asciilifeform: for instance, at one time there were shops where you could take a e.g. lappy battery pack and they would saw it open, replace cells.
asciilifeform: even eminently-repairable items , no longer repairable in practice in usa, unless you do it with own hands
asciilifeform: and yes repairable machinery will create stockpiles of useful parts.
asciilifeform: consider how many items in current-day american shop even contain a discrete resistor.
asciilifeform: ( possibly by the tonne , worth ~something . but not +ev to transport anywhere. )
asciilifeform: postcollapse americans are in for some rude surprises : ~0 of the electro-crapola they surround themselves with, is worth ~anything, either as reuse, or salvage
asciilifeform: at least as a kid, i had no way of stripping it, aside from bare hands/knife
asciilifeform: pulling components from su appliances was a bitch: that red varnish
asciilifeform: phf so narrowly missed such great career as a metallist, i had nfi!
asciilifeform: ( prolly not, as metallists would inevitably get to him, like ants get to a corpse in the forest. but just. possibly. one. somewhere )
asciilifeform: when i was walking around in timis, wondered whether some of those boarded-up cellars contained a lenin.
asciilifeform: i can't help but picture that eventually they will have to cast ~new~ lenins.☟︎
asciilifeform: every year i hear about, e.g., 'lenin knocked down in warsaw' -- always gotta wonder 'WHERE? was it hiding all of this time?!'☟︎
asciilifeform: and sometimes statue plays same role but 'with minus sign', e.g. in the post-su lands they ~saved~ some lenins, so as to mutilate/tear down in measured doses later , when wanting to give some extra suction treat to western cock
asciilifeform: and instead will lock on to happenstance
asciilifeform: trinque: iirc it was naggum who had a piece re how folx with trauma, do not necessarily or even often learn anything useful from said trauma
asciilifeform: 'how didja lose that leg, grandfather?' 'fighting for walmart'
asciilifeform: there's a reason why the folx coming back from the various vietnams, come back with dope habits, instead of menschkeit , phf
asciilifeform: in the place where normal folx have culture, what organ did they have.
asciilifeform: i was curious specifically re what they instead had, trinque .
asciilifeform: they missed what they could remember of actual culture. of europe.
asciilifeform: in chicago , in the handful of 19th c building that hadn't yet been torn down to make glass idiocies, there are murals. of what the 1890s folx thought were greek muses, mythical heroes, etc.
asciilifeform: glanced at me to make sure I was getting it down.' (tm)(r)('anathem')
asciilifeform: oblig: '“Are people starving to death? Or are they sick because they are too fat?” Artisan Quin scratched his beard and thought about that one. “You’re talking of slines, I assume?” Fraa Orolo shrugged. Quin thought that was funny. Unlike Artisan Flec, he was not afraid to laugh out loud. “Sort of both at the same time,” he finally admitted. “Very good,” said Fraa Orolo, in a now we’re getting somewhere tone, and
asciilifeform: phf: from my admittedly distant perch, loox like some of 1, some of the other.
asciilifeform: i was thinking of current-day ru as the arab-egyptian. but yes.
asciilifeform: the 'free choice of freely-choosing free konsoomerz' idiocy baccilus was brought in, and will do its work.
asciilifeform: what's left , has ~same relation to the original, as current-day egypt to the pharaonic egypt.
asciilifeform: problem is that there is nowhere to go back, the entire culture that made the '10 bytes of telemetry' is afaik gone.
asciilifeform: and on top of this, the folx 'put to pasture at nih' -- or at least the ones not yet senile -- i suspect at this point are ready to come back☟︎
asciilifeform: ( iirc i posted a snapshot of a leaked fragment of docs for it, last yr )
asciilifeform: 'VLSI, by the way, in amongst their many other products, made chipsets for quite some time. Their last chipset would be one of the very few 75MHz capable Socket 7 designs. Like all the independent chipset makers, their market share would suffer greatly because of Intel's push to extend their CPU near-monopoly into chipsets as well and, unable to compete with Intel on even terms, they stopped trying. VLSI merged with the giant Phillip
asciilifeform happened across the site when researching vintage components for a dos box that he was building.
asciilifeform: but not errywhere and not all the time.
asciilifeform: from yesterday's 486 lulz item, others : http://redhill.net.au/b/b-92.html >> '...you could buy almost anything in XT days; this was long before the dead hand of monopoly crushed the innovation and the creativity out of the PC industry. If you can find an old copy of Byte or APC or even Popular Computing, from 1984 say, or even 1989, spend a half-hour reading through the small ads in the back—you will not believe how much choice th
asciilifeform: speaking of pierced pretenses, according to orlol ( and i've no way to verify ) a ru tanker is offloading a purchase of lng at boston harbour as we speak.
asciilifeform: ( the baikonur memoir linked earlier is good picture of how, but so is 9000 other works from the period )
asciilifeform: also asciilifeform was thinking, su ~had~ 'gutter', was simply implemented somewhat differently
