ppl are so annoyingĀ āyou canāt paint ur bedroom pink youāre an adultā i did not spend my entire life waiting to grow up and control my life to paint my bedroom beige
āBy creating the exit, Yousuf estimated that about 70 people were able to get out of the nightclub safely.ā He saved 70 people. Thatās 70 more peopleĀ that could have died that night. This is so important.
i found out recently that the very first trees did not rot when they died because the microbes that decompose trees hadnt evolved yetā¦which makes sense but itās weird to think about. this actually caused a huge change in the climate at the time and many of these trees turned into coal because of itā¦
like imagine a tree falling in the forest and the trunk just stays there for years and years with little change, and it only goes away when it is buried under dirt. thatās weird.
So y'all talk about this like itās a joke, but the exact same time is happening today with plastics, except todayās microbes are a bit quicker on the uptake. Theyāre still new at it, but Earthās decomposers are hard at work learning how to eat polyester.
*ancient microbe voice* kids these days have it so easy. mutating to feed on new materials within a century? In my day it took us a millenium at minimum! we had to metabolize uphill in the snow both ways!
*even more ancient microbe voice* pfeh, typical oxygen-breather attitude. you think you had it rough but YOU have those fancy MITOCHONDRIA.
we all know capitalism is fucking evil but one of my favorite stories to tell from Retail Hell is that time my district manager got annoyed that 2 poor people were taking food out of the dumpster occasionally so he told us all to start pouring bleach over all the items we threw out so people couldnāt use them/it would hurt them if they touched it directly. never did that and absolutely have participated inĀ āemployee theftā by stealing bags of food from the dumpsters to donate to the local food bank but like. he really did just want us to directly harm people over food that was already in the literal trash.
when managers and CEOs get up in arms aboutĀ āemployee theftā theyāre actually talking about people like me who donāt throw out the 30 pairs of shoes that we werenāt able to sell and instead bag them up and throw them behind the dumpster for retrieval/donation later. I once took home $450 of food and another night got $500 worth of makeup. Perfectly good electronics get thrown away bc the packaging was tampered with. We throw away food, cosmetics, and household products 30-60 days before their expiration dates (which are also kinda bullshit anyway). The whole retail model is structured around this idea of massive waste.Ā
the queen could literally intervene and stop british children from being so malnourished that there has been a widespread return of rickets in the country but she wonāt. kate and baldy could do something about this instead of going to various ex-colonies of britain and lecturing locals about the dangers of having too many children whilst they are expecting their third inbred freeloader but they wonāt. megan markle and ginger are going on a Ā£120,000 honeymoon. whilst children forced into poverty by the tories fill their pockets with food at school just to get through the weekend. the lifestyle and entitlement of the royal family remains absolutely and completely morally indefensible.
You do not misgender a transgender person even if you dislike them personally.
You donāt fat shame a fat person even if you find them morally repulsive as an individual.
in the same spirit, please stop shaming women for āaging poorlyā, even if theyāre racist scum. Not because they donāt deserve to be mocked, but because there are vulnerable people that see themselves in your insults. In this society hyper fixated on womenās youth, a lot of women who cannot shield themselves behind wealth or fame, already ashamed they might be aging fast, are hearing you make fun of other women for āaging like milkā. and even if you would never insult them to their face, they still hear how looking āoldā as a woman is ridiculous, laughable, worth of scorn.
You want to make fun of a woman for being bigoted and racist? Perfect, attack the traits that you want to attack and mock that woman for being bigoted and racist! That simple!
please stop mocking people for physical traits they cannot control
there are always good people who share the same traits and youāre making them feel ashamed just because you couldnāt find anything better to mock in a particular person you dislike
you wouldnāt mock someone for being fat or looking old if you didnāt already thought those traits were laughable. DISLIKING A PERSON IS NOT A FREE PASS TO VOICE YOUR PREJUDICES
Just so weāre clear, if I point out that you did something racist, thatās not the same as me thinking youāre irremediably terrible. You did a racist thing.
You think you donāt do racist things, homophobic things, etc? You do. I caught myself in fat phobic and homophobic lines of thinking/speech just this morning. Iām fucking gay married. Nothing disqualifies you from acting in a way that reflects the society you exist in. We are obliged to fight it. Why not fight it in honesty and with camaraderie?
OK BUT THE THREAD??? Tumblr this is what kills me, you screenshot an amazing Tweet but donāt link to the source or UNROLL THE THREAD! So then I have to go read Twitter myself and lose my entire goddamn mind. Anyway!
hereās the OP and hereās the followup:Ā
There was another amazing thread on how fucked the Dominoās pothole-filling squad was, but this was from the same poster so it was easy to find. The other thread was about the concept ofĀ āprevailing wageā and how Dominoās was surely paying their workers minimum, meaning the job wasnāt going to skilled tradesmen and is further aiding the slippage of the former middle classes into poverty, but now I canāt find it. Anyway! Thereās some underpinnings for that punchline.
Legitimate *pro bono legal services* donāt exist without a good reason. In a few of the exmormon groups Iām in youāll see regular posts saying stuff like āLook what my lawyer sent me today!ā with a pic of their resignation confirmation letter from the church.
You know. Just stuff that a normal average church that is definitely not actually a cult would do. ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
As an ex-mormon, Iām gonna look the fuck into this. I want nothing to do with the church that shaped so much toxicity about my self image and my sexual orientation.
Ex mormon here - this guyās legit. The Mormon holds your files for eternity, and when they find out that youāve moved to a new area, they will send members and missionaries from that region to harass you. I know this sounds like dystopic bullshit, but they followed my father through three moves before he rejoined the church.
Also ex mormon here who used this. Itās a ridiculously helpful service that is incredibly easy to use. They keep you updated throughout the whole process, and itās totally worth it since the church doesnāt get to keep all your private information and pass it around once you resign :)
I once dated a rich guy and if I saidĀ āHey itās illegal to drink on the streetā heād respond withĀ āNah, it just costs Ā£150ā³, orĀ āYou canāt park here!āĀ āYeh I can it costs Ā£35ā³ likeā¦ literallyā¦ thatās how he saw fines, it was just how much you paid to do the thing.Ā
Reminds me of the double red lines in London. They exist because rich people kept parking on double yellow lines (which meanĀ āno parkingā in the UK) and then just paying the fines. So London started putting double red lines on major roads. If you park on double red lines, they donāt give you a ticket. They tow your car away and crush it.Ā
That just means the fine for parking there isĀ āHowever much your car and the things in it cost youā
Set and adjust fines based on the wealth of the person responsible. If theyāre a millionaire, $200,000 for parking in a place that is Dangerous to people is reasonable, it wonāt endanger them, but it WILL make them regret breaking the law, and think twice before doing it again, like a fine is Supposed to Do.
Iām sure that crushing the car of a rich or even upper middle class person is a big inconvenience to them, but for a lower class worker it can be the event that makes them homeless. Fines should be based on wealth. š
controversial opinion but u shouldnt have to pay for stuff that would kill u if u didnt have it??? like not to be that commie bitch but everyone should have access to clean water and food and health care cause without it people literally die. like. actual human lives!
Hey to the people who donāt think they should have to pay for basic services: let me tell you some truths. You already are. But right now youāre paying for the disasters that result from lack of access to basic services. And the worst part about it? Even if you donāt believe in giving out āhandoutsā? Even from the most heartless, purely pecuniary perspective?? Weāre currently spending more money putting out the social fires caused by the lack of support services than it would cost to actually provide support services. So, like, even if you want to be a disgusting, selfish, heartless dickhead, itās still in your best interest to feed the hungry, house the homeless, and give people access to healthcare before they get sick.
Tini Owens, who wants to divorce Hugh Owens after 40 years of marriage, loses case
A woman who wants to divorce her husband of 40 years because she says their marriage is unhappy has lost her case in the supreme court.
Five justices upheld rulings by a family court and the court of appeal that Tini Owens must stay married to Hugh Owens.
Tini, who is in her late 60s, wants a divorce. She says her marriage to Hugh, who is in his 80s, is loveless and has broken down.
She says he has behaved unreasonably and that she should be allowed to end her marriage. Hugh, however, refuses to agree to a divorce and denies her allegations about his behaviour. He says that if their marriage has irretrievably broken down it is because she had an affair, or because she is āboredā.
so i know that tumblr is super focused on the usa and womenās rights over there, but this is really fucking important case in uk law
unlike the us, the uk doesnāt have no fault divorce. you have to have been married for at least one year before filing for divorce, and then you have to pick one of five grounds under which divorce is permitted
adultery - 14% of divorces, but only counts if you didnāt continue as a couple for six months afterwards, unless the affair is still ongoing or thereās more acts afterwards. fun fact, however - if you are in a civil partnership instead of a divorce, you canāt use this ground at all! really fucking shitty, am i right?
desertion - if your spouse left you for more than 2 years in the last 2 and a half, then this ground is usable. only 1% of divorces are under this ground, however
2 years separation - 27% of divorces, as it requires mutual agreement between the couple
5 years separation - 13% of divorces, this is what the court has told ms owens she has to use, and she can only file under this ground in 2020. this is used in cases when your partner objects to the divorce, shittily enough
unreasonable behaviour - 45% of divorces, and this is what ms owens used when she filed. to quote the governmentās page on divorce, your spouse must have ābehaved in such a way that you cannot reasonably be expected to live with themā, with examples of abuse, violence, and drugs/alcoholism
(note - scotland has slightly different divorce law, as it changes the 2 years separation to 1, and the 5 years separation to 2. no much better, but a little)
and long story shortā¦ three different courts (the family court, the appeals court, and now the supreme court) have all declared the examples ms owens used to be insufficient
now, the president of the supreme court, lady hale, said she found this āvery troublingā, and another judge said he was very reluctant to give this judgement, and my thoughts on that areā¦.. ehĀ
unlike the usa, judicial activism is generally a no-no, and so both the appeals court and the supreme court have said parliament would need to amend the 1973 matrimonal causes act, which laid out the grounds for modern divorces
which reallyĀ needs to happen as the last time divorce law was updated was in 2004, when the government mandated that if a transgender person was to legally transition, they needed to divorce their partner before they were allowed to. which is itsā own entire bullshit, tbh, and has been repeatedly brought up as an example of how shitty the uk is wrt transgender rights
so yeahā¦. iām pretty sure a campaign is going to start because of this case and the supreme courtās ruling, and iād really appreciate it if non-uk people would raise awareness of this gigantic goddamn issueĀ in our country
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