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(trilema) nubbins`: or, "we don't know and couldn't be fucked to find out, but we really needed an extra sentence"
(trilema) nubbins`: "It is not exactly clear when US officials began using the tents while travelling."
(trilema) nubbins`: like, this article cound have written by a 15 year old
(trilema) nubbins`: the media-consuming public
(trilema) nubbins`: the media doesn't demand much from its audience, hey?
(trilema) nubbins`: "I felt like I was in the middle of the big woods, but I was in the middle of a hotel room," said the former official.
(trilema) nubbins`: "and something more closely associated with camping than diplomacy"
(trilema) nubbins`: well that's a non sequitur
(trilema) nubbins`: #2, speficially
(trilema) nubbins`: to be an internet wizard, one must overestimate one's importance, relevance, and skillset
(trilema) nubbins`: ah, he is a wizard?
(trilema) nubbins`: i'll give him that
(trilema) nubbins`: well, this is i guess one step further than sharing a link about it on facebook
(trilema) nubbins`: "i will teach myself to code and save us"
(trilema) nubbins`: I will save you all!
(trilema) nubbins`: lots of "I will"
(trilema) nubbins`: lelelelelelelelel, "The cabal of taint-lickers"
(trilema) nubbins`: imagine extending credit to a 13yo
(trilema) nubbins`: well, government gives out enough and they start feeling like they can tell people what to do
(trilema) nubbins`: free ambulances!
(trilema) nubbins`: my impression of australia is that the politics and government are completely fucked
(trilema) nubbins`: ^ that's a 22yo
(trilema) nubbins`: "get caught" is the key
(trilema) nubbins`: but the car will still start without one
(trilema) nubbins`: you don't need a license to drive, though
(trilema) nubbins`: the son of a former premier here was driving drunk doing stunts in a parking garage some years ago, killed his friend, and was granted full parole after 1 year
(trilema) nubbins`: but those under 18 are occasionally tried as adults
(trilema) nubbins`: not sure of the exact years
(trilema) nubbins`: canada has a similar 14/16/18 thing
(trilema) nubbins`: tsa-approved luggage locks are "great" too
(trilema) nubbins`: don't spoil it
(trilema) nubbins`: well, i keep reading, don't i?
(trilema) nubbins`: that's a lot of lead-up for a punch line, but i lel'd
(trilema) nubbins`: a dollar used to be an ounce of silver ;)
(trilema) nubbins`: good riddance
(trilema) nubbins`: neither is putting something into orbit
(trilema) nubbins`: acquaintance deletes post, re-posts ad with "my friend is selling her house"
(trilema) nubbins`: "it's in the hood"
(trilema) nubbins`: me: "hey, i know that house, they found a golf bag full of dirty needles when they raided it"
(trilema) nubbins`: lel, acquaintance posts house-for-sale ad on facebook
(trilema) nubbins`: bbl, gotta get mobility kibs @ the vet
(trilema) nubbins`: it's "bad money" or something
(trilema) nubbins`: for some reason
(trilema) nubbins`: i don't want to accept money from naughty people
(trilema) nubbins`: we need a gyftlist to keep track
(trilema) nubbins`: we need a bitcoin unfoundation
(trilema) nubbins`: Kleeck_: start rhyming it with "wife"
(trilema) nubbins`: "we totally won't use this to control the money supply"
(trilema) nubbins`: "the highlight is only informational"
(trilema) nubbins`: heh, this ^
(trilema) nubbins`: BECAUSE EACH ONE IS A TINY PRESENT
(trilema) nubbins`: i use "guh" for gif :(
(trilema) nubbins`: fuck the bitcoin foundation
(trilema) nubbins`: so much for fungible
(trilema) nubbins`: my first colored coin
(trilema) nubbins`: just got mail from the mint!
(trilema) nubbins`: the arms curl around her ears
(trilema) nubbins`: they're shiny!
(trilema) nubbins`: dark brown lenses
(trilema) nubbins`: neck too skinny for male
(trilema) nubbins`: kako, female
(trilema) nubbins`: you could always sew it onto a sweater like a crust-punk
(trilema) nubbins`: heck, sell it! it's yours, you can do whatever you want with it
(trilema) nubbins`: bring it to a bar the next time you go out ;)
(trilema) nubbins`: the neck tags also rip off very easily and cleanly, if you wish to do so
(trilema) nubbins`: hey, congrats
(trilema) nubbins`: just a couple of days before btc hit $420
(trilema) nubbins`: anyway, carl sagan's 79th birthday would have been november 9
(trilema) nubbins`: s/bus/bike
(trilema) nubbins`: he said ~5+ years
(trilema) nubbins`: in fairness, i did fill him with a healthy dose of paranoia
(trilema) nubbins`: the man was insistent!
(trilema) nubbins`: "it's at 406 now! aaah!" "i know"
(trilema) nubbins`: rest of the evening was peppered with periodic price updates
(trilema) nubbins`: mild surprise on my end
(trilema) nubbins`: so my straight-laced roomie comes up to me last night and says "i want to buy $2k worth of bitcoin! can you help me?!"
(trilema) nubbins`: otherwise unchanged
(trilema) nubbins`: flipped the rj-45 horizontally to match the perspective of the hand
(trilema) nubbins`: modelled by yours truly
(trilema) nubbins`: how's the fit?
(trilema) nubbins`: oh great! kako got his yesterday
(trilema) nubbins`: "i picked this up at a police auction"
(trilema) nubbins`: jurov, lel
(trilema) nubbins`: i'll prolly just keep it as-is
(trilema) nubbins`: it's my own personal garment, about 6 months old
(trilema) nubbins`: beyond my skill level, pascale might be able to
(trilema) nubbins`: you learn quickly when each fail costs you $$, too
(trilema) nubbins`: most people don't get past that stage before giving up
(trilema) nubbins`: to not fail is the exception for the first ~2 years of any craft
(trilema) nubbins`: firedrops, i learned much by many fails
(trilema) nubbins`: oh look, a new version of xquartz
(trilema) nubbins`: "so i add grunge texture to all my source images to cover up my poor technique"
(trilema) nubbins`: aka "i couldn't be bothered to learn how to print properly"
(trilema) nubbins`: "distressed print"
(trilema) nubbins`: i'm gonna keep it
(trilema) nubbins`: nah, it's still pretty rad looking
(trilema) nubbins`: not a big deal, the hood has a lining. but still. gonna look pretty ratty next time i wash it
(trilema) nubbins`: pretty much the same idea
(trilema) nubbins`: it's a conveyor dryer, the logo gets placed on a belt facing up towards a heating element
(trilema) nubbins`: nah, only damage was to the hood
(trilema) nubbins`: the hood was all bunched up, and i scorched holes in it :(
(trilema) nubbins`: ran it through the dryer
(trilema) nubbins`: so i printed a logo on my favourite sweater last night
(trilema) nubbins`: mircea_popescu: a friend's mom called me years ago wondering why her emails to her_son's_name@hotmale.com were being returned
(trilema) nubbins`: helps the sharp plastic edges fit in a bit easier
(trilema) nubbins`: carl sagan's 79th would have been 4 days ago
(trilema) nubbins`: wash it in hot water and tumble dry high a bunch of times
(trilema) nubbins`: kako, great!
(trilema) nubbins`: if i understand correctly, tat can't forcefully buy back at 1.0x; it's just an opportunity for people to initiate their own sell-back at 1.0x rather than 0.95x
(trilema) nubbins`: i struggle to understand the price fluctuations of XBOND
(trilema) nubbins`: tourette's / schizo neighbour is having a bad day today
(trilema) nubbins`: yeah, closest i can find is some asshole shooting 2mm tungsten bullets from a gun the size of my thumb
(trilema) nubbins`: i bet there's youtube videos of that
(trilema) nubbins`: or inside a giant lightbulb
(trilema) nubbins`: EXTREMELY heavy
(trilema) nubbins`: all kinds of fancy metals being used for rings these days. cobalt is another one
(trilema) nubbins`: mircea_popescu: from what i've heard, it's a massive pain to work tungsten
(trilema) nubbins`: tell me more of this spoon!
(trilema) nubbins`: (i chose titanium)
(trilema) nubbins`: mod6, too late
(trilema) nubbins`: altho impossible to cut off, so if you find yourself in the ER, they'll be shattering your ring with a set of locking pliers
(trilema) nubbins`: popular thing these days
(trilema) nubbins`: you can buy tungsten wedding rings
(trilema) nubbins`: i should just put "^" on a timer
(trilema) nubbins`: no, altho i don't buy bars
(trilema) nubbins`: located Cyprus on a map, and dutifully hid away my newfound treasure for future days when it'd be worth a million bucks
(trilema) nubbins`: i found a Cyprus 3 mil coin in a handful of change
(trilema) nubbins`: coincidentally, this whole collecting thing started when i was about six years old
(trilema) nubbins`: diversity!
(trilema) nubbins`: and cash, and btc, and property, and skills, etc
(trilema) nubbins`: well, i have numismatic coins and vanilla bullion
(trilema) nubbins`: occasionally these two overlap, like with the Chinese 1oz panda coins
(trilema) nubbins`: and i buy bullion because it's an investment
(trilema) nubbins`: although, to be fair, i buy numismatic coins because they appeal to my aesthetics
(trilema) nubbins`: so unless the postal system collapses, i'm not particularly worried about finding a market for these down the road
(trilema) nubbins`: the overcapitalised clueless always have and will always exist, although the nation to which they call home changes over time
(trilema) nubbins`: mircea_popescu: coin collectors disagree, and as long as they continue to do so...
(trilema) nubbins`: all my gold so far is numismatic
(trilema) nubbins`: the design is identical tho
(trilema) nubbins`: i have many silver maples, no gold ones
(trilema) nubbins`: hm, you think?
(trilema) nubbins`: diversity, &c.
(trilema) nubbins`: while national pride and higher purity makes me want to buy a gold maple leaf, i've already got a stack of maple leafs
(trilema) nubbins`: fuck this, i'm buying a krugerrand
(trilema) nubbins`: that makes a bit more sense
(trilema) nubbins`: oh, there's an accra in the bahamas too?
(trilema) nubbins`: a friend of mine spent 5 years in ghana
(trilema) nubbins`: hey, accra
(trilema) nubbins`: and those mille putois guys make some rad art, hey?
(trilema) nubbins`: that's "desperation" from the sandman series, who definitely does not look good naked
(trilema) nubbins`: although it looks bad on the mailman too
(trilema) nubbins`: ? on most people
(trilema) nubbins`: pankkake: gold jewelry looks tacky and boorish on post people
(trilema) nubbins`: lewicki: make it into jewelry for your harem, i guess
(trilema) nubbins`: all-time high on virtex right now
(trilema) nubbins`: 1oz gold coin for 3.43 btc, so tempting!
(trilema) nubbins`: anyway! bank run
(trilema) nubbins`: also, "coca empire, sup"
(trilema) nubbins`: "mircea popescu" -> "a cum periscope"
(trilema) nubbins`: coca does bide
(trilema) nubbins`: i lel'd heartily the first time i heard the word "hollywood" used in that sense
(trilema) nubbins`: "seriously guys, somebody cut me up a hollywood. i'm done with this shit"
(trilema) nubbins`: code in basic -> cocaine dibs
(trilema) nubbins`: also, "chain'd corpse"
(trilema) nubbins`: "code in c sharp" = "cached prison"
(trilema) nubbins`: it's amazing how quickly people get pissed off when you immediately clatter off the acronyms of the sentences they say
(trilema) nubbins`: wordplay in general, really
(trilema) nubbins`: letter transposition is seriously one of my true joys
(trilema) nubbins`: StryptoCocks
(trilema) nubbins`: what i should do is roll a large "jazz cigarette" and walk to the bank
(trilema) nubbins`: sticks and binds
(trilema) nubbins`: once again, coingig: amazing company
(trilema) nubbins`: "Hi Jon, Yes we spoke with the seller that told us that you had taken down all of your products so we thought you wanted your account closed so we went ahead and closed it, but we did not know that you were still using it."
(trilema) nubbins`: old pussies can still catch mice
(trilema) nubbins`: divide that number in half
(trilema) nubbins`: no, it's seriously the face of a cat
(trilema) nubbins`: "Are you sure you want to send 'the internet' to the Recycle Bin?"
(trilema) nubbins`: given that i'm really just here to mess with the signal-to-noise ratio, i'd like to see the latter
(trilema) nubbins`: although on that tack, i'm a professional printer, not a professional artist ;)
(trilema) nubbins`: oh, fair enough
(trilema) nubbins`: professionals get paid ;)
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform: we had the benefit of history, we were able to gloss over some of the lead-up
(trilema) nubbins`: there might be a moral in there somewhere
(trilema) nubbins`: indeed he does!
(trilema) nubbins`: (and mildly displeased that it took four hours of lectures to prove it!)
(trilema) nubbins`: i was chagringed to learn that the rest of the world takes "1+1=2" as an axiom
(trilema) nubbins`: in my infinite wisdom, i decided that pure math would provide me with the best job prospects
(trilema) nubbins`: there were three majors that fell under the umbrella of the math dept: pure math, applied math, and stats
(trilema) nubbins`: anyway, turns out you can get a degree in mathematics without having done more than a single stats course
(trilema) nubbins`: (that's a thing, right?)
(trilema) nubbins`: i used a z table, duh
(trilema) nubbins`: neither did my positive attitude
(trilema) nubbins`: i got my lowest non-fail mark in statistics, 56%
(trilema) nubbins`: because you can't even set the price of your items in btc
(trilema) nubbins`: dub, it's like bitmit but even more of a piece of shit
(trilema) nubbins`: AMAZING MARKETPLACE
(trilema) nubbins`: so scathing, in fact, that my account doesn't exist anymore
(trilema) nubbins`: i then sent coingig a scathing email
(trilema) nubbins`: i politely informed him that the listing was removed 3 months ago and coingig keeps resurrecting it against my wishes
(trilema) nubbins`: okay, so the poor sap who tried to buy one of my casascius coins at below face value on coingig sent me a "how do i know this isn't a scam?!" message
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