Notices by Josh Davis (guerillaontologist@social.coop)

The West's attempts to transition from fossil fuels to electricity is going to be/is already being carried out on the backs of the people in the "developing" world. And, of course, we'll do that while claiming that we're actually being charitable towards them.

"Given the role of critical minerals in the energy transition, foreign aid is likely to continue be used to further the interest of major powers at the expense of poorer countries."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/11/bad-samaritans-in-foreign-aid.html

The long shadow of the Great Financial Crisis is still darkening people's lives. I have undying enmity for everyone who played a part in that travesty.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/11/bank-servicers-whittling-away-at-hard-won-protections-against-foreclosure-abuses-the-maine-example.html

@kaia there's no way to express how dumb it is that they are allowed to operate on public roads.

"Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening." ~Chico Mendes (1944-1988)

@aral @linuxgnome
Shitty. Plasma has a specific setting for turning off the touchpad when typing, so maybe it's a DE thing and not a linux thing? No idea about the battery life and other issues though. I've never owned a new laptop, so battery life on mine has always been low and I've always just assumed it's the age of the battery and not the OS. Not great to find out otherwise 🙄

@ntnsndr With all due respect to Ahmed, it's not the American people sending bombs to Israel, it is the Biden Administration.

@ntnsndr @Matt_Noyes I think you mean DAWN.

@kaia lifehack discovered.

@snacks Used to live with a Swiss, can confirm.

@kaia "when carrying a parasol, be careful to get in the way of people around you" is also good advice 😅

Via the wonderful Just Seeds website! #Unions #CreativeCommons #Graphics
https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/

@lain When I was a tween, we finally convinced my father to shave his mustache for a family photo...after which the three of us mercilessly teased him for looking shockingly like his younger sister without the lip-worm 😂. He never made that mistake again.

@ntnsndr why would we assume that AI is not hallucinating while doing that as well? And how would we know if it were?

@Hoss @sun
Oh sweet, an actual anti-semite. Bye!!! 👋

@Hoss @sun
Lol. You don't understand it. I've got a degree in neoclassical econ and let me tell you, MMT is far superior as both a description of actual financial system behavior, and as a predictive theory. MMT is based on accounting identities and studying the way banks actually work. While I was taught banks simply intermediate between savers and borrowers, transferring $ from one to the other, that's not how banks actually work. Talk to a banker if you don't understand.

@sun Tell me you don't understand MMT without telling me you don't understand MMT.

This is Kali Baba. Kali Baba taught me many things, but one of them stands out above all others, that pretty thoroughly summarizes everything else he taught and how he lived his life. As he said to me years ago:

"Me helping you, you helping me, God helping everybody. You no helping me, me no helping you, God also no helping."

And it's true, you know, strange as it may seem. Call it what you will, but the Universe responds to solidarity. There isn't much I know for sure, but I do know this.

@cjd @lucy
Or maybe, just maybe, the CEOs are also large shareholders in their companies, thanks to modern compensation standards.

Boards keep voting to overpay CEOs because of Compensation Consulting firms, who they hire whenever they are looking for a new CEO. The CC firms tell them what the average compensation package is, and they - figuring that if you want above avg performance you need above avg pay - pay above avg. Thus the avg increases regardless of performance.

@cjd @lucy
Also you have your interlocking boards of directors, where CEO A sits on CEO B's board and vice versa and they both vote to pay each other more.

https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/corporate_community.html

@cjd @lucy
An opinion informed by conversations with and writings by people with long experience on Wall Street, including being tasked with training corporate boards of directors, so...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/new-study-debunks-myth-that-exorbitant-ceo-pay-results-from-talent.html

You have memes, I have studies. Forgive me if your ideology fails to persuade.