asciilifeform: ( for comparison: sovok electrolytics still goin' strong worldwide. and prolly will for next century. )

asciilifeform: this is why if one runs vintage gear, really must have basic kindergarten solder-fu, or have friends who do.

asciilifeform: good % of the electrolytics on the shelf even today, won't give anywhere like decade of life

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: not only that period. i have strong suspicion that 'capacitor plague' never trooly ended, or will ☟︎

asciilifeform: poster : 'come to estonia, where we legalized self-driving cars!'

asciilifeform: 1, in restaurant, bragged : 'i set up the 'peace corps' english teaching corner in tbilisi'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there's prolly a snakepit fulla these folx somewhere in montevideo

asciilifeform: poster : 'estonia spent 2.6% of gdp on war materiel; 0.6 higher than nato's mandatory min!'

asciilifeform: ( likbez : the 'sprat men' had highest standard of living in entire sovok. today -- lowest in eureich, 50-60% of male population cleaning toilets in berlin, london ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: book case fulla 'atrocities of communism' etc

asciilifeform: in estonian embassy : old ameri-d00d was bragging to ambassador, 'i was the first sent to set up cia station in your capital !'

asciilifeform: 'we lobby against tobacco'

asciilifeform: 'got job at xyz policymaking(tm)(r) institute! it's great, went to vietnam last month and next month to...'

asciilifeform: the chatter of the 'precious cuntlets' at the expo was 'interesting' -- 'which law school are you at?' '..something..' 'ugh! i hear it's fulla republicans!' etc ☟︎

asciilifeform believes

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: or about 1.5 new york subway cars. ☟︎

asciilifeform: i think mp's shed in ro was bigger.

asciilifeform: 320 sq. m. indoors tho.

asciilifeform: 'for sale : 3 bricks from a conquistador fort that burned down in 1500s. 200k usd.' etc

asciilifeform: it's exactly reminiscent of mircea_popescu's argentines

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i still dunget why interesting, they cost ~= as in ameristan

asciilifeform: *greece -- passed out cups of rotgut.

asciilifeform: the ro people have 1 thing tho : the afaik single biggest shortwave antenna in the whole city. ( pictured e.g. here )

asciilifeform stopped by another 'embassy expo', this time europistan. estonia pitched its 'startup incubator' scamolas. latvia had a d00d on a podium bragging about 'russian stooges cannot steal ~our~ election, won't even try any moar, we can see right through their lies, dunno why usa couldnt' etc . romania handed out samples of cheese, which tasted like cardboard, i did not taste anything in actual romania that resembled this rubbish. gre

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-11#1912525 << burning yer benjies in fireplace, is also better investment than reich 'real estate'. observe that no one ever ended up in debt slavery from burning in fireplace. ☝︎

asciilifeform: i wouldn't bother 'recapping' a 100bux konsoomer board, typically ☟︎

asciilifeform: usually not worth unless you have ~particular~ mobo that you like and limited spares

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-11#1912516 << there's used mobos and then there's used mobos. e.g. '99-07 -- the infamous 'capacitor plague', if you get from this period, expect to do some restoration work . ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform bbl:meat

asciilifeform: which nowadays is uncommon.

asciilifeform: rright but without gram of extra weight.

asciilifeform: prolly when they see mp_en_viaje they think 'he pumps, somewhere else'

asciilifeform: i have nfi whether this is how 'pumpers' think (possibly word 'think' isn't even applicable) but can't say it is impossible either

asciilifeform: in ameristan btw the exercise gear all has fittings for pnoje, and all eyes firmly glued to the respective little screen

asciilifeform: lol what did they expect mp_en_viaje to do.. stand and clap ??

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: which doods, why offended ..?

asciilifeform: aha, i thought this was re the public sort, where you buy a ticket an' pump etc

asciilifeform: erry single public gym i've ever been to, had glass

asciilifeform: i always thought it were so that 'pumpers' could show off their muscle to pedestrians

asciilifeform: davis? eh, five cent 'saint', his 'martyrdom' far too quick.

asciilifeform: there is of course also http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-23#1438809 . ☝︎

asciilifeform: !#s angle grinder man

asciilifeform: ( it is rather impractical to take normal auto to washington, to park it there costs such that it is cheaper to go to town in limousine and back )

asciilifeform: hence why was even in a cab

asciilifeform: the axe left in trunk of normal auto , lol

asciilifeform: i wish could even buy lcd like this for lappy.

asciilifeform: was pretty solid, would have needed axe, i suspect

asciilifeform: i wish i were making this up.

asciilifeform: spin the goat!

asciilifeform: ding! ding! play spamcasino!!111

asciilifeform: well 'thought out', in a sense.

asciilifeform: nor unplugging, it had battery thing

asciilifeform: wonder of wonders, the power button did 0

asciilifeform: draped coat over it. but what if had no coat!

asciilifeform: i then swore off the lulzscamcab thing for good

asciilifeform: driver swore 'need it to make ends meet'

asciilifeform: and not even supplied by 'uber' , was own thing

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: on my last 'uberism' there was 'last straw that broke the camel', was a screen bolted to the seats showing ad liquishit ~with sound effects!~, ding! ding! , could not be switched off

asciilifeform: but i confess, dun follow subj actively in realtime

asciilifeform: iirc there were special-purpose ones that e.g. BingoBoingo used, to some effect

asciilifeform: there's prolly 'app' that will promise to remove warts also for them.

asciilifeform: if they broke it, their own problem neh.

asciilifeform: at any rate the trad mechanism for the sad orc chix was supposed to be http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-12#1871537 ☝︎

asciilifeform: nowhere, why does 'horseface' think she earns a moneyed cock.

asciilifeform: y'mean moneyed cock?

asciilifeform: it's hilarious, take just 1 ride on the thing and then week later snailmail spamola re 'dontcha wanna buy a new merc at 5% + penalties' etc

asciilifeform: i suppose in orcistans they dun sell'em the merc on credit, so perhaps 'works'

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: i.e. 'this fella has a working auto, he must be worth sumthing' ?

asciilifeform tried it a coupla times for lulz, but has limited patience for 'nao walk 3km east to find the cab' 'oops it moved'

asciilifeform: nigeria etc

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: over here, 100% of uberists are old african emigre doods

asciilifeform: ( 'legal' themed pantsuitism )

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: possibly yer thinking of lessig et al

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-11#1912396 << at the core, it's a scheme to get derps to buy new cars, on ruinous credit. the 'cabbies' paid out of 'investor' printolade, but i suspect the car vendors pay kickback to the orig scammer, and 1 day will be found precisely how ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( via the mechanism described by mp_en_viaje upstack. )

asciilifeform: went fullbore tard tho iirc. years ago.

asciilifeform: volokh >> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-29#1760122 ☝︎

asciilifeform brb:meat

asciilifeform: 'just one gulp'

asciilifeform: ^ see also.

asciilifeform: !#s spittoon

asciilifeform: it's somewhat like tryin' to recall a particular cockroach

asciilifeform: there's a mass of these, i dun recall a particular

asciilifeform: iirc mp_en_viaje had another piece, where 'went to dentist? why then fight with the anaesthesiologist' etc

asciilifeform: aa!

asciilifeform still 'bites elbows' re having missed the period when lispm were being pawned off 'for gold reclamation', for pennies

asciilifeform: let'em think they are being rid of junk. wouldja argue with an idjit who is selling rembrandt as wallpaper.

asciilifeform: the ones selling the irons?!!

asciilifeform: ahahahaha

asciilifeform: 'кто сказал что бесполезно / биться головой о стену? / хлоп на лоб глаза полезли / лоб становится кременным' (tm)(r)

asciilifeform goes back to own head bang wall, which is slowly yielding

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: try an' make it clear, 'no payment processors' etc

asciilifeform: ( iirc at one time he linked to my www... why, i never found out )

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: see if you can find what remains of the subj d00d, write to'im.

asciilifeform: and will simply go to another usg.hoster

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i would have said 'god's gift to piz' -- but seems like 100% of the afflicted idjits haven't half the brain of a fucking toad

asciilifeform: eminescu ?

asciilifeform: most of what's offered in usa, is like this.

asciilifeform: spyked: aah so it's one of ~those~ , 'x mb/s if neighbours are asleep'