And yes, I say "us", because back then I was doing it too. #MeaCulpa. But one of us has learned the lesson. As the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice ...

The mess made of TPM is just as much JT's fault, for forcing the eviction of two sitting MPs, and implicitly their entire branches. Instead of letting cooler heads negotiate a mutually agreeable new normal. As in any other leadership challenge in a political party, which let's remember, is a *totally normal* thing.

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@norightturnnz
> No MMP government has been tossed out after a single term

True. Misleading paraphase corrected, #MeaCulpa.

> There were two single-term FPP governments, but the last was 50 years ago

If I remember rightly, that one really only happened because the PM died during the first term, throwing the governing party into disarray and giving their opponents the inside track. I think you mentioned this in your blog piece railing against the 4 year term nonsense.

@sl007 Sweet big thank you Sebastian 💚 🤩 🙏

edited due to dyslexia #meaculpa 🤦

Speaking of ahistorical bollox, I fact-checked myself and it wasn't until 1997 that the Greens agreed to leave the Alliance. So Winston First contested 2 elections before the Greens formally decoupled from the Alliance and ran their own candidate #MeaCulpa

But the Greens were founded in 1990 and they've consistently rejected Rogernomics as a failed experiment. So my point stands.

"I’m happy to take my lumps here."

@caseynewton, Platfomer (@feed)

https://www.platformer.news/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack/

Well you know what? Me too. I gave Casey and Platformer a lot of grief when they published this, and in hindsight, they were right and I was wrong. #MeaCulpa.

I've now done pretty much what they did and moved to Ghost, although I'm being community-hosted onshore in Aotearoa rather than using Ghost's hosted service;

https://disintermedia.net.nz/ghosting-substack/

I just listened to the version of Fat Freddy's Drop's legendary jam Hope that I linked earlier in the day. It was the later one from Based on a True Story, with repetitive vocal sample, house-style version.

I was thinking this should have been called Hope 2, because no part of it is the same song. Then I noticed that the performance I prefer is called Hope for a Generation, not just Hope 😁 #MeaCulpa

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Ok, cool. Clearly I haven't been keeping up with the ATmosphere Report : P #MeaCulpa

At this point the focus moves from whether the full ATProto stack can be independently hosted (it can) to;

* does BS Inc. retain control of any chokepoints in a way that, say, Mastodon.social doesn't?

* how effectively does ATProto distributes sociopolitical power? Which was the main focus of @cwebber's analysis IMHO.

@breathOfLife

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@eniko
> sneaking in stuff like "it's like the cold/flu"

Hey, that was your story, not mine. I clarified what I meant, so this seems like an intentional strawman on your part.

> they just want us to live in pandemic prison

Fair cop, I did get a bit hyperbolic there. You're right, that one was strawman on my part. #MeaCulpa

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Hi @allpurposemat, it's been pointed out to me that ElementX is now being called a production-ready replacement for "Element Classic", no longer a prototype (despite being wildly incomplete);

https://element.io/blog/deep-dive-into-element-x/

A bunch of your comments make much more sense to me now. You were right. My apologies, both for the misinformation, and the terse exchange that ensued when you were confused by it. #MeaCulpa

Oh lordy, it struck me while I was having a shower (#ShowerThoughts) that I may have gone off half-cocked, in exactly the way I was accusing @tofugolem of doing *in that very post*. Oh the horrifying irony 😳

If this is indeed a case of heated agreement, my humblest apologies.

#MeaCulpa

@kirakira

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@silverpill
> The note in this section clarifies: "it's recommended that if no recipients are specified the object remains completely private and access controls restrict the access to object".

> ... ActivityPub is private by default.

I stand corrected. This was the only bit of the thread where I knew I was stretching. But I wrote it to fill time during a long car trip which was ending as I wrote that bit. So rather than leave it dangling, I decided to take a punt on it.

#MeaCulpa

Oh and #MeaCulpa;

Last year, based on my observations of Orange Stalin 1.0, I was arguing that Orange Stalin 2.0 would pull back from international military engagement as a cost-cutting measure, as protectionists, tend to do. I didn't anticipate that my nickname for him would turn out to be even more accurate than I thought.

Lest we forget, Stalin 1.0 helped start WW2 by invading Poland with Hitler. A historical fact suppressed after the Nazis attacked the USSR and they joined the Allies.

Me:
> none of my critics have yet produced references that show "capitalism" being used interchangeably with "free enterprise system" before the Powell Memo

Ok, now someone has;

https://mastodon.online/@MartyFouts/114710266803391658

I stand corrected. But my questionable historical summaries aside, these comment threads demonstrates the point I was making in the OP; "capitalism" has neither a fixed nor commonly agreed meaning. It serves no useful purpose in discussion, unless it's defined before it's deployed.

#MeaCulpa