asciilifeform: perfect answer to ~the other fella's~ 'overpopulation' yes
asciilifeform: dope from 'favourite sons' - passes. from less-favourite - interdicted, to keep the jailatron lubed, and the high priesthood supplied with coke
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my (admittedly limited) understanding is that usg play-fights with ~some~ organizations, and ~actually~ interdicts others
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it is a traditionally american type of graft, practiced enthusiastically and mostly openly since george washington
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it is about as 'shocking' as when usg 'surrendered' the 'strategic helium reserve' to smiths's detection corp. to make neutron detectors to sell back to usg/dhs
asciilifeform: or rather, the rms value is the one which makes any sense to use in calculation of wattage
asciilifeform: according to fishwrap, some schmuck argued with gurl. policeman busted in. he snapped, drew pistol, shot gurl, then self in the head, brainz in all directions
asciilifeform: the common belief in ru, i will note, is that usg involvement in afghan is ~strictly, solely~ so that ru cities are rotted with heroin☟︎
asciilifeform: (cheapest still when there are armies ~defending~ your fields - e.g., u.s. army in afghan)
asciilifeform: decimation: poppy is cheaper - but only when there are no armies coming at you for growing'em
asciilifeform: or did they succeed in keeping this under wraps
asciilifeform: for instance, where are the u.s. coast guard interdictors sunk by quadcopter-borne demolition charges ?☟︎
asciilifeform: i can hardly think of any industry more idiotically hidebound than the dope folks
asciilifeform: or for that matter, let transgenic e.coli piss out the active ingredients of the dope
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, decimation: after a certain energy cost, the balance tips to 'grow it in goatfuckistan and fly in on horizon-hugging drone'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the part where they work as amateur stoolies for usg
asciilifeform: as for shortwave, virtually nobody owns their band properly speaking - the crackpot stations lease a time slot (typically, weekly)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you may also discover the little 'secret' re: how ham folks keep usg from selling their spectrum to the highest bidder (or most favourite son)
asciilifeform: to which i answer 'go to the harem and come back with why tx is not deallocated when mapTransactions is emptied'
asciilifeform: i can already hear, mircea_popescu will say, 'with your cock'
asciilifeform: knowing this, how to talk to 'under 30' ?
asciilifeform: modern 'west' works the way it works by narrowing the victim's horizon in such a way that from the day he is born, sees entire world only through own arsehole