“The US two-party system functions like a ratchet, with the Republican Party steadily pulling public policy and permissible discourse to the right while Democrats, in seeking to acquire power by chasing the political center, serve as a mechanism that prevents policy and discourse from shifting back.”

Best description of the Dems’ role in the shifting of the Overton window.

I totally hear that now that you mention it! Similar textures.

Both things can be true: cash is a scam and so is crypto. The reason I despise crypto is because they just reinvented capitalism, when the old one was working just fine (in the sense that capitalism is not a broken system: it is functioning just as designed, benefiting the ruling class). So now we’ve got two ways they’re scamming us.

I did not say money is capitalism. But I will say creating a new currency without first abolishing capitalism will just lead to more ways to do capitalism.

This may be the most Dutch thing I’ve ever heard. (I’m Dutch.)

“Wandering Boy” by Randy Newman does something like what you’re describing.

Looking through some of these comments and their downvotes and thinking: some need to go back to the “punk” origin of solarpunk, js.

Classic. Though my entry to the series was via Need for Pede III: Hot Pursuit Lotsa Foots.

It’s necessary to do more than just put in bike lanes to make for a bike-friendly city.