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mp_en_viaje: mno, yurp has strong consumer groups etc. i suspect it'll be here for a while.
mp_en_viaje: i suspect it'll be perma-maintained in yurp, but nfi tbh.
asciilifeform: i dunno re bananistan, but in 'civilized' reich soon no moar 2g.
asciilifeform: i ended up digging through pile of these when looked for 'dumbphone with whitelist knob' coupla yrs ago
mp_en_viaje: sad, too, i'd have actually carried it as accessory.
asciilifeform: i'm speaking of the 'spend $$$/mo' people
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, well, i don't use the derpy smartphones
mp_en_viaje: i suppose this is even a trope
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: ugh, from direct experience I can tell you some find it very easy to spend 50hours/month calling - I knew girls who were literally ALL the time on the phone
mp_en_viaje: if average phone user has had phone for > decade -- i, for >2decade. yet...
mp_en_viaje: and i started WAY the fuck before ~everyone else.
mp_en_viaje: how the fuck can you spend 50 hrs/month calling is anyone's guess, i'm not sure i spent that long on the phone since i was born
mp_en_viaje: i suspect, specifically because these tards are so awkward, calling someone is "too much pressure".
mp_en_viaje: meanwhile i'm sitting in this cafe, the table next, 4 chicks, one overweight, cucky dood. the table further away, three chicks, one overweight, cuky dood. the bar, three doods, salivatinursing beers.
PeterL: <+asciilifeform> 0 in usa meet spec, unless i suppose you go to the mountains << I dunno about that, there are plenty of clean air parks around where I live
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i remember doing the math sometime, much to us-born chicks' shock and awe, came out that ANY US CITIZEN has ~50% chances to be hobo during lifetime.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i have nfi what is point, but ~100% of park benches in large ameri-urban have'em
mp_en_viaje: i don't think i've ever seen one...
asciilifeform: 0 in usa meet spec, unless i suppose you go to the mountains
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: as i understand ( from mp_en_viaje's chronicles no less ) they do. but usually in arabistan, where they somehow like fat
asciilifeform: PeterL: i suspect defensive mechanism. most of these folx, if went even to timis, would come home and eat their .45
PeterL: I have a co-worker, every year she goes to Vegas for a week (with her mother), buys some purses and eats junk food. I don't understand it.
mp_en_viaje: euro i mean. but whatever, it's not THAT bad.
mp_en_viaje: kinda what i hear from ~everybody.
PeterL: we did disney (everybody kept telling us the kids would live it!) I regret it, was not worth the price
mp_en_viaje: just saying, you know, what do people do for vacation. used to be "go to vegas", okay, i get it, high roller, picking up the casino cocksuckers cold and shit. fine, fine. most people now there, wasting their life a coin at a time on the dingdingmachines would be so much happier somewhere ~they never heard of~.
mp_en_viaje: pay money to wait in line, i could never understand those people.
PeterL: good point, I guess
mp_en_viaje: you'd want to break into my wine cellar and steal some bottles ~because i bought them~. specifically because, my cellar doesnt contain the contents of a crashed delivery van.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i don' t begrudge supermaerket brands their discretion. but if you're trying for the upscale colonials, you'd gotta be an idiot to put up this visibly intern-made list. only impression it produces is "the author has no fucking idea what he's talking about".
mp_en_viaje: and so scrolling to france : Henri Hutin 60% Brie is correctly indicated, though i'd never buy it, wtf hutin. meanwhile "Raclette" gimme a break. why not "cheese", be done with it.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: near as i can tell , ~nobody in north amer knows how to make edible soft cheese. hard -- some (at exorbitant price) yes
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, ah i see, after the fold. sure, "Parmigiano Reggiano", why not, if it's what it says it's what it says. though "pecorino reserva" for instance, says nothing to me.
mp_en_viaje: i can believe.
asciilifeform: how they do the import, i do not know to this day
asciilifeform: i haven't yet found online vendor, funnily enuff
mp_en_viaje: oddly i dun see it online.
asciilifeform: these here also. i grew up with the riga (i shit thee not, there is a gost standard, and they still bake to it..) variant tho
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i tend to buy the lithuanian variant.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i don't expect you'd find it most places, really. do they sell it in maryland ?
asciilifeform: for some reason they dun sell the riga sprat in ro, i cannot fathom why; but only weird german knockoff
PeterL: speaking of cheese, I have heard this local party store has a strangely amazing selection of cheese https://eastmanpartystore.com/gourmet/cheeses/
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: funnily enuff, when i was in ro bought sample of erry tin claiming to contain sprat. then brought home and sampled. not 1 compares to the gost standard riga item.
mp_en_viaje: "they had sprots, so i bought three dozen cans" incidentals way, way the fuck overwhelm any "well, i now have to buy flower ever slightly more often, nooblet also eats bread".
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, which is deeply fucking ridiculous, for one thing he's away from cheeseland anyway, and for the other cheeses transport. except the fresh stuff, of course-- i bought some urda you couldn't believe.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, ah, not field, i'm most comfortably setup here.
mp_en_viaje: sent a half dozen to neighbour, too (specifically because by now i know how to work the tolerances into the experimental data). poor woman nearly inhaled them. "omg so good". yes, duh, have some elbow-made mayo sometime, half the calories, twice the epicurean gainz.
mp_en_viaje had deviled eggs made yest. 16 eggs = 32 halves + 7 for mayo. in other words, whole fucking carton, plus lb of deli meat etc. all went within the day, but i care not -- next time, 45!
PeterL: we could rehash the convo where I say "you could move over here and get twice the floor for half the cost" and then you say "but muh fancy cheezes!"
mp_en_viaje: hey, i constantly end up with this problem, and my answer is always the same : get satellite dwelling, then get larger main, then end up getting satellite again, and so on.
asciilifeform: leaving aside the matter where asciilifeform's meat-training skill is approx on par with his mig pilotage skill -- mp_en_viaje would bust gut laffing if he knew how uniquely poor asciilifeform is set up for subj. e.g. as it is , i dun even have physical sq. metrage for a hypothetical #3 crew.
asciilifeform: when mp_en_viaje wrote that he trained these to do useful work, i believe. but it is a world-class feat, like kuklachev's famous housecat circus. i dunno that it's been replicated.
mp_en_viaje: i wouldn't bet.
BingoBoingo: Well, don't recruit in engineering. I never spec'd that. Go for nutrition, early childhood education, etc.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i can't speak for erry fortress of us.academitardia, but in mine, the ~only chix in the engineering hall were 'dark meat' in hijab
BingoBoingo: Now the short films in this case would NOT be porn, there's too much of that. I would instead be how to videos. Whatever homework alf has for chick, end product is bottomless instructional video.
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, i dunno, the institution has some very strict constraints. for one thing, it must be ~personal~, if there's not a master personally responsible for the individual dork, it's not kalfi, it's something else. and yes, they're supposed to sit around and eat lunch with you.
asciilifeform: PeterL: at one time (long before i found out about mp's uni ad flyers) i put up some ads there; guess what result ? ( buncha grad students begging to have their homework done , and offering such laffably small bakshish that it was not worth for asciilifeform to even turn key in car )
PeterL: where I work we get college student who are in chem-related fields to come and wash our glassware, we train them to do whatever menial tasks, they get tiny pay but it looks good on their resume
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, i thought the intern is more the ancient "candidate", ie, bureaucrat sticking around for no pay. like that celebrated schmuck "helping out" on wikipedia admin board, "because he thinks he's being useful". "until someone tells him to stop".
asciilifeform: hey if i knew how, would have full submarine crew by nao, lol
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, it is your own damned fault. i don't try to run a harem by myself, fuck my own ass.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: the flip side is that one can end up like asciilifeform , i.e. with dozen tonnes of ??? , from xray cabinet to that weird wrench one uses to swap water heater coils
mp_en_viaje: nope, but i guess it was silentsplit or something.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: did i visibly netsplit at your end ?
asciilifeform: woah i just got a coupla kB of above in <1s
mp_en_viaje: for eg, i bought last winter something like 50 kgs of extremely ripe mangoes for like 15 bux or so it was ?
PeterL: I have a couple apple trees in my back yard, maybe this year I will try making some cider (they are still kinda little, had only a handful of apples last year)
mp_en_viaje: don't let alf be the only one to take advantage of this whole "pay for xrays ? i'd rather buy the fucking xrayer" bounty we came to see.
PeterL: I'm in MI, yes (although I did just spend a week in florida last month)
BingoBoingo: I haven't seen him return.
PeterL: I know it is bad for me, I could quit anytime I wanted to
mp_en_viaje: i guess coca-cola will end up a manufacturer of "fine vermouth", and western union will be a sorta cvasi-bank.
asciilifeform: if 1 day they start broadcasting sumthing interesting, e.g. beheadings , i suppose i can run perl script on that sdr box and get 'tv' .
PeterL: I don't think you are suffering from missing them
asciilifeform: for all i know, they serve up penguin flippers nao
asciilifeform: PeterL: believe or not , i dun think i've seen a mcd ad since i stopped riding the trains erryday
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: as a matter of fact i did. how do you suppose i knew what beam cone to use, lol
asciilifeform: i expect we'll want to simulate it, before anyone thinks of baking.
mp_en_viaje: i guess so. aaanyways. maybe one day.
asciilifeform: but i was thinking moar along the lines of the simplest device that'd be of practical use, rather than 'futurisms'.
asciilifeform: ( i suspect mp_en_viaje knew this already, but even intel et al, 'cheat', when you buy a pentium-whatever with 'n cores', it really has 24 or whatnot, and only n working units , the others lasered out ) ☟︎
mp_en_viaje: if you could produce blanks that i can cut with a cd-writer into as much as few hundred cell "fpgas"...
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i dun presently know of an economical non-si substrate. was thinking strictly in the bounds of current commercial processes.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i was thinking you cut um. that's 2x.
asciilifeform: i.e. 450nm laser
asciilifeform: ( before you laff -- sovok in fact did bake fpga. i have a sample. but it was mid-80s state of art, i.e. metallization-programmed )
asciilifeform: i suspect if sovok had lived another 2-3 yrs, there's be ddr-baked examples of this in my parts box.
asciilifeform: i would've added row/column lines , to cut down propagation delay when you bake internal bus, but it's moar or less exactly The Right Thing as-is
mp_en_viaje: it may shock you to hear that i actually have a whole pile of whores beating the streets talking to dorks by the fucking pail just to keep me on top of things.
asciilifeform: cuz i -- mercifully -- missed
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-10#1907853 << i cannot resist to ask, where did mp_en_viaje spot this ☝︎
mp_en_viaje: this is supposedly fixed monthly pay. i have nfi, i confess the pricing in telecom fails to make any sense to me, and has, for a while.
asciilifeform: nor did i ever feel burning urge for 30MB/s on gsm -- who the hell pumps wares via a 'pay per MB' sim toy
asciilifeform: i never had the '4g' one
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i suppose i can publish it for your lulz, if you care.
asciilifeform: i reviewed several in the logs, in '14-'15
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i have nfi what the ' ~100kb init.sh (that ~requires root~) ' horror might be, the only ones i've ever used simply present as a hayes-style modem via usb (a la FG)
a111: Logged on 2019-04-09 21:47 diana_coman: the easy gauge would be - go mention Ada and see reaction; far from "martian artefact" style; but that being said, I'm not giving it as "fact, here it is, started on x-y-z at 5pm"
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i confess , i assumed you were already connecting through a 'buy a local simcard' thing of 1 kind or another