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nubbins`: wait, i understood smth?
nubbins`: that said, i'm pretty sure a 15kg bag of rice doesn't cost much more than a few shit sandwiches from mcd's anywhere in north america
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> (i do not consider eating genuine, vs. recycled food, a luxury. just as air on a space capsule is not a luxury, even if it costs what gold costs down on earth) <<< i don't fully buy into the "it's cheaper to eat shitty" mentality, but it's my understanding that the dynamics involved therein are vastly different in your country
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> <mircea_popescu> and YET you protest the hyena << so i had a quiet and physically clean upbringing. this is who i am. i get that it gives me a short life expectancy, yes. but jumping from cliffs doesn't grow wings, no. <<< the sets of {co-inhabitants} and {dirtbags} don't have as complete an overlap as you'd think
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> nubbins`: if i worked in a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy a pogo and mess with it << what did you buy and play with instead? a nagant, testing how it feels in the mouth, as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ? <<< not in so many words :P
ascii_field: the 'up-side' - perhaps the only one - of being a hermit monster is that the tools built for nailing the 'eusocial' don't work on you. i.e. you negrate a usg shill in your mind at most forty seconds after initial contact
ascii_field: <Chillum> his hostile code should have sat dormant for 6 months, then someone with no obvious connection to him should have got the ticket << i suppose this is when nubbins` says 'learn the dark marketz, anyone can!' and mircea_popescu tells us about the superiority of human dark org vs relying on machines
ascii_field: mats: i don't live alone, but with pet
mats: i prefer to live with other humans. that way, they can find my corpse before the smell of decay sets in. hopefully.
ascii_field: admittedly i no longer have the 'nazi submarine' atmosphere of the old flat (bulkheads in every conceivable space, objects hanging to fill every gap, etc.)
ascii_field: and my new digs aren't quite big enough to make any difference space-wise. i moved to a free-standing building mainly to get further away from other human beings
ascii_field: mats: i lived in a flat quite like (from what i can tell) yours, for most of a decade.
mats: in any event -- i'm envious. my living space is too small to accommodate much more than what i could fit in a hatchback
ascii_field: mats: 'warehouse' is a bit of exaggeration. the whole lot would (and did, when i moved) fit in a small van.
ascii_field: (i do not consider eating genuine, vs. recycled food, a luxury. just as air on a space capsule is not a luxury, even if it costs what gold costs down on earth)
ascii_field: nubbins`: the only thing that'll make alf walk away is alf << nubbins` would probably be rather surprised to learn that - other than the physical separation from wildlife (e.g., nubbins`'s roommate) - i have very few luxuries
pete_dushenski: adlai: i am actually, and now i have no idea if this is something to be addressed, and if so, how.
ascii_field: i.e., the question may well have a biological answer, but knowing it does me little good.
ascii_field: i do not.
ascii_field: <mircea_popescu> and YET you protest the hyena << so i had a quiet and physically clean upbringing. this is who i am. i get that it gives me a short life expectancy, yes. but jumping from cliffs doesn't grow wings, no.
ascii_field: adlai: i'm with naggum on this one
ascii_field: adlai:anthem is precisely the correct dose of ayn rand for a healthy brain << i will admit to having read pretty much all of rand
ascii_field: nubbins`: maybe once you get enough toys it'll be a fair trade << all the toys i buy put together are dwarfed by the cost of living like a human being (e.g., not having rabid hyenas in my home, nor within 100 metres, etc.)
mircea_popescu: incidentally... i find it kinda lulzy that arabs etc don't go all bear. but...
mircea_popescu: i thouhgt it was his butt
pete_dushenski: i recently learned that ostrich and 'hares' (presumably rabbits too?) are also not kosher
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i srsly do not see ANY merit to this "location" bs << one of us is carrying suitcase of $gadgets to the other. that's -location-, l0l.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i am told that i did, but methinks it was a fraud
ascii_field: nubbins`: if i worked in a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy a pogo and mess with it << what did you buy and play with instead? a nagant, testing how it feels in the mouth, as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ?
ascii_field: i am not a creature of goatfuckistan
ascii_field: why do i want to herd anything
ascii_field: whereas i have zero patience with the very concept of having the very smell of a rabid dog in my home.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i guess ascii_field has telecom reviving AND self-upping magical powers
ascii_field: nubbins`: but i'll note that this is a problem with alf, not with walking away << i've noticed that even you have exhausted your patience with the bipedal rabid dog in your home...
mircea_popescu: and here i thought twtelecom went under.
pete_dushenski: but i'm not as cultured and worldly as i think i am. just a soap opera star!
pete_dushenski: lol can't say i've ever heard of any of them
nubbins`: i am, however, seeing Lightning Bolt, Sufjan Stevens, and METZ
pete_dushenski: i'm pretty sure smartphones increase 'tech usage' while decreasing productivity
nubbins`: which btw i pronounce "usagi" in my head occasionally, thanks bitcoin!
nubbins`: pete_dushenski i bring a smartphone instead of a laptop precisely to limit my tech usage
nubbins`: but... print shops are busy in the summer, so if i wanna go somewhere, it's best to go in the spring... and it turns out three of my favourite musical acts were playing back-to-back nights in cleveland
pete_dushenski: lol of course i bring a laptop, what is this 1994 ?
nubbins`: i usually aim for at least a week or two
pete_dushenski: so i bring a laptop
pete_dushenski: so sure, i get tired, but it doesn't send me home, just makes me want to be productive while i'm away
nubbins`: i made it several months into "tired" before i abandoned s.k.
nubbins`: rozal that was the most inept display of cloaking i've ever seen
nubbins`: shame i don't have time to play with these pogos til next week
nubbins`: i'm always suspicious when Canada Post sends me an "item delivered" email and the mailbox is empty
mats: not sure how i feel about hardware security modules and wallets
fluffypony: who I hope will at least be a little interesting
fluffypony: mats: because it's the first one in ZA, I'm going to be in Cape Town anyway, and Micah Winkelspecht is talking
fluffypony: so I'm going to the Bitcoin Africa conference on Thursday
mats: its nice to be thanked for stuff i didn't do
mircea_popescu: adlai i always understood it as the much more subtle "well im on the football team now, why hassle to score goals. hassle to prevent anyone from scoring more than me".
nubbins`: i didn't quit 9-5 because i wanted to stick it to the tax man. i quit it because it sucked and it was killing me.
adlai: aiui, which is only from the internet as i don't physically live in libertardia, this meme was mainly coined by/for business owners reducing their business's "salary"
nubbins`: i'm much more productive than i was while working an office job.
nubbins`: adlai FWIW i pay taxes
mircea_popescu: i srsly do not see ANY merit to this "location" bs.
nubbins`: in the20yearslumland, i could prolly buy a city block for that
nubbins`: i got four floors of house for not much more than that
nubbins`: "but with 61k/yr i can buy all these trappings!"
lobbes: well, I wouldn't be offended if I was being criticized. Rather, that's why I like it here
lobbes: again, I'm not talking $61 to $6 here, rather 85 to maybe 58
nubbins`: i'm serious: <+nubbins`> lobbes truly foolhardy is the man to whom i serve as an example
mircea_popescu: but no, i was talking about his line above.
lobbes: well I don't plan to cling to driftwood
nubbins`: lobbes truly foolhardy is the man to whom i serve as an example
lobbes: I thought I was crazy (maybe still am)
nubbins`: i'd be too busy drinking
nubbins`: if i worked in a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy a pogo and mess with it
funkenstein_: cool i go to check it
nubbins`: i wake up with a smile every day and go to bed w/ same
nubbins`: mircea_popescu agreed. i still work (from time to time), and it doesn't suck at all
nubbins`: i once took a week's vacation because i couldn't be fucked to show up on a monday... or a tuesday
adlai: mircea_popescu: actually a control-typo triggered it, and i decided to learn from the happy accident :)
nubbins`: you know when i was an office-man, i'd struggle whether to get out of bed every. single. morning.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu so do i, but i also like not wanting to fucking kill myself every day
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: guessing that 61k is pre-tax, i'll guess 20k savings. i'm guessing you've got skill in this saving domain.
nubbins`: what do i need money for? buy a volkswagen?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu guess how much money i saved per year while making $61k
mircea_popescu: kinda how the soviets failed, people went "eh why bother, they gotta pay me anyway, and i don't make anything out of iteither way"
nubbins`: adlai i gave up on atlas shrugged after several hundred pages because it was a piece of shit, indulge me will ya?
mircea_popescu: not everything's insurable nubbins`. specifically : insurance works for individuals. i was discussing the country/western world.
mircea_popescu: anyway, fwiw i suppose your situation is exactly typical of "the civilised world".
nubbins`: but i'll note that this is a problem with alf, not with walking away
mircea_popescu: i dun think he wants that.
nubbins`: p and i, combined, contribute about $500/mo to keep this place going
mircea_popescu: "oh i just pay 20k out of my 6k a year. problem ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: no but i mean in terms of teh payoff.
nubbins`: 5-year term's up next summer so i'll prolly pop a couple tens of k down on the principal then
nubbins`: mircea_popescu i pay off about $5k principal and $9k interest per annum
nubbins`: and i sleep the sleep of the just.
nubbins`: and i spend my days not holding my nose to the grindstone, but dicking around on irc and puttering in my basement
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i mean they also happened in daytime, you know, cause the shops are closed at night. so daytime causes it ? meh.
nubbins`: i owe the bank $190,000 and i made $6,000 in 2013
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: perhaps i'm ascribing too much causation to correlations
nubbins`: but perhaps things i say will clear his mental path a bit more