[twilightvampire]

[andreabandrea]

Child walking into animal shelter and walking out with a single ant on a leash

[aer-head-deactivated20250315]

how to take root,

pastels

[prohaloplayer-deactivated202601]

everybody in the club get joyful

[comment-tube]

[zegalba]

[paxamericana]

[strelka]

[animentality]

[athelind]

Fuck Around and Find Out

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

[trollprincess]

We have regular doors on either side of revolving doors because 492 people died at the Cocoanut Grove in 1942. We have radar for air traffic control and the Federal Aviation Administration because two planes collided over the Grand Canyon in 1956. Natural gas smells like that because it didn’t before it blew up the New London school in 1937 and killed around 300 people. We have a LOT of fire safety rules because of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire. We have stronger cockpit doors because of 9/11 and stronger security for employees because of Pacific Southwest Flight 1771 and lighted aisles on planes because of Air Canada Flight 797.

I mean, that’s just off the top of my head after getting home from working twelve hours overnight. Two hundred and twelve episodes of @disasterarea-podcast, and nearly all of them involved the disaster in question spawning new regulations or rules to prevent the same thing from happening again.

[roach-works]

actually i’d like to point out: we have safety regulations because people PROTESTED AND FOUGHT AND STRUCK AND DEMONSTRATED AND RAISED HELL. it took the bereaved families of those who died in the triangle shirtwaist factory years of campaigning for the government to pass regulations about fire and door locks. it took open warfare--the government was sending in troops, dropping bombs-- for miners in appalachia to get basic safety regulations. it takes parent groups and boycots and unions fighting cops in the street. it takes marches on washington. it takes a lot of journalism.

the government does nothing for the silent dead, the humble dead, the polite dead. a dead body is shoveled into the ground and forgotten by the next business quarter.

safety regulations are not written in the blood of silent, disposable victims. they’re written in the blood of those who split their knuckles and screamed their throats raw for a better world.

don’t ever underestimate the value of protest.

[straycatj]

where did your balls go

I want to know

[idontplayworldofwarcraft-deacti]

[holdinghands2]

[wiltkingart]

just a spider girl in a spiderverse world

[sandmandaddy69]

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[softpastelqueer]

For reference, the federal minimum wage would have you earning roughly on average $1,256.66 a month

It’s recommended your rent only be 30% of your total budget, so with an average monthly rent of $1,827 that would mean your average renter’s monthly income should ideally be $6,090

That would be roughly $35.13 hourly or $73,080 annually

However, the average renter’s household income is only $42,500 annually or $20.43 hourly (as of 2019 according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey)

This means either rent prices are too unsustainably high and price gouging or wages are too unsustainably low and predatory

Or both

[mini-wrants]

(Hint: it’s both)

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Reminder, too, that the MAXIMUM payment disabled people on SSI can receive in 2023 is $914 for an individual.

The MAXIMUM two married SSI recipients receive, TOTAL, is $1371 for them both to try to survive on.

[lovely-v]

This is the best fuckign movie on the planet

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