adlai: verisimilitude: you seem to have expected exclusivity for part, if not all, of the work. that is alright, and possibly even quite reasonable. I'll reconsider the offer's structure before acting upon asciilifeform's suggestion w.r.t. deeding a signed offer.
adlai: as far as my availability during the time you might spend: please expect your investigation of the program, and the comments already found within, to more closely resemble that of a forensic toxicologist, than that of a parole officer.
asciilifeform: !w poll
watchglass: Polling 16 nodes...
watchglass: 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.023s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648431
watchglass: 108.31.170.3:8333 : (pool-108-31-170-3.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.100s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648431 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.111s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648431
watchglass: 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.142s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648431
watchglass: 205.134.172.27:8333 : Alive: (0.113s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648431 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.122s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648431
watchglass: 192.151.158.26:8333 : Alive: (0.130s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648431
watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.167s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648431
watchglass: 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.220s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648431
watchglass: 185.85.38.54:8333 : (tlapnet-38-54.cust.tlapnet.cz) Alive: (0.236s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648431
watchglass: 84.16.46.130:8333 : (182518.pk.3pp.slovanet.sk) Alive: (0.237s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=413252
watchglass: 213.109.238.156:8333 : Alive: (0.328s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648431
watchglass: 103.36.92.112:8333 : (terebe.ns01.net) Alive: (0.583s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648431
watchglass: 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.798s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=554045 (Operator: whaack)
watchglass: 176.9.59.199:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length! (Operator: jurov)
watchglass: 185.163.46.29:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length!
asciilifeform: $vwap
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asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-09-14#1021726 << pretty much erryone who lived long enuff, had someone take his mug on www. the hysteria around the subj reminds asciilifeform of the indians, 'photo steals soul!'
snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-14 23:08:40 mats: asciilifeform: i agree with you, unfortunately though its common to get volunteered into sharing photos publicly, by friends acquaintances and random passersby
asciilifeform: asciilifeform, for instance, was photo'd by mp in '14. afaik still downloadable on his www, by nao prolly in iso standard pistol target format. i can't picture wai to give a damn.
mats: intel is just information until there is context
asciilifeform: mats: point is, mugs aint seekrit. for 20+y anyone w/ a coupla $ can get mug from $name .
mats: i get that, and there might be others in the shot, or exif data, or other useful metadata like where uploaded
mats: maybe its a peer group peculiarity, i dunno. i've had a lot of photos taken of me without explicit consent, and that's fine even in this context because i'm not an interesting target for stalking. but i could see it becoming a problem for people i know
asciilifeform: mats: near as i can tell, 'stalking' is a 'new age crime' concocted by hysteri-feminists et al. sorta like 'human trafficking' and similar.
thimbronion: asciilifeform: I have been stalked. It's annoying as hell - I'm not mp, don't have a gang to encourage people to leave me alone.
asciilifeform: thimbronion: interesting -- what specifically consisted of ?
thimbronion: asciilifeform: Constant phone calls, texts, unwanted birthday cake on front step. Unwanted chicken sacrifices. Had to change my number.
asciilifeform: lol, here in maryland, usa folx sometimes pay to have this kinda thing fraudulently staged, so they can get pistol permit
asciilifeform tries to picture why & why would send 'unwanted cake'
asciilifeform: ... poisoned ?
thimbronion: asciilifeform: unrequited love
thimbronion: asciilifeform: I ended up eating the cake - not poisoned.
asciilifeform: of chix?! what'd it cost you to simply agree to fuck'er ?
thimbronion: asciilifeform: it'd cost me having other girlfriends.
asciilifeform: could not offer a harem slot ?
asciilifeform: if yer the sorta fella whom chix 'stalk', imho not unreasonable to presume that it'd work
thimbronion: asciilifeform: I made the offer - it was rejected.
asciilifeform: nuts.
asciilifeform: even as described by thimbronion -- hardly seems moar than a light spam annoyance. asciilifeform for instance has no unrequited groupies, but simply from background radiation of spamiverse finds himself w/ whitelist-only phone and dedicated rubbish bin for junk snail mail..
mats: asciilifeform: depending on how attractive your social group is, its not hysterical at all
mats: whether its exaggerated is... in the eye of the beholder i guess
asciilifeform: mats: tbf asciilifeform not only not yet earned sniper bullet, but not even spam cake like thimbronion , so not esp. experienced w/ subj
asciilifeform: mats: but from my pov 'interesting people' often seem to work quite hard to deliberately create this type of problem for selves; from the isis commander who posted photo+exif of his hq on arsebook, to the porn chix who post daily cunt + exif on same, etc
mats: kinda like the spam cake story, a friend has an attractive gf with a creepy, loaded classmate who would regularly take everyone out to lunch
mats: at one point he would bring catered lunches several times a week, for two semesters
mats: my friend was pleased and received a lot of leftovers
asciilifeform: this is a sin ?
mats: lmao
mats: well, there were a lot of rejected advances and he would only give them to female classmates
asciilifeform: wai wouldn't they 'laff all the way to the bank' ?
mats: they did, and he was a harmless not-rapey type, but it doesn't always turn out so positively after n-th missed social cues
asciilifeform: mats: in ru there are camwhores who set up so that rando idjits can wire'em money. some receive 6-fig $ routinely, and even find that they've been titled real estate, by such idjits. they make millions and laugh.
mats: we have that in usa, its called patreon and cashapp
mats: or onlyfans
asciilifeform: if moron shows up to her penthouse with 'ideas', the guards break his limbs.
mats: only looking to dispel the notion this is hysteria
asciilifeform: mats: in my pov it's an economic calculation like any other. i.e. if the type of biz yer in routinely results in assassins at yer door, but doesn't bring in enuff to hire guards or live inside a minefield, possibly rethink the biz ?
mats: the business of having a vagina and nice tits?
asciilifeform: mats: not simply having the organs (plenty of these on planet3) but spamming'em on 'social www' etc
asciilifeform: aka 'attention whoring'
mats: its a reflection of the times when attention whoring is heavily normalized
asciilifeform: suppose mats collects rare metals, and has 1e6$ worth of au bricks on his desk. he wouldn't take daily pics of it an' post on arsebook. given as he has a brain.
asciilifeform: 'normalized' idjicy is still idiotic.
mats: sure, i buy that
asciilifeform: for instance i find it hilarious that folx in usa who own 5figs$ worth of e.g. rifles, and see nightmares at night re usg confiscators, still cannot resist to post detailed jpegs of same, erry other day
asciilifeform: ( often enuff w/ exif etc )
asciilifeform: one'd naively assume, who the hell needs to know that you have a 'barrett'.
asciilifeform: yet idiot can't resist.
asciilifeform: then very surprised that local police bringing unpaid traffic ticket show up w/ rpg.
mats: maybe theres a qt you know who likes guns too
asciilifeform: or consider '13337 d00dz' who can't hold back to brag about their virii.
mats: when she comments you can invite her to a boba shop
asciilifeform: lol suure
mats: or a goat milk shop or whatever it is ukrainians are into
asciilifeform: vanity, imho, is sin.
asciilifeform: the kind that folx end up paying for.
mats: its my least favorite sin
asciilifeform: either pay for guards, walls, minefields; or be ready to pay w/ the goods that you flash like moron to the hungry & avaricious .
asciilifeform: there's 'over 9000' stories of e.g. usg defectors to su, who were nailed because after 20y could not resist to buy mercedes.
asciilifeform: 'how didja buy it on gs-13 wage?' '...'
asciilifeform finds it interesting, that so many folx would in fact rather 'flash' than live.
mats: i bought another air purifier today
mats: california #1
asciilifeform: oh hm mats i was under impression that you moved to northeast usa
mats: i lived there for a long time but im in socal now
mats: moved for the climate and now i have boogers every day
asciilifeform over the years turned down many californistan work offers, incl. 1 that was already signed by $co. simply -ev, for just about any realistic amt (for worker bees) of dough
asciilifeform: mats: i know a fella there, who recently described fire alarm going off in his house w/ tightly closed windows/doors.
asciilifeform: mats: i rec to evacuate before the 'lifetime california tax' thing is enacted.
asciilifeform: supposedly imminent.
mats: good thing i hide my wealth in bars of palladium
asciilifeform: it's interesting, ianal but i naively supposed 'californistan couldn't tax folx who live outside'. but if think about it, it's same thing usg does for escapees
asciilifeform: so there is precedent.
mats: you could domicile in south dakota as one of those rv transients
mats: deriving nontrivial cali income and hiding that would be hard though
mats: ah yes, nh, land of the free
asciilifeform: mats: i suspect he simply picked dark spot on population map, or the like
mats: kind of hard to live there as an asian man though
mats: but otherwise my kind of people
asciilifeform: ( worth noting, wherever the californistan inmates flee to en masse , will likely eventually turn into similar shithole )
asciilifeform: mats: in dc/bmore area, asia raises no attention, lotsa folx
mats: texans are complaining about ca refugees right now
mats: i drew unbelievable flak in the first quarter, from randos and in parking lots, after coming back to socal and wearing a mask everywhere -- picked up the habit in taipei shortly after coronapocalypse began
mats: apparently some public officials were telling people they didnt need them, reversed after a few weeks passed, what a mess
asciilifeform: was Official usg proclamation. 'save masks for Official medics, don't waste'
asciilifeform: then massive overproduction, and must sell, and suddenly 'mandatory'
mats: being an asian man in rural new england is like wearing a red hat in blue country
mats: asian women don't seem to have a problem though in my experience
asciilifeform: it occurs to asciilifeform that in fact he hasn't been to anywhere in usa >100km from an international airport. so not deeply familiar w/ such locales.
mats: nobody cares about asian american issues anyway
asciilifeform: for all i know, there are villages where you'll be tried for witchcraft for knowing heathen tongues etc
thimbronion: asciilifeform: I noticed a trend recently with younger hispanic girls - proudly esl. Spanish considered vulgar.
asciilifeform: thimbronion: iirc similar process took place in early 20th w/ italians in nyc etc
thimbronion: asciilifeform: it goes against the images I've seen of mexican flags at various rallies.
asciilifeform: ( iirc trinque noted that he descended from these, but family did not speak italian )
asciilifeform: thimbronion: maybe not same folx waving the flag as being 'proudly esl' ?
thimbronion: asciilifeform: likely the case
trinque: yep, there was a split. great-grandfather considered english a "guttural, boorish language" as relayed by his translator, because he refused to learn it.
trinque: his son taught none of his kids the language, and thus.
asciilifeform: trinque: funnily enuff this is exactly how asciilifeform saw (and sees) engl. lol
trinque: I buy it, lol
trinque: in college an asian ladyfriend told me we all sound like we're barking and hissing at each other.
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