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mircea_popescu: "this is surgery among my tribe" scarce consolation / legal defense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so what. turkey was building the first university when england was == mongolia.
mircea_popescu: tis not chile, which is why i had french wine with my fish yest.
mircea_popescu: the only worthy equiv in ro is the one with the hedgehog's hole which im sure i recounted.
mircea_popescu: it's a point of fact microfibre feels softer, and that's probably that.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the greater point here being that the last battle for sanity is being fought : after chem killind most everything ("ecoleather" destroyed leather industry, for instance, rayon/nylon murdered silk, fake news killed linen etc etc), cotton, the last survival natural fiber is under attack.
mircea_popescu: actually i can tell ye this : in the above context, "not legal" also includes situations where it's technically legal but more expensive to comply than worth bothering (worth as defined by mass scale producers)
mircea_popescu: lawyer sent me memo ten years ago "careful about taking your cane on trip, they're insane" etc.
mircea_popescu: it's no longer legal to make items with animal leatherf in the us pretty sure.
mircea_popescu: also go to five star hotel, check out their towels. or buy one of those new and cuddly bathrobes for gf. also microfiber
mircea_popescu: the original item is of course goretex, 1960s tech, where you heat teflon and suddenly pull on it, makes this 8-9-1k% the size microporous structure.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, mosul successfuly conquered ; russian reports of mass bombing of civilians entirely untrue. don't fall for fake imitations, always read only the genuinotrue Real News (tm) !
mircea_popescu: eh get out. who do you know that actually lives for beer ?
mircea_popescu: it's a fact though, she's going to keep herself cleaner for you than she's going to for herself ; and this stands even if you don't say anything.
mircea_popescu: they drew the conclusion that optionality is not enough, and work safety must be provided through regulation.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this directly relates to the sad observation of labour activists in the 19th century, that labour is entirely disinterested in its own welfare, and will readily take jobs ~well known~ to be harmful, overly risky, etc. (radium girls go right in here).
mircea_popescu: because if it's your own feet, you may well not be bothered to dry them out each day.
mircea_popescu: this, as you might imagine, was a major problem in ww1, which is why it's even called "trench foot". it was then discovered the best solution to the problem is pairing all the soldiers and having each responsible for the feet of the other
mircea_popescu: in other random lulz : there are many diseases of the foot, all of them rather similar : capilaries die, then the skin gets colonized by fungus and bacteria, then the nerves die and then gangrene sets in. frostbite is not necessary ; nor is diabethes -- something as simple as keeping the feet in warm mud for half a day, or wet for a few days in the same socks will do it.
mircea_popescu: there's a certain artisan's "i will touch all the items" vein in there.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i always thought that was by choice rather than necessity.
mircea_popescu: if you're doing all the trenching anyway, actually documenting it is not much more load, and totally worth it.
mircea_popescu: i hope you're keeping very elaboratedly detailed notes
mircea_popescu: "we represent the whole world*!!!" * as understood by whatever 3rd echelon bureaucrat in the us dept of our democracy that "handles" "canada".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski lol what the fuck. canadian bitcoin orange revolution!!
mircea_popescu: i dunno that at any point since henry was the "legal system" so much of a joke.
mircea_popescu: "my stove dun work", fine, but it isn't because the gas is wet.
mircea_popescu: "design is fucking hard -- you gotta specify ALL you gotta specify AND NO MORE!!1" sigh.
mircea_popescu: "who the fuck are yo uto be giving me awards anyway" might well have been set to happen regardless.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, whichj isn't much, i don't expect perelman gave much of a shit about it all before, either. not exactly "driven into" or anythjing
mircea_popescu: shinohai i thought the farc finally went on the govt dole last month.