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mircea_popescu: add to this the usual technological 15% (you'll need hallways too, right ?) and suddenly you're talking 1k sqm / 10`000 sqfeet as an absolute minimum. going all the way up to multiple acres of floorspace.
mircea_popescu: now let's add up : on the conservative side, you need 150 + 250 + 500 = 850 sqm ; on the expansive side you can call it 15`000 and be good.
mircea_popescu: 3. if you're the sort of man worth the mention in the first place, you also engage in some sort of activities. i am not speaking here of an "office" where to sit and engage in bureaucracy, because really, government-made men aren't ever worth the mention. but alf at the extreme could prolly soak up 10`000 sqm, so there is that. call it 500 and let it be.
mircea_popescu: 2. if you're the sort of man worth the mention in the first place, then you must have 2-4 of what's commonly named "wives", except without the annoying in permanent residence. this means they get a bedroom, and you also need a great bedroom to play with them in, which ideally should be separate from the hall, and they'll want 100 sqm of bathroom including complicated waterholes and whatnot. plus closets and various other hidi
mircea_popescu: 1. if you're the sort of man worth the mention in the first place, then you must be able to entertain twelve at the morning's notice. consequently you will need a "great" hall of at least 100 sqm, more like 150-200 where to seat them around a table, + a kitchen half that at least + 2-3 servants so another 50 in living space for them.
mircea_popescu: (pro tip : most adult females are most petrified of how their belly looks. ask around.)
mircea_popescu: lol nah, you don't stuff her vagina. have the terminals attached to labia, run wire to her belly or w/e. give her some of those running/yoga pants that come with pocket for ipod, except with a cunt cutout
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, fitting labia with card reader wouldn't be THAT hard to do. why isn't it done ?)
mircea_popescu: forget all the square, swipe, circle, whatever bullshit. snatch is where it's at! slide that thing in!
mircea_popescu: this is also true of women, but somehow they get excused from this.
mircea_popescu: the top 10 largest things any man encounters in his lifetime consists entirely of the opportunities he doesn't take.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes cognac, ie the first distilled spirit, is about half a millenium old by now.
mircea_popescu: (note that medieval beer has no hops, as a result doesn't keep, it's a lot closer to braga than what passes for beer today)
mircea_popescu: very likely correct. though some northern monasteries did brew beer.
mircea_popescu: except in the north where wine dun grow the poor drank beer.
mircea_popescu: basically, the whole medieval period lived on hobo wine. cheap, sweetened, etc. the exact thing, midnight thunder or w/e it's called.
mircea_popescu: depends, they drank all sorts of swill. including jerez port absynth whatnot.
mircea_popescu: especially if you define "drugs" as "what the people who think gay = only fucks men would think drugs are"
mircea_popescu: would you say a woman that also fucks plastic isn't heterosexual ?
mircea_popescu: well, the notion that gayness is incompatible with that IS very much a late 1800s thing.
mircea_popescu: historically gayness was mostly used for drug dealing in the first place.
mircea_popescu: the difference between the placid capon and the overactive to mask impotence capon is not substantial.
mircea_popescu: "and what have you learned in the city, billy bob ?" "oh ma, i have learned how to fail before i even try!"
mircea_popescu: not everyone's quite as castrated as "civilised" folk, you could say.
mircea_popescu: im sure zimbabweans from actual zimbabwe do even funnier shit
mircea_popescu: hasn't changed hands yet, but arguably the iraqis are edging into actual city.
mircea_popescu: "intelligent" plastic (ie, with electric bending cell infrastructure) would be pretty cool
mircea_popescu: the problem is material quality. they'd cost ~1mn, which is not what people wanna pay for cessna. they wanna pay 100k, and they do.
mircea_popescu: when i first got laid i had nobody there to show me how it's done so i made do as best i could.
mircea_popescu: at some point oil was carried by barrel. then by trainload. then piped.
mircea_popescu: that it doesn't happen all the time, or within a short enough interval doesn't change the fact that it's the one mode of industry.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suppose i missed all those steam pressure gauges in cars etc.
mircea_popescu: the way it works is, two chunks of hardware that have to be interfaced are briefly interfaced by biofilm, until a proper solution is put in place.
mircea_popescu: you don't handboil anymore ; there's magnetic stirrers specifically because of this skill being expensive. etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform name one such basic. "don't suck through your nose from reagent bottle" ?
mircea_popescu: note that the place where good training would have helped (concorde crashed into hotel ; smolensk lulz ; etc), the training though present didn't do anything, and nobody thought it proper to blame anyone for this.
mircea_popescu: there is a thin sliver of stuff your training is useful for ; but most accidents, including with planes, including with controlled flight into terrain, come from not having read the book.
mircea_popescu: would you want someone working on trb on the basis of having read the book or on the basis of having watched "the videos" ?