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asciilifeform: i do not live there any more
asciilifeform: at the time i wrote most of it, i lived in a vile and uncleanable (in the sense that vermin lived in the walls and fed upon the opulent fastfood waste of the verminiferous neighbours)
asciilifeform: not the least.
BingoBoingo: Sure, but your blog seems to be rather centered on various kitchen pests. I just assume it isn't a coincidence.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: y'know, there is >1 way to live free of roach
BingoBoingo realizes he maybe ought to stahp pushing alf towards "better living through chemistry" or he might become the sort who mows his lawn with Imazapyr
BingoBoingo: Look, none of us are going to live to be 145. Do you want to live among the roaches or not...
asciilifeform: as some folks in the good ol' days found out when they tried to do the 'acclimate to strychnine' thing with cumulative poisons, e.g, arsenic
asciilifeform: 'dose' is tricky concept
BingoBoingo: Sure, dose makes the poison
asciilifeform: (as the facility wasn't usg-blessed for the Real Deal)
asciilifeform: when i worked in the outfit that did antidotes for organophosphate poisons ('nerve' gases) we used these common pesticides as a substitute for the real thing
BingoBoingo: Aha, so ant is winning ant/termite war there I presume?
BingoBoingo kind of surprised in the swamp that termites have not already ate the alfnest.
BingoBoingo: Sure, but there's spray you can use before the bug is even there that work better.
asciilifeform: not entirely unrelatedly, as a young man i kept 'bug spray' around, habitually, as my ancestors did; but then learned that wet/dry vac works 100% as well and doesn't create cloud of poisonous crud to breathe the rest of the day
BingoBoingo: Just because all the marketing is behind monsanto and glyphosate doesn't mean there aren't cases where a diquat is phine too.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, generally if you spray the right kind of sweet murder target toward the pest you actually have... You end up having to spray less of it and saving.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: care to be more specific ?
phf: asciilifeform: my point is that like with any war, "on the reservation" you're not necessarily going to run into active soldiers, but more likely into a mine, or border control, or whatever else the effects of war are.
asciilifeform: but yes, when folks like BingoBoingo ask 'why the burn rate', asciilifeform answers 'keeping force field against monkeys going is not cheap'
asciilifeform: but the latter is presently large enough that one can avoid running into any monkeys for arbitrary stretch of time
BingoBoingo: hanbot: Plenty of homeowners play exterminitor on their own unpaid
asciilifeform: phf: on the reservation, at any rate
phf: asciilifeform: unless you're inside mp's dirigible, pretty sure you're inside monkey house. these "wars" mostly end with you losing further ground one way or another
gribble: Error: We broke The Google!
BingoBoingo: What is unrewarding about those professions. Exterminators get paid to play Himmler all day!
asciilifeform: let the animal kingdom be.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: dunno about you but i do not run on hamster wheels, nor spend time in monkey house, nor fraternise with the ants, nor try to fit into rat tunnels, etc
BingoBoingo: Do shit flinging monkeys have stable sides in their turdwarz?
BingoBoingo: Who said the sides had to be opposing?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: so what do you see as the opposing sides here
BingoBoingo: No culture, but that doesn't mean there can't be a fight over the absence
asciilifeform: i have not yet signed up to take sides in that one yet, either.
asciilifeform: i hear there is also a war between the 2 anthills in my back yard
asciilifeform: there's culture there?
BingoBoingo: One thing that is becoming clear is the lord admirald alf is not ready to take his fleet into fight the culture war
hanbot: <trinque> the bathroom thing is yet another "social issue" that can stall permanently like gay marriage or abortion << pun o' the day
BingoBoingo: Some changes were made to the changes "male and females" was instead changed to "traditionally gendered"
asciilifeform: phf: if anyone cared to solve this, it is trivially solvable, and iirc some western eu places have the pill against it: door automatically opens after x minutes
phf: asciilifeform: main issue with that plan is that girls notoriously take longer time in the bathroom. very rarely do i have to wait in man's bathroom, but i've now spent some time in long mixed gender lines
asciilifeform: trinque: on the contrary, it is moving along nicely. e.g., in many restaurants even now, there is only 1 or more single-locking-room bathrooms. i welcome the extinction of the other kind, where you actually see/hear/smell the other people.
asciilifeform: hanbot: these being what ?
hanbot: asciilifeform good enough, but do they sport >9000 noise/myopia machines?
trinque: thereby taking up the limited resources of the democratic mind
asciilifeform: typically they have an actual writer as guest of honor, and a hundred or so pathetic 'wannabees'
trinque: the bathroom thing is yet another "social issue" that can stall permanently like gay marriage or abortion
asciilifeform: both are ok places to load up on '50s-60s paperback sf
asciilifeform: hanbot: i showed up at 'balticon' a few times (where i even saw, by pure chance... the infamous eric raymond, limping along)
a111: Logged on 2016-05-17 18:18 asciilifeform: ;;later tell hanbot http://thewhet.net/2016/2016-baibf-a-drudgery << somehow i missed this. quite lulzy, and reminiscent of american b00k-centered events (e.g., sf cons)
hanbot: BingoBoingo, a few typographical edits: Last week much of the American media's news pipelines were constipated the announcement / constipated by/with ; Hussein Bahamas announcement / Bahamas' ; a adipose filled apron / an adipose ; Many mayogndered individuals / mayogendered ; insistence of maygendered / mayogendered ; than it is for male and females / males .
BingoBoingo: Eh, the pentagon was built with a 4bathroom system
asciilifeform: (although mircea_popescu pretty convincingly explained that it ought to)
BingoBoingo: No, just the meaning of the 2bathroom is changing.
asciilifeform: for some reason this doesn't tickle me
asciilifeform: as i understood it, the entire 2bathroom thing is slowly being repealed
BingoBoingo: And Bahamas insisting people allow transgenders to use the bathrooms they identify as, even if they are mayogender but still identify as their former gender
asciilifeform: i have intensely nfi what the actual latest 'twist' is
asciilifeform: having read none of the redditola that presumably prompted it
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i find it quite nontrivial to unravel wtf that piece is actually about
BingoBoingo: ^ Literal application of shitware tag
deedbot: [Qntra] Transmayos Throw Wrench In Hussein Bahamas Bathroom Brouha - http://qntra.net/2016/05/transmayos-throw-wrench-in-hussein-bahamas-bathroom-brouha/
asciilifeform: ;;later tell hanbot http://thewhet.net/2016/2016-baibf-a-drudgery << somehow i missed this. quite lulzy, and reminiscent of american b00k-centered events (e.g., sf cons) ☟︎
deedbot: [Qntra] Hussein Bahamas "Justice" Department To Jail US Citizen Indefinitely Without Charges - http://qntra.net/2016/05/hussein-bahamas-justice-department-to-jail-us-citizen-indefinitely-without-charges/
asciilifeform: from the dept. of ancient things that were neato, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/01/robot_odyssey_the_hardest_computer_game_of_all_time.html
shinohai: I dunno, will reread after this tea is finished.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Which way is it supposed to read?
shinohai shrugs, prepares more tea.
asciilifeform: 'One of the women allegedly offered an undercover officer money in exchange for a sexual act, resulting in an additional prostitution charge.' << not misprint ?
asciilifeform: or was that victory.
asciilifeform: nah that'd be napalm in the morning
BingoBoingo: 2-cycle exhaust is the EXACT smell of freedom and opportunity!
BingoBoingo: What's wrong with 2-cycle? They are wonderfully simple. No need to do seperate oil changes.
asciilifeform: if there is any point at all to having civilizations that ban things, 2cycle ought to have long ago been placed where the spark gap radio is ☟︎
asciilifeform: i can think of very few mechanisms i despise more than 2cycle engine.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, prolly ought to convert as many appliances as you can from electric to 2-cycle gas motors because Hitler hates their farts. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: by that token i could eat pistol and use 0 electric
BingoBoingo: And it would be hard to service Hitler there
BingoBoingo: Use less electric? Seriously though they'd basically be paying you to exercise. ☟︎
asciilifeform: (there will be some sort of gig i fly out to a few x/year, but hasn't yet happened)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i dun leave the house no moar.
BingoBoingo: Have you tried applying to Home Depot? They will let you work part time. 20 hours/week leaves you less prison time than 40+ hours of sodomy. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You seem like a less busy person nao. You want to write up that news from coke machine slant?
asciilifeform: 'The government said Monday he should remain jailed indefinitely until he complies. The authorities also said that it's not a violation of the man's Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination because it's a "foregone conclusion" that illegal porn is on the drives and that he is only being asked to unlock the drives, not divulge their passcodes. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: In other news, Imgur.com is the latest popular shitsite whose urls will lead to a Qntra comment being auto ignored as spam.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-17 08:01 mircea_popescu: honestly, it's a surprise to me they haven't introduced cockcaging for us kids as of yet. for one thing, they're doing the entire fucktarded "can't drink till 21", so they definitely could. for the other thing, it'd make so much fucking sense, in the twisted psychopathy that passes for sense in the us world : kid gets a nice cage around the age of 3 or so. prevents penis from growing, which is +++. mom gives the key to a well
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-17#1467516 << my current understanding is that this is being done, but using dope, and without the off switch << AHA, prozac, zoloft, paxil and other SSRI drugs ☝︎
shinohai: ;;later tell BingoBoingo morning lampoon: http://ix.io/FwI
mircea_popescu: such tools.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check it out, now they see one of mine in 46.* but no longer yours. because there's a rule lol.
mircea_popescu: 164 46.101.246.115 ; 152 136.243.139.96 ; 72 148.251.151.71 ; 125 173.255.251.118 ; 95 181.171.213.172 ; << the offenders
mircea_popescu: and it's obviously an attempt at attrition seeing how the sockets receive no messages
mircea_popescu: basically there's a pile of derps connecting on all the ports. not so hard to blacklist i guess.
asciilifeform: 'Jean Liu, Didi's president, is the daughter of Liu Chuanzhi, the politically connected founder of Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd (0992.HK).'
asciilifeform: the 'let's talk plaintext to randos' thing was great while it lasted. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: also note the "since 5 minutes ago". 46.* didn't blinl
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my point is that the whole motherfucking orchestra is not reliable
ben_vulpes: "exposure to cn!"
ben_vulpes: "for teh car!"
asciilifeform: lel, that's pretty random