asciilifeform: it has'em !

asciilifeform: for 3 bux or so / pair.

asciilifeform: moar seams, less glue.

asciilifeform: i.e. 2x the sturdy sole

asciilifeform: but then noticed that they were ~1990s-grade chinese shoes~

asciilifeform: it had chinese shoes, at first i thought, snoar

asciilifeform: phun phakt, i walked into a plebian shoe store,

asciilifeform: they make breathable air and fine cheese and 3% tax and ... etc eh

asciilifeform: those are 'make billion by starting with trillion' lottery orcs lol

asciilifeform: those ain't mp lol

asciilifeform: neutrino-mp passes through light-year of Pb with 50% chance of nudging a proton, or wat.

asciilifeform: and not detectable with any instrument in asciilifeform's laboratory.

asciilifeform: or are the other mp's made of pure energy, and dun interact with material world

asciilifeform: in what countries ~are~ ?

asciilifeform: in fact it is quite illegal in usa to even publicly mention that some people are people, and others not so much.

asciilifeform: and nowhere in usa is there so much as a small town that's 100% people.

asciilifeform: 'detroit' my shiny metal arse. the basic diff is not even the paint on the bricks, but that these people are people.

asciilifeform: BUt it's happenin'.

asciilifeform: there WAS , however, a plaquard somewhere, confessing that all of this is happening on eu grantola.

asciilifeform: several other houses in burlap, being prepped for same treatment

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

asciilifeform: several houses already restored, look quite spiffy

asciilifeform: i took pics

asciilifeform: actually it was being fixed as i watched

asciilifeform: point being, ~something~ kept the cheese from turning to velveeta, the air -- from americanizing into sooty horror, and the hapsburg square, from disneylandizing

asciilifeform: looked quite emptied

asciilifeform: where was this place on sunday then ? at cinema ?

asciilifeform: evidently there is something to be said for backbone.

asciilifeform: hey mircea_popescu recall your article re orthodox church ? how it is backbone of a culture, prevents mcdonaldization ?

asciilifeform: and yet here it is.

asciilifeform: and if retort 'but you can't confiscate clean air', sure they could, china did

asciilifeform: i dunno if this is because 0.5 autos per capita here instead of 2.5, or because they shoot cornsyropists in the head here, or why, but phakt.

asciilifeform: 0snot on 3rd day.

asciilifeform: they have plenty. clean air, for instance. fathom this, mircea_popescu , asciilifeform's sense of smell comes back 2nd day from airplane when he goes here.

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%

asciilifeform: orc still owed 3%

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to usg ?!

asciilifeform: paging adlai !!

asciilifeform: lollamatic

asciilifeform: icbm

asciilifeform: you want picasso, have also icmb.

asciilifeform: ah those prolly same anywhere

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: renoir

asciilifeform: it's 3% tax for garden-variety chicklet, and what, suddely 40% if renault ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: colour the picture for my enlightenment plox, what does this look like

asciilifeform: usg cattle pay 2.

asciilifeform: locals pay 1 tax, the orcistani one

asciilifeform: only to the marked wretches with the black b00k.

asciilifeform: they dun do this to the locals lol

asciilifeform: ( spoiler : all europistani banks have fulltime politruk to report your every moving penny to guess whom )

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: but naturally this doesn't get the prospective escapee out of usg pederasty, for instance

asciilifeform: ( after 'prove that you are not a camel' rituals )

asciilifeform: sooo seems like according to ro ministry of whateverses, the ro equiv. of usa's 'greencard' is given out just-like-that

asciilifeform: the imports largely went to seed ( engineering school and other unwomanlies )

asciilifeform: fwiw the j00establishment(tm)(r) is still powered by old-style puritanizedj00z

asciilifeform: gottabe

asciilifeform: 1985-2000 iirc.

asciilifeform: i expect it was to boil and make some new plastic, but plan got mistracked

asciilifeform: ( they imported'em for some yrs, nobody to this day knows for what )

asciilifeform: compleate with j00visa from usg

asciilifeform: aha is in the l0gz

asciilifeform introduced at one point as 'half j00 half antisemit'

asciilifeform: i'm half an ukr lol

asciilifeform: to me that's actual sugar.

asciilifeform: one thing i haven't found yet, is the gallows where they must be hanging the corn syrop peddlers. because it is absent here 100% , i can taste, smell its absense, and it is orgasmic.

asciilifeform: deliberate example.

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: culture is when i can shit in the bowl franz joseph shat in.

asciilifeform: culture ?!

asciilifeform: that's perspective ?!

asciilifeform: white folx only plox.

asciilifeform: i'd like to visit.

asciilifeform: where is this cultured perspectivistan mircea_popescu went to ?

asciilifeform: walmartiola to actual food /

asciilifeform: liquishitistan to timis ?

asciilifeform: lol what are you comparing

asciilifeform: i.e. toyota

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

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: and when i want to move again, what, marry some moar ? afaik this only works in arabistan

asciilifeform: 'but i haven't got wings' 'slice lengthwise!1!!'

asciilifeform: 'just flap yer wings, idjit'

asciilifeform: this , as often in mircea_popescu threads, is like asking a swallow for air travel advice.

asciilifeform: they dun have obummer and his army of pet mexican illegals here, you prolly gotta show passport to get mains current etc

asciilifeform: actually no, they only have transparent-to-usg mockeries where i'm from

asciilifeform: can buy warehousen with tourist visa ?

asciilifeform: if i had a megabux i'd just live on that and try to stay out of police station

asciilifeform: me an' the other 400mil usaschwitzers, totally

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: 1 traffic stop, yer done ?

asciilifeform: like they used to mexicans in usa

asciilifeform: wouldn't they throw ya out some time before 8yrs

asciilifeform: i did the passport thing in usa and know 'how state worx'

asciilifeform: 'Видишь, там на горе / Возвышается крест: / Под ним - десяток солдат, / Повиси-ка на не - ем... / А когда надоест, / Возвращайся назад / Гулять по воде со мно - ой...'

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....'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it ain't cheap if it requires physical wurk