Notices by Paddy Duke (paddyduke@mastodon.social)

@quinn No disagreement on the last point. I just don’t see the long-term need to hold on to any capitalist structures for those goals. We could have the commerce without the capitalism and local governance without centralised power.

@quinn Sorry, I guess I missed your meaning.

I thought you were saying that certain forms of capitalism could somehow act as a bulwark against the excesses of a large centralised government. I don’t see a lot of evidence for that, especially given capitalists’ frequent tendency to subsume and dominate governments for their own ends.

@quinn @futurebird I’m sceptical of this.

If you need a second problematic system of exploitation and oppression to somewhat counteract your first one (and as a non-American I don’t really recognise the counterbalancing effect you’re referring to), it seems to me that you should probably try to get rid of both systems.

The “old woman who swallowed a fly” approach of increasingly compromised kludges feels like it’s been pretty conclusively debunked by now.

“Carbon capture” feels less like a technology and more like a description of the current state of environmental and energy policy making.

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Tried out https://kitten.small-web.org today for a little tiny character sheet "app" I've been working on.

It's really nice. It was super easy to set up and get started and the self-contained nature of everything was perfect for my needs.

Excellent work, @aral!