asciilifeform: 'there are mircea_popescus and there are offal, off to the fermentation vats, offal'
asciilifeform: no but i can easily picture where this goes
asciilifeform: aha because mircea_popescu has a choice !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu was never a slave, so probably can't even conceptualize it
asciilifeform had not done what most folks think of as 'vacation' since 2011
asciilifeform: so you know what it tastes like and that's it.
asciilifeform: imagine if all the cake you ever got to eat was, say, 20 grams max
asciilifeform: can't imagine what i might possibly want, if had that
asciilifeform: i, for instance, am fixated on free time and escape from workschwitz
asciilifeform: and it does not take a heroic amount of introspection to find oneself int his picture
asciilifeform: more of how the boy might have problems grasping why his parents do anything other than eating cake☟︎
asciilifeform: but i think i see where mircea_popescu is going, this is the old 'thirsty man thinks he can drink the sea' theorem
asciilifeform: aha but still this involves more housework than walking with weights, i'd imagine ?
asciilifeform: gotta set up household for the pets, etc?
asciilifeform: well sure, there is a certain amount of 'like sledding? like pulling sled too!'
asciilifeform: you do it for some time and then do other thing
asciilifeform: i don't even sadomasochate but i always assumed that it was a hobby like any other
asciilifeform: if i show a picture of, e.g., chess players, what , viewer will assume that they play from dawn to dusk until they drop, and while cleaning the house, eating, shitting ?
asciilifeform: it did not even occur to me that anyone would think this.
asciilifeform: if she requires more whipping than is readily available
asciilifeform: i can only assume that if this 'engine redline' is held for long enough, mircea_popescu will throw the chick back into the wild, or otherwise expel