asciilifeform: he can ~collectively~ by being cheap and disposable.
asciilifeform: (for the elementary reason that a 33 y.o. fella doesn't make a good 17y.o. emulator. for instance, the latter's wage won't pay the rentz. etcetcetc)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did write 'phuctor'. i don't avoid dealing with www browser, what i avoid is being a labour peer with 17yo cannon fodder.
asciilifeform: sorta like that animal in 'star wars' that digests for 800 years
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: on the off chance that you find this interesting, i don't avoid www dev because 'it is dirty' - at this very moment i'm dealing with undocumented idiocies in the win7 kernel. but because it is a '17y.o. thing'
asciilifeform: just like everybody's a candidate for feeding worms
asciilifeform: but as mircea_popescu is fond of pointing out, everybody is a candidate for unloading railcars.
asciilifeform: i mean, i 'pick and choose' in the sense a surgeon chooses to slice guts instead of unloading railcars, yes
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: re: israel article: anecdote. a few yrs back, on the porch of my old flat, neighbour playing guitar, 'hatikva' (why? no one knows.) pet, to me: 'why is this fella playing 'languishing in auschwitz' ??!' me: 'you forgot - this is an actual song, i broke it'
asciilifeform: (because not even satan can help stupid)
asciilifeform: in a hole from which there is no ladder.
asciilifeform: go broke in usa (and i mean ~properly~ broke, no backup) and you will be poor, fat, and permanently stupid in short order
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu were awake, he might say 'poor and stupid is the same' and i can't say that he's wrong, but to try to put an arrow of causality in either direction is imho stark nonsense
asciilifeform: can't speak for BingoBoingo, but i don't think i've ever seen epicly, memorably fat people outside of places where dirt poor folk habitually gather
asciilifeform: this thing where the afflicted tries to avoid the realization that the buttons are no longer (or worse, were never) plugged into anything -- is probably in tlp somewhere