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mircea_popescu: but to not let the revolution issue hanging : there were arguably a few explanatory reasons
mircea_popescu: here's a fun little tidbit : in 1991 they had no cop on the force that knew what pot smells like.
mircea_popescu: wait, you're going to tell me that the romanian revolution was over free access to drugs ?
mircea_popescu: also at the time romania ruled the gymnastics at the olympics
mircea_popescu: about 0.0% cause everyone was affraid of reporting it.
mircea_popescu: on the grounds of all the aids kids being starved to death in specialised institutions ?
mircea_popescu: you know what autism figures were in romania at the time the aids figures were 0.0x%
mircea_popescu: this has been one of the best arguments with no actual common ground in which people talking about entirely different things that so far ever happened on assets
mircea_popescu: cause she's gots to be speshul and couldn't possibly be ever fit by a shoe
mircea_popescu: nubbins` except the shoe fits fine and the princess is having a hysteria session
mircea_popescu: violence is way underrated as a personal development tool.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids no no we must have fucktarded 5yo arguments about how the peas aren't really peas
mircea_popescu: nubbins` in the sense we rounded 1 out of 5498740958609 to 0 we'll round out of 5498740958608 out of out of 5498740958609 to 1.0
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know = does not mean "in one stray case out of 5498740958609"
mircea_popescu: not that many substances presented as addictive actually are in any sense.
mircea_popescu: the definition of which is "sudden discontinuation = death"
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the list : to be an addictive substance something needs to actually give addiction
mircea_popescu: so no, don't be telling me about how shit functions and doesn't.
mircea_popescu: people making 900 a month in food stamps and free housing over there hang around the cortners glaring at passer bys
mircea_popescu: go outside the little park in their projects to FIX THE BENCHES
mircea_popescu: think of utility in the following terms : people making on average 300 bucks here when rents are on average 350 bucks
mircea_popescu: dub no, they just don't have this "omg what do you want" culture yet
mircea_popescu: your list may vary at your leisure, the argument is list independent
mircea_popescu: nubbins` pretty much heroin is the only entry on my list of "drugs"
mircea_popescu: nobody said she can drive a car drunk any more than she can have oxycodone outpatient style.
mircea_popescu: just illustrating the point that there's nothing unbearable about pain.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i'm not proposing some never anesthesia bs incidentally.
mircea_popescu: because im confronted with "but mommy i don't like X" way more often than any sane person should.
mircea_popescu: if she's cool enough to start shooting she's cool enough to take it on the chin and move on.
mircea_popescu: you give alice way too much credit while simultaneously giving her way too little credit.
mircea_popescu: also probably the only guy to have ever been shot etc.
mircea_popescu: dub of everyone here i'm the only guy that gets his teeth fixed w/o anesthesia i'd wager.
mircea_popescu: but you can be in pain indefinitely and it won't kill you.
mircea_popescu: of all things it's actually the most bearable. as people die of thirst in a coupla days and of hunger in a coupla months
mircea_popescu: tell you what, it's only unbearable cause you're used to being a sissy
mircea_popescu: what, you think herniated disks were invented AFTER oxycodone ?
mircea_popescu: suddenly it's a well this oxycodone is kinda cool, but im stuck here for a day cause of it.
mircea_popescu: dub who needs "pain relief" when they're stuck in hospital ?
mircea_popescu: dub my point being that you don't want subservience, you want competence.
mircea_popescu: alice wants oxycodone for her surgery she stays in the hospital.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` definitely more normal than the current crop.