asciilifeform: at the time i wrote most of it, i lived in a vile and uncleanable (in the sense that vermin lived in the walls and fed upon the opulent fastfood waste of the verminiferous neighbours)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: y'know, there is >1 way to live free of roach
asciilifeform: as some folks in the good ol' days found out when they tried to do the 'acclimate to strychnine' thing with cumulative poisons, e.g, arsenic
asciilifeform: works just as well, just with different, slower kinetics
asciilifeform: (as the facility wasn't usg-blessed for the Real Deal)
asciilifeform: when i worked in the outfit that did antidotes for organophosphate poisons ('nerve' gases) we used these common pesticides as a substitute for the real thing
asciilifeform: i can scarcely apprehend what BingoBoingo's house must smell like.
asciilifeform: not entirely unrelatedly, as a young man i kept 'bug spray' around, habitually, as my ancestors did; but then learned that wet/dry vac works 100% as well and doesn't create cloud of poisonous crud to breathe the rest of the day
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: care to be more specific ?
asciilifeform: but yes, when folks like BingoBoingo ask 'why the burn rate', asciilifeform answers 'keeping force field against monkeys going is not cheap'
asciilifeform: but the latter is presently large enough that one can avoid running into any monkeys for arbitrary stretch of time
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: dunno about you but i do not run on hamster wheels, nor spend time in monkey house, nor fraternise with the ants, nor try to fit into rat tunnels, etc
asciilifeform: countdown, 3, 2, 1, and yer pants had better be up
asciilifeform: phf: if anyone cared to solve this, it is trivially solvable, and iirc some western eu places have the pill against it: door automatically opens after x minutes
asciilifeform: trinque: on the contrary, it is moving along nicely. e.g., in many restaurants even now, there is only 1 or more single-locking-room bathrooms. i welcome the extinction of the other kind, where you actually see/hear/smell the other people.
