phf[asciilifeform]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-07-29#1112601 << i suspect planes have same kinds of misconceptions as horses, and generally boomers ruined it for everyone™. i suppose like a house with stables on property is what you get in potomac village at the end of your lobbyist career, likewise you buy cessna whe
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-07-29 asciilifeform: but you won't be 'going places'
phf[asciilifeform]: n your dental practice brings a second partner?
phf[asciilifeform]: one can already go places as is, we're in a hyper connected world, the problem of going places has been solved. pop a valium and xanax in coach, and you don't even have to experience travel, instant teleportation!
phf[asciilifeform]: the point is perhaps “fuck it. why not?” as illustrated by this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHPF72di9Zg
phf[asciilifeform]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-07-29#1112588 << so to answer this question, this is not something in the works, just had this idea in my head ever since i saw how my rancher friend uses airplanes in nevada for basically grocery runs
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-07-29 vex: I wonder when phf wants his own airstrip. where to fly?
phf[asciilifeform]: normal trip to his location takes about 3 hours, and the last leg is offroading over jagged rocks, where you have to deflate tires and everything. but a beer run in his 1960 something propeller piece of shit airplane took maybe 40 minutes
asciilifeform: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2022-07-29#1010843 << the unfortunate thing is that you can't knock yerself out in the 3-4hr idiot queue at airport, lol
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2022-07-29 10:54:22 phf[awt]: one can already go places as is, we're in a hyper connected world, the problem of going places has been solved. pop a valium and xanax in coach, and you don't even have to experience travel, instant teleportation!
asciilifeform pictures one where you can, hybrid of 'fedex' shop & airport, lie down in a crate..
asciilifeform: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2022-07-29#1010847 << asciilifeform had similar idea, has family beach house in delaware where almost never goes because takes ~3h. while 5min from each end is a small engines airfield..
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2022-07-29 11:10:54 phf[awt]: normal trip to his location takes about 3 hours, and the last leg is offroading over jagged rocks, where you have to deflate tires and everything. but a beer run in his 1960 something propeller piece of shit airplane took maybe 40 minutes
asciilifeform: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2022-07-29#1010840 << at least with horse there aint (afaik) an artificial supply shortage. still aint clear to asciilifeform wai 1engine duster w/ 40hp motor costs 200-300k new
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2022-07-29 10:46:41 phf[awt]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-07-29#1112601 << i suspect planes have same kinds of misconceptions as horses, and generally boomers ruined it for everyone™. i suppose like a house with stables on property is what you get in potomac village at the end of your lobb
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-07-29 asciilifeform: but you won't be 'going places'
asciilifeform: ( a possible answer, if tautological, is 'because it can, because of the dentists' )
asciilifeform: at one time supposedly in usa small plane was not 'aristocratic luxury' but sumthing almost anyone could buy, like e.g. harley. not far from asciilifeform there was, until recently, ruin of a factory where these were made for mass market, through '50s. what changed, to turn these into 'for old dentists' -- asciilifeform no
asciilifeform: * not knows
phf[asciilifeform]: you can still see holdovers of that culture in the deplorable areas on the west coast
asciilifeform not seen, but believes.
asciilifeform pictures folx flying ww2-era machines, inherited from fathers, maintain in own garage
phf[asciilifeform]: large distances, less road coverage, if you go to a random airpark around mojave will run into men doing grocery runs
phf[asciilifeform]: i suspect that it's more like the farmer poor, ~~$1m in non-liquid assets, whatever small liquidity that goes towards further assets.
asciilifeform: beats being a serf tho
phf[asciilifeform]: where airplane is some kind of writeoff, along with two jondeere, a hay baler, etc.
whaack_temp[asciilifeform]: !e view-height
trbexplorer[asciilifeform]: block_height: 747113
trbexplorer[asciilifeform]: mins_since_last_block: 35
awt[asciilifeform]: $ticker btc usd
awt[asciilifeform]: made some good progress on blatta today. figured out how to break up the monolithic Message class.
awt[asciilifeform]: Going forward it should be easier to add new message types, especially for people other than myself.
asciilifeform: awt: neato