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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 ?
mircea_popescu: obviously, now /me is lost reading the bash. and therein, "asciilifeform: would almost rather cook own dinner, and not have to deal with derps in any capacity.". which obviously i read "opacity" on first pass.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i can attest at some point programming smelled of listing paper (particular pigment scent at the time) and static dust.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field as the verse goes, "comunismu-ntii te-ajuta, tac tac tac, si apoi te executa, pac pac pac."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah, because you're just the guy to program capacitors.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman i wonder if your ordinary is the reason my q dropped from 303 to 300
mircea_popescu: <AgentScully> I'm kind of sad no one liked my applied crypto pic << wait, you got piercings in the interim ?
mircea_popescu: but yes, i have a stack of old thinkpads. outdated schmoutdated.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and cold keeps the riffraff out. << i suppose i look pretty good in fur...
mircea_popescu: try eulora, i wanna see some topless reviews an' stuff.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.AgentScully.1:6493aa9554942684abdd28d5c16f3704fe2cac32acd73ee66a991049a68057ae