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mircea_popescu: 500sqft being larger
than about half of
the "apartments" "engineers" dwell in, at
that.
mircea_popescu: i just got a bunch, so you happen
to have hit hot cache.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, lesson from
the story is get
terminal in small
town with excellent Catholic hospital and have
the good luck
to die before discharge.
mod6: punched one in
the face.
mod6: BingoBoingo: sounds familiar. my mom hated
the alarms. she set
them off one day, few days before she died, and fought
two young nurses over it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the peninsula is ready
to give you
teh grand deluxe room at 500/night. half price for a whole month. call
them.
mod6: Anyway, i shake my head. I mentioned it during
the whole
thing a month or so ago. It was
total chaos at best.
BingoBoingo: Small
town hospital had room service and pastoral service with nuns coming
through for communion every day. "Rehabilitation nursing" facility had "fall alarms" allegedly addressed eventually.
mod6: BingoBoingo: sorry
to hear
that :/
mircea_popescu: and
they wanna
tell me one sixth of a fat woman and some moldy upholstery is "market competitive" ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 20k a week gets you
the penthouse at
the
taj mahal + your personal dozen hookers.
mod6: mircea_popescu: we got uber lucky.
that's
the point. you shound't have
to get lucky when something like
this happens.
mod6: and
then it's like something like $5k a week for room/board after
that + medical expenses.
BingoBoingo: <mod6> yeah,
the hospital. << Grandpa had
to move from hospital with excellent rehab program and pallative care
to "speciallist" rehabilitation nursing facility, and
the day he made
the move was when his post-stroke decline became unrecoverable.
mircea_popescu: from what i hear it's actuallyh on
the mend, was significantly worse cca 2000s, but anyway.
mod6: but man, $5k up front
to walk in
the door for any non-free place.
mod6: yah for sure.
this place she went was actually pretty damn good, considering, free.
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah, it's an iffy
thing all around. most hospices are a) insanely expensive considering what
that same dollar'd get you in say vegas and b) really worse conditions
than ~anything seen in civilian housing.
mod6: but if it wasn't for
that!
then what?
trinque incidentally had a family friend die of same
type of cancer last week
mod6: anyway, it never came
to anything, because
then we got her into a charity hospice.
trinque: adult incapable of self-care belongs
to either gutter or own family
mod6: she had 4 days fully covered. and about 40% of
the other
three days... mind, she was only at home for 20 days.
trinque: well
that's
the whole
thing, as I see it
mircea_popescu: kinda says it's own sad story about
the state of postindustrial world,
this.
mod6: they
then
turned around on us and
tried
to get
the state involved saying
that we were being neglectful of a vulnerable adult.
mircea_popescu: i don't
think i've ever seen a jurisdiction where oncology beds weren't short. ever.
mircea_popescu: im not even sure it's
the profit, prolly shortage of specialist beds.
mod6: that's not
the problem.
mod6: which is fine. everyone is obviously entitled
to make a profit.
mircea_popescu: mod6
the idea being
that
they're in
the business of
treating, gotta be
treatin' or not
there.
mod6: the entire
thing i went
through in
the last 90 days just affirms
to me how
truly fucked up
this shit is.
mircea_popescu: do hookers pay
their own way ? subquestion : i know
this woman who pays a dude
to rent from her, and also has
to suck him off. is she paying her way ?
mod6: yeah,
the hospital.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: aha, just
the color of "medical necessity"
mod6: they made us
take her home when we said
that we were not going
to
treat her cancer.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Other
traditional solution is "making comfortable" where narcotics perscribed for pain increases in steps until amount is incompatible with life
mod6: "WHAT IF SHE WONDERS OFF AND FREEZES
TO DEATH?!"
mircea_popescu: trinque and
the king belongs
to
the kingdom and what else ?
mod6: "NO. WE
TOLD YOU
THIS 69,000 YOU COCKSUCKERS."
trinque: if
they're not still paying own way
trinque: whatever else,
the old/infirm without question belong
to whatever next of kin
mod6: BUT, you have
to have insurance or whatever
to get
that.
mod6: it ~basically~ comes down
to
that.
mircea_popescu: mod6 afaik
the white man custom is, doctor prescribes whole month of sedatives, she accidentally
takes
them.
mod6: i'd have killed her myself if
they'd let me.
mod6: it recently felt pretty fucking awful
to watch my mom wither away infront of my eyes while suffering. not allowed
to die, she doesn't have permission.
mod6: well, i only use
that as an exception
a111: Logged on 2017-04-27 02:14 mod6:
trinque: well, whatever
the impetus, it still beats "you must suffer because you can't self-terminate. life is precious(tm)"
a111: Logged on 2017-04-27 02:13
trinque: mod6: yeah but
the "right
to die"
thing grows out of
trying
to cut socialist costs
mod6: mircea_popescu: just reckless beyond all comprehension. quite interesting
times,
these are.
shinohai: BingoBoingo: I'd say publish for now on personal blog, will republish on new site when I get
the kinks out.
mircea_popescu: white man used
to have a literate culture built atop a capitalist society etcetera etcetera.
the fucking africans have won, it's all gone by now.
mircea_popescu: "these here bears have
the fighting spirit, i want
to be great warrior, i worship bear
totem"
mircea_popescu: his project was a loose
talk on
the
topic of "entrepreneurialness as a sport", and it was
through and
through pre-literare juju worship.
mircea_popescu: he had a succession of slides (uncredited) depicting mostly obscure sportsmen and singers. he wanted
to know what
the audience
thought
they had in common.
mircea_popescu went
to business school here
today, spent five minutes listening in on what evidently was
the graduation project of some 4th year kid. do you know what he had ?
mod6: trinque: well, whatever
the impetus, it still beats "you must suffer because you can't self-terminate. life is precious(tm)"
☟︎ BingoBoingo: shinohai: About how long until a live site spins up? Some agriCulture news is dropping
tomorrow and Qntra isn't
the right venue. Can go on personal blog if
the journal is not yet publishing, but... content will be available if
the venue exists.
mircea_popescu: basically
the
talktards have managed
to give away EVERY.SINGLE.GAIN of
three centuries of industrialization.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it's just... outside of extremely exceptional cases,
the bar for
trust needed
to hire someone far exceeds
the bar of
trust needed
to have
them live with your other girls. it's just nonsense like
that.
trinque: mod6: yeah but
the "right
to die"
thing grows out of
trying
to cut socialist costs
☟︎ shinohai: BingoBoingo: I am. Still in research phase
though :/
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Are you still interested in doing
TMSR Journal of Whorticulture?
mod6: mircea_popescu: yah, certainly seems
to be headed in
the direction like your #eulora log link earlier.
trinque: or selling
the most
trivial of "tech" (read: some fuckin website)
mod6: none of
this is limited
to Oregon. At least
they have
their heads screwed on straight with "Right-to-Die" or whatever.
trinque: try hiring someone in
this environment.
mod6: yah, we see
this
type of feckless, coercive shit everwhere you look
these days
BingoBoingo: I dun
think anyone gave Oregon as it presently exists much hope for much mercy when
The Great Again comes
mod6: now
there is only "hope it implodes"
mod6: i mean, i had a recent foray into all kinds of nonsense since my mom got sick.
the whole
thing is just ... b0rk3d. fubar.
a111: Logged on 2015-01-27 04:51 mod6: We regret
to inform you
that your republic has
termites.
mod6: typical usg insanity
tho.
trinque: hope you've got an army of lawyers for
that match.
mod6: maga,
tell me more.
shinohai:
http://archive.is/oub2t "Järlström is now suing
the state board .... arguing
that it's unconstitutional
to prevent someone from doing math without
the government's permission"
mircea_popescu: he's pessimistic about big red warnings, i'm pessimistic about
the ~possiblity~ of an english-language culture.
mircea_popescu: ks
to be a warning. People also don't expect
things
to be complicated enough
to warrant a
tutorial, so
they won't allocate
time specifically
to read one, on any
topic, for any reason.
They're wrong, of course, but
they won't ever find
that out,
to
the best extent of
their abilities."
mircea_popescu: "My own experience here is depressing – nobody, not even
the smartest folks, is willing
to read anything unless
they came specifically
to read. If
they came for any other purpose, forget it. When you're a
tutorial, you can
tell
things
to people and
they listen. When you're an error message, people read you
to
the extent necessary
to make you go away but no further. And when you're a warning, people simply ignore you. It suc
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now imagine instead of "false" it actually wanted
the
time signed.
mircea_popescu: it's not so hard
to fucking notice your box is dialing out.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-26 21:12 asciilifeform: 'backdoor allows Bitmain
to shut off a large section of
the global hashrate (estimated
to be at up
to 70% of all mining equipment). It can also be used
to directly
target specific machines or customers.'
a111: Logged on 2017-04-26 16:57 asciilifeform: voip.istanbuldc.com <<
this and 1,001 other voip crapolades. gotta wonder why usg is so fixated on voice
telephony.
pete_dushenski: pete_dushenski: it'd be more surprising if it were
the only backdoor. like ferrari factory authorised odometer rollback (this recently
too!) would be surprising if it were only sketchy business practice
that $RACE engaged in.