a_party_german [comrade/them]

Maybe that’s what you were getting at

It’s sort of a niche history meme that the Inca could have made a kind of socialist state if they had more time. The idea goes back to a book from the 1930s

capitalism couldn’t have come to, say, Latin America, without the Spanish and Portuguese colonial period

Oh come on we all KNOW that the Inca would have created industrial socialism by like 1750 if it wasn’t for the damn Spanish

It’s a problem about minimizing the side length of the outer rectangle in order to fit rectangles of side length 1 into it.

It’s somehow the most efficient way for 17 rectangles because math.

These are the solutions for the numbers next to 17:

https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/squares_in_squares.html

Mathematics has played us for absolute fools

This spring alone I have seen crows harrass buzzards and even a heron.

They all fled of course, the heron looked like it was in some trouble as it could barely avoid the buildings in its way.