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asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i'm trying to get a sense of how much sense the thing made to folks
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, didja ever get v-stator to build ?
BingoBoingo: cazalla: removed some things that don't get used
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 21:39:46; BingoBoingo: Played with qntra CSS a bit, still probably the most modern and compliant wordpress blawg on the interwebz https://archive.is/6kBqw https://archive.is/CKKJa
asciilifeform idly wonders how many of these he had found
ben_vulpes: http://qntra.net/2015/03/local-police-arming-robots/ << bb you're unsung comic gold i tell you
assbot: The struggles of the world's hairiest family - BBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1JCByLB )
pete_dushenski: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33978116 << and i thought i was hairy-(ish)
asciilifeform: but inescapably reminds me of the east asian piss-motorcycles
asciilifeform: l0l that would be ideal here.
pete_dushenski: "Amazon Prime Now - Skip the Trip. One-Hour Delivery."
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the nearest spot that has this is the baltimore sector. ask diametric about it.
ben_vulpes: and lol can anyone actually drive to your place from the depot in less than two hours?
trinque: I buy the primo shit from Meat on Burnside
ben_vulpes: trinque: is clearly not buying the nice frozen stuff.
trinque: I feed animals meant to eat meat... MEAT!
asciilifeform: even dog, somehow, is made to eat it.
asciilifeform: the same thing is done to man and beast alike.
asciilifeform: say what you like about the americans, but they are consistent in all things.
asciilifeform: turned out, they feed'em corn.
asciilifeform: in usa - almost lives up to its name, a pig.
asciilifeform: my mother's lab had them, and my folks kept one as a pet for a spell, back home. it was small, ratlike animal
trinque: dogs too
trinque: because they're bought to be furniture
asciilifeform: cat was fully 2-3x the size of 'cat' in my mind
asciilifeform: trinque: when i moved to usa, i was initially puzzled why various animals were mis-shapen
asciilifeform: they destroy vermin, and ornament the windows, trees. and, very rarely, will allow themselves to be petted.
trinque: people ask me if I feed him enough. of fucking course I do; that's just a cat with muscle, not blubber
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260451 << i recently waded into the bizarro world of baby diapers where monthly service of 'cloth' units is 3x price of 'disposable' AND ~40% shittier. and i do mean shittier. but... environment ! ☝︎☟︎
trinque: otherwise they turn into that sad window-gazing bastard that jumps at every noise
asciilifeform: aha. cat belongs in the wild.
trinque: they're fine animals if you let them do what they're made for: climbing trees and murdering smaller animals
trinque: yeah, I let mine out; got him from somebody on craigslist in the woods in TX
asciilifeform: i tried once to keep a cat, in the old flat. he did not like it, escaped, tunneled through a grate and never seen again.
trinque: my cat came home bloody today, must've killed some rodent or another
asciilifeform: (they were injured by a trap, but still somehow running, at half pace)
asciilifeform: right in the kitchen
asciilifeform: clubbed them to death personally, with crowbar.
asciilifeform: i remember the last two mice very well
asciilifeform: who also make it impossible to ignore themselves
asciilifeform: the mice infuriated me because they reminded me so much of human vermin.
asciilifeform: if it were not for this, might be difficult in a modern flat (with no sacks of grain to lose, etc) to even notice them.
asciilifeform: the most objectionable, imho, thing about mice, is the stream of shit they leave behind
asciilifeform had mice, by the dozen
mircea_popescu: oh and acutally, the first time i EVER encountered a rodent as a domicile pest (of exactly three times total) is, iirc, on my blog somewhere.
asciilifeform: early versions had a charge on the grid at all times,
asciilifeform: triggered by capacitance change in the floor grid (tubular-shaped vessel)
asciilifeform: in my old flat i made use of a very spiffy kind of trap, true marvel of engineering,
asciilifeform: we have two basic species of rat here, one that climbs, and one that tunnels ☟︎
asciilifeform: they are also titanically large
mircea_popescu: i think maybe transylvania is not warm enough
asciilifeform: where i live now, rat is no less a thing than in any medieval town, i imagine.
mircea_popescu: but it was more like a wilderness sighting of wonder than anything.
mircea_popescu: had serious problems overcoming the mild curiosity. i don't see them as THAT much of a pest yet actually.
mircea_popescu had never seen a cockroach in the flesh before going to costa rica
asciilifeform: but it would be a mistake to suppose that they are absent from the northern latitudes
asciilifeform: well, in what is now the land of the ukrs
asciilifeform: (he would not do well in a ru flat. but allergy is really something you develop from hyper-hygienic conditions anyway. a man with roach allergy was an impossible thing where i come from)
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 03:14:19; assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:52:40; trinque: again, I wouldn't be surprised if it's some garbage that was in wheat production processes at some point
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260904 << i recently met a fella who cannot drink american instant coffee. breaks out in hives. and not on account of the coffee, but from having allergy to... cockroaches. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: something to that effect
asciilifeform: orwell had a piece concerning this, somewhere
mircea_popescu: the point is made in passing in that discussion of rabbit killing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is in bad taste to kill people but be unfamiliar with the body's path through this world. much like eating cream but never having milked a cow, or eating meat but never having hunted, and so forth.
asciilifeform: (there is a hilarious little book, by some american fella, 'stiff' - about process of decomposition and the practical applications of said field)
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:23:45; mircea_popescu: by the time blood solids separate out of plasm the body's long dead.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260690 << i like how mircea_popescu comes back to this image. makes me often privately wonder if he did a tour of duty as an undertaker when young man ☝︎
trinque: consider the person a specimen and ask questions
mircea_popescu: well if you feel like writing about this polio sometime i'll read it.
trinque: I dunno; you don't have to subscribe to their newsletter to talk
mircea_popescu: is this "not having the circuitry" anything akin to "i cnat spael, i'm an artistic type" ?
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:52:40; trinque: again, I wouldn't be surprised if it's some garbage that was in wheat production processes at some point ☟︎
asciilifeform: entire u.s. real estate racket is based on this fact.
asciilifeform: they ~would~ - do - pay to avoid being locked in.
mircea_popescu: people fucking pay to be around the chimp cage
asciilifeform: if you don't have the circuitry, it is an insurmountable and - more importantly - entirely unappealing problem to solve.
asciilifeform: what i really suck at is socializing with generic humans without wanting to eat a bullet almost immediately
mircea_popescu: "too tight, trying too hard" etc in parlance.
asciilifeform: trinque: if i were any good at lying, i would already be working as a professional liar. considering that i live in the world's capital for these
mircea_popescu: a great tragedy it'd be too
mircea_popescu wishes he'd have the poetic skill of at least a tolstoy, to write The Story of Alf,
trinque: mats: that's the one
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not in quite these words
trinque: what's the islamic concept re: lying to enemies?
mircea_popescu: that what, "this guy is too independent thinker to hire" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how do you know this ?
asciilifeform: trinque: btw i will mention that there was a time when i was out of work and starving, and tried to do all kinds of things. the normal corporate folks could tell what kind of animal i was from ten minutes' conversation and wouldn't touch me with a barge pole.
trinque: "oh my god, smell this"
asciilifeform: if you had to eat shit,
trinque: I know a guy that makes like 120k building terrible web-pages
mircea_popescu: i stuffed more of the finest sturgeon roe into random women than anyone you know.
asciilifeform: trinque: if you are not among the annointed ☟︎
asciilifeform: trinque: the problem is that they are not worth much
trinque: this is kinda what I mean about something like "you're smart, take the shartups for all they're worth"
asciilifeform: do i catastrophically fail to grasp this ...?
mircea_popescu: so my solution is merely lower temperature under the tragedy pot, nothing else.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can not answer for taleb. i can tell you that as far as i'm concerned, a) my ass actually enjoys the company and b) my head actually doesn't much care about the industry.
mircea_popescu: so they invented this incredibly contorted torture mechanism for them
mircea_popescu: but they hated with burning passion the girls involved. which, i'm sure, in their worst nightmares sounded just like mats' bus linked above
mircea_popescu: early men building up the us as an industrial power did want the part where maggotry allows them to run textile mills