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erlehmann: trinque i don't actually want to have
a conversation about invasion, because i don't particularly care. i came here because of the v versionatron and because i liked the attitude behind that.
trinque: ben_vulpes: correctness is
a bourgeois construct.
trinque: "I don't want to have
a conversation re: invasion, so lets instead belabor whether we're all behaving ourselves."
Framedragger: oh there's
a .de translation apparently, but can't attest to quality
Framedragger: 'tis not bad, but read only small part. decent ru->en translation by
a guy on livejournal (not joking, promise)
Framedragger: and how the elves with gandalf conspired to rewrite story ("written by the victors" and all that), and ring was actually
a side plot to distract people
Framedragger: you may be interested in "the last rinbearer" by
a russian geologist (iirc), tells ring tale from perspective of mordor on
a brink of industrial revolution
trinque: I'm still eagerly awaiting
a description of these roving gangs of car burners.
☟︎ erlehmann: Framedragger i actually meant “i had not noticed to that extent until now how tolkien tells
a story that can be seen as
a race war”
erlehmann: asciilifeform i spent years of my youth in
a remote boarding school inside an old monastery building. not many turks or africans there.
trinque: I think when I arrived I thought the place was
a bunch of red-pillers
trinque: you think the same stupid arguments aren't raised every time someone improves
a neighborhood anywhere else?
trinque: erlehmann: please bridge the gap for me between "country that is welcoming
a flood of foreign invaders" and "omg haet tourists, I'll torch your car"
☟︎ ben_vulpes: eh i don't see how "stop bitching about problems you can trivially solve without involving the state eg rent control, try moving to
a neighborhood as shitty as this one was two decades ago when you crept in" is quite "slice lengthwise"
erlehmann:
a suitcase on wheels marks
a person like
a shitstain on their pants
erlehmann: if, on the other hand, you are looking to experience tourist hate, take an airbnb in mitte, in the vincinity of st. oberholz. take
a wheelie case and new apple devices with you.
erlehmann: as i said: as
a tourist, i probably would not choose airbnb in berlin. reason is that the strategy is working. less stressful to book hotel room or hostel.
ben_vulpes: who gives
a flying fuck about "pushing up rents" because some people rent in ways not appealing to the local statal orgs
erlehmann: it is most likely
a tactical action to make you go away.
erlehmann: it is just that berliners have
a very good understanding of how to make people fuck off
erlehmann: basically, if you want to go cheap: go to
a hostel, rent
a room for 4 or 6.
erlehmann: also, did you know that frozen piss can be shoved under
a door and seep into the carpet?
Framedragger: basically, if we were to stay for
a longer chunk of time, different arrangements would be made. very-short-term... hm, hotels are boring
erlehmann: b) many airbnb guests behave in such an obnoxious way that entirely unpolitical people living in the same house hate them with
a passion.
☟︎ erlehmann: furthermore, two observations, one on
a systemic, one on an individual level:
a) airbnb drives up rents, because it is much more profitable to (illegally) rent on airbnb than to (legally) rent to someone long-term. transients always spend more money then residents.
erlehmann: re scammy: read reviews and think if an airbnb host with that name really exists. it may or may not do you any harm if “sarah” never shows up and is in fact
a front for some rent-seeking dude.
erlehmann: i have
a single, very important berlin tourism tip. avoid airbnb (and similar things) to the strongest extent possible. there are only
a few faster ways to make enemies, like putting on
a police uniform and visiting rigaer straße alone in the middle of the night.
Framedragger: erlehmann: i've been to c-base
a coupla times, curious if there are any hackerspaces which are less about showing off and more about actual DIY projects etc (not sure if can meaningfully interact in the span of only
a week tho, i guess)
☟︎ Framedragger: funny thing is i'm not really into raves. at the same time i have
a pile of high quality mdma that i now need to dispose of, because changing country. so who knows
☟︎ erlehmann: looking for rave culture. are you some kind of rave-apologist? maybe even
a gang rave!
Framedragger: good point, i'll get back to you later. it's not
a well-defined request/problem in my mind. "shit to do at night in kreuzberg / east berlin" would count, including rave parties (sounds teenage-ish when i put it like that heh)
erlehmann: Framedragger each cell in minetest is potentially
a lua program
danielpbarron: and the way i'm writing it up, it's also
a crash course on how to gentoo in general
trinque: btw this could be turned into
a portage "set"
ben_vulpes: recipe for portage to make $package happen to
a gentoo
danielpbarron:
a portage package? no. it's more of
a recipe from scratch: how to install gentoo for optimal eulora
Framedragger: erlehmann: question #3 -- any recommendations for what to do in berlin in july? i'll be there with
a few friends from 5 july (may travel to leipzig), random recommendations welcome (we'll visit the nsa tower/hill, etc)
danielpbarron unofficially works on eulora. occasionally publishes patches to the client. almost ready to publish
a eulora-gentoo recipe
☟︎ mod6: i misspell
a lot of things too. so there' that.
mod6: do you use
a graphical browser if needed?
mod6: <+asciilifeform> if answer to either 1, 2, or both, is 'yes' -- asciilifeform won't use. << wait... i thought you were big on
a workstation that you could use... but this doesn't include
a mouse?
erlehmann: at work, everyone who has
a non-standard setup on GNU/linux, uses i3
☟︎ shinohai: ding, ding, ding! asciilifeform wins
a prize!
ben_vulpes: first full day at the helm of gentoo workstation while rough, was
a marked improvement over the previous wheelbarrow's spiky handles. many thanks to asciilifeform and trinque.
mod6: which, i guess you would be assigning
a null word then, also. not sure if that was intended.
mod6: asciilifeform: anyway, im just trying to figure out if this splits the number in
a balanced manner or we're off by one.
mod6: asciilifeform: have
a minute to walk through the splitting of the numbers?
BingoBoingo: Kubota has
a rather popular 3-cylinder diesel ~25-ish horsepower but lots of torque for the small holder who wants to deep rip their plot
mircea_popescu: also re "small cars", apparently fiat actually makes
a THREE CYLINDER car
trinque: scam; I don't think you can stuff
a tofurkey
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: pajama boy :: An insufferable Man-Child. About as threatening as Michael Cera and so nerdy he could guest-host on an unwatched MSNBC show. The purpose of Pajama Boy is not to get people to buy health insurance, but to get
a rise out of more powerful personas. [ex:] Pajama Boy is an insufferable Man-Child probably reading The Bell Jar and looking forward to
a hearty Christmas meal of stuffed tofurkey. If (2 more messages)
a111: Logged on 2017-05-19 17:22 asciilifeform: in other news,
a 4096-bit
A**B takes approx 14 seconds (3GHz) .
mircea_popescu: phf incidentally, it's
a great thing the free world (tm) defeated the soviet union where people couldn't be published for writing things outside of the yemu sam's letters.
phf: there was
a young adult novel about vampires, and i can't remember the title or the author, but it was written by
a virologist, had all kinds of trivia about this sort of viral parasites (obviously vampirism was explored from that angle too)
mircea_popescu:
a lot more work to change behaviour ~in all mammals!~ than it is to aflict one narrowly defined sort of ant.
mircea_popescu: however, rabies is
a much better example : the virus specifically accumulates in the salivary glands, for the ~purpose~ of being transmitted through bites, and shuts down the deglutition behaviour.
phf: there's though
a comedic dimension to the word, by 19th century you had
a stereotype of bumbling deacon, the kind of person who would blame "daemons" on personal insignificant follies
mircea_popescu: yeah. at the time and in those parts, wolves were
a much more serious problem, and correspondingly
a much larger part of culture than seen today
mircea_popescu: afaik the slavic notion of the devil is muchly indebted to
a) the observation of lyssaviri in action and b) the passage about jesus and the herd of pigs. so they mostly understood demons as rabies agents.
phf: which doesn't have
a good direct translation. "they will soon stop throwing
a tantrum" but the verb is from bes, i.e. old russian word for demon, so kind of like "they will run out of the idiotic and chaotic energy, and will eventually calm down"
mircea_popescu: kinda why buying the ourdemocracy pantsuit lolboat is such
a ridiculous deal. the only thing you know for sure about it is that, "wait
a few years, they won't like it anymore".
mircea_popescu: the "uncles" ie uppity aunts don't like it anymore these days, though. too much nigger in it, not to mention
a very strong vein of "things are as they are not only because that's how they are but also because that's how tyhey should be".
phf: i liked twain, but he was also
a touch wholesome. like an older uncle, telling you
a yarn, that has
a Point to it that you're expected to notice, because the uncle grins every time the point comes up
mircea_popescu: then i discovered romania actually had
a niche equivalent of the us pulp, spinrad & all, so i moved on to that.
mircea_popescu: i preferred twain, but the problem is twain wrote enough for
a coupla weeks, verne for
a coupla months. every day as
a 10yo i'd come home from school, stop at library, buy another jv book an' go read it.
phf: i have to be honest, i barely read jules verne. i think it's just an incompatible temperament issue, i preferred my romantics to be
a bit darker.
mircea_popescu: just because
a buncha doods are standing uncomfortably on it for five minutes dun mean jack.
mircea_popescu: rules to fucking live by, you know, "by the time you feel like you wanna live in
a submarine, it's time to gtfo and find
a better place."
☟︎ mod6: i dunno, if you feel like you wanna live in
a submarine, then perhaps its time to gtfo and find
a better place.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what, you are going to have
a CONVERTIBLE sub ?
mircea_popescu: nudity is
a start, but it's just... people have
a bubble, it depends on many things and i suppose is of various types. if you pack them tighter than their bubble is they'll get increasingly pissier.
mircea_popescu: which is why i said don't buy it in the us, cuz yes those people are SO into papers and empty signifiying by now that it's
a legitimate problem.