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mircea_popescu: it just shocked me, i have nfi how pilots don't kill to drive it, but the thing flows like an audi.
mircea_popescu: it's been revised and revised since the 80s. but they came up with some exceptional engine couplings in the last (2015 ?) iteration
mircea_popescu: the thing's shockingly fabulous, i've never had that "This is an exquisite piece of machinery" feeling in any commercial plane before.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, anyone flew wioth the 737-800 LATEST version ?
mircea_popescu: mthreat i might recommend eg villahermosa in mexico. or veracruz.
mircea_popescu: shinohai no, they just don't belong irl. girl has a point.
mircea_popescu: afaik landing is the killer. if you get to land 1 hour fresher it's also worth the risk.
mircea_popescu: eh get out. for one thing the gulf is so fucking populated you'd be picked up in three hours. for the other, the thing flies better over water.
mircea_popescu: cr is a tiny nation, doesn't need to do anything in particular to survive. but at least they have the intelligence to produce cash crops like coffee rathert than commodity crops like fucking soy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it HAS!!!11 pretenses of industry. if you ask the average fucktard they think themselves an industrialized nation. irl they farm soy and try to borrow for a living.
mircea_popescu: though in fairness the argentines have been argentining for a whole lot longer than cable tv existed. they're just bad stock.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform turns out no. "watching us tv -> retarded, guaranteed".
mircea_popescu had nfi idea what racism is ; and imagined it's mostly pretended. not so. i HATE argentines, fundamentally, and the only reason there's not 40 mn corpses in limed pits right now is that i don't have the pits.
mircea_popescu: to loosen the rectal cavities of the monkeys indigent.
mircea_popescu: i will not set foot in that accursed shithole without a bunch of people carrying pikes
mircea_popescu: can't really have a fucking code of conduct. beyond "don't be offensively stupid" i can'\t imagine. he might even be gay or not wear a tie!
mircea_popescu: what, i'm not to consider petruchio ? because why not ?
mircea_popescu: mebbe it's the private hall he figures. on the long term everyone's going to do the majority of lines in his own hall i imagine
mircea_popescu: shinohai actually you're in luck, writing qntra report nao ; next piece will be about one of the girls picking costa rican bitches.
mircea_popescu: the one other item is ... jurov fell off as lord treasurer. i dun exactly recall why or wherefore ; but he is STILL holding a considerable sum for the foundation, and moreover why sohuldn't he be a lord ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 tell urmom best compliments from the republic assembled!
mircea_popescu: and it also provides drm! infected males can't reproduce with disease-free females (or females infected by other strains).
mircea_popescu: considering how poorly understood infection is, i wonder how many of the contemporaneous faux males are actually biologically infected with dumbass rather than just genetically unfit.
mircea_popescu: ONE of the things wolbachia does is... feminize! (because sperm can't carry it, only females do). so it makes these feminine or pseudo-feminine male insects.
mircea_popescu: here's some random lul : wolbachia is possibly the most successful bacteria ; in any case is the most widely distributed sexual transmitted disease ; about half of all insects extant carry some form ; many species can't reproduce if uninfected, or cant' even survive.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: tzetze is one of the most effectual human repellants. there's a large area of verdant africa which stays that way because neither cattle nor obamas can live there.
mircea_popescu: oh, and also, as the latest addition to trilema headerspace may attest, i look strapping in a panama hat!
mircea_popescu: but there's a general "This place is too fucking cool to sleep" vibe, and besides -- no one may claim they've had fruit before having them in cr. whole different ballgame re what ripe actually means.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes one of the best things to do with import sluts is take them up the arenal, you can watch the lava flow in the night.
mircea_popescu: the beach goes to both atlantic and pacific though, and the mountain's really a volcano, but anyway
mircea_popescu: anyway, cr geography is very california-like. there's beach and mountain.
mircea_popescu: the thing is supposed to be an amenity not an inconvenience at any rate.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes anyway, so bring the fixed ones ; or give it a few weeks, either way.
mircea_popescu: seems it peaked at 550 confirmed cases in august 2016 and is down to ~50 suspected cases by feb.
mircea_popescu: "As of W5 2017, 1`722 confirmed cases of Zika have been reported in Costa Rica. As of W50 2016, the cantons reporting the highest cumulative rate per 10`000 population are Garabito(289), Orotina (266), and Esparza(235)."
mircea_popescu: may be a problem down by the beach ? (humans live way up in the mountain here)
mircea_popescu: (believe it or not this was on mp's list of things for the scouts to look out for. not because of any disease per se but because i can't fucking stand the buggers.)
mircea_popescu: wait. do you mean YOU got zika fever and can't travel, or do you mean costa rica has it ?
mircea_popescu: they wanna hang people who can do, not the idiots. the idiots are their own.