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mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag
there's worse ways
to pass
the
time
than with
the sluts of budapest.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i have yet
to meet a greek professional who wasn't a) actually jewish and b) abroad.
ascii_butugychag: jurov: afaik you still have
to live
there for a while,
to get ukr passport
mircea_popescu: that's ridiculous. romania is way better for medicine
than pretty much everything else in
that part of
the world.
punkman: we don't have foreign doctors here, but people are prejudice against doctors
that have foreign medical degrees from Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania, Italy and others.
copypaste: and if it's in
the area of greater hungary,
that would be an awesome, free way
to get a passport :D
copypaste: i'll
think about it. i bet my mother has proof of her mother's USSR citizenship
mircea_popescu: copypaste wouldn't advise it
tho, highest suicide rate outside of japan.
jurov: hungarians are funny as
that
jurov: copypaste:
the part
that was former "large hungary" counts,
too
jurov: copypaste: if you have hungarian ancestors, you can get
their passport,
too
copypaste: because i'm ill, i go
to doctors a lot. it's cheap in
the
third world, and
they write me prescriptions for
things
that are hard
to get in
the US. so anyway, i always go see chinese doctors.
copypaste: mircea_popescu: let me qualify
that further, americans
punkman: also
they often ship
through other countries like hong-kong, so you might get better results going
to one of
those 3rd party
tracking sites
that check many companies at once
mircea_popescu: <copypaste> i wouldn't, but plenty of people would.
the average person in
the philippines views foreigners as being smart and better educated
than
them <<<
this happens
to also be right.
punkman: at best you get a date when
the
thing left china, and it usually shows up on local post office
tracking
too
jurov: at most i get chinese message
that yields (via google
translator) "currently not available"
jurov: i never actually saw chinese post
tracking site working
kakobrekla: a friend went
there for a few months and
they dont have condoms
that would fit him
there
punkman: in other shipping mysteries, I ordered some widget from China in August I
think,
there was a non-working
tracking no., 45 days later I ask merchant what's up with it, says
they were actually out of stock at
time of order, didn't even ship it and
they won't be getting any more stock from factory. Couple days ago, I get a notice from post office with
that
tracking no.
kakobrekla: well i sent
two packs of condoms
to
thailand about 2 weeks ago, arrived in ~3 days, from eu.
davout: (which is an entirely different
thing
than pilot fucking license mind you)
shinohai: I could have ordered
the shit from some seedy Chinese person and already have gotten it here.
shinohai: ikr I paid
the extra $12 in BTC for priority
too :/
punkman: shinohai: I wonder what I have
to do
to get actual "express" shipping
shinohai: I feel your shipping frustrations punkman, I made an order from a guy on 12/27 he marked my order shipped
then
told me yesterday he had logistics issues and didn't.
punkman: fucking UPS. pay for 1-2day shipping and get 6day shipping instead, even if
the weather is fine and
there's over 9000 planes flying
towards my mailbox.
☟︎☟︎ assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 13:02:12; mircea_popescu: heck, apple made
the concept of "filesystem" go away,
they somehow sell
tablets with no filesystem interraction exposed.
davout: " Alfred Mehran », est un réfugié iranien qui a vécu dans le
terminal 1 de l'aéroport Roissy-Charles de Gaulle du 8 août 1988 jusqu'en août 2006 (soit 18 ans)1, date à laquelle il a été hospitalisé pour une cause inconnue."
ben_vulpes: hallmark of
tentacle-entites is blue
text in html emails.
copypaste: ascii_butugychag: oh, i didn't know
that. interesting
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 11:26:32; copypaste: well it's about a guy whose country ceases
to exist and he gets stuck in an airport arrival area for over a year
copypaste: i'm sure
they'd notice quickly if fbi.gov mail went down
copypaste: NSA asking FBI if he wants
to go
to a BBQ
copypaste: it's
true
that most emails are internal, but surely
they aren't all
copypaste: also ascii_butugychag, you moved
the goalposts.
the CIA and FBI don't use gmail, and
that's who we were
talking about as far as A records are concerned
ascii_butugychag: sorta like
the water you get from washing a pot after normal
tea
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 13:06:26; mircea_popescu: i don't even know
two
thirds of
them. magnum iirc is some shitty icecream, lipton's
the sort of
tea one drinks when no
tea is available
ascii_butugychag: actual americans are similar
to filiponos but with fewer life skills and less resilient
to stressors
copypaste: i'm not saying
their beliefs are accurate, but inaccurate beliefs held dearly still affect
their actions
ascii_butugychag: problem is
that
their notion of 'american' comes from 1980s vhs
tapes
ascii_butugychag: (some of
the larger megacorps still run own mail, but along more or less same principles as gmail)
copypaste: so if
they had
to choose between a filipino doctor, or american doctor,
they'd go for
the american
copypaste: i wouldn't, but plenty of people would.
the average person in
the philippines views foreigners as being smart and better educated
than
them
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 12:21:37; copypaste:
typically, doctors, engineers, and so on
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 13:01:34; mircea_popescu: anyway, i vaguely recall some
testing
the waters re how urls are evil and hurt
the eyes of
the moo moos.
punkman: shinohai, what was
that qr code?
punkman: mircea_popescu: and holy shit
that can't be ALL
the food brands unilever owns. << I bet
there's a lot more
than
those
mircea_popescu: what
the fuck is all
that other shit and what's with
the heartshape fixation ?
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: i don't even know
two
thirds of
them. magnum iirc is some shitty icecream, lipton's
the sort of
tea one drinks when no
tea is available
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and holy shit
that can't be ALL
the food brands unilever owns.
mircea_popescu: yes, but when i hire women
to be women, as opposed
to do any actual job, i have strict standards. hence
the "over 180 cm
tall, exactly 19 bmi, etc"
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 10:43:35; shinohai: Anyone
that seriously
thinks SPV mining is good should be strangled with
the blockchain.
punkman: plus-size
to me means so big you have
to go
to
the one special plus-size clothes store, because nobody else has enough fabric
to cover your ass.
mircea_popescu: heck, apple made
the concept of "filesystem" go away,
they somehow sell
tablets with no filesystem interraction exposed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, i vaguely recall some
testing
the waters re how urls are evil and hurt
the eyes of
the moo moos.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 03:59:00; punkman:
those don't look plus-size
punkman: asciilifeform: srsly, szabo was
there ? << I'm surprised how many szabos have joined
the blockchain-tards
punkman: copypaste: you can't "cloudflare" your email server << half
the startups point
their mx
to gmail
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform>
they don't need it. << yes but
the problem is in
their head.
copypaste: no need
to hire
the lowest common denominator in
the US, but
there are plenty (well, some) intellectuals perhaps worth hiring
copypaste: i got mine
to meet an online friend i'd had since i was a small child
copypaste: to get a job, just
to
travel, plenty of reasons
copypaste: well,
the world is much larger
than
the USA
copypaste: i haven't been in
the USA since 2014
though
copypaste: since
the passport sufficed, even at banks
copypaste: yes, i happened
to have recieved
the passport before
the other one
copypaste: you can get a "non drivers driver license" (real name), but
the line was so long and i already had a passport
copypaste: but due
to my disability, i do not drive
copypaste: due
to
the main ID document in USA being a driver's license
copypaste: actually, once i got mine i started using it as an identification document, which would lead
to weird looks