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mats: but hard
to shake
the eyeballs as a couple of asians strolling around
town
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu phf
the
three of us should have a costa rica photo comparison event
mircea_popescu: dun
tell me you hung out with
the expats in retard quarter.
phf: mircea_popescu: i did not, i should've asked for recommendations ahead of
time, come
to
think of it, i don't know spanish
mats: on
that note, was just in ensenada a few weeks ago, great
time
to be
there -- mostly just locals
this
time of year
mircea_popescu couldn't stand
the coasts, way
too hot and humid.
the city itself is a very pleasant weather.
mats: sounds like
the Mexican side of
the
Tijuana border, phf
mircea_popescu: anyway. you found
the nice indian restaurant with
the peacocks roaming in
the garden ?
mircea_popescu: i guess i gotta dig up my pictures from
there or something.
phf: san jose reminded me of moscow in
the 90s, grown men in
track suits selling apples out of cardboard boxes, old women selling roasted something or other, all in
the middle of a busy street
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski see,
totally worth it
to ignore
the oxi. where else are
tyhey gonna find 80bn for 30 years for free.
pete_dushenski: egyptians can't be bothered
to lift a finger, it seems
pete_dushenski: My investment is more
than a million dollars for
the factory here. But during
these
two years I’ve lost a lot. It’s all
the problem of labor—the mentality of
the workers. Our factory needs
to run
twenty-four hours a day; it’s not just for one shift. In order
to do
this in Egypt, we have
to hire male workers, and
the men are really lazy.”
pete_dushenski: lol a silverware cheat sheet.
that's pretty embarrassing
pete_dushenski: and speaking of
travels, i'm currently crafting an article on my recent
trip
to
the dollar store here
phf: we went
to
the nicest restaurant i could find after a week of casados, waiter was reading silverware placement of a cheat sheet, and
the chicken was undercooked. it was almost comic
pete_dushenski: the caribbean coast is beautiful in a different way, being more
tropical, lush, and mysterious
pete_dushenski: the pacific coast of costa rica is gorgeous, however. monkeys swinging from
trees, perfect sand, a wide variety of ex pats
phf: i went
to costa rica recently, bad food, bad services, one city for
the whole country which essentially consists of 5 street blocks of what i would recognize as a city. but
the beach was nice, can rent a boat and go diving, etc.
pete_dushenski: i won't pretend like
there's a nightlife worth
the bother, but i went biking, played
tennis, drank several bottles of ginger wine daily
phf: ah, my impression is
that
there's fuck else
to do in places like
that.
phf: pete_dushenski: i've read it, didn't answer most important question, how was
the beach?
mircea_popescu: it's a fundamental flaw of
the entire non-ba corporate model, and it's unfixable.
pete_dushenski: "Basically, employees have
to drill into
their head
that email is not secure. Period! If you recieve email from your boss
that you need
to wire somebody $$, just
tell him/her
to at least phone you
to verify who
they are."
pete_dushenski: after china chewed
the production meat off of
the us' flesh,
that is
pete_dushenski: meta was necessary
to maintain
the linear ascent of
the usians from
the previous 3 generations into
this last one
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: careful with
that 'anything other
than
this' approach. it's arguably what put us in
this entire mess
to begin with.
mircea_popescu: anything
that isn't
the current crop would be great, really.
phf: i should've put quotes around dom, but without being facetious, i agree,
that would've been nice
pete_dushenski: folks already swinging back
to
the left for
the upcoming federal election in ~9 weeks from now
pete_dushenski: elected school
teachers with
two years of experience, etc.
pete_dushenski: at
the more local/state level,
this phenomenon has spread here, particularly in
the last provincial election
pete_dushenski: phf ...and i have
to say i found it sorta fascinating when i was in jamaica in february
pete_dushenski: ^putting a 26-yo whose never
tied her own shoelaces in charge of a bank is batty for a reason
phf: i had a Jamaican friend who would scare white people on campus by
trash
talking
them in patois
phf: pete_dushenski: i always
thought
that's from "butt", but i like your
theory
too
assbot: Logged on 16-08-2015 03:45:14; asciilifeform: and did i just count no less
than ~3~ msword .doc
turds in
that
thing.
pete_dushenski: can't say i'm gonna click but hey, logs readers appreciate
this kinda closing of
the loop
cazalla: asciilifeform, yeah
there are few docs with a
time line of events etc, nothing
that isn't in
the
text of
the article anyway
pete_dushenski: reddit has all
the merit of
the national enquirer and about as much believability
pete_dushenski: mats you've also read about
the merits of usgavin's noble for
the community on reddit.
mats: I've read good
things about having
two penises
mircea_popescu: mats you don't dispute
there's entire communities centered around living off derpy middle aged usian males do you ?
mircea_popescu: re
the entire blarney
thing : if my reports mostly consisted of who said what
to whom behind whose back i'd just
turn
the whole shit off and go watch soaps. no fucking idea how it is
that obama's not worried by mostly being fed blarney.
mircea_popescu: "hey, i just agreed
to be
tied up naked by some guy i don't know,
this doesn't mean he can also finger me!!111"
mircea_popescu: then
they spend weeks penning diatribes on fetlife/wherever derping about who "violated" whose
trust
phf: i've seen people do hook suspension at
the same events
they would fly volunteers,
there's very little dynamic
there besides "ropes! pain!"
mircea_popescu: because i've personally seen
the sorts of fucktards who derp about how
they're doing bdsm
mircea_popescu: punkman still, what came
to his mind. and i know why
the fuck it came
to his mind,
too.
punkman: hook suspension is more related
to
the bmezine crowd
than bdsm
mats: and
this writer is supposedly from canada
mircea_popescu is sad
that
the imbecile "sane stupid and consensual" crowd has managed
to make bdsm appear a sort of roadshow discipline, with all
the other circus acts.
phf: i saw hook suspension as part of religious ceremony in souther india,
they put a lot more showmanship into
the whole process
then u.s. bdsm crowd. between music, dancing and
the general revelry, it's very impressive