curtisk's Journal: Some things don't change in the old neighborhood

Like walking down a familiar road, there may be a few new places here and there, but there's always the old standards

Odd experience looking at friends list, and remembering some of you and your personalities some 12 years after my last visit through these parts

Absolutely bonkers that I've been on this site since the late 90's

Probably hang a while, still looks like a decent news feed up front

It's kinda weird

[smittyoneeach]

Same circular arguments with the same folks. A digital "Cheers", if you will.

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[curtisk]

that's a great analogy, its familiar, somewhat comforting, and for me, and maybe time has softened the edges, the arguments were never infuriating, almost expected with certain topics....but considered back and forth....there were times I've re-thought parts of my position, the trolls were pretty obvious, but even those with opposing stances, they were reasoned and fairly level maybe I was just lucky, or rose colored memory viewers are on lol I was telling a non techy friend about this site back in the

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[smittyoneeach]

Well, if it's technical heft I want, https://news.ycombinator.com/ [ycombinator.com] is the way to go.

Other social media is for current events.

This site is just a strange relic.

I have seen a change

[Marxist Hacker 42]

I can trace in my journal my journey from outright marxist seeing the economy as just another system to be hacked, to home ownership and capitalism, and now to distributism and seeing home ownership as such an important way to include people in a culture and society that it should be a birthright, to my new opinion that only human beings (and not say, governments or corporations or other "legal fiction people") should be allowed to own real estate. Real human beings can lease needed land to the government-

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

Ok, I got to wondering after posting the above.

Assume a "Coruscant Earth"- an Earth where *all* potential space is used, both land and sea, for a combination of food production and living space. Use the Permaculture formula of one acre per person of absorbed sunlight, with 100% conversion to whatever mass/energy combination we need to create food and energy of one person to live.

Earth is about 510,000,000 km^2. There are 247 acres in a square kilometer. This yields (with much better technology than we cu

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[curtisk]

I love that you started running the numbers, ground that idea some... some great ideas when put up to "what does that really mean in reality" test, fall down quick, or become more reasonable than imagined

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

I maybe should have used Trantor- Isaac Asimov did a better job of describing in a 250,000,000 year imagined "psychohistory" how a culture evolves, from US Robotics (boy do I wish that company inspired by the stories had moved into actual robotics and not just modems) to the Spacer Worlds to the Human Empire. Though Trantor isn't an autarky- of course neither is Coruscant. Both are "Capitol Worlds" of vast empires demanding tribute from thousands of planets to work; while they definitely have some local p

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[curtisk]

its wild that thoughts from close to 25 years ago are still out here, I left a cryptic message to myself that I now have to decipher where I am in life now, that gave me a good laugh I've seen change too, I'd be sad if I didn't, but there's always the core that holds steady

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

The core in my case- through getting diagnosed with autism and refining my coping skills- is charity. Caritas. I care about my family, my neighbors, others.

It's what led me to be a Marxist until I could see how capitalism could provide basic Maslow needs, it led me to be a capitalist hoping for 100% employment (which I didn't see until COVID-19, and even now, it's only U1, not U6); it led me to the writings of the Popes and GK Chesterton and Hilare Belloc, and it leads me still in noticing that one of the

I'm not nearly 60

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

I swear. LOL

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[curtisk]

No need to swear, I'll take your word for it, haha ;)