#raising retirement age

[breezingby]

5 MINUTES AGO! Bank of America Sent Out A Terrifying Message... CBDC is Here !!!

[ask-the-shichibukai]

The 10 esteemed founders of the ever-growing "I'm not paid enough for this shit" club:

Marco

Beck

Rayleigh

Ivankov

Dadan

Robin

Bogart

Tsuru

Law

Daz

[sapphic--kiwi]

Gus Week Day 3: Friends

willow and gus taking selfies at the weekly cookout 😗✌️

[bitchapalooza]

Thinking about how Zoro may have mixed and complicated feelings about Koushirou because on one hand that’s his sensei and he was taught to respect his sensei, but on the other hand he caused his own daughter, Zoro’s best friend, so much pain and constantly berated her to her face about how she’ll never be strong like the boys nor will she ever inherit the dojo. Like. Zoro cannot have one straight forward opinion on this man, he HAS to have some back and forth opinions on this guy I mean come on!

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[thevampirearchive]

To be real with you, my goal in life is to work as little as possible. If it means getting a new job every year, every other year — whatever it is, I’ll do it. Just so the freedom i have will feel like free time. Spend doing whatever I desire. Drawing, painting, writing, enjoying nature & it’s creatures.

Sure I have goals, ambitions and desires, but I’d sooner die then make any of them a full time job, snuffing out the light they bring me in exchange for consistant work for consistant content. If they bring me riches by simply being made by me & people enjoying (and paying me), yay me. But never will i make what I love my full time job — unless I’m 100% in control of what/where/when. The goal is not to work and just be a trinquait lady, with a concerning obsession with vampires, a closet full of black garments, who enjoys cooking random dishes and sharing with whomever wishes to come over & feast whiles we talk about the universe.

And when I say that, people look at me crazy. But that’s okay, maybe I am crazy. I just know my lineage has too long of a history of slavery, and I’d like to end it with me — even if it’s modern day slavery. I shell never return to living to work. And do my best working little to live the fullest.

[usa-tnews]

China raises retirement age for first time since 1950s

China will "gradually raise" its retirement age for the first time since the 1950s, as the country confronts an ageing population and a dwindling pension budget.

The top legislative body on Friday approved proposals to raise the statutory retirement age from 50 to 55 for women in blue-collar jobs, and from 55 to 58 for females in white-collar jobs.

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did liz truss shoot trump

[nando161mando]

"The average American celebrates only one healthy birthday after 65"... But we NEED to raise the retirement age!!! 🤡

[changing-my-username]

Woman who is entitled to £115k a year pension at the age of 48 as a former PM thinks retiring at 66 is too young.

[amandabe11man]

france protesting violently bc they raised the retirement age from 62 to 64. meanwhile sweden’s is 65 most of the time and they’re talking about raising it to 67...

[m1shka-moon-bear-feelings]

Take a Spa Day, You Need It

Spas are strange places, and it heavily depends on which one you go to in regards to the experience you will get. However, taking a day to relax, get a nice massage, facial, etc, is crucial to our mental health. Some cultures already have daily rituals of taking designated time for relaxation, such as Spain and their mid-day siestas, or Greece's early retirement age and plentiful vacation days (please work out your EU debts though guys). On the other hand, Americans are absolute workaholics and happily slave away for corporations that hardly give them any paid vacation days if any at all. Not even Japan has such awful work benefits, and the work culture there is even more rigorous than in the States. There's no room for relaxation, only work with a side of a sedentary, unfulfilling lifestyle. There's plenty of attractions, parks, museums, and other landmarks that the United States has to offer, along with some of the most diverse natural beauty in the world, but our labor policies are that of the Gilded Age, with union busting and corporations willingness to abuse their political power being all too prevalent in such a modern time, taking all of this entertainment and leisure away from the workers and taking it all for themselves. We work ourselves to death just so a select few may enjoy the world, its offerings, as well as take leisure domestically (in the context of the U.S). To my workers in the U.S.A, carpe instrumenta productonis (seize the means of production) and carpe diem. Take a day off, call out, submit PTO, and even if they deny it, take that day off anyway, they'll survive without you, and they can't deny you a day off that you need. Don't keel over to them even if they beg you to come in, trust me, they don't care about you. Take care of yourself, get that back massage, and drink some nice alcohol, smoke some weed (responsibly of course), and completely relax, you deserve it.

[emperornorton47]

French demonstration

[minnichan]

Got tagged by @miss-ingno ~

Relationship status: happily single, though if anyone wants a sugar baby without expecting anything in return-

Favorite colour: I guess red? I don't feel too passionate about colours.

Song stuck in my head: none currently, but I'm still listening to Flying Across Time by Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong constantly

Last song I listened to: Word of Honor OP

Three favorite foods: vietnamese summer rolls, curry (viet, indian, japanese), chinese hot pot (yes I cheated with the 3 types lf curry)

Last thing I googled: IKEA opening hours because I need two extra shelves in my BILLY shelf and I was hoping they would be open during the holidays but they aren't.

Dream trip: food trip around Asia

Anything I want: unconditional basic income so I can further reduce my working hours to have time for hobbies. fellow German people do participate in the mein grundeinkommen project and let's be friends to increase our chances :D

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[silvermoon424]

Healthcare, workers' rights, and the like are what the left needs to hyper-focus on in conversations with conservatives. Socialist/leftist ideas are actually extremely popular with most conservatives... as long as you don't actually label them as that.

The ultra-rich have pumped billions of dollars into mouthpieces like Ben Shapiro, whose role is to disseminate propaganda and convince people that all of their woes are because of *insert minority group scapegoat here* instead of capitalism and the 1%. The best way to reach those people is to talk about leftist ideals while presenting them as "common sense" and apolitical (which they should be anyway!).

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[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

The World, for the Rook asks!!

Thank you!! From this tarot themed ask game 😊 For my Juniper Aldwir rook!

The World: What does happily-ever-after look like for Rook? Is it attainable, or just wishful thinking?

Juniper is 100% keeping the Lighthouse/Eluvian network. For one I think it'd be kind of irresponsible to just... leave all that open and unregulated???? People besides the Veilguard are just wandering through now with faction leaders visiting here and there according to the codex (and in the patch you even meet a designated crossroads messenger), plus Venatori & Antaam & demons kept kept getting zapped inside it by the gods. I mean we killed a lot of those but presumably some got tumbled in without us there yknow? So I think she would recognize that 1. this is an incredibly valuable resource in terms of movement of people/goods around the continent (ok well Lucanis comprehends this and impresses it on her) and 2. it would be very easy for people to misuse this system and 3. it's a very dangerous place for untrained people to be wandering around, since from letters/etc you can find people do seem to get sucked in unwillingly and unable to get out.

SO I think she'd put some sort of group together for stricter monitoring on Eluvian travel--probably through the Veiljumpers (her faction)/other volunteers. But they DO GET PAID (thanks Lucanis he also came up with this one) by incorporating currier or escorted travel service with this to keep everyone fed/armed/etc. Since that sort of thing pays (Rook argues that picking the pockets of Venatori/Antaam ALSO pays since that's how she made most of her money in Veilguard but Lucanis says this is impractical or whateeverrrrr).

Juniper specifically though is working on mapping the Crossroads. She's going to bully the Caretaker into bringing her to the other islands that are out there eventually it's fine. And figuring out how exactly the crossroads function separately from the Fade. Due to her pre-game fallout with Strife she wouldn't ever feel comfortable rejoining the Veil Jumpers fully but this is a similar sort of magic-science she was doing before anyway. Probably, the wishful thinking here is that this all goes smoothly, and in reality it will become a political mire as various countries leadership will probably start trying to stake claims on parts of the crossroads or argue about access or whatnot--another reason to lock them down asap before they can start warring with each other about it.

Lucanis... I wish I could get him out of the Crows but realistically I don't think it'd happen for a while. So he'd be doing First Talon stuff while Juniper is busy with all the above, but beyond each of their occasional work travel they get back together at either the Lighthouse or Dellamorte Estates most nights. The perks of owning the magic fast transit system is even when you're working in different countries by day you still get to come home for dinner yknow? I do think Juniper grows more and more wary/exasperated with the whole Crows deal once she gets more exposure to Caterina and finding out more about Lucanis' childhood. Also because that's pretty much the worst MIL situation you can ask for. I think in Juniper's wishful thinking version, she & Lucanis would just run away from it together/he'd join her fun romps through unexplored lands, but she recognizes he's tied too much of his idenity to his job and it probably will take 10-15 years to get him less brainwashed about it.

Before all that though they are taking that vacation to whatever is left of Orlais to go wyvern sightseeing of course, though 😌 And dear Sluge the electric aqueous tadpole has beautiful mudpits at both the Lighthouse and Dellamorte mansion (to Caterina's annoyance).