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asciilifeform: laugh to death.
mircea_popescu: tho really, nox much better to asphyxiate with.
asciilifeform: (need hoses, pressure regulators, at least. not a spur-of-the-moment thing, like eating your nagant)
asciilifeform: and speaking of the helium people, it is - think about it - a pretty high-tech suicide weapon
asciilifeform: funnily enough, i just answered phone from an old phriend who needed phase diagram of $redacted. apparently libraries now lack basic reference dead tree, and the net - worthless
mircea_popescu: they look kinda like "that mainstream ugly bitch and that mainstream insecure hipster make a porno" cast.
mircea_popescu: punkman this is true but in the particular case of co - it is very permeating.\
asciilifeform: age your inner strengths, identify hidden and untapped resources, and put you confidently on the path to designing the life you've always wanted to live." Their websites are littered with quotes like "The secret to getting ahead is getting started"​ and "It's always too early to quit."'
asciilifeform: 'Self-help duo Lynne Rosen and John Littig, known for their monthly radio show "The Pursuit of Happiness," were found dead in their Park Slope apartment, suffocated with plastic bags and helium. Each left behind a note, the Daily News reports, but their bodies were not discovered for up to a week. The soft-spoken couple owned a life-coaching business called Why Not Now and preached a mission "designed to help foster and encour
punkman: drinking is not breathing it though
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> basically if you drink more than a coupla liters in six hours (saturated) you're done. << Seems like a safe way to thin out some hamplanets, while preserving people who aren't quite HCFS addicts
mircea_popescu: basically if you drink more than a coupla liters in six hours (saturated) you're done.
BingoBoingo: Ah, easier to just fill the cam with liquid carbon monoxide then
BingoBoingo: But how much can you dissolve in the water... prolly more than a small dose.
mircea_popescu: jurov carbon monoxide isnt reallty toxic in small doses
mircea_popescu: this is like being in 9th grade and discovering the seniors are all playing with stupid fucking barbie dolls. not even like 3rd graders, but like 3rd grade GIRLS
assbot: Principal doesn’t want teachers sitting — so she threw out all their desks | New York Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1jQQXPV )
mircea_popescu: "wake me up when obama finally puts his tiny winer in a blender"
assbot: U.S. investigating report email account linked to CIA director hacked - CNNPolitics.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1jQQKfu )
kakobrekla: also mega lul on that helium note ; http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/brooklyn-life-coaches-dead-in-double-suicide.html
BingoBoingo: Maybe put Nitrous Oxide in the fizzy drinks, sure makes most people a bit giggly, but worth it for the 1-0.3% of the population that becomes rage monsters on it. Much lulz potential there. ☟︎
kakobrekla: great for suicide too.
mircea_popescu: you ever heard someone talk on helium ?
mircea_popescu: and all the fucktards to drink it
mircea_popescu would like it if all fizz producers were legally forced to use helium
ben_vulpes: helium's rare and those who use it are evil now, donchano
mircea_popescu: shouldn't they use , i dunno, helium ? to reduce their footprint ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i betcha they're getting carbon credits for sequestering
mircea_popescu: all that pschhhhtttzzz
mircea_popescu: incidentally, does coca cola contribute to global warming ?
ben_vulpes: unlike coca cola and pepsi, which are the same fucking thing.
ben_vulpes: they exist however as entirely seperate things.
ben_vulpes: cocaine and heroin only have brands insofar as the usg propaganda machine defines them to.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: But their Brand identities are distinct.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: those are /actually different things/, though.
mircea_popescu: what the everloving fuck.
mircea_popescu: "Adolescence is supposed to be an identity Schrodinger's Cat: multiple simultaneous states which eventually collapse into only one. The goal of adulthood is to let go of the other possible existences and to make the best of the one. A successful adult is one who understands that it doesn't matter which life you ultimately pick, only that you live it well. The same potential for, say, happiness exists whether you are
BingoBoingo: Unless he is hiding a second middle name in there and the full expansion is "Carl Mark 4Real Force IV" and his name alone may be black enough
BingoBoingo: Only for the black guys. His name is very black, but his skin is insufficiently so.
mircea_popescu: or is that only for black guys.
mircea_popescu: <deedbot-> [Qntra] 78 Months in Prison for Carl Mark Force IV << does he get any "guard" slaves to impregnate ?
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> "these pants are just like those pants except using pants a makes me feel like a cooler person than pants b" << Drugs perfected this first: "Heroin feels really good, but Cocaine just always makes me feel more fun"
ben_vulpes: "these pants are just like those pants except using pants a makes me feel like a cooler person than pants b"
ben_vulpes: you know what's going to sell well?
ascii_field: 'we will save you from usg unless ordered not to by usg so don't be surprised if never. but you can feel great!'
ascii_field: just like the 'ipnohe encryption' crock of shit
assbot: Facebook will tell you if the government is snooping on your account ... ( http://bit.ly/1PCGALY )
mircea_popescu: im thinking more of cheerleader hazing than army stuff. in english iirc that's called pluriously other thnings
ascii_field: i thought hazing were more of a 'тяжело в учении - легко в бою' kind of thing
mircea_popescu: this is the quintessential hazing.
mircea_popescu: uh... hazing is the introduction of immature/juvenile individuals to the practices of their kind.
ascii_field: now, if they were pineapples...
ascii_field: how is this a haze ?
mircea_popescu: from tlp, in 2008 : "There is, however, one important unifying characteristic of political infidelities that makes them very different from the average joe on AshleyMadison.com: everyone knows these guys are going to get caught."
mircea_popescu: she cheated on her while they were tag-teaming some dude together ? wtf ?
mircea_popescu: so politician has to resign because he "cheated" on his wife ? as if fucking is now a crime ? but the thing is... SHE WAS THERE ?
assbot: I WAS MCG AND WIFE’S THREE-WAY SEX STUD: EX-DRIVER | New York Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1PCFGiD )
mircea_popescu: http://nypost.com/2008/03/17/i-was-mcg-and-wifes-three-way-sex-stud-ex-driver/ << somebody please explain the news to me.
punkman: I wonder where all the dead pilots work
ascii_field: though if the chart is to be believed, sometimes they... go logging
mircea_popescu: punkman most people who decide to off themselves say "they're going fishing"
mircea_popescu: i wonder if adhd is related to cell towers and autism to vaccines or vice versa. hey, that's interesting, x-ray vans.
punkman: re: most dangerous job thread, fishing takes the prize apparently http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-dangerous-jobs/
mircea_popescu: let's not confuse the most college educated generation in history
ascii_field: don't forget to file in triplicate !111
kakobrekla: all you need to do is register a drone and collect the data
ascii_field: (would be interesting to see an aerial 'photo' of a major usistan conurbation in xray/gamma spectrum at any event!)
ascii_field: have'em glom onto the vans, playing back recorded obscenities, blinkenlighting.
ascii_field: the new drone ban tastes extra-tasty with the van find
ascii_field: why would anyone 'hunt terrorists' (who aren't there) when he can hunt fat duffel bags full of benjies.
mircea_popescu: "we can't tell you about how we've not caught any terrorists because that would expose our inefficiency to the scrutiny of terrorists encouraging them and thus harm national security"
ascii_field: http://www.terranimpact.com/site/projects/x-ray/x-raydetect.php << buy tube, build.
punkman: but that's how we catch teh terrorists!!11
ascii_field: at any rate, the vans are used to help select folks for 'random traffic stop'
shinohai: Some article about a tool that is supposed to tell you how long your startup has before the vc money runs out
mircea_popescu: hm. aite then.
mircea_popescu: shinohai im not clicking on that. what is it ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field old newspaper and old bills are practically the same iirc.
mircea_popescu: that's approximately the number of times they caught anyone who wasn;t a derp.
ascii_field: why would anyone die? the cops and the couriers work for the same folks, at the end of the day
mircea_popescu: now, how many times have you heard of something like this going down ?
shinohai: http://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-growth-calculator-2015-10 <<< I thought the best tool was to just let mircea_popescu analyze it.
mircea_popescu: and you can try out the daughters for 20 dollars in bolivia.,
mircea_popescu: punkman let's put it this way : if they yank any courrier everyone dies. the cops - including all the cops, not just hte ones involved, but everyone in their shift. plus their parents, and their soupses, and the spouse's exes
punkman: I accidentally that sentence
mircea_popescu: anyone in nyc not routinely carrying an old suitcase full of cut up old newspaper to bill size is not doing enough for his country.
punkman: I wonder how aware the ny (drug/money/x) couriers deal with this
ascii_field: ever wonder how they know which car to pop for 100k in benjies ?
mircea_popescu: kinda the whole point. "recruiting" carl forces.
punkman: the nypd people operating the vans must be having a blast with their personal "xray glasses"
punkman: do you just turn it up to see through metal?
punkman: I also thought backscatter couldn't see inside truck
ascii_field: apparently they offer either.
punkman: I thought backscatter was xrays
mircea_popescu: even in the high throughput environments like the Great Toxic Swapm ?
mircea_popescu: isn't that a little carcinogenic ?
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assbot: Logged on 19-10-2015 16:42:42; mircea_popescu: rizi tu rizi, harap alb, da' nu-i risul tau.
gabrielradio: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-10-2015#1302377 << random tidbits of this kind make my day ☝︎
ascii_field: claims, 'Its easy-to-read image quickly and clearly reveals threats like explosives, drugs, currency, and trade-fraud items such as alcohol and cigarettes—even in high-throughput environments like border crossings and security checkpoints.'