: "Until last night when the Free Beacon contacted the State Department to inquire about the discrepancy, McGurks official biography on the State Department website also falsely credited McGurk with the rank of ambassador."
pete_dushenski: #7: Cocoa and Chocolate (Cocoa Powder) << maybe *this* is why i've been craving hot chocolate the last month or so.
mircea_popescu: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/phony-ambassador-running-obamas-anti-islamic-state-diplomacy/ << in other lulz.
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mircea_popescu: zinc maybe. various other rare metals.
mircea_popescu: i wasn't aware there's a lithium biological carry.
jurov: in other news, it may turn out my recent mental stupor was primarily not due to allergy, but lithium deficiency
ascii_field: it is same usg, but a special holding pen therein.
ascii_field: the designated zoo of impotence is a dead end.
mircea_popescu: it's like "water's own weight will keep the water up".
mircea_popescu: this theory is unpersuasive.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you get clients, work on their projects. like anyone else.
ascii_field: similarly, it is made clear that if you wish to oppose some particular usgism, you can do so in the company of impotent flat-earther twerps to your heart's content
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu another 'pr' pregunta : how do you see it being funded given that there's more than just time required ?
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:08:18; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the other interesting thing is that the market is segmented in such a way that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~ the alt-crackpotteries, not merely the logical ones << this is a very valid point, and the one spot where alf's ideas re meta-lizzards sound most persuasive. i do not believe the market is gerrymandered as it is by accident.
ascii_field: this is at least partly engineered for the purpose of reminding the more uppity members of the public that 'if you want to oppose transgendered studies scholarships, fine, but you will do so in the company of people who believe that cancer is caused by demons'
mircea_popescu: apparently trees standing also have something to do with the inept government.
ascii_field: in the british world, 'daily mail' plays same role.
ascii_field: ^ anyone with half a neuron in usa knows that schools have nothing directly to do with the fed. gov.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the depth of the contempt that the herders show for this particular variety of sheep is astonishing imho
ascii_field: no less than TWO OF THEM
ascii_field: l0l raytheon ad actually visible on this www !
mircea_popescu: they do a sort of curated "pro-am" blog network. claim 3k new articles a day.
ascii_field: considering that, without exception, it - and similar - is where the money goes.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field what, you spotted raytheon pr ?
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 15:47:03; *: ascii_field can do the su anthem but has trouble with last 2 stanzas of usaian
ascii_field: i.e. cheap shilling for 'lockheed', 'raytheon', et al.
ascii_field: 'To keep America's enemies from running up the score further, Obama will have to take more expansive military actions and increase defense spending. Perhaps Obama will come to realize this truth before he leaves office, as Jimmy Carter did in his last year. '
ascii_field: aaaaand we cut to the chase,
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pete_dushenski: eg. cynics from the pale.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu's advice is good except in the cases of folks who don't expect to live to retire
mircea_popescu: i'm not speedy, i'm just existing on multiple planes at the same time is all.
pete_dushenski: they take considerable time
pete_dushenski: and ftr i'm nowhere near as speedy at these enjoyable activities as mp
mircea_popescu: you don't have the same options once you're in a retirement home.
mircea_popescu: the only true drawback is that unlike real estate, this is a constant maintenance racket. everything you have at any point won't be useful in 5 years, or even 3. things move too fast. so its not one of those "do this right once it's done forever" stories like alf likes. it's more of a "hold this lamp up".
pete_dushenski: ima mull it over and research a little further into this 'pr' business
pete_dushenski: this may well be the right kind of b-a 'contribution' for me, given that i can't code worth a damn.
mircea_popescu: but other than that, anyone could do it!
mircea_popescu: this is one of those things "anyone" could do except anyone is a socially awkward fuck and anyone lacks the focus and discipline for doing thigns more complex than microwaving.
ascii_field wonders what interesting things may become part of the picture once enemy can no longer pretend to live in parallel '#b-a never existed' world
pete_dushenski: if 36 months is mp='impressed', then 48='so-so' and longer than that is 'pete wasn't the right man for the job'
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu i certainly traveled plenty pre-monstre, though this will be decidedly diminished for at least 6-12 months. also, such trips only once coincided with a conpherence. going forward, as most traveling i do is personal touristing, these are unlikely to coincide again.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with all the alf parachute talk ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu but that's really just a practical matter, there are other ways to build rapport. the bigger question is 'why a pr agency' and 'why now?'
pete_dushenski: not to put too fine a point on it, but when and how is 'finance' or 'tech' journalist coming to buttfuck edmonton ? afaik they stay at home, work in nyc, or go to 'conpherences'
mircea_popescu: (very fucking possible, they travel on starvation budgets)
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski as to the 2nd list : you want to build raport with those people. make a habit of taking one to lunch every week, if at all possible.
ascii_field: then beautiful.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu and #2 is a list of journalists who may require quotes from time to time, which i would then provide directly or send them here to ask b-a directly ?
mircea_popescu: what you want is shannonizing meatrobots, capable of pouring out more nonsense. they're cheaper than the electric type, as of yet.
mircea_popescu: nobody gives a shit about extant social media accounts. their value is not even a fractrion of the work they put in
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no, it's more like, spend all your time on fiverr and craigslist and wherever the hungry congregate, spend a little money buying their ample time.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski arrington's success, you have to understand, is very little more than this. it's not a difficult recipe to read or follow. it just takes the hard worker to execute.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu i believe i grok the first list - straightforward enough really, compile those on 'social media' on 'our side' and focus their energies accordingly - it's the second list i'm less clear about.
mircea_popescu: starve the enemy throughout.
mircea_popescu: depends for whom. why allow the pinoys to make this money ?
ascii_field: at least as per mircea_popescutronic theory
ascii_field was under the impression that this is a waste of time
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: can't resist the question, what is the point of having the first of the lists ?
mircea_popescu: building these is not particularly difficult,. but it takes time. more importantly, it takes determination. and the sort of attitude of the guy that hey, the managers don't wanna see, but since the phone is here...
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski a pr agency is in this day and age a very simple affair, but somewhat time consuming. in principle, it can be reduced to a lone dude with an internet connection and two lists. one, longer, of useful social media derps. the sort that are willing to do the hard work of upvoting, derping on reddit, etc. the other, sadly shorter, of actual important people can talk to directly. like say "all newspaper column
ascii_field: just the man for a 'Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.'
mircea_popescu: and the process of her starvation was that she starved on her own devices, b-a got her a place to stay and then she ran off.
mircea_popescu: she starved doing the very scared of bombs secretary brit girl.
mircea_popescu: here's the thing in my head : b-a is by now at a stage where it kinda needs its own pr agency. and you might be just the asshole to do that, if you swing that way. do you swing that way ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu property manager of a small, older commercial building that my father owns. 6 tenants, 100 occupants, fun little project. also manage two residential properties. also manage a small start-up in the construction materials space, we make the first/only/bestest fibreglass composite curtain wall framing. and then there's the little one. le petit monstre...
ascii_field: (can use the cc # to buy)
ascii_field: 2) the new cards are BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE for www purchases and equally scammable