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07:31 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Aite, I'll add beach running to the routine.
07:38 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> what did the chix do to BingoBoingo !... when i saw him, was pure muscle, like wolf << Remember the Cheese Fascination that hit you here. Well, when I got fridge+kitchen curosity at the grocery store got the best of me. It turns out there are many different kinds of Dulce de Leche (the cremoso is bullshit)
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09:08 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-22#1843763 << i've not even checked this, because seems http://logs.minigame.biz/latest.log.html died on the 27th ?
09:08 a111 Logged on 2018-08-22 22:45 lobbes: psa: looks like my box that houses the archive-o-matic went offline on Friday. It back up and eating through backlog; www should update sometime in the next ~ 2 hours >> http://lobbesblog.com/queryarchive/view_domains.php
09:08 mircea_popescu !!seen lobbes
09:08 deedbot 2018/08/29 04:34:03 <lobbes> mod6: ack
09:09 mircea_popescu get back to me, will ye ? what happened here ?
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09:12 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: loads here
09:12 mircea_popescu does it load the log for today or the log for the 27th ?
09:13 asciilifeform aaaaa
09:13 asciilifeform nm
09:13 mircea_popescu right.
09:18 mircea_popescu and speaking of this, let's try an' resync with ben_vulpes also. after http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-02#1831355 and http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-25#1837688 haven't heard much. is this different from "i've found myself obscure rural church, much better republic for my needs than the genuine article" and if so, how ?
09:18 a111 Logged on 2018-07-02 18:05 ben_vulpes: lords and ladies, june pizarro statement will be late; my wife is experiencing an all-consuming major depression that will take all of my attention going forward. i am working with mod6 and asciilifeform to ensure continuity at pizarro.
09:18 a111 Logged on 2018-07-25 03:30 ben_vulpes: in unrelated http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656658 , ben_vulpes moving to texas to whip trinque's oarsmen, re-plumb engineroom, stand watch over gauges
09:18 mircea_popescu what are you working on, these days ? why do i have to ask this ? etc.
09:21 mircea_popescu an' finally, to be explicit rather than implicit : dear mats, while it's perfectly fine to be working with whichever lord you prefer to be working, if you don't enjoy working with me, but the place for that is in the respective castle.
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09:21 mircea_popescu if i end up negrating you because i have nfi what you're doing, it's not strictly "mp is a meanie head" ; it can very well also be "i'm fucking terrible at communicating my position, end up run over by heavy machinery".
09:22 mircea_popescu the overarching point being that neither #trilema nor tmsr is a sort of dilbert-larping-zone, here for the http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-29#1845588 "salaried zek" element to gather after hours, smoke, and predictably if circularly discuss how-stupid-everyone-but-us-is.
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09:22 a111 Logged on 2018-08-29 17:52 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-29#1845577 << usg.mortgage is a device for separating salaried zeks (engineers, law, etc) from their 'excess' fat. not for millenial pauper to borrow against... what, exactly. (maybe organs?)
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09:43 mircea_popescu (for the curious : there's also a dilbert-for-women, there to make usg.womanhood palatable in the sense dilbert makes usg.corporatelife palatable. i suspect it might be a lot better illustration of wtf's wrong with "impotent cvasi-opposition" for boys, as they're not similarily conditioned and so lacking the pivots might even understand the workings of THAT hidden hand)
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09:44 mircea_popescu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy
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10:32 lobbes http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845796 << plox to see log >> http://logs.bvulpes.com/eulora?d=2018-8-28#419866
10:32 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 13:09 mircea_popescu: get back to me, will ye ? what happened here ?
10:32 mimisbrunnr Logged on 2018-08-28 14:02 lobbes: update: logz back up (but not updating with new lines) >> http://logs.minigame.biz/
10:32 lobbes I am close (hopefully by end of this weekend) to finishing the genesis for the 'logbot-command-router' (see also #t log) After which I will be migrating the #eulora logotron residing on heathen Edis vps to Pizarro shared hosting
10:34 lobbes The reason I am migrating, is contained in this thread >> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-28#1845073
10:34 a111 Logged on 2018-08-28 00:57 lobbes: my vps on edis which housed my old znc has been mysteriously unreachable for 12 hours. Of course, cannot easily get in contact with them
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10:58 lobbes Summary of the above threads: Edis vps finally got back to me after ~16hrs downtime with lame excuse of "we had some issues we never communicated. We identified the issue tho. Sry for inconvenience". I said "fuck em'" and will be moving logs to pizarro once done with current $unrelated-item
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11:55 deedbot http://qntra.net/2018/08/path-to-intel-management-engine-jtag-discovered/ << Qntra - Path To Intel Management Engine JTAG Discovered
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12:44 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: http://qntra.net/2018/08/path-to-intel-management-engine-jtag-discovered/#comment-118071
12:45 BingoBoingo asciilifeform http://qntra.net/2018/08/path-to-intel-management-engine-jtag-discovered/#comment-118072
12:46 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845810 << fwiw i saw it in newspaper in '90s, thing never made any sense
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12:46 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 13:43 mircea_popescu: (for the curious : there's also a dilbert-for-women, there to make usg.womanhood palatable in the sense dilbert makes usg.corporatelife palatable. i suspect it might be a lot better illustration of wtf's wrong with "impotent cvasi-opposition" for boys, as they're not similarily conditioned and so lacking the pivots might even understand the workings of THAT hidden hand)
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13:24 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: the inane shit occupying my time instead of republican efforts is embarrassingly trivial, but since you ask: i'm moving to texas, and so now must wrap fence that was supposed to be a two-season relaxed affair by mid september; throw out a decade+ of crap that i shouldn't have been so lax as to let stick around in the first place, pack my whole existence into transpocubes, get it moved to the
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13:24 ben_vulpes new destination, clean + lease the illiquid asset, and then set up shop in the new area
13:26 ben_vulpes days are mostly wake -> grind out food credits -> grind out more holes in ground -> sink posts -> fabricate and erect cladding -> sleep, with the occasional beer
13:28 ben_vulpes tenative schedule is to have current domus released by end of october and new digs established ~same time.
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13:31 ben_vulpes i remain available and actively supporting mod6 and BingoBoingo when they need something from me on the pizarro front
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14:11 mircea_popescu lobbes well so wait, working log delayed until (close, hopefully) completing bot rewrite ?
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14:11 mircea_popescu this is a terrible arrangmeent, recall the onset of the (meanwhile, botched) pizarro wire/auction was a month ago, and waited for the same thing ?
14:16 hanbot meh. installing znc on piz's shared box was a breeze, but actually getting the thing to connect to irc turns out to be a royal pain in the ass.
14:16 mircea_popescu "<AlwaysHigh11> Ꮃⅰtһ оᥙr ІᖇᏟ ɑⅾ ѕᥱrⅴⅰⅽᥱ уo∪ саᥒ rеaϲһ a gⅼоbaⅼ audⅰᥱᥒϲᥱ ⲟf ᥱntrеⲣrеᥒе∪rѕ and fеntaᥒуⅼ ɑⅾⅾⅰctѕ witһ ᥱxtrɑοrdіnаrỿ еngaɡeⅿᥱnt rateѕⵑ httⲣs፡᜵／wⅰⅼlіɑmpіtсⲟⅽk．сοⅿ／" << meanwhile in dilbertism, the spamming moron club DIDN'T http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-14
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14:16 mircea_popescu #1841508 because "that's hard" right, and instead fucking about with unicode to destroy the usual imperial http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-27#1491698 approach.
14:16 a111 Logged on 2016-06-27 23:46 mircea_popescu: ethereum being "smart", it's not just mempool, but also cpupool. and the "soft fork" being essentially a "enumerate badness" attempt, you still gotta check and make sure tx isn't on the verboten list. which computation you do for free, because you believe in mit, socialism and buterin.
14:17 mircea_popescu because this is what the shit even exists FOR ; getting everyone to be a moron, only some with a positive and some with a negative inca outline is perfectly fine "getting everyone to be a moron" outcome, as far as inca's concerned.
14:18 mircea_popescu wut do ? wut do ? http://trilema.com/2017/the-practical-costs-of-hallucinated-freedom/ ; specifically : for as long as every moron thinks he can make his own decisions, ugs's the necessary end result.
14:19 Mocky http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-14#1841508 ^unclipped
14:19 a111 Logged on 2018-08-14 20:30 mircea_popescu: breifly back to phf 's discussion of r+ thing : i confess i mostly did it to encourage the "spammer" to put registration in. sadly... went instead the way of http://logs.minigame.biz/2018-08-13.log.html#t22:59:16
14:19 mircea_popescu hm ?
14:20 mircea_popescu ah ah
14:20 mircea_popescu ty!
14:20 Mocky np
14:21 hanbot and by "getting the thing to connect to irc" above i ofc mean to connect to freenode.
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14:21 mircea_popescu hanbot i've yet to meet someone who had to connect to freenode and liked it.
14:22 hanbot heh
14:22 Mocky hanbot, i
14:22 mircea_popescu me jane ?
14:22 Mocky ve been thinking of setting up bouncer sincy my connection's been so iffy past week
14:24 mircea_popescu anyway, the odds are getting pretty good the "spammer"'s actually our good friends at http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-26#1844799
14:24 a111 Logged on 2018-08-26 16:43 mircea_popescu: https://softserve.8ch.net/static/stim/c6feb79297b74e138bead1118e8afd13.png << meanwhile in lulz.
14:24 mircea_popescu because really, who besides usg tryna fuck up irc has any interest in collecting emails to use it ?
14:24 hanbot Mocky naturally if/when i figure the shit out i'll make a blogpost
14:25 mircea_popescu precisely in the vein of "the usual imperial approach", "get emails!!!!" is on some 3 ring binder at ft meade or something, by how fixated they are.
14:25 mircea_popescu WOOT! 29mn pop while i was bitching here! thanks god and Mocky 's bot!
14:26 hanbot congrats. ...bn?
14:26 Mocky grats on the tubers lol
14:26 hanbot oh nice.
14:26 mircea_popescu pretty sveet!
14:30 mircea_popescu they weigh... 310tons.
14:31 mircea_popescu and they're gonna make such a pile of gin...
14:32 lobbes http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845829 << -not- entire rewrite of auctionbot, but the smaller foundational item it will sit on >> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-25#1844391
14:32 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 18:11 mircea_popescu: lobbes well so wait, working log delayed until (close, hopefully) completing bot rewrite ?
14:32 a111 Logged on 2018-08-25 03:09 lobbes: in fact, was going to announce: I'm getting closer to finishing what will be a genesis for a 'logbot-command-router' in python that does the talking and listening with postgres (an older but relevant thread for context: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-29#1531123)
14:33 lobbes And really, I misspoke. Not completely $unrelated_item because I am going to use said item to also build the new #eulora logotron off of (existing logotron is fed from ZNC, which I'd like to remove from the equation entirely)
14:33 mircea_popescu ok, but the one missing item is the eta.
14:33 lobbes Still, I see what you mean. Was dumb of me to leave the 'legacy' logs dead in the water while folx wait for 'new and improved' logs. I'll work to get the legacy logs back to updating tonight.
14:33 mircea_popescu that'd be nice.
14:34 lobbes And if tonight doesnt happen for whatevereason, I'll give proper eta
14:35 mircea_popescu alright. there's nothing wrong with "well... item i was working to rewrite for the past x weeks and was going to have done in 1-3 more weeks decided to critically crap out today ; my choice is either to be down for the remainder 1-3 weeks or else to duplicate/waste an estimate of y hours of work to get the old shiot back up hopefully by z. god damn."
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14:35 mircea_popescu in fact, there's everything right with it : both communicates reality and provides hooks for the rest to help.
14:37 mircea_popescu (i suspect, incidentally, that the above template is the #1 bane of republican effort in the years to come, chiefly because the #1 impedance mismatch we encounter is between uptime and rewrite, a manifestation of the old design-reality diphoria.)
14:39 mircea_popescu dysphoria*
14:40 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845822 << you weren't in the demo.
14:40 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 16:46 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845810 << fwiw i saw it in newspaper in '90s, thing never made any sense
14:41 mircea_popescu kinda how the ideal failure mode of usg mind hooks goes : it's effectual for the intended target and meaningless for the rest. monsanto idealia.
14:44 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845827 << well... april's a long way past october, so there is that.
14:44 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 17:28 ben_vulpes: tenative schedule is to have current domus released by end of october and new digs established ~same time.
14:44 mircea_popescu but anyway, dun sound like much fun, i hope you're at least making some dough out of all this.
14:48 ben_vulpes a bit, yeah. i've also lived in the same libtard shithole for nigh on three decades at this point; far past time to meet the rest of america.
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14:48 * mircea_popescu is quite curious if this transparent trinque plan at starting a genuine fortress goes anywhere.
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14:50 ben_vulpes im also evaluating this claim that the lone star state is somehow not the same thin plastic veneer over zamac the rest of the country's made of. it at least has endogenous oil stores and the locals carry a reputation for being profit minded
14:51 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes my first experience of texas was waking up in a small town which was having a ceremony that morning
14:52 mircea_popescu whereby the mayor was awarding whatever cert to an 80yo lady who, while the diner where she was eating was being robbed at gunpoint,
14:52 mircea_popescu pulled out an immense colt from her old lady purse and blew the kid's head all over the store.
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14:52 ben_vulpes is this why you're always going on about san antonio?
14:53 mircea_popescu no, san antonio was next day.
14:53 mircea_popescu texas is surprisingly large for how large it is.
14:53 ben_vulpes pretty grade a story, am looking forward to meeting different americans
14:53 mircea_popescu san antonio was you know, proper champagne for breakfast on the riverwalk and things.
14:54 ben_vulpes north of california, west of the rockies the humanpaste is ~entirely undifferentiated, curious to see if this holds for louisiana, tx, fl.
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14:55 mircea_popescu meanwhile in valuable crossposts, http://logs.bvulpes.com/eulora?d=2018-8-30#420740
14:55 mimisbrunnr Logged on 2018-08-30 15:17 Mocky: as an aside, I discovered the rationale behind the need for CS threading library, and boost for that matter. i.e. that incoherent c++ memory model prevented reliable semantics for multi-threaded access beore c++11, so they rolled their own and in the process had to also roll compatible data structures
14:56 ben_vulpes and should it suck, well, i've at least snipped the girl's attachment to the easy comfortable lifestyle of the pacnw
14:57 mircea_popescu should it suck, you wanna try fortressing uruguay or hk/taiwan ?
14:59 BingoBoingo I hear good things about Santiago, Chile
15:00 ben_vulpes uruguay or sa most likely; while marseilles sounds lovely and i vastly prefer french to spanish it is unfortunately in france and so also the eu for the forseeable future. pretty fed up with not living near major airport hubs; access to surf also a criteria for expatquest
15:00 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo i believe there's costs to sending people alone, esp if the idea is they'll be forever alone. seems to me either strengthen outposts or start new ones ~very far away~. otherwise, you know what gerrimandering is ?
15:01 mircea_popescu we dun wanna gerrymander ourselves into oblivion.
15:03 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Ah, this is true
15:04 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes france is not nearly as much "in the eu" as you think, especially the occitan portion. morever, europe is tiny, vienna is a short drive away, the vienna of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-18#1842767 ; and then hungary and serbia and so on.
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15:04 a111 Logged on 2018-08-18 17:21 deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/08/austria-raided-rogue-intelligence-agency-in-february/ << Qntra - Austria Raided Rogue Intelligence Agency In February
15:04 mircea_popescu moreover, housing much better and much cheaper than anywhere in the world, local transportation that actually works (srsly, two digit airfare across the continent sorta deals).
15:04 mircea_popescu if you've never lived in yurp it's not really something to pass on.
15:05 ben_vulpes huh cool!
15:08 ben_vulpes i'd written europe off largely on the basis of 'natoreich', but if there are habitable holes i'd rather live in stone than plastic
15:08 mircea_popescu well, "short drive". 800 or so miles, which to me still counts as "one day drive". as opposed to say 2.2k miles portland-austin.
15:08 mircea_popescu anyway, airfare actualy starts at 99.
15:10 mircea_popescu but the deep reasdon europe is tiny is because there's ~no wilderness, everything's built up, you can walk from town to town in less than a day without exception (this is not coincidental, either, but deliberate, civilisational checkmark at a time before train was "from church to church in one day", and applied as such on us east coast for instance). there's roads everywhere, they're reasonably good (certainly better than neg
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15:10 mircea_popescu lected us infrastructure) and so on.
15:11 diana_coman except the Morandi bridge and possibly more of Italy from what I hear
15:11 mircea_popescu southern portions of italy were always dubiously in europe. but ye olde french, austrian an' german empires still work admirably well in this base sense.
15:12 diana_coman true
15:12 mircea_popescu whoa, it actually collapsed ?!
15:12 mircea_popescu jaysus.
15:13 diana_coman yes and ftr genoa is not even really southern
15:14 mircea_popescu ikr ? i... actually drove over that thing.
15:14 diana_coman I certainly went by car over it more than one time but years ago so...
15:15 mircea_popescu nuts. apparently it was a very shitty bridge, though i don't recall this being known/discussed at the time.
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15:15 mircea_popescu the time being 90s.
15:17 diana_coman well, in italy discussion of everything that is shitty will never end so...
15:17 diana_coman there was some museum exhibit along the lines of why is italy shaped like a boot? because so much shit would never fit in a shoe
15:19 trinque http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845884 << this is a beautiful anecdote
15:19 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 18:52 mircea_popescu: pulled out an immense colt from her old lady purse and blew the kid's head all over the store.
15:19 mircea_popescu diana_coman lmao! they have a point
15:19 trinque http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845880 << it may just end up an orbital refueling station, but that'd be fine by me
15:19 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 18:48 mircea_popescu is quite curious if this transparent trinque plan at starting a genuine fortress goes anywhere.
15:19 mircea_popescu trinque pretty sure i told it before ; but let me see if i can fish any texas stories from trilema.
15:20 trinque yep I recall it before in here
15:23 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2009/protectia-sociala-un-comportament-antisocial/#selection-47.0-47.32 << if only we had a de-pdf-er, i could link that supreme court of texas item.
15:25 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2010/povestea-soparlei/#selection-197.0-201.480 << original (2010) notation of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-30#1706588 story
15:25 a111 Logged on 2017-08-30 20:19 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to illustrate the "10`001" species, did i ever recount the time my toilet was clogged... by an aligator ?
15:25 mircea_popescu including a very wtf'd me at encountering gecko (which has no scales, but plain skin)
15:27 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2010/servicii-de-taximetrie/#selection-53.35-57.49 << me being very impressed with san antonio taxi service (i used to own a taxicab fleet, and im the curious and inquisitve fellow you all know and occasionally love, so it's not exactly amateur hour).
15:29 mircea_popescu aaand ye olde story of busride, http://trilema.com/2011/are-you-a-muslim/#selection-51.0-55.347 (though it says virginia, but im pretty sure it was actually southerner than that, retrospectively).
15:30 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2011/radio-vocea-americii/#selection-25.0-33.296 << back when texas made it illegal "to touch private parts of a person as a precondition to transportation or access in a public place". 138-0.
15:32 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2011/vindem-casa-fara-utilitati/#selection-51.0-51.121 << ancient map of houston, in article discussing how bucharest real estate idiots suck.
15:33 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2011/amintiri-din-texas-partea-cu-poze/ << literally, "remembrances of texas, the pictures section"
15:38 mircea_popescu and here's a special offering for the rotaku club president, one alf : http://trilema.com/2011/cea-mai-faina-chestie-la-romania/#selection-55.0-59.608
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15:39 * trinque will have going through these in just a bit, gotta afk for a while
15:39 trinque *fun
15:43 mircea_popescu (o and btw, that trilema header of a very young me lounging in a white suit on a bench outdoors, is very much on san antonio riverwalk, cca 2005)
15:44 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2010/dau-o-suta-de-lei/ << lulzy check where ro kids couldn't guess the identity of a folgers' coffee can
15:45 ben_vulpes all of the pics redirect to random trilemaz
15:45 mircea_popescu and that'd be it for now.
15:45 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes if you click them ? yeah, at the time trilema had a "premium" feature, you had to pay to get full size pics
15:45 mircea_popescu quit doing it but never bothered to undo the old ones...
15:46 mircea_popescu i suppose i shoulf fix this huh!
15:46 mircea_popescu brb.
15:47 ben_vulpes i recall this
15:50 ben_vulpes is associated in my head with a post i recall as "river of sluts", which i'm sure has an actual title.
16:02 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes try now ?
16:02 mircea_popescu lol river of sluts.
16:03 mircea_popescu hey nicoleci here's something for your burning interest re "ye olde pr0n days", courtesy of the fellow engineers in #trilema, cuz if he'd never have asked i'd prolly never have released them : http://trilema.com/2011/nsfw-gradina-edenului/
16:03 ben_vulpes works now
16:03 mircea_popescu and ftr they're not sluts, they're just normal adolescent girls. FROM EUROPE
16:04 mircea_popescu which is a nice place for a good reason. this being the reason.
16:05 ben_vulpes ah teh barge
16:06 mircea_popescu meanwhile in reminescences, http://trilema.com/paid-content/2012/timisoara-si-zapada-1.jpg http://trilema.com/paid-content/2012/timisoara-si-zapada-13.jpg HOLYSHIT SNOW
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16:07 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2012/fotodocument-ninsoarea-continua/ << sauce.
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16:07 lobbes http://trilema.com/2010/dau-o-suta-de-lei/ << "Lowell, Mass, 2005" still weird to think that mp was at one point ~1.5hrs away from 17 y/o lobbes (who, at the time, was probably busy picking nose and "making flash websites"). Ah wasted youth
16:08 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/paid-content/2010/graffiti_cr1.jpg << and from back when i was gay...
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16:08 mircea_popescu lobbes nuts huh!
16:09 mircea_popescu but, in fairness, mp of 15 years ago was also somewhat different beast.
16:11 mircea_popescu and an item speshul for mocky's recent : http://trilema.com/2011/va-plac-masinile/#selection-61.59-61.68
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16:38 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2009/politica-pe-inteles/ << and the final bit in this lengthy enumeration, 2009 piece on politics saying... ~same things. except "Pana cand internetul va ajunge la nivelul de dezvoltare tehnologica care sa permita in sfarsit renuntarea definitiva la sistemul reprezentativ, " (aka, "until the internet will reach the level of development that'll allow the permanent dropping of the representative system") mea
16:38 mircea_popescu nwhile covered by http://trilema.com/2018/how-things-have-changed/
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17:36 Mocky mircea_popescu, was there an ro trilema piece about games of either balance or catch? iirc i couldn't make heads or tail of the auto translation some months ago
17:37 ben_vulpes Mocky: "reach and balance"?
17:37 ben_vulpes "fucking, a guide"
~ 38 minutes ~
18:16 mircea_popescu haha, yeah.
18:16 mircea_popescu apparently, one of the more famous pieces.
~ 43 minutes ~
19:00 diana_coman none of the links on bimbo.club work for me -> I can't leave a comment
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19:10 mircea_popescu sounds like she fixed it alright
~ 41 minutes ~
19:52 * asciilifeform back from sea , to console
19:53 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845824 << this is puzzling, why build fence around ~old~ house
19:53 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 17:24 ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: the inane shit occupying my time instead of republican efforts is embarrassingly trivial, but since you ask: i'm moving to texas, and so now must wrap fence that was supposed to be a two-season relaxed affair by mid september; throw out a decade+ of crap that i shouldn't have been so lax as to let stick around in the first place, pack my whole existence into transpocubes, get it moved to the
19:54 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845832 << gotta luvvv how uniturd gives , what , 17 different glyph-~identical 'letter a', simply so that this can exist
19:54 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 18:16 mircea_popescu: "<AlwaysHigh11> Ꮃⅰtһ оᥙr ІᖇᏟ ɑⅾ ѕᥱrⅴⅰⅽᥱ уo∪ саᥒ rеaϲһ a gⅼоbaⅼ audⅰᥱᥒϲᥱ ⲟf ᥱntrеⲣrеᥒе∪rѕ and fеntaᥒуⅼ ɑⅾⅾⅰctѕ witһ ᥱxtrɑοrdіnаrỿ еngaɡeⅿᥱnt rateѕⵑ httⲣs፡᜵／wⅰⅼlіɑmpіtсⲟⅽk．сοⅿ／" << meanwhile in dilbertism, the spamming moron club DIDN'T http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-14
19:55 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845843 << iirc 100% of the remaining fleanode boxen insist on the ssl liquishit
19:55 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 18:21 hanbot: and by "getting the thing to connect to irc" above i ofc mean to connect to freenode.
19:58 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845869 << i solved this by biting the bullet and actually baking a desk clone of phuctor
19:58 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 18:35 mircea_popescu: alright. there's nothing wrong with "well... item i was working to rewrite for the past x weeks and was going to have done in 1-3 more weeks decided to critically crap out today ; my choice is either to be down for the remainder 1-3 weeks or else to duplicate/waste an estimate of y hours of work to get the old shiot back up hopefully by z. god damn."
19:58 asciilifeform 'staging box' for newstuff
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19:58 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845879 << somehow i thought ben_vulpes was originally from nyc..?
19:58 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 18:48 ben_vulpes: a bit, yeah. i've also lived in the same libtard shithole for nigh on three decades at this point; far past time to meet the rest of america.
20:01 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845908 << belarusia still has the primeval forest -- a+++ partizan terrain
20:01 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 19:10 mircea_popescu: but the deep reasdon europe is tiny is because there's ~no wilderness, everything's built up, you can walk from town to town in less than a day without exception (this is not coincidental, either, but deliberate, civilisational checkmark at a time before train was "from church to church in one day", and applied as such on us east coast for instance). there's roads everywhere, they're reasonably good (certainly better than neg
20:01 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845918 << догоним и перегоним америку (tm)(r)
20:01 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 19:15 mircea_popescu: nuts. apparently it was a very shitty bridge, though i don't recall this being known/discussed at the time.
20:02 trinque http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845890 << florida is a shithole born of the dreams of new england mediocre, and populated by the offspring of bartenders and strippers.
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20:02 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 18:54 ben_vulpes: north of california, west of the rockies the humanpaste is ~entirely undifferentiated, curious to see if this holds for louisiana, tx, fl.
20:03 trinque "nawlens" might be worth a peek, pockets of authentic weird still lurking about.
20:03 asciilifeform trinque: i thought it had drowned?
20:04 trinque eh they're used to it
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20:08 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845958 << oh hah the mega-plaza. they repainted the old habsburg houses there, btw, not long ago, just as i was there
20:08 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 20:06 mircea_popescu: meanwhile in reminescences, http://trilema.com/paid-content/2012/timisoara-si-zapada-1.jpg http://trilema.com/paid-content/2012/timisoara-si-zapada-13.jpg HOLYSHIT SNOW
20:08 asciilifeform they're a bright blue nao
20:18 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845938 << this supposed untranslatability of ro, is illusory imho, translates just fine to ru and prolly other civilized tongues
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20:18 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 19:38 mircea_popescu: and here's a special offering for the rotaku club president, one alf : http://trilema.com/2011/cea-mai-faina-chestie-la-romania/#selection-55.0-59.608
20:20 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845959 << funnily enuff, i think i recognize all of the backgrounds..
20:20 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 20:07 mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/fotodocument-ninsoarea-continua/ << sauce.
~ 18 minutes ~
20:38 asciilifeform http://logs.bvulpes.com/eulora?d=2018-8-30#420850 << afaik ~nobody any moar has the jre horror, not even the saddest crapple folx, ~entirely abolished
20:38 mimisbrunnr Logged on 2018-08-30 18:24 mircea_popescu: that even runs in most browsers, does it ? .jre thing ?
~ 24 minutes ~
21:03 lobbes http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-31#1845990 << this is possibly the most fitting description of that state I've ever read.
21:03 a111 Logged on 2018-08-31 00:02 trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845890 << florida is a shithole born of the dreams of new england mediocre, and populated by the offspring of bartenders and strippers.
~ 29 minutes ~
21:33 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845983 <<< kinda how minigame ended up with 2nd box
21:33 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 23:58 asciilifeform: 'staging box' for newstuff
21:34 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-31#1845994 << lol, drowned like the gypsy starved.
21:34 a111 Logged on 2018-08-31 00:04 trinque: eh they're used to it
21:34 mircea_popescu not fatal.
~ 49 minutes ~
22:23 ben_vulpes trinque: hey i like finding shitty bars in shitty neighborhoods and talking up the locals; don't want to live there
22:25 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: i would like to pen the pets, this isn't quite the free-range wild wild west where i can brand them and expect them back later in the week
22:25 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845900 << imho serb outpost would rock
22:25 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 19:04 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes france is not nearly as much "in the eu" as you think, especially the occitan portion. morever, europe is tiny, vienna is a short drive away, the vienna of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-18#1842767 ; and then hungary and serbia and so on.
22:26 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes pen wut ?!
22:26 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: iirc he keeps dogs
22:26 ben_vulpes children too
22:26 asciilifeform the kind with legs
22:26 ben_vulpes well one
22:26 mircea_popescu my confusion persists.
22:27 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu hails from lands where the children roam free, are eventually returned to their parents, right?
22:27 mircea_popescu oh oh, i see, someone's gonna TAKE them.
22:28 ben_vulpes aha, "child protective services"
22:28 mircea_popescu the notion that anyone'd want someone else's kids is not unlike the notion someone'd want someone else's mortgage, used tp, etc.
22:28 mircea_popescu not bloody likely.
22:28 asciilifeform iirc they have this 'feature' in all 50 states
22:28 asciilifeform even texas.
22:29 mircea_popescu asciilifeform afaik in texas it's "except if kid has red ryder"
22:29 ben_vulpes oh no, this is a statal bezzle where the local cps takes "at risk" children and sells them to "foster care". statal human trafficking ring.
22:29 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: not humans. usg stormtroopers. take, and feed to.
22:29 asciilifeform well, i'll let ben_vulpes describe, to what.
22:29 mircea_popescu asciilifeform state, not federal.
22:30 asciilifeform big diff?
22:30 mircea_popescu well yes.
22:30 asciilifeform fed funding.
22:30 mircea_popescu omfg bimbo can voice self ?!
22:30 ben_vulpes i also happen to enjoy my privacy.
22:30 ben_vulpes it speaks!
22:31 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: q was why build fence at ~old~ house. or did i misread
22:31 mircea_popescu how do you like the republican corporate environment, ho ?
22:32 nicoleci http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845972, i had to because im sorry - i must have broken something. went back to the previous version..
22:32 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 23:00 diana_coman: none of the links on bimbo.club work for me -> I can't leave a comment
22:32 lobbesbot nicoleci: Sent 3 days, 22 hours, and 1 minute ago: <BingoBoingo> http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/8O0EO/?raw=true << Your wordpress login
22:32 nicoleci ah sorry, you can try now
22:34 nicoleci mircea_popescu, its been another adventure :)
22:34 asciilifeform oh hey is this the accountant chix
22:34 mircea_popescu lol check her out, all like upbeat and shit.
22:34 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: ah ah, well i started on the fence *first* and then i decided to move.
22:35 nicoleci asciilifeform, not exactly but sure lol
22:35 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: why not let new owner build it, lol
22:35 mircea_popescu nicoleci i thought you were a pisicologist.
22:35 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: not selling, leasing on, incomplete upgrades are a pretty serious ding in negotiation.
22:36 mircea_popescu wait, you actually own it ?!
22:36 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: hire mexican to finish it ?
22:36 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i don't think he can find a cheaper mexican than ben_vulpes
22:36 asciilifeform lol
22:37 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: has it
22:37 mircea_popescu aren't taxes a wonderful thing.
22:38 * mircea_popescu warmly recommends slave labour, but i guess ben_vulpes stronghold not quite there yet
22:39 nicoleci mircea_popescu, well yes Master but you introduced me to the field...lol
22:40 mircea_popescu wait, which field ?! accountancy ?
22:40 nicoleci mircea_popescu, <mircea_popescu> nicoleci i thought you were a pisicologist.
22:40 mircea_popescu lmao
22:41 ben_vulpes wives are chattel property!
22:41 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-31#1845998 << sure, but this relies on the myth anyone speaks ru.
22:41 a111 Logged on 2018-08-31 00:18 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845938 << this supposed untranslatability of ro, is illusory imho, translates just fine to ru and prolly other civilized tongues
22:42 ben_vulpes girl in question has been admirably sinking holes, casting posts, hanging cladding.
22:42 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: coupla folx do speak, lol
22:42 mircea_popescu :p
22:43 ben_vulpes ooh ooh; pisicologist ~='cuntologist'?
22:43 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes yes but the idea is to have one in latex supervising 2-3 in the buff!
22:43 asciilifeform neh that'd be pizdo-
22:43 asciilifeform pisica -- cat
22:43 asciilifeform the kind with 4 leg
22:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform it's a wordplay on pisi (which, http://trilema.com/2014/the-romanian-language-for-other-people/#selection-39.0-41.1 etc, ro word for pleasant young whore) and psycho.
22:44 asciilifeform or, mircea_popescu , also incl with 2 ?
22:44 asciilifeform aaa
22:45 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2016/pisi-dot-ar-y-otras-temas/ prolly better refpoint.
22:47 asciilifeform lol that thing!
22:48 mats http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845806 i don't have an issue working with anybody in here
22:48 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 13:21 mircea_popescu: an' finally, to be explicit rather than implicit : dear mats, while it's perfectly fine to be working with whichever lord you prefer to be working, if you don't enjoy working with me, but the place for that is in the respective castle.
~ 27 minutes ~
23:15 ben_vulpes http://mycadia.com/ << "synthetic brands to sell synthetic food to synthetic people"
~ 28 minutes ~
23:44 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2011/are-you-a-muslim/#comment-49071 << this i totally gotta resurect. "In the quaint words of the virgin Mari, 'Ÿ can not begÿn to ÿllustrate the ÿmmensÿti of the fuck Ÿ do not gÿve.' "
23:50 Mocky http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-30#1845961 >> those glasses though!
23:50 a111 Logged on 2018-08-30 20:08 mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/paid-content/2010/graffiti_cr1.jpg << and from back when i was gay...
23:50 mircea_popescu ikr ?
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