mircea_popescu: to revisit tradition : there are two main strands in "wet nurse pacifying neglected upper class kid his mom dun want" : the irish and the italian.
phf: clearly, it meditates on the child's behalf
ben_vulpes: there's a spoken word meditation guide and some rhythmic pulsing
ben_vulpes: the retardation with these folks is astonishingly deep: get this. one wife placates her children with an ipad meditation app.
ben_vulpes: still astonished the pantsuits that a) child can eat with spoon and b) would eat something with flavor
mircea_popescu: "makes them short"
ben_vulpes: the american stew of sloth, poverty, beans, paprika, and various meats
mircea_popescu: for the pres ? salary is recent invention.
ben_vulpes: moreover, what does sitting prez a la obab even pay for. agent orange clearly living at mar a lago because omfg rats in the white house
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> imo very much worth it for the fisherman. << yah, pretty reasonable for a guided trip. probably be a blast.
mircea_popescu: between these two i can't discern.
ben_vulpes: the apple tree was a spectacular spot of marketing; doesn't mean the guy lacked in steel.
mircea_popescu: (and yes for MOST of us history, the us president couldn't afford to pay for restaurant meals. fact.)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes not very possible. it's easy to believe that "thank you for your leadersheep" cocksuckers a la mccain and what's-his-name-married-ketchup aren't worth pressing for glue. HOWEVER back when the country was poor and the us president depended on the largesse of european middle class to afford a meal in a decent restaurant, they HAD to have had some folk with mettle
mircea_popescu: imo very much worth it for the fisherman.
mircea_popescu: mod6 incidentally, they have it pretty well streamlined. spend a grand or so, hire a boat with crew, go fishing for the whole day.
ben_vulpes: the washington apocrypha?
asciilifeform: prolly sometime before the sybilline books burned
asciilifeform: nobody said theory had to include a 'why'!11
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well it's your theory!
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other alt-milks, http://78.media.tumblr.com/b8af049219fec2d4c22e14cb09813834/tumblr_nkd1a2gZSr1u06pkwo1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: as they all did.
ben_vulpes: if you let food become such an issue that you're fighting over it at dishwashing age you dun fucked up way the fuck uptree.
mircea_popescu: the reason i deal with 16yos not 6yos becoming ever more apparent.
mircea_popescu: "love the fucking food or else you do dishes all night and then straight to school at 8am missy"
ben_vulpes: (clearly also lacking in the discipline to say "eat what we eat or go to bed hungry")
mod6: bleach all the foodz
ben_vulpes: it's almost as though they never thought to have the fun of putting novel tastes in the kid's face
ben_vulpes: funnily enough, the family democrats have failed on parenting to the degree that "she only eats white things" like...bread. pasta. plastimilk.
mircea_popescu: btw re http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-13#1750533 : you are aware costa rica routinely dominates catches in pretty all categories ? they get literal quarter ton tuna here.
mircea_popescu: that's why you don't permit your kids to live in room with "posters" of idiotic pop "legends". let them have roman antiquity decor.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-17 17:31 asciilifeform: 'FDA specifically bans from human infant formula ("felonious fortification") the addition of a tetraunsaturated fatty acid only found in human breast milk. Near as anyone can tell, its only metabolic purpose is to encourage brain development. Human milk for human babies - or you bring up a Democrat.' ftr.
asciilifeform: ( other than the obvious way observed by uncle al, i.e. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-17#1671450 )
mircea_popescu: the correct proportion is like .7 cookie to the nut. since the macadamia come in fixed size, how about they change the damned cookie size to match my needs!
mircea_popescu: speaking of mother's milk, britt sells these macadamia nuts covered in black chocolate here. they go fabulously well with danish cookies, but i have the following complaint :
mircea_popescu: then again, there are those places that'll take your meat and make it jerky. not very expensive, but back to "and how much jerky can you eat ?!"
mod6: I think those guys in alaska have something figured out with those full walk-in smokers they built with logs, etc.
mircea_popescu: if you can sell the meat without having to preserve it ~at all~, you got a fiddy to a hundy buck a pound sorta thing. if not... whatever costco charges, 9.95 or such
mircea_popescu: huge difference there.
mircea_popescu: mod6 and the thing is, meat age matters IMMENSELY. unless you operate a smoking thing, which fwis is all but unknown in the us, and unless i guess you know how to rot it properly (whicjh again, is nice, but MAYBE once a month sorta thing, like the romeo&juliets), in order to eat a steak shot-this-morning i'd pay, but really i wouldn't eat a "straight from the freezer" steak unless i have to.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: If the locals in old country were sane it would be
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, in re milk thread ( http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728908 and elsewhere ) -- i found out that there is apparently nao an Official loophole -- while it lasts -- in usgistan : raw milk sold 'for cats' , for piles of money , wink, nudge, posh clientelle fills up thermoses
mircea_popescu: then THAT guy can afford to take a buck or something, knowing full well that in a coupla days its gone anyway
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i guess if all the "exclusive gated community" schmucks weren't so schmucky thery could have a delegated hunter, get your steak in the mail by 10am. << In old country missouri village of "Town and Country" licenses hunters, but only as far as reducing the traffic hazard posed.
BingoBoingo: Back in old country, most people had a good chunk of their venison processed into salty "stick" form for long term sub freezing refrigeration.
mircea_popescu: sorta like how milk works (or worked, dunno, maybe they did away with that too)
asciilifeform: iirc in feudal jp they had.
mircea_popescu: i guess if all the "exclusive gated community" schmucks weren't so schmucky thery could have a delegated hunter, get your steak in the mail by 10am.
mircea_popescu: yeah. and in places like alaska, say, where they do take a moose now and again, it's more convenient because freezer everywhere.
mod6: yeah, adding in the fat really helps hold em together. Venison is so lean.. makes a damn good rare stake too.
mircea_popescu: perfect like that, even the fat.
mircea_popescu: mod6 and that's if you know what you're doing. otherwise, takes ~3 fingers.
mircea_popescu: yeah. i always was more of the ... how to put this, defensive hunter ? "i don't mind killing things but i really dun wanna carry them" sort.
BingoBoingo: <mod6> Last weekend I was hunting and saw 5 huge bucks across the open field. Was like O_O. << Vermin!
asciilifeform: mod6: that's the 1 reliable animal we have here
mod6: Last weekend I was hunting and saw 5 huge bucks across the open field. Was like O_O.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hanbot once saw fox on traintrip in romania, guy was like, standing watching the train, 20 meters off if that.
asciilifeform: right on the streets
asciilifeform: fox even here in the shitlands
mod6: Ah, might be pheasants in the corn though.
mod6: You'd think there would be a bunch just west of where you are.
mircea_popescu: they're very hardy, pretty much every farm has them. go for walk post wheat harvest, there's 100s
asciilifeform: a grous is рябчик , and for most of life asciilifeform never encountered it in any other context.
mircea_popescu: yes well, let's ideally not do that then, lol
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> gotta pay attention with them << shooting things that walk on the ground -- a bit more risky ya.
BingoBoingo: Ye Ole birdshot to the face
mircea_popescu: the who ?
mircea_popescu: yeah. you need like a dozen to make a meal, but the meal is worth making.
mircea_popescu: gotta pay attention with them
mircea_popescu: or how do you call the little runny bird in this language
mircea_popescu: you have grouse there btw ?
mod6: *they
mircea_popescu: per tradition it's higher on the hierarchy of hard game
mod6: Any more than that and they're gone.
mod6: Does the job. I try to shoot 'em within 20-50 yds.
mircea_popescu: they fly very predictably. but anyway, mile-and-half is you know, stuff of legends.
mircea_popescu: mod6 well you don't want explosive round lol. but anyway, picking the lead out from the pheasant in experience not much worse than eating around the hole in the duck.
mircea_popescu: still, if you manage a mile-and-quarter kill or some insanity like that, you really want the dog to do the running for you.
mod6: I'd imagine that there wouldn't be much decent meat left after getting hit with a rifle round.
mircea_popescu: some people actually need the extra quarter mile or w/e decoy/caller buys you, but really, healthy human doesn't actually have to need it.
mircea_popescu: but in general -- the duck is harder shooting, because pheasant is dumb as rocks, will let you come close enough to fucking arrow it to death. duck will not. but with modern rifles this isn't a problem.
mod6: I don't have a low-land dog either, no. Definitely need a newf or lab or whatever.
mircea_popescu: mod6 you don't need either decoys or boat. you need an excellent dog, which is the problem.
mod6: Duck is good eating. I don't have all of the equip. for it. Most guys have a lot of decoys and a blind or boat of sorts.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, that must suck. from memory it was just about "while snow on the ground"
mod6: Starts mid-october until spring. Most people quit when the snow gets too deep.
mircea_popescu: do they have season where you're at ?
mod6: There are ducks here ya. I hunt pheasant tho.
mircea_popescu chuckles privately, yet again, at random harlequins thinking themselves "persona di stile", http://trilema.com/2016/the-%d0%ba%d0%b2%d0%b0%d1%81-bdsm-party/#comment-118601 -style.
BingoBoingo suspects they want to make friends with my friends after I presented expected revenue from rack (10kusd gross) and expected number of clients per rack (less than 10).
mircea_popescu: the polychinelle's secret about people is that everyone wants a new friend just as much as you do, if not more. makes things easier.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ah, the consultadora is a small firm. How the locals say "accountantancy", there is she there who is my primary contact.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no, the consultadora, whatever that is.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Apparently they have an estadounidense in their office who bas bank account through "series of simple tricks"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo do. find an upmarket steakhouse, take her for lunch (not dinner) one day at her convenience. this isn't in any sense sexual ; but it is a good idea to leverage the environment to impress upon the help that it is indeed a very good idea to be as helpful as humanly possible.
BingoBoingo: The venezuala? Not yet. I will probably ask her if she wants me to have some food ready when she comes for spanish lesson tonight.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this -- supposing it actually worx as-printed-on-the-box -- is pretty neato.
BingoBoingo: Contrary to all the web derping about "Gringos are condemned to BROU"
BingoBoingo: Anyways, the consultadora has begun the work of massaging a bank account out of Itau which apparently is impossible for estadosunidense as private individuals, but no problem for business individuals.
mircea_popescu: like http://trilema.com/2017/how-the-beastforumcom-private-messaging-function-became-a-paid-user-only-item/ ?
BingoBoingo: They seem to keep the economy here flowing. Uruguay's own voluntary Indian fat reserve.
BingoBoingo: Nah, not actually Braziallian. Don't have the psychadelic hook up... at least not yet.
mircea_popescu: oh and in other randoms : yest i saw girl shirt reading in big thick font "blowjob is still better than no job"
BingoBoingo: Aqui, foreigner seems to correspond either to Argentine for ones that speak like them or Brazilian for foreigners who speak funny.
BingoBoingo: Ah, the locals dress in all sorts of manners. I am not obviously a foreigner until I open my mouth. And then... They still mostly guess Brazilian...
shinohai: Hey BingoBoingo you seen one of those red bird shirts like Quagmire wears down there?
BingoBoingo: The only mandatory thing is a big snapper with proper death and postmortem treatment
asciilifeform: there exist also 'twerp'
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> btw you ever had the soup ? << The snappers back home make excellent soup. The bigger and meaner the better.
asciilifeform: who is the subj of this observation ? presumably the chix work for living somewhere, neh
mircea_popescu: upon re-wreading, it occurs to me "idleberated" is not even such a bad word to describe the situation of various wenches, maids and whatnot who belabour under the misapprehension that they're excused from the obligations their servile social class imposes on them
asciilifeform: ( i in fact dun know any other that begins with 'tw' )
asciilifeform: tho the proper king's englisch 'tw' word is, obviously, 'twat'
mircea_popescu: btw you ever had the soup ?
mircea_popescu: but apparently these idle-liberated domestic appliances HONESTLY BELIEVE carrying half an ounce over half a yard a coupla times one morning constitutes enough contribution to the general welfare of humanity to thereby eat, every day, and perhaps who knows, even 7k robe, one day.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 02:34 asciilifeform: what do folx need to have inside their crankcase, to swallow it.
mircea_popescu: THIS IS ALMOST THE MAJORITY
mircea_popescu: in other statistics nobody cares about : out of 1817 females under 30 with an interest in kink that checked out http://trilema.com/2017/galati-yachting/ this month, OVER 900 !!!! thereby inferred that saving turtles is what i do for a living, my job or in some manner similarily my profession or occupation.
mircea_popescu: and other clarifications as may in time be needed.
mircea_popescu: and logistical evidently refers to the logs.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 15:28 BingoBoingo: So, it turns out looking directly for abogados was a mistake. The accountant has popped the gringo bubble. Apparently gringos seeking tax shelters for existing money go to abogados. Empressarios like myself go to consultadoras.
mircea_popescu: if you use no synthetics, that is.
shinohai: One good thing about teh South, I used to go out back behind the cotton mills and get tons of free soft cotton rags.
mircea_popescu: plastic scratches. it's the ~one thing it does well.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: What wash, buy by the tens of pounds.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if any girl touches any lens with any non-natural fiber that girl thereby gets a whopping.
asciilifeform: so may as well buy the single-shot wipes, same type as for rifle barrels
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, the thing i liked most about it was that chick now speaks... exactly like me.
asciilifeform: sustainably(tm)(r) knitted from fibers grown in the skins of sustainable(tm)(r) diverse(tm)(r) nation of africa nationals ?
mircea_popescu: it was you know, the same usual crap, "microfiber" or w/e.
asciilifeform: did it have the optional radar jamming pods.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform neither.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 17:54 BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749890 << this is actually so clever i think ima add it to the standard mp ops manual. << In another caveat to this... Here is the first place I have been to with meetings of such epic lengths.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was it a lockheed-martin bathrobe, or a raytheon ?
mircea_popescu: but you know all it says is http://trilema.com/2016/sad-times-in-the-fiat-empire-apparently-you-cant-give-the-dollar-away-these-days/ and no more.
shinohai: BingoBoingo: In the society you are in, likely un consultador puede ser encontrado en cado rincon no?
mircea_popescu: in similar lulz, from gal on cali mission recently : "in other news i saw a $7000 bathrobe yesterday. the moment anything says boutique i know it's gonna be like car-prices-for-decorative-knick-knacks sorta deal".
BingoBoingo: So, it turns out looking directly for abogados was a mistake. The accountant has popped the gringo bubble. Apparently gringos seeking tax shelters for existing money go to abogados. Empressarios like myself go to consultadoras.
mircea_popescu: and i mean go like the latinos read it, "ho".
mircea_popescu: shinohai 1 of 3. there's 2 more holes to go!
shinohai: The buttplug provides warm reassurance that your $$$ is safe in bank.
mircea_popescu: one has to be well touched in the head to imagine usd prices > 1 satoshi are somehow sustainable.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman not only that, but not a line on "when the bubble will burst on usd prices".
shinohai: See asciilifeform ... this is what the usb buttplug is for, to store your 2-of-3 bitcoin seed in.
diana_coman: funny this "when the bubble will burst on bitcoin value" but not even one line on "when the bubble will burst on house prices"
mircea_popescu: obviously, they forgot to link
mircea_popescu: apparently "goodbye" doesn't mean goodbye in EXACTLY the same way no doesn't mean no.
mircea_popescu: so is your question answered then ?
asciilifeform: hell, bernstein et al ~with~ theorems still went to ~same place.
asciilifeform: and it will look like this, or like camelfuck variant, or like any other.
asciilifeform: the heads of people-without-theorems, unless properly embedded into some variant of peasantry/army/slavery, will grow fungal bloom
mircea_popescu: or not even. fucking vogue, something. who even thought rando what's-her-husbands-name is important in the 60s ?
mircea_popescu: but i mean, REMARKABLY fucking idiotic. dude's idea was that rando movie star is important, on the basis of i dunno, all he ever read was vanity fair i guess
mircea_popescu: "what did they have in crankcase ?" you ask ? drugs, man.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 20:34 mircea_popescu: incidentally, can anyone recount teh helter-skelter charlie mason scenario of risk, the game of world-diplomacy and international intrigue ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are you aware the colorful ( of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-08#1748888 lolz) manson fellow ended up with like two dozen under-20 chicks in tow ?
asciilifeform: what do folx need to have inside their crankcase, to swallow it.
asciilifeform many times offered work in ca, equally many times refused. 'tell me why i should take the double pay , so as to pay 3x for flat, and it will have roaches , why ? '
mircea_popescu: anyuay, the quoted piece from a 1990s bit from a local landlord. as such it reflects the predominantly hopeful mood of the landed gentry at the time "yes, it's a downturn portion of a cycle but that's what cycles are".
mircea_popescu: the "web 2.0" "mobile" etc "revolutions" however failed to catch, so its port is getting sanded as we speak.
mircea_popescu: sparked off accidentally with actual gold, then supported pre and post ww2 by the choice of film industry to move away from the mob rackets (and they succeeded, when the mob caught on and tried to invade the movie folk got the usg to tear it a new hole) and finally post 1960 by the ic folk.
mircea_popescu: california exists principally out of having (accidentally, but nevertheless) well managed the gold rush.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 15:01 asciilifeform: for some reason the beautiful equatorial mild valley bananistans, never grew anything in the way of interesting ~people~
mircea_popescu: if that nonsense were true costa rica would consist of 50% of the world's tech minds.
mircea_popescu: shittier place, the east coast.
gabriel_laddel: I was computing so they stuck me into mental.. no charge
mircea_popescu: i think this takes the cake. yo why TRIPLE on/off login wtf is this
mircea_popescu: i guess actually this'd be the best approximation for tmsr currently, at that.
mircea_popescu: the sort with 10 employees and 10bn in "cash".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform quite. whereas where the smart azn kids wanna go is into the firms "retired" ex gs doods start.
mircea_popescu: if they had a kickbacks scheme with eg stanford bs i would be utterly unsuirprised.
asciilifeform: aha, but in the linked item conveniently replaced with goldmansachs
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would anyone with two neurons to rub together ~actually want~ to work for costco is impossible to divine. it's a dead, commoditized item, that's like research physicist desiring to work at cnc mill. wtf to do there ?
asciilifeform: that'd explain why the quota appears to be filled by camelfuckers
mircea_popescu: at least if he's poor -- then some sort of kowtowing could perhaps be instilled. and even so...
mircea_popescu: azn with 1mn to throw around is like salt for the ivy mills.
asciilifeform: fwiw ( and supposing the item is true as written ) i dun get why usg would say no to an idjit willing to pay $mil to move to usgistan
mircea_popescu: that's why they're quotas in the first fucking place : undesirable activities, harmful for everyone. if they weren't, they... wouldn't be quotas, holy hell.
mircea_popescu: tell you what, the pancreatic cancer quotas are routinely exceeded each year since 1972 also!
mircea_popescu: well, a lot of other women sitting around gossiping about how enviable she is, evidently.
asciilifeform: inevitable q, aha, is what exactly the dazed confucian d00d finds 'enviable'
mircea_popescu: in other "lottery winning", for the past half hour while taking shower i've been mulling over the dilemma of whether i can be arsed to go over to fine restaurant have their absolutely fabulous porterhouse or not really.
asciilifeform: 'spiffy jet you got there. now let's see how well it flies WITHOUT ENGINES muhahahhaa'
mircea_popescu: but as the old saying goes, "if anyobne's selling it, you don't want to buy it".
mircea_popescu: the "lottery" theory is very much in the vein of "when one is born male, one gets advantages", ie, statistical retrofitting. the past 30 years have well proven that there's no causality there -- yes people who were born male i nthe past also coincidentally later developped into enviable positions. but the maleness was not germane, as proven by the sad scum that is just as biologically male born these days, and holds all the p
asciilifeform: he price tag at the moment is $1 million dollars (the rough value of the EB-5 investment visa). Even at this price level, the demand from certain countries routinely exceeds the annual allocated quota, resulting in long waiting times. In that sense, American citizens were born millionaires!'
asciilifeform: 'Warren Buffett has said that the moment one was born in the United States or another Western country, that person has essentially won a lottery. If someone is born a U.S. citizen, he or she enjoys a huge advantage in almost every aspect of life, including expected wealth, education, health care, environment, safety, etc., when compared to someone born in developing countries. For someone foreign to “purchase” these privileges, t
asciilifeform: 'Eventually I was able to meet the chief financial officer of my favorite company, Costco. He told me that they don’t hire any MBAs. Everyone starts by pushing trolleys. (I have seriously thought about doing just that. But my wife is strongly against it.) Maybe, I thought, that is why the company is so successful—no MBAs!'
asciilifeform: 'We talked about microaggressions and feelings and empathy and listening. Sometimes in class the professor would say things to me like “Puzhong, when Mary said that, I could see you were really feeling something,” or “Puzhong, I could see in your eyes that Peter’s story affected you.” And I would tell them I didn’t feel anything. I was quite confused.' << lol
pete_dushenski: "The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective by Puzhong Yao"
mircea_popescu: "Holy shit Freud is spelled with an e not an a ? I had been spelling it wrong all these years and had no idea!"
mircea_popescu: oh, in other great eggogs : 走火入魔 ie "life energy cultivation error" aka "something has gone wrong in your chigong"
BingoBoingo: At the time, that stretch of street lacked shadow. This part of Montevideo has comfortable shaded walks full of sycamores and scorching sun galleries.
BingoBoingo: Looks like you did the lilly shot better http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ur-1-25.jpg vs www.thedrinkingrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/P1000054-768x576.jpg
shinohai: I hadn't heard the term "Pink Elephant" in years ... last time was when I got a bunch of bennies to make sobering up from 3 day binge easier.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's near the closed zoo in Montevideo
asciilifeform: is this another korean fan death
mircea_popescu: ^ in other orc lulz.
BingoBoingo: The fucking sniffling spasm, What the everloving fuck. Go home and leave polite society until you discover the handkercheif.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, after meeting with accountant tomorrow will likely publish first piece on developing annoyances with subsets of the locals.
mircea_popescu: consider : take chick to restaurant, do things to her, on cam, then put the files on her buttdrive and have her carry it next time you eat at that restaurant.
asciilifeform: gotta wonder then , pretend-what.
mircea_popescu: then again i guess a good third of all trilema convos are about that.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 21:48 trinque: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/0BSH9/?raw=true << meanwhile check out the worm-hydra chatting up one of my nodes
asciilifeform: re subj of link, seems like uniquely poor idea from opsec pov , for some reason usg likes to search arse ~first~ , sometimes even they leave the rest of the 'patient' alone. as with the famous fella pictured in old thread, who ate a pistol inside a police station, while already booked, on camera
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749904 << ahahaha and the one liner of the day award goes to...
BingoBoingo: Anyways comparing/contrasting results of past two years vs previous ten makes the case
mircea_popescu: well... kinda the whole point of smoking, neh ? "it just... relaxes me, man" "and how do yo uthink it does that ?" "i don't know, there's some like brain receptors or something"
asciilifeform: defeats the whole point , neh
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 17:54 BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749890 << this is actually so clever i think ima add it to the standard mp ops manual. << Funny how incidental self care part of the plan becomes lynch pin.
mircea_popescu: eventually once there's no hidey hole for "i just can't help myself" and no fucking benefit to binging whatsoever... they can./
mircea_popescu: ran into this lots of times, most chicks are smokers, and most "can't" have a smoke like normal people without turning into their old x packs a day habit over time.
asciilifeform: ad been for sixteen years. While he used AA. meetings as spy drops, his appetite for what the meetings offered spiritually was real. He once told me, in all sincerity, that the greatest contribution America had made to the world, a contribution that would be remembered for thousands of years, was the invention of A.A.'
asciilifeform: 'Kraft knew a lot more than I did about wines, and he often brought home cobwebby treasures to go with a meal. But, even though Kraft always had a filled glass before him when we sat down to eat, the wine was all for me. Kraft was an alcoholic. He could not take so much as a sip of wine without starting on a bender that could last a month. That much of what he told me about himself was true. He was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, h
mircea_popescu: anyway, i expect there's a market.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749901 << considering i made ~the item artisanally... o hey check that out, anally!
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 17:54 BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749890 << this is actually so clever i think ima add it to the standard mp ops manual.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, lol@terrorist tree in jail.
mircea_popescu: i suppose this reduces the discussion to "there's two kinds of bipedals, the monkey and the human. the monkey dedicates itself to building wail groups, and the human to not needing to."
asciilifeform: linked largely for the 'so you think constanttime is optional' lulz.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 23:35 mircea_popescu: so to get back to mr crisan quoted above : the reason he isn't sitting atop a computer/car/hairblower/starbucks coffee cup is that he doesn't yet understand HOW such item would forward / is requisite for his notion of "a republic" == usgstan. because that is ABSOLUTELY ALL he is interested in, and will give no half a spare cycle to any other consideration, period and fuck you.
mircea_popescu: they only perceive their duty to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749979 ie push the empire ; their percived duty never is to personally change so as to fit the republic
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 16:11 asciilifeform: meanwhile, https://archive.is/uL4b5 << usg burns yet another of $infinity ssl decrypt methods, to push 'Disable RSA encryption!'
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749871 << https as entirely worthless as ever ; though evidently i don't expect smartypants a la eg http://trilema.com/2017/lets-revisit-the-google-is-irrelevant-discussion/#comment-123821 to perceive THEIR DUTY to now mourn / worship in compensation.