asciilifeform: ^ animated version of this poem.

asciilifeform: http://rutube.ru/video/5c999e682aedf4d7f08adebda715433f

asciilifeform: obligatory:

asciilifeform: mega-classic.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.world-art.ru/lyric/lyric.php?id=14707 << related.

asciilifeform: like that sea gull

asciilifeform: did other animals queue up ?

asciilifeform: rather like american consumer.

asciilifeform: aha but are satisfied with chairs, telephone poles

asciilifeform: with imagination.

asciilifeform: nah that'd be a man.

asciilifeform: hire squads to collect rotting racoon carcasses from whole city, every day?

asciilifeform: buy a megatonne of kibble ?

asciilifeform: if it were possible to give 20megausd to a dog, what would he do?

asciilifeform: not a person.

asciilifeform: if you don't have it - you ain't a someone.

asciilifeform: imagination is a thing of the inner world

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i live in same prison, what of it

asciilifeform: prolly after the first winner catching on to algo of 'cash out to btc, brainwallet'

asciilifeform: i suspect that the day is not far when lotteries turn into 'lifetime walmart gift card' instead of usd ☟︎

asciilifeform: by the year if you like.

asciilifeform: unlike most museums

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-09-2015#1265031 << one interesting mega-feature of 'o street' is that you can actually pay to live in it. ☝︎

asciilifeform: or equipping 500 fine young folks with automatic weapons and a reason to live

asciilifeform: btw in usa they traditionally hand out the winningz piecemeal, to make sure that the lucky fella doesn't do something That Would Be Wrong like cashing out to btc and sending it all to isis

asciilifeform: rather then letting the vultures get it.

asciilifeform: 'Their 14-year marriage was over, a freak fire gutted their house, and every penny of their fortune was gone.' << at least he had the sense to scorched-earth

asciilifeform: 'former girlfriend sued successfully..'

asciilifeform: ^ how the fuck does that even work

asciilifeform: 'William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988 but was $1 million in debt within a year. "I wish it never happened," Post said. "It was totally a nightmare." A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a share of his winnings and his brother was arrested for hiring a hit man to kill him in the hopes he'd inherit a share of the winnings.'

asciilifeform: enjoy classic su atmosphere ?

asciilifeform: went just for kicks? to eat fine sprats ?

asciilifeform: ah hm i recall this

asciilifeform: (with the enthusiastic help of his 'friends' and family)

asciilifeform: unsurprising that scum wipes his arse with the money.

asciilifeform: elementary.

asciilifeform: 'Jack Whittaker won $315 million and ten years later, his daughter and granddaughter had both died of drug overdoses, his wife divorced him, and once while in a strip club, he was drugged and robbed of $545,000 in cash, as reported by The New York Times.' << thinking folk don't play lotteries.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: what were you doing in riga ?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=04-08-2015#1224008 << l0l! ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-09-2015#1265005 << forget clerk. a railwayman could ~buy~ a house and support five children on his wages, in '50s. ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'mains power on tuesdays for party members'

asciilifeform: and for the predictable game of hopscotch through various 'voluntary', 'voluntary-compulsory', finally compulsory belt-tightenings ☟︎

asciilifeform: i suppose it is not too long to wait, for the northkr-style rolling blackouts

asciilifeform: even more electric saving, from it

asciilifeform: i have been getting increasingly frequent telephone spam from electric co., offering to cut my rates in exchange for a (for now, voluntary!) remote disable on my air conditioner compressor. it is hilariously insulting. why won't they just mail me a vial of cyanide, also 'voluntary' ?

asciilifeform: slightly related,

asciilifeform: anyway, i don't expect to live to see another such thing. certainly not the other side of it, anyway!

asciilifeform: '18 then ?

asciilifeform: aha, garbage collector hasn't really run since '45

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see old thread about sovietized flats where i live, aha

asciilifeform: mats: small price if you don't do any serious thinking.

asciilifeform: sux

asciilifeform: ones you do not regularly have sex with

asciilifeform: (today, not in the barrack)

asciilifeform: how many unrelated, unfucked adults does mats share his quarters with ?

asciilifeform: so minimum-human-ly.

asciilifeform: why the everliving fuck should i even think about this.

asciilifeform: seen them, smelling them ?

asciilifeform: what, you think i will put up with sharing toilet with strangers ?

asciilifeform: fuck rooms

asciilifeform: renting out houses is not something that is done, generally, in the richer parts of MD.

asciilifeform: mats: i will add, to earlier thread, that it is not even reliably possible to ~rent a house at all~ near where i work.

asciilifeform: nah i'm pretty sure.

asciilifeform: sure. and then i will be dead.

asciilifeform: but longer than i have.

asciilifeform: or not.

asciilifeform: 10,000.

asciilifeform: feel ahahaha lol.

asciilifeform: trinque: do they pay a penny less of tax from this ?

asciilifeform: what about it? it isn't like this is ancient china and you don't have to pay tax if you live far away from the tax collector.

asciilifeform: trinque: i don't work for the sludge though.

asciilifeform: trinque: of course.

asciilifeform: mats: literally twice or more per square metre.

asciilifeform: mats: i can't even begin to afford to live near where i work.

asciilifeform: 2 is the bestcase

asciilifeform: mats: what is so astonishing

asciilifeform: mats: sure.

asciilifeform: 10-20

asciilifeform: (traditionally not, but it isn't like i would be there if it were not for the rest of it)

asciilifeform: does sitting in the wheel coffin count ?

asciilifeform: and what is 'actual work'

asciilifeform: hard to say

asciilifeform: 'cause no energy for actual thought, aha

asciilifeform: again, working.

asciilifeform: a cubic kilometre of house is worthless if you can't spend your top waking hours there.

asciilifeform: QED.

asciilifeform: given as 'they work for...'

asciilifeform: they do not.

asciilifeform: i think you already answered the question though

asciilifeform: do they ?

asciilifeform: trinque: live well == sleep ad libitum.

asciilifeform: trinque: i am specifically laughing at your notion that i would hate life less if i were to agree to spend MORE HOURS PER DAY doing IDIOT SCUTWORK in exchange for slightly more banana peels.

asciilifeform: no matter how much you trusted him.

asciilifeform: kinda like if you were kommendant of auschwitz, you wouldn't give a capo a machinegun

asciilifeform: it is an elementary thing.

asciilifeform: trinque: as for your oil men, it is a basic truism of salary men in usa that no one is ever, under any circumstances, paid a salary large enough to stop being a salary man.

asciilifeform: !s a smell of petroleum prevails throughout

asciilifeform: dope is over-rated.

asciilifeform: perhaps.

asciilifeform: trinque: as for taqiya, it worked pre-google.