asciilifeform: ( orlov had a point re 'notice, they have CO detectors in boats, but not in any passenger car. because the alarm would ring continuously. )
asciilifeform: 'lada' in cuba will be on the road when the last toyota made post-'08 is scrapped.
asciilifeform: shit however much you want on su, but their card were ~eternal~ -- in the sense of being repairable, theoretically for ever, and with common 20th c. tooling.
asciilifeform: from magically-unfixable ('this is the 7th replacement engine comp and now they last 2 hours only') boojums.
asciilifeform knows several people who ended up throwing one out either ~immediately after, or even prior to, the expiration of the magic 5y timer.
asciilifeform: and every day that an auto lasts past its purchase credit being fully paid in -- is a bug , from lizard pov.
asciilifeform: 'Some newer model cars use materials like soy that are more biodegradable than plastics. It's all part of an effort to make car parts more environmentally-friendly. A Volvo service representative at a Volvo dealer in Michigan confirmed some instances of chewed wires, though they "mostly occurred in rural areas -- not cities." A Volvo spokesperson said that an "initial investigation [into the subject] did not return any substantive info
asciilifeform: 'I don't know what happened to Trump. Some muse he may be drugged and we would never know it and it makes sense. The world watched this man for two years to election day. And after Jan 20th, we watched him proceed immediately to walk his talk. Then... in like 24hrs... a full 180. If not drugs and mind control, there is always the secret grassy knoll footage of Kennedy's head being blown off to help Trump "get the message."'
asciilifeform: from comment section : 'Watch the clip again. Watch her stand there against that wall. You can see she is thinking for the first time in her adult life about REALITY, not the fantasy she has been dreaming her life was all about.'
asciilifeform: ( though quiet air rifle might work. still quite a bit like squashing individual ants, to control ant problem. 99% of the time the beasts aren't in the open air, where one might draw a bead on them )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lol, sprays into house ?! and .22 may as well be dynamite, where i live
asciilifeform: i've never even seen these fat hogs, climb a roof.
asciilifeform: for instance, squirrels have dug a tunnel into my wall, it would be great if they disappeared suddenly. but they won't, will have to get specialists
asciilifeform: nao if only problems quietly evaporated, ever.
asciilifeform: no shit, hungy, they only recently came out of latest usg-organized famine, 90s
asciilifeform: i especially luvvv the usual american retort 'over where they didn't let the tourist go, they have zimbabwe, ruins, zombies'. as if, e.g., baltimore, did not look like this.
