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asciilifeform: who also make it impossible to ignore themselves
asciilifeform: the mice infuriated me because they reminded me so much of human vermin.
asciilifeform: if it were not for this, might be difficult in a modern flat (with no sacks of grain to lose, etc) to even notice them.
asciilifeform: the most objectionable, imho, thing about mice, is the stream of shit they leave behind
asciilifeform had mice, by the dozen
asciilifeform: (student exercise: describe ~why~.)
asciilifeform: and caught nothing.
asciilifeform: early versions had a charge on the grid at all times,
asciilifeform: triggered by capacitance change in the floor grid (tubular-shaped vessel)
asciilifeform: for rat.
asciilifeform: sorta like a miniature electric chair
asciilifeform: in my old flat i made use of a very spiffy kind of trap, true marvel of engineering,
asciilifeform: (both can do either, clearly, but 'specialty')
asciilifeform: we have two basic species of rat here, one that climbs, and one that tunnels ☟︎
asciilifeform: they are also titanically large
asciilifeform: where i live now, rat is no less a thing than in any medieval town, i imagine.
asciilifeform floored
asciilifeform: no roaches in ro?!!
asciilifeform: vermin follow man around, for as long as he heats his home
asciilifeform: but it would be a mistake to suppose that they are absent from the northern latitudes
asciilifeform: well, in what is now the land of the ukrs
asciilifeform: aha
asciilifeform: (he would not do well in a ru flat. but allergy is really something you develop from hyper-hygienic conditions anyway. a man with roach allergy was an impossible thing where i come from)
asciilifeform: in said product.
asciilifeform: too much roach ppm.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260904 << i recently met a fella who cannot drink american instant coffee. breaks out in hives. and not on account of the coffee, but from having allergy to... cockroaches. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: something to that effect
asciilifeform: 'pacifist eats plenty of death but never cooks any himself'
asciilifeform: orwell had a piece concerning this, somewhere
asciilifeform: (there is a hilarious little book, by some american fella, 'stiff' - about process of decomposition and the practical applications of said field)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260690 << i like how mircea_popescu comes back to this image. makes me often privately wonder if he did a tour of duty as an undertaker when young man ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's more like 'i can't walk, had polio'
asciilifeform: entire u.s. real estate racket is based on this fact.
asciilifeform: they ~would~ - do - pay to avoid being locked in.
asciilifeform: important difference.
asciilifeform: but not in.
asciilifeform: if you don't have the circuitry, it is an insurmountable and - more importantly - entirely unappealing problem to solve.
asciilifeform: same reason why most people don't relish chimp cage
asciilifeform: what i really suck at is socializing with generic humans without wanting to eat a bullet almost immediately
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: idk, why do i suck at ping-pong ?
asciilifeform: or at least in hollywood.
asciilifeform: trinque: if i were any good at lying, i would already be working as a professional liar. considering that i live in the world's capital for these
asciilifeform: l0l
asciilifeform: 'has never done anything but r&d, will run away after nanosecond when gets a chance'
asciilifeform: aha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not in quite these words
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sympathetic grunts informed via side-channel
asciilifeform: trinque: i even once applied for enslavement at nsa !
asciilifeform: trinque: btw i will mention that there was a time when i was out of work and starving, and tried to do all kinds of things. the normal corporate folks could tell what kind of animal i was from ten minutes' conversation and wouldn't touch me with a barge pole.
asciilifeform: wouldtcha rather eat own shit?
asciilifeform: if you had to eat shit,
asciilifeform: it's like eating other people's shit
asciilifeform: ON FUCKNG OTHERRPEOPLESCODE
asciilifeform: trinque: i bet he works a full shift
asciilifeform: trinque: if you are not among the annointed ☟︎
asciilifeform: trinque: the problem is that they are not worth much
asciilifeform: do i catastrophically fail to grasp this ...?
asciilifeform: product of what, if not industry?
asciilifeform: or mechanical flying machine
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: your roquefort is flown in on what, dragon?
asciilifeform: it can be done.
asciilifeform: taleb - separated.
asciilifeform: but separated.
asciilifeform: using cyclotron, perhaps
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has, i think, separated the two ?
asciilifeform: also need the nukes.
asciilifeform: if i had 'the money', someone would simply whack me with a club & take it.
asciilifeform: more on account of http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=07-04-2015#1090204 ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha. 'money with which to buy back own arse' is, approximately, what 'rich' means in my mind.
asciilifeform: these are 'packaged together', yes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't give a tinker's damn per public affairs.. only sleep-ad-libitum.
asciilifeform: but it is an ~option~
asciilifeform: he can set alarm clock, as mircea_popescu suggested, to watch a meteor shower.
asciilifeform: rich has ~the option~ of ignoring.
asciilifeform: again, like the clock
asciilifeform: did not say 'ignore'
asciilifeform: mod6: i will add, if you use an alarm clock, and don't have the option of stopping, you're not rich;
asciilifeform: because brick has 100% of what he wants.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: but moreover, 'poor' is a matter of emotion strictly. a brick cannot be poor.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: very nearly 50
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is a thing, i saw it alive.
asciilifeform: ^
asciilifeform: trinque: nor autism
asciilifeform: trinque: tell you what, we didn't have it in su either
asciilifeform: trinque: again, where were they in 1800 ?
asciilifeform: serious multi-decade vegetarians will have problems digesting meat (at least for a while)
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: this, as i understand, is typical. you can give yourself an intolerance for just about anything, by avoiding it
asciilifeform: having to, e.g., work for a living, actually compute costs of things, etc ☟︎
asciilifeform: wtf, i'm actually poor
asciilifeform: also mircea_popescu - what's it mean, 'think they're somehow poor'
asciilifeform: trinque: since birth ?
asciilifeform: *where
asciilifeform: trinque: were were these 'needers' in 1800 ?
asciilifeform: i've never seen anything else in my entire adult life. all of the other variants of human organization may as well be ancient rome, for all the personal experience i have of them.
asciilifeform: however created, this is how it works.
asciilifeform: these form the 'mcfood' and 'hippie' segments respectively.
asciilifeform: instead, we have idiot poor and imbecile rich
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260662 << actually this is the one place where the clean hand of marketronics seems to me most apparent. reasonable sane people are not numerous enough here to be a market segment even to sell a paper clip. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: surreal experience
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: read '50s e.g., 'popular mechanics' sometime