szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

The counter girl hopped right up when I walked in and was clocking in to help me.

Me: were you on break? I can wait until it's over I'm not in a hurry.

Her: no, we're supposed to clock out when there aren't customers

Me: oh no, honey, no. That's illegal.

Her: 😳

Me: not for you, for your manager or whoever told you to do that.

Her: it is?

Me: it's called wage theft when your boss doesn't pay you what you earned. when your boss requires you to stay here, he needs you pay you for your time.

Her: oh.

Me: here, this is the office number to an employment lawyer, call her and tell her you need to come in to talk about this

Her: I don't have any money

Me: we're gonna get your money, you already earned it sweetie.

I absolutely hate the "ultra processed food" discourse. You know what is ultra-processed? Blue Cheese. You know what isn't? Mackerel with dangerous levels of DDT in its flesh.

If you're worried about ingredients, worry about them rationally. Xanthan gum just isn't a problem, but sucking down sugar all day, natural as it is, def is a problem.

A pair of goats caused a commotion in a Polish town, where they were spotted entering the library and church before standing at a bus stop.

They were then picked up by police, who found that their owner was too drunk to be allowed to take back the animals

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/11/10/goats-escape-drunk-owner-visit-library-and-church-before-police-apprehend-them-at-bus-stop/

@pluszysta W Warszawie 60 procent wszystkich podróży odbywa się komunikacją publiczną. Rocznie jest to 800-900 milionów pasażerów więc można śmiało założyć ok. 2 miliony podróży dziennie. I teraz zestaw sobie, proszę, te liczby z ilością wpisów z narzekaniem na zbiorkom, jakie widzisz jednego dnia. To powinno dać dobrą skalę.

Pietruszka high on mushrooms.

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #wetlands #Polesia #fungi

"Once again we, the Sami, will be forced, by a company owned by the Swedish state, to give up land, culture, Sami place names, traditions and future in the area where our ancestors have lived since ancient times. The Sami, the only recognised indigenous people in the European Union, is expected to carry the burden of the demand for ”green minerals” by EU politicians and industry."
https://www.minoddagiron.se/press-information-swedens-shameless-pursuit-of-green-minerals-generate-a-conflict-with-the-sami-people/

Superb!

#ClimateDiary I am meeting more and more people who have decided not to have children for environmental reasons. Admirable, understandable, complex in each case, but also sad that this is now a wider, recognised phenomenon

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/09/more-people-not-having-children-due-to-climate-breakdown-fears-finds-research?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Did you know you could control brightness of the red dot on the i of the "ThinkPad" on the top-side of your thinkpad? I sure didn't:

this turns it off:

```
echo 0 | tee /sys/class/leds/tpacpi\:\:lid_logo_dot/brightness
```

and this turns it on:

```
echo 255 | tee /sys/class/leds/tpacpi\:\:lid_logo_dot/brightness
```

I don't really know what this information is good for, but hey, isn't it awesome to have a 1px display on the outside of your laptop?

No, to koleżanka i ja z tej samej placówki policzyliśmy, ile by wyniosły nasze pensje po nowych zaproponowanych stawkach.

30% mniej.

Także drodzy Państwo, Wasze dzieci mogą liczyć na opiekę psychologiczną w ramach publicznej opieki zdrowotnej u specjalistów, którym się płaci de facto jak stażystom lub gorzej. Wróżę, że z reformy psychiatrii DiM za chwilę zostanie kilka ośrodków na krzyż.

When "Lo and Behold," Herzog's documentary about the Internet, came out in 2016, he did a screening at Stanford. Afterwards some undergrad crypto bro asked him for his opinion about Bitcoin. Herzog replied that he was anti-Bitcoin because he needs cash - untraceable, hard cash - to keep existing, as sometimes when making his films he needs to do crimes such as paying bribes to local officials. The entire auditorium went silent. Still the most effective way to shut up a crypto bro I've ever seen

The deputy director of a branch of Catholic charity Caritas in Poland has quit the church, calling it a “mafia” that “shelters criminals”, including child sex abusers.

The "clergy [live] comfortable lives at the expense of naive believers", he says

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/11/09/catholic-charity-chief-in-poland-quits-church-calling-it-mafia-sheltering-criminals/

I don't know how anyone uses proprietary commercial software in 2023.

Like, I have enough trouble using free and open source stuff, and there I can just google an error message and hopefully find 200 people fixing it.

but I just tried some development tool we've got and it threw an error that doesn't make much sense and I google it and there's zero point zero results .

i want an operating system where the software i use most becomes softly rounded with wear.

where force quits leave an inexorable scar across the carapace of a title bar.

i want to see dust collecting in the folders i never open and i want to see creases in the binding of the text files i read most.

i want my computer to become an heirloom that lives on after me covered in rivulets of age that my descendants can trace and know where my fingers once caressed.