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The true problem started with the promise of western lifestyle with a planet that can not support such a lifestyle, and it cant be taken back. And due to the assymetric destabilizing effects of advanced technology, we can not science our way out of this trap. So, we walk the middle road, augmenting society to better the angles of our nature with panopticons etc. while the planet still can carry us.

The left hand writers serve the wicked one. The inverted ones are the devils! Burn them at the joystickstake!

I think what destroys conspiracy theories, is teaching them the tools to attack "propaganda" of the oppossing side- and watch them retract it. If your mental tools work and are sharp, they do not stop, just because you turn towards your own side. You can not subconciously run with scissors.

Don't look at the now, the moment, look at the long run. If they had missionaried for a religion that creates a reverance to natures creation and destruction for self-gain as a colonial, anti-god ideology, that would create longterm prospects for this to survive. If they had planted plants poisonous to goats and sheep, this could have endured longer. If they made this sort of work a yearly festival. That would have done more then a incentive driven strawfire.

I abhor these projects, because they are seasonal- as in dependent on outside funds and thus hyper-fragile. Also usually propped up by colonizers, to detract from some ressource extraction destruction.

Same with wildlife preserves. One bad coup with corrupt politicians, one recession in the west - and its all gone, poached and ruins. Its worthless feel good photo OP, monetary potemkin zoos and forrests, providing the worst kind of hope, the one that has no chance to last in a storm.

What is their solution against nomads and there goat herds which are still a status symbol and in conflict with the farmers of the region? Poisonous plants? Guards? Landmines? How does it prevent building up resentment, when obviously a green landscape is more important to the foreigners, then the starving locals?

How does it solve the hard problem of exponential mankind vs civilizational allmende protection?

How do the plants survive in the climate change storms yet to come?

And now it was used by putin to overshadow ukraine-maidan day. The message is clear. Ukraine is just sideshow, murdered oppossition in mainland, is main-show.

The inherently parasitic, extractive elite in every empire so far loved mercantilism though, it appeals to the centralization focused, extractive, landlording mindset. China is trying to be as mercantilistic as possible (buy raw goods everywhere, ship only final products) and has none of the free trade idealism of the us. Which is one of the reasons the belt and road initivative is already collapsing.

Yes you are. And the problem with musk, is that we have one guy. We could have, with a normal, not oligarchy concentrated enconomy, several Elons in competition. What he does, used to be the normal thing, if you were enterprising.

Patterns are something totally overrepresented in developer knowledge.

They would be way be best described with: "similar solutions that people came up under extraordinary, rare circumstances and pressure". Usefull - if and only if you get into a project/warstorie similar to the one that pattern re-emerged. Not usefull if added on top of some pattern bloatfloater that can barely move anymore.