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diana_coman: for
the more
touristical
thing I'd say probably
Trakai
diana_coman: well,
there is ~nothing
to see in Panevezys,
that's
the point: kind of industrial, provincial
town, poor and stinky all around
diana_coman: vilnius got a
total makeup when it was eu cultural capital
thing (and yes, several locals complained
to me
that it's worse for all
that polish) but
the uberglitzed area
to my mind is just
the very-very small bang-centre: cathedral and
that molehill
they call
the castle
pete_dushenski: iirc i drove
through pranvezys on
the road back from vilnius
to riga but didn't really stop. spent a bit more
time in klaipeda and area
diana_coman: heh, pete_dushenski have you been
to some of
the smaller/more provincial ones? Panevezys comes
to mind, lol
pete_dushenski: like most second-biggest cities, kaunus also doesn't feel overly polished, uberglitzed, and overrun with
tour busses
the way vilnius or riga do
diana_coman: aha, yeah,
that's
the smaller airport, quite all right for what it's used actually
diana_coman: still, after one
trip with
them I prefer by far
to fly into Riga and
take
the bus or car
to Vilnius from
there
diana_coman: since Lithuania managed
to end up in
the interesting position of having 2 (at least, I did not even check if it doesn't have more
than
that) airports and no airline, Ryanair were
the only ones
to fly directly
there
a111: Logged on 2016-09-28 15:08 mircea_popescu: dubious, because
the "basic necessities" a la mchappy meal never needs
to cost anything, which is why it's
two dollars ; and actual food is already going into a spiral.
diana_coman: oh, I did not mention
the backseats
that do not recline and
the very, VERY limited leg-space
pete_dushenski: diana_coman: aha. i've heard similar horror stories and given
that it'll be a family
trip and
that i'm NOTPOOR(tm)(r), i'll probably be looking at deals
to
the mainland and ~cost-effective~ proposals
to
the isles.
the customer "service" and baggage issues
that have been relayed
to me previously were similarly cautionary.
diana_coman: ldn't be surprised if
they added meanwhile some "Oxygen fee")
diana_coman: fwiw pete_dushenski I flew with Ryanair and I would advise against
them unless you are either a. desperate b. really curious of how a plane can feel like
the old-times local bus for local peasants, chicken and other animals combined;
they have
the most obnoxious "service" I ever saw filled with loud and frequent "offers"
to buy all sorts and *advertisement* in
the cabin; not
to mention interesting fees such as "fuel fee" (I wou
shinohai: In U.S. and A.
they
treat horses like we in Kazakhstan
treat our women.
They feed
them
two
times a day.
They have
them sleep on straw in a small box. And for entertainment,
they make
them jump over fences while being whipped.
mircea_popescu: "shaved smooth snatch
that saw water
today" being reliably what you find between female "students'" legs ~= "civilised world".
mircea_popescu: incidentally,
the above being perhaps
the best explanation of what distinguishes
third world from civilised world. "are your women regularly diddled or do
they grow fucking cobwebs down
there."
BingoBoingo: But yes, doctor is mandatory because provides
target for
torts!
mircea_popescu: the notion
that females under 30 would be allowed
to NOT be vaginally inspected once a month is scandalous.
mircea_popescu: and doctor visit is a fine idea. a) gets her used
to stranger hands up her snatch ; b) pills do have side effects.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pets say "they sure did back when i was
there"
ben_vulpes: some folks get seriously bent about
the abortions
tho
mircea_popescu: i dun
think anyone seriously intends
to stop giving young women free pills.
ben_vulpes: plus
think about
the costs of rebranding all of
the attack ads
ben_vulpes: 50+ different institutions would be nigh-impossible for
the right
to organize a defunding of
ben_vulpes: relatedly, why hasn't
that org shattered its brand yet?
ben_vulpes: one of
the wotpaste header stars is now a link
ben_vulpes: like fuck i'm going
to give a shit about mis-encodings somewhere between os x,
tmux,
this retarded
terminnal application, and linux locales
ben_vulpes: help i'm
trapped in character encoding hell
mircea_popescu: "oui, comme Ãa? or
too cute." apparently
turns into ВХРЮК
Framedragger: AHA! and so, eulora becomes
the explicit marketing platform for
TERRORISM
trinque: !!help << first item links
to wotpaste
mircea_popescu: the whole internet has shrunk
to
the size of walnut. in english i mean.
mircea_popescu:
theirs an iguana, and iguana is reptile not mammal") is always "global warm"ism / "intelligent design"ism
mircea_popescu: the problem with
the political notion of "primitive" is
that well, it's
the "global warming" from before global warming.
there ~is~ a scientific notion of primitive, but it's deeply political inconvenient (such as, primitive society uses hieroglyphics rather
than alphabet. making
the chinese primitive.) wheres
the politically convenient version ("guys in next
town over are primitive, because our footbal mascot is a beaver and
mircea_popescu: well, if you don't use windows,
there's ~no minimum specs, i've had it run on
ten year old laptops. if you do use windows it's unclear as of yet, some people have had problems but seems
to be on random hardware
Mariono: what is
the minimum specs for me
to able play
the game ?
Mariono: all anyone use windows
to play
the game ?
mircea_popescu: these are very deeply disjunct modes. i'm sure [they like
to
think]
telling us
teenager
that "honey, never mind what
the other girls say, you should have self esteem" works for her. from experience it ~works, for a little anywya. but doth not work for subsaharan chick. at all.
mircea_popescu: you can see
this in a million places. normal human being eschews reading an announcement, in favour of asking person at
the desk personally ; usian "pleasure of white" zealot eschews interacting with
this "because
there's nowhere
to read what
to do and have
to
talk
to people"
mircea_popescu: this is not
true of most sane people, including all africa. girls
there wanna be with other girls and sing call-and-response all day long.
Framedragger: and in general builds an argument against
the notion of "primitive" as widely used in western anthropology.
mircea_popescu: anyway. "the pleasure of whiteness" in particular denotes
this peculiar view of human existence, which is very deeply puritan (which
they usually call white or white-patriarchy, neither of which have anything
to do). ie,
typical middle class us female enjoys being in herself, which is why she loves nothing more
than
to grow fat while watching netflix.
Framedragger: but
this reminded me of clastres' "society against
the state", a set of essays on "primitiv kultures".
the latter use all kinds of mutilation'y
things
to do interesting stuff, e.g. if one breaks a law,
that law is inscribed on
the flesh of
the person having broken it; etc.
mircea_popescu: ie, if you people are going
to herd rather
than critically analyze, it might as well be
that YOU are
the reason
the account has
to be banned.
Framedragger: i guess
that
twitter acct
thought it was funny
that FGM could be anything other
than bullshit. at
the point of lol'ing at
those
tweets i
took
this as a given
mircea_popescu: note also
that what "things are used
to represent" is very rarely a valid concern.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: hm. on actually closer inspection,
that
thing's easier
to parse if one reads
till end of extract. one of
the points is
that
the notion of female genital mutilation is used
to represent african
tribes etc. as inferior culturally, sexually, etc.;
thesis seems
to disagree with
this portrayal of
that
tribal culture.
this does indeed not sound original. but, i guess you're right, it's more like meh, and not a lol-worthy outrag
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well,
typical. suppose you have
to go
to dinner with
the
typical female and
then with her
to
the
typical poetry reading.
mircea_popescu: and we get
to a) cut one enemy out of process ; b) build one friend into process.
shinohai: trinque:
thank you for
that btw, makes my job so much damned easier
mircea_popescu: the person versed in
the art can always distinguish art from rubbish.
the problem is what versed means.
mircea_popescu: i can distinguish it. most recently proven for example when i flew off handle over something someone linked with
triangles and squares.