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asciilifeform: the question thing was a bolt-on
asciilifeform: sounds like a reddit then ?
diana_coman: re barfing in the streets tbh that's in my books a very much western/northern thing ☟︎
asciilifeform: tho i did finally see cops arresting a d00d. seemed as if for: double-parking ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 00:31 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729116 << verily. timisoara can be walked on foot in a day.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729125 << iirc it was a kind of mechanized reddit..? ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2015-12-24 19:04 mircea_popescu: "We hired a local operations manager in Denver (Sasha Juliard) and soon launched at Shotgun Willie’s (the highest-grossing strip club in CO) and two other bars. We made about $1,200 on each deal (50% went to DexOne, we spent $800 on each launch event and we had $500 in hardware costs), this was the only sales revenue Flowtab ever made. We were tightening up our sales process, but it was hard to market ourselves prope
lobbes: mircea_popescu, it really is a wonderful tool in the serenity belt.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-06 15:53 mircea_popescu: incidentally : someone writing a tex processor for serenity (ex mp-wp) themes that shinohai can then just import as a standard would be pretty epic.
BingoBoingo: Well, that's a distinct hazard of meeting people and making friends
BingoBoingo: How were your travels? Have you considered doing a travel/entertainment gig with alf as a sorta first TMSR venture into "reality tv" over irc?
BingoBoingo: Suspects name explains it all: "Mahmoud A. Massoud, 34"
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 20:42 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and nowhere in usa is there so much as a small town that's 100% people. << There's one of those nearby. Breese, Illinois. A bit further Pinkneyville, Illinois.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729116 << verily. timisoara can be walked on foot in a day. ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 22:44 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i dun just mean 'no scooties', but literally sparta grade, not a gram of excess mass on'em
asciilifeform: none of these, at least not where naked eye can see'em. though i finally saw a bum. 1.
BingoBoingo: Well, pedestrian society. You know who also tends not have excess mass like a greyhound? Addicts
asciilifeform: like there isn't on a greyhound or a wild fox
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i dun just mean 'no scooties', but literally sparta grade, not a gram of excess mass on'em ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Eh, CO clear system in conscious active person within 8-12 hours. Buy a carton of cigarettes and verify for self.
asciilifeform: take a co detector into yer car sometime
asciilifeform: here's a phun experiment btw
BingoBoingo: Easy starting also important, so synthetic 2-cycle fuel pre-mix is a must.
BingoBoingo: When selecting a chainsaw for home defense, exhaust noise is everything.
BingoBoingo: Or does shop have a more "classic" Husqvarna product line?
BingoBoingo: In other news, worst case for a company address in Brazil is renting a private office in Paulista neighborhood which runs... $435/month.
asciilifeform: hell i dunno if asciilifeform any moar counts as a people.
asciilifeform: pigmy moar a people.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and nowhere in usa is there so much as a small town that's 100% people. << There's one of those nearby. Breese, Illinois. A bit further Pinkneyville, Illinois. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: get a load of that!
asciilifeform: fwiw if usa can be put in a drum and buried with other toxic waste in next decade, europe will grow back.
asciilifeform: i for one didn't ship from factory with a sticker guaranteeing permanence.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, the meta-discussin is more about "i want to move there", cognate of "this has a permanent future"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's a fact : no one works the field without a whip.
mircea_popescu: well, narrower than that : london no longer wishes to be taxed ; the eu will survive as a bureaucracy, sure, but what else.
mircea_popescu: conceivably it'll survive a decade or two.
asciilifeform: i'ma stick a pin at those coords and actually do it, when i have the coveted pad here.
asciilifeform: that's middle of a field ?!
asciilifeform: asciilifeform frequented a zoo like this as a kid.
asciilifeform: and a few beasts.
mircea_popescu: oh, btw : asciilifeform take pet for a walk. tis nice, maybe you see does.
asciilifeform: unfortunately i did not pack a butter churn in suitcase lol
asciilifeform: unless in a few states, and close to farm.
asciilifeform: there's only a point to doing so in usa if you can get direct access to a cow
mircea_popescu: a cool.
asciilifeform: phun phakt, i walked into a plebian shoe store,
mircea_popescu: in between them, laughable if meanwhile expired idiots a la what's his face, lala andrisan's estwhile admirer.
mircea_popescu: there's all sorts of oligarchs, in the typical russian fashion, of "here's some government money", from the old guard of http://trilema.com/2012/dan-voiculescu-acest-gunoi-abject/ to the newly invented "media personalities" a la sebastian ghita.
asciilifeform: neutrino-mp passes through light-year of Pb with 50% chance of nudging a proton, or wat.
mircea_popescu: outside of this guy, and a talented soccer player (adrian mutu) who could have amounted to something but chose hookers and blow instead, there are no actual mp competitors in that country.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-05 16:13 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-05#1666045 << the way the lizards expect the shit to work is exactly in the way mp -saves-openbsd worked : as seen moneyz. recall the story of the us embassy spending a whooping 50k to start an "empire" of fake news tv stations etc ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 18:01 asciilifeform: i just opened a window and those folx dun look like they've been collected 100% from
mircea_popescu: anyway, to revisit the matter of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728843 : adrian sirbu, possibly the only romanian to have done anything since 1989 (he created the deliberate usg tool Pro Tv in 1995, a media company whose wikipedia page no longer mentions him -- very much a successful equivalent of the failed http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-05#1666048), has recently been accused of... you'll guess this not ? TERRORISM! ☝︎☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: and nowhere in usa is there so much as a small town that's 100% people.
asciilifeform: there WAS , however, a plaquard somewhere, confessing that all of this is happening on eu grantola.
asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/foo.jpg << a 'before' ; a (diff. bldg) 90% complete 'after' >> http://www.loper-os.org/pub/bar.jpg
asciilifeform: i'ma upload a few , 1s
mircea_popescu: a ?
mircea_popescu: take thee to a walk among the ruins of the old russian barracks in the middle of the town, count the rats.
mircea_popescu: the habsburg square is a) never getting fixed b) not upkept for 30 years. what keeps it still standing is its origin ; once that gives out it's gone.
mircea_popescu: the dream of "Everyone a VCR" was finally realised.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 00:37 mod6 raises a glass to the 3rd anniversary of The Bitcoin Foundation
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-22#1727535 << a toast to the foundation ☝︎
asciilifeform: hey mircea_popescu recall your article re orthodox church ? how it is backbone of a culture, prevents mcdonaldization ?
pete_dushenski: "bn" also pop-famous after justin timberlake / mark zuckerberg facebook movie line "a million dollars isn't cool. y'know what's cool ? a billion" and then they all do shots and blow. but this was 2004 or w/e so 10x today and you're there.
pete_dushenski: tis a nice round number, that "bn"
asciilifeform: i just opened a window and those folx dun look like they've been collected 100% from ☟︎
asciilifeform: i dun give half a fuck where reported if all it wants is 3%
a111: Logged on 2017-10-21 23:26 mircea_popescu: and here's some lulz for asciilifeform's private "art ownerhsip" collection : femme nue couchee, a courbet knockoff of the maja desnuda goya painting was looted in 45 by the soviets, who displayed it in the manner of truckers, which is to say on a truck tarpaulin. the item was thought lost, but it surfaced in 2000. the owner (possession is 100% of the law!) was accused of being unfit for ownership, as he happened to be slovak
asciilifeform: ( exercise for BingoBoingo and other adventurers : go to a europistani bank and try opening account with usa passport, read the resulting document & weep )
asciilifeform: ( after 'prove that you are not a camel' rituals )
mircea_popescu: turns out, rachel's only a total slut in the warsaw ghetto. take her to california beach, she's a total nag.
mircea_popescu: iirc it was because they heard rachel's a total slut.
mircea_popescu: oh, you're a jew on top of everything ?!
BingoBoingo: What mircea_popescu has a visual fixation to make up for color blindness? asciilifeform has anal fixation because has to poop in shitty toilets sans gold
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> to give some colour to the picture, asciilifeform walked on street and on a light pole was commonplace ad for flat for sale, 40kiloeur << What they cost over here.
mircea_popescu: akron, you understand, is a metropolis compared to bucharest.
mircea_popescu: hey, you can have a house in comparable mittelamerica for same money.
asciilifeform: to give some colour to the picture, asciilifeform walked on street and on a light pole was commonplace ad for flat for sale, 40kiloeur
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, if you're not staying a full year, you don't need any of this ; if you are, that's plenty of time to marry-and-divorce.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if you can find a pretty female lawyer that wants to be married in ro, i wanna hear about it lmao.
asciilifeform: this , as often in mircea_popescu threads, is like asking a swallow for air travel advice.
mircea_popescu: as a general rule you don't want personal property registered with the fiatistans. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: buy a warehouse as personal property ?
asciilifeform: if i had a megabux i'd just live on that and try to stay out of police station
alex__c: checked out of curiosity.. for a Romanian passport you need Ro citizenship.. and in turn, you can get citizenship after 8 years of having lived here
mircea_popescu: but as a general rule of thumb, whenever a fiat govt is involved, sensible isn't.
asciilifeform: i can already picture it, suppose mircea_popescu ran an auto dealership, someone walks in asks for cheapest engined wheelbarrow , mircea_popescu answers 'over there, is a mine, spend 60 yrs there, you will have enough salt to trade for some iron blanks, and then....'
mircea_popescu: cheap is marry local, fuck her until pregnant, divorce her a year later, pay court ordered 600 lei/mo or w/e until you forget.
asciilifeform: what does a white d00d have to do to get europistan passport anyway
asciilifeform: there's a doctor to set broken arm, an undertaker to put me in the earth, etc.
asciilifeform: not a detroit, unless in some subtle moral sense
mircea_popescu: it can't be had. why the fuck do you think it's dead as a going concern ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just have someone take you down "bulevardul 3 august 1919". you will come to a plaza where the tramlines split. facing it, on your right is this block-sized building. the plaza has some items of interest also.
asciilifeform: ( also dun you gotta be a member of europistan to buy ? or is this a n00b notion )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not worth anything. timisoara is dead as a going concern, a local detroit.
mircea_popescu: (medieval gates were a big deal, much like today's airports. most people had to sleep somewhere)
mircea_popescu: nah. there's a large square building dominating what's know the "fabric" neighbourhood.
asciilifeform: ( next to it btw was a cat bordello, pet enjoyed )
mircea_popescu: iirc the one across was originally a mill eventually grain storage ; and this one textile something.