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ben_vulpes: bridges still fall down in
the great again
mircea_popescu: but
the curious are encouraged
to do a court survey of cases of "motorist killed by large road debris",
there's been 100s of cases
to date.
mircea_popescu: the decision was made cca 2006 us infrastructure will not be maintained.
the plasticar is unavoidable "squeeze last drop"
ben_vulpes: there's a very real lower bound on
the savings
to be delivered with
this vehicle
though, and
they're probably going
to get burnt down by
the poor folks who can't afford any better
than
the plastic having
to drive further because must ams cities.
ben_vulpes: plastification of
typical vehicle mitigates against wear and
tear from ever more degraded roads. less mass, less demand on
the shock absorption system.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: the naive counter
that "cars and more land area covered with rapidly-depreciated asphault solve nothing either!" is stupidly ignorant of path-dependent processes. america is
the land of cars (thanks eisenhower) and will remain so for as far out as i can see.
ben_vulpes: relatedly, light industry in p-town is gearing up for some serious wailing on
the
topic of how all of
the cheap housing for
their cheap labor is ~gone and now cheap labor has
to buy a car and fuel/maintain/operate/park it instead of biking
ten minutes
to
the shabby-chic warehouse from
their squalid shared living setups
☟︎ BingoBoingo: "Wozniak envisions Earth zoned for residential use and Mars for heavy industry." <<
Tard, residences can only be so far from heavy industry or "Y no Roads?"
mircea_popescu: lights and errything. you can even register actual
tracks and have it play
them back
to
the poor baby.
mircea_popescu: soo... i spent most of
the day in
the casinos, during which amiable passtime i happened
to pick up
the following
tidbit :
mod6: gonna see what
those results look like...
then will probably continue on and
test
the remainder of
the fgs I've got.
mod6: not sure if I mentioned yesterday, but I did start a collection of another ~1Gb of entropy from
the same fg as I wrote up
the blog post about.
a111: Logged on 2014-05-26 21:42 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: reminds me of a
time when i stowed some stuff in plastic garbage bags,
then discovered
they were... biodegradable.
turned
to astonishing quantity of dust. when vacuuming old flat, found fragments - years after
the fact.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If you do not wish
to
travel
to civilized lands in search of barncat other
things squirrels hate include OC spray and .22 LR
BingoBoingo: Second rule of barn cat, is you wait for barncat
to approach you for petting.
BingoBoingo: First rule of barn cat is you feed
them well so
that
they do not
try
to ration
their murder in instead recreate in
their death skills
BingoBoingo: Common
theme of "ode
to barn cat" postings is week after mourning presumed loss of barncat, barn cat returns from spec ops mission of murder
BingoBoingo: You need a redneck kitty
that ain't going
to let any of
those coons/squirrels/mice onto kitty's land
BingoBoingo: Ah, yeah. Apparently D-con is popular for
this purpose as are veteran barn cats
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform>
these cardboard dwellings ,
they
take heroic efforts simply
to keep from coming apart. <<
The general movement seems
to be converting
the cardboard into polyurethane in place at sucker's expense
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> for instance, squirrels have dug a
tunnel into my wall, it would be great if
they disappeared suddenly. but
they won't, will have
to get specialists <<
THere's a version of polyurethane foam marketed for
this purpose.
mircea_popescu: i must confess it's first
thing i hear man's dwelling under
threat from squirrel.
mircea_popescu: what, you imagine if
tomorrow
there were simply a hole in
the ocean where
the us stood anyone'd miss
them ?
mircea_popescu: someone would not rather
the usg problem quietly evaporate ?
mircea_popescu: it's also
their very largest
trade partner by huge margin.
mircea_popescu: it's funny how you don't regard
the is-organized rape of
the us as is-organized but you DO regard
the best korea-organized famine of best korea as us organized.
mircea_popescu: my objection is
that if i invited any of
those girls with nice
tits
to my hotel room she wouldn't have sense enough
to strip while walking
the hallway.
mircea_popescu: including
the
terrible apples and all
the food fixation of an evidently hungry people.
mircea_popescu: aaanyway, must be one helluva
trip for good soviet, it looks exactly like what su'd have been in 2017 had everyone involved been braindamaged enough
to permit it
to continue past 88.
mircea_popescu: i expect
this pretty much summarizes north korea altogether.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seriously now, what's with
the syncrhonized glass clinking, is
this one of
those mass weddings or something ? scientology run event ?
mircea_popescu: i do not understand why all
the girls are old ugly and dressed in
this porn ?
BingoBoingo suspects nation scam is simple effort
to hijack
tribal
tendancies for gr8
tragedy
mircea_popescu: i don't even mean "if
they were brilliant" or anything.
mircea_popescu: if power rangers weren't
terminal fucking retards it's altogether unlikely anyone'd even know
the name.
mircea_popescu: save me
the fucking
trouble, i'll
throw a
ticker
tape parade.
mircea_popescu: eh, let
them be
the better mps, if
they got
the wetware. what, you
think i'd object ?
mircea_popescu: well, in my apparently peculiar view "here" is a construct of
thought rather
than a mpapacy.