Notices by Josh Davis (guerillaontologist@social.coop)

@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 🙄

It occurs to me that a whole lot of people nowadays - thanks to the likes of Yelp - are graded on their performance with a star system. You know who else gets graded with stars? Children. All this ranking of people via gold stars is infantilizing. They are convincing us all to act like we're in kindergarten. "Better do what's expected of you or you won't get a gold star!"

These systems serve two negative purposes: 1st, they provide an easy outlet for the vindictive and petty 1/x

putting everyone from cab drivers to surgeons in the position of being publicly pilloried by assholes if they fail to please them. This serves to psychologically beat down the workers while providing a dopamine hit and ego boost to the customer, which only exacerbates any narcissistic tendencies they might have.

Second, the star system creates an environment of uncertainty for the workers, as a gold star (or lack thereof) provides essentially no useful information, despite being 2/x

@aral Sad af, to put it mildly, but that's the problem with legal systems, they are always constrained in what they can do. But like Yves, I was half expecting them to dismiss the case on a technicality, which they emphatically didn't do, so personally I'm taking this as a sign that the world is finally turning against the US's foreign policy. Of course, I wish it would happen quicker (or a couple decades ago) and more decisively.

@aral

Here's a little different take on number 1 from Yves at Naked Capitalism

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/01/international-court-of-justice-rules-forcefully-against-israel-in-landmark-genocide-ruling-including-restricting-military-action.html