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asciilifeform: and that in usa it is roughly same, by mass, as eating pentium-iv's.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re persian carpets, recall that we also had sturgeon caviar.
asciilifeform: the main perk of my current dwelling was its absence.
asciilifeform: american 'carpet' is a horror
asciilifeform at a loss for words
asciilifeform: fireplace?!
asciilifeform: they are built by the thousands as a straight scam of the banks on themselves.
asciilifeform: just like the ones near where i live.
asciilifeform: though, interestingly, i did see a freshly-built block of cardboard condos right in the middle of the red zone. empty.
asciilifeform: nobody's squeezing those folk out.
asciilifeform: i dun see it.
asciilifeform: they are used to keep it out of the white cardboard.
asciilifeform: i saw 0 tanks in black bmore.
asciilifeform: built in 1920s at the latest.
asciilifeform: and actually made of things like brick and lath-n-plaster
asciilifeform: and one of the appealing things re the bmore structures was that they were from a previous age
asciilifeform: the cardboard houses and all.
asciilifeform: i was speaking from the pov of the gosplan folk who designed this crapolade
asciilifeform: poor schmuck burns down, another will come in his place.
asciilifeform: nobody counts fire hazard costs.
asciilifeform: i brought a miner's head lamp with me, and scarcely had to use it, except in the cellar.
asciilifeform: i was floored.
asciilifeform: it was astonishing, no mains current, and ~whole place was lit!1
asciilifeform: incidentally the bmore house had massive skylights.
asciilifeform: what do you think.
asciilifeform: ergo tiny portholes instead of windows. and the other joys.
asciilifeform: 'white man was not meant to live here'
asciilifeform: recall, shit-climate, cold winter, swamp summer
asciilifeform: how does that help in the summertime ?
asciilifeform: it has hollow wooden thing with fiberglass.
asciilifeform: american house has no concrete wall
asciilifeform: amortized over the life of the house.
asciilifeform: the thermal cost.
asciilifeform: no, no
asciilifeform: older american dwellings have titanic windows.
asciilifeform: but yes, miniscule windows are mark of poverty, now just as in 16th c.
asciilifeform: the glass is double-layered and there is typically inert gas inside.
asciilifeform: ^ these are sop pretty much everywhere there is a window.
asciilifeform: quite impractical in ground-level dwelling.
asciilifeform: quite typical in posh flats in usa.
asciilifeform: aha, same here.
asciilifeform: favourite place for burglar.
asciilifeform: in usa this also exists, typically doubles as the back door of a house.
asciilifeform: ah hm
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: photo ?
asciilifeform: there are perhaps 3 or 4 separate circles of hell in usa re windows.
asciilifeform: and installable in 5 minutes.
asciilifeform: yes window. the only usable opening.
asciilifeform: ruinously inefficient on account of their proximity.
asciilifeform: hence window boxes, where the hot end hangs out and cold end blows in.
asciilifeform: at any rate, ~any~ freon plumbing --> $$$$
asciilifeform: only compressor ever lives outdoors.
asciilifeform: it NEVER happens 'entirely outside' ! wtf
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that ~is~ called central air, where i live.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: window ac is actual ac. just clunky. my first flat was inhabitable solely on account of one single window ac.
asciilifeform: what's a split unit ?
asciilifeform: incidentally an ac buildout needs a licensed freonist in usa to be street-legal.
asciilifeform: window ac sucks mightily. but perhaps 1% of houses in bmore have modern central air.
asciilifeform: eh, the american variant (where sc4mz0rz stow imaginary printolade in faux 'havens', where their accounts get promptly zeroed out upon discovery) is scarcely an improvement
asciilifeform: srsly
asciilifeform: i'm about to ~hrerf~
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu must be using a 'postel's law' - 'attempt to transform barf into html' browser.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not clickable.
asciilifeform: quite aside from all other goals.
asciilifeform: phf: the goal is to not also have an albatross.
asciilifeform: this may or may not also apply to plumbing in that city.
asciilifeform: phf: it is possible to install wiring yourself, yes. but the house will not be sellable unless you are licensed electrician.
asciilifeform: reloaded. same.
asciilifeform: still not clickable
asciilifeform: nope
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: link in the comment is broken
asciilifeform: not parts.
asciilifeform: LABOUR
asciilifeform: (of same type as the pictured one, but in working condition)
asciilifeform: for reference, 'actual house' in bmore is about 100k.
asciilifeform: which makes the entire project wholly uninteresting.
asciilifeform: but also that if you add it all up, it begins to resemble the cost of 'actual' house.
asciilifeform: this also.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-03#1495542 << ben_vulpes could literally buy entire street in bmore for what he is almost certainly paying in the white man's land ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-03#1495502 << continuing re the motorcycles, after reading some moar lafond, i realized why i've never seen them elsewhere: they aren't street-legal in usa - no tags, no lights ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-03#1495543 << insisting on working kitchen, so that i can eat food, and working climate machinery, so my five figs of b00kz dun rot, is 'suburban cookie cutter'? lolk. ☝︎
asciilifeform: where they ran out of where to put the dough ☟︎
asciilifeform: reminds me of mavrody's 'mmm' chumpatron
asciilifeform: 'Second example. Guo Boxiong is a retired general in the People’s Liberation Army. When Guo was investigated for corruption, they found so much cash in his home that they couldn’t even try to count it with a currency-counting machine. They had to weigh it by the ton. They needed a truck to haul it all away.'
asciilifeform: 'Early in 2015, a department head at the National Development and Reform Commission was investigated for corruption. In his apartment they found more cash than they could count by hand. They got currency-counting machines so they could zip right through the counting, but they burned out four of the machines before they got a final tally, which was more than 200 million Renminbi, which is about 31 million US dollars.'
asciilifeform: re china, lulzy : http://lithub.com/modern-china-is-so-crazy-it-needs-a-new-literary-genre ☟︎
asciilifeform: life as anthill.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-07-06#1190095 << these. ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://www.jameslafond.com/btg/inspiration.jpg << house was ~at 'death'
asciilifeform: i dressed in ordinary civilian clothing.
asciilifeform: (why? i dunno)
asciilifeform: they did not bother me.
asciilifeform: funnily enough, i liked the orcs.
asciilifeform hates everybody but the catfolk
asciilifeform: possibly moved from the 'trailer parks' to the cheap row houses
asciilifeform: haggard, if you will
asciilifeform: but they had a certain peculiar appearance about them
asciilifeform: oddly enough there were many white folk
asciilifeform: they were tiny, truly, could fit in a car's boot
asciilifeform: whole thing is maybe as tall as a chair's seat ! ☟︎