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mp_en_viaje: i guess coca-cola will end up a manufacturer of "fine vermouth", and western union will be a sorta cvasi-bank.
mp_en_viaje: in other news, OriansJ fellow never actually came back for air after all, did he ?
PeterL: I know it is bad for me, I could quit anytime I wanted to
mp_en_viaje: nevermind quitting, just you know, start drinking some actual drinks. buy yourself a and press, make some fresh squeezed oj, you lived in florida didn't you ?
mp_en_viaje: looks almost exactly like a beer draught thingee, but considerably better for you.
BingoBoingo: That was TaT, PeterL is in Michigan. Needs a cider press for dem apples.
PeterL: I'm in MI, yes (although I did just spend a week in florida last month)
mp_en_viaje: the truth of postmodernism is that tooling is so widely available, it costs ~same to buy a pellet of coca-cola and buy a cider making station.
mp_en_viaje: unlike buying the coke, making the cider is ~fun~. even if you don't employ butt-naked girlies under the whip at the task. it's fucking fabulous for "traditional" fambly ranged children too!
mp_en_viaje: don't let alf be the only one to take advantage of this whole "pay for xrays ? i'd rather buy the fucking xrayer" bounty we came to see.
PeterL: I have a couple apple trees in my back yard, maybe this year I will try making some cider (they are still kinda little, had only a handful of apples last year)
mp_en_viaje: for one thing, it won't last, and there's nothing quite as bitter as the regrets of children who missed out on shit in their disinterested parents' house.
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, do they do the whole farmer market / people on side of road seling produce where you are ?
PeterL: yeah, we do have a market here
mp_en_viaje: for eg, i bought last winter something like 50 kgs of extremely ripe mangoes for like 15 bux or so it was ?
mp_en_viaje: made so much jam, we barely finished it as we were leaving. fucking fabulous.
mp_en_viaje: nope, but i guess it was silentsplit or something.
mp_en_viaje: anyway, my point is -- if you have multiple cars, it PAYS to have a ditch installed in garage, within the year, heck within 6 months you'll pay for it from reduced maintenance bills. and so following.
mp_en_viaje: the re-feudalisation of the world is in full swing, and this is precisely how it goes.
mp_en_viaje: same is true across the board -- if you have even a cursory interest in something, owning some machinery is a great move. this includes food, obviously enough, but if you have spare femhands tailoring is QUITE reasonable. then they can dress BETTER than what any fashion catalog can provide, and for pennies on the dollar as what those idiots charge.
mp_en_viaje: same with houses -- yurp is fulla doods who built their own. and so on. everything -- if you have more than a cursory interest, buy the tooling.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, it is your own damned fault. i don't try to run a harem by myself, fuck my own ass.
PeterL: every "real man" should have a toolbox and know how to use it
mp_en_viaje: if you had a dozen bois working with you, as calfe, as god fucking intended it...
mp_en_viaje: ie, your problem is entirely self-manufactured, by hermitry.
mp_en_viaje: same local paper they do castign calls in.
BingoBoingo: Pantsuit killed the useful category of ad to put up.
mp_en_viaje can't find wtf calfa is in english. turk kalfa. apprentice ?
PeterL: asciilifeform: Isn't there a Uni right around the corner from you? Put up a poster in the engineering department or wherever the "nerds who build stuff" hang out
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, i thought the intern is more the ancient "candidate", ie, bureaucrat sticking around for no pay. like that celebrated schmuck "helping out" on wikipedia admin board, "because he thinks he's being useful". "until someone tells him to stop".
PeterL: well, there are unpaid interns and paid interns, also depends on the org
mp_en_viaje: more like officious intermeddler than the item intended here, "supernumerary sex slave nobody finds the time to fuck"
PeterL: where I work we get college student who are in chem-related fields to come and wash our glassware, we train them to do whatever menial tasks, they get tiny pay but it looks good on their resume
BingoBoingo: Better ad would be in ye olde "Adult gigs" of the flavor "Seeking female students to star in short films, ongoing collaboration and South American beaches possible for the right bitches"
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, i dunno, the institution has some very strict constraints. for one thing, it must be ~personal~, if there's not a master personally responsible for the individual dork, it's not kalfi, it's something else. and yes, they're supposed to sit around and eat lunch with you.
BingoBoingo: Now the short films in this case would NOT be porn, there's too much of that. I would instead be how to videos. Whatever homework alf has for chick, end product is bottomless instructional video.
BingoBoingo: Water heater coil changes, toyota waxing, cider pressing, whatever.
mp_en_viaje: item was the basis of the guild revolution in europe (because yes, ottoman contact, incl "fall" of constantinople -- more properly, RISING of ~) was very highly +ev for the yurpeans, culturally.
BingoBoingo: Well, don't recruit in engineering. I never spec'd that. Go for nutrition, early childhood education, etc.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, females screaming for rescue ain't gonna be fgound in engineering.
mp_en_viaje: basically what he said. "psychology", "business", whatever.
BingoBoingo: Just avoid the local facultad de derecho, that's probably irredeemable damaged goods with soldered on pantsuit
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, aim for the kiklachev -- even if you fail it's likely to be an achievement. rather than aim for "reasonable in modern democracy" -- even if you succeed it'll disappoint.
mp_en_viaje: it's always best to fail at taking over the world, than to succeed at taking over wales.
mp_en_viaje: hey, i constantly end up with this problem, and my answer is always the same : get satellite dwelling, then get larger main, then end up getting satellite again, and so on.
mp_en_viaje: can't limit self by walls -- it's not a prison, it's a house, meaning walls are cut according to your size, and not your size according to walls.
mp_en_viaje: consdier that it is A LOT cheaper for you to host marginal added girl than for her to "live independently".
PeterL: we could rehash the convo where I say "you could move over here and get twice the floor for half the cost" and then you say "but muh fancy cheezes!"
mp_en_viaje had deviled eggs made yest. 16 eggs = 32 halves + 7 for mayo. in other words, whole fucking carton, plus lb of deli meat etc. all went within the day, but i care not -- next time, 45!
mp_en_viaje: sent a half dozen to neighbour, too (specifically because by now i know how to work the tolerances into the experimental data). poor woman nearly inhaled them. "omg so good". yes, duh, have some elbow-made mayo sometime, half the calories, twice the epicurean gainz.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, ah, not field, i'm most comfortably setup here.
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, which is deeply fucking ridiculous, for one thing he's away from cheeseland anyway, and for the other cheeses transport. except the fresh stuff, of course-- i bought some urda you couldn't believe.
mp_en_viaje: including Z shaped porn couch, quite satisfyingly hosts 3+ on their back.
mp_en_viaje: but anyway, if your per-capita budget is 2-3k, which is luxuriously generous in my experience, half a dozen actives means you can afford to rent whatever the fuck, and adding a 7th will positively not show in the grocery weeklies.
mp_en_viaje: "they had sprots, so i bought three dozen cans" incidentals way, way the fuck overwhelm any "well, i now have to buy flower ever slightly more often, nooblet also eats bread".
mp_en_viaje: to get back to numbers, if your per-capita budget is in the 2-3k, the marginal addition needn't even be specifically financed. but it's sub 500 in any case. she can't fucking live on 500 a month anywhere else.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i don't expect you'd find it most places, really. do they sell it in maryland ?
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, not to be an ass, but direct experience over years has by now convinced me it simply can't be the case new world makes cheese.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i tend to buy the lithuanian variant.
PeterL: the majority of list there is imported from Europe
mp_en_viaje: anyways, it's a thing, people can rationalize it to themselves as "well, he likes anchovies, so this is like that"
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, ah i see, after the fold. sure, "Parmigiano Reggiano", why not, if it's what it says it's what it says. though "pecorino reserva" for instance, says nothing to me.
mp_en_viaje: pecorino is just a kind o fcheese. like you'd say "our legume shop has beans from reserve". ok...
PeterL: right, some descriptions could improve the list
mp_en_viaje: old rotterdam is a very specific item ; "gouda 36 months' is like "vodka, clear"
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, nevermind description, a ~clear and verifiable indication of origin~.
PeterL: it's like the tex-mex style restraunt that says $item comes made with a "white queso blanco cheese"
mp_en_viaje: there's a very substantial difference between "coffee imported from costa rica" and "coffee from santa margarita plantation in alajuela, costa rica"
mp_en_viaje: and so scrolling to france : Henri Hutin 60% Brie is correctly indicated, though i'd never buy it, wtf hutin. meanwhile "Raclette" gimme a break. why not "cheese", be done with it.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i don' t begrudge supermaerket brands their discretion. but if you're trying for the upscale colonials, you'd gotta be an idiot to put up this visibly intern-made list. only impression it produces is "the author has no fucking idea what he's talking about".
mp_en_viaje: understand, raclette is not even a denomination d'origine. it's made in fucking canada afaik. it's ~same as "melted cheese".
PeterL: my guess is somebody looked at the case of cheeses and just wrote down whatever the biggest word they saw on the labels
mp_en_viaje: problem with that approach is that the somebody ~didn't specifically buy~.
mp_en_viaje: you'd want to break into my wine cellar and steal some bottles ~because i bought them~. specifically because, my cellar doesnt contain the contents of a crashed delivery van.
PeterL: could be different people, the one who buys and the one who makes website
mp_en_viaje: much like you'd break into alf's ffa and read some lines. same reason.
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, but WHY ? "could be different people, the one who cuts, and the one who sutures". yes, could. hanbot's surgeon came to inspect room and bathroom next day.
mp_en_viaje: specifically because he'll be damned if his 10k an hour handiwork is gonna be ruined by some $5 an hour maintenance dorks. makes sense, dunnit ?
PeterL: not everybody is website expert, guy who likes selling cheese might hire a webdesigner
mp_en_viaje: bankers also not web experts, hopefully they put their own data in the "banking app", as opposed to "tell web designer to make some accounts there too"
mp_en_viaje: gotta go to yurp sometime. everything's cheap these days, a grand or so for airfare ain't the end of the world. stay a week or two, try the cheeses, have definite, personal experience for rest of life. it's no tthe worst way to spend a vacation,
mp_en_viaje: better than blowing the ~same load over at disneywor;d or w/e, esp if it's the 5th trip or some shit.
mp_en_viaje: pay money to wait in line, i could never understand those people.
mp_en_viaje: just saying, you know, what do people do for vacation. used to be "go to vegas", okay, i get it, high roller, picking up the casino cocksuckers cold and shit. fine, fine. most people now there, wasting their life a coin at a time on the dingdingmachines would be so much happier somewhere ~they never heard of~.
mp_en_viaje: people tend to overfavour the shit they heard about, and to their own detriment.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, yeah, it was fucking cheap wasn't it.
PeterL: we did disney (everybody kept telling us the kids would live it!) I regret it, was not worth the price
mp_en_viaje: even fucking germany is cheap as dirt. for one thing, they show up within 3-4 minutes in these utter boats of a mercedes or w/e, you've never seen cars like that outside an imaginary 50s us.
mp_en_viaje: and then it's like... 1mark40 per km. gimme a break, really ?
mp_en_viaje: euro i mean. but whatever, it's not THAT bad.
mp_en_viaje: meanwhile new york, say la guardia to empire state, bout 10km or so, 40 bucks easy.
PeterL: I have a co-worker, every year she goes to Vegas for a week (with her mother), buys some purses and eats junk food. I don't understand it.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, chick would prolly end up married.
mp_en_viaje: there's a large contingent of indiana/ohio/whatever ~0 sexual market value wilting cows coming to costa rica to score husband.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, well, the 1.40 up to MAYBE 2 or so, is quite recent. germany is shockingly cheap for cabs, especially if one considers the exceptional quality.
PeterL: what are you looking for in a park?
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, there's a lot of female-fat tolerance in tico culture too.
mp_en_viaje: what is the point of a spiked bench ? ritual object ?
PeterL: none of the parks here have anti-hobo spikes
mp_en_viaje: so if she leans over to kiss you she'll get stabbed in the tit ?
mp_en_viaje: not very fake-boobs-friendly culture, is it.
mp_en_viaje: german cops very useful btw, they know where shit is!
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i remember doing the math sometime, much to us-born chicks' shock and awe, came out that ANY US CITIZEN has ~50% chances to be hobo during lifetime.
PeterL: <+asciilifeform> 0 in usa meet spec, unless i suppose you go to the mountains << I dunno about that, there are plenty of clean air parks around where I live
mp_en_viaje: really put the acceptance of "this statistics thing, is genuine science" to the test. then we took to retrospective fambly history, even more horrified. "omg it's true"
mp_en_viaje: "now consider how well hidden your own experience was from you"
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, michigan used to be like the pollution capital of the us, at some point. deindustrialization has its advantages huh.
PeterL: it's been a while since lake Erie was literally on fire
mp_en_viaje: meanwhile i'm sitting in this cafe, the table next, 4 chicks, one overweight, cucky dood. the table further away, three chicks, one overweight, cuky dood. the bar, three doods, salivatinursing beers.
mp_en_viaje: there's ~fewer~ people here derping on their phones non stop, us-style "either actively eating or pissing, else clucking at shiny screen". nevertheless, millenial awkwardness is quite omnipresent.
mp_en_viaje: point in case : 5 euro buys you phone line with all sorts of free, EXCEPT sms. those are 1 cent ea. get me ? voice calls, those are free (in most circumstances, and 3k monthly minutes for the one combination of exceptional things where they actuallt charge something). but not sms-en.
mp_en_viaje: i suspect, specifically because these tards are so awkward, calling someone is "too much pressure".
mp_en_viaje: how the fuck can you spend 50 hrs/month calling is anyone's guess, i'm not sure i spent that long on the phone since i was born
mp_en_viaje: and i started WAY the fuck before ~everyone else.
mp_en_viaje: if average phone user has had phone for > decade -- i, for >2decade. yet...
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: ugh, from direct experience I can tell you some find it very easy to spend 50hours/month calling - I knew girls who were literally ALL the time on the phone
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, well, i don't use the derpy smartphones
mp_en_viaje: btw, saw a very cool thing, basically a modern remake of ye olde razor. fliphone, all elegant and shit. bought it, only to discover...
BingoBoingo: SMS not free here either, funnels derps into Whatsapp as the universally agreed upon replacement.
mp_en_viaje: nfi, it runs java or some shit. basically loses about 10% of the voice load, can barely understand what user is saying
mp_en_viaje: sad, too, i'd have actually carried it as accessory.
mp_en_viaje: its unsurprising, empiretards quite philosophically opposed to sanity, and whitelisting eminent example of such.
mp_en_viaje: i suspect it'll be perma-maintained in yurp, but nfi tbh.
mp_en_viaje: "However, some European operators – including Telenor of Norway and T-Mobile Czech Republic – have suggested that their 2G networks could outlast their 3G systems. As 3G is replaced by 4G and 5G technologies, GSM services are being retained to service legacy machine-to-machine connections, in addition to their extensive voice coverage. "
mp_en_viaje: mno, yurp has strong consumer groups etc. i suspect it'll be here for a while.
mp_en_viaje: well, trivially works in yurp atm, ~all providers supply both cards and phones.
mp_en_viaje wasn't even specifically aware matter's contentious any.
mp_en_viaje: hey, gotta accomodate all the unceasing cuntspawn, with rights, with whatnots.
mp_en_viaje: god doesn't make more bandwidth just because more sheilas got knocked up this year.
mp_en_viaje: citizenship's unrevokable by definition, wtf nonsense is this.
BingoBoingo: Well, when USG is paying 4.2 billion bounties for single derps living in the Ecuador Govt. Hostel London edition...
BingoBoingo: But yes, the liberal "protect all buttspawners" of Reddit cheerleading Assange arrest.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-25 16:33 mircea_popescu: the guys to whom assange attempted to leak, basically. the "public opinion", whatever.
BingoBoingo: Well seven years in the same hostel full of hostile surveilance equipment... Hard to be relevant. Should have sought asylum in a better hostel.
a111: Logged on 2015-02-21 01:19 mircea_popescu: "she's been going through 6-7k each month since autumn, but i get to go visit p diddy whenever i feel like it. it's a wash"
a111: Logged on 2019-04-10 20:32 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-10#1907891 << thinking about this further, prolly Right Thing would be a hybrid where there's a repeating block of e.g. 32x32x32 cells connected in 'cube' (this, or even larger, would still fit on physically 2d die) arranged in n x m matrix
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, the funniest part is how ridiculously stupid-cuntlet the usgistani became meanwhile. they're so well burned being humiliated over their impotence, they'll only "indict" after they're sure it'll do something. before -- too risky.
a111: Logged on 2019-04-06 23:42 asciilifeform: right, the problem is specifically that it's happening somewhere other than my kitchen.
a111: Logged on 2019-04-11 19:14 mp_en_viaje: amusingly enough, "assange arrest" looks to be almost entirely driven by republic no longer recognizing
dood as important.
BingoBoingo: Well, his last important act was making USG.Blue organ poorer by a smidge less than Trump wants for his fence
mp_en_viaje: BingoBoingo, that part is quite fucking lulzy.
mp_en_viaje: of course, note how they can't even issue more on the "full faith and credit" budget, stuck involving the imf's piggy now,
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, item assembled from discrete ~and interchangeable~ parts in kitchen is next best (and, by my lights, acceptable tradeoff under duress) to actually made in kitchen.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, re assange, it's all about ideology. if
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-03#1884188 style reference produces point-and-laugh, the gavin in question will be retired. if on the contrary, we react like eg to naggum, the gavin in question will be maintained.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2019-01-03 19:13 stratum: Certainly, but one still has to survive among the internet places as they exist.. We cannot all be RMS and have a helper print out websites for us because we're paranoid.
mp_en_viaje: it seems a matter of recorded evidence that ~all these usg-secreted dorks stuck around for as long as their credit here seemed above water, and not longer.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, yes, rotation is quite a great win, and very much would like to see it if at all possible from engineer pov.
mp_en_viaje: notice how at the same time a) all subway cars have little pilot room on both ends, 90% of which dark and disused at any time while b) any electronic component, even fucking memory banks, have a "this way in". why the fuck even, it's just memory.
mp_en_viaje: seems as if morons involved in "management" (called also "adult supervision" in their sad if moronic little universe) decided "it won't seem as serious business to consumers if works both ways"
mp_en_viaje: i recall ~same thing described in some trilema comment at some point.
mp_en_viaje: but yes, there's not so many ways to do this.
mp_en_viaje: seems the just-right both for large and small.
mp_en_viaje is very much in favour of much larger bus machines, in general.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, why does the die have to be that small ?
BingoBoingo: mp_en_viaje: As slow as this month started, it seems the lulz are starting to heat
mp_en_viaje: i dunno that this discussion can be carried before we get a basket of baked items.
mp_en_viaje: you wouldn't want to bake if it's that expensive anyway
mp_en_viaje: ayway, the economics of yields etc will, i expect, be quite different for republic than they're in empire.
mp_en_viaje: anyways, i shall be off for nows, but back later!