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(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i can't even figure that out for myself. 90% of the time i think "mmm, chocolate. tasty i guess but i kinda want some more challah or whatever else i baked most recently covered in bread"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and moreover if anyone had heard of usg.intel doing it as well, that's a) fake news b) old news and c) standard diplomatic behavior...for us
(trilema) ben_vulpes: why, this is unheard of.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: gathering intelligence!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: $girl has been probing for the caek i will eat. so far, not much success.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: summarizing lulz?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and a hispanic for labor secretary! so racist!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: happy birthday, BingoBoingo
(trilema) ben_vulpes: anyways, later
(trilema) ben_vulpes: place entirely fails to achieve "delightfully busted" unless you really go looking for it
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in line with the wannabe shabby chic of the place
(trilema) ben_vulpes: upstairs of the cafe where asciilifeform and i had coffees with chetty was hugely bathroom, and the space that wasn't bathroom unused
(trilema) ben_vulpes: if the shutters are up
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and the most amusing 'fixes'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: facade of a sushi joint's only shitter was busted
(trilema) ben_vulpes: anyways, 9/10 places charging more than twenty dollars a place had at least one busted shitter
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you just can't trust these people
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i ever tell you about how i took sport in fixing toilets in ars my first trip there?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: probably no usable steel in it even
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the mind boggles at the conspiracy of circumstance that would let a someone near your tools
(trilema) ben_vulpes: a+ steaks and entirely friendly horsefolk too
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pretty facades, though!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: still. no train to an airport that far from 'downtown' is bogus.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: yaok i get it. no traffic, no train.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nah, on the list though
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you keep wanting to backport me to c2
(trilema) ben_vulpes: train to jfk always beat cabs on price and speed
(trilema) ben_vulpes: have they run one to the airport yet ffs?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: surely not i thought that was an actual subway
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wait they have 'light rail' in arse?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: forgot about that
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hey i found a slut on the train to pycon one year!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: this is a plasti-train
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i do low-intensity email and various other tasks that don't call for focus on the train
(trilema) ben_vulpes: don't ask me, i'm not sixty female and fat
(trilema) ben_vulpes: excellent little device for erotica on the train "or so i hear"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: every release past the first if i recall correctly. second you could buy an ad-free version, but...
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oya for years now.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i know a gent who is cursed with one of the later, more expensive models and he keeps it in a piece of leather to hide the ads.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i am fond of the device. it has a slow, but acceptable resolution screen for reading old texts of middling ocr quality, fits in jeans pocket. most importantly and differentiating it from later models, it shows no ads.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: spoiler alert: it's called a usb cable
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and in yet other "you don't own this device" news, my v1 kindle does this amazing trick when i email it .mobi files where it briefly displays them and then immediately removes them
(trilema) ben_vulpes: at least we finally routed around the procurement process...
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in other radiation damage, $client calls up, "hey latest chrome doesn't work with $app from inside the muni vpn" "...can you swing a vpn or shall i get on a plane?"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in other amazings interpellating me on the way to the train: https://www.sites.google.com/site/superhappypoliticalparty/
(trilema) ben_vulpes: anyways, asciilifeform is there a particular thing you're citing or just "moi moi, uber alles"?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: unfortunately, without skin in the game the man can keep "doubling down" forever.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: let us not forget how committed you were to "can not possibly win, clitler and lizards would never stand for it" you were, asciilifeform
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ah 'huffing'?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what is this 'bronze sniffing'?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it's a scratch-and-sniff
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: max was total annual premiums for a "bronze" plan
(trilema) ben_vulpes: if it were "small businesses! young people!" the clamor for universal college debt jubilee would be deafening
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nono, instead we get "women executives"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: sure, if you don't have taxable income
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what's the second dubious strat? not picking fights with the irs?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i am fair miserly though
(trilema) ben_vulpes: lest anyone get the wrong idea, i don't tend to pick fights with the irs.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "what income? this other business showed a perfectly-offsetting loss."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no getting rich here, just clawing back my pennies from the commies
(trilema) ben_vulpes: robust tax strategy is a wall of pittances.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: still outta reach of plebs, and yes, pittance.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 3e3-6e3 as f(family size)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "health savings account" is an account into which someone on specific kinds of health insurance plans may deposit a maximum of 3 or 6ish shibux per annum
(trilema) ben_vulpes: plebe's can't max out an hsa in one month, get real
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nothing compares to bitcoin we all know this
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it's a bezzle hack asciilifeform
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nothing as before
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hsa administrator or usg?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: which "them"?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pile up pre-tax dollars reserved for 'valid medical expenses' without incurring the insurance cost
(trilema) ben_vulpes: possible husseincare hack: sign up for 1 month of high-deductible, max out HSA contribution, discontinue insurance plan.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and at the very least shares keybindings with intellij/android studio
(trilema) ben_vulpes: appcode: no worse than xcode
(trilema) ben_vulpes: phf: man once i got the simulator all wired up boy howdy was it nice to have unified keybindings for the mobile scutwork
(trilema) ben_vulpes: worthwhile translation candidate?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: whoa wait how did i miss that
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "Obamacare's markets are nearing failure as premiums climb and healthier individuals drop out" << did someone cancel the penalty for rolling uninsured or am i missing something here
(trilema) ben_vulpes: was there bitching at the top about the selective leaking?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the distribution of 'intelligence' by bureaucrats?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by 'intelligence' like candy. Very un-American!" god i love realdonaldtrump
(trilema) ben_vulpes: superior orc seed
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "next you'll want to disband the tribes of the fertile crescent!"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: challenge it on cultural diversity grounds: "baksheesh is how other cultures work, and this inane attempt to 'combat corruption' is really just thinly-disguised cultural imperialism justifying usg statal overreach"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: sovereignty gaaaames
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "There’s no real thought about: what is the purpose of asset forfeiture? What is it designed to achieve?” said Kristian Lasslett, director of the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at Ulster University, who has been working to develop the emerging academic field of 'state crime'."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the re-carving of territory up by the replacement right and replacement left could be interesting. not saying that it is yet, or that it mustest be, but that if it does transpire i will pop corn.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: bone, prelude. or, or, or.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: church of woke or church of born again, water draining out of both buckets.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "house of cards" pissed quite a few 'middle class' murkkans off.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: decent odds that cutting funding for abortion services abroad is just a prelude to cutting funding for * abroad.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 'twas never explicit, but care to explain why?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh we hate uuids now today?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you think the phb character knows or cares?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: docker just sidebar low dough lols
(trilema) ben_vulpes: anyways, linked for charts
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "how do you do delivery?" "we just package a whole linux, anything less than that is annoyingly complicated and we can't hire people who know how to do it"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: iono, aren't republicans in the habit of pasting lulzy pm logs?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: my freenode password? give me a break
(trilema) ben_vulpes: at risk of boringly rehashing a point there is nothing to collect!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: does *anything* work on freenode?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > irc: sasl authentication timeout
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > irc: client capability, server supports: account-notify extended-join identify-msg multi-prefix sasl
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i don't have enough compenstors on the ground yet apparently if there's a baby stroller type to be had
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well now i gotta see this f350 of baby strollers
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > threatened to run over one of the deputies with a baby stroller
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and by lols i mean deaths-by-bureaucrat
(trilema) ben_vulpes: so "baww" but perhaps the lols compound
(trilema) ben_vulpes: baww, oroville damn evacuation lifted
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hang 'em on hearsay i guess
(trilema) ben_vulpes: if only there were an ounce of "prove it" left in america.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: good for them
(trilema) ben_vulpes: if only join/parts weren't so frequently so spammy; it'd be nicely contextual for eg the previous conversation in logs
(trilema) ben_vulpes: a man may be forgiven the odd transmission to otherwise apparently derelict friends' vessels
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: hope springs eternal
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you there, boss?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: just trying to cheer you up, buddy!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wouldn't really know! just crackin wize
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hey, wiping one's own ass is for poorfags
(trilema) ben_vulpes: make my butthole great again, baby
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i think i found some great again in my butthairs last night
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: yellen still planning to raise rates
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wao, trinque thanks
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: by the way which was the article in which you related telling your father that if you ever saw him again you'd kill him?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: euphemism, BingoBoingo
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in other news, the wsj is approximately the only place not using a javascript paywall
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and that's coming from a guy who grew up in portland
(trilema) ben_vulpes: now that'd take a dyke system
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "surely come global warming all that land will be so farmable!"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the room in which i grew up is larger than the house i rent today.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you know what rankles?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ancestral home
(trilema) ben_vulpes: appeals, but "or you could just move in upstairs" also appeals
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you don't have to convince me
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'd not mind teh ukr, provided i could figure out where the shoosting is happening where it's likely to spread to etc etc
(trilema) ben_vulpes: then i think slovenia was the next "what if"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mostly project explore-family-tree-and-meet-long-lost-branches
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and to think, $girl wanted to move to .lt
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in other things i don't hate, this yamhill valley rose of pinots is not foul!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel_p: don't set it in stone, things move very slowly in the republic.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: sure beats reading the source on over-modal'ed websharts
(trilema) ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel_p: i don't hate this!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh god the microcontrollers
(trilema) ben_vulpes: please not project mirror again
(trilema) ben_vulpes: depends on when mine come in relative to how strong the sun is at that time of year.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: highly dependent on when the crop comes in
(trilema) ben_vulpes: someone call the old witches and tell them the things they did all day were pointless
(trilema) ben_vulpes: better throw out the family canning tools i guess
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "why have healthcare costs quintupled over the past three decades?" "did you roll your children in dirt today?" "no?" "well there you have it"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: better dirt under your fingernails and a cupboard full of tomatoes than rubber food and children with no immune system
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: 'we' are mitigating against the star topology in all sorts of stupid and entertaining ways
(trilema) ben_vulpes: more icefrastructure
(trilema) ben_vulpes: of course to effectively transport the dirt i'm going to need to buy a trailer
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: funny you should mention raised beds, $girl finished the second yesterday.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: not particularly interested in large scale soil amendment projects largely benefitting others
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i will keep that in mind for that oft-dreamt-of-day when i'm unlikely to relocate in five years
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "are open to anyone who want to create a bright future that's rich with opportunity and freedom for all" << what if my bright future doesn't include towelheads, but it's still bright for everyone else, am i still welcome?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: thanks BingoBoingo
(trilema) ben_vulpes: stockpile peat moss. k.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: or does it come from some bog somewhere, extracted at rates far greater than the bog can replenish
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: do i hafta buy it from a factory?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in with these other words whose meanings have drained from them at the hands of leftists bloodletters
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "on behalf of democracy, equality, human rights, social justice and sustainability" << sustainability!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "feel" hyu still cracks me up
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "when core democratic ideals feel under attack" << core democratic ideals! feel! a+ "assuming the sale" right there
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "a line was crossed" nobody can use active voice anymore, saying your enemy's name doesn't give him power over you witchcraft isn't a thing
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/yCTHc/?raw=true << ho ho ho god the pathologies on display
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "fuck, buddy. it's just a coordinate transform, you can handle those right?"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hey i had a blast with quaternions once upon a time
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "hi i have a rudimentary understanding that some words related to mathematics exist and have spent too much time glomming strings together. please kill me!"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what the FUCK
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ruby has an eigenclass
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-13#1613506 << in none of the experimentation and blather through which i dug did anyone posit 'coal' as a carbon source. my limited understanding is that its role is threefold: surface area for bacterial colonization; surface area to ameliorate fertilizer runoff and leaching into the ground; and to improve porosity.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: stand back everyone i'm just going to deform the crust to perform a bit of geoatmospheric arbitrage
(trilema) ben_vulpes: that's what makes it so tempting!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: dams are my favorite human folly
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pretty serious risk of losing the emergency spillway apparently
(trilema) ben_vulpes: obvious conclusion that ms is also wholly owned subsidiary of ministry of wtf has apparently not yet occured.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in *entirely* unrelated lols, it turns out that various tribal security directives are to "use ms products and keep all data on local disk because we don't trust cloud because obvious tool of ministry of wtf." meanwhile, it dept struggling to wrap heads around how all of their files ended up on the ms cloud.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: is he really selling that so hard? looks more like the organized organs of the left are pushing that angle and he's not fighting it terrifically hard, because why bother
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "useless dorks" aka social media mgrs?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: verily, we are impressed
(trilema) ben_vulpes: plus that master stroke of "anti human trafficking" + instantiation of the gendarmerie-as-municipal-officer-coordination-office recently
(trilema) ben_vulpes: duty/responsibilities
(trilema) ben_vulpes: these days, everyone watches twitter to see how donny's going to respond to something happening on the teevee, while he waves the red cloak of nordstrom or even just "make america great again" (which i fucking die laughing every time he tweets that phrase naked), while the white house press bureau releases some very well-written copy on "failure(s) to enforce sovereign duty"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: last eight years everything was this tightly dialed drumbeat of unified talking points
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the trifurcation of media, white house proclaimations and social media drivel compared to the last administration is very interesting
(trilema) ben_vulpes: quite impossible to play out literally, lol
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i am spectacularly unqualified to opine as to how it might happen this time, so i wonder.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nevertheless, wind blows, bridge rips itself apart.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i wonder what the 'tacoma narrows' moment looks like for intel and friends.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i can imagine; seems miserable.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: b-but free energy from the soil timecube
(trilema) ben_vulpes: (also baby steps towards federal gendarmerie in form of "better coordination of law enforcement")
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "illegal smuggling and trafficking of humans" is all over that thing. would otherwise be a huge victory for the nonprofits pushing that line, except for how it's donny t doing it
(trilema) ben_vulpes: besides, paraplane is a+ garage flugenice
(trilema) ben_vulpes: lifting bodies are neat!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: g soon? color me excited
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i am reluctant to consign material from which i may yet extract $use to the public pit
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you know how photosynthesis reduces electron energy by lowering its potential down gradually through a series of steps?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: as i said, uninterested in full breakdown.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: would rather not bifurcate waste handling streams if unnecessary.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'd be satisfied if the bones were rendered unattractive to pests.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: concern is more along lines of splintering and intestine perforation
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i have been thoroughly terrorized by the fud around passing bones to dogs
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: even i can only scour so much off the bones
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i suppose the smart thing to do is make a highly reduced stock?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: complexity reduction in waste pipeline, ~
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i have nfi re latrine design
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what might handicap the meat/dairy handling?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: smells, turning, meat/dairy as feedstock to boot
(trilema) ben_vulpes: aight, next pile of nuttery to riddle: anaerobic composting of food waste
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