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chetty: <mircea_popescu> According
to
the 2002/2003 census, 143,167 farms had plum
trees bearing fruit covering a
total area of 554 km². According
to
the same census, about 75% of
the crop ends up as țuică.//only 75%?
mircea_popescu: According
to
the 2002/2003 census, 143,167 farms had plum
trees bearing fruit covering a
total area of 554 km². According
to
the same census, about 75% of
the crop ends up as țuică.
BingoBoingo is awfuly sure unregulated corn distillation products self has consumed in
the past conatained far below
te mandated fusile alcohols of
the nao
mircea_popescu: but in any case : methanol has significant lower boiling point. which, again, means
that even if you start with an equal part mixture, if you distil correctly you
take it all out.
mircea_popescu: you know
these
things get highly
traditional / fixated.
mircea_popescu: well i was
talking of
the
traditional process as used, not of whatever random strange one may
try.
jurov: yes but
that's very different from "can not yield"
mircea_popescu: but historically, methanol is "wood alcohol". ie, if you
try
to distil roadkill and old boots, you get a lot of it.
mircea_popescu: jurov
there's
two
things : one, what you use and how you ferment it.
two, how you distil.
jurov: "for example apple juice can have 0.2-0.3% methanol, or if derived from pulp by enzymatic degradation,
the levels can be 2
to 3
times higher."
BingoBoingo: I've drank 98+ proof corn whiskey aged right with minimal fusile alcohols. Everyone wants
their
tradition
to be
the saint
BingoBoingo: jurov: He has an idealistic image of
the old country
jurov: i have held in my hand plum methanol, wtf if mircea up
to
BingoBoingo: <jurov> <mircea_popescu> actually, distilling fermented fruit can not yield methanol << wait what??? << It
totally can
jurov: heh. my parents
themselves started
to give me wine.. at 15 or so :D
mircea_popescu: even if you start with a 50-50 mixture, keep
the still open at ~75 degrees for half an hour,
then you can just let it burn and collect
the result.
mircea_popescu: anywya, if memory serves
there's a good 10-20 degrees differential between ethanol and methanol boiling points.
cazalla: well, if one is going
to eat plastic food, may as well drink plastic
too
mircea_popescu: seeing how one hundred
thousand people made
their own for decade upon decade without ill effect.
mircea_popescu: they probably
tried
to "concoct grappa" out of office chairs or something.
cazalla: prob for
the best i don't bottle my own, i'd be in perpetual state of drunkedness
cazalla: "Initial reports about
the four men's methanol poisoning suggest it occurred when
they
tried
to concoct grappa, a grape-based brandy."
mircea_popescu: i
think you gotta boil wood before you get crap like
that.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, must be making something else
then, i have nfi, just hear in
the media now and again
mircea_popescu: actually, distilling fermented fruit can not yield methanol. it's ancient and perfectly safe at
that.
mircea_popescu: the very notion
that
the govt would
tell you what
to do or not do... lol.
cazalla: and whenever some dudes die from
the methanol
they produced,
they make a big deal of it in
the media
to warn of
the dangers of diy at home
mircea_popescu: romania (at least back in
the day) was
this place where nothing could be banned.
mircea_popescu: so when it's firing
time... buncha very drunk dudes
that swear
they didn't drink a drop
mircea_popescu: most respectable older men run
their own stills, and
they usually leak and are in basements
mircea_popescu: romania (at least
the nw, where i'm from) is all about
this particular plum distilate.
cazalla: the funny
thing is, i could've left him in
there but i was so frightened
that i opened it so
that he could beat me
cazalla: yeah my opa use
to make it, locked him in
the cellar once, such a hiding for
that one
cazalla: i suspek gypies sell non-alcoholic wine
to young romanian men as american's sell oregano
to
the
teens :P
BingoBoingo: Drink is
totally not a big deal. In
the same way standardized
tests in
the US are not a big deal.
The cost
to pass maximally is
trivial.
mircea_popescu: i suspek
that makes me a heavy drinker, at least at
the
time.
mircea_popescu: cazalla heh notrly. my high mark is putting away something over a liter of 50% moonshine and
then walking out.
mircea_popescu: that's kinda
the
thing, if it's not a big deal it just... isn't a big deal.
BingoBoingo: * mircea_popescu had a drink at his junior high prom. which was held in a bar. because romanians didn't actually give a shit. << Wait Wut, you only had one drink at prom? Junior year I was
trying
to keep pace with Anya.
cazalla: BingoBoingo, ya know i use
to get carded when i was 16, but i was smart enough
to know
the guy working at
the bottle shop probably couldn't subtract my age from
the current year, so he would glance at my provisional drivers licence and ring up my drinks no probs
BingoBoingo: <cazalla> but if it's you
turning up blind drunk and acing a
test, i'd believe it << Since 1998 when
the injun store stopped carding me
cazalla: but if it's you
turning up blind drunk and acing a
test, i'd believe it
mircea_popescu: let some dude show up for you in exams
today, be cited for 198 gang rapes next
tuesday
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Have I ever
told you about my GRE story?
cazalla: and good luck getting rolling down drunk and
turning up in person, at least you can do online
tests and write for
them at home while drunk
cazalla: how well can a student pay you for pretending
to be
them?
BingoBoingo: cazalla: You never write for students, you BE
the students
BingoBoingo: I prolly should. Not enough people
take it up in English.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Pretty much, so long as you offer me an identify
that does not have a history of long
term use of lamotrinine of chloro-amphetamines
mircea_popescu: so you could get me a law degree just in
time for lawsky being extradited
to serenissima jurisdiction so i can da myself personally ?
BingoBoingo has never scored lower
than 176/180 on
the LSAT. I am
the full package law school Fast Forward button.
BingoBoingo is sure most people's best chance at passing
the bar is hiring me
to ident as
them
through law school
BingoBoingo still
takes
the LSAT on commision for select bidders
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2015 09:13:35; brendafdez: what i know is
that i failed every single exam in my life which had word algebra somewhere
BingoBoingo: I just
think it is
too early
to surrender
to
the chicoms. Even
though I could prolly bang out a qntra.chicom in 45 minutes if I wasn't so pickled atm.
brendafdez: black kiss, just what
the doctor ordered
mircea_popescu: (this, incidentally, works in constipated human infants
too.)
cazalla: i can just see you as
the romanian vers of it's only smellz
mircea_popescu: fun fact : most large felines don't know how
to shit as infants, so
the mother licks
their asshole
to stimulate bowel movements.
cazalla: but
they poop from
there, so i don't care, not going near butthole either way
mircea_popescu: cazalla he just doesn't want hair in
the asshole is all.
BingoBoingo: Muff gives my beard something
to socialize with
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I am
totally fine with
the En language space surrendering except as a pidgin used in
trade. If you let a single slant language into
the acceptable
trading space
though. I sense
trouble. Don't know of, but anticipate
cazalla: <BingoBoingo> I could see placing spanish well before portugese because fuck brazil if
they aren't waxing <<< so muff is ok ya know
Adlai: (or
they earn
their shares
the usual way)
brendafdez: <mircea_popescu> brendafdez better get out of
the defensive shell of stupid and work your butt off, i
think. << oops ;)
Adlai: those who want more compensation for
translators
to some language, must buy shares in order
to have
their voices heard/regarded by
the editors
BingoBoingo: I
think we focus on
trade languages of En ES and Fu
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo brazil is waxing yo. and btw, general point : girls get
their
tit implants age 16 down here.
Adlai: put it
to shareholder votes. want more incentive for
translations in your language? gotta pay
to have a say, like in 'real' politics
mircea_popescu: but i don't
think we can go "all bitcoin happens in english fuck you"
BingoBoingo: I could see placing spanish well before portugese because fuck brazil if
they aren't waxing
mircea_popescu: russian, japanese right ?
then all
the arabs will get pissy because why do we pick
the one or
the other ?
cazalla: but other
than
that,
those are
top 3 next
to english i assume
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I hurd
they were on US feminist diabeetus diet
cazalla: why would we want anything other
than spanish and chinesey?
mircea_popescu: and before you dismiss
that, you should see what fucking
tits & ass lean
tall blonde stuff
they produce!