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mircea_popescu: the entire point of having a city and cars is
the endless line of half-naked farm
teenagers begging for a ride, stretching out
to
the horizon.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> f everyone were
to come by car. <<
the city as we know it is before
that a creation of
the "not everyone's invited" principle.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mcturd costs a dollar or
two. << look at how "inflation" is calculated sometime.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform>
the other interesting
thing is
that
the market is segmented in such a way
that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~
the alt-crackpotteries, not merely
the logical ones <<
this is a very valid point, and
the one spot where alf's ideas re meta-lizzards sound most persuasive. i do not believe
the market is gerrymandered as it is by accident.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: <mats>
the argument is often made
that 'healthy food' in us is expensive <<< healthy food is expensive if you imagine yourself me but for
the grace of god, and
then attempt
to remedy
this lack of grace by papering over with money. yes you'll have
to pay a lot for someone who doesn't want
to,
to cook at home for you.
mats: MPs got it easy in 'AIT' (job
training)
trinque: parking's probably hell around
there
funkenstein_: well you could always carry a
two
ton steel wheelchair with you and wait in line behind idiots
trinque: probably as some
tacit matter of policy
trinque: they don't enforce
tickets very well
trinque: really doesn't matter where in
the car he is; you smell him
mats: 21:57:42 — +funkenstein_ stood shoulder
to shoulder in packed
train
today comfortably reading book << reminds me when i'd catch a nap in
the cattle car during movements between barracks and
training site, fully burdened by gear and supported on all sides by other dudes
trinque: here it's more
than likely you'll share it with some bum covered in his own shit and piss
trinque: I loathe public
transportation.
mats: sop in every mega-city: hk and sg island,
tokyo, monaco, london, etc...
funkenstein_ stood shoulder
to shoulder in packed
train
today comfortably reading book
funkenstein_: asciilifeform,
the joke is on
them of course.
the
train is infinitely more comfortable
funkenstein_: megalogs.. applause on
thread: re standards become
the sorcerers explanation
mats: 21:49:57 <+asciilifeform> ...
the nuance here is
that
the city as we know it is fundamentally a creation of mass
transport. as in, you would have
to demolish almost all of new york or london
to park cars, if everyone were
to come by car. << you ever been
to LA?
funkenstein_: compare price
to bag of potatoes, or oats,
to see real value
mats: mcdrivethru is a solid deal if you're looking
to just exist, yakno
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 00:53:24; mircea_popescu: well how about fuck
that. no "bigger blocks", no mass
transit, no government anything.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 00:59:53; mod6: i
think
that's next, bars between seats.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:07:48; *: mircea_popescu is stuffed with
TWO!!! homemade round breads + argentine milanesa (schnitzel really). fucking delicious.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (with a
third, hastily wired in like an iraqi ad hoc mine, 'grow own') << Not so bad, cheap monetarily and in
terms of
time for
the veggies, get expensive quickly for
the proteins
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:06:47; mircea_popescu: and now salary is, for 50% of
the population, based on
the mcdonalds mchappyshit
mats: and
the 'cheap shit' roughly approximates
to rice and beans or a mcchicken
mats: the argument is often made
that 'healthy food' in us is expensive
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:06:14; mircea_popescu: mod6 not like
the fatsos couldn't buy cheap shit and cook at home.
trinque: I can sorta see it; at least one might come home with some cycles left
to spend on something interesting
mircea_popescu: or in
the words of maggie
the cat, "you can be young without money. but you can't be old without it"
trinque: sure,
they'd make you write haskell all day or something
trinque: asciilifeform: I bet Galois in
town would hire ya
trinque: asciilifeform: you could find some bullshit startup
to.. milk
mircea_popescu: once we went
to a farm, and cow was being milked by girl
mircea_popescu: for a while years ago i amused myself by organising reality
tours for various people from afar. sort-of like a conference i guess.
mod6: im simply amazed
that you can sit on
that beltway everyday.
that stuff was bananaballs.
trinque: had
the nice muted sweetness
to it, quite alive
trinque: I've milked
the fuckers myself and
this
tasted just like
that
trinque: entirely; you just live in
the worst part of
the US
mircea_popescu wants
transylvanian sour cream god fucking damn it all.
trinque had unpasteurized milk recently;
there's a good farm for it nearby
☟︎☟︎ mod6: <+mircea_popescu>
tho
they have nfi about dairy. <<
that one italian place had some decent cheese iirc... but perhaps it was imported.
trinque: were
there no welfare bad food and drugs would be fine filters
mircea_popescu: except, perhaps, one. hardly any
theo and a lot of rem in it.