#we need legislation

[dancesingay]

Even though Amazon is talked bad about as an employer, they're the only viable full time entry level jobs available right now and part of the reason is because they put almost every industry out of business.

Another job viable for people, especially immigrants, disabled, and neurodivergent people that's being phased out is uber and taxi services. The self driving car is not only unsafe, it's actively taking jobs. I trust a human more than a self driving car (especially living in a coastal city with cliffs).

We need legislation to protect our jobs and automate industries that are dangerous for humans to do. I went to my local job center, do you know what they were hiring for? Coal miner. What century are we living in? Humans deserve safe and clean jobs. Have the robots mine the coal.

Look at this little guy, he yearns for the mines.

[asthedeathoflight]

Feel like as a society we really need to get a handle on believing simultaneously "trying to interrogate who is 'really' trans and deserves access to gender affirming care is pointless. Everyone, cis or trans, has the right to the body they want even if that doesnt make 'sense' to typical notions of gender" and also "trans women are really women for real. Trans men are really men for real. Non binary people are really something other than vanilla man or woman for real."

[frogeyedape]

I am so unbelievably pissed off. FUCK HOAs

Oh, my trash/recycling bin can't be visible except on pickup day? Ok whatever fine I hate you but I can deal with this

Weekly inspections?????? FU FU FU FU FU

SECOND NOTICE ALSO WE'RE CHARGING YOU MONEY TO SEND YOU CERTIFIED MAIL OF THIS TOTALLY LEGIT TOTALLY SECOND NOTICE OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY A VIOLATION cue me: checks notes. Hmm. My recycling bin was. on the curb. on recycling pickup day. You know. The day it has to be out. The day it is motherfucking ALLOWED TO BE FUCKING OUT AND VISIBLE.

so. 1) not a violation

I have sent them the trash AND recycling pickup schedules, which are DIFFERENT, btw

I have disputed the fact of the violation

I have disputed the linking of this "violation" to a previous violation MONTHS AGO--their "first notice" in this case was a "Courtesy Notice" LITERALLY 5 MONTHS AGO and they've done so many inspections since then and my bin CLEARLY WASN'T OUT IN THOSE INTERVENING MONTHS so WTMFH

So I am posting like a crazy person here instead of sending the absolutely deranged email I almost sent (I did send a slightly less deranged version with the disputes, and requesting a hearing)

OMG. It has been. Less than one hour since I learned this fun fun news. My bin was out YESTERDAY, y'all. YESTERDAY. I am going to blow a gasket

[austin-friars]

another fun project I want to work on and put together, is just writing about queer historical figures, and historical figures that i actually suspect were gay, queer, etc. not just tudor era people but like...just queer people both confirmed, and speculated through history.

[werewolfetone]

It's so fun how studying history you don't realise how ridiculous some of the terms you've read so many times that they don't register to you as anything but what they mean are until you say the words whiteboy act aloud in your most serious voice to someone and they lose it

[bellamysgriffin]

while i do still wanna say a sincere fuck you to anyone who discouraged people from voting for kamala by saying that she was just as bad as trump, i also am exhausted at still seeing leftist/liberal infighting over who is responsible for losing the election everywhere. like. we lost! it's over. we cannot un-lose. we can reorganize next time after the fire is put out and hopefully do better, but we're literally on fire and i'm tired of everything about the trump administration resulting in ppl saying "this is because u guys didn't vote for kamala."

yes. true. what the fuck now

[creepyscritches]

Man it is worth pointing out that the ACA is a living piece of legislation. Like every year updated protocols and guidelines release to the whole industry from CMS (gov oversight) and I educate professionals in my field on the changes each time. It was built intentionally to be an evolving and improving system that can handle more and more people each year. The ACA is not a stone tablet; it's an arm of federally protected benefits like Medicare that is inherited and maintained and built up by sequential administrations. It is WORKING, it's so reassuring to see it become so intertwined with our American health care model that an entire wing of the industry is now dedicated to the ACA.

Yeah, we want a better health care system, of course we do!! That's why so many people dedicate their careers to supporting the ACA!!! THIS is the fish crawling onto land that can eventually become a health care system that treats us with dignity. We just have to keep evolving it into a more equitable and accessible option. I vote with my head mostly tuned into future health care + research policies and it makes my goals much clearer. Biden has spent 2 separate administrations leading the Cancer Moonshot research funding initiative that has contributed significantly to the boom in cancer breakthroughs. Trump suggested we drink bleach for covid. I trust one significantly more than the other to continue funding ACA and NIH initiatives and interests 🤷

[sexynetra]

Anetra’s reaction is so pure 😭 the “WHAT” and immediate look of oh shit sorry is sending me

[kalosdyke]

art has a human soul

[bameme]

Conservative memes are like "I'm just gonna claim teachers are turning children into cannibals and it's on you now to prove that they don't".

[vonlipvig]

he should have. AND made out sloppy style.

[le-agent-egg]

this probably won’t reach anyone but i still think it’s important to say: with everything that has happened in the US with the election. if you are trans, and want to come to canada because you believe it’s a safe haven, at the very least don’t go to alberta. it’s becoming a shithole here for trans rights. especially for youth. please be careful.

[thornheartfelt]

Save me f/os, save me (<- has an animal welfare and ethics exam that is 3 hours long tomorrow)

[regulationlistener]

its really so absurd to me that even among people that believe climate change is real the popular belief seems to be "and anyone that tries to do anything to mitigate it is annoying and an idiot" like what are you talking about

[thealogie]

is there any group of lawyers building an effort to protect jobs in the arts from ai layoffs?

That’s not really something that can or should be handled by a group of lawyers. Well, at least not in the sense people are thinking. Many law makers (ie members of Congress and senators) are lawyers and they should be doing something. It’s also something that unions have and will continue to fight to put in contracts (and they’re aided by lawyers but the primary activists are actually not lawyers).

Lawyers are however very much working to deal with the effects of AI on existing legal issues like copyright, privacy/sexual harassment, right of publicity etc.

[nando161mando]

We Need Legislation Against Ghost Jobs and Data Scumming