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mircea_popescu: nubbins` our options are, 1) two buck a can items are made with the cheapest possible thing and 2) two buck a can items are made with expensive medicine, because there's a conspiracy to keep kids entertained while they can't legally as much as buy a drink.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` can we now move on to the wrestling dispute ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL yeah. i r physicist not chemist. and a theoretical one at that >D
mircea_popescu: not a single fmcg item is properly labeled if the dispute is "get nubsy to think it's better than it is"
mircea_popescu: (kinda why co2 is used in "beverages" - acidity there's a plus)
mircea_popescu: notice 02 wasn't there. it's obvious why not : fucking expensive. because reactive.
mircea_popescu: so then who thefuck would use anything but either co2 or n2, ie, atmospheric gases.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` and this would not work the same with any other gas.
mircea_popescu: PeterL shut up, he can distinguish highs and also has vision spectrometry built in.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i wish to visit the industrial plants artists would make to support their independent nation
mircea_popescu: for that matter, co2 is not bread soluble either, works just fine to leaven bread.
mircea_popescu: to get a pressurized container you don't need fat solubility, nor is 2 buck a can whipping creram anything but styrofoam.
mircea_popescu: kinda why druggies try to steal from hospitals rather than police stations or courthouses.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, all hospitals also have morphine on tap.
mircea_popescu: also regulated, amoing other things, to not be dispensed otc / to unlicensed physicians ?
mircea_popescu: do you buy the expensive and license-requiring n2o, or the cheap atmospheric gas ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` im more talking the industrial side of things here.
mircea_popescu: get a mass spectrometer, can at it, see if it's n2o or n2 or co2 (more commonly now)
mircea_popescu: Adlai most dopeheads can't distinguish asphyxia from a high.
mircea_popescu: so someone sells you $200 an hour stuff at coupla bux a can ?
mircea_popescu: it's kinda illogical to tell me you actually think billions of gallos of heavy duty intoxicant are being sold otc all over the world.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but in any case, it probably happens even rarely-er to slavegirls.
mircea_popescu: read one police report of crime x, you've read half of them. read ten, you've (practically) read them all. clinical psychology is only interesting to the patently insane, as a practice. otherwise all the notes say endlessly the same five or six things. there just aren't that many things to say.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a lot of neuropathy to "explain" and justify it all, sure. but google can sort through all that pretty fast, especially because it being psychogenic rather than rational it is dreadfully boring and entirely predictable.
mircea_popescu: now imagine that, through technological advance, there is actually no real job for any of the kids to do. so jimmy does not quit. and consequently jodi has nobody to marry. so she does not. so twenty years later, they are still in that garage, still with that guitar.
mircea_popescu: but this can not result in any substantial change, because more effort applied to faulty premise.
mircea_popescu: and in fact more funding is issued by the long suffering parents, either directly (as is the case in romania) or through collective buying (the state ->taxes->etc in the us).
mircea_popescu: the process is wholly self-referential. it is in no sense different from the goings on in any insane asylum. you are essentially asking "ok, the sanitariums of the world hold a supply of at least 5000 napoleons. why is there no glorious history being produced ?"
mircea_popescu: which should be informative. i've never spent two years planning on how to fix a window without discovering it really is a door, at some point during all that.
mircea_popescu: if that happens im fucking defecting, because srsly. finding just one cockroach in the kitchen is one thing, but here we have found a cockroach inside the cockroach and no sign of any kitchens.
mircea_popescu: imagine you were going to war in afghanistan and discovered the centcom thought afghanistan is actually in zanzibar ?
mircea_popescu: dude i dunno, if i spend my time planning how to murder obama and fail to find out he died three years prior as a side product
mircea_popescu: he failed, at the end of the reporting period, to have met the bare minimum level of achievement of finding out that the girl was actually working.
mircea_popescu: one particular schmuck formulated plans for at least 24 months, at the rate of one a week, to TALK TO this particular whore.
mircea_popescu: well im sure they all maintained metabolic balance throughout.
mircea_popescu: just because it's easier (and cheaper) to type into box than throw paint at canvas does not mean more anything ever gets made.
mircea_popescu: a total of less than 100 hours ever got put into any actually existent item that could be burned for instance.
mircea_popescu: out of every 1k kids spending at least 1mn man-hours/year discussing a) creativity, generally and b) various projects
mircea_popescu: ok. let's put it in perspective. at some point i ended up peripherally involved in the "Art" scene by virtue of fucking in it.
mircea_popescu: i don't think you actually understand how the world works.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in a sane manner for sane reasons ? yes.
mircea_popescu: yeah. big business, giving idiots in cubicals something to do with their time that looks more srs bzns than facebook