#inhumane working conditions

[hale-nathan]

Trump Weird News - Trump Must Hate Himself As User Of Illegal Aliens!

Caution: Don't Stand Under The "T" in Tower!

[hensunrik]

Can this new gen of drivers get their flat little glute-less asses in gear and strike if the whole cut down free practices proposal goes through because I thought we were all joking but my god it is really looking dire out there

[nineblindingstars]

Frostpunk...

...I mean... it's technically legal as long as the people tolerate me and my laws but...

[hertwood]

i need 2 quit my job

[dayurno]

kevin day is like. he's a child star. he's experienced an incomprehensible amount of labor abuse and inhumane working conditions. he was taken from his home country by a close relative with bad intentions. he's a cult baby. he grew up in captivity underground. every bad thing that could happen to a human being has happened to him at some point. he is happier than most of us when he can kick a ball for a living.

[lisutarid-a]

[Gakuen K] Fushimi Saruhiko Route Translation

Breakdown of cooling function

LIST OF CHAPTERS

[Translation under the cut]

Kukuri: Good morning~! Oh, it's hot again today. I am worried about what it's going to be in the future.

Saya: That's right…It's going to get a lot hotter.

Saya: But it's cooler inside the school, and I'm very thankful for that… Kukuri: That's one of the best things about our school. Also I've never heard of any breakdowns. I think they inspect it frequently.

Kukuri: …Ah, I don't have time to relax! I'm on day duty today, so I'll go first!

Saya: Uhm! See you in class!

Saya: (It's hot, I should hurry a bit too)

Claudia: Okay, I'm going to end today's homeroom. It's very hot today, so please be careful not to get heat stroke.

Saya: (Well, now that class is over, let's go to the club room)

Kukuri: So, it's club activities now? Would you like to join me on the way?

Saya: Uhm, let's go together!

Kukuri: Ice cream~! Nice! Maybe I'll get some too…Or maybe we can make it in the club activities!

Saya: Kukuri-chan is in the cooking club, right?

Kukuri: I'll try to talk it over with the President of the club. If I can find a recipe that looks easy to make, we can make it together at the dorm next time!

Saya: Uhm! I'm looking forward to it.

Saya: Sorry for the intrusion.

Saya: …!!!!!

Saya: (I-It's very hot here…!!)

Fushimi: Oi! Don't block the way.

Saya: Fushimi-kun…

Fushimi: …Ugh! This is more than I expected…

Saya: Fushimi-kun, you said this school is fully air-conditioned, right…?

Fushimi: President informed me that the air cooling function in the department room has broken down. He said it won't be fixed until tomorrow.

Saya: Is that so…Are we going to do club activities today…?

Fushimi: We will. We've been asked to compile these documents by the end of the day.

Saya: I see…

Saya: (It can't be helped, let's get ready)

Fushimi: Leave the door open for now. To let some wind in from the hallway.

Saya: Understood.

Fushimi: Tsk…Why do we even have a club activity in this heat…

Saya: (Fushimi-kun is very irritated…Ah,yes)

Saya: I think I'll go get some ice cream. It'll be a little cooler.

Fushimi: You haven't finished compiling the documents.

Saya: I thought our brains would work more efficiently if we ate ice cream and cooled them down…

Fushimi: Better get it over with and go home. Besides, it'll melt in this room in no time. What if the papers get dirty?

Saya: …Are you saying it's not hot for you, Fishimi-kun?

Fushimi: Of course it's hot.

Saya: You don't look too hot.

Fushimi: It's getting hotter and hotter because you keep talking about how hot it is. Just keep silent and do your work.

Saya: Fushimi-kun, you just said it three times yourself.

Fushimi: …

Saya: But it's really hot, so I can't help but talk about it.

Fushimi: …

Saya: …

Saya: Maybe it's hotter in the clubroom than outside. I think we should do it outside.

Fushimi: …

Saya: Fushimi-kun?

Fushimi: Ha?

Saya: It's still hot, so I'm going to get some ice cream…

Fushimi: Noisy. How many times do you have to say 'it's hot, it's hot' to be satisfied?

Fushimi: If you say it's hot again, I'll have you do all the rest of the tally with the clubroom door closed.

Saya: U-Understood. Won't say it again.

Munakata: …Thank you both for your hard work in this heat.

Saya: Munakata-senpai.

Munakata: How is the work progressing?

Saya: Ah, sorry. We haven't finished everything yet.

Fushimi: This is what happens when you waste your time talking nonsense.

Munakata: But this room is hot. When it is this hot, you can't get into your job.

Munakata: Well, but we can't just keep saying 'It's hot, it's hot'. I know it's hard work in the heat…

Saya: (Munakata-senpai…He's using the word “hot” so much…I wonder if he heard what I said earlier)

Fushimi: Tsk…

Saya: (Fushimi-kun is in a very bad mood…!)

Fushimi: President. What happened to the other members of the Blue club? None of them are coming.

Munakata: Oh, about that. Everyone else is resting today due to heat stroke or summer colds.

Fushimi: …Ha?

Saya: Eh…

Munakata: They were attending classes, but it's because of this heat. It's no wonder they are not feeling well.

Munakata: On the contrary, it's probably a good thing they're having the day off, because the air conditioning just happened to be broken down.

Saya: (Could it be that…Everyone knew about the heat and took a day off…)

Munakata: I'm sorry for both of you, but please work hard to make up for everyone else's loss.

Munakata: Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some work to do in the Student Council Office.

Saya: Okay…T-Thank you for your hard work.

Saya: (I think Fushimi-kun is giving off the most displeased aura ever)

Fushimi: …

Saya: If we stay here, we're going to feel unwell too…

Saya: A-All right! Let's hurry up and finish the tally!

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[holographicbutch]

Begging y'all to think for two seconds before rbing a video of a wild animal in captivity that is CLEARLY not being taken care of properly

[nanamis-bigtie]

year ago what do you mean year ago it was like yesterday aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

[weather-phenomenon]

do you think we'd be able to afford anything if everything was priced at the minimum wage per hour * hours used to create the item? like cld u even afford ur craft supplies if they were priced that way?

[readymades2002]

oh. MY god i hate my job

[mogai-reblog]

You and keno dont speak for all disabled or intersex or poc. We can disagree and that dosent make someone harmful to their own communties. Theres a reason all your posts about it and being shitty towards other actual disabled and intersex people for not agreeing with you about the word freak arnt getting shit tons of notes. We dont agree with you and we dont have to. Move tf on

or maybe its because *gasp* i dont post much and have like,, two followers.

maybe you should stop harassing people affected by the slur and maybe start listening to the more marginalized groups?

i swear this is why i hate LSN ppl. got their heads so far up their asses they're internally bleeding

[akihikosanada]

hoping mangakas and assistants go on strike next i'm so serious

[cntarella]

Tell me you haven’t worked in publishing without telling me…….

1. Cover artists aren’t all specifically commissioned for books. Unless there’s a specific art direction they will use assets from bigger companies cause art directors have to work with an excess of 30+ books PER SEASON. It’s highly likely (and confirmed by Tor) that they bought this asset from a vendor that they weren’t aware was using AI art. Does that excuse usage? No. But it’s also pretty normal that they can’t vet what amounts to literally thousands of assets. They have to trust vendors and sometimes it doesn’t pay off.

2. When an author “approves” a cover, they literally get the jpg and made comments on if they like it or not. That’s basically it. Then it gets sent to marketing and sales, who look at their clients like BN and Amazon and see what’s selling. Even if the author likes it, the sales dept might ask for changes and it’s a protracted fight that usually the sales dept wins—even with big authors. It’s not authors commissioning their own covers 🙄 usually they get several versions and they say yes to the one they like best. Paolini prob had no idea that the cover was not produced in-house.

3. Depending on how big a print run is, the components have to be made in advance. The bigger the print run the more time you need to print more—months ahead especially with the supply shortage in publishing at the moment. They also print ARCs ahead with the cover if it is done by that time to hand out to publications and other authors for quotes and reviews. It’s part of the marketing strategy for cover recognition (but neither here nor there for this point). It just means this cover is OUT. In the world. Likely the jackets have finished printing and they had to make the call to spend more to commission and reprint covers and create more waste—or to go with the first print run of this cover until it sells out and they have to do a second run. Print runs for big authors can run into the tens of thousands of books. As the OP pointed out—this is an author with 24 million books sold. The print run is Not Small.

4. All this leads to—often, publishing imprints don’t have individual budgets for their authors. Their pool comes out of a bigger budget for their authors, and allocated per book of the season depending on their P&L projections. This means they’ve already spent the money on Paolini’s books, and exceeding that by prob more than double given that rush jobs ALWAYS cost more leads to depriving their other smaller authors of their marketing share. Authors who would hurt a lot more than Paolini will if he doesn’t get a new cover.

Thus doesn’t mean that the use of AI art should be accepted as a cost saving measure—just that this fuck up got so far in the process it actively hurts more people than it helps to pull out in the middle of it. If Tor does it again, then yeah they don’t give a fuck about their artists. But them not doing it now is a careful calculation about how much they can give to other authors they also have responsibilities too. Paolini is also not someone who is exactly at fault here, just a lesson that he should ask more questions abt his cover in the future. Given that Eragon was self-published at first before it was picked up and commissioned with a specific artist, he prob doesn’t know all the details of in-house cover making.

[bogleech]

Animation unions are calling for a Laika boycott due to unsafe working conditions and sleazy hiring practices (like firing full time crew just to rehire as temps for less pay and benefits), apparently they also take the Amazon approach of treating workers like inhuman machines.

[taahko]

every so often im struck by the memory of one of my college professors getting very angry with our class (art history of pompeii 250) because when she excitedly detailed the ingenious roman invention of heated floors in bathhouses via hearths in small crawlspaces, we asked who was tending the fires. she said "oh, slaves i suppose. but that isnt the point". and we said that it actually very much was the point. she had just told us that in roman society there were dozens of people, maybe hundreds, who spent every day of their enslaved lives crawling in cramped, hot, smoky tunnels to light fires to warm pools of water (which they were not allowed to swim in). how could that not be the point?

she wanted us to focus on the art, on the innovation of heated plumbing, on the tiles and decorations of the bathhouses, and all we wanted to do was learn more about the people under the floors. and she didn't know anything more about that. in fact, she said she thought we were focusing too much on superfluous details.

it feels almost hokey to put too fine a point on the idea im getting at here but i will anyway: There are a lot of people who are still under the floors. all these beautiful, convenient, brilliant innovations of modern society (think fast fashion, chatgpt, uber, doordash) are still powered by people working in inhumane, untenable conditions.

the people who run these systems want you to focus on the good - who doesnt love warm water? - but if anything is going to improve or change in our lifetimes, you need to examine these things with an attentive, critical, and empathetic eye. and for fucks sake stop ordering from amazon

[marginal-effect]

*holding a flacid hamburger in each hand* okeey so this hamburger supports zionism but this burg is 100% genocide free! oh yeah both have spilled other blood in the production line but ya know