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asciilifeform: i have nfi!
asciilifeform: (perhaps i am already in prison?)
asciilifeform: i enjoy taking day trips there
mircea_popescu: "I’m over six miles from the city line, among townhomes that go for 400K, walking through a park that is a slice of solitude during the day and a gauntlet at night; a park where I have seen two gangs parley in a formal manner as I pretended to be some homeless slob on the next bench, and where, this time last year, I saw a white stoner in his 20s trying to talk his girl into getting into a van full of black guys as she crie
asciilifeform: i almost want to build.
mircea_popescu: i thought honda made motorbikes.
asciilifeform: i forget which model exactly
ben_vulpes: mostly because i intend to own the thing for over a decade, and not drive it a whole lot.
ben_vulpes: i'll take the odd thousand dollar charge over a car lease.
asciilifeform: i personally have 1 arse
asciilifeform: interesting in that it refuted orwell's argument in re how folks renouncing their 'i'm a precious snowzflake!111 individual!' thing and dying with hounour have to buy into supernatural claptral
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i understand why you pick example of feudal battlefield, rather than red army, but the latter was actually the state of the art afaik.
asciilifeform: this is why i always had sympathy with the folks who pete_dushenski enjoys feeling superior to.
asciilifeform: at least in the mythical sense of 'i put value in and arbitrarily later i get at least this much out NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS'
asciilifeform: i suspect that 'sound money' is a fantasy
asciilifeform: i admit that i wonder if pete_dushenski's misconceptions came to him from his ancestors, for whom saving sorta worked.
mircea_popescu: i think on that we're all agreed
asciilifeform: well no shit, i will have no say in who eats the pork.
asciilifeform: i have capacity ! worth about 80 kg of pork.
mircea_popescu: part one. you said "i've never done 'honest work' in my whole life, phf." ; and "mircea_popescu has a spiffy article, about folks 'worth their weight in frozen pork'". this equivocates experience with capacity.
asciilifeform: i think i'ma get on my pig and fly around a bit ?
asciilifeform: 0l holy shit i just read a trilema where mircea_popescu agreed with me?!
asciilifeform: possibly i do not have sufficient lsd to properly do this thread..
asciilifeform: i don't even recall mentioning cunt.
asciilifeform: i am left to wonder, clearly mircea_popescu has a very high opinion of orc scum, why doesn't he recruit ~them~ to write his softs, run his companies, etc. ?
mircea_popescu: rather remarkable Caucasian ass. She is spreading her legs to get lower for him. When I pass again coming back from the cooler he has had the decency to push her up against the wall so that she is not exposed to passersby. After their ten minute tryst they shop for another 20 minutes and then leave hand-in-hand."
mircea_popescu: i guess we collectivelly just lost the past 5 minutes huh.
asciilifeform: well as i gather mircea_popescu's answer was 'you could start doing 17 yo work for shit wage' and i answer 'why the fuck should i a single day earlier than forced to.'
phf: the mentality here is "i'm fucking all kinds of scum, but at least it's not a black fella"
asciilifeform: obviously i will make passable pork when finally processed.
asciilifeform: count me as thick, i dun see the connection.
asciilifeform: i've never done 'honest work' in my whole life, phf .
phf: ok, ~now~ i'm grokking
phf: and the shop itself was how i imagine alf shop is, a small group of math/compsci grads doing peanut work under inhumane conditions
phf: the offer was so ridiculous, i couldn't even consider it. the woman in charge thought she was being generous!
phf: i once interviewed for an interesting problem shop, that was a upenn spinoff of some ph.d. thesis work, results could be immediately applied in oil refinery optimizations
asciilifeform: and there was also to be reversing, of juicy things, but turned out that (apparently) i could only be used for it if i agreed to usgrasty
phf: oh, i grok the "go pound pavement" reason now
mircea_popescu: i'd imagine it's the control structures / branching that's problematic
asciilifeform: phf: i was hired originally to (yes) calculate runtimes of gnarly algos
phf: (i mean, by name)
asciilifeform: my last move was even a switch of profession, i'm no longer a reverser. turned out not to be a smart idea.
mircea_popescu: "ha! joke's on him, i took them off first."
mircea_popescu: "didn't i tell you..."
mircea_popescu: "old guy came by told me he'd give me five if i climb up that tree"
mircea_popescu: "mommy, mommy, i made twenny dollars!"
mircea_popescu: "this old guy said he'd give me five dollars if i climb up in that tree!"
mircea_popescu: "mommy, mommy, i made five dollars!"
asciilifeform: i started out largely tele
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did precisely once, with my last employer. there was much gnashing of teeth, and ill feeling from the other slaves (there were only a handful of us, and no one was actually replaceable)
mircea_popescu: "i tried this in the past, was always told 'go, quit.'"
asciilifeform: i lost track
mircea_popescu: i just realised we need a backup for deedbot.
trinque: "I made this fucking mess, and fuck you I'm not helping you replace me, so let me telecommute"
trinque: was exactly what I was doing.
asciilifeform: then i've never seen 'non-shit' job and don't expect ever to.
asciilifeform: i dunno, what else.
asciilifeform: that i'm not 133337 enough ?
asciilifeform: trinque: i tried this in the past, was always told 'go, quit.'
trinque: asciilifeform: when I moved to portland I told my employer I would either telecommute or quit.
mircea_popescu: heh. i bet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun need living LIKE A NATIVE in ro for anything.
mircea_popescu: PeterL one place in ro, suburb of supposedly nice town, ran me $2200 per quarter, house on two levels (bout 4k sqft total iirc) + a spot of land, fully furnished. and i mean, natural leather couches and walnut furniture and whatnot.
asciilifeform: but i don't have any reason to prefer them to this africa.
asciilifeform: trinque: i was offered work in other africas (e.g., san francisco)
PeterL: <asciilifeform> 11:50 <+mircea_popescu> so what's rent like in the cheap suburbs next to umd ? << i pay ~2k (if you count electric, gas, etc) for <1k sq ft. << my new house is ~1k for 2k sq ft (plus 1k basement, could be used as workshop)
mircea_popescu: you can read. and you can read in such a way as to GUARANTEEDLY never end up in "i dunno man"
asciilifeform: i have nfi what they do with useless people in american prison
asciilifeform: why does mircea_popescu think i could be an ~average~ dope man, much less a heroic one.
asciilifeform: anyway i don't touch things where i have no leverage.
mircea_popescu: generally it's the very simple "well... here i am".
asciilifeform: l0l 'hi i'm totally not a usg stooge though i have no street experience'
asciilifeform: i tried to get work there, and failed.
mircea_popescu: i saw the cunts, still same shade of pink.
asciilifeform: i will start black gang after mircea_popescu does and i study his.
mircea_popescu: if i can talk to anglos, you can talk to niggers.
phf: i have burner friends with workshops that you literally drive into a fenced off area with barbed wire on top, go inside a heavily reinforced building and work with your 50k equipment in peace
asciilifeform: which i don't.
asciilifeform: phf: if i had a NON-COMMUTE income
mircea_popescu: I THOUGHT YOU DIDN'T LIKE ROACHES YO!
asciilifeform: phf: i used to dream of escaping to it.
phf: i have friends with workshops in baltimore city, maybe an hour drive from where i am
phf: asciilifeform: within 3 hours drive? c'mon. i can find you a workshop within 3 hours drive for less than 500 a month
phf: we've had that conversation before i believe
asciilifeform: i have a motherfucking workshop.
asciilifeform: if i wanted to live in a hotel, i would live in a hotel !
asciilifeform: srsly why would i want the motherfucking pressed shitboard rental furniture.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only books. i have nice desk that holds n displays, etc.
phf: not that i don't, but my burn rate is significantly higher than a random schmuck
mircea_popescu: i can't help but think it's a mental issue.
asciilifeform: because unlike americans, i have books.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have extremely nonstandard furniture
phf: mircea_popescu: hard to get furnished here, i price it out every time, and it's an extra 1k a month almost always
asciilifeform: the FUCK i need some derp's furniture for.
asciilifeform: aha, as i insist
asciilifeform: 11:50 <+mircea_popescu> so what's rent like in the cheap suburbs next to umd ? << i pay ~2k (if you count electric, gas, etc) for <1k sq ft.
asciilifeform: <+phf> i know nhi couple ... but there's literally nothing within 20 minute drive << my parents live in a place like this.
mircea_popescu: i thought it's for dormitory.
asciilifeform: i could not in a million years afford to live in the dc city walls.
asciilifeform: phf: i live in the 'cheap' suburbs next to umd.