asciilifeform: at one point i wanted to rent one of his houses, but learned that every single garage is in use !
asciilifeform: i know a d00d who reassembles '50s 'golden age of usa' autos. has machine shop, and even multiple houses , which he rents out except for garage, in each - keeps 1-3 of these museum pieces
asciilifeform: of being stuck in roads, parking lots
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: classic 'gentooist' mistake in thinking: to forget to factor in the costs, not insignificant, of garage space, of time spent dealing with the finicky rusty bucket
asciilifeform: but yes, unlike you rich folx, all of my rusty anchors have to fit in small space.
asciilifeform: problem is that i dun actually ~like~ 'car ricing'. auto is best when it is forgotten about every day except when there is no way to escape driving somewhere, best when it 'stfus', like one's appendix.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: it is not enough to buy a lemon, i should also travel to some shithole to do it?!
asciilifeform: ' I recently bought a fountain pen. it cost the equivalent of about 1500 throw-away ball pens. 1500 ball pens would have made me very frustrated, but this sleek, elegant pen made me happy.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'd actually rather have a trabant, if they could be had, at least they were cheap, than these monstrosities that drink petrol like airplane and die without warning in traffic
asciilifeform: eh ben_vulpes is not a civilian, he gentoos his autos
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: a 2000s auto is a lemon after 5-7 yrs.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo compulsively collects 'lemons' or wat.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: when mine rusts away, i might not even replace it, 20k usd buys a great many cab rides. probably more than i'd need in the 5yrs that a 20k-usd machine costs now.
asciilifeform: very much cheaper, esp. since cost of breeder, properly accounted, includes obliteration of usg AND petrolizards
asciilifeform: Framedragger: correct. it is possible to carry on fission with < ~100 yr.-halflife exhaust. But It Would Be Wrong (tm) (r) because ohnoez, 'reactor indistinguishable from weapons cycle' and ohnoez nonpetropowered world.
asciilifeform: (for n00bz/readers -- long-lived nuke waste is ~optional~)
asciilifeform: ahahahahaha the 'we'll pretend breeder reactor never happened so to prop up petroworld' folx.
asciilifeform: nobody afaik tries to play table tennis by tying racket to his cock, but for some odd reason various folx walk around mathematicizing with the same undisciplined organ they hallucinate the self with
asciilifeform: how come nobody barfs from multiplications by 0 yielding same result no matter what is the multiplicand, but predicates being true under the null set -- different matter ??
asciilifeform: see, e.g., the cantor crackpot i linked in last week's l0gz. 'oh noez, infinities!11'
asciilifeform: one problem that purveyors of sad-schmuck 'maths' chronically suffer from is the expectation that a consistent model has to mesh with naive child's conception of 'N apples' arithmetic.☟︎
asciilifeform: the hilarious part is that the ~actual~ impetus for the funding was lizards who understood that eventually someone ~will~ find a way to gas'em; and as soon as it became clear that the antidote will not remove all sequelae from gassing, the funding -- evaporated.
asciilifeform: masks while enemy suffers in full body suit)
asciilifeform: 'professional ethics' in usg schmuckdom is a ball of lulz. for instance, when asciilifeform was slaving for usg, he worked in the chemical weapons program. which of course he could not have worked in, because nixon cancelled it, and asciilifeform was never 'security cleared' !!11111 but oh, apparently ~antidotes~ are not weapons! despite the obvious use for the type of antidote that was funded (eat it, release gas, then fight without
asciilifeform: is the point though. someone was to end up with it, and that someone would have been a socialist throne of whichever colour.
asciilifeform: as if anybody but the socialists could have paid for the bomb.
