“Beyond the bromides of progress and technological liberation, what distinguished New Labour was its sanctionism: the belief that the market would provide carrots and government should provide the stick.” ~David Timoney (From Arse To Elbow) https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2022/12/discipline-and-punish.html

// we often think of sanctions in international terms, but everything from a strike to the sack to benefits withheld or withdrawn can be understood in terms of groups directly or via the state sanctioning one another.

with money, the dose makes the poison.

i wonder if it is really constructive to ragetoot.

@econ_marshall i guess it was their fortune to make it cry out in agony…

"It’s about the central importance of vaccines in any plan to protect the vulnerable and about how we should be bolder and braver the next time." ~Alex Tabarrok https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/12/the-birx-plan-for-early-vaccination-of-the-nursing-homes.html

// i love how half the world is mad because COVID vaccines were an experimental treatment that would never pass a cost benefit test pushed on us for profit by for rapacious pharma, and the other half is mad because we wouldn't risk deploying them earlier. (i think we did pretty good, domestically, with vaccines.)

@deshipu i would rather they just passed gas.

I dislike it when people die.

@edaross that explains why i never seem to run into my favorite characters!

This is an interesting feature I didn’t know about or expect.

@besttrousers freedom ain't free, baby.

“I'd like to advance the notion that software does not have to scale, and in fact software can be better if it is not built to scale.” @darius https://runyourown.social/ ht @dreww

@DetroitDan you have more characters here than there at least! (i think we have more character here too!)

What if you have the power to turn fictional then back again?

@jik (on the web notifications page, i have a little check i can press to clear notifications, one click from fosstodon.org. though something’s up, right now i’m getting 500 Internal Server Error trying to follow back before clearing.)

not with a bang, or with a whimper, but with a giggle.

“I would like nothing better than to not have to know or care about these people.” ~Alexandra Petri https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/17/elon-musk-twitter-overkill/

// as always from Petri, cuttingly and hilariously written.

// i’ve lost the hat tip, my apologies to the unknown provider of the link.

@pkedrosky I am very pleased to find you here too!

Is your identity an important part of your identity?

@stevenbodzin definitely not me! or if there’s a problem adding the feed i want to know about it and fix it. i am very much in the RSS forevah! camp.