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nubbins`: realized what i'd been doing
to my body :0
nubbins`: had a lel, did some mental math, realized
that'd be like 700+ cigarettes
nubbins`: i recall approaching
the one-month mark, and a friend suggested i celebrate by smoking all
the cigarettes
that i hadn't in
the past month
mircea_popescu: wait i've been bloggibng for longer
than you've been not smoking ?
nubbins`: i used
to do 9 packs in a week
TheNewDeal: people
try
to give you quarters in
the us
TheNewDeal: Anyways, guy bums a smoke from him outside
the hotel, gives him a looney
TheNewDeal: Anyways, I wasn't
the one smuggling in
the smokes. Co-worker was
the one, except he legitimately smoked
them.
Type of brainset
that
thinks he is saving $X whilst smoking
through 9 packs in 10 days
bounce: "I hate
the local healthcare system, let's smuggle some smokes!"
bounce: so only pull
that
trick in countries
that don't have universal healthcare
TheNewDeal: I'm not going
to get into
the arguement, but smokers are less of a health care burden.
They die early and quick
mircea_popescu: well on
the neutral industrial basis of it, a pack is like 20 cents or something.
TheNewDeal: It's just a joke
that
they're
the exact same shit
nubbins`: move
to a country with free universal health care and see how you feel about it 8)
bounce: makes'em better. double
the sin!
nubbins`: ehh i
think people who bring in contraband smokes are fucking dickheads
TheNewDeal: said approx 3/10 shipments would get confiscated at
the border
TheNewDeal: had a friend
that would import smokes from china, sell
them
to his frat memebers
mircea_popescu: the serbs been doing
this for a while in
timisoara. (serbia not b eing part of
the eu)
TheNewDeal: you can buy
them for ~40USD per carton (10 packs),
then
they sell em for ~11 CAD
TheNewDeal: They only allow you
to bring in one carton of smokes
TheNewDeal: they're gonna kick me out if I
try and bring a bulb across
the border?
nubbins`: once current stock depletes,
that's it
nubbins`: you're not allowed
to manufacture or import 100W incandescents in canada right now
mircea_popescu: you couldn't buy
them in
the foreign supermarkets. which romanians don't buy from anyway.
nubbins`: now i have
to buy a bulb
that contains mercury, and
the power plant has
to burn more coal
to keep me warm
mircea_popescu: they kept derping about
this in
the eu. as i left romanian, proper lightbulbs were still on sale.
nubbins`: i live in fucking canada, i have my heat on for maybe 7-8 months of
the year, and soon it will be illegal for me
to buy a lightbulb
that produces heat
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> fwiw,
the US (and canada, and every other country) still allows mercury "around", you just need
to put it in a light bulb <<<
TheNewDeal: "Currently, only Minnesota has a use-restriction law providing
that mercury sold in
the state will be used only for medical, dental, instructional, research, or manufacturing purposes." Well, what
teh fuck else is it going
to be used for?
nubbins`: fwiw,
the US (and canada, and every other country) still allows mercury "around", you just need
to put it in a light bulb
nubbins`: TheNewDeal: pollution drift from asia is well-understood at
this point
TheNewDeal: didn't
the us allow mercury around for many decades?
nubbins`: read an article earlier
today
that coal burned in china accounts for 20-30% of environmental mercury in usa
TheNewDeal: 5,000 "bitcoin china ban"
threads result
TheNewDeal: requested a buy from
this asshole 4 hours ago
TheNewDeal: so I'm
trying
to
test out
this mycelium
trader bullshit
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal
there's
this group
that believes
the earth is hollow inside, and stuff lives
there.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, am i
the only one
to find it shocking
that
the hollow earth crowd hasn't squeezed in on btc mining yet ?
nubbins`: just wait until
they
turn on
the rest of
the farm
mircea_popescu: i expect no less of a human, why would i deter
this of a computer ?
nubbins`: altho she can pick me up, so
there's
that
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly, i don't see
the problem. let
them read everything i write and make sense
to me.
nubbins`: i'm eating potato chips right now
to help defend myself
xmj: she's about
to serve you a divorce, mate
mircea_popescu: nubbins` more weight
than you weight or more weight
than you press ?
nubbins`: she's married and can bench press more weight
than me ;(
xmj: she's about
to serve you a divorce, mate
nubbins`: so
the algos just default
to "xx year old woman" and show her ads for weight loss and wedding planning
TheNewDeal: google's pretty good.
they just query my searches, repeat in ad form
mircea_popescu: somehow
the same people
that know how
to game google into
the dirt "don't know how
to
target".
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal it is always
the ready excuse of
the manufacturer of a bad car
that "people just don't know how
to drive"
TheNewDeal: just heard a 25 yr o girl
that received an "enlarge p3n1s pillz!!"
mircea_popescu: if i ever need a way
to counterweight a guillotine i'll
think of you!
mircea_popescu: yes fb,
tyvm for having built a car
that can't move but is a great guillotine counterweight.
mircea_popescu: to
the degree even
the people
trying
to sell
them are
trying on
the basis of "humor", ie, complete marketing failure.
mircea_popescu: the problem with
the facebook ads being
that
they are absolute rubbish
mircea_popescu: ear future.
Thank you for your support and your laughter."
mircea_popescu: "EDIT: I’ve
told
this story at conferences and in bars for months and absolutely love
teaching
through humor, but I’ve always been extremely self-conscious about my writing. I want
to
thank
the absolutely amazing people on
the /r/marketing subreddit and
those in commenting below for giving me such profound feedback and encouragement on
this article. I guarantee you
that
there will be MANY more like it in
the very n
mats_cd03: seems a poor way
to run a warrior class, imo.
mats_cd03: 'Army officials are also looking into how
to grade
the new
tests, with a simple "excellent," "good" or "poor" potentially replacing a pass-fail or a point score.'
assbot: Army's Big PT
Test Changes | Military.com
nubbins`: thousand solutions
to
this problem
nubbins`: glue piezo element
to butthole, feed burritos
mircea_popescu: seems
the best would be, immerse penis, use displaced volume
to actuate, watch porn
nubbins`: lit candle placed diagonally under
the rope
mircea_popescu: guy was well disturbed
tho, and
the puzzlement of
teh authorities
threw him over
the edge
mircea_popescu: he didn't use it, but it was illegal. somehow, i still don't know how
this worked,
tbh.
mircea_popescu: well i used
to be friends with
this nutso who built his own.... guillotine.