#pest | 2022-07-29

10:46

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

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10:46

phf

n your dental practice brings a second partner?

10:46

dulapbot

(asciilifeform) 2022-07-29 asciilifeform: but you won't be 'going places'

10:54

phf

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!

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11:07

phf

the point is perhaps “fuck it. why not?” as illustrated by this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHPF72di9Zg

11:09

phf

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

11:09

dulapbot

(asciilifeform) 2022-07-29 vex: I wonder when phf wants his own airstrip. where to fly?

11:10

phf

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

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~ 32 minutes ~

11:43

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

11:43

bitbot

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!

11:43

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asciilifeform pictures one where you can, hybrid of 'fedex' shop & airport, lie down in a crate..

11:44

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..

11:44

bitbot

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

11:47

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

11:47

bitbot

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 lobbyist career, likewise you buy cessna whe

11:47

dulapbot

(asciilifeform) 2022-07-29 asciilifeform: but you won't be 'going places'

11:51

asciilifeform

( a possible answer, if tautological, is 'because it can, because of the dentists' )

11:54

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

11:55

asciilifeform

* not knows

11:57

phf

you can still see holdovers of that culture in the deplorable areas on the west coast

11:59

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asciilifeform not seen, but believes.

11:59

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asciilifeform pictures folx flying ww2-era machines, inherited from fathers, maintain in own garage