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mircea_popescu: kickass.
mircea_popescu: and there's this cloud of little 2mm guys jumping from where yo ustep
mircea_popescu: one of the best parts of cutting grass in like may/june was, after you cut it, the next day or w/e, you go for a stroll
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah grass is great. grasshoppers!
mircea_popescu: so i didn't ACTUALLY pay anything on them.
mircea_popescu: i have over you the advantage that hey, corporate purchases. tax writeoff.
mircea_popescu: and i even have the exact moneyary counts. 450 lei for the item, =~ 150 bucks. 90 lei for two chord extensions (40m total), 30 bucls.
mircea_popescu: and turns out i was wrong, it was 1.3kw
mircea_popescu: https://www.bosch-garden.com/gb/en/garden-tools/garden-tools/rotak-34-r-3165140746472-199956.jsp
mircea_popescu: because the fucking blog!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform << http://trilema.com/2011/marea-afacere-cu-tuns-iarba/#selection-49.0-53.287 i have history!
mircea_popescu is suddenly very appreciative of all the problems he never had.
mircea_popescu: and it charges at 1.5 ? how long does this take, whole night ?
mircea_popescu: nobody forces you to make a shitty engine!
mircea_popescu: oh
mircea_popescu: exhaust ?
mircea_popescu: why the fuck not put an actual engine in there ?
mircea_popescu: if you're gonna make it heavier than a fuckable woman and steel and whatnot
mircea_popescu: lmao!
mircea_popescu: well that's for sure. but, plastic, right ?
mircea_popescu: iirc was 36v like 30-50 Ah
mircea_popescu: i suppose you could install one of those electric bike things
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess unless you make your own order for 36v batteries that's not getting fixed, who the fuck wants to charge 3 items one by one etc
mircea_popescu: onbe of the foremost lost arts. there's an entire story to the job, including how to build waterproof hay piles.
mircea_popescu: no nm, that';s more the tool. scytheman!
mircea_popescu: "haymaker"
mircea_popescu: haymen ?
mircea_popescu: how do you even call this in english,
mircea_popescu: why the fuck do you think scythe grass cutters insist on skill an d sharp scythe, rather than bulging biceps.
mircea_popescu: cuz you didn't bother to think about it.
mircea_popescu: anyway sharp blade counts ^2, motor power counts like ^.8 or something.
mircea_popescu: ac i mean.
mircea_popescu: my thing was a very respectable 600W DC thing, never had a problem cutting right through thistle and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: so it's more like a motorized woodchipper ?
mircea_popescu: nuts.
mircea_popescu: oh
mircea_popescu: best cut off the 36 to 12v transformer
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt a 36 v motor is actually in there. what, this thing weighs 60 lbs ?
mircea_popescu: :D
mircea_popescu: get a rack ?
mircea_popescu: oh.
mircea_popescu: but i guess you'll have to hitch a car battery to it.
mircea_popescu: i just cut in lines away from the house. cord was at no point past wherer i cut.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when i bought a grass cutter i bought one with plug. fuck me if im going to buy any battery anything.
mircea_popescu: guy's broadly inept but decently documented.
mircea_popescu: https://cinetext.wordpress.com/category/soviet-film/page/2/ << if anyone's truly bored, curious about the topic of cinema and doesn't read russian.
mircea_popescu: let me guess punkman, thats a graph of bitcoind
mircea_popescu: prolly make violent rape go away.
mircea_popescu: and how come they're not working to make a woman that self-destructs after fucking.
mircea_popescu: why 8 ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla prolly was, in the sense of "i'll tell you about the italians so you can tell your boss im an informant and then tell me when they wanna hit my org."
mircea_popescu: jesus.
mircea_popescu: i'm supposed to admire how dounia "Can endure" ? fuck her stupid head ?
mircea_popescu: nothing but nagging and an insistence of posing the likes of which isn't yet encountered on instagram!
mircea_popescu: how did this shit pass for literature again, it has all the drawbacks of cancerous womanhood.
mircea_popescu: jesus christ i threw it away.
mircea_popescu: that fucking letter to the bum from his IDIOTIC mother about how that slut of a sister of his lied to everyone and wouldn't fuck
mircea_popescu: oh-my-fucking-god is this guy boring&stupid.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, i tried to re-read dostoyevsky for my sins.
mircea_popescu: they didn't sit around being americans for more than an hour a month.
mircea_popescu: exactly like a state. 19th century americans ALSO had a day job.
mircea_popescu: notrly.
mircea_popescu: show me the ghetto kingdom they built themselves.
mircea_popescu: but you will notice that we're not merely aghast at inept fiat govertnment. we have substitute. we collect fucking taxes. heck, b-a collection is above the historical maximum for ANY fiat state known during the past century or more. well over 90%.
mircea_popescu: besides the point.
mircea_popescu: in other words : inner city blacks are subhuman, and not a proper example in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: (and you will also note that elephants in zoo may break cages/lay waste to the hay depot, but do not as a rule figure out hjow to use gps to locate the central bureau of zoos and burn the local pencildicks in charge.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consequently the negative taxation they beenfit from does not figure in their breaking of cages.
mircea_popescu: anyway. to reiterate : b-a needs to get a cinema production unit going. talk to me babies!
mircea_popescu: inner city black man does not see himself as owned by the crown.
mircea_popescu: those aren't subjects.
mircea_popescu: for as long as taxation is negative, you don't really get much robin hood action.
mircea_popescu: they are all, without exception, living above their means on govt supports.
mircea_popescu: of the bent over crowd.
mircea_popescu: certainly. still, look at the demographics.
mircea_popescu: look at the demographics.
mircea_popescu: does poorly on reddit.
mircea_popescu: does fine here.
mircea_popescu: where ?
mircea_popescu: i recall the part, but where do you take it ?
mircea_popescu: 1970s russians believed the soviets are non-dumb. just like 2010 chinese believe the same about their idiotic leadership.
mircea_popescu: today, they sit in govt dole.
mircea_popescu: hjas nothing to do with the code folks. in the 19th century, the us was a place where people earned their keep.
mircea_popescu wants a director now. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: that's the truth, that's the movie you make. or fuck you.
mircea_popescu: the average "criminal" being definitely more lovable, and in general more ethically respectable than the BEST of the law enforcement criminal gang.
mircea_popescu: speak truth to power and all that.
mircea_popescu: that's what you gotta do, IF you're gonna make movies.
mircea_popescu: the cinematic vocation of 2010s is, depicting the us president as a sort of nero.
mircea_popescu: make me one in which bharara is depicted au naturel : as a lying, evil scumbag from hell.
mircea_popescu: fuck that shit.
mircea_popescu: what, the bulger crime family never happened, right ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: what's this bullshit 1950esque "bad guys against the angelic aparatchiks" ? where the fuck is the hollywood movie about carl force V
mircea_popescu: what's more sad is the fucking mosfilm level of the script. seriously, the "idealistic da" ? what the fuck, there is no even remotely ethical da in the us, nor was there, for 30+ years.
mircea_popescu: it's sad that crud like that is going to be forever associated with "the first attempt to put the internet in the #1 position for marketing a movie"
mircea_popescu: in other news, snakes on a plane is an incredibly bad film. down there with tucker max productions and shit.
mircea_popescu: which one is sanders again ?
mircea_popescu: in the crooked timber of the english language, no kant was ever translated.
mircea_popescu: i didn't invent the broken!
mircea_popescu: sorry!