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mircea_popescu: and i thought all modern gurlz live in usg quarters with low pressure showers.
mircea_popescu: (you'd be surprised what % of "first world" teenagers discover on the porn set that yes you're supposed to wash in between the clitoral hoodand the clitoris, what the fuck. it's still part of you, no matter what your dumb mom might have said christ told her.)
mircea_popescu: "what do you mean my snatch stinks, I'VE ALWAYS WASHED IT LIKE THAT"
mircea_popescu: it's just... the sleep of reason. "habits" and habituation take over.
mircea_popescu: and then, because this is the lulzy part, it's like a fucking prion this thing. then! people who should fucking know better try and cater to it! and then they get used to THAT and get all agressed when you don't.
mircea_popescu: china, meanwhile, has been in the business of being europe while pretending to be congo.
mircea_popescu: how is it not as disgraceful, you know ? the us is in the business of being congo while pretending to be europe.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well, it is also known that many streets do not have fiber,also.
mircea_popescu: the historical "sexual modesty" of north america being the original, and to this day best example. in its many plurious expressions, from "rright to life" to that derp linked yesterday or w/e
mircea_popescu: the one line on which entrenched rent seeking interest and stupid but unaware youthful enthusiasm meet, is this particular type of idiocy.
mircea_popescu: prolly more a "you know what could help real estate values ? if other people couldn't build sane houses anymore"
mircea_popescu: trinque> dude, I leave for a weekend and a chick with great tits from TX shows up called AgentScully WITH THINKPADS << prolly shortlived
mircea_popescu: all this timswansonism i swear. "we are so and so" because words and things so we don't have to wot or anything. we could put the nonsense in a pdf if you prefer, that makes it more legit!
mircea_popescu: <trinque> and I'll tell you what; this country is gorgeous. It'd be quite a nice place under new management. << word. nothing wrong wih the states mostly on the grounds the mob stuck to the coasts.
mircea_popescu: tho honestly, i do not currently believe the old fucks actulaly have it in them.
mircea_popescu: it is conceivable, if the same pencildicks keep on with the tail up, "regulate" blablabla that we WILL have a market in stolen daughters traded around to prove a point for a few years.
mircea_popescu: things normalized by 1995 or so, which is why this is a derp field now.
mircea_popescu: (echos of this problem are seen in patent nonsense like "embagro russia" that so miserably backfired last year)
mircea_popescu: the car theft thing was very briefly +ev, right after fall of su when a lot of otherwise powerful and important people didn't have their power and importance correctly credentialled by the western pencildicks
mircea_popescu: "The lack of transparency and regulatory oversight raises a number of risks for users and also poses risks for the payments system, the integrity of the financial system and the erosion of the tax base.
mircea_popescu: "If I sell you a few kilograms of depleted uranium and you use it to create a dirty bomb that renders most of the East Coast inhabitable, how is that my fault?"
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, heating off the damned tank with ferried gas etc is still cheaper than using electricity.
mircea_popescu: course greece (esp stuff like crete) is a bit of an outlier. no gas lines, which is unheard of in yurp, and no real need to heat.
mircea_popescu: punkman iirc they bury a 20-50 cubic metre tank for you if you ask.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (salt content is a function of intended maturation period, the longer you wanna keep it around the saltier. still, within some bounds)
mircea_popescu: gets stronger the longer it waits, of course, but the salt doesn't get it runny.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the cheese, as apparently it's unknown other than "that south transylvanian cheese" : sheepmilk cheese is cut up thinly, salt is added and ths is mixed (often, by hand). the result is placed in a tube made out of pine bark. it may or may not be smoked. it can also be placed in a sheep's stomach. inthis arrangement it keeps indefinitely, it is geenraly consumed after about a year.
mircea_popescu: punkman it's really gpl not natural gas. they truck it.
mircea_popescu: much worse power curve of course, but fuck that, they're taxis.
mircea_popescu: anyway. by now upwards of 2/3 of taxis actually run on compressed gas. way cheaper defo cleanner.
mircea_popescu: because of this, the diesels available were WAY better. it's not that "built to higher specs". it's that built by better people. substantially better.
mircea_popescu: because of this, some of the smartest automotive engineers went into diesel. it looked like the future.
mircea_popescu: what happens is that throughout the 90s, diesel fuel was 50% the price of gasoline, and gpl conversion was not a mass market thing like it is now. you could get it, like you could get nox.
mircea_popescu: it'snot even true that "everyone in europe = diesel". and it;s not true that "because regulation", either.
mircea_popescu: also in the same vein, pine bark aged smoked sheep cheese (romanian thing, dunno if they do it anywhere else)
mircea_popescu: you don't have to love it, or even like it. just like you don't have to love beer - god knows i don't. but if you're not capable to APPRECIATE it you're really not in this movie.
mircea_popescu: derps shouldn't get a vote srsly. whosever can't appreciate the scent of diesel is neither a man nor allowed to discuss cars.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: What other reason is there to love fuel oil? Certainly not the characteristics of the chemical itself. It's slippery, it stinks to high heaven, it doesn't evaporate. <<
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> this was taken at the south west corner of the west edmonton mall parking lot, right next to the movie theatre and the gun range (!) << so cool huh.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> and cazalla ! << and mike and peter and so on.
mircea_popescu: y conducted experiments get contradicted by practice down the line.
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 it's just standard confirmation time. the problem with technology is that it works a certain way, which people actually understand. users, however, which are eminently NOT people, but fucking animals, don't care about all that. instead they "try" things, and then "come to expect" on the basis of you know, two attempts last Sunday. and then get all aggitated if their unfounded, poorly researched, biased, badl
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the average tv show is what you get when nothing's plugged in, that static buzz.
mircea_popescu: the average of gender is an abomination the average of knowledge is retardation.
mircea_popescu: there isn't an automatic relevancy renewal. they want relevancy, they pay homage and swear fealty.
mircea_popescu: they very strictly and quite deliberately limitedly have autority over obsolete crap nobody cares about.
mircea_popescu: in other news, the cftc / everyone else must get it into their fucking skulls that they do not have authority to regulate "futures" or "swaps" or anything else in the general.
mircea_popescu: AgentScully so what do you do when you graduate ? actuary ? research ? academia ?