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mircea_popescu: it's a horrid abuse of intelligence, to use it to dumb self to own body.
mircea_popescu: i've not seen the "system designer's allergy" in anyone but.
mircea_popescu: the fact that blue collar / orcs do not get the same problems is a clear indication of their non-medical nature.
mircea_popescu: i mean specifically this "doctor doesn't understand my allergies and i have this one blanky that works" attitude. it's very common, and the point is : it is very common in a) intelligent people of a technical inclination b) working in shitistans.
mircea_popescu did not take nor personally intends to take EITHER the ayahuasca OR the cough drops. and for the same fucking reasons.
mircea_popescu: without prejudice to extant practice : people who are willing to slowly suicide in the swamp will sometimes develop psycho-somatic reactions to the indignity. they tend to medicate them, through a trial-and-error approach, which is half bad luck and half placebo effect, instead of taking long hard look at why the fuck their eyes water every time they have to behold another instance of the same stable of idiots
mircea_popescu: that also. tho phf's item of choice isn't, afaik, on that list.
mircea_popescu: it's not clear quite how much and why etc. but us is nothing if it's not flordia.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he didn't know why antihistaminics are behind the glass in the us. they are behind the glass because women specifically tend to both overtake them and are vulnerable to them.
mircea_popescu: rather than go through all the dubiosity of "extraction" because you think some sit com was great, it is biologically cheaper to just eat the plant and inhibit ma.
mircea_popescu: they're cheap and readily available though, was my point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform we're not going to lose you to hay chewing now are we ?
mircea_popescu: certainly i'm not endorsing the rupharma.com biz, wtf.
mircea_popescu: intel is a vague thing, constructs lists of truths. afaik did not actually order above item, no.
mircea_popescu: (in other "statehood is the state of clueleness" lulz : florida made tyramine a schedule i drug in all concentrations, mixtures or presentations. in other words it's not legal to own cheese, or baker's yeast, or rotten fruit in the state of florida)
mircea_popescu: do a small amount over time, you got a whole week to play with.
mircea_popescu: eh, you can smuggle it just fine, have a doctor's recipe and a pharmacy receipt. nobody knows jack shit about anything, that's the fundamental principle of statehood.
mircea_popescu: less toxic than whatever's in their "i can't recall what solvent i used" preparations.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the whole shtick with the "extraction" is because ingested dmt gets reduced metabolically, so one's stuck ingesting enough to overwhelm the monoamine oxidase pathway. but instead of doing all the dumb shit with shot glasses and eating formaldehyde and whatnot, one could just take lifril and be about the same place.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, the date is 1950s. hungarian dood researched this extensively.
mircea_popescu: for instance. and some mimosa and psychotria and so on
mircea_popescu: the whole religious practice of the amason basin is based on this.
mircea_popescu: if you're going to go the plant route can just as well eat the damned things. there's thousands of different plants that naturally store it.
mircea_popescu: anyway. afaik dmt synthesis goes tryptophan -> tryptamine -> dimethyltryptamine.
mircea_popescu: it is ever so slighlty strange that all those zealots of brain expansion don't apply the procedure to more easily replaced item. "this is my car ; i ... expaned its cylinders. this was my blender ; i ... expanded its vase. this is my bed ; the reason it consists of four chunks of poliurethane is that i expanded its surface" and so on.
mircea_popescu: but "zanimated chemistry" works pretty well also. zanimatelnaya, a portmanteau of zany and animation.
mircea_popescu: phf ro equiv was "X pentru toti", ie "chemistry for all"
mircea_popescu: just like before myspace gave all the fatties a central repository where to deposit their myspace pics, they still took them, and mostly put them on tripods.
mircea_popescu: pillhead chemistry is a whole 'nother thing. tempting today to just call them redditards, but in fact before reddit welcomed them all into their proper home they existed just the same, dispersed in the population and unnamed
mircea_popescu: and then people "don't remember what solvent they used" the first time and "about 15+ hours he would say" etcetera.
mircea_popescu: not like a literary genius, but like an educated human for the love of fuck.
mircea_popescu: augustus, who was a fucking emperor not one of these rando twerks moving from mercury, minessota to new york to "find their forture" in the pages of the nyt, and therefore FUCKING BUSY not to mention about as untalented as they are, still COULD WRITE.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and esp since most of these people still went to school in an environment where you either learned BOTH latin and greek or else flunked.
mircea_popescu: if early colonists had built houses in the manner libertarian authors write, boston would have consisted of a length of shore on which brick had randomly landed, thrown ashore from ships on which the powder was set ablaze.
mircea_popescu: this is what i want. we gotta produce some literature at the lest on the level of huxley, or else liberty will forever be oppressed by the komodo dragon breath of rand and rothbard and whatnot talented poets of the silver tay.
mircea_popescu: that aside, there's also dunne, and fucking huxley. who, while not some sort of proustian pinnacle of english, AT LEAST CAN FUCKING HOLD HIS OWN.
mircea_popescu: nobody yet has died of learning a foreign language! it's the most benign activity conceivable.
mircea_popescu: but then they guard themselves against learning a new tongue like it's the fucking plague.
mircea_popescu: i don't fucking understand this nonsense. they know smoking kills, and still smoke. this -- i can see. they know alcohol is bad for you, yet still drink. so do i. they are aware television ruins your eyesight, and still watch it. i don't, but surely not for that reason.
mircea_popescu: hence the constant "you can either make it foolproof ; or else make it lordship only". which is how bots work etc.
mircea_popescu: clarke fucking invented satellites, he still writes like a sophomore.
mircea_popescu: tell you what : jules verne has a radio-like item in it, doesn't make it good writing.
mircea_popescu: "battlestar galactica" is actually more accomplished, and this coming from a man who actually despises tolkien, let alone rando pulper.
mircea_popescu: liber-rothbards whatever are so poorly received by the anglo left. they prolly tried to read rothbard and fell over.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's pretty miserable. i can readily see why liber which is it ?