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mircea_popescu: phf and for the same reason as here : us lives off govt dole, so the lice crowd the capitla.
mircea_popescu: yeah. you know what they do all day ? bitch importantly about how the bus fare went up a quarter peso.
mircea_popescu: ba is larger than ny. yet another place the us doesn't actually matter all that much.
mircea_popescu: (actually i do have a pretty good idea - they all live off the govt which is here so much like lice they crowd around)
mircea_popescu: no idea wtf is wrong with this particular thirld world nation, but w/e.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's pretty ridiculous, ro/pl/etc rents are about half that, and that's in the eu.
mircea_popescu: normal apt thing. two baths two bedrooms, kitchen, living room, appliances including ac.
mircea_popescu: but yes, rents are utterly outrageous, everything's gotta come down 2x-3x for sanity.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, dollar liberalized so it's not going up ; prices soared because they're poor and pretentious.
mircea_popescu: anywya, it was lulzy, guy wanted 12k pesos ; i offered 750 usd which he took - at the time ~6 mo ago it came to about 11k pesos on the black market and it looked like it will imminently will cross 12 13 15 etc.
mircea_popescu: ah, what you don't know is that there's but different zoos.
mircea_popescu: this is a derp who wanted contract in dollars to protect self from inflation, got choice of X in pesos or y in dollars, picked y.
mircea_popescu: in other morning lulz : argentinian owner of a rental wants to get together to discuss changing rental contract because "inflation has gone up".
mircea_popescu: first i found, mebbe i'm missing something, but no i dun recall him being discussed prior.
mircea_popescu: god damned it. so half hour's research has produced not the article i was looking for, and the knowledge that decimation actually introduced lafond to the chan.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo hey do you recall the lafond article where he describes some woman taking a cab to escape urban race war and some dudes trying to flag it down to rape her ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski mixing things like "make a budget" and "pack a lunch / brew your own coffee" seems improper.
mircea_popescu: why not just make 1 day = 1 page liek sane people srsly.
mircea_popescu: " At the October Meeting, Board members voted to award a gift membership to Gavin Andresen for his exceptional service working with our Bulletin Editor, Rebecca Fricke, on the League’s recently redesigned website, www.lwvamherst.org ." << i guess he gets 20 bucks in gift certs or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: o i c. your arse is also solvent, which is more than can be said for him.
mircea_popescu: i bet you've not as much as looked at the schmuck's cv or anything ? just sat on ass and journalised ?
mircea_popescu: looky, there's nothing wrong with your hollywood inclination. it's, from what i hear, inescapable in first generation americans. nevertheless, it is not factual.
mircea_popescu: where "cow" "farm" and "india" mean things i didn't even dream, but constructed tendentiously and ex post facto.
mircea_popescu: according to the data available, cow has best life. mkay!
mircea_popescu: he certainly knows of this thing you can't even conceive.
mircea_popescu: well cuz they make minwage+1 / 2 and own two button down shirts.
mircea_popescu: gotta park on the street, by the meter. no space in parking lot. and no garage.
mircea_popescu: how easy this guy has it you know, he declares everything under him = 0, then never has to be confronted with a "hey, change places".
mircea_popescu: heck, it's a toss-up whether they even get to park in the parking lot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform these people aren't worth covered parking.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly as described : had it delivered up the block around corner.
mircea_popescu: not QUITE actually steam powered ; not far off either.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> or have it delivered up the street << i have a friend who many years ago showed up in antique steamroller.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: what kind of lunatic << you don't understand cubical culture.
mircea_popescu: the notion that anyone'd buy ireland bonds... srsly ? shit country ever since 1016 ad.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski used to, at any rate. ain't no 1990s anymore.