asciilifeform: i dun have a good eye inside cn. but from outside it would appear that it still belongs to the chinese, and is resistant to twitterocratization
asciilifeform: consider the pathetic failure of the hk 'colour revolution'.
asciilifeform: well judge for yourself -- usg 'demoocracy'-spreading via twatter/arsebook/etc was successfully zapped. and no, not merely via 'great wall', but it was 'part of the balanced diet' of how.
asciilifeform: that is to say, 'casual user' cattle browsing 'the news' on their pnojes while waiting for the train.
asciilifeform: 'Sally Lehrman, founder of the Trust Project - an organisation set up to re-establish trust in mainstream media - told the BBC: "We don't know enough yet to know how it affected the election but we do know that fake news travels rapidly and it can change the conversation, not just by misinforming people but by focusing attention on something that may not be the issue. "It is a real danger to democracy."'
asciilifeform: 'Public Note: Colorful eggs! You find it! Then what? Donate back to me if you like it. Other eggs are not far, I'd like to leave some clues about the pages or the keys, but I'm sleepy now.' << wat
asciilifeform: (i learned of this existing when finally found the schematics for own auto, and marvelled)
asciilifeform: btw most engines made since mid-1990s have an electronic damper that kicks in b/w , iirc, 3rd and 4th gear, and also has to be mounted, and correctly, or ~increases~ vibration
asciilifeform: lemme guess, they take off the mufflers for the 1-3% efficiency boost ?
asciilifeform just opened a crate, 'what was this', turns out, grey market chinese '3d display', came even with preloaded crappy pr0n
asciilifeform: (how folx often die -- from observer's pov, quite avoidably -- in the cockpit, author tells, is by taking idiot risk they 'got away with many times before')
asciilifeform: the old piloting book, interestingly, goes into subj
asciilifeform: it is pretty lethal to most folx i dare say.
asciilifeform: especially 'grade 5' ( per mircea_popescu's essay ) success.
asciilifeform: the idea (or at least the popular notion, i was not at his deathbed and have nfi re fact) was that the man , with infinite money, could have likely lived if he had spent it on the 'brezhnev-grade' medical fuckery earlier.
asciilifeform: but he 'traditionalled' it for , it was said, years.
asciilifeform: no, iirc it was some very uncommonly ~operable~ liver variant
asciilifeform: ( and consider how s. jobs supposedly died )
asciilifeform: some variant of this exists in every drinking country, i suspect
asciilifeform: phf: re 'medicinal alcohol', most famously possibly in usa -- n. tesla revoked his prediction of living to be 100 y.o. when prohibition passed
asciilifeform: supply 'necessary' mumbles, ration access, cordon off creators of bad pr (those for whom 'not worked'), etc
asciilifeform: ritualization of $working-item is how priests siphon off some of the bang of the buck
asciilifeform: in re this and all other 'medicalizations' -- straight to tlp
asciilifeform: phf: this is rather like medieval nuns who saw rubbing clit as only acceptable if done indirectly as part of a 'saintly ecstatic dream' etc
asciilifeform: something, let's say, superficially resembling the intended effect
asciilifeform: (in the case of the latter -- placebocin still works magic!!)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are 2 basic magisteria of self-medicators -- where the dope actually does something; and where not
asciilifeform: the observation about 'nitro in a stock engine' is not untrue: idiots who take stim produce idiocy 10x faster, because they are unaccustomed to the horsepower and have nfi where to put it, their crankshaft simply bends
asciilifeform: (though afaik no known dope falls squarely into this category, the discovery of thyroid hormone almost falls in )
asciilifeform: incidentally it is not inconceivable that some of the natural variation in wakefulness, pain tolerance, etc. among people reduces to something that one could - to an extent - chemically scam into existence
asciilifeform: 'dundu nuttin' is not exactly correct.
asciilifeform: the correct analogy here, at least in re dopes that actually DO something, is nitro.
