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Adlai: no, it'll result in
a bunch of wildly angry cokeheads
nubbins`: all the whipped cream is probably using elemental hydrogen as
a propellant, then.
Adlai: trivia: n2o and n2 were both isolated in the same year, by different chemists. i hope they had
a shitfest over who had really isolated nitrogen before realizing they were distinct compounds :D
nubbins`: nevermind that you're literally rupturing the canisters with
a fuckin spike
nubbins`: totally, it's the same cost to make
a vessel resistant to twice the pressure. 8)
PeterL: not temp, pressure is what is important here, I am looking it up, just give me
a sec...
danielpbarron: we didn't drink the stuff; we huffed it through
a rag
nubbins`: if you're slow, you get
a terrible, terrible taste in your mouth without any neat flames
mircea_popescu: nubbins` our options are, 1) two buck
a can items are made with the cheapest possible thing and 2) two buck
a can items are made with expensive medicine, because there's
a conspiracy to keep kids entertained while they can't legally as much as buy
a drink.
nubbins`: so our options are: (1) n2o is actually n2o and there's
a reason why n2 won't cut it. or (2) all n2o is n2, without exception, and every single person who knows this secret isn't telling.
mircea_popescu: PeterL yeah. i r physicist not chemist. and
a theoretical one at that >D
mircea_popescu: not
a single fmcg item is properly labeled if the dispute is "get nubsy to think it's better than it is"
PeterL: not since I got laid off
a couple weeks ago
mircea_popescu: (kinda why co2 is used in "beverages" - acidity there's
a plus)
Adlai: related: you want to sell roses in gas stations. q: why would you add
a useless hole to your vase?
a: because you don't actually want to sell roses, you're selling crack pipes.
nubbins`: "it produces whipped cream four times the volume of the liquid, whereas whipping air into cream only produces twice the volume. If air were used as
a propellant, oxygen would accelerate rancidification of the butterfat; nitrous oxide inhibits such degradation. Carbon dioxide cannot be used for whipped cream because it is acidic in water, which would curdle the cream and give it
a seltzer-like "sparkling" sensation."
nubbins`: add heavy cream to
a canister.
mircea_popescu: to get
a pressurized container you don't need fat solubility, nor is 2 buck
a can whipping creram anything but styrofoam.
Adlai: ;;google cause i'm
a dentist
Adlai: and yes, if you buy
a tank of nitrous oxide, and you don't check what grade it is, you will get sulfur dioxide (or worse) impurities
nubbins`: mircea_popescu while co2 canisters are popular, they're
a different size and generally used for paintball/bb guns
danielpbarron: as
a teenager i impressed some friends with that little trick: buy some starter fluid, mix with water in garbage bag, wait for it to settle, drain out the impurities
nubbins`: Adlai every day is
a winding road
mircea_popescu: get
a mass spectrometer, can at it, see if it's n2o or n2 or co2 (more commonly now)
nubbins`: mircea_popescu FWIW asphyxia is
a completely different buzz.
mircea_popescu: Adlai most dopeheads can't distinguish asphyxia from
a high.
mircea_popescu: so someone sells you $200 an hour stuff at coupla bux
a can ?
danielpbarron: there was
a guy with
a nitrous tank at porcfest with
a group of zombies crowded around it
nubbins`: after hemming and hawing for
a bit, i said "it's like doing whippets until you pass out"
nubbins`: hey, it ended with
a quote from "the varieties of religious experience"
nubbins`: why did this man feel that taking 400mcg of LSD, alone, in
a rowboat, in the middle of
a lake, in nepal, was
a good idea?
nubbins`: "Have you ever traveled, beyond all mere metaphors, to the Mountain of Shame and stayed for
a thousand years? I do not recommend it."
ben_vulpes: "Why, he will be castigated by the authority, cast out by the other doctors, and no longer be able to call himself
a doctor." << rarely happens in the ussa, but this place is
a hellhole.
assbot: This is why medicine is not
a liberal profession, but
a servile career pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1AJnAVm )
Adlai left out the part about sam doing this on
a rowboat in
a nepalese lake
nubbins`: that'd buy you between one and three beers at
a bar, depending on your tolerance for seediness
PeterL: so I just applied for
a job at
a company, their hr is handled by SilkRoad.com , made me lol
nubbins`: $15
a tab seems to be dark-market standard these days
Adlai: the price of lsd is an interesting topic, given that once you pass some rather priceless hurdles, the actual cost of producing
a kilo of the stuff is epsilon
nubbins`: but (
a) inflation (b) who cares
nubbins`: now when you buy LSD from
a guy off the street, it's actually LSD.
nubbins`: then SR comes around and there's
a category for LSD and
a category for NBOMe
nubbins`: for the better part of
a decade, NBOMe was the ONLY "acid" you could get on the street.
nubbins`: Adlai "ideally" the first time someone buys weed from you, they're not
a repeat customer
Adlai: get cheated, find
a new stranger. but this is far from perfect
nubbins`: 1) hit up the park and ask the hippies 2) hit up the alley and ask the sketchbag 3) pop on SR and purchase from
a trusted vendor with
a list of ratings
nubbins`: suppose you moved to
a new city and you wanna get lifted
nubbins`: <+nubbins`> it's just as moronic for someone to move
a kilo of cocaine on
a dark market as it is for someone to buy
a personal amount of pot from
a stranger, in person.
BingoBoingo: Or you tattoo he shortchanges onto his forehead in the back of
a van.
danielpbarron: it's not so risky asking
a stranger for pot where I live; recreational amount is just
a ticketable offense these days
nubbins`: what am i gonna do, put
a warning post on craigslist?
nubbins`: because there's nowhere i can "leave
a rating" in meatspacethat will follow him around?
nubbins`: generally the purchaser in
a face-to-face transaction is at
a distinct disadvantage.
nubbins`: it's just as moronic for someone to move
a kilo of cocaine on
a dark market as it is for someone to buy
a personal amount of pot from
a stranger, in person.
nubbins`: its purpose was never, ever to do something as ludicrous as move
a kilo of cocaine
nubbins`: BingoBoingo:DPR, literally the guy who wasn't good enough to sling dope as
a profession <<< if he'd stuck to website admin, his actual job, he'd prolly still be out there
nubbins`: *:asciilifeform wonders if he's the only fella here who has never rage-smashed
a keyboard, pNohe, pNablet, ..., etc <<< i rage-smashed
a set of folding binoculars at around age 8, broke the little compass on top. wept bitterly at the loss, resolved to only smash things i didn't value from then on
BingoBoingo: I think it is pretending to be
a boulder to get down
a slope
mike_c: i want that to be cute but i can't tell if there's
a death struggle going on.
danielpbarron: "I remember
a time when those barely visible bumps around August 2012 and February 2013 filled the whole screen with their rollercoaster-y appearance. I remember that time because I was there and saw it, but to anyone looking today they don't matter and could as well have never existed. This will happen again, in the future."
danielpbarron: "When
a small majority* of participants behave irresponsibly however the net result is not just pain to their own fortunes, but pain spread across the board. All of
a sudden you have to be very intelligent, and very experienced, and very well informed to manage to keep your money safe, and often enough even that's not going to suffice."
BingoBoingo: DPR, literally the guy who wasn't good enough to sling dope as
a profession
danielpbarron: this is from
a "donator." doesn't that mean he gave thermos 50 bitcoin or something?
cazalla: personally, i am capable of driving at any limit although police did not believe such
a story
mircea_popescu: read one police report of crime x, you've read half of them. read ten, you've (practically) read them all. clinical psychology is only interesting to the patently insane, as
a practice. otherwise all the notes say endlessly the same five or six things. there just aren't that many things to say.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
a lot of neuropathy to "explain" and justify it all, sure. but google can sort through all that pretty fast, especially because it being psychogenic rather than rational it is dreadfully boring and entirely predictable.
mircea_popescu: the process is wholly self-referential. it is in no sense different from the goings on in any insane asylum. you are essentially asking "ok, the sanitariums of the world hold
a supply of at least 5000 napoleons. why is there no glorious history being produced ?"
mircea_popescu: which should be informative. i've never spent two years planning on how to fix
a window without discovering it really is
a door, at some point during all that.
mircea_popescu: if that happens im fucking defecting, because srsly. finding just one cockroach in the kitchen is one thing, but here we have found
a cockroach inside the cockroach and no sign of any kitchens.
mircea_popescu: dude i dunno, if i spend my time planning how to murder obama and fail to find out he died three years prior as
a side product
mircea_popescu: one particular schmuck formulated plans for at least 24 months, at the rate of one
a week, to TALK TO this particular whore.
mircea_popescu:
a total of less than 100 hours ever got put into any actually existent item that could be burned for instance.
mircea_popescu: out of every 1k kids spending at least 1mn man-hours/year discussing
a) creativity, generally and b) various projects
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in
a sane manner for sane reasons ? yes.