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moiety: yes! like
the sheep from wallace and gromit
moiety: maybe
they could work
together
nubbins`: moiety,
they're not
tall enough
to reach
the handle, for starters
moiety: oh christ i didn't realise we were being literal as
to entry points. i honestly don't
think bedbugs use doors
moiety: sorry i
thought
thats what you meant when you said fromthe house next door
nubbins`: i share
two walls with neighbours
mircea_popescu: (and if
they didn't migrate, you'd have difficulty explaining how
the fuck
they even exist in
the americas in
the first place)
moiety: no i can't see
them migrating like geese
their way door-to-door down a street
though
mircea_popescu: they're not like blood seeking missiles
their entire lives.
mircea_popescu: moiety
this may be
true, but
they do have migration patterns.
mircea_popescu: and of course
they have
to do with
the hygiene. what are oyu
talking about ?
moiety: not a building
they cannot
nubbins`: moiety:
that's where my fears come from, yep
moiety: nubbins`: bed bugs a) have nothing
to do with
the hygiene of a place and b) can hop
to
the house next door
ozbot: jonathan richman - you're crazy for
taking
the bus - YouTube
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i spent months going
through
the eastern us on greyhounds
nubbins`: generally people don't have
to wait in
the cold for an hour
to get a limo,
though
nubbins`: they
tried
to market
the bus here as "your own 40 foot limo",
to much derision
HeySteve: <nubbins`> ^
this guy cut a man's head off on a greyhound bus < I would be cranky
too if I had
to use public
transport
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Bugpowder: whoops.. Finally read
to
the bottom.
nubbins`: ^
this guy cut a man's head off on a greyhound bus
mircea_popescu: vet : "well, it's easier
to be an md, at least your patients can
tell you wtf is wrong"
mircea_popescu: i vividly recall
this discussion between a veterinarian and a inner city md
mircea_popescu: nubbins` or anyone else anything else, for
that matter.
nubbins`: the only clues are a succession of stained mattresses and couches left on
the sidewalk over a period of several weeks
nubbins`: the other problem is
that welfare
tenants generally won't
tell
the landlord if
the house is infested.
mircea_popescu: welfare helps all bugs and cockroaches across
the board
nubbins`: they didn't exist here either until
the past couple years
nubbins`: BingoBoingo, everything but
the drugs
nubbins`: well
the problem is most of downtown is row houses, attached on both sides. generally fumigation doesn't do shit
nubbins`: alternately: a house gets bedbugs.
the
tenants fumigate at great expense.
the bedbugs come back from
the house next door. repeat ad infinitum.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Indeed. SHit happend in spring.
Then calms during
the summer when schoolkids have
too much
time, a bit of drama happens in
the fall,
there is a bit of winter buildup,
then SPRING
nubbins`: so a house gets bedbugs.
the landlord fumigates at great expense.
the dirtbags infest
the place again. repeat ad infinitum.
copumpkin: omg lord master mircea_popescu has decreed
that
the price be $500
nubbins`: (incidentally,
this is a provincial, not a federal,
thing)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
This is so much more
thrilling
than last spring.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu,
the cbc wants
that, but
the government doesn't
mircea_popescu: so basically
the canadian government actually wants
to run everything or what
nubbins`: well
the next logical step would be oversight as
to what
the
tenants spend
their remaining money on
nubbins`: had a good lel at
that after i calmed down
nubbins`: halfway
through
the conversation he interrupts me with "what are you
telling me for?", followed by a
toilet flushing
nubbins`: i once called
this slumlord
to inform him
that i was getting
the city
to clean up
the apartment's worth of possessions his workers dumped on
the sidewalk, on his dime
Duffer1: I mostly specify
this as a parting fuck you broadside
to
the MtGox
troop of idiots, who
thought
that perhaps if
they re-do
the original MtGox “hack” I may have
trouble. It’s cute, I guess, in
the sense of a bunch of ducks
trying
to work
together
to provoke waves
that’ll sink a neighbouring battleship.
nubbins`: a slum landlord owns maybe half of
the houses on my street
Bugpowder: well
that's kinda annoying... Someone sold
to 75000?
mircea_popescu: referral = each gets 5 rebate,
the referrer and
the referred.
moiety: it just looks so cool asciilifeform ... it's all exciting
to me still lol
ozbot: MPOE, February 2014 Statement pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
nubbins`: and with a name like
that, how could it not!
nubbins`: the lel being
that EFNet (eris-free network) got its name after its predecessor network delinked a server called irc.eris.<tld>
moiety: asciilifeform: i was just looking it up.
the laarman prototype from earlier in feb?
nubbins`: who was
the goddess of strife, chaos, and discord
nubbins`: discordia is
the latin name of
the greek goddess eris
nubbins`: among other
things, it is indeed mentioned in
the dark
tower
HeySteve: discordia is a dark
tower
thing isn't it? what's
that
to do with EFNet?
nubbins`: so after a quick google search led me
to
the wikipedia page about discordia,
the story behind EFNet's name is suddenly funnier