BingoBoingo: In other news, the locals in my immediate meatspace are lagging on lists of sane abogados. However, contact with local accounting firms is yeilding replies.
mats: the page blurb i read about ‘imdb pro’ suggested 150/yr
shinohai: The tireless potcoin advocate, perhaps the US' only hope to avoid total nuclear annihilation http://archive.is/jKcNb
a111: Logged on 2015-08-15 15:31 asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-08-2015#1238595 << when boiling the proverbial frog, when it gets cooked enough you can just turn up the heat to whatever. srsly, they included a keylogger and admitted to it. why should they not also rape you in every other possible hole, and drill new ones as desired ?
BingoBoingo: Lol, yeah. The shirt covered area is still pale, but it did not detract from how impressed the Brazilian girls of were with my magic gringo power of tolerating ~15 C temperatures on the bare skin
BingoBoingo: Mine rarely gets that bad, worst case it stays red longer before brownshift. Except for the solar concentrator that appears to be my nose. That can blister.
lobbes when 18, visited DR with Dominican co-workers at the time. Forgot to reapply sunscreen after entering ocean one afternoon. Skin was peeling and oozing for ~2 weeks afterwards
a111: Logged on 2017-12-11 17:03 BingoBoingo: I redden and then it shifts to brown
BingoBoingo: For other gringos contemplating travel to Montevideo, so far in my experience voseo has not been a big deal. However my ears are still adjusting to yeshimo.
BingoBoingo: The closest site to US urbania so far were some terrified dominican tourists and their scared ~10 year old child decked out in "thug chainz"
BingoBoingo: The local men range from ghastly pale to light brown with some outliers at the african end of the spectrum. The local women range from olive or slightly tanned to medium roast coffee with fairly even gradient distribution so far observed.
BingoBoingo: I redden and then it shifts to brown
BingoBoingo: phf: They may confuse it with a panama hat. For a nominally latin country I am somehow more tan on the exposed areas of my skin than many of the local adult males.
BingoBoingo: Brazilian seems to be their default guess for foreigners that aren't obviously Argentine
shinohai: Throw in a few hue's and br's to confuse them.
BingoBoingo: Usually I have to volunteer Soy de estados unidos. Most locals appear to be unfamiliar with the term estadounidense
BingoBoingo: In other annecdotes people The most popular 1st guess of my nationalty by the locals is Brazilian which is followed by English.
BingoBoingo: And the crashing resumes
mats: lots going on for mats, i'm trying to make my way to .tw within a year, then hk. futzing with student visa right now
asciilifeform: ( you gotta cure the probes, naturally, with sage_pill . but no soldering needed )
asciilifeform: those are usable out-of-the-box
mats: its on the to-do list
asciilifeform: mats: didja solder in the sage header ?
asciilifeform: and ideally get several, they are getting scarce.
asciilifeform: if yer getting an apu1, mats , go straight for the apu1d4 .
asciilifeform: unless yer kernel is monstrously fat ( and why would it be ) -- it'll sit down in the rom.
asciilifeform: and given as it uses linuxbios (coreboot) exclusively ( there was in fact no turdware bios afaik ever released for'em at all ) it makes it inviting to stuff the kernel into rom
asciilifeform: mats: not specifically. it's a standard opteron, with the exception of no vga. ( use serial console. )
mats: the 3ware sata3 card
asciilifeform: in other noose, turned up that the pilot opterons in asciilifeform's torture room have a disappointing onboard raid that supports only sata2 (3Gb/s). upgrading'em with sata3 raidtrons (6Gb/s)
BingoBoingo: Also anyone want to come to Montevideo and hang out, drop off some servers? Apparently you have until March before the weather turns London-esque.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-11#1749334 << found, to be clear, archaeologically, from the rdos thing, rather han from clever reversing
mircea_popescu: on the strength of http://trilema.com/2014/ill-pay-for-your-tits/ all rthose chicks are imdb-notable.
BingoBoingo: Eh, there were some film credits there. The German girl was impressed by the credits, but did not look as good as the Brazilain girls. Maybe if the German girl was from 10-20 years ago she could compete against the locals and the Brazillians? Today, no.
BingoBoingo: In other news, the Brazilians at the hostel are easily impressed. One of the guys staying there was local actor with an IMDB profile, but el gringo had the ability to enjoy the cool night air shirtless.
BingoBoingo: I don't think USG can simulate the smell of cannabis smoke, however the Brazilians here for the "expo cannabis" are departing either for home or Punta del Este
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 20:10 mircea_popescu: still, stuff like the raufoss mk211 is the exact pill for "oh, we're armored". orly ? well done, so the round won't blow clear through you! enjoy zirconium fire in your spleen!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: If USG.blue were to off me, is there anyone who would want to take over or wind down the venture, or is this not the time to discuss continuity?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you have this newfound penchant for vagueness. NOT "is there anyone willing to be involved in transactions" but YES "can anyone lend me five bux".
mircea_popescu: aaand in other "curse of the ukr chick" news, temp here dropped to a very cool 15 over the past coupla days. HOW DO YOU LIKE MY MILD NAO, BEOTCH!
mircea_popescu: circle the block in those silly slut jeeps, cropped tops and loudspeakers.
mircea_popescu: dude, the more you get oppressed, the more you get productive. ima hire pro dommes to come to your house and insult your manhood.
BingoBoingo: So, as I intensify the abogado search, are there any lord who would like to take on the responsibility of handling TBI responsibilities should something "nailgun" happen to El Gringo Bingo? mircea_popescu? shinohai? ben_vulpes? Anyone else in L1?
deedbot: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2017/12/11/el-primero-domingo-en-montevideo-for-the-midwestern-rube/ << Bingo Blog - El Primero Domingo En Montevideo For The Midwestern Rube
BingoBoingo: In time. I am still map building my local environment and extending it out of Pocitos and Buceo. These boots were made for walking.
BingoBoingo: So, on Sundays Montevideo does get very sleepy. Except for the ferias!
RagnarDanneskjol: Don't know if you already have anyone in place for comparing/assessing outputs.. In the past I've used colleagues in Beijing to help screen candidate writing samples (cause I don't read or speak Ornamental). I'm happy to have someone do the same if it helps. Otherwise, will just let you take over from here.
RagnarDanneskjol: mircea_popescu I have a couple of translators sorting out their IRCs today and should be present within the next 24 hrs or so. I've only done some basic screening - they are all native Chinese, speak English well enough and are available to do translation work. Besides speaking to them, I have NOT gone through any further process of elimination - ie. collected writing samples to have compared, etc.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron maybe they're sub-praying.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 22:35 trinque: there will be a brief wallet outage while I swap a hard drive.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-10#1749293 << isn't it fucking interesting how these keep happenhing ?!
mircea_popescu: sure. tho of interest to me is the cultural tradition. like skateboarding or w/e.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-20 17:03 mircea_popescu: in other news, ended up in local church after walk this morning. had to leave once priest showed up and the womenz starting "singing" an hymn
trinque: looks like the migration went fine; wallet's back up.
trinque: there will be a brief wallet outage while I swap a hard drive.
asciilifeform: 'I have built a NetBSD release from trunk 1 January each year 2002–2016 ... I built i386 (which is the NetBSD name for x86, even though it does not support i386 CPUs any longer) and sun3. The reason I choose them is that they represent two extremes of architectures — sun3 is a hardware platform that was obsolete already in the mid-nineties, so software size "should not" increase for it unless new functionality is added, while the
asciilifeform: in other oldies, elsewhere, in bloatology : https://archive.is/Yt92E << '20 years of NetBSD code bloat' . with chart.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 02:18 mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1747850 << no prob! will have the 'Creating, Naming, and Submitting a Vpatch Guide' (http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-September/000168.html) updated by the end of the weekend.
mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-08#1748564 << >> http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2017-December/000280.html
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 14:56 phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-10#1749235 << nobody has solved the bootstrapping problem. every time you touch a system that's in any way attempts to not be a c-machine you run into that issue
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-10#1749266 << asciilifeform has been chewing on this conundrum for a while. the inevitable pill is a minimal ( see also e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-12#1736844 ) but reasonable microscopic interpreter ( likely schemelike ) in asm; and from it, to climb back up.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 13:10 mircea_popescu: the ~other~ explanation, however, might well be that i don't write on topics about which they're trained to think they have an oppinion. it's easy to forget the parameciums are not actually people, and to imagine human process impels them ; this isn't however the case, they just go where they were trained to go and do what they were trained to do, no more.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 13:08 mircea_popescu: so we could say the ycombined parameciums are moving, knocking about the walls of the petri dish. nevertheless, they don't feel at liberty to derp in comments there like they do on your site -- notwithstanding the bar to comment on loper-os is actually too high what with the google captcha thing.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-10#1749249 << 0 paramecium dropping in the ffaseries comments thus far
deedbot: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2017/12/10/fui-al-cine/ << Bingo Blog - Fui al cine
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 02:43 asciilifeform: the sad fact re gnat is that there is no known way to build a gnat without an existing (built) gnat.
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-10#1749235 << nobody has solved the bootstrapping problem. every time you touch a system that's in any way attempts to not be a c-machine you run into that issue
BingoBoingo: <phf> i think this is the happiest i've seen BingoBoingo ever << This would not be inaccurate
BingoBoingo: The Brazilian manner of smoking Cannabis is to roll it into joins ~120-150 mm long and chain smoke them in the manner estadounidenses chainsmoke cigarettes
BingoBoingo kinda surprised danielpbarron isn't already here, prolly ought to save the date for next year's
BingoBoingo: And the Brazilians here for Expo Cannabis are still smoking hella weed
BingoBoingo has also secured Spanish lessons beginning next week from cute Venezualan girl who teaches English for some school in the WTC
mircea_popescu: "oh, are you writing about $item ? this is in my bayesian list, here's five things i selected from the database of things to be selected when this $item is mentioned! #metoo".
BingoBoingo: <danielpbarron> even when i paid almost 100 USD to ship to that UK guy i still profited quite well for the effort << If you want to drop some off personally in montevideo, you will likely avoid customs charges.
mircea_popescu: and consequently one continuously runs the risk of having produced an inadvertent bike shed, because according to inscrutable alien logics the aliens will land and disrupt rock concerts but not country music concerts ; or vice-versa. cuz the aliens think they can rock or whatever.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> err << Tis airport handle made for device that can't be trusted with bouncer credential, nothing important may come out of there, merely fresh annecdotes from safari
mircea_popescu: the ~other~ explanation, however, might well be that i don't write on topics about which they're trained to think they have an oppinion. it's easy to forget the parameciums are not actually people, and to imagine human process impels them ; this isn't however the case, they just go where they were trained to go and do what they were trained to do, no more.
mircea_popescu: so we could say the ycombined parameciums are moving, knocking about the walls of the petri dish. nevertheless, they don't feel at liberty to derp in comments there like they do on your site -- notwithstanding the bar to comment on loper-os is actually too high what with the google captcha thing.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-09#1749146 << here's something perhaps of interest re all that : loper-os beat btcbase for referrals for the first time in history (and harshly, 2:1 sorta thing) this month.
asciilifeform: that's a first. this was on the ppc? or on pc?
a111: Logged on 2017-11-18 18:10 ben_vulpes: but the very very funny event was the script from the adacore binstaller simply fails, and instructed me to check an empty log file
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if you want to use gcc's gnat, you gotta get old ( 2016 and earlier oughta work ) tarball manually, and build; or obtain the 'obsolete' gentoo ebuild.
asciilifeform: ( the building can happen, however , on any box having a working gnat of whatever type )
asciilifeform: the sad fact re gnat is that there is no known way to build a gnat without an existing (built) gnat.
ben_vulpes: it is sitting happily on a desk, refusing to ada for reasons of package gcc 4.9 blocks gnat-gpl, which is the point at which i threw up my hands and declared a temporary retrograde advance
ben_vulpes: among others, yes
ben_vulpes: likely with the 'wrist' to make it work
asciilifeform: in other noose, ALL of the 'livedvd' on gentoo's ftp appear to contain poetteringolade ( boots into gui horror, with systemd, 'networkmanager'-at-boot, etc. )
scriba: Logged on 2017-12-10: [01:29:30] <danielpbarron> even when i paid almost 100 USD to ship to that UK guy i still profited quite well for the effort
cruciform: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20171210/#52 they charged me import duty a fortnight after arrival!
asciilifeform: clambodile: please get an irc bouncer , or lurk by reading the logs. join/part spamola is not welcome
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 01:32 danielpbarron: i replaced the coin used to by mine at the time i bought them, so that works for me
asciilifeform realized not long ago that he's quite ready to pay considerably 'more' in fiatola for a hypothetical item that is also-sold for btc , on account of the difficulty of replenishing the latter
jhvh1: danielpbarron: The operation succeeded.
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: izabera you can prolly pick up some in teh aftermarket ; either amazon or w/e.
asciilifeform: 0.0395 is the current.
asciilifeform: 100 was just the first batch ( which sold out last yr )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dun think we ever published the exact #. although folx oughta be able to arithmetize.
mircea_popescu: not like it's not in the reports. hundred or so ?
asciilifeform: izabera: the unit is very much still available.
asciilifeform fiddles with serverz. the noise -- abominable
trinque: I dunno; I would've taken the comparison to Terry Davis as a compliment!
asciilifeform: dunno, how about they pick up rubbish with bare hands, like in india.
asciilifeform: this time took a peek after all, to see 'are the hannoboecks still on duty'. answ: they are.
asciilifeform these days finds it hard to muster the givingashit to even follow up on 'was linked from shitpit!11' much of the time
mircea_popescu: periodicity of the venues. yearly on that shitpit, monthly on that other shitpit etc.
asciilifeform: the q asciilifeform asks each time is 'wai'. it's not unlike learning that you've been featured on radio pyongyang
a111: Logged on 2017-12-09 20:12 TomServo: heh FFA Chapter 2 is #1 on hacker news at the moment
asciilifeform: clambodile: there is no substitute for reading the log, if you want to have even half a clue. but lurk all you like, nobody's stopping anyone from lurking.
asciilifeform: d00d is, as i understand, a 'pillar-of-the-komyoonity', i.e. full-time politruk.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-28 16:09 asciilifeform: beloved sage ideologue of the schneierism komyoonity, author of gems like https://archive.is/ootJi
a111: Logged on 2016-08-17 16:54 asciilifeform: all i solidly know of the tptacek fella is his reaction to phuctor.
asciilifeform: TomServo: the proxy thing sounds exactly like what i wanted. primo candidate for tmsrization.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-09 20:12 TomServo: heh FFA Chapter 2 is #1 on hacker news at the moment
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 20:54 asciilifeform: at some point one will need a sort of proxy simply to read heathenwww on anything like human os/iron
TomServo: heh FFA Chapter 2 is #1 on hacker news at the moment
phf: i think this is the happiest i've seen BingoBoingo ever
BingoBoingo: No, they are not being considered for jack shit
BingoBoingo: Ah, the weekend dollar liquidity crunch
BingoBoingo: It is indeed, the hours from doce y media through Cuartena y media can be rather hot, but milder than in the homeland
asciilifeform: iirc phf had one of these in usa
BigTexasBingo: It is an office building floor whereI rent desk, get coffee and language practice, and fiscal address to give the lawyer
BigTexasBingo: Weather here still muy bueno.
BigTexasBingo: It is the effect of my spanish immersion being invaded by the Brazillians and their slow, incredibly understandable speech.
asciilifeform: but mutilated. or is this what the portuguese do.
BigTexasBingo has for the near term readopted cigarettes for social cover
asciilifeform: for mul, pretty simple, time the interval needed for e.g. million 0x0 mulls vs million maxint x maxint ( and a few other patterns )
asciilifeform: btw here's a phunphakt for ben_vulpes : ffa cannot be used as-is on ppc. ibm in infinite whizzdom made their mul instruction nonconstanttime.
asciilifeform: of course W_ZeroP only works the way it does because compilers are sad , in turn because people were idiots in 1970s and did not shoot the wreckers who so much as suggested to call a thing without overlow and zero flags, a cpu
mircea_popescu: i gathered :)
a111: Logged on 2017-12-09 07:44 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: W_ZeroP is pretty nifty; this is a the great and legible approach to numulating with computers i've been missing my whole life
a111: Logged on 2016-04-22 15:58 asciilifeform: i like to call people who by their very presence make various constructive activities impossible, 'neutron absorbers'
asciilifeform: 'sensor is what we dunhave at the sensor shop!1'
mircea_popescu: THIS is what end-of-civilisation means : as you include more and more brownies and "their values" into society, you exclude more and more sense and welfare from the economy.
mircea_popescu: consequently, because no demand, because no management, because no understanding whatsoever of what this capitalist world is or how it works, THEREFORE it makes ~~~perfect economic sense~~~ for part to cost 4x 4x what it costs among smarter people.
mircea_popescu: so basically : they do not keep supplies. latino mind does not understand there's something shameful in having shop of X, not having X.y item in stock.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-09 20:25 mircea_popescu: cuz these people WILL NOT FIX, anything, ever, until it literally breaks.
mircea_popescu: if you're wondering WHY the fuck would anyone buy singles, your mind is working correctly and you're on the way to explaining the mystery : imbecile orcmind DOES NOT PROVISION! DOES NOT MAINTENANCE! and generally has a very peculiar relartionship with the future, as discussed eg in http://trilema.com/2017/this-blog-is-now-about-bticino-and-other-coinsiderations/#footnote_0_75919 ; or http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-09#1735612
mircea_popescu: in other you-can't-imagine-what-decivilization-is : abs wheel sensors here, $130. each. in sanelands, $30, a set of 4.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: W_ZeroP is pretty nifty; this is a the great and legible approach to numulating with computers i've been missing my whole life
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-09#1749022 << did any of these nonsenses ever ~take btc~ , or did they merely take bitpayolade ? ( and the latter i'll guess finally croaked..? )
a111: Logged on 2017-12-09 01:14 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so, did your time spent with the orlov menagerie pay off ?
hanbot: <mod6> always remember to thank the bots. << mhm, thanks deedbot <3
mircea_popescu: DID NOT work out for them ; and in typical fashion of imbecilitard, they WILL NOT confront it. ever. 100% dedicated to this, until i personally fucking grind their face in the dirt, they'll go on "lalala we know shit":\
mircea_popescu: where's the fucking video with the entire boardroom of steam shaving their armpits and shoving live chickens up their assholes in wailing agony of shame and regret for having SOLD all the bitcoin they got immediately, instead of keeping it ?
mircea_popescu: motherfucker.
BingoBoingo: But that could also be the gulf making it hurriciane bait
BingoBoingo: Lol, the weather today muy bien, Felt around 27 at 2 pm then cooling ocean breeze and clouds. Sun went down and it warmed back up a bit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so, did your time spent with the orlov menagerie pay off ?
mircea_popescu: good thing all the pantsuits saved you folk from dat blogal marming, huh.
mircea_popescu: ran in the rain, got terrible shin cramps from it, got massage from nude interloper while playing with her tits... my life is so unfair.
mod6: always remember to thank the bots.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> prior to 4am "the night life hasn't started yet". at 3:45, you know, "oh, there's nobody here because NOT STARTED YET". then at 4am "come back next time". << Aha, Argentines last to wake and last to sleep
asciilifeform: fwiw i bought a coin there once to see what would happen. ( but earlier i also did this at... mtgox . worked there also! )
mircea_popescu: lol coinbase pretending like anyone using them ? THATS NEW!11
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the spam traps, http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/Q6GK4/?raw=true
mircea_popescu: why do you keep buying them ?
asciilifeform: and meanwhile yet another 'last 7 yrs!111' led lamp sputters, dies, in asciilifeform's machineroom.
mircea_popescu: which was the point : remember when a hugo meant something.
mircea_popescu: they are not a thing though. airport bathrooms also well attended, and yet no glory holes counterculture.
asciilifeform: certainly not the picture with 'old rusty door'.
asciilifeform: i cannot answer whether they're a ~profitable~ racket in usa. but they ~are~ well-attended.
mircea_popescu: the age of cons etc is well past.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: point being, there is also a castrated employed hipster crowd, and every other combinatoric arrangement of these also.
a111: Logged on 2016-01-18 18:36 ascii_butugychag: on account of that schmuck at shmoocon who was peddling a group-theoretical crypto algo, quasi-proprietary and patentalicious, that was more or less stolen verbatim from maslennikov's book...
mircea_popescu: but anyway, major distinction between burning man style things, catering mostly to the unemployed hipstger crowd, and the buzzword things, catering mostly to the castrated yuppy crowd.
asciilifeform: the 1 asciilifeform was sent to, few yrs ago, was even worse than this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's a corp racket. they're disguised pep rallies.
mircea_popescu: there;s a humongous difference between crowd driving and crowd following. which is why cowboys (traditional herd drivers) think very little of shephers (traditional herd followers)
asciilifeform: really it is not difficult to find a few thou idjits to sell tickets to. witness the 'seekoority' cons, with 10s of thou warm bodies, coupla hundy ea.
mircea_popescu: much like if hillary stands her pantsuit on a rock and gestures wildly, she's not making the sun come out "from hiding"
mircea_popescu: if one day that self-same mall that gets coupla thou each day puts up "world con!11" posters doesn't mean they're conning anyone.
asciilifeform never been to 'worldcon'. but even the nearest imitation , in baltimore, md, typically has a few thou .
mircea_popescu: prior to 4am "the night life hasn't started yet". at 3:45, you know, "oh, there's nobody here because NOT STARTED YET". then at 4am "come back next time".
mircea_popescu: these are what argentines call "night clubs". "massive" except NOT TODAY. nor any other day. they happen, sometime, somewhere, for sure. but not ever actually.
asciilifeform: if not in any other substance, loud, public.
asciilifeform: these are what mircea_popescu calls 'rubber chicken feasts', massive at least in body count
mircea_popescu: irl, there's a long abandoned locked door.
mircea_popescu: according to google, all the pantsuitisms are HUGE
jhvh1: asciilifeform: Worldcon | The World Science Fiction Convention: <http://www.worldcon.org/>; Worldcon - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldcon>; The World Science Fiction Society | Worldcon and the Hugo Awards: <http://www.wsfs.org/>
mircea_popescu: i would be surprised if they can get enough people together to interest a cheap restaurant.
mircea_popescu: well the fact that the whole thing is ten anon schmucks in a foodcourt somewhere dun help any.
mircea_popescu: man, remember the times a hugo meant somenthing ?
mircea_popescu: this would be why allowing the lower classes outside of the whip-and-yoke combo is a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: 6. everyone dies ; but!!! meanwhile manson was like underground with all the sluts from 2 ; 7. they come back out, kill the like three white people left ; 8. the black dudes discover they suck anyway, and joyously submit (to, literally, balin' cotton.)
mircea_popescu: 5. the white man gets really fucking pissy about it, and like, does really mean things to the blacks. 6. the ~millitant~ black secret police uses this to provove a war between the "racist" and "non-racist" whites, which are conveniently dumb and also evenly matched.
mircea_popescu: the manson apocalypse goes as follows : 1. he makes a really happenin' record. 2. all the she-sluts of california swarm him. 3. all the black dudes who used to fuck these bunnies get really pissed off upon coming home and discovering the cumdumpster's ran off. 4. so pissed off they get, they riot and burn down some of the white man's shit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the topic upstream :
asciilifeform: at some point one will need a sort of proxy simply to read heathenwww on anything like human os/iron
asciilifeform: pretty soon, actually. iirc google et al had a 'replacement for html' in the works, with various novel idiocies baked in
mircea_popescu: if only. but the way their idiocy works, they'll just i dunno, refuse to deliver pages spuriously because your browser doesn't sing "hail hilarity" in the right order.
asciilifeform: ^ prolly oughta go in the cuntoo-cookbook, in fact
mircea_popescu: about:config, search for browser.ssl_override_behavior and set it to 1, which entirely disables the pretense of "security" in https.
mircea_popescu: in other news : if you run a piece of shit firefox on a dirty box somewhere, and if you never upgraded it as you don't intend to upgrade it ; and if the ever-creeping idiocy of the world puts you in this situaiton where various ssl-"protected" sites are no longer loading :
mircea_popescu: they melded together, because they're such a grandiose summation of the "Achievements" of common postmodern man.
mircea_popescu: anyway. so there's two relevant episodes of seinfeld. in one, the resident imbeciles (the fat lazy one, postman, and the hipster doofus) engage in a VERY IMPORTANT game of nothing in particular. in the other, elaine's tasked to review a book about this cockeyed optimist.
asciilifeform: pretty sure i saw this. there was also a more interesting variant with bluffing and under-the-table note-passing deals etc.
mircea_popescu: nah, there's this tabletop game from the 80s, before esltards could engage in "reasoned commentary" on the interwebs
mircea_popescu: incidentally, can anyone recount teh helter-skelter charlie mason scenario of risk, the game of world-diplomacy and international intrigue ?
mircea_popescu: eh, the sort of wood that doesn't work, like used for eg eastern iconography, is kinda expensive.
BingoBoingo: I have seen actual wood in US, usually homes of older people whether house is young or old
asciilifeform: in the oldest houses, strictly.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: so far this matches the description of typical flat in usa
BingoBoingo: And the sinks while uniformly shiny often are showing early signs of valve failure.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Most doors everywhere here tend to stick, latching mechanism last greased insufficiently and too far in the past
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: wat's wrong with the door ?
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo met first other gringo here last night at hostel
mircea_popescu: the "feeling of futility" is notable part of arsenal of self-imbecility, of course.
asciilifeform: part of it i suspect is the feeling of futility, they know that the usian reservation is waiting for'em wherever they go
asciilifeform: i laughed the first time, years ago , when i first read mircea_popescu said this on trilema; but since then met whole horde of usa folx who never even had a загранпаспорт
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-08#1748851 << lol look who's suddenly discovered the great outdoors.