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mircea_popescu: Namworld well, install it, ima make you an account then.
mircea_popescu: the proof that reddit is not the problem, i guess. random reddit nobody knows about waiting in the wings, to maybe one day be the reddit derps know about.
mircea_popescu: (yes there's a deep reason for the schism, no it has nothing to do with politics. the western church mostly provided laas, the eastern church baas.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: why the church ever caught on in god forsaken wastes such as those inhabited by the ru speaking folk. etc.
mircea_popescu: kinda what the eleusine mysteries for instance tried to provide as a public good.
mircea_popescu: this is principally why women [used to] have an advantage over men. they actually experienced socially mandated death, to their benefit. it was the system which produced usable old bitties of the sort that kept say the jews alive.
mircea_popescu: "we have noticed that if we spray X on Y the purchase of flat screen tvs goes up 15%"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i am kinda expecting to see "behavioural doping" or somesuch. if industrial pollutant is so cheap/abundant it actually creates an ecological problem, it is obviously only a matter of time before the large amts of discrete data (google db, cctv db, etc) are meshed together with substance dictionary to create optimized diets for advertising.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no. standard of care is specificallty made to resist this, by the few people that are old enough to not want to soon have to explain it. the standard is "as practiced by reasonable minority"
mircea_popescu: "so then... big macs are bad but hey i gotta eat and this one is not that bad right ?" sure.
mircea_popescu: the sort that go "oh wait, i was just ... being a woman"
mircea_popescu: well most of it was dead. they however, you will note, RAPED THE REMAINDER.
mircea_popescu: there is no "resistance through culture", you don't get to tell me "hey i knew all along X was a scam, i just promoted it ironically"
mircea_popescu: the mengele who knows he's doing wrong anf the mengele who "doesn't" are both mengele.
mircea_popescu: should be part of the test. no sexual history, no meds.
mircea_popescu: i have no objection to anyone who ever prescribed neuroleptics in virgins to be taken straight off to death row.
mircea_popescu: but this isn't what this is. this is a doctor claiming he's being a contemporary rendition of fucking mengele because "the jews and the dogs expected it"
mircea_popescu: obviously i have no us clinical experience. i also have an apparent inability to represent how this'd work. seriously, doctor says "nope, he's acting out because of X, Y, Z, and medications aren't going to fix this" and the parent argues the point ? with the doctor ? just.... how ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder how much of this is jenuine and how much mere malingering.
mircea_popescu: "When a kid is presented to a psychiatrist, the psychiatrist is pressured, obligated, to do something pharmacological. If a psychiatrist looked a single parent a joint away from a nap right in the eye and said, "nope, he's acting out because of X, Y, Z, and medications aren't going to fix this" that doctor will get his head handed to him by parent or by lawyer. Justice will be done, you negligent elitist."
mircea_popescu: The cause of these high levels of medications is so simple you'll recoil from the truth of it, but pour yourself a drink and take it like a man: the kids showed up. That's it. The kid is in front of you and you have to do something, now, that results in an acute change. Not better grades 4 years out, or less sadness over the teen years; change the sleep tonight, make the kid less hyper now, and when it "stops working
mircea_popescu: You'll observe that none of those words is "diagnosis" or "severity."
mircea_popescu: "Variables associated with antipsychotic use [included] male gender, age 12 years and under, being nonwhite, and a length of stay 13 days or longer."
mircea_popescu: You can wrack your brain trying to figure this out or blame the usual suspects, but the answer is right there in the article:
mircea_popescu: "10 year study of inpatient kids: 44% got antipsychotics. Is that a lot? Yes. It's a lot."
mircea_popescu: could marry cameron diaz, they could go to conferences as cameron & cameron diaz-tinkletoss
mircea_popescu: did the cameron one get a sex change ? or is that the wachowski
mircea_popescu: it was erin was it ? or taylor ? what was the guy's name ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, plox to not insult the derps. gotta reference them correctly, whenever it's one of those idiots it should be "Blythe Masters, who claims to have invented Facebook", or "Erin Twinkletoss, who claims to have invented CDOs" etc.
mircea_popescu: o wait, the dude that failed to get tenure at j p morgan university ?
mircea_popescu: the angle here is that 6 months is a waste of time/resources in the present configuration to go chase that thing. pure scheduling matter, yes, it's valuable, no we can't fill the larder with brontosaurus.
mircea_popescu: the NEXT box has a price. would napoleon have paid that for his box ? never.
mircea_popescu: the first box, gifted to napoleon, has no value (!= is worthless)
mircea_popescu: and now with exaples : aluminum is a theoretical metal.
mircea_popescu: whereas nobody can exclude another from possession of a theoretical item.
mircea_popescu: the equivalent approach is to say item acquired a new property in going from a to b. in both it's the same thing, but in b it is also an exclusive good
mircea_popescu: and so therefore, going from a to b actually increases the market value of item. through a process known as "creating a market".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in situation a, the value of item is to be calculated theoretically ; in situation b, the value of the item is "a little less than it costs me to get one myself". and it is VERY practical. because yes, you MUST keep up with the Xs.
mircea_popescu: situation a) item is shown theoretically to possibly exist ; situation b) item is alleged to physically exist in vaults of lord X.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field outsiders are utterly a red herring. there exist no outsiders. reddit might as well not exist and everyone else reads the logs.
mircea_popescu: jurov i am actually saying something very much like that, yes.
mircea_popescu: actually, the thing is more valuable once known to exist.
mircea_popescu: obviously no tool works for any purpose in any context.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between getting to see the koh i noor and knowing lord x owns it. or, to quote popfictionikia, "Another consideration was education. Before the late 1950s and the advent of the stately home business, very few working-class people had seen the upstairs of these great houses; those that had were there only to clean and serve, with an obligation to keep their eyes down, rather than uplift them and be
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i did not say nor was it implied that i'll make it public. merely that it is had.
mircea_popescu: (and yes, cwcd, not possible w/o bitcoin, gpg, people involved, an actual infrastructure)
mircea_popescu: one of the major wins of /me style b-a governance is that it actually nulls THAT ENTIRE silence cost bs. it's in the logs.
mircea_popescu: (i suppose the deeply lame situation of secret servicemen in this regard has escape all notice prior ?)
mircea_popescu: stalker has files on all the celebs, does that mean they're sexually intimate now ?