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asciilifeform: perhaps they were once there.
asciilifeform is not certain he ever once saw a grasshopper in this part of the globe
mircea_popescu: so i didn't ACTUALLY pay anything on them.
asciilifeform: helps that you had 220v there
mircea_popescu: i have over you the advantage that hey, corporate purchases. tax writeoff.
mircea_popescu: and i even have the exact moneyary counts. 450 lei for the item, =~ 150 bucks. 90 lei for two chord extensions (40m total), 30 bucls.
asciilifeform: if i ever encounter one of these sold at a street corner for twentybux i will certainly buy it..
mircea_popescu: and turns out i was wrong, it was 1.3kw
asciilifeform: (or alternatively some form of vegetation that doesn't need trimming)
mircea_popescu: because the fucking blog!
assbot: Marea afacere cu tuns iarba on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1WoaUMa )
mircea_popescu is suddenly very appreciative of all the problems he never had.
mircea_popescu: and it charges at 1.5 ? how long does this take, whole night ?
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asciilifeform: here in zimbabwestan, that's all there is.
mircea_popescu: nobody forces you to make a shitty engine!
asciilifeform: the vibration stripped the skin off my hands every time.
asciilifeform: i had one of those
mircea_popescu: why the fuck not put an actual engine in there ?
mircea_popescu: if you're gonna make it heavier than a fuckable woman and steel and whatnot
mircea_popescu: well that's for sure. but, plastic, right ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose you could install one of those electric bike things
asciilifeform: and guess what, even the charger was ~built in~ to the container
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess unless you make your own order for 36v batteries that's not getting fixed, who the fuck wants to charge 3 items one by one etc
mircea_popescu: onbe of the foremost lost arts. there's an entire story to the job, including how to build waterproof hay piles.
mircea_popescu: no nm, that';s more the tool. scytheman!
mircea_popescu: how do you even call this in english,
mircea_popescu: why the fuck do you think scythe grass cutters insist on skill an d sharp scythe, rather than bulging biceps.
mircea_popescu: cuz you didn't bother to think about it.
asciilifeform: aha, learned this experimentally.
asciilifeform: i thought it was plugged into mains
mircea_popescu: my thing was a very respectable 600W DC thing, never had a problem cutting right through thistle and whatnot.
asciilifeform: theoretically very spiffy for folks like me who despise this chore.
mircea_popescu: best cut off the 36 to 12v transformer
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt a 36 v motor is actually in there. what, this thing weighs 60 lbs ?
asciilifeform: gotta appreciate the pure genius of the chumpatronics here
asciilifeform: 3 of them.
mircea_popescu: but i guess you'll have to hitch a car battery to it.
mircea_popescu: i just cut in lines away from the house. cord was at no point past wherer i cut.
asciilifeform: and the thing was cheap, lunch money. let go for pennies by the last fella who tried to get the battery.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cord is a bitch on this hilly terrain. tends to get run over.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when i bought a grass cutter i bought one with plug. fuck me if im going to buy any battery anything.
mircea_popescu: https://cinetext.wordpress.com/category/soviet-film/page/2/ << if anyone's truly bored, curious about the topic of cinema and doesn't read russian.
asciilifeform: i went today to a specialist who deals in rare batteries, and he just gave me a pitying look.
asciilifeform: ed with chinese SPECIFICALLY to make this.
asciilifeform: the 'enforced obsolescence' thing is sop even in something as boring as yard tools. not long ago, i bought an electric grass-cutter thing. works great, but battery holds a charge for perhaps 10 min! vendor used to sell the 36v battery pack for ~200 usd. extortionate, in there are 3 12v lead acid cells. which are 50mm wide, precisely, and no replacement sold anywhere in the world fits in the container! they, turns out, contract
punkman: cute website there too
mircea_popescu: let me guess punkman, thats a graph of bitcoind
asciilifeform: incidentally all this was, afaik, ~before~ self-destructing printer cartridges and other mundane implementations of this crud became common
asciilifeform: http://wearcam.org/seatsale << THIS one.
mircea_popescu: and how come they're not working to make a woman that self-destructs after fucking.
assbot: DRM Chair - Chair that self-destructs after 8 uses ... ( http://bit.ly/1Wo8vBa )
asciilifeform: http://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/drm-chair-chair-that-self-destructs-after-8-uses << not this one. although it, too
mircea_popescu: cazalla prolly was, in the sense of "i'll tell you about the italians so you can tell your boss im an informant and then tell me when they wanna hit my org."
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 21:50:04; assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 14:51:18; pete_dushenski: "Camera Restricta is a speculative design of a new kind of camera. It locates itself via GPS and searches online for photos that have been geotagged nearby. If the camera decides that too many photos have been taken at your location, it retracts the shutter and blocks the viewfinder. You can't take any more pictures here." << notbad for an 'artist' (philipp schm
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285778 << if we're doing crackpot evil inventions, i much prefer the 'drm chair' ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 23:42:07; mircea_popescu: what, the bulger crime family never happened, right ?
mircea_popescu: i'm supposed to admire how dounia "Can endure" ? fuck her stupid head ?
asciilifeform: who go in for that kind of thing.
mircea_popescu: nothing but nagging and an insistence of posing the likes of which isn't yet encountered on instagram!
mircea_popescu: how did this shit pass for literature again, it has all the drawbacks of cancerous womanhood.
mircea_popescu: jesus christ i threw it away.
mircea_popescu: that fucking letter to the bum from his IDIOTIC mother about how that slut of a sister of his lied to everyone and wouldn't fuck
mircea_popescu: oh-my-fucking-god is this guy boring&stupid.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, i tried to re-read dostoyevsky for my sins.
mircea_popescu: they didn't sit around being americans for more than an hour a month.
asciilifeform: churches, or so i'm told, have pretty good 'collection rate'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: more of a church, structurally - almost everyone has a day job, does it as a spare thing
mircea_popescu: show me the ghetto kingdom they built themselves.
mircea_popescu: but you will notice that we're not merely aghast at inept fiat govertnment. we have substitute. we collect fucking taxes. heck, b-a collection is above the historical maximum for ANY fiat state known during the past century or more. well over 90%.
mircea_popescu: besides the point.
mircea_popescu: in other words : inner city blacks are subhuman, and not a proper example in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: (and you will also note that elephants in zoo may break cages/lay waste to the hay depot, but do not as a rule figure out hjow to use gps to locate the central bureau of zoos and burn the local pencildicks in charge.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consequently the negative taxation they beenfit from does not figure in their breaking of cages.
mircea_popescu: anyway. to reiterate : b-a needs to get a cinema production unit going. talk to me babies!
asciilifeform: the elephants in the zoo also do not see themselves as owned by the crown..
mircea_popescu: inner city black man does not see himself as owned by the crown.
asciilifeform: the taxation is at its most negative in the inner cities (ferguson et al) where the 'robin hood action' is quite lively
asciilifeform: something doesn't quite make sense to me
mircea_popescu: for as long as taxation is negative, you don't really get much robin hood action.
mircea_popescu: they are all, without exception, living above their means on govt supports.
mircea_popescu: of the bent over crowd.
mircea_popescu: certainly. still, look at the demographics.
asciilifeform: iirc it was the latter.
asciilifeform: or did they collectively bend over and lube up for usg in gratitude for removing the irritant
asciilifeform: did the locals ferry the outlaw to mexico? or even across state line ?
asciilifeform: thinking of, e.g., the erik frein case
mircea_popescu: look at the demographics.
asciilifeform: possibly to where there isn't really a trace of this (at least afaik) left ?
mircea_popescu: i recall the part, but where do you take it ?
assbot: George Orwell - Mark Twain -- The Licensed Jester - Essay ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lc707t )
asciilifeform: 'In ROUGHING IT there is an interesting account of a bandit named Slade, who, among countless other outrages, had committed twenty-eight murders. It is perfectly clear that Mark Twain admires this disgusting scoundrel. Slade was successful; therefore he was admirable. This outlook, no less common today, is summed up in the significant American expression 'to MAKE GOOD'. '
mircea_popescu: 1970s russians believed the soviets are non-dumb. just like 2010 chinese believe the same about their idiotic leadership.
mircea_popescu: today, they sit in govt dole.
mircea_popescu: hjas nothing to do with the code folks. in the 19th century, the us was a place where people earned their keep.
asciilifeform: it is interesting to note the extent to which the 'code' folks succeeded. 19th c. usa was a place where rogues, bandits, brigands of every conceivable sort - were popular heroes
mircea_popescu: that's the truth, that's the movie you make. or fuck you.
mircea_popescu: the average "criminal" being definitely more lovable, and in general more ethically respectable than the BEST of the law enforcement criminal gang.
asciilifeform: almost as if the 'hollywood code' never died..
mircea_popescu: speak truth to power and all that.