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personally i think you should be able to afford a place to live with a part-time job

dare i even say that, with how much technology has advanced in america, the 40 hour work week shouldn’t be as commonplace and you should still get full-time employment benefits when you’re working less than that actually

ouroborosorder

I sometimes feel very alienated from this website. I’ve had a complete sobbing breakdown over doing cable maintenance and the idea of finding that experience sexy in any way, even if performed on a cute robot girl, is so very alien to me

ouroborosorder

actually this is a very funny dynamic. robot girl who is getting turned on by doing internals maintenance, and her exhausted engineer who has been trying to get this I/O pin in place for the last 20 minutes and is on the verge of tears after her anti-static band’s clamp broke and just wants to go back to playing slay the spire

lazer-screwdriver

This comic makes me so stupid emotional. She might have never known.

magnus-rhymes-with-swagness

hey reminder that connecting humanity is extremely low on esims rn and desperately needs esim donations and also that there are a lot of cool things you can get in exchange for a donation

knuckle

This is your reminder that without eSims, many people in Gaza cannot reach the rest of the world. To their loved ones overseas to the people who have donated to their fundraisers hoping to keep them alive. The Israeli government has issued repeated communications blackouts, trying to cut us off from Gaza. Even when there are not "official" blackouts, telecommunications are dangerous; Palestinians like Medo have died in makeshift tent cafes trying to access the internet and reach us. In Gaza, infrastructure has been severely damaged, despite the brave and hard work of people in Paltel on the ground. Do not think that because you read a headline about a communications blackout ending, eSims are not needed; Israel has already laid groundwork to cut Gazans off from the world - eSims work independent from the Israeli government and can provide data and phone service, an essential lifeline.

If the process of donating an eSim yourself seems daunting, you can contribute to the Crips for eSims fund directly here:

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

zoesupreme

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the Bi

rherlotshadow

Perfect things: conkers, briefly glossy, fresh from their white-velvet-lined, green-prickled cases.

#conkers omg #reminds me of my first time reading roald dahl's boy #or was it danny the champion of the world

huffy-the-bicycle-slayer

I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?

huffy-the-bicycle-slayer

FINE! I'll do it myself

ieafy

swimming with opah

#FISH #art art art

huariqueje

Day lilies and orange vase - Lucy Culliton, 2018,

Australian,b.1966-

oil on board, 60 x 60 cm

#art art art

sosuperawesome

itsallinsideus on Instagram

#art art art

striders

my record player is cheap as shit and the needle keeps skipping so i put a tiny pig on it as an arm weight

it’s lighter than a coin and working perfectly so i’m just gonna. not bother the pig

thirteensfavoritetoy

Glad to know that record player technology has seemingly made zero advancements since I was taping pennies to mine back in the 70s

necrosystem

The technology has advanced a lot, there's a pig now.

triflesandparsnips

^ Neolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic farmers to a bunch of hick Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherers, probably.

imsobadatnicknames2

U.S. conservatives always talk about creating jobs but get SO MAD whenever anyone mentions banning prison labor like imagine the insane ammout of jobs that would be created literally overnight if companies in your country had to actually employ people instead of using slave labor from people that got caught with weed 10 years ago.

arabian-knight

Daily reminder that the US, who love to scaremonger about "communist labour camps," have legal slave labour if you're in prison

shu-of-the-wind

okay so as much as this post punches above weight on its own i need people to know exactly how many industries in the us are using prison labor, because it is many more than you think:

about 2/3s of prisoners in the united states work and most of those people make nothing for their work. if they make any money it's averaging 52 cents (that's $0.52) per hour and most of the money gets withheld for "room and board, taxes, and court cost" by the prison. some states, including alabama, arkansas, florida, georgia, mississippi, south carolina, and texas, pay nothing. here is a 150 page ACLU report on this that was published in 2022. if you refuse to work you might be sent to solitary or have your parole chances destroyed. there are no labor protections. people get killed. incarcerated people produce billions of dollars a year and almost never get paid.

there are basically three forms of prison labor. the first is labor inside of prisons to keep the prisons running. which means that if they let people out? their admin goes down. which is a reason to not let people out. the second is work release, providing inmate labor to private companies at offsite locations, like poultry plants, cattle and dairy farms, and other agricultural services. (this includes firefighting. incarcerated people are saving your fucking lives for less than five bucks a day.) the third is production of goods for external sale, including farm work, manufacturing, call center, distribution services, and others. and yes, before you ask, this includes immigration detention, which may i remind everyone is made up of civil detainees; immigration violations are not crimes but civil violations and people are trapped and exploited in private prisons and then utilized for profit.

this is legal because of the thirteenth amendment to to the US constitution, which states (and this is a direct quote), that "neither "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the united states[.]"

colorado banned prison labor five years ago but prisoners say it's still going on as of november 2023. there are other state initiatives trying to get prison labor banned, but when the government literally relies on incarcerated people to keep running, it's an uphill fuckin road.

companies which use prison labor or sell products made by prison labor include:

walmart

kroeger

target

aldi

whole foods

mcdonald's

wendy's

starbucks

sprint

verizon

victoria's secret

the dairy farmers of america

dickinson frozen foods

badlands quilting

pizza hut

hickman's egg ranch

fidelity investments

jc penny

american airlines

avis rental cars

the oregon department of motor vehicles

3M

allstate insurance

american apparel

american express

costco

enterprize

fedex

frito lay

hertz

HP

little caesars

kfc

office max

sara lee

xerox

and so many others.

runninghands

The problem and practice is so pervasive it is honestly really difficult to boycott and divest from products produced by prison labor. Sometimes we can search and find out if a company uses prison labor, sometimes it just feels unknowable. Sometimes those companies are your only option for internet service.

queerautism

Companies also love to market a product as "made in America" without clarifying it was made by prison labor. If something says it was made in America but gives zero further details, be very wary of it. Shit that is marketed towards a conservative audience absolutely loves to do this especially.