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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.
mircea_popescu: and suddenly lolcatting isn't quite as appealing either,
mircea_popescu: six months later ALL the kids in that class do ALL the homework ALL of the time flawlessly.
mircea_popescu: you go to class of schoolkids, lay down the rules for what they have to do till next class. whoever didn't do it is beaten till they pass out.
mircea_popescu: do the gedankenexperiment, as asciilifeform calls them :
mircea_popescu: course people who dislike shit working tend to scream it doesn't work, but hey.
mircea_popescu: dub far as i've seen it;s the only thing it ever worked.
mircea_popescu: anyway, fwiw, in my experience works splendidly. whether you're working to destupidify women, or to build an exchange, or anything else.
mircea_popescu: da fuck did "want" become a legitimate argument anyway
mircea_popescu: people can want in one hand and piss in the other, see which fills first.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's actually okay whether you like it or not. a la bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: there's no cutoff. you're caught stealing that's it for you.
mircea_popescu: dub there's no "dealing". its not your motherfucking job to solve idiots problems
mircea_popescu: you can afford drugs, you can afford to pay the hospital bill.
mircea_popescu: dub no it's not. you telling me a heroin addict is untestable for junk ?
mircea_popescu: while recent tech boom allowed such nonsense be financed by squandering resources that'd have been better used elsewhere,
mircea_popescu: no, it's a solution in reality. the lala land is the presumption that anyone is worth something.
mircea_popescu: you ever used drugs in your life ? tough. gotta pay now.
mircea_popescu: the solution is to not provide any healthcare out of public funds for any drug user.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> junkies are going to shoot up whether they have clean digs or not << the solution isn't to let them do w/e they want cause otherwise they hold their breath
mircea_popescu: benkay you know you'll eventually have to put up a feed.
mircea_popescu: which wasn't that far off, the op went into a hysteria of nutty posting
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids his model is fundamentally broken. the relative prices of currencies are to a large degree fixed politically.