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: '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: 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: 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: 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