asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'встал с позаранку' in this case - 'lifted himself off Pozaranku'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: stierlitz rose bright-and-early ('с позаранку') and tore back the curtain ('отодрал занавеску'). little did he know that Позаранку and Занавеску were Romanian spygirls. ('отодрал' can also mean 'fucked raw'; the first segment is a gag on the rus. accusative declension '-у.)
asciilifeform: 1) get academtard job 2) connect 'shannonizer' 3) profit
asciilifeform: 'my vagina is my village.' - seen printed on a tshirt, at the university i live near.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: languages and the arts: see if you can digest this russian tidbit: 'Штирлиц встал с позаранку и отодрал занавеску. Он не знал, что Позаранку и Занавеску - румынские разведчицы.'
asciilifeform: 'i like rotting meat just fine except for the number of weevils'
asciilifeform: i didn't pull it directly out of me arse
asciilifeform: ever notice how the tech hucksters use names like 'rails,' 'engine yard,' etc. - meant to evoke pictures of an era when industry was still in good health
asciilifeform: getting paid to learn? cool << visit a u.s. uni, and see what kind of 'learning' you will do, if you were to take up this work.
asciilifeform: long ago. before the 'edukation' racket.
asciilifeform: benkay: after a few people did this, and passed, they tightened the screws
asciilifeform: given that most u.s. uni courses are priced per credit, few complain.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: three credits per course was the norm << same. but with some comical undershoot. e.g. 'operating systems' took about 40h/week of actual work for most of the kids, but earned... 4 credit.
asciilifeform: (keeping them out via any means other than price is thoroughly forbidden by various laws, decades old at this point)
asciilifeform: to understand how this works, visit any u.s. location where the folks subsisting on gov. 'welfare' and petty crime can afford to live.
asciilifeform: the reason why no experiment whatsoever with cheap housing en-masse is possible in usa, is that any locale with such becomes 'infested' overnight☟︎
asciilifeform: one other thing about housing in usa - that is rarely spoken of in the open literature - is that the americans switched to housing price as a means of putting the '60-70s race wars on hold☟︎
asciilifeform: as mp pointed out some time last week, dynamiting the permafrost to lay foundations is costly, etc.
asciilifeform: but for some reason alaska climate puts them off.
asciilifeform: i suspect that many people in usa would happily eat $50 watermelons in a $1000 house.
asciilifeform: for so long as the racket of letting an average salaried schmuck borrow $MAXINT to repay for the rest of his life - the price floor will remain.
asciilifeform: nobody is getting a house, in decent physical condition, near a major employment hub, for 10k. yet.
asciilifeform: there is definitely a palpable 'price floor', that remains solid, at least outside of war zones (e.g. detroit)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the americans found a more barbaric and elegant solution to propping up housing costs - foreclose en masse and let the buildings rot, harvested by copper thieves, etc.
asciilifeform: less, if you permit exotica like machine-sculpted concrete
asciilifeform: photovoltaics are not the product << the cocktail of self-righteous envirowhinerism and successful penny pinching (while 'pound-foolish') is the product.
asciilifeform: speaking of derpatronics: there i was, trying to pick up some chair on the cheap, and saw:
asciilifeform: mike_c: over here, they sometimes celebrate by wrecking shop windows, lighting fires in the road, etc. but a public and ostentatious mass police beating put a bit of a pause in this 'colourful tradition' - at least, for now.
asciilifeform: more interestingly, sometimes (at least in 'college towns') there is chaos if... the 'right' team wins. celebratory riot.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wait what, lol! in Ro ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik the 'bully' crap is mostly 'concern trolling', schoolboys are not yet jailed en masse for using their fists
asciilifeform: probably in the same city where cats were forbidden to devour birds.
asciilifeform: ;;google a pig like that you don't eat all at once
asciilifeform: 'великая отечественная война' -> great fatherlandic war
asciilifeform: (note the traditional engl. mistranslation of the russian term for ww2 - 'great patriotic war' - really, '
asciilifeform: benkay: as described in my post (linked earlier.) it is easiest to ignore apple when one has no need for portable computer (i think it was mp, and a few others, who noted that they never needed a laptop)
