asciilifeform: 'TTC delays launch of anti-harassment app The "Safe TTC" app will allow passengers to report harassment, assault, vandalism, and other offences.' << from same rag..
asciilifeform: 'Italy could soon offer menstrual leave Parliament is considering a bill that, if approved, would require employers to grant women three days of paid leave every month.' << from same rag
asciilifeform: 'And Taaki began to believe that returning to the UK and completing Dark Wallet’s development would allow him to help Rojava better use bitcoin as a fundraising tool, one that would circumvent the US and EU sanctions that prevent any funds from being transferred into Syria.' << wat.
asciilifeform: ( speaking even strictly of technologies, not even touching on subjs such as children free to walk around on their own, to make explosives, etc )☟︎
asciilifeform: su 'everyday' good, that's either unknown -- or banned -- in 'free' world.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: speaking of which, tell me, how come i can't buy a car where if it dents, i can just take off a panel and put in new one ?☟︎
asciilifeform: and yeah if you have a hammer -- repairs
asciilifeform: there were aluminum ones, pieces'o'shit, aha, i have one even here
asciilifeform: right now we have, de facto, opposite, 'man's coat is made from same faux silk gurl's panties are made from', 'so what if it melts into your skin in a fire', 'so what if sunlight dissolves it, so much the better for AmerikaGreatAgain'
asciilifeform: ( yes it can't be painted. but also shows 0 dirt, laughs at uv, acids, bases, solvents, fire. )
asciilifeform: superior in every respect a man might give half a shit about, to what's available in 'civilized' world.
asciilifeform: nobody cancelled the petro-kings of saud, either
asciilifeform: eh soros is still around; buffett; et al
asciilifeform: ( modern lizards, i picture, understood -- correctly -- that if these bovines didn't take to arms and burn down the capital when crops were burned in the '30s -- they certainly won't revolt today. )
asciilifeform: ( in '90s ru, rumours of massive warehouses where cheese rotted, milk soured, meat fed maggots -- proliferated. and i'm quite convinced they are not baseless. )
asciilifeform: point being, a mighty fine and historically effective way to relieve plebs of excess dough is -- artificial shortages
asciilifeform: every time i walk by these, i wonder if they even have plumbing fixtures, mains sockets, etc
asciilifeform: and they still 'cost' 400-700k usd , even when 1000s stand dark.
asciilifeform: process is not in any way plugged into 'is anybody buying' loop
asciilifeform: re shortages, lulzy trend in washington region of building block after block after block of cardboard condo towers ~which then stand dark, for years on end~ continues☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: bidding up, e.g., cardboard houses, or better still, ornate paper -- things of which no conceivable shortage exists, or could ever begin to exist -- is , notice, a-ok by lizard lights.
asciilifeform: but there was that old mircea_popescu thread. where, approx, 'a dollar usg collects from mr.pleb in tax isn't so that usg can spend a dollar, it can spend $trillion, or ten, without collecting anything; it collects the dollar because otherwise mr.pleb will use it to bid up turkeys'☟︎
asciilifeform: can't seem to find -- maybe i dreamed it.
asciilifeform: waitasec didn't we have this exact thread last week
asciilifeform: they still charge tax, it simply gets rolled into electric bill, etc.
