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mircea_popescu comes from dairy country, likes girls with big tits and eats a cup o' sour cream a day.
mircea_popescu: eh don't be too harsh, you also have potato dumplings with a little cheese in them.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the rise and fall of the theranos lizzard club may be of interest to the alf minded.
mircea_popescu: generally rainers/torquemadas/etc are politically pliable
mircea_popescu: i think maybe it was reddit's rendition of a cock ? crushed ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i clicked on some link in there and it showed me an orange pile with some sort of teddybear crushed under it
mircea_popescu: incidentally, no such labs now larger referrer for trilema than the logs.
mircea_popescu: that's what, 2 petahash ? i'm sure some venezuelan derp is running 2ph.
mircea_popescu: sort-of how the long lost compass in tribal shaman's possession is covered in braids and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: never would that item have left factory in that condition
mircea_popescu: i mean, IVECO trucks, clearly made for municipal use, clearly delivered new sometime in the past 2-3 years. as loud as a zil uphill.
mircea_popescu: ie, with different screws. with pipe collars. etcetera. INDUSTRIA ARGENTINA.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform currently i suspect they unseat and reseat the engine blocks wrongly.
mircea_popescu: but then it became crystal clear - they have these auto shops here, about 100x the floor space of bars and nightclubs altogether. and in them, men. trabajadores.
mircea_popescu: it was long a low level puzzle this, "seriously, 2010 toyota sounds LIKE THAT ?!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: at which point englithment struck me : do you know that in two years here i NEVER heard an engine as quiet as the item left the factory ?
mircea_popescu: and he used that shovel. to bang on the lower end of the steep pipe, ostensibly to induce it to take a shape less offensive to his taste and good public morals.
mircea_popescu: so folks may recall the airconditioner pics ? in the same vein, this morning there was a truck loaded with steel pipes, and two trabajadores. one of them held a pipe up in the air vertically, with great effort, as the wind threatened to cause a serious workplace accident any moment. the other had a shovel.
mircea_popescu: i can't say i grasp what the dude thought he was doing exactly.
mircea_popescu: shinohai < that sort of shit is misleading because usual socialism. should be in term of total fees.
mircea_popescu: A student told his friend, "My teacher has amazing powers. He moves a pen in the air and characters appear on a piece of paper held on the other side of the river. What does your master do?" His friend replied "My great master follows Zen. When he is hungry, he eats and when he is tired he sleeps."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: does your wife go ? eh ? eh ? is she a sport ? say NO MORE!
mircea_popescu: there's specific sexual behaviours involved ; not so much work-oriented. unless you count cunt crushing.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-01#1575685 << you have to appreciate that "hacker culture" as practiced by adolescents is very different from hacking and very related to adolescence. the "hunting culture" of adolescents similarly is more about the horde being together and all excited than about catching anything.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: fine example for trinque 's folder on "brain - not reasoning machine". woman goes out in the field with the horde of kids (whose job as we know is to act as landmine sacrifices for the mysterious bushes). notices kid eats berries from berry bush, notices kid doesn't die, has some, and then tomorrow, and then
mircea_popescu: a good 2/3 of how girl gets in trouble. "but i've always done this".
mircea_popescu: yeah apparently he spent a year trolling the internet for "spiritualists" lel.
mircea_popescu: o wow apparently he also got a liver transplant, which obv comes with imunosupressants.
mircea_popescu: or in other words, traditional medicine is fun while the fun lasts.
mircea_popescu also sent girl with uti to buy herself gallon of cranberry juice the day before taking same girl to er because OMFG IT HURTS and pumping her full of nitrofuran.
mircea_popescu has had some occasion to try such wonders, like treated girl's sprain with mustard. it worked on her just as well as generally works, notwithstanding not from the right culture.
mircea_popescu: and it also works! but w/e, i'm not proposing this shamanism is medicine.
mircea_popescu will to this day drink pepper-decocted-tuica for some types of colds.
mircea_popescu: a) people want to do x ; b) people don't weant to do x ; c) people pick the more lunatic marginal, make him Priest of X.
mircea_popescu: this is not unlike saying that the teenaged village whore manipulated the village.
mircea_popescu: phf hey, the alcohol as medicine thing is a joke older than those hippies' mothers.
mircea_popescu: eat enough blueberry extract you'll poop purple for chrissakes.
mircea_popescu runs into dude, dumb as fucking doornail, "o man, everything's better on roids. you gotta juice man. you gotta!"
mircea_popescu: and ftr in the "Self administered medication" above i don't just count "performance enhancing psychoactives" but also colodial silver, large servings of c vitamin and for that matter fucking steroids.
mircea_popescu: i have personally repaired malfunctioning electronics with a well placed hit to the side.
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