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mircea_popescu: the entire western canon, 1966-2016, is a fabrication.
the entire fucking
thing. not "global warming" or "smoking kills" or "rape on campuses" or "barack obama, scholar" or whatnot other pinpoint nonsensical "movements". not even "environmentalism" or "feminism" or you know, "war on"
this or
that.
mircea_popescu: "President of
the Argentine Society of Writers and as Professor of English and American Literature at
the Argentine Association of English Culture"
mircea_popescu: they got borges, and
that's good enough. what if he's president for life of an item
that doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, if one googles for argentina's writer's union,
the only result is BOXING writers union.
that's it.
mircea_popescu: phf "for a
thousand dollars i make my own hole". who cares what exists in english ? MAKE it. Pizdanutsya = cuntilized or w/e.
mircea_popescu: the list of
things modern derp doesn't realise could do because never had opportunity
to find out is long indeed.
mircea_popescu: phf back in her younger days chet held open kitchen for
the girls of
the neighbourhood + some foster kids ; because she could cook, and wasn't an idiot - which was more
than could be said about
the respective girls' mothers/grandmothers.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-16 00:11 mircea_popescu: !~translate ru
to en Пиздануться... - возразил Учитель Рапришнш-вутра.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (now, as
to ~why~ in
the latter case, i do not know) << Usually because people now "finish" basements in new construction placing a
toilet below sewer line. Grinder is so
turds can be pumped up
to sewer line.
phf: current place has a decent sized kitchen, it's one of
those arrangements where kitchen is part of living room, but it's almost comical how badly it's designed. nobody who's participated in
the design of
that kitchen has ever cooked anything in
their entire lives.
phf: i used
to
think hanging out in
the kitchen is exclusively su
thing (i know i know), but iranians do
the same
thing. and
the pattern is exactly
the same, everyone's drinking
tea, and
then somebody will just break out a skillet and make omelette or whatever, "of course for everyone in
the room"
mircea_popescu: and
the reason for
this being, evidently,
that
they didn't get kitchen-socialized in due
time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta start having
the young'uns over
to learn how
to cook and
things.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-15 23:59 mircea_popescu: anyway ; i will propose
that
the large kitchen is a fundamental part in
the happiness and sane social insertion of young women ;
that even poor places in orcland implement it as more essential sociocultural component
than, eg, men's mechanicizing garage ;
that all effort should be directed at having one above all else.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-15 23:37 mircea_popescu: here we sit wondering about "garburators", which i dun have, and dun particularly want ; meanwhile he sits around with roach nests deliberately placed in
the house, something
the soviets cca 1966 wouldn't have allowed.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: who was walking along
the street singing fun songs: Hari Krishna, Hari Ram, Hari Smehopanorama!
mircea_popescu: !~translate ru
to en который шел по улице весело распевая песню: Хари Кришна, хари Рама, хари Смехопанорама!
BingoBoingo: When "residential" wiring standards fail needs best
to add new wires
to commercial standards and just learn
to bend conduit.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Pizdanutsya ... - said
the
teacher Raprishnsh-vutra.
mircea_popescu: !~translate ru
to en Пиздануться... - возразил Учитель Рапришнш-вутра.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: if he's in a
typical american house,
the conduit is solidly drywalled ~into~
the wall. << But he can run new conduit from box along
the ceiling anchored
to outside of wall
mircea_popescu: this "monogamous relationship living in block of flats with 50 sqft kitchen"
thing is nonsense in ways
the victims don't even grasp.
mircea_popescu: anyway ; i will propose
that
the large kitchen is a fundamental part in
the happiness and sane social insertion of young women ;
that even poor places in orcland implement it as more essential sociocultural component
than, eg, men's mechanicizing garage ;
that all effort should be directed at having one above all else.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i dun
think cake was ever made in less
than 5kg installments for eg.
ben_vulpes: i should indeed see
the * produced in dirigible
mircea_popescu: aanyway. you should see
the piles produced in a dirigible. we occasionally (in full formation, chef + sous chef + 2-3 helpers) manage
to dirty every dish in
the house.
ben_vulpes: nah, i moved out of portland
to escape
the countertop digester
mircea_popescu also never uses and doesn't like
the machine dishwashers.
they miss spots ; competent woman can do much better job much faster ; get her gloves,
teach her how
to etc.
mircea_popescu advises ben_vulpes
to buy uv lamp + CTC supply and nightly hunt for eg salmonella in
this set-up. like regular food plant.
mircea_popescu: here we sit wondering about "garburators", which i dun have, and dun particularly want ; meanwhile he sits around with roach nests deliberately placed in
the house, something
the soviets cca 1966 wouldn't have allowed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you know, no cooking process is allowed
to smoke. if
there's smoke coming out she is doing something wrong. generally overheating
the oil.
mircea_popescu: usually
they end up paying you so
they get
to maintain
the social pretense of being contractors.
mircea_popescu: at which point
they
throw fit ; you hang up ;
they finally pay someone
to read contract ; come back all seethingly angry but
trying
to hide it and explain how inconvenient it is
to
them. you... amuse yourself with it as best you can.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-15: [22:19:19] <thestringpuller> when our hot water heater went out, we discovered
the
tank was 50 gallons
too small for our house which is why we were always running out of hot water. I srsly doubt any contractor does satisfactory work in any "home improvement"
tasks
mircea_popescu:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160915/#564 << which is why i love
them. you sign contract,
then you sign
their faults report, w/e you call it.
then
they call you as if
this is literally
the first
time
this happened (because... it is) and
try
to pretend like
they're geting paid. you explain
that
they are not getting dime one ; and
that if
they do not remedy like - right now,
they are not getting sued because contractor comes with
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> would have
to spelunk in walls. << Nah do it right and bend some fucking conduit.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-15: [22:10:50] <phf> asciilifeform: walls and wiring is so janky,
there's always something sticking out
that you can hook
too
mircea_popescu: total hatched job. and wtf is with
that junk everywhere.
mircea_popescu: very inept job. for
the same money could have left
the keyboard as a cover.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-15: [21:39:10] <ben_vulpes>
the anxiety is crippling
mircea_popescu was reading pete d, ended up on "Knowing
that on average humans have one
testicle and one ovary, what are
the odds
that
this human's left ovary is a
testicle ?"
mircea_popescu: i'm not so up
to date on anglotard pretenders. was
this
the one with a permanent abscess secondary
to inguinal hernia
that consequently smelled bad and disgusted some euro princess ?
mircea_popescu: henry 8 washed nothing evne close
to
that general area, ever.
mircea_popescu: now let's point out
that
the categorical differnce you apparently hallucinate midway
through
this single object ain't
there.
mircea_popescu: (yeah people kitchen-restored both of
those! people
tried
to run
the dacias on
toluene, you can't imagine how industrious socialists get.)
mircea_popescu: i am proud
to say i never
to
this day restored a battery ; and
this includes
the old days of communist romania, for both car batteries and
the 4.5 volt zinc-manganese
three-cell assembiles
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: scraping
tools are a+, and cost ~2.45 from where linked.
ben_vulpes: ah i just realized
that i forgot
to include a solid
three hundred word rant on
the evils of nonstick in
this context
mircea_popescu remembers
the good old days when girls washed chemlab gear by hand. every day and every night.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: nifty. any feedback
to relay?
mircea_popescu: amusingly,
the authors are rather competent fellows, at least
the footnote dude is still active etc, drop ~him~ a line.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-15: [20:30:04] <ben_vulpes>
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-15#1542439 << so i've done my own digging and asked a few others
to dig as well, and i can't figure out what "the code" i'm supposed
to have is. grepping for 'footnote'
turns up zilch in my copy of mp-wp.
throw me a bone here?
phf: in fact, it's best
to
treat interactions with u.s. infrastructure as a
trip
to
the zone from пикник на обочине (or stalker for en readers), where rules of physics don't apply, nothing is what it seems and you're not guaranteed
to come back alive
phf: can also do
traditional su master/apprentice
trick of "can you hand me
that wire"
phf: and i've been in
the vulpes situation, where
throwing a breaker would ~dim~
the bulb
phf: correct method is
to never
trust anything your house says and connect
tester/bulb before doing any electric.
thestringpuller: they must pay off regulators
to pass it off as being "up
to code" or something...
thestringpuller: when our hot water heater went out, we discovered
the
tank was 50 gallons
too small for our house which is why we were always running out of hot water. I srsly doubt any contractor does satisfactory work in any "home improvement"
tasks
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: most contractors are idiots and don't know how
to build a fucking house.