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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.
mircea_popescu: depending on wire thickness, either the wire or the battery shall be the hot plate.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel that not liking being sober is a very poor reason to be drunk. or whatever you call it.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel it's a paradoxical thing, what can i say.
mircea_popescu: problem is - drunkedness is strictly for people who don't dislike being sober.
mircea_popescu: honestly, if i actually needed some substance to think i would probably drop everything and go shoot bears for a while.
mircea_popescu: a) you should drink about a gallon of water a day ; b) if you don't like how much coffee you drink just make a point of drinking a little less each day for a while ?
mircea_popescu: <mats> laying in bed, naked, listening to 'Channel Orange', that was nice << you know ba weather is nude indoors weather throughout the year.
mircea_popescu: one day i'll meet the usian who is better educated than people in the 50s.
mircea_popescu: WRONGALONGADINGDONG. They're not better educated, they just have more degrees.
mircea_popescu: "They are better educated than previous generations and they were raised by baby boomers who lavished a lot of attention on their children," said Andrew Kohut [the director of the Pew Research Center.]
mircea_popescu: that by doing [this thing to do] i now have _everything_.
mircea_popescu: or is it an utter and impredictable mess in the manner of everything else foss ?
mircea_popescu: q : is there a way to actually publish this as a discrete item ?