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asciilifeform: and, importantly, works on resistant tb
mircea_popescu: that shit even works, other than the collapsible lung sechellae etc. but it will kill it.
asciilifeform: ( tb method earlier is the one where you pierce and deflate a lung, naturally 1 at a time, to nuke the aerobe microbe. as a kid asciilifeform dug up his grandfather’s set from the war, thought it was diving gear )
mircea_popescu: every morning delivered ciggarettes to the local outlets.
mircea_popescu: generally substance abuse in post soviet world would curl the contemporaneous mind. cluj tribunal, three levesl, maybe say 50k sq foot of floor space, a thousand or two (mostly women) working there had A TRUCK. i don't mean a van. i mean a semi.
mircea_popescu: being cheap to make and "hey, at least not morphine"
mircea_popescu: i think codeine was at the time available by the kg
asciilifeform: codeine by the glass, nearly
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also, i think i mentioned this, but in any case : 4yo me was prescribed codeine as phosphoric salt for kiddy cough. double dose what chet got for back pain.
asciilifeform: obsolete or not, is iffy q in medicine, pneumothoracic method for tb is making a comeback
mircea_popescu: (flemming method, for teh curious)
mircea_popescu: it was the best of times in being the worst of times.
mircea_popescu: people routinely ran out of / couldn't afford the western reagents, ended up doing 1800s glucose tests for urin and so on.
mircea_popescu: understand, hospitals still had whole floors for labs, with bunsen burners, cut-and-seal your own tubes etc.
asciilifeform: ah the ephedrine route
mircea_popescu: back in those days, you couldn't be a doctor if you couldn't make your own. just not possible.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gotta wonder, what was the meth doing in the surgical stockpile
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 19:15 asciilifeform: dun i gotta take to drink 1st, and then quit..?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744415 << why ? best cheating ever, PRETEND like you managed to quit what you never did in thefirst place. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 19:06 BingoBoingo has only met one "clean productivity mether" who tried the recovery thing. Bounced in/out and then allegedly a heated argument did in his cardiovascular system
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744393 << i think i knew hundreds. widely abused in post-soviet medical system, for instance ; at some point a whole surgical section was losing it at the same time, one step away from ending up discussed in the national security council. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 18:57 BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> but beyond that, I was applying to accelerators with this company because I don't want a real job << Sometime at a "real job" would be good for you. Work at BingoBoingo store, call it "field research" if that makes Brian in the head feel better. Show up, bust your ass, eat shit, THEN ask yourself "Why wasn't I working this hard for myself before?"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744358 <<< this is actually a remarkably effectual approach. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: it makes sense to them.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 18:33 trinque: what's the point of putting a company pitch in a cover letter for another job?
BingoBoingo: lol: "His office was in a secluded space, and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up. This afforded him the assurance of privacy. It allowed him to welcome female employees and initiate inappropriate contact while knowing nobody could walk in on him, according to two women who were sexually harassed by Lauer." http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/matt-lauer-accused-sexual-harassmen
ben_vulpes: TomServo: you're wholly dependent on that node's willingness to send you blocks. it may be blackholed, not in the mood, etc
TomServo: Most of my sync was from deedbot, but I would frequently get blackholed? No blocks for hours, wouldn never resume on it's own, had to restart.
TomServo: I was under the impression that using -connect $tsmr.node.ip -nolisten would be a faster sync, but seems a bit faster without.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 18:08 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> this is a ssd box, on very reasonable fiber, no less. << I am very glad/sad that asciilifeform's sync from wild experiments are concordant with my own
asciilifeform: ( also not sure how comparable is the psychology of krokodilism, which is a form of morphinism, to gabriel_laddeling. ) ☟︎
asciilifeform: the 'krokodilists' are superficially similar but different in that typically someone ~else~ , in meatwot, cooks the ersatz dope for them
a111: Logged on 2014-02-27 18:54 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: famous autobio. take on the subject, 'Низший Пилотаж' (http://lib.ru/ZHURNAL/pilotazh.txt)
asciilifeform: btw there is a famous 1990s ru b00k on subj of gabriel_laddel, http://btcbase.org/log/2014-02-27#536165 . ( summary : at one time ephedrine was sold openly, in 1980s su , for asthmatics. and student culture of methism developed, folx would buy the feedstock, do the reaction in glass taken home from school/work ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: woah d00d actually did as he was told, for 1ce.
asciilifeform: eventually you will take the pill and nothing useful will happen.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: understand also that yer overclocking yer meat, and it will have eventually to be paid for.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i recommend to take a break and come back when you have theorem, or at least something new. and use some of your artificial stamina to make a blog, and write.
asciilifeform: trinque has a point, a byte in the l0gz is not cheap !
asciilifeform: trinque: i'll admit that i dun really buy the 'pushing' angle. if anything it's the mcdonaldizers and walmartizers, star topology creators, who create the demand for opiums
trinque: go fly and see him, watch him smoke the stuff. can transcribe the theorems coming out of his ears.
gabriel_laddel: some people learn about sex and go MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMME. Some people hear about sports and find it appeals to them. there is a wide variation in genetics & environments.
trinque: asciilifeform: you're really getting something out of this?
gabriel_laddel: trinque: dude whatever I heard drugs existed and sought them out by iterating through every human I could find.
asciilifeform: i thought jail was required 'university' for dope people, like actual university used to be for maths
a111: Logged on 2015-05-05 22:39 mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-05-2015#1121502 << you have to understand something essential about drugs : they aren't products. this in the sense that their flux isn't pull, it's push (which is why the sellers are called pushers). so no, the mexican economy does not rely on others buying drugs anymore than britain's economy relied on chinese buying opium.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 21:11 gabriel_laddel: rable' it is simply has no academic interests & probably spends most of their time seeking or finding sexual release (ie #tweaker nation tumblr females. Notice, very few post about meth and the read much closer to 'Ive no purpose, need to reproduce, NOW. What you like meth? OKAYSUREWHATEVERMETOOJUSTFUCKMEALREADY'). The catch however is that you've
asciilifeform: i.e. is it possible that gabriel_laddel wanted a dope for theorems, but what there is on the market is there so that derps can http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744462 etc ☝︎
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform people end up in jail, the people who do "annie" typically are not the guys running an assay on it, etc. etc.
asciilifeform: this is eerily reminiscent of asciilifeform's kvm thread
asciilifeform: do dope folx not ever bother to run through a column or wat
gabriel_laddel: the cartels are not sophisticated enough to read the logs & go "hey, if there is enough variation in alcohols for one of the world's most wealthy men to comment on them, perhaps also for our product" ☟︎
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: if so, why no one isolated the contaminant and sold as own dope ? ☟︎
gabriel_laddel: Kansas 'annie' from the 90s was supposedly far more powerful than the crystal available today because of the "dirty leftover reagents".
trinque: perhaps g_l finds slavery appealing, and ought to accept the fact
asciilifeform: but on top of this, no shortage of soldiers came home , hard to say if 'with help of' or 'in spite of' whatever dopes they ate
trinque: I would like to know which masters used these and succeeded?
asciilifeform: for some reason i thought laevo-isomer has 0 effect on nervous system -- e.g. laevo-meth is sold in every pharmacy in usa, as a nasal decongestant
asciilifeform: ( it was tried repeatedly as... antidepressant, in su )
asciilifeform: at one time su also, but didn't really catch on
gabriel_laddel: My interest, incidentally is what OTC d-amph looks like on societal level. The yanks had racemic amph, Erdos had that + ritilan. Japs & Germans had meth. Nobody has had a d-amph free-for-all afaict.
asciilifeform: it was imperial jp that first put meth into mass production
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform do you have a book recommendation for use of amphetamines in ww2? I looked a few times and nothing caught my interest
asciilifeform: hm could've sworn there was moar.
asciilifeform: ( from a mircea_popescuine pov -- ended badly, had approx same amt of agency as typical crack whore )
asciilifeform: puyi famously got cleaned out, 'palace uh.. burned down, uhyea' sort of thing ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 15:07 mircea_popescu: also managed to misplace a 2ct diamond i used to wear in mah lapel... utter puyi operation i'm running over here.
gabriel_laddel: Nothing in particular that I can say "aha! crazy!" as the whole story is totally alien
gabriel_laddel: Well for one, awfully interesting comparison - to a chinaman!? Completely out of the blue (yellow?). That his eunuchs did anything at all continues to be surprising to me, thought I guess floggings are useful motivation when you've no sexual drive?
asciilifeform: in particular at the front.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 21:11 gabriel_laddel: n idea, or some form of sensory input bodily electrical resonance. MP's 'women are only useful as slaves' comes to mind. Are men only useful when tweaking? 'Bennies' were readily available at Los Alamos during MP. Did no-sleep-drive-and-read-johnny use? I can't find primary sources and am also digressing... Tweaking. Something WILL grab your intere
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744464 << readily available during ~all of ww2. consider reading about how this went, gabriel_laddel ☝︎
gabriel_laddel finds the story of Puyi totally insane
gabriel_laddel: welcome to the club
asciilifeform: i'm still waiting for gabriel_laddel's theorem tho
a111: Logged on 2014-08-25 03:08 asciilifeform: busy as a bee << funny that they show an idiot sow scrubbing, and not, e.g, paul erdos crapping out theorems
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2014-08-25#808005 << see also thread ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'If you start to change a lightbulb, then spend seven hours deconstructing and re-constructing the elaborate Moroccan light fixture in the kitchen, rearranging the stained glass so that the colors point in the right directions, shining it up inside and out, running to the store for better bulbs, threading the cord so that it lands in an inconspicuous position, you've just tweaked. '
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: https://www.quora.com/profile/Jeff-SKT < check out the bottomost answer he gave, also
gabriel_laddel: MP is the MP of our generation ☟︎
gabriel_laddel: Anyways there are no imaginative+curious people in SF, but the guy offering his sister had the right idea. Hm. Actually there was one now that I think about it. Two if you count the negro "man, I need some of what you've got". Fuck yeah Black America. Better showing than whitey.
gabriel_laddel: c infrastructure in CA. Easy enough to calculate.
gabriel_laddel: he city, because I didn't see a soul four hours (maybe two, idk). Found a doorbell with arab lettering and rang it furiously. I hope it disturbed them something awful anddsfsdfsdfewdshdslkhfdslhlkjfdshdskjfhds AHEM. Wasn't thinking that at the time, but a terrorist attack & subsequent rebuild seems more likely than any other route to improved publi
gabriel_laddel: ome and a weekend nights end at like 11pm because my generation deserves holocaust). This involved dancing around all over the place, even going so far as to pull out my computer & code onehanded, balancing on one foot, bobbing like a maniac, with lightbulb affixed. Honest to god, I can't tell you if ANYONE even lives in the whole western half of t
gabriel_laddel: Example: had the thought -- ~ _someone, somewhere_ in this godforsakken sodom must have an imagination, and a curiosity to match it! So I took a light bulb, placed it above my head like a cartoon 'idea emoji' and walked all of SF many times over trying to elicit some sort of novel reaction from the fri night 'partygoers' (ED NOTE: sf is a nursing h
gabriel_laddel: n idea, or some form of sensory input bodily electrical resonance. MP's 'women are only useful as slaves' comes to mind. Are men only useful when tweaking? 'Bennies' were readily available at Los Alamos during MP. Did no-sleep-drive-and-read-johnny use? I can't find primary sources and am also digressing... Tweaking. Something WILL grab your intere ☟︎☟︎
gabriel_laddel: not a choice in the matter. A state of (Csikszentmihalyi) flow - forgetting to eat, drink, sitting in one position beyond any reasonable limit - we all do this when thinking anyways, but it can be interupted. When you remove the very notion of interruption what you're left with is tweaking, which is an awful lot like being enslaved, perfectly, by a
gabriel_laddel: rable' it is simply has no academic interests & probably spends most of their time seeking or finding sexual release (ie #tweaker nation tumblr females. Notice, very few post about meth and the read much closer to 'Ive no purpose, need to reproduce, NOW. What you like meth? OKAYSUREWHATEVERMETOOJUSTFUCKMEALREADY'). The catch however is that you've ☟︎☟︎
gabriel_laddel: An effective summary of d-amph: it works, you're in control it and has no comedown (due to l-amph in adderal). Whereas meth (again no negative comedown aside from sleep & need to eat like pregnant (with ideas?)) will grab your conciousness and irreversiby chain it to your own interests in the span of 5-15 minutes. Anyone rambling about how 'pleasu
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: have some patience, ffs, post things in-chan ☟︎
trinque: asciilifeform: one of whom I'm thinking sat peacefully as he burned
BingoBoingo: trinque: Maybe he hits bottom, finds a sponsor to guide him through steps, becomes useful?
trinque: asciilifeform: can't compare that level of discipline to this
asciilifeform: trinque: i suppose you dun think those priests who set themselves on fire , were interesting either
trinque: I fail to see the fascination here
gabriel_laddel: I have to move because people are coming into the room, but will drop an actual story with details here in a sec, or at least PM to you ascii
asciilifeform: 'William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was : “A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.” '
asciilifeform: let's for the l0gz :
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> dun think it's very active orally ? << Could make a chewing gum or sublingual tablet
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