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mp_en_viaje: the switch from most efficient engineeringly best city lights (they're even good for light pollution, least light polluting public source, specifically for the same reason) towards expensive, toxic, ineffective, harmful an' generally bullshit "alternatives" just because sodium spectral emission's unflattering to old bags gotta be the cleanest example of why generalized
peripueral fever's much preferable to merkelism.
mircea_popescu: note how "nature" aka shit fails to "make its way through the window" and
still nevertheless give the woman
peripueral fever even if you ~properly~ wash your hands.
mircea_popescu: Jan 30 18:40:54 <mircea_popescu>
peripueral fever made the british empire possible more than anything else, and the reason there isn't one today are simply put all the happy tourists taking pictures of costa rican wild life.
mircea_popescu: Jan 30 18:37:28 <mircea_popescu> once
peripueral fever went away, the british empire ended.
mircea_popescu: Jan 30 18:36:11 <mircea_popescu> because of
peripueral fever, which at the time was a 10-20% winnings dice every woman rolled every time she had a kid, it then followed that most kids at one of the boarding schools had no mothers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the point re
peripueral fever is important. see, the people DIDNT KNOW pottery is no good for reuse. so couldn't get to chemistry. guess why ?
mircea_popescu: problem is the people giving the latter
peripueral fever didn't really realise
mircea_popescu: it's exactly like the difference between knowing and not knowing that washing hands prevents
peripueral fever. now, for as long as you don't know, you don't know. once you do know, it all reduces to a question of how well you washed your hands.