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mircea_popescu: and to grok the true sign of luxury : i have an auction in eulora in 20 minutes. which i woke naturally for.
mircea_popescu: "Asrar al-Mujahideen, Asrar al-Dardashah" aaaahahahah.
mircea_popescu: lest i get lost in a pile of awesome and do no work but grin for the rest of the sunday.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform must be bought same day because poor impulse control (must have) and poor social skills (this is the only time you'll meet people you can talk to this year)
mircea_popescu: way to go. ps : it isn't abuse just because it leaves you outside, feeling inadequate.
mircea_popescu: well, alcohol is a downer. kids are overexcitable. it's a toss-up.
mircea_popescu: in operational terms, i was as excited as you were, apparently.
mircea_popescu: wait, you were gonna go weaboo all over the xbox line but then slept through the opening ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you do whatevs you feel like. if you're happy with it carry on, eventually you'll either die or have enough of it.
mircea_popescu: he had diabethes. according to him, he could not take the medicine. except with honey.
mircea_popescu: there's somewhere in the log this observation, you can't learn medicine on yourself.
mircea_popescu: the only reason it's not included in the series version is that it's a stupid idea.
mircea_popescu: it's an industrial fucking product, you think they don't know what you know ?
mircea_popescu: tell you what, if your mods were actually improvements THEY WOULD BE IN THE CAR.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <gabriel_laddel> and then I spend more time hacking apart portage than I would have otherwise << no you don't. this is like the ridiculous notion of teenagers that they'll make a car "better".
mircea_popescu: how about a cup a day or every coupla days or something. like sane people.
mircea_popescu: the serious problem for coffee drinkers is the caffeine headache.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but otherwise, the fact that placebo is nothing short of crazy is an open secret in clinician circles.
mircea_popescu: trinque the caution being that it's a single study and they might be insane.
mircea_popescu: ie, the real-special guys despise the wanna-be-special guys
mircea_popescu: sure. but it still works exactly like it worked in the other soviet union.
mircea_popescu: except ss knows enough about this to not want to touch it, so the aspirational down kids over at dod get a chance to shine.
mircea_popescu: the problem here is that dod is uniquely unequipped to do this. this is a job for the ss, which is WHY they handlwe counterfitting in the first place.
mircea_popescu: they got a stretched asshole the size of the gulf, and they're gonna work towards stitching it back together ?
mircea_popescu: perhaps travelling by bus is now much more obviously comprehensible.
mircea_popescu: thinking about it, i do recall i also said about smoking.
mircea_popescu: "the cream of what nature can offer, best roe, of which in principle a person no matter how rich still should only consume limited amounts for a very simple reason : if you do not alternate with inferior product you wiull become used to it, and then depressed. intelligent people eat it once a month and live happilly ever after."
mircea_popescu: "I. Ersteklasse. Crema a ceea ce poate oferi natura, icrele cele mai bune, din care in principiu un cetatean, oricit de bogat s-ar gasi, are totusi a consuma cantitati limitate, dintr-un motiv foarte simplu : daca nu alternezi cu produse inferioare te vei obisnui, si-apoi te vei deprima. Oamenii inteligenti le gusta lunar si traiesc fericiti pina la adinci batrineti."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that is the article about how to feed whores caviar.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you have any idea whbat the tolerance to benzo-* is like ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i got benzadrine otc here. asked for cyclobenzapyrine, derp showed up with benzos.
mircea_popescu: "no, parkinson, this is a legitimately defined disease with a biological backing. no, he is actually measuring the chemistry involved, dopamine. no, actually." etc
mircea_popescu: i just had the girls lined up with their mouths open while i swore as to the various aspects
mircea_popescu: trinque you know that AWESOME tlp article on placebo ?
mircea_popescu: this shit isn't free. in the time you took to research it and the time it takes you to earn what it costs you coulda caught up on sleep.
mircea_popescu: you lot could just as well have a glass of water and go takle a nap.
mircea_popescu: alf too, but alf only took a kindergarten level chemistry class
mircea_popescu: since when he keeps ranting about chem topics ? dunno.
mircea_popescu: other than peterl, bb is like the resident chemist huh
mircea_popescu also started his final thesis in college 5 months early, and was done with it about a month and a half before it was supposed to be turned in.
mircea_popescu never binge studied either. wtf, if it's not worth reading normally it's not worth reading.
mircea_popescu: "take this pill, it simulates taking a piss" "or i could... take a piss ?" "yes, of course".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's probable. i have a poor reaction to many of these.