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lobbes off to mines, bbl
lobbes: it was maybe a month or so ago (and over the interwebz), so I can't remember fully, but I want to say she was ~25 years old mebbe
lobbes: mircea_popescu: I don't really have a style to cramp atm; I'll eat any and all knowledge right now
feedbot: http://blog.lobbesblog.com/2019/08/the-forest/ << lobbesblog -- The Forest
mircea_popescu: incidentally, lobbes , not to cramp your style, but... how old was the subbie you propositioned ?
lobbes: my blog grows leaner and meaner by the hour
lobbes: well, that was simple! Mah blog nao has proper server-side selection. Ty mircea_popescu and co. for that fix. (and ty BingoBoingo for unrelated fix)
lobbes: meanwhile, I've found the trilema for server-side selection. Will apply and report back
lobbes: BingoBoingo: wait, this for server-side selection? Or is this a known fix for teh comment lag?
BingoBoingo: lobbes: First go to your settings, Discussion settings, "other comment settings" and uncheck the box for "Break comments into pages"
lobbes: now to get proper server-side selection working
lobbes: hanbot's patch removed a query to a table that did not exist in my mysql database, so perhaps this was the cause of the lag; time will tell I guess
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-26 17:49:51 mircea_popescu: lobbes, incidentally, your blog takes an ungodly amt of time to take a comment. must be some kinda bug somewheres.
lobbes: I noticed that the test comment went through much quicker, so perhaps this also was the potential bug mp encountered
lobbes: and ty hanbot for the authoring the fix!
lobbes: seems to be working fine, but plox anyone to let me know if oddities
lobbes: In other news, I just applied the suggested html comments bug fix from diana_coman to blog >> http://blog.lobbesblog.com/2019/08/on-relationships-or-how-pretense-kills/comment-page-1/#comment-76
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-27 18:54:53 thimbronion: FYI if you get more rockchips in I will lease one.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-27 23:09:35 BingoBoingo: My impression of the TSA was welfare folks pissed they had to show up somewhere and do some motions to get their dole
asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-27#1931622 << starvation wage in combination with utterly, screamingly pointless work, will do that
asciilifeform: for futile rage of farm animal, convenient victim doll will be given. in 1940 same raging plebes wanted 'gas rothchild'. instead gassed shoemakers who used to fix their shoes, tailor who usedto fix their coat. rothchild unscathed, richer than ever.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-27 23:13:14 lobbes: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-27#1931614 << oya; the "occupy butt street" idjits I went to school with back in the day got hard-ons at "taxing those rich bastards who dare to create industry"
asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-27#1931623 << the rage aint even misplaced -- 0 of the folx alive presently, king or slave, had ~anyffin to do with 'create industry'. futile rage, is all.
asciilifeform: lobbes: even ill-fitting suit that'd look at home on a defrocked ex-maffs prof turned hobo, worx a++ wonders in airport.
lobbes: but these beasts, as BingoBoingo points, are different items from the TSA monkeys who are mostly the welfare folx
lobbes: amusingly, to this day, however I'll always dress in a suit for air travel. After enough experimenting I discovered that indeed I get better treatment when I do (often am addressed with 'sir' than when in jeanz and t-shirt, get moar attention from the attendants etc). Why? Because the airlines *know* that a huge % of their business comes from... repeat business travelers! Can't kill industry
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-27 22:40:47 asciilifeform: incidentally, i agree w/ mircea_popescu re 'airport strippings have ~popular~ support in usa' but not with his hypothesis re why ( sumthing with 'cuckism' ). instead i suspect it's an idjit stab at 'class warfare' , the ~90% of usa that can't afford to ride in an airplane delights in hearing 'them snooty fucks in suits' getting stripped
lobbes: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-27#1931614 << oya; the "occupy butt street" idjits I went to school with back in the day got hard-ons at "taxing those rich bastards who dare to create industry"
BingoBoingo: My impression of the TSA was welfare folks pissed they had to show up somewhere and do some motions to get their dole
asciilifeform: the old reds had a point when wrote 'you cannot disassemble the master's house with the master's tools' or what was it.
asciilifeform: so idjits go, 'tax the rich!111', buffett : 'yes, yes, tax the rich', while he cackles 'all the way to bank'
asciilifeform: unlike expert entomologists like mircea_popescu , trinque , et al, i dun have much contact with the 'illiterate 20yos' set, but enuff to know that they somehow think 'rich' is what their employed older brothers , parents, are, they have no concept of the real thing even in head
asciilifeform: i.e. where 'class war!111' fuckwits in usa cheered at 'raise tax rate' until then find ~themselves~ expected to pay same % as buffett would pay if he were to ever pay at all
asciilifeform: or see also mircea_popescu's 'buffett's tax' piece .
asciilifeform: incidentally, i agree w/ mircea_popescu re 'airport strippings have ~popular~ support in usa' but not with his hypothesis re why ( sumthing with 'cuckism' ). instead i suspect it's an idjit stab at 'class warfare' , the ~90% of usa that can't afford to ride in an airplane delights in hearing 'them snooty fucks in suits' getting stripped
asciilifeform: lobbes: different rapes for different folx, i suspect. asciilifeform for instance 'feels raped' much moar greatly by the tax collector, than by the ceremonial funnel where one is to put shoes at bushized airport.
lobbes: I used to fly a lot too, tho, and regardless of the skin color the TSA monkeys were always unpleasant to deal with. I would always feel raped by the time I was done getting through the lines; complete with my pants falling down and holding my shoes while running for my flight.
lobbes: Hell, at one point I even played guitar in the local all-black church. The only thing that made me uncomfortable about that was the fact that I have 0 belief in a god, and that the damn band leader would never give me the song list no matter how much I asked. Always had to improvise.
lobbes: I remember for about 4 years or so I lived in an apartment literally on the "other side of the railroad tracks" (this was back in northern Ohio; I've bounced around the country). It was predominantly darker skinned folk, and I am a super-white ginger. Never had a single issue; everyone was friendly towards me. One time the entire parking lot was "robbed"; all cars broken into but mine was passed over
asciilifeform: they live in entirely parallel universe, the 1 described in mircea_popescu's 'the tide dollar' piece.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i dunno how many of these folx at any given time even know who is on the iron throne.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: up through mid-Obama I dealing even with the uniformed sort could be very pleasant.
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had even moar picturesque story, where not only not insulted but had excellent rapport w/ entire bus fulla these , and they all asked for him to become their che guevara
asciilifeform: the poor zeks gave much moar impression of being ~tired~ of life, rather than belligerent .
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo re http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-27#1931572 << i suspect exaggerated. even when i went to heart of lafondistan, 'darkest africa', when attempted to buy dilapidated building -- went into where the orcs were, their 'food depot' even, and no one put knife in, no one even spat in asciilifeform's face or even could be aroused to utter insult
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-25 18:53:47 asciilifeform: diana_coman: to add a few brush strokes to the picture of usa -- and perhaps already you knew -- 1) most folx get ~0 'vacation'. they nominally get '2 wks' but is reserved in practice for illness ; 2) are paid just enuff to stay alive (and locate themselves within vicinity of the mines) , 2-3 missed weeks of pay means destitution .
asciilifeform: ( why? from combination of 'to where to go?' and 'when?' )
asciilifeform previously to mircea_popescu's party in timis, asciilifeform spent 20y not even having occasion to go in airplane anywhere.
asciilifeform: still line to come ~out~ tho.
asciilifeform: after 1st trip ( mircea_popescu's ro ) , asciilifeform bought that subscription for 'get back in usa w/out line', was worth erry penny
asciilifeform: as i understand, you get those always, unless you've yer own airplane.
asciilifeform: 'esteemed sir inspector, wouldja like to see how this machine worx?' 'get outta my sight'
asciilifeform: the only times had to even haggle, was with orcs in orcistans.
asciilifeform: i've stood in multi-kilometre queues in ameri-airports. but never yet encountered any of the famous abuses.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-27 17:09:15 BingoBoingo: STL Lambert Intl was all ghetto kangz and queenz pissed whitey would dare take a flight in the morning and justifying the TSA being at the Airport at that hour.
asciilifeform wonders if the folx at http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-27#1931579 are moar 'uppity' on acct of distance from the payola trough mecca
asciilifeform goes, always , from where cheapest , to the penny
asciilifeform: oh hey loox like i have my notes mixed up -- bmore is from where went to argentina. to BingoBoingo went from dulles (greater washingtonistan)
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile in local news, the absolute worst thing done by same demographic, different destination: https://archive.is/7ovs0 "Eso, después de un paseo por Malvin hoy, en varias plazas ví macumbas con pollos decapitados, frutas por doquier y velas, alguien sabe quién las hace, por qué y si es legal? Dejan todo tirado y a mí me parece sumamente asqueroso"
asciilifeform: i suppose they're all manning lafond's shop
asciilifeform: interesting. one might naively imagine that bmore port would consist of these -- but it didn't.
BingoBoingo: STL Lambert Intl was all ghetto kangz and queenz pissed whitey would dare take a flight in the morning and justifying the TSA being at the Airport at that hour.
asciilifeform: if i knew how to do this in antarctica -- would do it there. would prefer the company of the penguins to ameri-muppets, verily.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i manage to so that to conjure up with what to power asciilifeform's little orchestra, which includes e.g. the expedition and its payload.
asciilifeform: mostly sad white d00dz , in their 20s, there was no slot at patent office for'em, evidently
BingoBoingo: I have trouble understanding how you manage to after having traveled outside the zone.
asciilifeform: fwiw the inspector monkeys in usa , such that i saw in washingtonistan, were harmless, sat and played tetrisen on pnojes
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i won't dispute that it's quite unpleasant. but will remind, i sit there year-round
BingoBoingo: Down here, no one hates me for the color of my skin. One of my last memories of the US was the TSA monkeys and the contempt that bled through everything the agent that handled me did.
BingoBoingo: It's not simply existential gasenwagen risk. Its that going to the US involves dealing with all sorts of uniformed monkees on arrival. Every single uniform monkey encountered in the US is an unpleasant experience.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: hey , i work as full-time canary in that coal mine...
BingoBoingo unenthused about returning to US without warships and "viking hanglider"
BingoBoingo: As long as everything has invoices you can present, customs doesn't *have* to be multi-day ordeal
asciilifeform: other potential headache is that they'll happily offer to carry e.g. +100kg aaand it'll end up 'cargo' and get ben_vulpes'd.
asciilifeform: i'ma have to call'em (and specifically that city's, vs the 'national' one)
lobbes: yea, hard to ascertain over the interwebz
asciilifeform: lobbes: there was 'office' in the bmore airport from which i went. but it was the kind where no one to haggle with, 'here is machine, wouldja like to buy new ticket for 3x what you paid month ago?' 'here we measure the trunks' etc
lobbes: hmm, but wtf, now this says there is an office in the Washington Dulles Airport >> https://www.copacargo.com/html/user/default.aspx?PageId=5&lang=en
asciilifeform: afaik the only 'full scale' office of theirs is in fl
lobbes: Charlotte, NC (about half hour from airport; and halfway from D.C to FL it seems)
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-27 15:18:17 BingoBoingo: May mean reaching out to lobbes or Mocky and setting up a bit of a road trip
lobbes: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-27#1931516 << ftr, I do have a free room in apartment; lordship always welcome as long as I know enough in advance. Though I did some research and it is doubtful if CLT has a copa counter (I could always check on foot to confirm). Loox like closest one may be in Florida
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i dun recall the orcs asking me where i lived. you give'em the usa passport and is all.
BingoBoingo: Well, second headache is that coming into UY they tend to care more about payloads moved by UY living folks
asciilifeform: (the 1 headache is that BingoBoingo's station would end up unmanned for the interval.)
asciilifeform: supposing there aint orc-generated bureaucratic problem in re BingoBoingo going into usa for day or 2, may be workable.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo would not have to get hotel, either, could sleep in hammock in asciilifeform's 'nazi sub'
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-27 15:22:15 asciilifeform: there's also ' asciilifeform's vacation days ' non-renewable resource involved .
asciilifeform: even if costs ~same, conceivably could work around asciilifeform's major handicap, i.e. that he can only go 1 (w/ 'afterburners' , maybe 2x) / yr on acct of http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-27#1931521
mircea_popescu does this occasionally,
mircea_popescu: not a bad idea at that. you can by round trip from us in uy for that matter
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: btw occurs to me , you have a 'copa' counter in BingoBoingostan somewhere. consider inquiring what costs round trip ~from~ BingoBoingostan. it isn't impossible that it'd be cheaper for BingoBoingo to ~pick up~ crates.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-27 15:16:40 mircea_popescu: possibly dealing with typically ustardian faux thing, where the corner grocery store misrepresents itself as "bank". except "oh, we can't do wires"
asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-27#1931506 << us-tardation , if it were ~deterministic~ , would be considerably less headache . but it , sadly, aint. ( for instance asciilifeform never had problem with wire. but that's 0..n, no one knows re n+1... )
asciilifeform did not complain, got to sleep horizontally...
asciilifeform: the folx i told in meatspace about this, no one believed. 'yer fucking with me'
asciilifeform: ( in usa bouncers would come and beat such fella black and blue and throw out of gate. but orcs. )
asciilifeform: re mircea_popescu's quarter tonne -- per last yr's specs , they were formally willing to move up to 150kg -- from anywhere other than usa.
asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-27#1931500 << incidentally i priced 'fexed', their cost is actually comparable to ' asciilifeform-ex ' . problem is that all fedex'd crates end up getting the full orc treatment.
asciilifeform: ( the hero to move boxen instead of asciilifeform , has not yet stood up. )