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omfg that is just too adorable
This will always be one of my favorite comics ever. It gives me warm fuzzies~
This is the most perfect.
This kitteh having a little halloween adventure is one of my favourite posts of all time :)
Every fall like clockwork this photo set pops up and we all must reblog it
reblog if you hate the current interior design trend of painting everything white with hints of grey or black. ignore if you have no taste
Real talk time.
Colonialism still exists. The effects of original colonization still exist.
Native Hawaiians cannot afford to live on our own land. Everyday tourism kills us.
We are fined for using our water. We are screamed at by tourists. We are stacked in concrete apartments the size of shoe boxes. Waiting lists for apartments are decades long. The government never provides aid. The money that belongs to us is wasted on half finished monorails and hotels. Tourist take pictures of us like we’re an attraction.
In 2018, the UN acknowledged the present day occupation of Hawai’i. And they did nothing.
“The Living Wage Calculator from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says that one adult in Honolulu needs to make $16.59 per hour for a living wage. If that is a couple with 2 children, each adult needs to make $17.70 per hour.”
-RealHawaii.Co
My culture, my people, are sexualized, ignored and stepped on.
We cannot live. And everyday more of us die.
And no one even notices. So notice. Notice. Notice.
Despite every moment of life being indescribably precious and a wondrous mystery, I will spend it caring about dividends and how many rental properties I have.
Rich people are truly dead inside.
I can't imagine caring this much about numbers that absolutely will never impact my life. This person is making more in passive income than I've ever made in my life and he's just like "but but I need more :(".
I mean, fuck that guy, but psychologically it's interesting.
Some desperate remnant of his soul knows what he needs. As soon as his debt is cleared, he goes on to live what many would call an utterly charmed life: working no more than 20 hours a week, travelling and spending time with friends (which he, at $150,000 a year and no mortgage, has ample money to do). He has a loving relationship also.
But his brain is so rotten that he cannot understand happiness anymore. He is incapable of conceptualising it other than in money.
A man who has everything except the ability to feel it.
How poetic.
But fuck that guy.
I want to hit this man.
I want to rob this man.
Meow appears beside Rogue, holding a sign: "Heist? Heist."
This man is so so so close to realizing a fundamental truth to how humans operate, but I genuinely don’t think he’s going to get there. Although I’m not sure he realizes it this man views the money he earns as a direct translation of his sense of personal achievement and engagement.
Which means that when he says he regrets the months he didn’t pick up more hours to earn more money, what he’s describing here is boredom. He’s doing it in the crassest, shallowest, most income-obsessed and unattainable for most of us way possible, yes. But this man is expressing that once he achieved a certain financial goal he relaxed, enjoyed himself, got bored, realized on some level he was understimulated, and then started working more hours to meet whatever stimulated activity threshold he personally needs.
This is infuriating because this man experienced the counter-argument to that nonsensical talking point that if we meet people’s financial needs with a universal basic income they’ll grow lazy and won't do anything.
Anyone trying to develop $200,000 in passive annual income is not working three minimum-wage jobs to live paycheck-to-paycheck. This man’s basic financial needs were met. Working more hours to make more money is just his own personal code for ‘I still needed to use my mind to do things’ (using what might be the only metric of personal achievement he might actually have). This man lived the argument for universal basic income and I genuinely don’t think he realizes that. Once his basic income needs were met he still needed to do things to keep himself stimulated and engaged with his own life.
You see a version of this play out with retirees who leave their jobs, go home, and very quickly find themselves in need of new activities or friends or engagements to keep them present and stimulated in their lives. Ensuring someone’s basic financial needs are met doesn’t make them stop doing things, humans don’t work that way.
Reblogging for the psychology lessons
There is, I believe, a line in an Agatha Christie story about a man so desperately unhappy he doesn’t know he’s unhappy. “Ah, a rich man,” responds the nun.
please watch this with the sound on, i’m begging you
The dumbest reasons I (flight attendant) have had for flight delays:
Ran out of gas 30 minutes from our destination
The fueller gave us the wrong amount of gas and then went home so we had to spend an hour trying to get ahold of him so he could come back and fix it
Pilot got arrested on the plane for triple homicide
A man snuck on my plane and hid in the bathroom in an attempt to take the flight even though there were no more seats
A pilot had explosive diarrhea in the cockpit
A dog had explosive diarrhea in the cabin
A wasp was in the cockpit and the pilots freaked out
The cleaning crew broke the plane door
A man accidentally opened the overwing exit (while on the ground)
A man purposefully opened the overwing exit "to practice" (while on the ground)
A deer hit the plane
Idk why but villains with standards will always be the funniest thing to me. like you'll get someone who will take absolute pleasure in doing the most vile things but paying their minions less than minimum wage? how dare you insult their honor. there'll be a guy who just loves terrorizing people but if you say something sexist about his sidekick he'll punch you in the throat and step aside with glee to let her pummel you. villains who are like "murder is fine generally but if you're a homophobe then I'll tie you to a boulder and catapult you into the ocean". Idk there's just something innately hilarious about a villain who is very definitively bad, like extremely morally reprehensible, but like there are just certain things that even they won't stoop to, thereby implying that those who do are worse
It’s especially funny when their limits are bizarre or mundane, like villains who are OK with murder, but who draw the line at leaving a shopping cart in the middle of a parking space.
demon: YOU HAVE SUMMONED ME, MORTAL. WHAT DEAL DO YOU WISH TO STRIKE WITH THE POWERS OF HELL?
roomba: [is a roomba]
demon:
roomba:
demon:
roomba:
demon: man c’mon you gotta work with me here a little bit
roomba: *slowly spells on floor* K N I F E
demon: ahhhhh I see. You have heard the legend of Stabby.
roomba: *vibrates excitedly*
demon: *lovingly tapes a knife onto the roomba* no charge
Roomba: >:3
Holy fuck
This works best if you keep windows closed.
Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.
This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.
https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-air-purifier.html
A better more efficient and odor eliminating homemade air purifier than just taping a 20x20x1 filter to a box fan. Sometimes you need to
If you live on the west coast of the United States, fire season is coming and this is vital.
@thebibliosphere, this might be helpful for you…?
Oh hey, the triangle one looks interesting.
my favourite thing in pjo is that sally straight up murdered her abusive partner and sold his petrified corpse as hyperrealistic art
imagine being an art dealer and discovering this new artist with seemingly perfect technical skill, buying their first and ONLY sculpture, then learning she’s retiring from art effective immediately.
I wished Sally secretly kept the head. I would have loved a side story of Sally Jackson having an extravagant art career on the side where she just finds different abusers and sells them off to different museums.
Actually, it would have been even better if it was kept in canon and Percy only casually mentioned it on occasion. Kind of like “My mom is an artist. She has several sculptures now, but she says she’s prefers writing. I don’t think she’ll ever stop with her statues, though. She likes to tell me that it’s her way of making the world a better place.”
And it is never really gone into anymore detail other than casual mentions of “Mrs. Jenson said her husband was missing. So sad. At least her bruises are starting to fade away... completely unrelated, my mom has another art opening this month!” (:
I want this!
Apple propaganda notwithstanding, the reason tower PCs are big isn’t because they’re outdated. The reason tower PCs are so bulky is because they’re designed to be user serviceable. The case has lots of open space so your big, meaty hands can easily access all of the components, and everything is secured with friction-fit tabs and standard machine screws to minimise the need for specialised tools. A properly laid out tower PC is fully serviceable with a single Phillips-head screwdriver and no greater manual skill than your average Lego playset – heck, for some of the more modern case layouts you don’t even need the screwdriver, unless you’re performing major surgery like a full motherboard replacement.
Like, think about who benefits from convincing you that a fully modular computing device that can be serviced and repaired with your bare hands and minimal technical skill is unfashionable.
Reblog if you have made a friend online that you would love to hang with, but they live far away.
*REBLOGS FURIOUSLY*
Oh how I would want to meet my close moots
i rly wanna know like americans and non-americans- were u immunised against chicken pox or did ur parents rather u just get infected as a child??
Happy birthday to the kid who could've been great in Slytherin
I’ve never snorted so hard.
I fucking love this reply so much
I can’t believe OSHA reblogged this without pointing out the lack of complete PPE?? Where’s this dudes hardhat, gloves, and eyeprotection???
@tehnakki I appreciate your concern for this “Rat” (I believe it’s a squirrel), but most PPE is only required when relevant hazards are present. I see nothing in this image that would necessitate the use of a hardhat, work gloves, or eye protection. You can refer to Standards 29 CFR 1910.133,1910.135, and 1910.138 if you are interested in learning more about hardhat, glove, and eye protection requirements.
Regarding the use of a HI-VIS vest, I refer you to Standard 29 CFR 1926.651(d):
Employees exposed to public vehicular traffic shall be provided with, and shall wear, warning vests or other suitable garments marked with or made of reflectorized or high-visibility material.
and I think we all can agree that the employee pictured above is regularly exposed to just such a hazard.
I simply cannot feel sorry for multi-millionaire Scarlett Johansson only earning $20 million instead of $30 million or what the fuck ever because Disney recognised that large parts of the world still can't safely go to the cinema on account of the deadly pandemic and released Black Widow on Disney+ at the same time as in theatres. But then I also support anyone suing Disney for any reason, so you see my dilemma
The case isn’t really about Scarlett Johansson. It’s about setting precedent for the way actors are paid when content is released on screening services going forward, and Scarlett Johansson is pretty unique in her position of both having a valid case for breach of contract and having a large enough platform, following and wealth that suing Disney won’t completely destroy her and her career.
She offered to renegotiate her contract at the point the decision to release on Disney+ was made, and Disney refused, that is what lead to the case.
The overwhelming majority of actors, even actor’s working for Disney are not millionaires, I know that because I am a jobbing actor, and I earn less in a year then either of my siblings, both of whom have office jobs.
When you get a film or television job, in addition to what you’re paid at the time you also get something that in the UK is called royalty fees, and in the US is called residuals. This occurs when the show or film is shown or licensed on another channel or network, almost always for a set period of time, although Netflix has started buying the rights to small indie films outright.
Royalty checks can be hilariously small. A friend I trained with once got one for £2.07 because their show had just been licensed to be shown on a Thai TV network, but more often they are a lifeline for actors. Most actors work minimum wage jobs in between acting gigs, and when you also have the cost of Headshots, Self Tape equipment, travel to auditions and lost wages whenever you have to take time off to prep and travel to auditions, you understand why equity wages are so high for individual jobs, because that one episode in a soap you got paid £800-£1200 for (minus 10-20% for your agent), could be your wage for 2 months and you would be considered a fairly successful working actor, even if it was your only acting job in that time period.
The case isn’t about a multimillionaire quibbling over how many millions she is being paid, although it’s likely that had Black Widow had a prepandemic release Scarlett Johansson would have been paid closer to 200 million than the 20 million she is being paid. Although Disney is pushing that angle hard so I fully understand why you’ve fallen into their propaganda trap. It is one of the very few opportunities for actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, directors, and all the other hundreds of creatives involved in the filmmaking process to challenge some of the status quo with streaming services and really ask questions about how royalties will work in the future.
There is a reason that the unions are backing the case and that’s because the other way around, breach of contract is a huge deal, there can be penalties of hundreds of thousands of dollars for contract breaches, often on jobs where you are paid a fraction of that, and believe me, Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Universal all persue those payments, and in certain circumstances even go out of their way to blacklist the artist.
If breach of contract is a big deal when actors and other creatives do it, it should be just as big a deal when studios do it, but it isn’t because Capitalism is rarely about rewarding artists and all about bottom line profit.
This case has the potential to really change things and help millions of ordinary, jobbing actors and creatives. I am 100% on Scarlett Johansson’s side with this and any reasonable person who cares about the well-being of artists should be too.
^^^^^^^^ this. this right here
And, to add, Scarlett Johansson is already doing it backwards and in heels in Hollywood, where studios NOTORIOUSLY underpay female actors compared to their male co-stars, even in the same damn movie. Remember when it was news that she was paid the same as Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth in the first Avengers movie? I absolutely guarantee you that Disney would have agreed to renegotiate RDJ’s contract if this situation had come up for a hypothetical Iron Man 4.
Also, Disney is pushing the covid angle to get public opinion on their side, saying in their statement reacting to the filing: “The lawsuit is especially sad and distressing in its callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.” which is pretty rich coming from a company that reopened Disney World last July during a spike of cases in Florida. Source
Like people before me said, Johansson wasn’t against the release on Disney+, she just wanted her contract amended accordingly.
I feel like more people need to understand that acting is a job like any other, and the fact that a small number of people who do it get famous and highly paid doesn’t negate that. If you’d get mad about, say, a publisher reusing a series of illustrations without paying anything to the original artist, you should take cases like the above seriously instead of saying “lol actors are greedy.”
