#incrementalism: #EnergyPolicy template hanging on #CitizensUnited #regulatorycapture by #IOU of the mayor: Create a limited purpose #MunicipalUtility designed to specifically support city community #microgrids within targeted regions like #Diridon.
Leverage Direct Access.
Acquire new #transmission.
Leverage shared capabilities of #LSE and #MUNI within a new #citydepartment.

Paywalled.
#Transition

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/08/12/goodbye-pge-hello-san-jose-power/

Many communists and socialists opposed FDR's New Deal for almost exactly the same reason that they now oppose UBI. Many saw it as a plot to appease the Proletariat and delay the inevitable and necessary Revolution.

"During the first term of the FDR administration both the Socialist Party of America and the CPUSA under William Z Foster opposed the New Deal because they saw it as a Capitalist plot to appease the Proletariat with a mere reform of the Market Economy. And that decision more then anything else is what killed the early Socialist Movement in the United States."

#ubi #socialism #communism #incrementalism #revolution

https://solascripturachristianliberty.blogspot.com/2023/08/basic-income-could-become-next-new-deal.html?fbclid=IwAR1ENWD4Hht6vMBf1Yjb6OzIGrUL7cygbhgIMcTH_fW7hEMjIr2xmRs_cTc&m=1

A quotation from Thomas a Kempis:

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He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.
[Qui parvos non devitat defectus, paulatim labitur ad majora.]
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/thomas-a-kempis/60435/

#quote #quotes #quotation #error #fault #habit #incrementalism #sin #spiral

A quotation from Gaiman, Neil:

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I think the most important thing I learned from Stephen King I learned as a teenager, reading King’s book of essays on horror and on writing, Danse Macabre. In there he points out that if you just write a page a day, just 300 words, at the end of a year you’d have a novel. It was immensely reassuring — suddenly somethin…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/gaiman-neil/17969/

#quote #quotes #quotation #incrementalism #persistence

@pingr Great idea! If it’s possible to have multiple perks, I think it’d be great to incentivize a variety of practices (prereg, open data/code, open materials). This would meet people where they are and encourage them to take the next steps that are feasible to them. #incrementalism