asciilifeform: yes but nobody promised anyone that roman script will cover their phonemes

asciilifeform: and yes croatian is simply serbian with latinic script

asciilifeform: hey israelis think ~vowels~ 'not needed' by same logic

asciilifeform: ( for n00bz, modern czech is a conlang. in 19th c very few literate folx in present-day czechia used it, they spoke german )

asciilifeform: wouldja have preferred that they had germanized and lost own language entirely, like the czechs had ?

asciilifeform: the slavonic text on icons etc

asciilifeform: i did ! in the arts museum

asciilifeform has seen.

asciilifeform: which is a joy

asciilifeform: fwiw ro sounds to asciilifeform entirely like buncha ru d00dz speaking damaged italian

asciilifeform: ( per the finnish thread )

asciilifeform: or does ru also sound latin to mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: i can tell that mircea_popescu doesn't pl much, if he thinks 'sounds latin'

asciilifeform: pl has what, dozen

asciilifeform: at least ro cut the orcograms down to 5

asciilifeform: maaaaaybe because not-so-latin-sounding

asciilifeform: polish is pretty easy if you already know a slavic lang

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu would not be mircea_popescu if he did not reply exactly so.

asciilifeform: unless you know how to convincingly paint him black

asciilifeform: the 'let's bring in africa for good rapefest' thing dun do much for asciilifeform

asciilifeform: whole thing reads like a crock.

asciilifeform: also 'radio wasn't working' but then later 'we made contact with officials on island'

asciilifeform: dogs !!

asciilifeform: 'Appel and Fuiava, along with their two dogs, were found last week, drifting about 900 miles southeast of Japan' << lol!!

asciilifeform: lol that looks like a classical orlol boat , shinohai

asciilifeform: after the glass and 2-3 half-lives yea

asciilifeform: (i.e. they dun wait-and-abort, they actually ~guarantee male)

asciilifeform: india was just unpoor enough to afford widespread spoodje centrifugation

asciilifeform: iirc it was india that truly properly fucked its ratio, not china

asciilifeform: not even fuel enough to cremate, 'for everyone'.

asciilifeform: *burial

asciilifeform: there ain't even decent burians 'enough for everyone', much less water, air, or gurlz

asciilifeform: where you need 1e6 of mircea_popescu's fathers, to make a mircea_popescu , etc

asciilifeform: ^ old ru name for concept

asciilifeform: "Народ-Богородец"

asciilifeform: hence the lul

asciilifeform: and civilization - impossible.

asciilifeform: well yes we would not have concept of 'language' , it'd be like intestinal flora.

asciilifeform: i know this. was speaking of ordinary de.

asciilifeform: picture if this weren't so!

asciilifeform: or de 'ur'

asciilifeform: aaa in ru 'пра-'

asciilifeform: *fleamarket

asciilifeform bought a bag of sov-era kidz b00kz from the gypsy fleamarker, has been enjoying

asciilifeform: maekssense.

asciilifeform: aha in engl. 'mule'

asciilifeform: ( mule ? )

asciilifeform: aaaa

asciilifeform: i recall this. but has come to mean also 'dumb whore' iirc from trilema

asciilifeform: hm.

asciilifeform: is root common with 'muie' ?

asciilifeform: do i need to buy a thicker dictionary or wut

asciilifeform: i keep encountering these in trilema

asciilifeform: oh mircea_popescu btw what are mule and stramule ?

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: ftr bucharest was great, exactly 'neuromancer', sky was even the colour of televisor set between channels!111

asciilifeform waves from sunny liquishitistan !

asciilifeform: ohai mircea_popescu !

asciilifeform: what i pay in rent in shitland right now, in 1 yr, would buy a modest house in timis. 2y would buy the house mircea_popescu described ( per his rated figure ). 3 would buy one of those dilapidated palaces.

asciilifeform: point being, i want to convert a pile of soon to be worthless paper, into actual ownership of something ( even as basic as machine to keep the rain out. )

asciilifeform: yes and all of it easily done with own hands. ☟︎

asciilifeform: lol builders. i am my own builder.

asciilifeform: owner d00d thought he could get moar, etc

asciilifeform: hey it happened to me repeatedly in usa

asciilifeform: and you generally can't make massive reworks ☟︎

asciilifeform: yea but when you rent a house, orig owner can fail to renew lease, and kick you ☟︎

asciilifeform: sounds like on anything short of a palace, it is less than my current mains current bill ☟︎

asciilifeform: 0.2% lol!!!

asciilifeform: whatever it is, it would have to be , e.g., 50% ( on a theoretical 50k usd haus ) to even equal asciilifeform's current rent !!

asciilifeform: diana_coman: do you happen to know the % rate in ro ?

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: in usa there is massive property tax

asciilifeform: where isn't there ?

asciilifeform: and actually owning something ☟︎

asciilifeform: *possibility

asciilifeform: because a good chunk of the attraction is the possbility of not paying rents.

asciilifeform: the puzzle is how to quietly detach it from the glue.

asciilifeform: if it weren't glued, it wouldn't be there.

asciilifeform: whole thing quite resembles the 'silver coin glued to the asphalt' everyone encounters in childhood ☟︎☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: and entire q would then be uninteresting to asciilifeform . just like he isn't interested in buenos aires.

asciilifeform: i'ma have to research, but i'd bet money that it is true. otherwise americans would have snapped up all of the country, and there would not exist such a thing as a 50k-usd house in timis. ☟︎

asciilifeform: yea that part is clear

asciilifeform: the problem is if you are a foreigner with no legal recourse.

asciilifeform: it 'feels' safer than where asciilifeform lives, flavour-wise

asciilifeform: i did not at all get sense of 'ro is dangerous'

asciilifeform: so what does this look like ? walk in with suitcase of benjies, come out with plutoni^H^H^H^Htitle ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: what's to keep the counterparty from whacking you over the head and taking the phree gift ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: diana_coman: hmm srsly you can buy a bldg with a suitcase of moolah in ro ?

asciilifeform: and lemme guess, you can also 'prove means to live' if you walk in on a leash and owner swears he will feedya

asciilifeform: not exactly gamechanging pill for asciilifeform .

asciilifeform: no can do - no residency paper; no paper - no passport in 8y.

asciilifeform: when i was doing the passport question homework, saw requirement 'prove that you have where to live' and 'prove you have income' . the former requires a title or lease in own human name; the latter - bank acct.

asciilifeform: ( and yes there was mircea_popescu's http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728731 thread . which left me with a flavour of 'real estate ownership ain't even a thing any moar, unless you can personally afford to pay an army' ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: also afaik you still need a saecular bank in the loop to buy real estate there. ☟︎

asciilifeform: there's maybe 3 people who i trust to be physically present in a room where i bring a btc privkey. and none of them live in ro. ☟︎

asciilifeform: ( and yes this is physically possible without banks, if your wot is developed enough to subsume the function of banks etc. but mine ain't )

asciilifeform: to convert btc to food/real estate, say.

asciilifeform: usg VERY much dislikes its inmates escaping (with 'their' moneys)

asciilifeform: it's a pederasty that lasts for so long as i have only usa passport.

asciilifeform: if my name is in its papers anywhere -- then yes ☟︎