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xmj: (No, I could not resist that one.)
Naphex: see? how's that working, cmon i already am voiced ;]
Naphex: interesting how freenode irc servers don't keep mod states, and just resend the +v message every time you hit another /mode cmd
fluffypony: Naphex: you have to re-up yourself I think
fluffypony: asciilifeform: read the conversation twice but not enough coffee yet, what must I comment on? the chosen suburbs thing?
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BingoBoingo: I guess within the next three years we'll prolly see Brock Pierce molest some kids in the name of PedoBear
assbot: If those two 12 year old girls had read some Clive Barker instead of Slender Man Creepypasta, they would have done a way sweeter murder.
Vexual: oh yah, thunderdome
nubbins`: i think tina was in number 3
Vexual: thats the one with tina turner?
BingoBoingo: Eh, a complete non-secret is that one or more Air Force One decoys live across the Mississippi from St Louis
nubbins`: mad max 2 has a 100% rating on rotten tomatoes, hey?
BingoBoingo: Just like The resident
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You have to understand. When Clayton gets hit with the city of StL's disease... the chosen suburbs flee to Utah...
asciilifeform: ^ most interesting citizen of that city
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assbot: BBC News - The Indian miracle-buster stuck in Finland
BingoBoingo: Every major city has a few suburbs like those
assbot: Ladue, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
assbot: Town and Country, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vexual: afrikaans love them some z
dub: he's outside refueling the side curtain flamethrowers on his BMW
asciilifeform: perhaps he can tell what this looks like in person.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: This is what the "chosen suburbs" are for.
asciilifeform: (unfortunately with it will fail public utilities, police, etc. so we only learn the price of a 'mad max' house, vs. what presently exists.)
asciilifeform: we will discover the actual market price of american house if and when the artificial system for keeping 100,000s of them permanently vacant and off the market were to fail.
BingoBoingo: dub: People in the "city" don't get "wages" they get SSI
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this is thought to be a reasonably good deal, too, around here.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i pay roughly 2x in rent what the box i'm in would cost, monthly, if 'bought'
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That is the flip side of the problem
BingoBoingo has a brother renting a house he could buy with a year's rent. He doesn't buy because of the burden of unloading it later
asciilifeform: otherwise someone - negro, martian, whoever - would live there.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: only answer is, nothing within driving distance employs folks who could afford the land tax.
asciilifeform: Vexual: see the supply cartel discussion above
Vexual: ill think youll find the free market price is what it sells for
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Around here there are livable houses near $40k in decent towns
asciilifeform: the actual 'free market' price of a u.s. suburban house, if none of this were happening, is probably close to $10k (number pulled from my arse)
assbot: A plan to stop the brick-by-brick demolition of the city : News
asciilifeform: if the locals wake up to the idea of squatting peacefully in the houses instead of tearing them apart, the 'owners' will order the burning.
assbot: Brick Theft in North St. Louis: A Preservation Crisis | Preservation Research Office
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In the right locals government need not do burning, merely look the other way. Market does the burning http://preservationresearch.com/news-2/brick-theft-in-north-st-louis-a-preservation-crisis/
moiety: see this corn woman though, it's like she just woke up to this 8 ft high cornwall around her home. how long does it take to grow even?!
moiety: schools have started suing mosanto all over the place now too
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: point being, a liveable house, as popularly imagined in usa, will never cost what laptop, or even car, costs - if the authorities have to burn 99% of them to maintain this condition, they will.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That one was resonant, because I live near ground zero
kakobrekla: i see it was a busy night, me hops the logs.
Vexual: you repurposing the word nutrient ?
assbot: The corn thing pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: mp on the subject - http://trilema.com/2013/the-corn-thing
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In the interim USA discovered corn can be parted into oil for plastics and sugar for falsifying food
Vexual: don't get much for your money in the old usa tho
asciilifeform: at least stalin, in his engineered famines, sold his abroad to buy cannon
asciilifeform: for skeptics: usa is the country where they burned trainloads of grain during 'great depression' - to keep prices high
assbot: A farm? In the city of St. Louis? Some neighbors aren't happy : Business
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In StL brick theives have priority. They make the judgement on the property's fate and in very Missouri way the vacant land gets corn in the name of "urban agriculture"
asciilifeform: the bezzlers would much rather let the copper thieves pick it clean.
asciilifeform: unwritten u.s. law - no house anywhere near a city, with working plumbing, not in 'live fire zone', etc. will be sold for 'pocket money' to a human (i.e. sans mortgage chumpatron)
BingoBoingo: In reality neither Chicago nor Wiconson have hooks in the bezzel to support such delusions
BingoBoingo: Wiscunts have this delusion where they imagine they are to Chicago what the Hamptons are to New York
asciilifeform: << mega-lol. the 'zombies' rot so that prices can stay put.
asciilifeform: 'Both Dahlberg and Barrett say they don't understand why banks allow the problem to proliferate. As they see it, it's in the bank's best interests to rid itself of the property.'
asciilifeform: ^ the feigned puzzlement of the quoted officials is riotously funny
BingoBoingo: "Wisconsin can have problems too"
asciilifeform: perhaps not under that name
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I doubt the cops are aware of that game
moiety: on the*
asciilifeform wonders if the cops will make the gurlz play 'prisoner's dilemma' if it cannot be proven which one stabbed
moiety: these wee chicks have nothing ont he wee girls from last year though, well the one that stabbed her sister
BingoBoingo: Also, stabbing is the problem. Slashing offer a better chance at exsanguination, unless perpetrator is a surgeon.
moiety: they are too busy being hip
asciilifeform: children of reddit, can't even be arsed to stab properly
moiety: kinda half assed, aye that'll do + walk away thing too
moiety: hahaha that crossed my mind too BB. after all the prep they didn't think to check where to stab
BingoBoingo: What I want to know is why the Biology teacher isn't being charged with neglegence
moiety: which is how she got back to being the one with the blade
moiety: lol it was actually all the birthday girl asciilifeform she has told police she thought her friend had already begun [which makes no sense considering the friend had told her she was too squeamish by this point]
asciilifeform: '...was stabbed 19 times by either Geyser or Weier or both' << interesting
assbot: Charges detail Waukesha pre-teens' attempt to kill classmate
BingoBoingo: Slenderman is one of those mythical stories invented on SA/b/reddit not really worth reading.
asciilifeform is rather behind culturally, never heard of this
moiety: i think its a game though
moiety: i'm not actually sure, article just says he can make tendrils with is fingers and back
moiety: there is 2 x 12 year olds who planned to kill their friend for months, blaming it on slenderman being real
asciilifeform: movie hero? fits through cracks, crevices?
moiety: this stupid slenderman crap is going to be made into some crap film at some point, wont it
BingoBoingo: So... it appears the Erik story is in the /. cue
BingoBoingo: Right, because they won't give you painkillers if you need them for some reason
Vexual: and if you do try to call the hospital,your phone isnt a phone
BingoBoingo: Area is vascular enough any part that has problem has big problems fast... within hours
nubbins`: ah, that's right
Vexual: i bet you can eat a fuckton of bad ass cookies b4 you call the hospital nubbins`
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: You may forget, but I recently had a run in with testicular injury and scrotal illness... Stay in a fucking real chair.
nubbins`: and skip the ER
nubbins`: not tobacco
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Still sounds dangerous. More so now that you confess to a vasoconstrictor. Go to ER, get TPA shot just in case.
nubbins`: i'm just in the basement smoking ;(
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