Kinda Commie Memes

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Sometimes I’ll go down this thread with ChatGPT I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in astronomy. I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding except it’s vibe astrophysics. Together me and ol’ GPT are gonna crack this dyson sphere nut any day now. I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs.

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Not a meme, but I didn’t know where to post this:

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I’m sure we can get that down to 5 million if we use a Dyson swarm instead.

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I’m not sure where to post this.

Some capologists insists intangibles are the most important part of the economy. But most intangibles aren’t naturally scarce.

It seems to me that if naturally-scarce resources and goods are the most important part of the economy, then a society which respects human rights would tend towards either market socialism or non-state basic income socialism; if non-naturally-scarce ones are, it would tend towards communism.

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Economics?

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Why would we change anyone’s mind about that?

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Fixed it:

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I guess concern about accuracy. There’s been questioning whether Stockholm syndrome is a real effect or not…standing up for the capitalist class might be some entirely different sort of pathology.

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I’d say it’s more akin to an inverse Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy, where you draw attention to yourself by defending someone you with never meet over their obscene prosperity, that you will never know.

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That does remind me that “villain” originally means farmer…the horrible thing about them of course being that they were ordinary people who did all the work. How completely opposite to what’s actually the case. :frowning:

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Norman French vileinage is a bit closer to peasant though than the usage farmer has now (landowner. The people who do the work are farm labourers or hands or workers). It’s a tenant who comes with your land and is part of the hereditament.

Irish land law is famously tediously convoluted as the old Anglo French law remains intact with added fuckery from plantation. As a result freeholds are more or less unknown.

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IIRC Irish land law was made even worse under the Penal Codes where they made primogeniture inheritance illegal unless you were a protestant, which means all the Catholic Irish landowners weren’t allowed to leave the farm (such as it might have been) to one son, but it had to be split between all the children, until each had half a postage stamp (or the rights to work same) to grow food on. Except if the eldest son converted to CoI, in which case he was entitled to everything whether or not that was the desired outcome.

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To be honest with you land law was so tedious I can’t remember.

But as with everywhere back then as now: it wasn’t really there for the poors…

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