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mircea_popescu: the principal cost is the boat itself.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: orlov et al were telling the troof, i went and priced, a parking space for standard habitable boat is <1k/mo in most of usa, well under what 'condo downtown' cost
mircea_popescu: to me it seemed mind numbing, but to a buncha retired-early upper middleclassians... well... easy & cheap path out.
mircea_popescu: buy what's essentially a floating condo for ~same what a condo in downtown metro area costs, spend your time going from yacht club to yacht club. the not-retarded charlie sheens did this, usually with a competent alpha (usually, 20year+wife) to pick the local sluts.
asciilifeform: incidentally, while on subj -- and i did even try to warn pete -- folx who abuse fg as 'collectible stamp' set themselves up for hurt, unlike patek etc thing is quite deliberately designed to be simple to replicate, lacks any form of serial numeration etc, and the only tests are for mechanical correctness, where all units built to spec pass, whether orig by asciilifeform, or by zimbabwe, or martians.
mircea_popescu: the yachting thing was pretty big in the... well, the 90s mostly, i'd say.
BingoBoingo: I suspect its in the local building code next to asado Fridays at every construction site.
BingoBoingo: Well, even the roofed poor here have bidets in the house.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 05:29 phf: my mom had one of those "papa escaped the purges by burning all paperwork but life got tough when they took our governess" piano teachers, who would lament about being forced to teach peasants and brown folk, not on racial grounds as much as "you have to have a bidet in your house for 3 generations, before you can touch a piano"
asciilifeform: '...with the pretty and delightfully well-mannered girls who spoke to their mother in English and their father in what sounded like Flemish – was the crystallised product of – who knows ? – perhaps as many as ten generations of fine breeding...'
asciilifeform: oblig typical pete_d_ism, ftr. 'That simply crossing paths with an aristocratic family in my own backyard...' 'this was the heirloom quality family from TLP’s Patek Philippe ads...' etc
BingoBoingo: Well, Uruguay. Putas y loras tambien ahí.
BingoBoingo: Has own airport and yacht port so that crowd can skip Montevideo and the pichis
BingoBoingo: Punta del Este. At least it was for a while. FA may have chased them off.
asciilifeform: perhaps asciilifeform oversaturates the colours, here, but i blame pete_d and his type for the fact that yes you can buy a diamond-encrusted ipnoje for 200k but you cannot buy a fits-in-head comp even for 200mil.
BingoBoingo: Well, there's ~two week period where center of aesthetowank world is ~90 km east of here
asciilifeform: even fg apparently required some lipstick and gloss application to be fit for parade
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm not the least bit surprised, given overall pattern -- fella won't buy anyffin that can't be easily paraded, exhibited, to other aesthetowankers over tea
BingoBoingo: Tried to buy BitBet remains, has not yet expressed any interest in flying a box to Uruguay for his own projects. Marketed a FuckGoats value add, etc
BingoBoingo: Well, case of guy described by tlp who had prolonged interaction with proto-republic and early republic before his break
asciilifeform: *used to
asciilifeform: recall how he bought fg, and, unable to bring up a working serial port on crapple mac , hung it on wall , like folx use to hang up 18th c. muskets and sabres ?
asciilifeform: it aint nearly as repulsive as the bob becks who get their 'feels of elite' from sipping clitler's cuntjuice, but still imho equally snore
asciilifeform: quite typical, imho, example of the pathologies described by tlp. 'if i buy this 8th rolex, will finally feel like Troo Elite' etc
asciilifeform: a peacock man. perhaps the peahens find to be interesting, but i admit -- do not
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I check in occasionally to see how North USistan is doing
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lol, i confess that i mostly stopped reading the d00d
asciilifeform: (production -- dinged, but demand -- through the roof, usg is quite the 'marketing genius' on occasion )
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile in contemporary German engineering, vehicle that defaults to pissing off driver on every startup http://www.contravex.com/2019/06/10/a-few-mildly-annoying-things-about-the-w463a-mercedes-g550/#footnote_5_23394
asciilifeform: huawei iron has become somewhat of a 'deficit' in the 'civilized' world
asciilifeform: speaking of linux lulz, asciilifeform recently obtained a 'huawei' to test cuntoo. but this is on back conveyor currently. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even ~here~ one has to go to certain places, where the lumpens are found, to see'em.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if there ever was quite such a spurious "culture". or w/e we'd call it.
mircea_popescu: which really makes the world a better place.
asciilifeform: where would mircea_popescu even see these.
mircea_popescu: makes it easy to forget americans exist.
asciilifeform: y'know, the folx who take up 3 seats on airplane and demand ticket for cost of single seat, etc
asciilifeform: there is also famously an opposite pole of this magnet, the 'professionally fat' folx in usa who also claim to eat <1k/day , while weighing the weight of four men
mircea_popescu: sleigh of hand, possibly. also, exit. human body's remarkably... how shall i put this, it has a peculiar relationship with non-existenc.e
mircea_popescu: ah btw, you know about the japanese xtian petrification saints ?
asciilifeform: incidentally old man solzhenitsin typical, btw, example.
asciilifeform: afaik (b) largely consisted of folx whose 'work' was to play in orchestra, or as 'capo', and similar.
asciilifeform: rright, but there is no magic in this world, 3k/w is < auschwitz cuisine
mircea_popescu: well, no, they typically weigh 40-50lbs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect ~these~ are like the old 'yoga masters' of india, who claimed to eat nuffin at all
mircea_popescu: hence my earlier point re africans : long after we've stopped sending the packages, they'll still be there in the pavement cracks.
asciilifeform: iirc the infamous bob beck & co, largely work for phree even.
asciilifeform: ensures typical derp who 'escaped from microshit' at least goes an' runs 'tor' etc.
asciilifeform: 'modern linux komyooniti' is quite loyal organ of 'tame opposition', the occasional 20m of biodegradable monopoly money gifted to the occasional esr (who incidentally is begging for change to buy wheelchair, reportedly his legs went) goes long way ☟︎
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo heh. "mp is scary and therefore safe ; we shall copy on the quiet -- be tedious and therefore also safe".
a111: Logged on 2019-06-19 16:02 mircea_popescu: exactly as per http://trilema.com/2013/what-is-art/ ; "why is this science ? cuz hilary says so. and who the fuck is hilary ? she's the one scientists claim god has anoin^H^H^H^H like very much and agree with"
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'beetle man' doesn't work to impress, why would he, clitler personally anointed, see, him with the holy oils ☝︎
asciilifeform: nao otoh last week i saw a slug that was fully 4x the size of his slugbrethren. nao, ~that~ impressive. but this, what is there to be impressed by.
BingoBoingo: Kinda the point. They try to min-max for unimpressiveness so as to NOT be read
asciilifeform: or for that matter the old sovok 'union of writers' (tm) etc
mircea_popescu: and why is he speaking from this position of authority, " I also posted to communicate the timeline ", who the fuck is he, me ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have nfi, prolly the current ian murdoch or whoever
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who is this steve lengaseek fuckwit ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phunphakt: many of the cheap displays bought by typical homo redditus shituntu user, won't even sync at 800x600
asciilifeform: 'We will be working to polish the 32-bit support story over the course of the 19.10 development cycle.'
mircea_popescu: i could keep on forever -- old one, had directly accessible screen resolution switcher. new one -- does not, so that if (for instance!) your settlers 4 wine installation fucks the screen leaving it in 800x600 mode upon closure, either you know to xrandr -q xrandr --output --mode directly, or else you reboot. ☟︎
asciilifeform: pretty epic limba de lemn in there, too
asciilifeform: lemme guess, 'search bar' connected to 'bing'
mircea_popescu: old one has list of crapola installed. new one has list of ~recommended~ crapola, and SEARCH BAR. literally, you're invited to search among the... well, it's not the userland, search returns things you... don't have, indistinctly
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking of shituntu, didjaknow, today officially phasing out x32
asciilifeform could've sworn there was a mircea_popescu piece re 'nechezol'
mircea_popescu: old one brings up a task from tab if dblclicked -- AND ALSO MINIMIZES IT. new one -- brings up, but does not minimize.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in another angle : i have here next to each other two modern ubuntus : one modern in 2018 (v 18.04), the other modern about five years prior (v 10.04). the sheer pile of utility and usability loss! old one has "bring up desktop" button. new one does not. old one has taskbar on the bottom, wherein one can drag item to a different task, and the task will pop up (so you can drop a file in a terminal). new one -- doe
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The chain is swapping in a beef identifying bean patty
mircea_popescu: "these are my friends" "they're scumbags" "yes but" "also X" "yes but" "you are forbidden to y" "yes but" and so on ad infinitum.
mircea_popescu: and all the while, disavow any awareness of their proceeding.
mircea_popescu: very "sticky" misbehaviour, too, they'll squirm every which way, lie every turn of the ratchet, stick with each single possible aspect to the bitter end.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo oh absolutely. it's already happening, and plenty. but, of course, in very self-unaware manner, very "matter of factedly", "this is how things are".
asciilifeform: (in place of the earlier homogenized scrap-gristle slurry)
asciilifeform: incidentally the old mircea_popescuine prophecy re ersatz-phoods proceeding on schedule, reportedly a mcfood chain has finally swapped in synthetic chicken
mircea_popescu: by now they eat literal dogfood, that's literally called "soylent"
asciilifeform: e.g. the synthetic nitrate that makes feeding 'mayo' possible, is a ww1 product
asciilifeform pessimistically observes that laziness is the dominant force, and historically 'sit on arse, eat fruit' is not even limited to tropical monkey men, and much of what today thought 'modern tech' dates to the last 2 population-pressure megawars
BingoBoingo: Well, first they'll wank a bit about pseudo-aesthetic pseudo-ethics and make the pichi life a fad
mircea_popescu: kinda like cockroaches, very resilient. would probably feed on urban garbage / each other's aborted foetuses in any case. god knows they already eat soylent & assorted dogfood machine-delivered.
mircea_popescu: that chick, the hepatitis walflower. present day african, the "maybe i'll be a writer" white female. not even white trash, but "middle class"
asciilifeform suspects that current-day africans would disappear quite quickly if were to be unplugged from clitler
mircea_popescu: go hunting the africans, basically, as principal tropical activty.
mircea_popescu: cheaper to heat than to cool, anyways. chea<per to dress than to peel off, esp if nothing left to peel.
asciilifeform: north sea a++ for reactor. (reportedly, the largest ru subs in fact only worked there and nowhere else)
mircea_popescu: rather than the equator
mircea_popescu: i expect once we're done butchering the supernumeraries, we'll mostly hang our about the artic circle
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Nah, the people who figure winter is a factor that allowed Europe to not do the tropical sloth.
mircea_popescu: in fact, in technological world, outside cold more a resource than a hindrance.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the folx with family reactors, i suppose, and a fondness for ski sport
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm guessing some lords are going to camp at latitudes with some sort of winter.
asciilifeform: cuz mircea_popescu is pretty good at this sorta thing.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 15:02 asciilifeform: the 'good climate makes folx lazy and slowly climbing 'back up to trees' ' item is an old saw, but i'm not aware of any major hole in the theory
asciilifeform: i suspect tho, that if there actually ~were~ 500k, would get exactly what went on the last time there were 500k, all hang out on equator and eat from trees, indistinguishable from monkey ☝︎
asciilifeform: [insert the robots thread here]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's exactly 0 connection between the 99% and any productive activty. in fact, you need about 500k or so people to run the entire world as it now stands
mircea_popescu: exactly as per http://trilema.com/2013/what-is-art/ ; "why is this science ? cuz hilary says so. and who the fuck is hilary ? she's the one scientists claim god has anoin^H^H^H^H like very much and agree with" ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( with the interesting twist that church, at least, presided over quite a bit of productive lands / serfs, whereas 'scientocrat' presides over... what? cube farm fulla monkeys on 'powerpoint' )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik was simple plug-in replacement for the old relation b/w the royalty and the church
mircea_popescu: ie, "let's lie prettily to each other -- you, call us scientists notwithstanding we're social cases, like any other ghetto queen ( with just as absent child rearing skills) ; we call you rational notwithstanding you're fucked in the head"