asciilifeform: i get it, mircea_popescu is considerably more familiar with the 'rot yer body, rot yer mind', 'clean the bath 1,001 times' sort of dope user.
asciilifeform: i am satisfied, for instance, that the boxing ring - does.
asciilifeform: no evidence that moderate intake of ~just about any dope, affects memory.
asciilifeform: at any rate the 'all psychoactives' thing is poppycock.
asciilifeform: not speaking of chronic brain damage here, but of 'i fuhget which one i fucked'
asciilifeform always suspected that 'fuhgettting', such as happens to drunks, is very similar to other things which happen to drunks, in being substantially a matter of ~wanting to~
asciilifeform: clearly i have not been sufficiently drunk ?
asciilifeform: to go up stack: the 'delete my history of disgraceful failure OR ELSE!1111' thing is an idiocy that does not come from empty space, but from monkeys watching lizard organs do ~same thing routinely
asciilifeform: in usa, hoodlums stab, shoot, club, push off cliff, run over, cops every day of the week
asciilifeform: ' If (1) the victim was (A) a government officer or employee; (B) a former government officer or employee; or (C) a member of the immediate family of a person described in subdivision (A) or (B); and (2) the offense of conviction was motivated by such status, increase by 3 levels.'
asciilifeform: the proprietary clients do such things as guaranteed retro-ordering of messages, very frustrating to folks raised on irc, but the folks who have it - expect it.
asciilifeform: iirc ben_vulpes eats off this, just for some niche industry somewhere
asciilifeform: eh, supporting the various smart-pnoje clients alone probably employs a whole slave galley
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it needs such things as locks and seals. the plywood boats are very spartan affairs, lacking even flush toilet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the sub in question is not the ru diesel thing, but the plywood handcraft items BingoBoingo refers to, their only defense is to motor in the other direction when they notice pursuit. hence wankery re 'stealth' patrol boats etc.
asciilifeform: i have nfi, it perhaps claims to 'engage' even martians, for all i know.