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7/19/2025, 3:39:15 AM
Space rock mining will be profitable eventually, but not for a 3 or 5 thousand years worth of global corporations turning the ground under your feet into swiss cheese to get the valuable materials out.
It's probably gonna turn out to be a giant nothingburger as once super intelligence promotes to God-Intelligence, it turns out you can create matter from energy and the sun has a near infinite supply of the stuff. And so any element on the periodic table cheapens to the price of dirt, or more specifically, the effort in powering the materials replicators.
The people selling such things for the 2xxx century are selling moonshine and selling ocean front real estate on planet Uranus to dipshits.
It's probably gonna turn out to be a giant nothingburger as once super intelligence promotes to God-Intelligence, it turns out you can create matter from energy and the sun has a near infinite supply of the stuff. And so any element on the periodic table cheapens to the price of dirt, or more specifically, the effort in powering the materials replicators.
The people selling such things for the 2xxx century are selling moonshine and selling ocean front real estate on planet Uranus to dipshits.
6/29/2025, 1:26:35 PM
>>509027772
ah yes mestnichestvo hierarchy
mongol legacy
>Because of the mestnichestvo, otherwise qualified people who could not boast of sufficiently extended ancestry had no hope of getting an important state post. Additionally, a boyar from an old and respected family could get an important promotion even if personally unqualified.
>Mestnichestvo was a complicated system of seniority which dictated which government posts a boyar could occupy. It was based on the individual's seniority within an extended Russian aristocratic family on the one hand, and on the order of precedence of the families, on the other. The hierarchy of families was calculated based on the historical records of senior appointments, going back to 1475 (Razriady). For example, the Odoevskys clan was ranked higher than the Buturlins, but a senior Buturlin could be appointed to a position equivalent to that occupied by a junior member of the Odoevsky family. The mestnichestvo seniority system was most visibly represented in the order of seating of the boyars at the tsar's table. The clans jealously guarded their status. This often led to bitter disputes and physical violence among nobles about their ancestry and their services to the monarch.
>According to eminent Russian 19th-century historian Vasily Klyuchevsky, "you could beat a boyar up, you could take away his property, you could expel him from government service, but you could never make him accept an appointment or a seat at the tsar's table lower than what he is entitled to."[1]
ah yes mestnichestvo hierarchy
mongol legacy
>Because of the mestnichestvo, otherwise qualified people who could not boast of sufficiently extended ancestry had no hope of getting an important state post. Additionally, a boyar from an old and respected family could get an important promotion even if personally unqualified.
>Mestnichestvo was a complicated system of seniority which dictated which government posts a boyar could occupy. It was based on the individual's seniority within an extended Russian aristocratic family on the one hand, and on the order of precedence of the families, on the other. The hierarchy of families was calculated based on the historical records of senior appointments, going back to 1475 (Razriady). For example, the Odoevskys clan was ranked higher than the Buturlins, but a senior Buturlin could be appointed to a position equivalent to that occupied by a junior member of the Odoevsky family. The mestnichestvo seniority system was most visibly represented in the order of seating of the boyars at the tsar's table. The clans jealously guarded their status. This often led to bitter disputes and physical violence among nobles about their ancestry and their services to the monarch.
>According to eminent Russian 19th-century historian Vasily Klyuchevsky, "you could beat a boyar up, you could take away his property, you could expel him from government service, but you could never make him accept an appointment or a seat at the tsar's table lower than what he is entitled to."[1]
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