#i know i know it's because the insurance industry and the state don't actually want to help people etc etc

[adhdphilosopher]

im so so so so so so so tired of making secondary and tertiary accounts to access all of the functions of my various responsibilities. i am BEGGING you PLEASE let me just access your "learning tool" on your actual website, PLEASE let me verify my identity through your actual website, PLEASE let me view and manage my payments through your actual website, PLEASE let me find the right people to contact through your actual website. im going fucking insane

[copperbadge]

Hi Sam! I wanted to ask if you feel lately like you've been getting anything positive out of your therapy, because a lot of your initial thoughts about it kind of mirror mine. I'm very logical (except when I'm upset at myself) and very skeptical, so I feel like a therapist either isn't going to tell me anything new, or that I'm going to just disregard it because I can't trick myself into believing things that I just plain don't believe.

But I'm also starting to come to a realization, two years after my ADHD diagnosis and letting go (without therapy!) of most of the executive dysfunction-fueled self worth issues I was having, that I'm kind of Not Okay in other ways. I'm safe —going to work every day and doing my job so I won't lose my livelihood and have never had a self harm urge in my life— But I'm not really okay. I'm having major self esteem issues related to my personality separate from the executive dysfunction that are putting me in a bad place. I don't want to take antidepressants for reasons I won't go into but that means my other option is therapy and... I don't know if I'm a person that therapy will actually work on. I found a lot of validation in some of your perspectives, about affirmations being bullshit and "mindfulness" exercises feeling impossible and useless, about not having an inner monologue and how that might be causing issues with traditional methods. So I was just wondering, do you feel like therapy is working now that you've been in it longer?

I've wasted a lot of money on "elective" (and ultimately useless, back to square one) medical nonsense this year and I'm not eager to waste more, but I've also met my insurance deductible so it's the best time to try it if I'm going to.

I mean, it depends on the modality a little but I don't think trying basic talk therapy can hurt, as long as you find a decent therapist. And it's better to try it now when you're feeling Mostly Okay than waiting until you are Really Not Okay. But this entire paragraph comes with a lot of context so....

A lot of what I talked about in terms of struggling with mindfulness, etc. was less related to the therapy I am still in than it was to the DBT class I took at Therapist's suggestion. We were both aware that she was basically throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck, and while it was an interesting class I don't think for me it was helpful. As you mention, I struggled with affirmations and visualization since neurologically I'm not really set up for those; I don't think they're objectively bullshit but I do think there's an assumption within the mental health industry that they will have function for everyone and that's simply untrue, and the expectation that it will is very damaging. I also struggled with the physical-intervention aspects (called TIPP usually) which didn't work at all for me and felt frankly like doctor-approved self harm. DBT can get very culty, which set off a ton of red flags for me -- possibly false flags, but they still waved real big.

And that's because I also have a lot of trust issues surrounding therapy. To the point where, the minute one of the people running the DBT class made actually quite gentle fun of me for asking a question he couldn't answer, I checked out on anything he said. We were learning about a DBT concept called Wise Mind and I asked, "If wise mind is an identifiable mental state, how do we know if we're in it?" and when he couldn't quite answer beyond "It's different for everyone" I said, "But if we know it's real there must be some kind of common denominator, a measurable data point," and he said "Well, Sam, you're not going to levitate" and the rest of the class laughed. Sorry bud, this is almost certainly an over-reaction, but I'm me and you lost me when you came at me instead of just admitting you didn't know. (Also it turns out I just live in Wise Mind like 80% of the time which is one reason I couldn't tell.)

But basic talk therapy outside of DBT is just...you talk at someone about your problems and come up with ways to try and solve them, which is a lot more straightforward and way less frustrating. You have to be an active participant, you have to both have a goal and be willing to discuss reaching it, but that goal can be as simple as just "figure out what my mental health goals should be" at first. You don't have to learn like, vocabulary for it.

The thing is, while I have seen some improvement in regulation issues, I also struggle with basic talk therapy. Most people, and this blew my mind, see measurable improvement in nine to eighteen therapy sessions. A lot of people don't go long-term, they just are having a moment and get help getting through the moment and then can disengage, with their therapist's approval.

I was in therapy consistently from the age of nine to eighteen and only stopped because I reached legal majority and physically refused to go.

Not one minute of those nine years did I want to be there. And, because none of the three therapists I saw across those years actually explained to me why I was there or how therapy worked, for me it felt like "Your punishment for having feelings is to speedrun every feeling you had this week in an hour, to a stranger." There was also what my current therapist believes to be some extremely unethical behavior going on, which didn't help.

So it has taken actually a lot of time to get to a place where I would even allow her to understand what help I need. I've been in therapy for about a year (generally weekly but there have been some gaps) and it has only recently gotten deeper than very basic interpersonal problem-solving.

Like, two weeks ago I told her, "I had a thought this week that I couldn't tell you about something I was doing because then you'd have material on me" (meaning blackmail material) "and that's a fucked-up thing to think." And once I'd actually identified it as fucked up I had zero issue telling her about it, wasn't even nervous as I did so. Who's she going to tell? She's literally legally constrained from telling.

I think well over half of what she does is either validate that whatever emotion I'm having is normal, affirm my reactions so I don't keep believing I behaved weirdly, or praise something I've done that was a positive act. Does this work? Not always, because I'm unfortunately very aware that it's part of her job to do those things. But yeah, sometimes. Even if you don't fully believe it, "Hey that was a really smart move" is nice to hear. Sometimes she helps me come up with a plan for stressful future events or (rarely) behavior modification, and sometimes she either provides me with research or points me towards research I can do on my own. We don't do meditation or affirmations or stuff like that.

Like, last week I brought up the fact that I hadn't really ever thought about how if I have a disability that causes emotional dysregulation and I got it from my parents, they also likely had undiagnosed emotional dysregulation when raising me. So she said I should look into research on children with emotionally dysregulated parents. I was pretty annoyed by what I found (the ONE TIME adults are the focus instead of the kids is the ONE TIME I needed to learn about the kids, really?) but it led to something that was both informative and upsetting, so we discussed that. And when I was stumped about how to move forward with the information, she suggested that my general coping mechanism of writing about it was probably a good plan.

(At which point I just silently advanced my powerpoint presentation to the next slide, where I had a series of quotes from the Shivadh novels where Michaelis, acting as a parent, repeatedly does the exact opposite of the upsetting thing, because I realized even before the meeting that it's an ongoing theme in my work whenever I deal with people being parents. It's a good thing she has a sense of humor and also that I do.)

So yeah. Going into therapy you have to be ready to reject a therapist if you don't like them or if they get weird and pushy, you have to be ready to be a self-advocate, but you are the client; it shouldn't be super difficult to find someone who can at least walk you through what you want from it and agree not to do the stuff you don't want, and if you want to stop going you just...stop going.

Good luck, in any case! I hope you get what you need, whether or not that ends up being therapy.

[transmutationisms]

trying to work out some thoughts on anorexia/restrictive eating disorders as inherently “mental illnesses” so forgive me for doing that in your inbox lol. but as someone who starved myself for a while as a teenager in order to fit into the ideal of thinness i reallyyyy hate when people call anorexia/bulimia a mental illness. what i was doing was very reasonable — i was trying to get thin, fast, so people would think of me as pretty/desirable, and starving myself was a way to do that. i feel like terming restrictive eating disorders as mental illnesses in & of themselves makes them seem like, unreasonable? or like you’re biologically predisposed to starve yrself? i guess i just want to know if you have any thoughts on the terming of “anorexia” or “bulimia” as mental illnesses (sorry for the vagueness of this question)

i have thoughts lol

in general i don't actually get a lot of mileage out of the concept of 'mental illness', tbh. there are lots of different things going on here—sometimes these labels are used to pathologise behaviours and experiences that are simply normal variations in human populations (& are often experienced as impairments due to the context of a social and economic environment designed to exclude them). sometimes they're just pathologising certain portions of the population, and are a tool for how marginalisation occurs, like 'drapetomania' or 'hysteria' or indeed the racialised nature of 'schizophrenia' diagnoses. sometimes what we call 'mental illness' is what i would argue is a very reasonable response to fucked up circumstances, like what you're talking about or indeed the inherently stressful and traumatising experience of, like, surviving capitalism. you also have to keep in mind that the way the pharmaceutical industry and the psychiatric establishment work in tandem means that some diagnostic labels come into existence after a drug is discovered/manufactured, and needs an insurance billing code in order to start making money.

on top of all this, as a philosophical point, 'illness' or 'disease' in medicine has some specific meanings (contested & varied over time/place, obviously) and i'm not actually convinced that affective distress is best explained or ameliorated by this framework. the argument that affective distress is a disease state has mostly been very useful for people who are invested in claiming medico-scientific authority and prestige for clinical and academic psychiatry. interestingly ofc, they have never fully succeeded in doing this because there are no biomarkers for psychiatric diagnoses, that's not how these diagnoses are made, and it's certainly not how they're treated (despite outright lies like the 'chemical imbalance' myth still being pushed on many patients).

when it comes to 'eating disorders' specifically, one thing to keep in mind up front is that although all eating disorders are restrictive in origin, both the responses to and causes of that restriction vary widely. the 'classic' story here since about the mid-20th century has been a (white, upper-class) girl who wants to be thin and starves herself in pursuit of beauty / social acceptance; depending on how she responds to this attempted restriction, you might see further restriction, binge-type behaviour, binge-purge behaviour, &c. but this is really only one eating disorder 'story'. as i've said before, food / energy restriction can start for a million different reasons, including lack of access to sufficient food, sensory aversions, other illnesses, over-exercise, &c. and people's mental and physical responses also vary a lot. i've probably never met a disordered eater who had NO thoughts on thinness as the beauty standard and beauty as currency—because of the social context we live in, these ideas will usually at some point become wrapped up in the food restriction, and are often major drivers of the sort of guilt response that tends to perpetuate eg a binge-restrict cycle. but this isn't to say that the desire for thinness is every disordered eater's sole or even primary psychological experience.

since my own experience has always been very similar to yours, though, i can speak to that a little. i agree with you fully in how i narrativise my own self-starvation, lmao. i don't think it's ever been some kind of biological predisposition with me, or a weird or aberrant or even pathological response to my circumstances. i actually think, given the social and familial context i grew up in, starving myself is one of the more logical and normal things i've ever engaged in. it's socially rewarded (both the resultant weight loss and the hypervigilant food / body behaviours in themselves) and emotionally numbing in a way that makes literally everything else 1 billion times easier to manage.

again, there's complexity here when talking about 'eating disorders' more broadly; people receive many different messages about food and body size, and respond to them differently as well. (this is a tricky thing with any diagnosis that's given on the basis of behaviours / symptoms—ie all psychiatric diagnoses—the label is ontologically incapable of differentiating between different causes for, and experiences of, what may be externally the same behaviours.) and it's also true that eating disorders involve a biological element in the sense that restrictive food intake (or the threat of restrictive food intake, like guilting yourself for eating something you perceive as unhealthy / fattening / &c) triggers a whole complicated physical response because, yknow, humans need to eat lol. but my point stands, i think: the psychiatric discourse of 'eating disorders' is still very wilfully decontextualising them, because otherwise it would have to become a broader social justice conversation about things like poverty and weight stigma. that's not something that psychiatry is disciplinarily equipped to do!

[soundwavefucker69]

Honestly. I started out pretty quiet. Maybe a bit devastated. I will never have the money to flee this country, and I have no desire to stay and fight for it. I just. Don't. Not really. I know I will eventually ignite the desire to stay and fight. But right now, I do not want to. I'm tired.

I get the people who are saying 'blame the people that voted for Trump for Trump'. I get that sentiment. But holy fucking shit, it's really fucking hard to not blame leftists in this situation.

Y'all do not give a shit about the marginalized people in your own country because they're American and 'more privileged' than the people in Palestine. You can't possibly fucking put American lives over Palestinian lives! Americans are privileged! You need to prove you're a good person. And that wasn't all. You deliberately ignored Palestinian people saying no, vote for Kamala, she can be reasoned with. You deliberately ignored the words or any variation of 'I do not support a ceasefire' did not fucking leave Kamala's mouth. She supports a two state solution? Well, that's morally wrong, she should be calling for the destruction of Israel!!

And none of y'all had an actual solution for the destruction of Israel, either. An actual solution that didn't make you sound like an antisemite. What, what did you want the US to do? Do a state sanctioned coup and instill a puppet government? Oh, I thought that was bad? Is America's military industrial complex and the CIA only bad when they're good communists? You trusted the US to involve itself in a state sanctioned coup? What was your fucking solution for the destruction of Israel? Arm the Palestinians with American tax dollars? Put a leash on them? You thought the government wouldn't take advantage of that? What did you fucking want? Where was your critical thinking? In what world would the Palestinians be armed? You trusted the Green Party to do it, who suddenly had a surge in propaganda with perfectly articulated talking points to appeal to you months before the election? None of you thought huh, wonder where all this media coverage is coming from? None of you thought huh, wonder why they're being pushed on me? None of you thought huh, why now? You believe it's propaganda when it comes to the Republicans and Democrats, but not your morally pure little third parties?

All of your leftist politics are reactionary. You do not employ an ounce of critical thought. Did you feel good when you called for people not to vote? To cast their vote Green Party? Did you feel like you solved the moral conundrum?

There's reports something like 64% of all Native Americans voted for Trump specifically. Historically a demographic that has consistently leaned blue across all ages. Where the fuck were you when they were turning out for Trump? There were reports ahead of the election that they might be the deciding factor in the election. How did you let it get this bad? How did Trump manage to propagandize them to this point?

You live in your perfect little bubble of moral superiority. Your morals are shit. Don't vote based on what? Fucking what? Your moral superiority is based on American individualism. You claim to be a communist, a socialist, but you can't even grasp the concept of protecting your actual community. Not when someone else's community is under fire, someone less privileged than the American elite who can't afford rent, can't afford insurance, can't afford healthcare, can't afford basic fucking groceries. We're working three jobs with college degrees. People come here and say 'wow, I've seen better public transit in third world countries'. But, no, Americans don't deserve to be saved when someone else is suffering from the American elite.

It would be less fucking frustrating if actual Palestinians weren't calling for you to vote blue. But, they were. They were. Where is your moral superiority when you won't even fucking listen to the people that you're professing to 'vote for'? Where is your moral superiority when you won't even actually help them in a meaningful way? Every fucking country in the world that has been under the thumb of American imperialism, all of those little countries you were professing unending loyalty to before your own American citizens, were asking you to elect Kamala. And you ignored them.

Okay. Have your little circle jerk of reactionary politics that don't mean shit. Blame the fucking liberals, I guess, for not being passionate enough and letting the Democratic party get 'this bad' that you couldn't possibly vote blue. Tell yourself you're immune to propaganda. Tell yourself it doesn't work on you because you're 'enlightened'. And watch as trans people are labeled sex offenders and put on the sex offender registry, which doesn't even list the crime, just that they're on it. Maybe, when they try to move into your neighborhood and you check it and see they're there, you'll even start treating them like shit, too. Because you're reactionary. Because you don't, actually, have any critical thought whatsoever. Because you're no different than that stupid American puritanism you grew up with, just dressed up in respectability politics.

Keep living in your little dream land. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks for nothing. Glad you're still one of the 'good guys'.

[ryotaiku]

My retro setup

If you're a retro person younger than me, you probably emulate old games on your laptop, or even your phone. But I'm a freak, so I set up space in my room to play old games on original-ish hardware. This is by no means the easiest method or even that much more authentic than just emulating, but the vibes are nice. Lemme give you a tour.

The first thing you may notice is I don't use a CRT. I do have a Sony Trinitron, and I even tried to get it set up, but I'm in a basement and getting it down here requires renting an industrial dolly designed for stairs. So I compromised and snatched a 2006 Olevia flatscreen from my dad. Flatscreens are honestly more nostalgic to me than CRTs anyway, and they're much more practical to use. They're lighter, more compact, and they have an ungodly number of inputs. The speakers aren't great though, so I also put in a soundbar.

I really wanted to use the Sharp Aquos you see cropped out on the right, but it sadly won't turn on. I plug it in occasionally in the hopes that it someday just starts working again, but alas. I really like that TV too.

The consoles! These are all plugged into an S-video adapter unless stated otherwise. From top-left to bottom-right.

I'm honestly not sure why I hooked up the Sega Dreamcast. Probably because I had space for it. I could hard-mod it, which is surprisingly easy to do, but most everything worth playing on the system has a better version on another platform. So it's there as a filler. If I ever get a Sega Saturn I'll probably replace it with that.

I was gonna put in a Sega Genesis, but the Olevia weirdly doesn't have the channels required to read any coaxial systems. So I went even more compact and bought a Retron 3. I had a Retron 2 HD that could play NES/SNES games, but the composite would only output in black & white. So I just bought a new one with no HD compatibility that also supported Genesis carts. All three slots utilize flashcarts to maintain the health of both the console and my individual games. This is the only console plugged in through composite.

The GameCube was the first console I modded when I got the idea for this setup. I do unfortunately have to use my copy of Twilight Princess to run the mod, but that may change as m.2 loaders for the system get developed. I also have a GBA flashcart I could plug into the Game Boy Player beneath it, but that's currently in my actual GBA.

The Xbox is an eldritch nightmare and I highly advise against any form of modding. I bricked it on accident trying to help a streamer unlock the region on his, and the process of unbricking it was such a goddamn nightmare that I refuse to do any further mod fuckery. Anyone who said this is the best modded console ever is a liar. Most games worth playing on this system are backwards compatible on Xbox One/Series X, so it's mainly here for insurance whenever Microsoft decides to shut those consoles down.

The N64 doesn't have much special going on. It's got a flashcart and I have some Hyperkin controllers for four-player shenanigans, though last time I used the system it would reset on its own. I think one of the controllers has a reset button in its stick or something, which is a really irresponsible place to put a reset button. Ah well.

Hey why do you have a PS3 plugged in? That's hardly retro.

Well technically the PS3 fits the vibe in a 2000s-era retro space, and I'm sure some of you can feel your skin wrinkle as I say that. But the real reason it's there is to play PS1 games. Theoretically a PS3 can be softmodded to play PS1 ROMs off a USB drive, but I could never get that to work. Lemme know if you got it working and how. In the meantime I can at least play PS1 discs. This is the only console plugged in through HDMI.

It can't play PS2 games though, which is why I have a PS2 set up as well. This is my preferred console for most retro games, on account of being the only one with a drive bay. Its one annoyance is third-party network adapters (required to plug in the drive) don't actually have network ports, and I can't load ROMs through USB or similar. So if I want to add new games, I gotta remove the drive manually and plug it into my desktop. It also can't play PS1 games, since the console is hard-coded to shut out both USB and the drive bay when loading its PS1 emulation. But it works great for PS2 games, and that's all it needs to do.

I should reiterate again that you don't need to do this to have a true authentic experience playing retro games. As time goes on, emulation & 4K OLED TVs will be more accessible means of achieving authenticity. I'm just a madman who had the space & resources to do it.

[namorslutfanfiction]

hi, idk why but i have the notion of you living in california and i was wondering, would you recommend it?? i know it's expensive but average how much would you spend on a month?? i'd love to know what you think about it. (and if you don't live there i'm sorry lol). hope you're doing well!

Hello, thank you for the ask. I'm finally back on here today to reply to my inbox so you asked at a good time.

I do live in California. Northern. About an hour north east of San Francisco. My town is actually in the top ten most expensive in the country when you compare income verses cost of living. For some perspective, I was looking at a single room apartment or even a studio and unless its government housing for low income, rent starts at 1600 and can go up as high as 2200, if you don't want to live in a bad neighborhood.

As of now I am still unemployed after losing my job earlier this month. I was making decent money there at $22 an hour. As I look for jobs I'm lucky to find anything close to that, that isn't completely out of my wheelhouse of skills. I was also living almost paycheck to paycheck at $22 an hour because I have quite a bit of debt and a car payment/insurance.

Most people out here have roommates or if they can afford their own place usually work as tradesmen or in the medical field. I was working in the casino industry but had an hour commute. Traffic in Norcal is much better than Socal. But the interstate freeways definitely get kind of shitty during rush hour.

Pros of California

Decent weather most of the year. We pretty much always have some sun, barring this past crazy winter.

Very populous so lot's of fun places to go within an hour or two drive no matter where you live. I'm literally an hour from San Francisco, 45 mins to the state capital, 20 minutes to Napa/Sonoma, and there are several universities in the area which increases need for cool activities and outings.

Very diverse and liberal in metropolitan areas. Most people are actually really nice and chill.

Lot's of tech opportunities and start ups

Honestly a lot of industries have a big presence here so if you can put in the work you can find a decent job especially if you live in a big city.

Lot's of cool nature and hiking paths. It's a big state and we love to maintain some of the natural beauty. Beaches, mountain, forest, lakes and deserts. Bunch of national and state parks

No snow unless you're literally on a mountain

Lots of great authentic and diverse food.

Good place for furthering education. We have high level schools that are internationally renown.

We have a ton of farms and during peak seasons its super easy to get fresh produce for cheap from farmers markets, stalls, and fairs.

We have 9 international airports and have access to a lot of imported goods.

Most artists will have multiple CA stops on their tours.

Cons of California

Super high cost of living. Yes our average wages are higher than most states but it doesn't really cover how high cost of living is especially in metropolitan areas.

Rent and housing prices are super high throughout the state unless you live in a super rural area. Also very competitive.

Public transportation is not great even in the cities.

Traffic, especially in LA can add hours to a drive.

You have to have a car if you're not living in the middle of a big city. Most places in CA are pretty spread out and hard to navigate on foot.

WILD FIRE SEASON

39 Million people live in California the last I checked. Socal is more populous than Norcal.

You have to reserve camping spots like a year in advance at the best parks.

Housing shortage has led to a homelessness epidemic. See Skid Row in LA. And those apartments are also super expensive even surrounded by vagrants.

Sometimes the fog is so bad you can't see a few yards in front of you. Mostly during the morning. I used to drive home at 3 am after work and i was going 40 on the highway because it was so foggy.

That's all I can think of at the moment. But if you have any other questions feel free to message me or send another ask.

[everythingismadeofchaos]

A friend of mine died of bowel cancer right around the time the ACA took effect.

He started having some health problems and he went to a doctor and they basically charged him until he ran out of money to run tests and they couldn't find anything. He had a job, doing computer networking, like physically installing and maintaining computer networks in places like law offices, and then he had his own clients where he was trying to start his own computer networking business, and he also had a part-time job where he was trying to make more money so that he could market himself more and get more clients. Really he was exactly the kind of person that Americans on both sides are supposed to think is a really good guy: a hard-working entrepreneur. His part-time job was pretty cool; he worked in this small electronics manufacturing shop that made custom helmets for firemen that had heads-up displays that would show things like temperature outside the helmet, temperature inside the helmet, oxygen content in the air, stuff like that.

Anyway, he had these medical problems and he went to the doctors and they charged him basically everything he had, like $10,000 or something. He ran out of money and when he left the doctors told him you know, come back if you still have this problem in a couple of months.

Well the ACA kicked in on January 1st. The part of it that meant that you had coverage for everything, including pre-existing conditions, I mean. So he immediately went out and spent all the money that he had saved in the last 2 or 3 months or whatever to get the most badass health insurance he could afford. I think it was over a grand a month or something. As soon as he had coverage, he went back to the hospital and sat down and said I have this problem, and I'm not leaving until you guys tell me what it is.

So they shoved a camera up his ass and discovered that he had bowel cancer. It had already metastasized. They told him if he had caught it a couple of months before, it would have been curable or possibly treatable (I'm sorry, I don't know a whole lot about stuff like this, I'm just going on what his mom told me) but that it was basically too late.

So he was in the hospital for about a month and a half and then he died. I got to see him for about 2 hours before he breathed his last breath. I'm glad I did, but I'd be more glad if we burned the American health insurance industry to the ground. And I don't mean this as a metaphor. I honestly think the only way we're going to solve this medical situation is if we go to board meetings at big health insurance companies, take the CEO and the board of directors into custody, herd them all into some area, and light them all on fire. Then we post videos of this online and explain this is what we're trying to do to solve the healthcare problem, and if anybody else wants to be involved all they have to do is not bribe Congress while they pass decent healthcare.

Seems kind of over the top, doesn't it? We have the highest infant mortality in the developed world. That means this whole health insurance thing is literally killing babies. Killing babies. That used to be a thing you could say and people would react to it. I'm talking about actual murders by paperwork. Tiny cute infant babies dying because of our healthcare system and because these monsters that run these health insurance companies are killing them for money. So I don't think it's an over-the-top response at all. I think it's completely proportional, a perfectly reasonable response, and I think we should do it. I think it might actually help solve the problem, unlike everything else that we are actually doing. I'm not suggesting mob justice; I'm suggesting this would be a good strategic move on the part of the US to take action against an enemy of the state. We are currently fighting a war and we are losing.

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad we have the ACA. It is better than what we had before. But people are dying for paperwork. They're dying because of money. People are suffering. The nation's population is hurting, and it's because of these scumbags. That also makes it treason, as far as I'm concerned, by the way. They are literally intentionally weakening the population of the United States in exchange for money. I'm not saying they work for Al-Qaeda or North Korea or something, but they're doing their job for them. Which makes them traitors.

I say we hang the traitors. Although I like the lighting on fire thing too. My friend was in a lot of pain when he died.

i think a big reason that I get frustrated with the "liberals have never made anybody's lives better" is that in the US it used to be legal for insurance companies to charge you more if you were sick or even just straight up deny you the ability to sign up for them if you already had a "pre-existing condition", and this was only stopped by the passage of the ACA during Obama's term. but a lot of people who talk about politics on here are too young to really be affected by that since they would have been on their parents insurance (which the ACA required insurers extend until you're 26). and this was all done via politicking and not blowing up insurance CEOs mansions or whatever.

I'm not saying that the ACA fixed insurance forever, god no. but "you can't deny someone insurance for being sick" is a massive change and people don't realize it!

Most adults want the law’s prohibition on insurers from denying coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions to stay. Two thirds (67%) of the public say that it is “very important” that this provision remain in place, including most Republicans (54%) However, only about 4 in 10 people (39%) are aware that that provision is part of the ACA.

[peachyysugaa]

troublemaker

― dancer youtubers!lee heeseung x gn!dance major!reader

sparks fly when the top two dancers on youtube collab!

genre: slow-burn fluff, s2l

wc: 3.9k (omg i'm sorry) + 2 twitter pics

warnings: probably some wrong dance terminology, slightly suggestive (the dance is just 😳), short timeskip, it's cheesy please bear with me

part of my youtuber enhypen series, the fifth upload! feel free to read on its own~ ♞──────────────────────────♞

you finish off your last move with your arms wide open, your chest heaving up and down from lack of breath. smiling nevertheless, you know you absolutely love the feeling of getting your breath taken away after dancing because you know it meant you did your best. you walk towards the camera lens and peek at the comments through your open laptop.

"did you all enjoy that?" you ask breathlessly grinning. the flooding comments are filled with compliments from your cover of nct u's boss. however, one comment, in particular, caught your eye as others seemed to reply to it.

heeseung ✔ 2s ago wow that was amazing do you wanna do a collab sometime? 😊

line break insurance you've failed me 5x already

your eyes widen as you let out a gasp. "is that the lee heeseung?" you accidentally say out loud. you wince at the realization of your mistake. the comments are both praising you for your success in getting noticed by the other top dancer on youtuber and relating to your remark.

heeseung ✔ 3s ago haha yes it's me dm me if you want to hear more about it 🤍

"oh wow... this is really cool..." you state before blinking to get you out of your stupor. "well everyone, that's going to be all for y/n's motion of dance today! thank you so much for tuning in, love you!"

you wave goodbye for a few more moments and then shut off the broadcast, closing your laptop as soon as you do. you blink twice and suddenly let out a scream.

you stop with a gasp and cover your mouth with your hands because you cannot believe you forgot that your dance studio isn't the most soundproof of places. "sorry, other dance students..." you whisper to them but more for yourself.

taking a look around your escape, your passion, you can't believe you've made it to where you are, being praised as one of the top dancers on such a vast social media platform like youtube. if anything, you guess it runs in your family, after all, you are related to choi yeonjun, who is considered 4th gen's it boy.

though people were skeptical of you at first when you came on the youtube scene as a dancer after your older brother started taking more to modeling and acting, you quickly proved them wrong by showing them your talent and bloomed from then on. of course, you can't forget to mention the person who skyrocketed just around the same time as you.

and that was the aforementioned lee heeseung. you sigh as you finish packing up your clothes and things to head back to your dorm, glancing out the window to see the sun beginning to set. it seems today was a rare early finish for you.

"i could go for a coffee... i need to finish my classics essay anyway," you mumble to yourself, throwing your bag over your shoulder before hitting the showers and changing into a more casual set of clothes. the finishing touch is a baseball cap that sits snug on your head. tightening the strap on the back and grabbing your backpack and dance bag, you finally take your leave of your beloved dance studio and return the key on the way out. fresh air meets your face, allowing you to take a whiff of the cherry blossoms that have been blooming for a month or so as you make your way to the campus café.

ding ding, the coffee shop's calm doorbell welcomes you as your nose is hit by the sweet smells of freshly ground coffee beans. "welcome!" one of the servers calls at the counter, smiling at your figure that walks closer to order. "what can i get you?"

"hi, may i have..." you scan the menu quickly for a familiar drink. "a honey cinnamon iced latte please?"

"of course, name please?"

"choi y/n," you reply.

if they recognize you, they don't make any notion of it, simply scribbling your name on the plastic cup as you make your payment. you're grateful for the normal interaction and the peacefulness of the café, especially after a surprising stream. "i'll call you when your order's ready, choi y/n-ssi," they inform you with a warm grin.

"thank you," you smile back before going to find a seat. spotting a relatively private area close by with only a pair of boys sitting at the booth, you decide to take the booth two spaces away from them. one boy, you notice, sits taller than the other, but his face is covered by a baseball cap. the other looks like a freshman, his cheeks accentuated by a pair of deep dimples.

as you take your seat, you can't help but think the boy with dimples looks rather familiar but can't seem to place your finger on it. shrugging, you simply begin preparing to write your essay by taking out your laptop and notes from your classics ge. the moment you finish is when you hear your name being called.

"choi y/n-ssi, your honey cinnamon iced latte," the server's voice calls. on your way to receive your awaiting drink, you can finally hear the voices of the two boys sitting two booths down from you.

"did your crush just say choi y/n?" the one with the hat says.

'yes, that's me,' you think to yourself nonchalantly.

"weren't you just watching their stream, heeseung hyung?" another voice says as you pick up your latte and thank the server.

wait, heeseung? as in lee heeseung? it's when you turn around with your drink in hand that you notice the two males looking straight at you. now you're able to make out the features of the boy with the cap, and there's no mistaking it.

"lee heeseung?" you mutter out loud at the same time he speaks out yours.

well, maybe that wasn't what you were expecting today, but hey, life is full of surprises, even if they are one after the other for you. after that unexpected encounter, you and heeseung acquainted yourselves, he invited you to sit with them, and now you're sitting at their table, awkwardly sipping on your latte.

"right, so should i leave?" the other boy, who you found out is studytuber and vlogger yang jungwon (which is why he looked familiar to you), blurts out. you chuckle as heeseung shakes his shoulder lightly. "what? you two clearly have to talk about something, i need to study."

"yea, yea, lover boy. make sure you say bye to your crush on the way out," the male dancer teases, causing the younger one to turn bright red.

"don't call me that, hyung," he mutters before picking up his bag and leaving the booth. sure enough, you watch as jungwon passes by the counter and erupts into a nervous mess the moment the server beams at him.

"ah... so he likes them?" you think out loud.

"yup, it's been almost four months now. i'm the reason he even knows this cafe and that server exists," heeseung mentions, making you nod courteously. he turns his attention back to you with his hand placed under his chin. "but their relationship is besides the point. let's talk about us."

"d-did you have to put it that way?" the forwardness catches you off-guard, and you suddenly have a harder time swallowing a sip of your coffee.

"sorry," he says with a teasing smile. "i just think the collab i mentioned would be good for both of us, and it'll be really fun too."

"i agree, people who like you will come to me and vice versa," you nod. "but do you know what we would be dancing to?"

"so does that mean you're in?" he asks, smile starting to grow on his face. wordlessly, you roll your eyes and hold out your hand for him to shake. that's when his full smile comes out, causing your cheeks to heat up as you think about how much more handsome it makes him look. taking your hand, heeseung shakes it with his vigorously. "alright, dance partner, we have a deal."

after much deliberation and research, the two of you finally agree on troublemaker by the duo hyuna and hyunseung. heeseung suggested this song, stating that he always wanted to do the choreo with somebody and that it's destiny that both males have a name that starts with h and ends with seung. quite frankly, it's not like you could find much anyway, besides some cool music bank mc stages, it is cool that troublemaker was originally an opposite-gender duo in the korean entertainment industry.

the choreography however is an entirely different story. at many points, hyuna's body is touched by hyunseung and vice versa, but if they can do it and stay professional, then you believe you can too. besides, dancing will always be just dancing. heeseung also assures you that if you want, the two of you can just have your hands hovering, which makes you feel relieved to have an understanding partner.

hours pass by, and you and heeseung decide to meet at your usual dance studio daily after all your classes, which wasn't hard because he also frequented the same one.

"i still can't believe we attend the same university," you say aloud as the both of you pack up your laptops and supplies.

"i know right, you would think one of us would recognize the dance studio we go to 24/7, right?" he laughs. "although, i've seen you use a different one sometimes."

"do you really watch my covers and streams often?" you ask baffled. he and you wave the workers goodbye and make your way to the brisk evening air waiting outside as the staff sends you off.

"i do, is that so hard to believe?"

"a little," you reply sheepishly.

"well, let me walk you to your dorm and prove to you how much of a choi y/n stan i am," he boasts, and you let yourself laugh freely as you walk beside him to your destination.

it's strange, knowing a famous youtuber you watched also knew and followed you, but then again, you're not exactly nobody either. when heeseung drops you off, he admits that he actually lives a few floors above you and that you two can walk home together after each rehearsal. it's even stranger, knowing a famous youtuber literally has been on your campus, in the same dorm building as you, and this whole time, the two of you have both been clueless as to the other's existence as an ordinary college student.

speaking of which, he can't be a dance major, right? otherwise, you would've already seen him! these thoughts keep you tossing and turning to the point you don't register when you fell asleep. when you wake up, you feel as if you didn't get any sleep at all, but get up and ready nevertheless, going through another regular day as a dance major.

by the time your classes are over, you walk out of the studio yawning about to stop by your dorm to freshen up and maybe fit in a nap. you're holding a hand over your mouth mid-yawn when a voice starts talking to you.

"good thing i stopped by to get coffee." you open your eyes and close your mouth to see lee heeseung holding two cups of coffee. he's dressed in an oversized white shirt and grey sweatpants, a common dance practice outfit, so why is your heart skipping so many beats. "yo, choi y/n."

"heeseung," you say, still shocked. he hands you the coffee, which is actually the same flavor you got yesterday. "thanks."

"no problem," he replies coolly. "maybe we should take a break before we get to it?"

"i'll be fine, how about we can start watching the choreo?"

"they're always ready to dance," he nods with an impressed smile. "as expected of a dance major."

the two of you walk inside and book a studio for a few hours as you raise an eyebrow at him. "wait, what major are you?"

"music production."

"that makes so much sense!" you say relieved, stepping into the studio room for the umpteenth time. "i was racking my brains wondering what major you were."

"so the famous choi y/n is curious about me?" he smirks. you groan and facepalm in response. "i'm kidding, i'm kidding. let's watch the video on my tablet?"

nodding, the two of you watch carefully, eyes glued to the screen at your respective roles. you hold your breath at some touchy parts but also notice that both idols were able to shine in their solos.

"a few tweaks here and there, and it'll be perfect," heeseung comments once the video is over. "but let's go over some boundaries, yeah? let me know what you're comfortable with and what you're not."

"right," you agree, once again relieved to have such a safe and understanding partner like him. "well, i think i'm okay with you touching my arms, shoulders, and hips like hyunseung did to hyuna. i just need some time to get used to it."

"alright, that sounds good," he says nodding with a hand under his chin. "then for today, i'll just hover my hands over the places they need to be."

"what a gentleman," you tease.

he rolls his eyes playfully at you. "let's start marking."

and so that's what the two of you start on. with the video on the tablet, you go through the motions with the speed lowered, eventually picking up more moves until you're able to follow at the normal speed. as expected of the top two dancers on youtube, the two of you are quick on observing and learning the dance and get done with basic marking within 20 minutes or so.

after marking, you take a quick water break to watch the video again in full detail, officially beginning your first real practice. as promised, throughout the entirety of marking, heeseung has kept his hands to himself, but you've become comfortable enough to have him do a little more.

before you start practicing for real, you decide to speak with him. "hee," you call him as he puts down his water bottle.

"hm?" he confirms that you have his attention, looking up with his large doe-like eyes while wiping his mouth off from some excess water.

"uhm.." you fidget with your top a little before mustering up some courage. "you can do light touches now for the choreo."

"really? are you sure?" you nod at his question, causing him to come up to you and ruffle your hair lightly. you bat his hands away with a pout, smoothing out the mess he made as he laughs at you. "that's great, y/n," he says with a bright smile, unknowingly making your heart beat a little faster as you nod again. in your head, you rush to cover up the physical reaction with an excuse that it's just from the amount of exercise you've done.

the two of you stand in front of the mirror, ready to go. before the music starts, heeseung turns to you and says, "just let me know if i make you uncomfortable at all."

"i'll be fine," you reassure him with a small smile. that's when the song begins, and the sparks start to fly. every move flowed like water, yet every touch between the two of you was like electricity as if the two elements were working together instead of fighting. even though the touches are light, they still put chills up your spine, in a way that you can only describe with the phrase "meant to happen."

was fate moving its course to put this match together, or were you imagining it? you're not sure, but you grin while catching your breath once the first practice is over. falling to the floor softly, you sit with your hands splayed behind you and let out a relieved sigh. "ahh... dancing is so... great!"

heeseung chuckles at your reaction and offers a hand to get you up. "i'm glad you think that because we got a lot more practice ahead of us, partner."

"yup!" you say with a widening smile. the moment you took his hand, you felt an electric jolt that almost made you let go. getting up, you shake it off and barely catch the expression on your dance partner's face. "is something the matter?"

he blinks a bit before he's shaking his head with that charming smirk of his. "nope! let's practice!"

practice, practice, practice. that's how the next few hours go. and just like the day before, heeseung walks you to your dorm building, this time the conversation about how excited the two of you are for the recording.

that's basically how the next four or so days go, now that heeseung came into your life. your daily routine of wake up, eat, class, dance, repeat was shaken by him, because now he was a part of it. it's an indescribable feeling, hanging out with him. the best word, or phrase actually, is the same one you used while dancing with him: meant to be.

so when you finally get to the day of recording, you almost don't want it to end. at least, that's what you're telling your best friend and makeup artist, kim sunoo.

"friend, you're telling me that you and this guy have been following along to..." he tells you to look up as he curls your eyelashes. "a dance like that for four days and you've been getting shocks this whole time?"

"i mean, yeah?"

"y/n, i love you, but you're missing a little something, aren't you?"

"wha-!?"

"pucker up, sweetie, we're making your lips look kissable," sunoo commands. you do an eye-roll but do as he says. "if you don't ask him out or do something by the end of this, you can at least kiss your best shot at a boyfriend goodbye with luscious lips."

he finishes applying the color and asks you to rub your lips together and make that pop sound. "perfect," your best friend compliments. "go out there and get your mans."

"thank you, sunoo!" you say, gazing at your reflection in the mirror and loving the way he accentuated your features. "by the way, you're all talk. you should ask your celebrity crush out when they appear on your channel."

"i'll get there when i get there!" he whines and starts pushing you out of his dorm room. "just go get 'em, tiger."

with that, you make your way to the dance studio where heeseung is waiting for you, dressed in hyunseung's iconic suit with the leopard-patterned blazer. your heart quickens, seeing how much more handsome he looks dressed up, hair slicked back and some makeup done. he looks up upon hearing the door open and his mouth slightly hangs open as well.

the both of you are silent as you approach him, in your equally bedazzling outfit, sheer to mimic hyuna's stage dress. "you look amazing," the two of you say at the same time. stunned at the simultaneous sentence, you two immediately start guffawing at how this was unlike your usual interactions.

"that was so awkward!" you blurt out, unable to contain your laughter.

"yea, not like us at all," he admits while he wipes a stray tear from laughing too hard away. smiling at each other, you admire the way his eyes reflect your image and sparkle. "you ready to get this show on the road."

"ready as i'll ever be." the two of you get into your positions on the opposite ends of the room, and heeseung starts the camera and the music soon after. you take each step slowly to meet him in the middle as he takes your hand and brings it up to his lips to give it a kiss while smirking. you keep your face professional as the two of you take a few steps forward, the back of his fingers curled over the front of yours.

starting back-to-back, you walk forward a bit before the beat drops and heeseung's part begins. you're on autopilot as you dance your fingers from his chest to his shoulders, and then the chorus comes. hips swaying, you're able to feel his hands' light taps on your body as the two of you lose yourself to the music you've danced to hundreds of times this week.

then, it's your killing part as you lipsync hyuna's rap and take bold steps around heeseung's body, ending up behind him to bring your hands over his shoulders and make a scratching movement across his chest. you step towards his side, do your thing, and walk away as if playing hard to get.

you wait for his part during the bridge and make a side glance towards him before moving towards him and performing the hip-heavy part of the chorus together. your partner moves his face up along your arm, taking it in like you're a statue. you then act like you brush him away when heeseung gets close enough. after this second chorus, you're leaving him to do his big solo, watching carefully as he makes his every move precise and crisp yet flow well.

it's the last chorus now, and this time, you can't take your eyes off each other as you finally face one another. you stay drowning in his shades of brown without a single misstep until you have to walk away from him. you wait for him to come towards you, back slightly turned away as he jaunts forward, making his way to be captured by your hand behind his neck.

the last breath of the song is the one where you're supposed to turn your head away as his own chases yours, but this time, you brave forward and lean in close. the music fades away, but all you hear is his breathing, feeling it against your own.

you stay like this, ensnared in each other's arms, forgetting about everything except the person wrapped close to you as you feel his every breath against your lips and every inhale and exhale under your hand. he searches your eyes, looking for some kind of sign. "do you mind if i—"

that was all you needed before you're pressing your lips against his. it only takes seconds for him to kiss you back, moving his hands from their previous position on your hips to hold your face. becoming breathless from dancing was one thing, becoming breathless from kissing heeseung was another thing entirely, it was in a league of its own you note as you pull away and rest your forehead on his.

"we'll have to edit that out," you say after what seemed like ages of taking each other in while chuckling.

"i have a better idea than editing."

"oh, and what's that, handsome?"

"look at you getting all bold, troublemaker," heeseung replies with that smile of his. he shakes his head, moving away from you and taking your hand in his. "how about we go on our first official date as youtube's top dancer couple?"

"that does sound like a better idea," you agree, your own smile widening.

"then let's make it happen, sweetheart."

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a/n: wow this was a long one!! i'm not sure if i detailed all the movements well, but i hope you all enjoyed it nevertheless <3

[tramontane-fire]

How [not] to write a job posting

1 Position title. Keep it simple and free of gimmicks and internal language. If you call your warehouse associates Warehouse Rockstars, just put associate in the title so people don't cringe. If you call your cashiers Team Members with Money Handling Responsibilities, nobody's going to know you're hiring cashiers. Use terms everybody else uses so applicants will know what job they're applying for.

2 Company description. Above all, keep this free of buzzwords. I know it's hard, but you can do it. Avoid phrases like "turn-key," "synergy," and "solutions." No one knows what they mean anyway. Give a brief sentence or two about what you do. If there's something about you that makes you less evil, like using ethically sourced materials, include that. If you're involved in a type of work not everyone in your industry does, include that. For example, I work in EMS, and not everybody does critical care. A company that does do crit care transports should put that in its description, in case applicants are interested in that side of things. And I'm sorry, nobody at entry-level really cares about your mission, so this is not the time to wax poetic. Save that for press conferences and fundraisers.

3 Job duties. The main course. You want to keep this practical and focused on what the person is actually going to be doing in the job. "Provides high-quality customer service with a smile!" = not helpful to an applicant because that's all public facing jobs. "Assists customers with application paperwork, ensuring all forms are filled out in compliance with state regulations" = helpful, because it tells applicants what they're actually going to be doing, and that it's going to involve both the public and red tape, things some people are great with and some people hate.

4 Compensation. First off, do not play games. Put the damn pay in the damn job ad. If it's a range, put the range. For a full-time position, you should be offering, at minimum, health insurance including dental and vision, and some kind of PTO package. By and large, workers don't care about little perks like snacks in the break room and getting to play video games on the clock. And it goes without saying that everybody should be getting some kind of sick leave. Put that in the ad too.

5 Instructions to apply. If possible, people should be able to apply through Indeed. If your company has a proprietary hiring system and that's not possible, link to it and do what you can to have that system be as non-user-unfriendly as possible. I. e. , if you are requiring a resume, it is pointless to also require an application where you fill out all your past jobs and education. That's what a resume is. I get, however, that the person writing the job ad probably doesn't design the application portal. However, the more effort it takes just to submit your application, the less likely people are to bother.

So there you have it. Straight from the applicant's mouth, that's what we're looking for on our endless Indeed scavenger hunts. If you're having trouble getting applications, rewrite your posting accordingly and then show it to a child between the ages of seven and ten. If the child cannot figure out what the job is for or what the company does, then rewrite the job posting again with fewer buzzwords. Once it is comprehensible to a school-age child, it's ready for the job boards.

Soon you will see that yes, people still do want to work. They just don't want to work for corporate stooges who only talk in buzzwords and don't know how to hire or treat their employees fairly.

[mysterious-foxes]

@womaninsidewater reblogging here because I'm not going to read your 7-10 dumbass memes (or subject my followers to it) that are no doubt full of misinformation and most likely have nothing to do with what I said.

So you're against abortion being legal, but you don't want it to be illegal? You do realize that there's not an in-between of legal vs illegal, right? Decriminalization means it's still illegal, but the charges are less (generally more like a fine, but you can't go to jail for it). Due to the 9th ammendment in the US, anything that is not specified by the law to be illegal, is legal. And obviously any specified by the law to be legal is legal. So you have to be on one side or the other (or not care about the legality at all). So if you're against abortion being legal, then you're for abortion being illegal and vice versa.

Simply making abortion legal doesn't mean the government is controlling someone's body. Like walking being legal doesn't mean the government is controlling your body. Heart surgery being legal doesn't mean the government is controlling your body.

I literally said that herbal abortifacients were one of the many things used. Those are included in concoctions 🤦🏻‍♀️ but just because they're herbal doesn't mean that they're safe.

PP's abortions are extremely safe. There's always a risk of complications. I hope that your friend's girlfriend has reached out to PP or her doctor because bleeding that heavily for so long is unusual after an abortion. But did you know that the total complication rate is at 2%? This means that medication abortion is safer than taking viagra. This also means that abortion is a LOT safer than continuing pregnancy, in which the high risk only complication rate is at 8%. Not to mention that for every 1 person that does from abortion, more than 4 people die from continuing pregnancy. This isn't to say that nobody should continue pregnancy and give birth. Of course they should if that's what they want to do. However, abortion is the safer option.

PP doesn't actually twist their statistics. Did you know that not all of their locations even perform abortions? PP doesn't even perform half the amount of abortions in the US every year. I'm sorry if propoganda has fooled you into thinking otherwise. I mean abortion is only 3% of what PP does. They do a LOT more than abortion. I know people who have found out they have cancer because they went in for a screening. People who have learned about sex and contraceptives because the state I live in doesn't allow those to be taught in schools. People who have gotten contraceptives for free. People who go there for pap smears because they don't have insurance and they can get it done for cheap (if not free).

As far as sex trafficking and PP goes, there have been a couple of cases. And when that happened, PP upped their training in general as well as made those employees go through even more training (if not fired them).

Yes, the people who went undercover got arrested because they broke the law. PP was also awarded $2.2 million in damages. This is because they weren't doing anything illegal. In fact, what they were doing was DONATING fetal tissue to science and would receive compensation from the government for expenses regarding storing and shipping the tissue.

Abortion isn't an industry any more than kidney failure is an industry 🤷🏻‍♀️ do you even know what an industry is? An industry is "economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories." In an abortion, they're not processing raw materials or manufacturing goods. In an abortion, they're providing healthcare.

Abstinence is a personal choice and you have no room to be concerned with someone else's sex life.

Personhood is a philosophical idea and has no room in the abortion debate, just like religion (I'm not saying you used religion at all to make your point, I was just making a point).

And yes, understanding how contraceptives work, how bodily autonomy and consent work, being able to afford to take care of yourself (let alone a child), being able to afford a roof over your head, etc will reduce abortion a ton. Too bad most people against abortion tend to also be against most (if not all) of those things.

I literally agreed with you that fetuses aren't a parasite. Did you not read what I said? Along with that I said that ZEF's aren't infants, yet almost all anti choicers seems to think they are.

Next time, try to respond to what I actually said rather than repeating a claim I agreed with and leaving a bunch of memes (because that was the stupidest way to respond to an argument ever) that probably had nothing to do with anything. You wanna post those memes? Do it on a separate post rather than in response to me.

I don't know enough about Gloria Steinem, so if someone wants to confirm whether she was a rad fem or not, that would be much appreciated

[nikki-reuclife]

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4 Potential Home Plumbing Problems One of the simplest varieties of home electrical repair is resetting a tripped circuit breaker. Believe it or not, knowing how to get this done single thing will help you solve the majority of all home electrical problems. That way, in lieu of calling an electrician out for any costly service call, you can start the troubleshooting process yourself. If you are able to correct the situation with this simple repair, that's great. If not, you already know you've done your better, however it is time to on-site visit the electrician.

Depending on the size your house, your electrical system is probably more simple compared to a sizable industrial building or business. That will not, however, mean that it really is any less important. We depend upon functioning electricity every single day, making it paramount that everything operates safely and efficiently. If you have a concern which has a component, step one would be to check your breaker panel. Believe it or not, flipped breakers take into account virtually all all residential electrical problems. When you find yourself without power, start by making sure that none of your respective breakers have tripped. If this will not enable you to solve the issue, then it is probably time for you to call your electrician. Improperly maintained and repaired electrical wiring can result in electrical shocks and fire. As such, it is important to will have them serviced by way of a professional. An apprenticeship may take at the very least couple of years. Working as an apprentice can also be an element of educational training, in the event you enroll in to a course related to electrical engineering. It usually starts by you start with the easiest tasks, like drilling holes and then at a later date go on to connecting wires and drawing plans. After the apprenticeship, many electricians choose to undertake more classes to explore being employed as an electrician and gain in recognition. For instance, they might find out about telephone lines, computer line, and other types of special wiring. Experience is the better teacher and so, you have to see to it that you just hire a professional builder. This is because greater a house builder erects smartly designed and quality houses, the greater they see the dos and don'ts of house construction. Experienced builders are less likely to commit some of the common building and construction flaws that some workers do.

Another thing that a farmer does, is he pulls the weeds from around his plants so that they don't prohibit the growth of the crop. For a farmer, the weeds are unwanted growth that may hinder the development process. I ask you, what unwanted growth is found inside your business? Are you taking inventory with the mindset as well as the things it mat be individuals who are hindering the expansion of the business? What do you'll want to remove? Who do you'll want to remove? What areas of your respective life need improvement so that you along with your business can grow?

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To find the actual answer the writers interviewed 24 top sales performers across a broad spectrum of fields. Those types of who were interviewed were financial advisors, insurance producers, executive recruiters and many consultants and high-value services providers. This is what they learned.

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Moreover the Fortune article concluded how the more in order to marketing and selling high-value services far more important it is to have the to sell invisibly.

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Recruiters do all the tibia bone work from finding that you simply job and making themselves look good to clientele. Keep in mind that built a recruiter you aren't being charged for anything, these services should be free. A person's are paying by anyone, than these kinds of are just to be able to sell info. Not a recommendation I give someone.

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Whatever, as my daughter would declare. For the sake of obtaining on making use of argument, let's join Alice's Wonderland and assume they're right, that contingent recruiters do cherish the long term relationship. Then, what will be the Care factor of stated nothing backpacker once they are going to be over an other side of the world in several weeks? When they are paid big commissions are usually due once the new employee starts task?

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A week later Danielle bumped into Larry where they chatted in brief. Larry asked how the salary discussion went. Danielle said to drop by her office and she or he would share her dividends. Later the same day Larry popped in to listen for her side of getting this done. 

Since job hunting is time consuming, knowing where to find drastically cuts down the searching. Expand your options and save your time with Internet and Best Marine Headhunters CD-Rom job inquiries. Employment agencies are also a venue having a to seek. You can find information about these under marine headhunter, temporary agencies, and permanent placement agencies.

This question gets an option to have reason to believe. Because no one is pressuring them to behave they should not do, they relax and take the video call seriously. Recruiter's manage the recruiting process with query. When a candidate senses it's really an important call they commence to cooperate.

An important recruiting strategy that expedites the placement process usually work directly with hiring managers. However establish the right relationship Top Marine Headhunters with a hiring manager you won't need ten new clients because delighted client client use you frequently. Cold call for new business a few times a week and you'll need all the search assignments you could ever yearn!

None of us ever need to hear that. Particularly since you've completed 12 years of school, 4 years of school, and potentially another couple of long stretches of graduate school/graduate school/drug school. A large portion of you have even finished entry level positions in your optimal industry. You don't to have the capacity to consider a vocation. Not yet, at any rate. You just wish one more summer off. At any rate, it won't be so overwhelming. You'll simply go on the web, present your resume on a couple of online resume banks, and give the offers begin on in, specifically?  

A few applicants get a few calls from scouts at regular intervals. They endeavor to control the discussion since they're occupied, yet inquisitive. They push for my customer's data and subtleties with respect to position. I don't offer anything. I'm required qualify applicants before uncovering anything about my customer. I let applicants realize their inquiries is replied when they're a solid match for the activity. I'm particular. 

You'll appreciate a mind boggling advantage an individual have master managing potential hopefuls specifically. This pivotal aptitude pursues a nitty gritty technique and arrangement of little objectives inserted into each casual chitchat. In the event that the principal individual you call doesn't qualify, ask for names of somebody, "Who may might want taking a pace up of their vocation".  

Called college to confirm degree and was educated that apparently phenomenal hopeful had 15 credits. "You mean toward his Master's?", I inquired. Arrangement was no - a general aggregate of 15 credits. 

Think with respect to what marine talent scout run. They manufacture their Rolodexes. When they consider Person A with an opening for work and Person An isn't intrigued, they end at the highest point of three unlisted phone or email tends to women Person A knows. 

Presently before I pack these youthful voyagers, I need to state many are dazzling folks - it isn't their blame that huge firms bait them over for a couple of long stretches of generously compensated remote sun's beams.  

The best wellspring of most recent employments originate from web rrnternet locales. Actually, 32 percent of outside contracts originate from online occupation sheets, in examination with 27 percent from referrals. In this way, just to safe, should set up your resume in three configurations: word and it could be.doc, pdf, and.txt.  

These stories are straight from the employing directors' mouths, as interesting as some may appear to. All joking aside, work making utilization of the executives enrollment specialist to clean your meeting aptitudes well early, so no commit an error - does not make a difference how little or enormous - will remain within method for finding your objective occupation.

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90% of programming jobs are in creating Line of Business software: Economics 101: the price for anything (including you) is a function of the supply of it and demand for it.

Software solves business problems.  Software often solves business problems despite being soul-crushingly boring and of minimal technical complexity. (..) It does not matter to the company that the reporting form is the world’s simplest CRUD app, it only matters that it either saves the company costs or generates additional revenue. There are companies which create software which actually gets used by customers, which describes almost everything that you probably think of when you think of software.  It is unlikely that you will work at one unless you work towards making this happen.  Even if you actually work at one, many of the programmers there do not work on customer-facing software, either.

Engineers are hired to create business value, not to program things:  Businesses do things for irrational and political reasons all the time (see below), but in the main they converge on doing things which increase revenue or reduce costs. Status (..) is awarded to people who successfully take credit for doing one of these things.

The person who has decided to bring on one more engineer is not doing it because they love having a geek around the room, they are doing it because adding the geek allows them to complete a project (or projects) which will add revenue or decrease costs.  Producing beautiful software is not a goal.  Solving complex technical problems is not a goal.  Writing bug-free code is not a goal.  Using sexy programming languages is not a goal.  Add revenue.  Reduce costs.  Those are your only goals.

Profit Centers are the part of an organization that bring in the bacon: partners at law firms, sales at enterprise software companies, “masters of the universe” on Wall Street, etc etc.  Cost Centers are, well, everybody else.  You really want to be attached to Profit Centers because it will bring you higher wages, more respect, and greater opportunities for everything of value to you.

Engineers in particular are usually very highly paid Cost Centers. This is what brings us wonderful ideas like outsourcing, which is “Let’s replace really expensive Cost Centers who do some magic which we kinda need but don’t really care about with less expensive Cost Centers in a lower wage country”. (..) Nobody ever outsources Profit Centers.

Don’t call yourself a programmer: “Programmer” sounds like “anomalously high-cost peon who types some mumbo-jumbo into some other mumbo-jumbo.”  If you call yourself a programmer, someone is already working on a way to get you fired.

You know Salesforce, widely perceived among engineers to be a Software as a Services company?  Their motto and sales point is “No Software”, which conveys to their actual customers “You know those programmers you have working on your internal systems?  If you used Salesforce, you could fire half of them and pocket part of the difference in your bonus.” (There’s nothing wrong with this, by the way.  You’re in the business of unemploying people.  If you think that is unfair, go back to school and study something that doesn’t matter.)

Instead, describe yourself by what you have accomplished for previously employers vis-a-vis increasing revenues or reducing costs.  If you have not had the opportunity to do this yet, describe things which suggest you have the ability to increase revenue or reduce costs, or ideas to do so.

Similarly, even though you might think Google sounds like a programmer-friendly company, there are programmers and then there’s the people who are closely tied to 1% improvements in AdWords click-through rates.

Do Java programmers make more money than .NET programmers?  Anyone describing themselves as either a Java programmer or .NET programmer has already lost, because a) they’re a programmer (you’re not, see above) and b) they’re making themselves non-hireable for most programming jobs.

Talented engineers are rare — vastly rarer than opportunities to use them — and it is a seller’s market for talent right now in almost every facet of the field.  Everybody at Matasano uses Ruby.  If you don’t, but are a good engineer, they’ll hire you anyway.  (A good engineer has a track record of — repeat after me — increasing revenue or decreasing costs.)  Much of Fog Creek uses the Microsoft Stack.  I can’t even spell ASP.NET and they’d still hire me.

There are companies with broken HR policies where lack of a buzzword means you won’t be selected.  You don’t want to work for them, but if you really do, you can add the relevant buzzword to your resume. (..)

Co-workers and bosses are not usually your friends: You will spend a lot of time with co-workers.  You may eventually become close friends with some of them (..) You should be a good person to everyone you meet — it is the moral thing to do, and as a sidenote will really help your networking

You radically overestimate the average skill of the competition because of the crowd you hang around with: Many people already successfully employed as senior engineers cannot actually implement FizzBuzz. Key takeaway: you probably are good enough to work at that company you think you’re not good enough for.

Networking: it isn’t just for TCP packets: Networking just means a) meeting people who at some point can do things for you (or vice versa) and b) making a favorable impression on them.

Strive to help people.  It is the right thing to do, and people are keenly aware of who have in the past given them or theirs favors.  If you ever can’t help someone but know someone who can, pass them to the appropriate person with a recommendation.  If you do this right, two people will be happy with you and favorably disposed to helping you out in the future.

Academia is not like the real world: Your GPA largely doesn’t matter (modulo one high profile exception: a multinational advertising firm). (..) it only determines whether your resume gets selected for job interviews.

Your major and minor don’t matter.  Most decisionmakers in industry couldn’t tell the difference between a major in Computer Science and a major in Mathematics if they tried.

In general, big companies pay more (money, benefits, etc) than startups.  Engineers with high perceived value make more than those with low perceived value.  Senior engineers make more than junior engineers.  People working in high-cost areas make more than people in low-cost areas.  People who are skilled in negotiation make more than those who are not.

We have strong cultural training to not ask about salary, ever. This is not universal.  In many cultures, professional contexts are a perfectly appropriate time to discuss money.  (If you were a middle class Japanese man, you could reasonably be expected to reveal your exact salary to a 2nd date, anyone from your soccer club, or the guy who makes your sushi.)

If I were a Marxist academic or a conspiracy theorist, I might think that this bit of middle class American culture was specifically engineered to be in the interests of employers and against the interests of employees.  Prior to a discussion of salary at any particular target employer, you should speak to someone who works there in a similar situation and ask about the salary range for the position.

Engineers are routinely offered a suite of benefits.  It is worth worrying, in the United States, about health insurance (traditionally, you get it and your employer foots most or all of the costs) and your retirement program, which is some variant of “we will match contributions to your 401k up to X% of salary.”  The value of that is easy to calculate: X% of salary.  (It is free money, so always max out your IRA up to the employer match.  Put it in index funds and forget about it for 40 years.)

How do I become better at negotiation?  This could be a post in itself.  Short version: a)  Remember you’re selling the solution to a business need (raise revenue or decrease costs) rather than programming skill or your beautiful face. b)  Negotiate aggressively with appropriate confidence, like the ethical professional you are.  It is what your counterparty is probably doing.  You’re aiming for a mutual beneficial offer, not for saying Yes every time they say something. c)  “What is your previous salary?” is employer-speak for “Please give me reasons to pay you less money.”  Answer appropriately. d)  Always have a counteroffer.  Be comfortable counteroffering around axes you care about other than money.  If they can’t go higher on salary then talk about vacation instead. e)  The only time to ever discuss salary is after you have reached agreement in principle that they will hire you if you can strike a mutually beneficial deal.  This is late in the process after they have invested a lot of time and money in you, specifically, not at the interview.  f)  Read a book.  Many have been written about negotiation.  I like Getting To Yes

Working at a startup, you tend to meet people doing startups. Most of them will not be able to hire you in two years. Working at a large corporation, you tend to meet other people in large corporations in your area.  Many of them either will be able to hire you or will have the ear of someone able to hire you in two years.

Working in a startup is a career path but, more than that, it is a lifestyle choice. This is similar to working in investment banking or academia. Those are three very different lifestyles.  Many people will attempt to sell you those lifestyles as being in your interests, for their own reasons.  If you genuinely would enjoy that lifestyle, go nuts.  If you only enjoy certain bits of it, remember that many things are available a la carte if you really want them.  For example, if you want to work on cutting-edge technology but also want to see your kids at 5:30 PM, you can work on cutting-edge technology at many, many, many megacorps.

Your most important professional skill is communication: Remember engineers are not hired to create programs and how they are hired to create business value? The dominant quality which gets you jobs is the ability to give people the perception that you will create value.  This is not necessarily coextensive with ability to create value.

Some of the best programmers I know are pathologically incapable of carrying on a conversation.  People disproportionately a) wouldn’t want to work with them or b) will underestimate their value-creation ability because they gain insight into that ability through conversation and the person just doesn’t implement that protocol

Conversely, people routinely assume that I am among the best programmers they know entirely because a) there exists observable evidence that I can program and b) I write and speak really, really well.

Communication is a skill. Practice it: you will get better. One key sub-skill is being able to quickly, concisely, and confidently explain how you create value to someone who is not an expert in your field and who does not have a priori reasons to love you.

All business decisions are ultimately made by one or a handful of multi-cellular organisms closely related to chimpanzees, not by rules or by algorithms: People are people.  Social grooming is a really important skill.  People will often back suggestions by friends because they are friends, even when other suggestions might actually be better.  People will often be favoritably disposed to people they have broken bread with.

Actual grooming is at least moderately important, too, because people are hilariously easy to hack by expedients such as dressing appropriately for the situation, maintaining a professional appearance, speaking in a confident tone of voice, etc.  Your business suit will probably cost about as much as a computer monitor.  You only need it once in a blue moon, but when you need it you’ll be really, really, really glad that you have it.

At the end of the day, your life happiness will not be dominated by your career. Either talk to older people or trust the social scientists who have: family, faith, hobbies, etc etc generally swamp career achievements and money in terms of things which actually produce happiness.  Optimize appropriately.  Your career is important, and right now it might seem like the most important thing in your life, but odds are that is not what you’ll believe forever.  Work to live, don’t live to work.

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Brown seems to be the answer in my experience. Or light brown which is actually pink-beige because that’s the colour you end up with. It looks warm and neutral on a small scale sample until it’s installed all over your house, inside or outside. A general guideline to follow when choosing an asphalt roof is to choose a darker colour than the body of your house. There’s something grounded and solid about the look that I think really works and reads more classic.

You may seek the help of roofing inspectors who are specialized in roof assessments. Publisher: Adriana Noton Unless you know exactly what you are looking for in a roofing company, you may have a little difficulty figuring out how much it will cost to repair or replace your roof. Publisher: janetjhon There are a number of families who are establishing their own home. This is a problem for those who have no idea. skywaysroofing If you, as a home owner, don't give due consideration to your roof, then sooner or later, you may have to find immense difficulty in residing in the place. Roofing was one of the easiest places to cut corners and least likely to be discovered. Fast-forward to 2010 Whats going on up on your roof today? In many cases shingles are lifting and cracking, nails may be popping up through them, and some shingles may have even come loose or blown off. But you might not even know it. By the time you have a noticeable problem, the damage to your roof and other areas of your home - can be significant.

They need to be handled carefully during installation to avoid chipping corners and cracking tiles. Adding reflective foil in the roof, called sarking, improves energy efficiency. TIP New colour doesn’t stick to the glazed tiles, so they can’t be resprayed. Slate tiles are the most durable roofing material with some slate roofs in Europe lasting up to 400 years. Slate increases the value of a property, it’s a collectable investment. Slate tiles removed from a 150-year-old roof have a good resale value,’ says Sandy Yeates from Bellstone Stone and Slate Specialists. When lifespan is taken into account they’re not so expensive but maintenance also costs as fixing slate isn’t a job for the average DIYer. TIP Matching damaged slates can be hard as no two slates are identical. Fixing slate isn’t usually a job for the average handyperson but new products like Tapco Inspire from Bellstone are changing the rules. The tiles feature guidance for nail placement and overlap. It looks like traditional slate but it’s cheaper, weighs less and is quicker to install. The corrugated iron sheeting that used to cover the outhouse is no more.

I know I personally give an internal sigh of relief that someones interested.

Obviously standing in front of a roofer firing off questions one after another could make you look like an obsessive nutter, any tradesman now and again get’s rogue customers who are a pain to work for. Quality roofing - Most good tradesmen like a customer to be interested in their work and the quality of the finish and normally take pride in it, so they actually like to be asked. I know I personally give an internal sigh of relief that someones interested. From new the most common choices in the UK are… Concrete tiles, Slates - both natural and man made, and fired clay tiles. New tiles and slates often come with a manufacturers or merchants guarantee, that is in addition to the guarantee of craftsmanship and fitting by your chosen roofing contractor.

They also know how to cover exposed nailheads, protecting them against rust and seepage.

You won’t save time or money by trying to fix your own roof — in fact, you’re more likely to waste both, by inadvertently damaging your own roof or doing repairs that will need to be redone later. Roofing company employees know how to lay down roofing felt or some similar material first, then nail the shingles down on top of it. They also know how to cover exposed nailheads, protecting them against rust and seepage. That’s assuming you don’t get hurt doing it by losing your footing. Unlike the people who work at a roofing company, you aren’t likely to have much experience walking around on a sloping roof, possibly with a smooth surface, experiencing occasional gusts of wind.

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Charlotte homeowners are dealing with roofing issues all over town these days youve probably seen signs in your neighbors yards. Charlotte was booming through the mid nineties and early two-thousands. All over town, pastures and woods were being transformed into new subdivisions almost over night. To keep up with the demand - and make as much money as possible builders had to find a way to work faster and more cheaply. Unfortunately, in many cases that meant cutting corners, using cheap materials and even cheap, inexperienced labor. And it meant skimping in areas that a homebuyer was not likely to see. Where could they do that? You guessed it. The answer has been over your head all along.

Getting this aspect of your business right is crucial to your company’s success. He also shares some great time-saving tips. The faster you can complete quality work, the more jobs you can take on (and the happier your customers will be). Speed is definitely an important factor, as long as you can maintain a high level of quality. He shows you how. Use vehicle signs, decals and yard signs to advertise people who drive by your job sites. List your company in local online directories where people search for services. Sign up to receive customer leads through online merchant networks where you pay only per lead. You can find information on these resources and more marketing tips on this page.

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The Counterfeit - Chapter Six

So, the museums girl and the painter boy meet.. wonder how it will go on from here, since they see each other on a rather daily basis and since they seem to go good along each other...

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I wasn't wondering or objecting when he asked me out for lunch about a week after we went for a coffee. After all we got on well together apart from the insurance story. James was wonderful. One you could easily talk to, an attentive listener and one of the few people who'd understand if I wanted to talk about things that happened at work. My family never got used to what I did. Which was why they were never curious or interested. They said it just bored them to death to hear about famous painters and paintings, upcoming events at the museum. They weren't interested about different techniques. But on the other hand they expected me to be polite enough to show interest in the work at states administration or in the problems in the electronic industry. At least that made money, they said. While my full time job wasn't paying more off then a trainee income. That I was lucky to have a job at famous museum was a thing they didn't understand at all. James was different. He always listened to me whenever I wanted to talk about what I did for a living. Actually most of the time I didn't even had to start, because he would start to ask me about my day and how I had spent my time at work as soon as we saw each other either for lunch break or in the evenings, when he was waiting for me outside of the museum. Just like that right now. 

 "And this tour is designed specifically for lovers and couples?". I nodded. "Yes, it's about the love in general and about the love in arts and towards art.". I took a bite of my burger and leaned forward to prevent that I would get mayonnaise on my blouse. He chewed on his burger and looked into the distance. "People get information on the different paintings and what is shown on them. We try to explain them the meta level. And if time permits and my boss approves of it, then we can also supply more information about the artist himself and what he thought of love. ". "Your words in Van Gogh's ear." James chuckled. I gave him a reproachful look. "You shouldn't kidding about such a thing!" I said just taking another bite out of the burger. "And you really think that people come into the gallery on Valentine's Day? Don´t you think that it will be more likely they storm the restaurants. Or the cinema?" James asked, casually pushing one of my curls behind my ear. I just closed my eyes and enjoyed the brief subtle touch. "And what will you do if no one comes?". He paused when he saw my expression. "Don´t get me wrong. I don't mean that the tour is no good. But St. Valentine's day is yet more famous for roses and chocolates, then for paintings. Whether it it has to do with love or not. I think the idea of a guided tour is great. But will the rest of the world have the same idea?". I glared at him. "Apparently so. After all, we have already sold to fifty cards. And received three times as many requests. In just two days. For a small elite evening event that's pretty good." I sounded offended. "My boss had expected something like thirty people. And now she even says that we must perhaps offer another tour. Maybe on the weekend. Since Valentine's Day falls on a Wednesday this year there might be not many to go out for a dinner or something alike. It´s just normal, that would we have the tour on a weekend there might be even more people asking for it.". I proudly stretched my nose high up in the air. "And I may have to ask Amy to take over some tours, if there are to many for me to take care of them. If everything goes on the way it does now." I put in to play.

 James wasn't mad at me because of my anger. Which was one of the things why I loved him. He just giggled. "You get easily offended don't you honey?". "If its unnecessary criticism yes." I observed. "Grace, I do not want you to show off. I was just a little worried that the normal people would not just be interested in art on Valentine's Day. Because they rather know that day for chocolate and roes. That was not meant as.. "he broke off. Then he made an unhappy face. "I'm glad if things are going so well for you. But it's a shame anyway.". I looked at him from the side. "That's because?". "Well don´t  know about you, but I thought maybe we could do something. Together.". He turned to me. "Assuming you´d have no appointment on Wednesday and that you´d like to." he added hasty. "But don't worry, it was just an idea I had. If you don't want, you don't have to. Actually, it was a stupid idea after all, now that I come to think of it." he stammered. "And now that you have work to do...". He put the burger he still had had in his hand down and stared for a while on it. "You mean you wanted to ask me if I´d like to go out with you?". "Yes, I did. Somehow." he said softly. "But its useless, since you got to go to work.". I swallowed. "You really wanted to go out with me?" I asked again. "Yes. If you wanted to go out with someone you just have known for a couple of weeks of course.". A sad smile flickered across his face. I was quite amazed. "But that´s not important anymore. Life has already made a decision for us." he said, picking up his burger and taking a bite. "You have to work." he said with his mouth full. "Yes, unfortunately." I answered. 

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Let's not imply that white collar workers by definition aren't hourly. Like, when I had a white collar job, I had to take a pay cut to attend therapy. My coworkers were on food stamps. I was working full-time but couldn't save enough to pay full rent, let alone move out of my parent's house (which was the only reason I wasn't on food stamps, lmfao).

Tbc now I work in the service industry and I am not disagreeing that my service job is harder than my white collar job was (more total work, more concurrent tasks, fewer breaks, for less pay!)—but I am not here for the implication that unequitable distribution of workers' rights means laborers who have rights don't deserve the rights they have.

Like, okay. Farm workers have no legal right to unionize in the United States. It is completely legal to fire them for even talking about it. So... should we be saying that, actually, hourly non-farm workers shouldn't get improvements to their working conditions either because farm workers are still disenfranchised? I certainly hope not.

I don't know anyone who works on a farm but I still want them to have the right to unionize. I want my Lyft driver to have health insurance and my server at Olive Garden to have a non-tip livable wage and, yeah, I also want some random coder at a startup with no vowels to be able to rest so they aren't literally sick with stress. We're all on the same team!

this article said everything out loud that I feel and stuff down when my salaried 9-5 friends talk about 4-day weeks or how universal remote work has changed their lives