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trinque: surely you understand that the sludge flows out from exactly there?
asciilifeform: mats: literally twice or more per square metre.
asciilifeform: mats: i can't even begin to afford to live near where i work.
trinque: I started my business by neglecting other retarded pursuits and building the other thing in spare time.
trinque: I run a business, but I have no quarrel with those that just maximize their own path through the whole retarded mess./
trinque: they make great money, they do whatever they please in their free time
trinque: thing is, I know guys that just chose to be the smartest guy at a truly asinine startup
mats: i dunno how your mental formula works, but i'd certainly pay to live closer
asciilifeform: 2 is the bestcase
trinque: houston traffic gets crazy
trinque reminisces briefly about the persian chick he dated
trinque: stick another y on that, I guess
trinque: sometimes I'm just trying to get paid
mats: thats ten hours a week right?
asciilifeform: (traditionally not, but it isn't like i would be there if it were not for the rest of it)
asciilifeform: does sitting in the wheel coffin count ?
asciilifeform: hard to say
mats: so lets get down to it, asciilifeform
asciilifeform: 'cause no energy for actual thought, aha
trinque: gets his dick sucked the rest of the time!
trinque: who tried to hire me
trinque: or another meatwot friend working for a tradebot company
asciilifeform: a cubic kilometre of house is worthless if you can't spend your top waking hours there.
asciilifeform: i think you already answered the question though
asciilifeform: do they ?
trinque: they pillage and they live well.
trinque: ah shit man, I have meatwot friends working for these oil companies
asciilifeform: trinque: i am specifically laughing at your notion that i would hate life less if i were to agree to spend MORE HOURS PER DAY doing IDIOT SCUTWORK in exchange for slightly more banana peels.
trinque: I see oil and a few other things as the few remaining inputs on the US "economy
asciilifeform: no matter how much you trusted him.
asciilifeform: it is an elementary thing.
asciilifeform: trinque: as for your oil men, it is a basic truism of salary men in usa that no one is ever, under any circumstances, paid a salary large enough to stop being a salary man.
assbot: 1 results for 'a smell of petroleum prevails throughout' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=a+smell+of+petroleum+prevails+throughout
asciilifeform: !s a smell of petroleum prevails throughout
trinque: acid's special; not the least bit a matter of getting intoxicated in the usual sense
trinque: just to see what'd happen
trinque: asciilifeform: I was telling mr ben_vulp` earlier I'd love to get you some if I'm ever able
asciilifeform: trinque: as for taqiya, it worked pre-google.
asciilifeform: trinque: would love some acid. might make this existence bearable. see old thread re: why i never had any.
trinque: two, taqiya
trinque: to that I have two responses
asciilifeform: trinque: if you cannot understand this, i am probably wasting space here attempting to explain it.
asciilifeform: trinque: read thread, and maybe get it.
trinque: the beltway is *not* all there is
asciilifeform: trinque: see thread.
trinque: move to Houston, do math for an oil company
trinque: asciilifeform: you do live in the worst possible part of the US
asciilifeform does not dispute this
mircea_popescu: had the option to buy it for like 80k, which i didn't take. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: perfectly standard for the local upper middle class
mircea_popescu: but anyway, my place in timisoara was ~5k sqft on two levels.
asciilifeform: it was a kind of theme park of not-feeling-cramped
asciilifeform: i now understand why chinese emperors (and american industrialists) built them!
asciilifeform: for one thing, a four-story warehouse ceiling is vertical space and ipso facto wasted.
asciilifeform: because those spaces do not register as 'plausibly like somewhere i can picture living'
asciilifeform: it is interesting how visiting, e.g., a gigantic warehouse, or stadium, does not tickle this fantasy
asciilifeform dreams (literally) of rooms the way a hungry man does of food
asciilifeform: this played straight into the mega-phantasy in my dream world of 'found extra room in house' that i've been afflicted with since childhood
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the place was also set up in such a way that one must look for hidden doors (e.g., swing-out book cases) to find new rooms
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all the rest - shelves, bulkheads
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my old flat had just enough void air in it to physically pass from one room to another.
asciilifeform: i think the 'cramped' actually made it appealing to my inner submariner
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=489 there.
asciilifeform: 'Local gamekeeper said he understood that the police wanted the bird dispatched because they were worried that it could cause a car crash'
assbot: Runaway rhea, Chris, is shot dead by a gamekeeper - Telegraph ... ( http://bit.ly/1VI0TJj )
asciilifeform: (given that i've never heard of such a man)
asciilifeform: so i can't imagine he would invite me for tea.
mircea_popescu: yes but this'd be relevant to your interests.
asciilifeform: and it is ahead on the list
mircea_popescu: well there certainly exist better museums of "sleep ad libitum" all through california.
asciilifeform: i've never been to alaska either
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: never had a reason to go
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, you ever been on the west coast ?
asciilifeform: then shittification, pressboardification, 'modern' towers, shitter/bath combos, and 'lie-down' enameled steel tubs.
asciilifeform: mats: actually old ru rubs were of the 'sit-down' kind
asciilifeform: there were something like seven wooden tubs of various kinds, in just the rooms i saw
asciilifeform: fuck the items.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the abundance of items ? or what ?
asciilifeform: 'so this is what actual life looked like.'
zveda: mircea_popescu: thanks
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: similar feeling to when i saw an american grocery store for first time
asciilifeform: it is where the piles of 'books' came from
asciilifeform: (literally, the folks who work in that place, brought the crud in for sale)
asciilifeform: mats: much of the garbage in the photos is 'yard sale'
asciilifeform was there with pet, and afterwards we had debate re: whether 'if even a few of the folks with maxint usd wanted a house like this, how many could be satisfied, ..., ..., turkey-buying dollars (tm), ..., ... .'
asciilifeform: though ftr i was there for ~2h and didn't visit even half the rooms.
asciilifeform: mats: i disrecommend the www; just see my photos.
asciilifeform: and yes, one can rent the place by the hour, day, month, and actually shit in them golden toilets !!
asciilifeform: possibly one of the worst company www i have ever seen.
asciilifeform: house of 19th c. mega-imperial somebody, turned into a museum-cum-whore-hotel
asciilifeform: speaking of which, the curator informed me that j.e.hoover quartered his agents in that place.
asciilifeform: btw that was also the first time in my entire life in usa that i saw proper european-height ceilings.
mircea_popescu: re that "blame shift" : i wouldn't even say it's blame shift or anything. pure "us vs them" mentality. obama bombs some schools ? YAY! schools organise and shoot some us terrorists ? BOO!!1
asciilifeform: i had never before been inside a hose half like that.
mircea_popescu: in this case, it was gutmann
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 01:59:41; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264609 << this needs exposition work imho
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-09-2015#1264739 << there's always one of these precious "oh nothing happened lolz" derps mixing themselves in every discussion ☝︎
asciilifeform: with predominantly 19th c (or early to mid 20th in some cases) setting for each.
asciilifeform: rooms had 'countries' theme - 'britain', 'russia', etc.
mircea_popescu: they all seem the same, but maybe just bad pic choice