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nubbins`: guess
they're having problems :p
nubbins`: gribble: MtGox lag is 580874.405675 seconds. During
this
time, light
travels 1164.06580518 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from
the Sun
to heliopause (out of
the solar system!) (100 AU).
gribble: MtGox lag is 1.011352 seconds. During
this
time, light
travels 0.00202673808434 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin across
the outer diameter of Saturn's rings (0.0024 AU).
nubbins`: will do, pretty hectic
these days but i'm sure i can find somewhere
to set a board up
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: PM me if you want
to start a game.
nubbins`: i've just been printing flat ones on cotton rag so far, but i'm hoping
to
try printing directly
to wood soon
BingoBoingo: Yeah
they do. Finding decent glue
to hold
the pieces is another challenge
though.
nubbins`: regulation-size boards are huge.
they make for good wall art
nubbins`: used
to play via SMS with a friend who moved away.
two boards + algebraic notation ;)
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: How are
the ones who sold at 4+ doing
though... Sometimes
that lack of a proper market helps enrich
the
tards.
nubbins`: all
those guys who bought AM shares at 4+ must be fitting
themselves for ropes right now
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I understand. I need
to blog moar.
mircea_popescu: ense of probity.
To assent
to obvious lies is…in some small way
to become evil oneself. One’s standing
to resist anything is
thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy
to control. I
think if you examine political correctness, it has
the same effect and is intended
to.”
mircea_popescu: “In my study of communist societies, I came
to
the conclusion
that
the purpose of communist propaganda was not
to persuade or convince, not
to inform, but
to humiliate; and
therefore,
the less it corresponded
to reality
the better. When people are forced
to remain silent when
they are being
told
the most obvious lies, or even worse when
they are forced
to repeat
the lies
themselves,
they lose once and for all
their s
nubbins`: has
the room filled up with vibrations yet?
BingoBoingo: I'll search
the logs, might be a while. Or maybe I'm
trippin balls. Probably
the latter.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ah, I
though you said sometime you had stopped by
to visit.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: When's
the last
time you were on
TradeFortress's CoinChat?
nubbins`: darryl strawberry was on
the simpsons once
nubbins`: never had it change color like
this before
mircea_popescu: a guy with a name like darryl strawberry should be involved in
the child sex
trade, not fucking drugs
BingoBoingo: dub: More like baller
turned crackhead,
turned regular at
the local hooters, but still.
nubbins`: hmm,
this new purple emulsion we bought has
turned brown
dub: sounds like an all american story, baller
turned crackhead
turned pastor
dub: yeah with all kinds of shit
thrown in for extra bang (heroin is popular)
BingoBoingo: dub: Most MDMA isn't pure
though. It actually gets less pure when powdered and refered
to as "Molly"
dub: pure mdma in
the vein is pretty interesting
too
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well,
there have been some in North America
too. It is a situation where differing definitions of recovery and diagnoses conflict. I've had a cousin who while in
the service got an AIDs shot in an experiment and still has something resembling an immune system
though, so...
dub: mdma is considered perfectly safe and quite useful for a number of
things
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Ketamine as well as Molly
test rather well for
that purpose in limited studies.
dub: theres a pretty narrow band in whih ketamine is 'fun' a lot of users know
this and avoid it
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Maybe only make one or
two bombs
then.
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: I just might be able
to. I actually
think I auth'd with gribble last Wednesday.
nubbins`: BingoBoingo:
that's a lot of Cardanos ;)
nubbins`: can you gpg sign your whereabouts on
the evening of
the 16th?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: And
that is why GPG is great. It forces
the removal of "allegedly" or forgery.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: No, sometimes
they are drunks. Othertimes
they are
too paranoid
to
trust
their counsel. Any of
those
three reasons
though might have saved
the fatso running Gox.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: either
that, or
they plead not-guilty
nubbins`: hell, if i had a dollar for every
time i achieved complete awareness
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wait,
that's
the explanation of
the bizarre written style some people employ filling any discussion of
their past with "allegedly" ?
they're pill poppers ?
BingoBoingo: Once
they
take you further
than
that... You have
to start hedging vague memories of a past you with
the word allegedly.
BingoBoingo: nubbins`:
They only make you sleepy until
they
take your further
than sleepy.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It is an anesthetic, but more
than anything exotic it has a good feel. If I was picking an antihistamine
to be addicted
to I'd probably go with mirtazapine.
mircea_popescu: dub i could swear
they used it as antihistamine here in
the 90s
nubbins`: forgot
that "sleep" is a euphemism in pet-world
dub: they use it for
trauma anesthesia
too
nubbins`: they put dogs
to sleep with it
mircea_popescu: ketamine ?! isn't
that basically an anti allergic
thing ?
nubbins`: hell, i'm not having a cigarette
this very moment
nubbins`: what's easier
than not doing something?
BingoBoingo: I'd have
to say if I could choose which of
the drugs I've
tried
to have an addiction
to I'd probably want it
to be Ketamine.
That was fun. Coke was kind of fun, but bleh.
nubbins`: dub, if you're ready
to quit, it is
mircea_popescu: some of
the girls smoke, for
that matter. i sometimes join in over coffee, but i don't recall ever craving it
nubbins`: but i can't lay
the blame fully on
that
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: i did have fairly high stress levels during
that period of my life
VanCleef: till
the nicotine leaves your system
nubbins`: i just haven't had a cigarette in
two years
VanCleef: the only
to quit smoking is
to be locked away on a island somewhere with a girl where you cant buy smokes and everytime u get a craving get a gobbie instead
mike_c: i.e. your mind still remembers nicotine as a great way
to relieve stress
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Maybe
this chemistry versus food
thing continues across
the Atlantic, and
to
things not entirely food. Or maybe I don't get enough pussy.
mike_c: after
that it's psychological
mike_c: physical addiction ends in.. 3 weeks i
think
nubbins`: then why do i still get intense cravings for cigarettes when i see people smoking on
tv?
mircea_popescu: this entire
tobacco is addictive
talk is hogwash. i've been smoking for about
twenty years now, at
the rate of about one pack a month
ozbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
nubbins`: well, it's a much more innocent habit on
the surface,
too, which makes it seem like less of a problem
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Coke is a relatively easy quit
though. Really a
take or leave it sort of
thing.
Tobacco is a bit more insidious
though. On
top of half your neurons containing nicotinic-cholinergic receptors
there are a bunch of mono-amine reductase inhibitors in
tobacco which are much less frequently mentioned.
nubbins`: i like
things way
too much
to ever
try coke
BingoBoingo: Congrats nubbins` if you mean
tobacco. If you were
talking powder
though
that isn't so big of a deal.
nubbins`: my
two-year quitting anniversary was last week
nubbins`: well, no, but most people would choose not
to snort a line of it, given
the choice
mircea_popescu: actually i
think you can't even find a "food supplement"
that doesn't include it.
nubbins`: anything white
that won't immediately kill you, really
nubbins`: i've seen people add heaping spoonfuls of powdered glucosamine
to bags of coke
BingoBoingo: /me wonders where MrKlye is for
this conversation
BingoBoingo: Nicotine is
the odd case in which any non-smoking route of administration can generally get more drug
to
the brain. For cocaine,
the opiates and others
the case is usually
the opposite.
BingoBoingo: Then
there's
the part where lung
tissue
tends
to atrophy in
the presence of cocaine in a way it can't for nicotine since humans generally have a bunch of enzymes ready
to break down cholinergics like nicotine,
though not so much for cocaine.
mircea_popescu: also from
the sudden avalanche of sodium blockers being less well
tolerated by
the heart