Profile: cada5bcd...
Next time someone bemoans how if you're on Mastodon your instance might close at any time and you lose your identity, send them a link to this.
(Unrelated, now that Twitter is called X, every email ends with a kiss)
Feeling less encumbered with a lightweight laptop now 😃
https://noisydeadlines.net/my-new-laptop-setup-with-a-docking-station
#journal #laptop #computers
nostr:npub1e7up2p9ty9x3t85wg8kf39hhvm5yj6uuwczrvfcsvlclen376r8q6q6gxz I have an X1 Carbon too – lovely machine.
nostr:npub1yyx7sllvsrr0fauh2rdlqk5rakf3963g9xk4a7j5uhfcs00lr3kq42qa5g The "oh shit, we've accidentally shown that socialism works and we can't have any of that" paradigm.
nostr:npub19rnsqrfza50vxqpnwkl6n70uryde37v90xha5kj45r9qthxxmsysqdsf9u Exactly, and it's what they would have done in 1945 had we elected Churchill – but thankfully people saw through it.
nostr:npub1yyx7sllvsrr0fauh2rdlqk5rakf3963g9xk4a7j5uhfcs00lr3kq42qa5g I personally dislike phrases like this that contain an incredibly vague “they”. Who are you talking about? It sounds “conspiracy theory” level crackpot.
nostr:npub1yrhuy7axu6z5ujfvwdud9qekqvemcqtyj5kg6k4ftmccwzhamhaqauujcw Being more direct, the government in the UK – just as austerity was about the systematic destruction of public services in order to create the groundwork for the privatisation by stealth of things which were previously seen as off-limits.
One thing that’s worth remembering. The pandemic proved that states can meaningfully change the lives of people, providing massive resources to make change happen. They will make us pay for this. Not because there’s somehow a real debt which needs to be paid, but because we need to be made to suffer, to be shown that a better world *isn’t* possible.