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mircea_popescu: brendafdez how about something simple like, bar and dancing pole ?
that's 100sqm right
there.
mircea_popescu: you can't have a basement in
the swamp. or good cheese, for
that matter.
brendafdez: yes, I bet when you have something you end up finding some use for it. My previous apartment had a
trunk room, I used it
to keep a lot of shit...
mircea_popescu: or if
too old
to get it up anymore, prized wine collection.
mircea_popescu: brendafdez depends on what lifestyle. place
to
throw a party. place
to store a lot of books. place
to practice some indoor hobby - from kendo
to rockstaring.
BingoBoingo: <brendafdez> what would be
the point of 500swm all
to yourself? << Vax powered steam
table
brendafdez: what would be
the point of 500swm all
to yourself?
mircea_popescu: besides, something
tells me you'll salivate after
the vibe of any place
that's not washington fucking dc.
mircea_popescu: timisoara. it
thinks itself a major romanian
town, but it's more like... well... portland, basically.
mircea_popescu: the girlies
that lived alone in
town generally got 500 sqm apts running 300ish a month.
mircea_popescu: it came with my $7k a year
two level + garden house in ro.
TheNewDeal: Starving artists,
the most popular homo sapien once
the food supply runs shy
mircea_popescu: "For
the first
time in New York City, a multi-unit building will (legally) consist entirely of what
the city has dubbed "micro units," which are apartments of between 250 and 370 square feet." <<
this is almost exactly it!
gabriel_laddel: I always wonder about
the people who see
this sort of
thing everyday but never connect
the dots, how do
they internally deal with actual reality? I once flipped
through
the book Dangerous
Thoughts by Yuri Orlov. He claimed
that in
the soviet collapse people would have multiple "selves". When
they would break
the law
that would be
their "off work" I, vs.
the at work I who would report such a
transgression
to
the poli
decimation: asciilifeform: garbage man
too, especially in maryland
gabriel_laddel: <asciilifeform> we have
these here in abundance << I saw one outside
the Palo Alto four seasons just
the other day... 20 guys just standing around more or less.
mircea_popescu: dude, shakespeare had only part of it. not only is
the world a stage, but
the same old play is going on endlessly.
mircea_popescu: "construction zones
that only constructed
themselves" fuck,
that's SO DAMNED SOVIET!
mircea_popescu: i'm curious if it's going
to yield some sort of ragnarok-like "the world is doomed" (seems
to jive with
the "austerity won't work for us so it doesn't work period" self-seeking ignorance) or some sort of ultraviolent civil war of six sides, like in japan
decimation: also note
that most of
these millenials were raised in relative prosperity in
the rich 'burbs of
the 80's
gabriel_laddel: since
the beginning,
that's
the whole of puritanism, no?
mircea_popescu: but
the us has been hating itself, quite loudly at
that, for decades now.
mircea_popescu: ironically, neither group (ru, ro) selfhated pre
the experience.
gabriel_laddel: <mircea_popescu> what was
the fucking soviet
term for
this, << kommunalki?
mircea_popescu: not
that it was avoidable, but it did make for enduring hatred for both communism and russians.
mircea_popescu: five-six
thousand years later you'll be launching
the
titanic!
mircea_popescu: incidentally : shared kitchens are absolutely
the ONLY way
to go high density. gotta let
the women become friendly so
the
tribal structure re-emerges. once
they're breastfeeding each other's babies you can start over with
the moses desertwalk.
mircea_popescu: where
they put all
the peasants
that went
to
town
to work
mircea_popescu: 'The authors of a new report from
the Boston Foundation, a philanthropic organization
that funds local nonprofits, prefer
the phrase "millennial villages," dorm-like developments
that maximize space by combining smaller living spaces with lots of common areas.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for all i care people are still paying
to visit graceland.
assbot: Logged on 19-03-2015 04:23:25; asciilifeform: '"chumpatron X debt continues
to drag on
the young generation, limiting
their ability
to be milked in chumpatron Y,"
the analysts said.'
mircea_popescu: assbot: Young Adults Are Losing All Hope of Buying a Starter Home - check it out, being a
twentysomething usian kid is a worse fate
than being a 20something chinese kid.
nubbins`: oh right i was gonna fiddle with
that
mircea_popescu: you can't have moral persons
that have delegated
their authority. everyone in
the us agrees
that
they're obeying laws because
they're laws, not because
they're right. consequently, american citizens can not be moral agents.
assbot: Logged on 19-03-2015 04:18:01; decimation: I can't believe any moral person would sign up for
this kind of
thing
mircea_popescu: the ridicule of
this after
their "austerity as only way out" consensus in
the 90s is completely lost, also in
typical usian fashion.
mircea_popescu: which is why, in
typical usian fashion,
they're claiming currently
that "austerity is not a way out" in
the general.
mircea_popescu: it can't stop.
this is a foregone conclusion,
the us has no austerity way out
decimation: but because 'inflation measures' were off, not in june but maybe september, and
this
time for real
mircea_popescu: how does air manage
to avoid being digested by mammals ? well...
decimation: meanwhile farther up
the line,
the bond & stock & currency markets wobbled wildly on news
that
the fed might
this
time really seriously stop printing money
mircea_popescu: when confronted with stuff such as, you know "quite a few 'civilians' don't believe me when i explain
that
the 'publishers' do not edit, or - in most cases - even
typeset
the submissions; and
that not only do authors receive no royalties, but often -pay- page costs"
mircea_popescu: strange
that anyone would even for a single second propose
the usg even exists as a going concern,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but even if it were
true - still a joke. picture, full year's embargo. << i actually don't see much of a problem with
this. most "science" is worthless anyway, i currently don't read it if it's less
than a coupla decades old on general principle. a year's embargo wouldn't do anything.
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2015 04:14:00; asciilifeform: it was a mindfuck. went
to see
this one place, it had... 8 bois/gurlz
decimation: asciilifeform:
the inhabitants are expected
to spend 100% of
their income in 'consumption'