Notices by Jzero (guerillaontologist@social.coop), page 2

@kaia @david
I was thinking they were probably some of them Babblefish from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Oh look, it's someone who remembers how to do politics!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/20/clinical-trial-by-ordeal/#spoiled-his-brand-new-rattle

@ntnsndr
See here:
Golden rule : the investment theory of party competition and the logic of money-driven political systems by Thomas Ferguson

https://archive.org/details/goldenruleinvest00ferg/

"Soon after the ACA was passed, Democrats started calling it ‘universal healthcare.’ If it weren’t for the 30% – 40% of claims that don’t get paid because there is no entity with the power to make insurance companies do so, they might have an argument. What is particularly galling about the effort is that the long history of predatory behavior by the insurance industry was available to anyone who cared to look."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/rob-urie-politics-by-other-means-health-insurance-industry-edition.html

Hot take: Self-care is a neoliberal concept. Care is something you do for others (or they do for you), but our society demands that all things - including care - be made the responsibility of each individual to do for themselves. Feeling burnt out? Depressed? Run down? It's your own fault for not doing enough self-care!

Hotter take: Instead of encouraging everyone to do self-care, hows about we encourage everyone to take care of each other?

Oh great, now the UAW is union-busting 😕

https://paydayreport.com/uaw-staff-union-strikes-over-union-busting-all-german-vw-plans-strike-usps-suspends-canadian-service-amid-strikes/

Here's a "typical Western attitude" that most of us are utterly unaware of: social systems are either hierarchical or horizontal; they either have strong states and laws or they don't.

Actual people, however, living their actual lives in the actual world do not seem to agree with this sentiment, and have never had any problem adapting different ways of interacting at different times of year or different places in the landscape. Political theorists should probably be taking this into account.

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.