BeamBrain [he/him]

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  • Like, the Inca? They were building bridges and stuff out of rope, out of fiber, that Europeans just flat out could not figure out. Bridges made from plant fiber stretching between mountaintops across enormous valleys that you could ride horses across. Europe just did not have that level of prowess with fiber and rope.

    One thing I love about Stellaris is that it’s one of the very few 4X games (the only one I’m aware of, actually) that models this, albeit in a sci-fi context. There are certain technologies that you can’t research normally and can only learn by studying pre-FTL civilizations. If you forcibly assimilate or kill those civilizations, then welp their culture is gone and the knowledge is lost forever.









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    3 months ago

    Had they been forced to, that would simply be slavery.

    Having an obligation to care for others in your community is exactly the same as being rounded up at gunpoint, shipped to a field or a mine halfway across the world, and forced to toil all day every day for barely enough to survive on until you inevitably succumb to the horrible conditions inflicted upon you

    It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

    Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

    -J. Stalin