• TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub
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    They didn’t seem terribly useful, compared to other long projects.

    • Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
    • Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
    • Unite humanity with a living new language.
    • Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
    • Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
    • Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
    • Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
    • Balance personal rights with social duties.
    • Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
    • Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.

    Basically, a freethinker version of the Ten Commandments tablets.

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      The listed weights and dimensions are the most useful things to me. Knowing the approximate weight of a kilogram and length of a meter would be incredibly useful when trying to recreate things you find in records

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        If you read “Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity” as eugenics and genocide, I think you might be jumping the gun a bit based on personal biases. Population bottlenecks require you to be very careful about species-wide gene pools. In a population of 10,000, you don’t want Cletus reproducing with his first cousin.

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    Conspiracists attributed nefarious intent on these stones. I learned about them from a podcast that studies conspiratorial thinking. I didn’t realize they’d been destroyed. I kinda think I heard that ep after the time when they were bombed, so maybe that was mentioned and I didn’t internalize it.

    Heads-up: conspiracy people are potentially dangerous. They blew up these stones that were probably pretty trivial / harmless. They have shot people for perceived great-replacement bullshit (synagogs). This shit isn’t just amusing and stupid. They’re irrational and they can project and cause harm.

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    If they were meant to survive nuclear apocalypse, then why did one small non-nuclear bomb bring them down? You’d think they should be better constructed or protected or something.

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      Elbert County, Georgia. A county with about 20k people in it.

      They didn’t need to withstand a direct hit. Just the fallout/nuclear winter that would kill most of humanity.

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        I see. I guess odds were pretty low that a nuclear bomb would lay waste to a rural town.

        As an aside, I wonder why they used so many languages if the nuclear winter survivors would have been rural Georgians like the ones who built the monument. I don’t imagine a Russian survivor would ever find themself in the American Deep South without functional airplanes and such.

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    Good riddance for probably wrong reasons. Shame they plan to rebuild this crap. Guidestones for thinly veiled eugenics and genocide, they were. Blergh.