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mircea_popescu: the pretense of "government" is nothing but exactly that : pretense. useful, to
a very limited degree, for fucktards, like the kids that won't "learn" unless there's santa there with the notebook.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude.
a) not have the problems and b) solve them the same exact way they're currently solved anyway ?
mircea_popescu: this is
a pretty good quote. "oh noes, what would we do without government" ?
mircea_popescu: "As the night proceeded, all of the Carter era military malaise became evident. The Air Force lied to local law enforcement and media about what was happening, couldn't communicate with first responders, failed to send an evacuation helicopter for
a gravely injured person because an irrelevant piece of equipment wasn't available, and could not come to
a decision about how to respond as the situation deteriorated. Also
assbot: Logged on 26-02-2014 06:23:40; asciilifeform: channelling herr naggum: 'It is like going to
a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing
a way to cut down the costs to
a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an inspiration to future authors.'
mircea_popescu: it's like
a strategic decision that "people who read us aren't actually interested"
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i saw them
a hundred times. << the problem with the new, cheaper "media"
ben_vulpes: this just in, the universe is
a stochastic bitch: of all qntra posts, their tweetmachine failed to deliver the declaration of independence to the social media shitstew.
decimation: pretend things are swell, shoot any messengers that say otherwise, rotate to
a 'diversity tour' before mistakes are obvious
decimation: of course, the reason: "
A string of investigations concluded that the nuclear corps had lost its "zero defect" culture. In response, the Air Force launched
a program to "sustain, modernize, and recapitalize its nuclear capability." What that meant in practice, Aaron says, was punishing the rank and file for past mistakes while the colonels swept the bigger problems under the rug."
decimation: asciilifeform: you see to show you inside of
a 'real site' would reveal 60 year old secrets
decimation: "But during his senior year, the Air Force ended
a waiver program that allowed cadets with imperfect vision—including Aaron—to earn their wings, so after graduation he grudgingly settled for
a position at Malmstrom. He was hardly alone in his lack of enthusiasm: According to one study, less than one-third of missileers ever wanted that job. When Aaron hit on women in bars in Great Falls, he would sometimes say he was
a wind
decimation: asciilifeform: the youth in the motherjones story claims he wanted to be
a pilot, air force changed the eyesight rules, suddenly
a missiler is he
decimation: "Instead, most defense experts believe that in almost all foreseeable scenarios we'd strike with
a bomber or
a submarine, deployed from nearby shores or military bases."
decimation: yeah: "Ditching the ICBMs would save taxpayers $14 billion over the next 10 years, but not everyone's
a fan of the idea: Senators from states where the missiles are based and tested have formed an ICBM caucus that isn't shy to throw its weight around. As
a condition for confirming Rose Gottemoeller, Obama's recent pick for undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, the caucus insisted that the Pentagon
mircea_popescu: decimation inasmuch as those things are about as useful as the five foot tall plaster cake in
a confectioner's window, wut diff does it make.
ben_vulpes: its
a tiny little thing for someone with too much time on their hands to grind on
ben_vulpes: hey any webdevs with spare cycles want to work on
a btc app with me?
xiando: Not sure if joke and I don't like the N word but: We do not have any here. None. I have perhaps seen 1 this year. People from the middle east? quite
a lot. But no black people.
xiando: tl;dr 1) Do not do it alone 2) Do it with friends you trust 3) Do it in
a calm safe place 4) Have some good music prepared
mircea_popescu: "As
a woman, peeing is
a very big part of my life. It’s something I do often, and something I do well."
gribble: Error: I am not seeing this user on IRC. If you want information about
a registered gpg user, try the 'gpg info' command instead.
nubbins`: another arm strapped across
a flabby, hairy chest
nubbins`: maybe
a hand cupping the genitals
gribble: Error: "bare" is not
a valid command.
nubbins`: i worked in
a restaurant here in canada, they served argentine beef
BingoBoingo: The problem of cancer is cell division and cells not self destructing when they come up defective because the checking mechanism's broke. The anerobe thing is
a side effect.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, from
a political standpoint the "no sugar" angle is good. i'm stuck mostly eating homemade cake because everyone's convinced you need sugar by the bucket. "gotta be sweet man!"
BingoBoingo: Well, someone invented the HTML strikethrough tag for
a reason
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo well yeah. it's
a complicated thing. moreover, simply because one doesn't *eat* sugar does not mean glycogen does not exist in their body or anything
mircea_popescu: saifedean: check out Otto Warburg, German Nobel Laureate in Medicine, whose main contribution was to discover that it is only through sugar intake that cancer cells can grow <<< this is exactly false. for instance, breast carcinoma cells are most always grown in vitro on collagen substrate. collagen is
a protein not
a sugar.
mircea_popescu: an underpowered immune system, among other things. (then again, other systems, such as
a whole array of cellular antioxidants, essentially all the red cell metabolism and all the brain are powered by the carbohydrate metabolism). in short... no easy answers. srsly. we "are evolved" to do everything.
mircea_popescu: andwidth is much wider than the sugars, for the obvious reason. this makes
a lot of subordinate wheels be connected principaly to that main engine, much like the alternator in the car is connected to the gasoline powered carnot cycle, not to say the steering wheel. one of those subordinate wheels is actually the immune system, and so in
a very pedestrian reading, obtaining most of your energy from the kreb cycle means
mircea_popescu: "There are reports that the National Bank of Ukraine has issued
a directive on its Facebook page banning the use of Bitcoin for payments within the country"
nubbins`: ben_vulpes i was recently trying to describe the sensation of being rendered unconscious by NO2 in
a clinical setting. after hemming and hawing for
a few minutes, i said "it's sort of like doing whippets until you pass out"
mircea_popescu: anyway, cancer has
a huge genetic component. diabetes
a smaller but present one. obviously eating better improves health, but that's
a much weaker claim than "do away with"
mircea_popescu: which are both different from buttermilk etc. it's
a huge topic, this, and honestly half of it comes from turkey an' lebanon :p
joecool: is that
a polite way of saying "i'd rather not disclose"?
BingoBoingo: Millet's probably in the que to become
a hipster thing. They just have to work through the other fads.
xanthyos: <+mircea_popescu> xanthyos: bringing
a new guy here who wants in the wot
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, millet unlevened bread, now that's an experience. i have nfi why it's not becoming
a hipster thing. maybe they never heard of it)
BingoBoingo: Yeah. Bread is good. SOmetimes i do "Bread cleanses" where I'll get
a big loaf of bread, some nice butter, and eat that for
a day or two.
mircea_popescu: joecool but getting good fruit is
a nontrivial pursuit. say you "made your own wine". well... ? so what if you did.
mircea_popescu: joecool: undata: pretty much yeah, i hardly ever have it << my bet is because you live in
a place with shitty (ie, supermarket) fruit.
mircea_popescu: which of these are you giving up because of that silly "evolved" theory ? i wasn't evolved to use
a keyboard nor to cross the street nor do i give
a shit.
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: bringing
a new guy here who wants in the wot <<< well, who is he ?
mircea_popescu: saifedean: chetty: "but I really don't see passing on grain entirely." Try it for
a week and see what it does to you. How hard can that be? What do you stand to lose? <<< i'm pretty sure she did try it for
a week on and off, multiple times. not purposefully or anything, just, how it happened.
mircea_popescu: so the sad news is, argentina has bad peaches down to
a fucking artform. this set here, properly juicy, smell great, taste like fucking corcoduse
mircea_popescu: undata you would after shoveling corpses for
a week or two.
mircea_popescu: joecool:plenty of deer to shoot and ran
a large vegetable garden saifedean:undata but then... who will raise the aggregate demand?! <<< you two are aware that if this were the normal about 90% of urban population would die off through simple starvation within the decade, yes ?
mircea_popescu: undata: you want economic security; that's it. <<< could
a visiting merchant buy
a nice ham off of one of your families when passing through ?
saifedean: dark chocolate aint that bad, the thing is, you never have to completely eliminate anything... you just need to drastically reduce some thing and make sure they are not
a regular part of your diet
ben_vulpes: it puts
a mess of holes about three feet below the water line of this "ancient diet" crap.
joecool: sugar is not
a concern there
chetty: ahh I be chocolate isnt on the list, cant be doing without that for more than
a week :P
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell diablo-d3 you're missing
a paleo love-in
chetty: saifedean, ok, I can do that (guess I better read up on it
a bit, can I still have coffee?)
joecool: so i fasted
a week or two and did an additive diet
xanthyos: bringing
a new guy here who wants in the wot
saifedean: chetty: "but I really don't see passing on grain entirely." Try it for
a week and see what it does to you. How hard can that be? What do you stand to lose?
saifedean: i don't mind automation for as long as it does not compromise the quality of the thing in question. So,
a fridge is
a good idea to keep my steaks cool for
a few hours between butchering and grilling.
A deep freezer is not such
a good idea coz the meat will never taste the same.
undata: it seems to me that there are gains to be found via automation which would allow
a person to both produce their own food and have time to spare for other pursuits
undata: my parents have
a largely self-sufficient farm, and their processes are not particularly scientific
undata: I'm working on
a software business for now; should that succeed, I'd like to look into automation products for small scale food production.
joecool: plenty of deer to shoot and ran
a large vegetable garden (did canning, freezing for winter, etc)
joecool: i've produced
a good chunk of mine off and on over the years
undata: saifedean: its
a dream of mine that there'll be
a return to families producing their own food.
saifedean: oh but paleo is intimately related to bitcoin: it is cheap money that has plagued the world with high time preference and that, in turn, is what has turned food from being nourishing to
a giant bezzle-funded industry that aims to provide sugar kicks and insulin spikes to the proles immediately when the temptation kicks in.
saifedean: interesting... my idea is also to make it
a paleo restaurant... if you guys haven't gone paleo yet, let me just point that making the switch from the crap that everyone eats today to paleo eating is no less revolutionary than jumping from the world of bezzle to bitcoin
saifedean: ok, you have
a point, i'll have both :D
saifedean: no i've never been to argentina, but i did live in Rio de Janeiro for two years as
a kid
saifedean: well, as i said i am hoping to go to BA sometime soon, my argentine friend will be there and it's meant as
a crash course in grilling... i could just stick around, but i'd need me
a new business idea for the post-bezzlepocalypse
mircea_popescu: you come here, you have
a good steak, you forgot why you ever wanted to make
a steakhouse. much like the man who was considering doing his own plumbing out of reeds in lebanon, moves to constantinople with the marble baths forgets all about it.
saifedean: come on man, you're not expecting me to go set up
a grilling business in buenos aires, what was it about taking the coals to newcastle...
saifedean: my idea is to prepare for the future of the triumphant return of hard money, low-time preference, and civilization, and to profit from it by doing good food properly, in
a beautiful setting where you can relax around
a big grill's fire and enjoy your meal like
a civilized human
assbot: Let’s dig
a little deeper into this entire deflation “problem” pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
saifedean: there are many many things that make
a good steak, most of these things require people who do their work honestly and htink long term, and pretty much everything in that process is being destroyed by cheap money and the high-time-preference it engenders in everyone from the farmer to the waiter at your restaurant