Open Thread 202
This is the weekly visible open thread. Odd-numbered open threads will be no-politics, even-numbered threads will be politics-allowed. This one is even-numbered, so go wild - or post about whatever else you want.
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- Published: December 13, 2021
- Source: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-thread-202
- Document ID:
2021-12-13_open-thread-202_full
Category Map
Concepts
- Georgism (18 mentions)
- ZEDEs (8 mentions)
- LVT (4 mentions)
- Gadsen flag (1 mentions)
Organizations
- Praxis (5 mentions)
People
Places
- Mars (10 mentions)
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This is the weekly visible open thread. Odd-numbered open threads will be no-politics, even-numbered threads will be politics-allowed. This one is even-numbered, so go wild - or post about whatever else you want. Also: 1: Corrections from Monday’s Model Cities post - Praxis only received about $4 million in funding, and not directly from Thiel. I regret the error and am trying to get more information on their perspective. Also, since I last wrote about the Honduran political situation, the vote projections have changed, and the right-wingers will probably have at least 1/3 of Congress votes, preventing their opponents from getting the 2/3 majority they would need to legislatively oppose ZEDEs. I’ll have more about this next time I write about model cities. 2: Thanks again to Lars for his recent Georgism posts. He wants me to add that he found the Hagman citation he was looking for , and it is “a giant anti-Georgist diatribe written as an authorial self-insert fan fiction, IN SPACE, confidently expounding upon how an LVT experiment failed on the planet Mars”. 3: And several readers commented that they had been “georgepilled” - they ought to know that the historically accurate term is “seen the cat” . Somebody even made a mock Gadsen flag about it: