asciilifeform: mats: if you're willing to spend half the day in a car
asciilifeform: mats: many of the arguments against 'google dorm' don't hold water. e.g., the current 'collect 200k/y salary, give 180k/y to housing racket' system is just as impoverishing; 'lose your job, lose your housing' is just as true now for the fools paying those 180k to live in auto range of palo alto etc.; the squalor is just the same in the palo alto 'efficiency' flat as in any dorm; and so forth
asciilifeform: 'giving the handle' is how pedos came to play their seemingly disproportionate share in all american structures, from sport clubs to state governments
asciilifeform is not proud of having that thing live in his head now - it's gotta be good for something like mental equivalent of 'black lung disease' - but it can be handy
asciilifeform: under 'Closing, as it "works as intended". Pull requests to speed up block downloading are on the way and could use testing, see #2964.'
asciilifeform: aaaand notice what the bugger proposes as 'solution on the way'
asciilifeform: in fact, this ~is~ the bastards thing innit.
