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shopkeeper

if your water breaks… i will fix it.

shopkeeper

no... i will be the best wife wolf... nothing stands in my way anymore...

driflloon

the gif of sasuke knocking over the glass of water with the caption “Is Nothing Easy?” is the best image on this site

everythingungodly-deactivated20

#is nothing easy

daily-memory-of-touch

You thought this was a rabbit? They thought this was a rabbit. That's fucking funny bitch, this is fucking Winnie the fucking Pooh. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck 4th of July

everythingfox

Wimdy

amvs

More than 30 demonstrators arrested ahead of Senate vote over Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ that could leave millions uninsured

[video description: footage of disabled protestors at the capital. Text reads: Disabled protesters are arrested and zip-tied for protesting Republicans' Medicaid cuts. More text, over a shot zooming into a zip-tied wheelchair user, reads "This is Trump's America".Protesters in the background say "No cuts to Medicaid!" /end video description]

[image descriptions: The first photo shows protestors surrounded and being handcuffed by Capitol Police. The second photo shows the protesters. The third photo shows a man in a wheelchair, a screen in front of him reading "all he wants to do is kill people with disabilities." The fourth photo is the same, just zoomed in on the text. /end id]

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lackluster-cloverfield

sufferingthunderbirdsfan

Tornado May 15, 1968 in Charles City, Iowa.

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victusinveritas

k0sher

The game op (in the screenshot) mentions is available now, by the way!! It’s called The Ghost And The Golem, and it’s currently only $4.79 during the steam summer sale!! It’s entirely text-based, basically a choose-your-own-adventure story, but it’s very engaging and entertaining! As of the time of writing this I have only finished chapter one, but it has been really fun so far!!

svartikotturinn

This has Judith Kagan’s name written all over it (figuratively! credit where due)

adolere

Now that it's disability pride month, I want to remind people that being disordered doesn't mean you are immune to being ableist.

Yes this includes personality disorders.

Yes this includes autism.

Yes this includes PTSD.

Yes this includes people with high empathy.

Yes this includes physically disabled people.

Yes this includes cripplepunks.

No one is immune to ableism. Not Me, not you, not anyone. What we can do is recognize our mistakes and try to improve upon them and ourselves.

maculategiraffe

you know the big problem with detective fiction nowadays is that all the detectives are fucking cops

like acab obviously but apart from that they're simply boring as hell. fuck off with your crime solving you're literally just doing your stupid job. the only people who should be solving fictional crimes are civilian vigilantes. little old ladies, short dithery priests, upper class twits with ptsd from world war one, well-heeled young ladies accidentally named after famous courtesans, etc.

neurodivergent private investigators can stay but you're on thin fucking ice

plum-soup

It’s because detective fiction is no longer detective fiction, it’s copaganda. Like the artistic merits of the crime fiction/mystery/hard boiled genre have mostly been cast aside in favor of plots and characters designed to exaggerate and romanticize the importance of the police force to the smooth functioning of society

elodieunderglass

Thanks for the upper class twits representation OP , I owe you

queersatanic

What’s interesting is that the detective genre starts out as all upper class twits, and yet “the detective genre” as a stereotype is largely a reaction to this, following Dashiell Hammett and then Raymond Chandler.

Hammett talked specifically about how “Red Harvest” was a reaction to the stories he thought were unrealistic, upper class murders for esoteric reasons in bottle settings. Hammett—who had been a fucking Pinkerton—wrote murders that were senseless, because someone was jealous or drunk or just had a gun and saw someone they hated.

But Hammett, and even more so Chandler, wrote about cops in a pre-Dragnet landscape where everyone took for granted that cops were corrupt brutes who’d rob you, frame you up, beat the shit out of you in jail, etc. Private detectives were on the rough end of cop treatment and sought out because cops were known to be useless as it came to justice.

Crime fiction like Donald Westlake, especially under the pen name “Richard Stark” for his Parker novels, and to some extent even Elmore Leonard, seem to carry forward that ambivalence about cops. Except there, the mystery is how their characters get away with their crimes and cops are antagonists often shown to be no matter, sometimes worse.

Point being: detective fiction got gobbled-up by other forms of copaganda, with private detectives, like superheroes, being transformed into cops with even less oversight. Or the detectives are literal cops inside the department.

It’s a really alien world you go back to when an ex-Pinkerton could write about cops being absolute scum bags with no real controversy to now where Marvel or Brooklyn 99 make shows for the ostensible “left” in the United States, and every single element is designed to affirm the necessity and integrity of police as an institution.

dispatchesfromtheclasswar

trekwiz

Ok, but if you’re an independent contractor in the US and this happens? Find a lawyer, because you might have just gotten a huge payday.

Your position was just referred to as employment. Independent contractors do not have employers; they do not have employment. Congrats, your contact at this company just provided evidence that you were illegally missclassified.

This contact is claiming that you have set hours you’re obligated to fulfill. Unless a work task can only be done at a set time for practical reasons (i.e. you’re an audio freelancer paid to support a live event that occurs at a particular time and requires a certain amount of pre-show setup), a company cannot set an independent contractor’s work hours. This is further evidence that you were missclassified.

The whole exchange establishes that the company is interpreting an employer-employee relationship rather than expecting a service. Discipline and potential for firing (you cannot fire an independent contractor; no longer purchasing their service is not equivalent) establish that this person views themselves as a manager. Independent contractors cannot have managers.

This one text exchange could:

Get you back pay for the full duration you’ve worked there, to bring you up to the compensation that an employee would have gotten

Get you back compensation for lost benefits that an employee would have gotten

Get you back pay for the additional self-employment taxes the company should have covered

Get the company to pay back taxes to the government

Get the company to hire everyone who performed a similar role, or face further penalties and fines

A win would encourage the rest of their missclassified workers to sue for the same, or give them leverage to demand a better deal

If the company is going to screw you over like that, may as well make them pay for it.

trekwiz

Since this is getting a lot of reblogs, here’s a federal source that can help you determine if you’re illegally classified as a contractor:

You can also file a form with the IRS to force the company to correct your classification (assuming you meet the criteria), without necessarily having to sue:

Learn how to determine whether a person providing a service to you is an employee or an independent contractor.

Keep in mind that this is just federal. Most states also prohibit missclassification as an independent contractor; and even if states have more lenient rules, companies still have to comply with this federal law. The rules have largely been bipartisan and existed for decades, so they’re common.

States also have an interest in having regulations about missclassification: it’s a significant loss of tax revenue. Your self employment tax does not fully equal what a company would have paid for you in payroll taxes.

A lawyer can help point you in the right direction if a company is currently missclassifying you.

antique-scarecrow

Fantastic addition

nintendont2502

shoutout to the brief civil war that went down on the balatro subreddit today

nintendont2502

mods add a flair for AI art

user makes a post calling out that flair, and suggesting that AI art should be banned from the sub

comments are filled with people agreeing with the OP... and one (1) mod vehemently disagreeing and defending the decision to keep AI art

said mod locks the comments on the post, pins their own comment addressing the drama (which starts with "Meowdy"), and basically tells everyone to shut the hell up and that theyre keeping AI art on the sub because theres nothing wrong with it

mod makes a post on another balatro romance/nsfw sub that they mod, clarifying the rules - and casually throwing in a mention that AI art is allowed in that sub, right in the middle. everyone in the comments disagrees. the mod doesnt listen

someone makes a poll on the main subreddit asking if people want AI art to be banned. the poll is overwhelmingly in support of the ban - before its deleted by that same mod

mod makes another statement claiming that they reached out to playstack (the publishers of balatro) who said they were completely fine with and endorsed AI art on the subreddit

*localThunk* (the developer/creator of balatro) makes a post that basically goes. No we never said that. No I don't endorse AI art at all. playstack also comments on that post clarifying that they never told the mod that they endorse AI art, just that they're leaving enforcement of the sub rules up to the mods

the mod just completely made all that shit up

AI art is now banned on r/balatro

feralratbitesu

i hate the minecraft world border. why is it just a boring blue force field when the farlands is RIGHT THERE. imagine if the bounding box of ur minecraft world were unfathomable geometric anomalies that just protrude out of the ground... cmon..

feralratbitesu

imagine if they went up wayy up. not full build height but maybe above the cloud line. remember how the nether used to be on old console editions? surrounded on all sides by giant bedrock walls? think that but in the overworld. itd really make the world feel like a actual sand box........

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