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a true fact about spiders is they can’t run for extended periods of time because they have asthma. all spiders are nerds. even tarantulas. have you ever seen a spider dating a hot babe? i doubt it. spider flashing his cash in the club? nope. spider pulling up beside you at the lights in a lamborghini? never happened. they’ve got so many eyes because they love reading. nerds. all of them.

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A story about my car using money vocabulary words

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worst

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Europeans: “I don’t understand you Americans, if your working conditions, wages, and social safety net are so bad, why do you not simply unionize or strike?”

Americans:

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Also there’s literally so many restrictions on unions and strikes at this point that striking on any significant scale is nearly de facto illegal

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Remember, folks: they wouldn’t be so afraid of it if it didn’t work. The IWW will give you the support and resources you need to organize

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Mugshots of civil rights activist “Freedom Riders” in Jackson, Mississippi during the summer of 1961.

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My favorite part of these is the “bitch, you really think you’ve seen the last of me?” smirk on so many of their faces.

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AND THEY DIDN’T! at least one of these people I recognized as still fighting the fight today.

Representative John Lewis has served 17 terms in Congress

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this is such a good follow up

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Finally, some good fucking art.

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This is powerful.

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“[Russia’s] attack on our democracy had its limits. Russian President Vladimir Putin could not lead us to distrust our own intelligence agencies or the FBI. He could not cause us to view our own free press as an enemy of the people. He could not undermine the independence of the Justice Department or denigrate judges. Only we could do that to ourselves. Although many forces have contributed to the decline in public confidence in our institutions, one force stands out as an accelerant, like gas on a fire. And try as some of us might to avoid invoking the arsonist’s name, we must say it. I speak, of course, of our president, Donald Trump.”

— Adam Schiff: An open letter to my Republican colleagues (via wilwheaton)

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I am an old sage…listen closely to my wisdom before my soul withers away…

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Teach us, o wise one

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you are not an anime character. your actions impact others and do not only exist in theory. nobody is required to stick around for your tragic backstory or to learn the reasons behind your actions. if you treat people like garbage, they are allowed to think of you as a jerk and nothing more. nobody is obligated to analyze you or think twice when you hurt them. similarly, you are not required to stick around to listen to other people’s reasons for treating you like trash. you can call them a jerk, cut them out of your life, and call it a day.

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I’m a high school senior debating majoring in liberal arts/humanities in college. However, even though I’m passionate about it I fear I will never be able to get a financially stable job. I also fear that the arts are not well regarded by people. Do you think I should set aside my fears and pursue what I’m passionate about?

This is a question I can’t answer for you, but the idea that you can’t get a job with a humanities major is a myth. Will it be harder than if you had an engineering degree? Possibly. Will it pay less than if you went into corporate finance? Probably. But will you be happier doing it? That’s the more important question. The master narrative that the arts and humanities are worthless is one perpetuated by a culture obsessed with capital and the fastest way to accumulate it without stopping to think about quality of life. This is not to say that all business majors are evil and everyone should aspire to be a starving artist; it’s just to raise the question of what’s really most important to you. You don’t have to choose between the humanities and financial security because yes, you absolutely can have both, but it may be a more difficult or less obvious path–and you will often have to justify your choices by answering questions just like this one. However, if the arts and humanities are what make you happy, that is worth something, too, and it is quite possibly worth more than what’s in your bank account.

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Also, one should consider whether or not a given “fuck it, I need money” degree like corporate finance will actually prove as stable as one hopes. If you aren’t really into something, will you stick to it? Will you give it your all? If not, you are unlikely to advance very far in whatever organization you find yourself working.

moosesgoodsquirrel

Jim Carey's dad is one of those Plan B Failure stories, look up his graduation speech. Though having a reliable skill (service industry, childcare, book keeping) that you can pick up jobs in when money is tight, is nice. A friend of mine does this with web design, another with coding, I went the childcare route. But, also! A thing my niece is doing for her passion career is finding people who do it, talking to those who will reply to her emails, taking their advice, and doing it. One specific school that seems good at getting graduates jobs is becoming of interest to her.

I know it's hard when you don't specially know what you want to, she and I are lucky.

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Thin blue line on fb got hacked so im having a great day so far

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listen the “i’m gonna listen to this song and then work on my shit” doesn’t work when you have a playlist open and you’re listening to the playlist while scrolling through social media because the next song starts playing and then the next and then next thing you know it’s been 2 hours

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THE LATEST TUMBLR BOT PASSWORD SCAM - PLEASE SHARE - 3rd Feb 2019

I got this message from an account I didn’t follow - their blog looks very authentic because the owner was fooled into giving over their password and then locked out of the blog

If you click on the link (on mobile) it takes you here

No official tumblr post NEEDS to be viewed in a web browser, EVER!

It takes you to the page below, where it asks for your account details.

Whoever started this will then steal your info and lock you out of your blog!

It should go without saying - do not enter any account info into this or anything like it.

ALWAYS navigate to Tumblr’s official homepage yourself.

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Trump Wants Socialism for the Rich, Harsh Capitalism for the Rest

“America will never be a socialist country,” Donald Trump declared in his State of the Union address. Someone should alert Trump that America is now a hotbed of socialism. But it is socialism for the rich. Everyone else is treated to harsh capitalism.

In the conservative mind, socialism means getting something for doing nothing. That pretty much describes the $21 billion saved by the nation’s largest banks last year thanks to Trump’s tax cuts, some of which went into massive bonuses for bank executives. On the other hand, more than 4,000 lower-level bank employees got a big dose of harsh capitalism. They lost their jobs.

Banks that are too big to fail – courtesy of the 2008 bank bailout – enjoy a hidden subsidy of some $83 billion a year, because creditors facing less risk accept lower interest on deposits and loans. Last year, Wall Street’s bonus pool was $31.4 billion. Take away the hidden subsidy and the bonus pool disappears.

Trump and his appointees at the Federal Reserve are easing bank requirements put in place after the bailout. They’ll make sure the biggest banks remain too big to fail.

Trump is promoting socialism for the rich and harsh capitalism for everyone else in other ways. Since he was elected, GM has got more than $600 million in federal contracts plus $500 million in tax breaks. Some of this has gone into the pockets of GM executives. Chairman and CEO Mary Barra raked in almost $22m in total compensation in 2017 alone.

But GM employees are subject to harsh capitalism. GM is planning to lay off more than 14,000 workers and close three assembly plants and two component factories in North America by the end of 2019.

When he was in business, Trump perfected the art of using bankruptcy to shield himself from the consequences of bad decisions – socialism for the rich at its worst – while leaving employees twisting in the wind.

Now, all over America, executives who run their companies into the ground are getting gold-plated exit packages while their workers get pink slips.

Sears is doling out $25 million to the executives who stripped its remaining assets and drove it into bankruptcy, but has no money for the thousands of workers it laid off.

As Pacific Gas and Electric hurtles toward bankruptcy, the person who was in charge when the deadly infernos roared through northern California last year (caused in part by PG&E’s faulty equipment) has departed with a cash severance package of $2.5 million. The PG&E executive in charge of gas operations when records were allegedly falsified left in 2018 with $6.9 million.

Under socialism for the rich, you can screw up big time and still reap big rewards. Equifax’s Richard Smith retired in 2017 with an $18 million pension in the wake of a security breach that exposed the personal information of 145 million consumers to hackers.

Wells Fargo’s Carrie Tolstedt departed with a $125 million exit package after being in charge of the unit that opened more than 2 million unauthorized customer accounts.

Around 60 percent of America’s wealth is now inherited. Many of today’s super rich have never done a day’s work in their lives.

Trump’s response has been to cut the estate tax to apply only to estates valued at over $22 million per couple. Mitch McConnell is now proposing that the estate tax be repealed altogether.

What about the capitalist principles that people earn what they’re worth in the market, and that economic gains should go to those who deserve them?

America is on the cusp of the largest inter-generational wealth transfer in history. As rich boomers expire over the next three decades, an estimated $30 trillion will go to their children.

Those children will be able to live off of the income these assets generate, and then leave the bulk of them to their own heirs, tax-free. (Capital gains taxes don’t apply to the soaring values of stocks, bonds, mansions and other assets of wealthy people who die before they’re sold.)

After a few generations of this, almost all of the nation’s wealth will be in the hands of a few thousand non-working families.

To the conservative mind, the specter of socialism conjures up a society in which no one is held accountable, and no one has to work for what they receive. Yet that’s exactly the society Trump and the Republicans are promoting for the rich.

Meanwhile, most Americans are subject to an increasingly harsh and arbitrary capitalism in which they’re working harder but getting nowhere, and have less security than ever.

They need thicker safety nets and deserve a bigger piece of the economic pie. If you want to call this socialism, fine. I call it fair.