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mircea_popescu: i wonder how the lube job goes.
mod6: it boggles the mind.
mod6: basically. they go inside, throw the jockey some change, and then pump ~.4 gals
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mod6: how do you get '$1 worth' ? drip from the nozzle ? << Cut your number of wheels in half
asciilifeform: mod6: how do you get '$1 worth' ? drip from the nozzle ?
mod6: which is not a crime, but jesus, maybe get at least enough to not run out 3 blocks after you leave the gas station.
mircea_popescu: richest country in the world, could buy apple.
mod6: but not a week goes by that some fuckstick isn't standing in line to get $1 worth of gas. aka, fart into his tank.
mircea_popescu: o i know. everyone else pays two bux a liter ; except the "enviro conscious" usians, they pay 0.5 a liter.\
mod6: yeah, here it's $2.20/gal. takes me ~$60 to fill up the burby.
mircea_popescu: light is set to go off liters before actually out
mod6: fineable offence. if your wheels fall off, and you come to a grinding halt. no big deal. you may just have to pay for the towtruck. but no fine. run out of gas (preventable), hefty fine.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> anyway, if they found you woithj two nazi cans of fuel they'd prolly hang you. wrecking through petrol stockpiliong or w/e. << yeah, you'd think that they'd encourage people to not run out of gas, but nope. in fact, it is highly illegal to run out of gas on the freeway.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> stockpiling rubbish is somehow 'national sport' here. << lol so true!
mircea_popescu is fixated on the 20l ro version for some reason\
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the impact of tech still lingers. for eg : my bmw tank actually is 2 cans.
asciilifeform: now this is true, have you met these folx? picture 100kg of plastic 'food' wrappers etc
mircea_popescu: anyway, if they found you woithj two nazi cans of fuel they'd prolly hang you. wrecking through petrol stockpiliong or w/e.
asciilifeform: why let the empty space go to waste!11
asciilifeform still finds it strange that american drivers dun have 2 full jerry cans in their trunk at all times
asciilifeform: these folks are tired of living, ain't they.
mircea_popescu: it is, get this, more envirowhiny er
trinque: with an idiot plastic thing
asciilifeform: did they? with what ?
mircea_popescu: if you find anything that works in an us army item, let me know.
mircea_popescu: well, to a nazi empire at least.
asciilifeform: exactly the kind of 'unsexy' great engineering that adds up to a working tech civilization.
asciilifeform: not just 'emptying durations', whole thing was actually thought through -- could be carried by 1 or 2, 1 man can comfortably lift 2 full or 4 empties; they stacked; allowed for thermal expand; would float in the sea, even if full; etc
mod6: i gotta get one and try it out
asciilifeform: ( what did they use? the pieces of shit that need funnels )
asciilifeform: 'jerry' incidentally is a hint: it was unknown in english world prior to ww2
mircea_popescu: ah as it turns out, it's actually wehrmacht-einheitskannister. nazi invention.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-12#1682081 << funny, just mentioned this today. anyway, bog standard jerry can. patent prolly held by us 1900s car co. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-12#1682056 << then i moved to next line in logs, noticed it's actually a tmsr-caltrop this thing ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-07-12 21:02 BingoBoingo: Well, religion doesn't start with invisible friend. Starts with axioms. Parabels acrete. Then editor makes narrative cohesive enough to sell.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-12#1682055 << i actually spent a minute trying to trace the etymology of "parabel" until finally figured out wtf it is. ☝︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: opterons too
BingoBoingo: This is pointedly no opteron thread. 10,000 could likely be had by late September and $maxint certainly had by next August
asciilifeform: asciilifeform could tell you where to get a opteron, or a dozen. but not where to get 10,000 by august.
asciilifeform: this is like the opterons thread all over again.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not that you can actually buy those in a civilian shop
BingoBoingo: Anyways, the Obama-can rules don't appear to apply to metal "safety" containers
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mod6: it was a deliberate fuckyou-and-whatchagonnadoaboutit to people who actually work << Not like pantsuit gets to interact with men anyother way
mod6: can't argue with that.
asciilifeform: iirc over in the heathen huts they call this stratagem 'shit test'
asciilifeform: 'will they swallow this or finally hang us' 'they swallowed it' 'GREAT! let's obummercare some moar'
asciilifeform: mod6: it was a deliberate fuckyou-and-whatchagonnadoaboutit to people who actually work
mod6: ya, that doesnt look as bad. i could go on for hours. how the government complicates how i pour liquid out of a container.
asciilifeform: forget the 'modern' rubbish.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: last i saw, you can still get blackmarket traditional 'jerry can'.
BingoBoingo: There's a "trigger activated" variety that sucks a bit less. Prolly best to make the jump to https://archive.is/FUoB6
mod6: now i just pour out the normal widemouth with a funnel. spill gas everywhere.
mod6: they have this frickin lock/unlock "spill proof" neck on them. that i have to simply discard cause i can't figure out how to use it.
mod6: ya, those actually seem "great" compared to this pos: http://ec-i21.geccdn.net/site/images/177x177/30860144.jpg
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mod6: in the photo is pretty obvious rat attempt << I thought it was for chihuahuas
asciilifeform: funnily enough actual soviet gas can was a 100% solid clone of the german one, probably to this day made in ru
mod6: everything is child-proof. don't get me started about the soviet gas can.
asciilifeform: in usa there are off-the-shelf electric rat zappers, they work ok, but difficult to clean on account of idiotic 'childproof' construction.
asciilifeform: ideally you also want some provision for switching ~off~ the current. or at least something reasonably fireproof beneath.
asciilifeform: ( 2 wires on the iron floor, 1 in the air with bait )
asciilifeform: mod6: in the photo is pretty obvious rat attempt
mod6: i thought it was just a creative fly swatter
asciilifeform: proper murine electric chair works differently. switches on the hv after low-voltage conductivity sensor (use 2 transistors in the kindergarten scheme) closes.
asciilifeform: rat knows how to 'see' electric field
mod6: shit is gonna give me a stroke one of these times.
mod6: JUST LET ME SEE THE FUCKING JPG
mod6: that looks pretty good there ya.
shinohai: Speaking of devices to eradicate vermin: http://i.4cdn.org/b/1499889865922.jpg
mod6: i love the smell of organophosphate in the morning
BingoBoingo: ^ In the collateral damage files
BingoBoingo: are estimated to exceed one hundred thousand.
BingoBoingo: In response to the kleptocratic aggressions and vandalism against his tomatoes, TMSR Lord BingoBoingo deployed the organophosphate nerve agent carbaryl against the evil Stink Bug order 'Pentatomidae.' The casualties will likely never be counted, but an estimated "dozen or so" stink bugs are dead or actively dying at the time of this writing. Civilian casualties among untargeted insects as a result of the TMSR Lord's chemical weapons use
BingoBoingo: Breaking News: Numerous Casualties Result From Chemical Weapons attack by TMSR Lord
BingoBoingo: Well, religion doesn't start with invisible friend. Starts with axioms. Parabels acrete. Then editor makes narrative cohesive enough to sell. ☟︎
mod6: naw, but alf has seen a lot of atrocities, and therefor has some axioms about things.
BingoBoingo: At this point alf is prolly moar the religous hard liner than danielpbarron
mircea_popescu: did silbert's pooper get 10 btc together yet ?
jhvh1: Man must not live on reddit alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of alf ... http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-12#1682044
mod6: Back in the day some guy wandered in here and got 10 btc for sharpie in pooper.
asciilifeform: shinohai: reading redditisms is the direct intellectual equivalent of sniffing glue.
asciilifeform: shinohai: i said this before, and will say again, vodka is better than reddit any day and hour of the week
shinohai: Supposedly the "for" is Alan Shillbert setting up tipjr for him cuz "he dun wanna b doxxed"
diana_coman: mod6, thanks!
asciilifeform: is this same 'for' as when the good doktor chowdhra offered to accept nobel 'for satoshi' ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: i saw the film
mod6: i posted the vid earlier
shinohai: asciilifeform: A donation addy made for this guy: http://archive.is/TaCeC
shinohai: I'm in the wrong fucking business.
asciilifeform: i wonder if there's a pantsuit translation
asciilifeform: phf: that thing is a riot !
asciilifeform: '... going by the diaries, a bright and eager exemplar of 'russian intelligentsia' of the 10s of the last century... 'german liberators', 'liberation bombs', 'friends from the sd', etc '
asciilifeform: evidently these are the very same famous chix who lined up for the hairdressers because 'germans soon'
asciilifeform chronic eater of more or less everything on that w4r3z
asciilifeform: phf: ty. as it happens i just finished http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/miheenkov_se05/index.html
phf: asciilifeform: you might find this entertaining, http://flibusta.is/b/426177/read (also nerfed version, but i didn't compare http://flibusta.is/b/352948/read)
mod6: <+asciilifeform> lol swordswallower << not bad, but not as good as the two from Monday!
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mod6: i want google to tell me if my pw is 100% kthxbye!
phf: (how apropos, i'm about to embark on 17 moments of spring watch through with girl)
asciilifeform: ( approx. ~= 'stierlitz (hero of '17 moments of spring') takes a bullet in the head. 'it's a dumdum', thought stierlitz, scatter-brained' )