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asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the kind that removes wheels, comes with car
trinque: and other toolz
asciilifeform: but not a box with bandages, disinfectant, tourniquette, anything. ☟︎
trinque: that's too independently-minded; they'll 'just call 911'
asciilifeform: they will keep a man's weight's worth of empty coffee cups and other filth in there.
asciilifeform: i always found it interesting how most american folk don't keep first aid kit, of even the most spartan sort, in their car
asciilifeform: just travel with it. single-use syrette of 'superglue' keeps forever.
phf: asciilifeform: i opened up my heel at a beach last time and sent my friends to buy me supplies "i need tincture of iodine and cyanoacrylate glue please" "... maybe just some HealFastQuick-E instead???"
trinque: or leaving with a failing liver after you succumb to their pill pushing ☟︎
asciilifeform: (cyanoacrylate - 'super' - glue - is quite possibly the single greatest advance in wound suturing ever to happen, works great on everything from paper cut to 7.62x39-through-the-liver) ☟︎
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Anyways I think the US patched the "play crazy" exploit
danielpbarron: they scan you licence and make you agree to not use it to make meth
phf: or that loratadine is available in 50 different branded variations, but its metabolite desloratadine you need a prescription for. every time i'd ask an allergist for one he'll say "just buy <loratadine brand> it's the same thing"
danielpbarron: also, you ~do need to fill out paperwork to get pseudoaphedrine : driver's license is required
asciilifeform: phf: better still, ordinary cyanoacrylate glue for 50 cents a tube, but 'medical' - for $20+. ☟︎
danielpbarron: 1 Samuel 21:12 Now David took these words to heart, and was very much afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 13 So he changed his behavior before them, pretended madness in their hands, scratched on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva fall down on his beard. << apparently even pretending insanity in order to stay with the neighboring people
BingoBoingo: Oklahomo isn't easy to flee... Toll roads and lpr cameras everywhere ☟︎☟︎
danielpbarron: Darwin likened it to the time king David fled Saul
BingoBoingo: 's Kansas tornados
shinohai: Pray tornado comes and send you to merry land of Oz ?
asciilifeform: flee to .. ?
danielpbarron: their defensive play is to flee if things got to such a point that a tank is necessary
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: how many tank divisions it has ?
danielpbarron: oklahoma has a true church -- if i were to move within the states, I'd prolly go there
BingoBoingo: That's standard for any US thing touching "law enforcement". Ankle monitors, fine collection X% always to vendor.
asciilifeform: (incidentally, didn't i predict the return of door-to-door tax collector ?! a few yrs ago.)
asciilifeform: that brings us back to 18th c. french state of the art re tax collection ☟︎
asciilifeform: y'know, the 7+% thing
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: oughta mention the royalty
asciilifeform: not convincing, naturally, any sailors, but ~others~, into tolerating the protestant bullshit instead of burning with hot irons.
deedbot: [Qntra] Oklahomos Test Literal Due Process Circumvention Device For Electronic Seizures - http://qntra.net/2016/06/oklahomos-test-literal-due-process-circumvention-device-for-electronic-seizures/
asciilifeform: the 'sex is the devil's temptation' idiots have easy pickings in that climate. ☟︎
asciilifeform: today's dope situation is quite analogous to, e.g., 18th c. english sailor's sex life - where the ~only kind of (straight!) sex you can have is, approx., with syphilitic whores, condomless
asciilifeform: ... or blow caustic smoke across them every day.
asciilifeform: (e.g., your teeth will look ~precisely~ like 'methhead teeth' if... you stop brushing them.)
asciilifeform: this is on account of the well-known sequelae being largely effects of impurities, and secondarily - of lack of sleep, vs meth per se.
asciilifeform: consider how ww2 folk did ~not~ suffer the clinical horrors of the modern users.
asciilifeform: i'm still quite unconvinced that empire is better off selling, e.g., the usual vodka, in shops, than meth. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Surplus meth also had to compete at phamacy/soda shop against midler stimulants like Benzedrine. Stimulants were the polite national obsession at the time.
asciilifeform: didn't really carch on until that time.
BingoBoingo: Anyways in the 40's all the drug products weren't on the counter next to the bubble gum. You had to talk to the pharmacist because otherwise he got lonely.
asciilifeform: for non-us folk: today you can't buy a few milligram of pseudoephedrine against running nose, without filling out a form.
asciilifeform: wasn't a 'can't display this, will be stolen 5min later' situation.
BingoBoingo: you can say nobody stole, but there's always kids shoplifting
BingoBoingo: The Mexican meth largely serves to keep anyone from quietly becoming mega drug kingpin ☟︎
asciilifeform: eh nobody stole it in 1940s when it was sold at the bubble gum counter.
BingoBoingo: But when inputs are available methfolk tend to steal them because Phree drugz
BingoBoingo: Mostly from lack of access to inputs.
BingoBoingo: And so it works, or is said to work largely that way in USistan
asciilifeform: but my understanding is that there was NO 'market' in the usual sense of the word. you wanted some - you made some.
asciilifeform: meth was discovered by ru underground folk in the late '80s. on account of being quickly and easily made from materials commonly sold at the time.
BingoBoingo: It plays the same role heroin does on the coasts. Turns potential redditors into creatures out of "James Lafond Presents"
asciilifeform: who takes it? and why? and why it and not some other dope. ☟︎
asciilifeform: it always seems to figure in tales of american 'flyover.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i am curious re the role meth plays.
trinque: myup, the grandchildren of the generation that knew how to do that spends their time getting fat on walmart groceries and posting on facebook about "freedom ain't free" ☟︎
asciilifeform: ~actual~ rural folk, who grow own food, make own tools, and don't need the mega-state for anything, were recognized as a thread and mostly bugsprayed eons ago.
asciilifeform: the sovietization, in the most comical sense of the word, is nearly total, complete with hruschev's corn.
asciilifeform: consider, in coastal usa you can still go to a few dozen kinds of shop, but in the flyoverlands you're stuck with универмаг^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlolmart
asciilifeform: american rural doesn't even have much to do with pastoral/village life etc.
asciilifeform: vs the other kind of shithole.
asciilifeform: 'rural shithole' is simply shithole that is dark from the satellite camera.
BingoBoingo: Even the ozarks have tourism, Oklohomo lacks a Branson.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Oklahomo isn't even rural. Rural has farms and the pastoral life. Oklohomo is just a drive thru obstacle with its fucking toll roads and meth heads.
asciilifeform: ^ soooo it appears that the process is farther along in rural shitholes like oklahoma, than in the inhabited usa ☟︎
asciilifeform: ice could only survive through graft...' << from orlol,
asciilifeform: '...there are many, many people whose stock in trade is their use of violence, in offense or defense. No matter what else happens, they will be employed, or self-employed... In Russia, there was a period of years during which the police was basically not functioning: they had no equipment, no budget, and their salaries were not sufficient for survival. Murders went unsolved, muggings and burglaries were not even investigated. The pol
asciilifeform: now where was that suetonius thing
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 14:42 mircea_popescu: how is this stance different from "the nazi military police can't find as many gypos as they used to, so therefore flaying alive of gypsies for fun should be regarded as aperfectly normal passtime, and in no sense wrong, even if it was rare before"
asciilifeform: so as to snarf it out in one shot.
asciilifeform: so it stands to reason that it probably recogizes major brands of card and dials in to determine the balance
asciilifeform: this seems unlikely, because american prepaid cardz typically have a tx fee
asciilifeform: ... does it shit out $1 transactions until one bounces ?
asciilifeform: it would be interesting imho to learn how the credit card automatic plunderator works:
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 14:09 mircea_popescu: not their money anyway.
a111: Logged on 2015-08-22 22:07 mircea_popescu: for the record, it's not even clear moving from bearer to certified insturment is anti-liberty. for insmtance - hansa used the certifierd instrument greatly, because as a merchant, giving your son a plain "pay the bearer so much silver upon presentation of this note in such town" was merely an invitation to any highwayman on route to "please fuck this young man in the ass and here's the pay for your trouble"
shinohai: In other not-news, this new "Ubuntu inside Winblowze" thing automatically sets all your file permissions to 777
asciilifeform: ah and there he is!
asciilifeform: usg is just finding the ~new~ laffer curve!11111111111
mircea_popescu: not their money anyway. ☟︎
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu were awake, he would probably describe the process as 'what the fuck is so surprising, gas let into an empty container will fill it' or similar. nobody is blowing up the police stations in response, so there is no back-pressure and usg can do whatever.
shinohai: That's always been the case with asset forfeiture laws though.
asciilifeform: also helps throughput!1111
asciilifeform: the peculiar, imho, thing, is that somehow tradition requires american police to actually charge folks who are taken to a police station. and so it is now important to rob them ~without~ arresting.
shinohai: "We are proud to introduce this new tool to help you steal from citizens in a moar efficient manner."
asciilifeform: http://oklahomawatch.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/files/2016/06/ERADContractBid.pdf << what appears to be the contract.
asciilifeform: 'News 9 obtained a copy of the contract with the state. It shows the state is paying ERAD Group Inc., $5,000 for the software and scanners, then 7.7 percent of all the cash the highway patrol seizes.'
asciilifeform: ' If a trooper suspects you may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan any cards you have and seize the money. "We're gonna look for different factors in the way that you're acting,” Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. John Vincent said. “We're gonna look for if there's a difference in your story. If there's someway that we can prove that you're falsifying information to us about your business."'
BingoBoingo: Hence the referral to phf who mentioned earlier wanting people present in a "nowhere"
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the motor thing sounded appealing until it mentioned other people being present
mircea_popescu: "what's it like to have nothing to say"
shinohai: Jerry Seinfeld doing an AMA tonite. If it wasn't on reddit ...
trinque: funny thing is they probably thing it sounds dumb *coming from them*
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: And like in africa they are actually organizing a militia this time!
mircea_popescu: trinque so basically this is the cheap bullshit neoprotestand idiots have been inflicting upon africa for a few decades, come home to roost.
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shinohai: Yeah think I will watch it and see if any more verifiable info leaks.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell phf How good are you with motors https://stlouis.craigslist.org/lbg/5625233326.html
shinohai: There seems to be a sample that was leaked, could easily be faked however.