Wild and Precious @wildpreciouslife - Tumblr Blog

Not to get political but my philosophy is fundamentally that all people should suffer less. That it’s everyone’s responsibility to try to make the world a little better for everyone else. And anyone trying to do the opposite is an asshole who needs to stop.

triggeredmedia

It’s almost as if schools push and ideology that benefits schools.

roamingaimlesly

Bruh, trades are in high fucking demand right now too. Between now and 2020 there are suppose to be 300,000 more jobs and that’s just for welder.

Shit, they’ll pay for you to learn how to do it.

I just finished high school and got a untility job in a factory and I have almost no experience. They’re gonna train me for everything plus it has full health benefits.

Trades are fucking great.

systlin

My husband is a welder, and is very very good at it. He got hired by a locksmith company pretty much just by walking in and going “Yes I can weld.”

All of the other guys there were great at locksmithing, but none of them were trained welders, and they needed someone who could build custom doors and frames.

They trained him to do lock stuff too, so now he can weld AND pick locks.

The owner of the company, when he handed out Christmas bonuses, looked at him and went “Dude we literally cannot fire you because we’d be screwed so here’s your bonus and also we’re giving you a raise.”

Welders are in desperate demand.

themightyglamazon

Blows kisses to this post. Anyway, learn a trade, unionize, wear your PPE, memorize OSHA’s phone number.

halfmoonhead-deactivated2018081

My husband went to a fast track auto school and made almost 80k at his last job. Benefits are shit if you’re in a trade with no union but the money can be really good

dukeofriven

This picture is my new favourite. Photograph: Andrej Ivanov/Reuters. Via.

tiffanyachings

Something you hate, something you despise, no holding back - c’mon, get it out!

picsthatmakeyougohmm

hmmm

yaboijoshua-deactivated20200425

okay but can someone explain to me why someone would need that many control panel windows open in windows xp

fagflow

That comment made me feel so fuckin old

allthecanadianpolitics

I was wondering if you know how I could approach making a complaint about a university professor. It's not harassment or discrimination: this guy doesn't teach anything in his class, but assigns a ton of readings and has us discuss them for the entire lecture - and I want to actually learn, not kill time. I'm not sure who to talk to about this - ombudsperson? the faculty? student rights? - and was wondering if you or anyone else had a similar experience and could offer advice.

Followers?

wildpreciouslife

So I have two thoughts on this 1) What is the subject material and are the readings and discussions relevant? As a teacher I use this as a way to build critical and independent thinking. 2) If it truly is a problem, speak to the head of the department, refer to your syllabus course description because that part is MANDATED by the university, not the professor. If you are not covering what is in the course description, you have a leg to stand on. Otherwise, talk to people in your class, do they feel the same. A head of your department may ignore one person, but it's harder to ignore more than one crowding their office

cortoony-art

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milf-adjacent

Despite what liberals say, an ‘x’ marker on government identification is not a step forward for trans and nonbinary inclusion, it is a creation of a masterlist of trans and/or nonbinary people, it is just another chance to be mistreated and catalogued by a government that does not want us to exist. A true ‘step forward’ for trans and nonbinary inclusion would be the removal of gender markers from all government documentation.

wrook

People in the notes saying that there needs to be a gender marker on your ID in case of medical emergencies are 100% wrong. EMTs, Paramedics, and ER doctors do not rely on gender markers on IDs at all. Many patients don’t even have their ID with them when they have a medical emergency.

NEVER in all my time as an EMT did I encounter a situation where I needed to riffle through someone’s wallet and find out whether their ID said “M” “F” (or “X”) before I could treat them. If a patient was unconscious I usually got their name and medical history from whoever called 911, and left any remaining information blank. Regardless, the priority would be getting them to the hospital, at which point the hospital staff could usually access their medical records and fill in the rest of that information. Having a gender marker on your ID really isn’t going to change the care you get.

But you know who DOES look at ID? Cops. Cops who are already scrutinizing trans and gender non-conforming people, and who are already going out of their way to harass and brutalize us. Having a gender marker on IDs gives cops another means to question our gender, and cops actively use gender markers on IDs to harm trans/nb people, especially when the marker on their ID does not match their appearance or presentation. Adding an X marker will not fix that, it might even draw more scrutiny in some situations. Removing the gender marker would remove that added danger, and decrease the ability of the cops to harass our community.

el-shab-hussein

@allthecanadianpolitics

#I never thought of this before #but like yeah that's a good point

uglygreenjacket

goawfma

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

onpoli

ho-ho-hochiminh replied to your post: I’m only five minutes into the Canada-themed…

Do a fact checking post bc i refuse to watch it

An unofficial list of things that the Patriot Act episode about Canada got wrong:

“[Trudeau has] welcomed over 100,000 refugees to Canada with open arms…”

I think it’s fair to say that a large proportion of the refugees who’ve been shuffled between shelters and university dorms, left to fend for themselves, and harassed by Sue-Ann Levy’s xenophobic fanboys would disagree with this sentiment. We took in a grand total of 11 refugees since 2016 from a UN program designed to aid Central American refugees; Canadian mining companies have had a brutal impact on countries like Honduras and Guatemala. Beyond that, Trudeau’s government also tried to deport Abdoul Abdi and Abdilahi Elmi, who came to Canada as child refugees and whose Canadian guardians in the child welfare system never bothered to apply for citizenship for them.

“[Trudeau’s] economic policies have lifted more than 2% of Canada’s population out of poverty.”

A government statistic is cited here, but other measures of poverty from other sources are less favourable. Trudeau’s Minister of Finance, Bill Morneau, is literally the MP for the child poverty capital of Toronto.

“[Trudeau] was the dream politician for the left.”

He absolutely was not.

“Officially, Trudeau got a yellow card for the [SNC-Lavalin] scandal, but politically, his approval rating has been cut in half, from 65% to 32%.”

Cherry-picking Trudeau’s all-time highest rating of 65% three years ago falsely implies that SNC-Lavalin tanked his approval rating. Trudeau’s approval rating was 35% in December 2018, before the scandal, and 33% in March 2019, shortly after the scandal first broke.

“A Canadian prime minister got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for literally inventing UN peacekeeping.”

Lester B. Pearson did suggest using UN personnel as neutral observers in conflict zones, something that had essentially already happened in Egypt. However, it’s not like we have much to brag about here given that we sent a bunch of racists and a former KKK recruiter, Matt McKay, on a so-called peacekeeping mission to Somalia, where McKay complained that he wasn’t ready to leave because “we ain’t killed enough n*****s yet.”

“The Conservatives say that the [Trans Mountain] pipeline will create tens of thousands of jobs in Canada.”

Zero pushback here on a claim that has been widely debunked.

“Canada is still a progressive country and a proving ground for whether progressive policies can work.”

It is not.

“You guys are this society that has cracked…healthcare [and] immigration.”

We absolutely have not cracked either of these issues.

“I know there are a lot of Canadians watching this thinking ‘…Trudeau isn’t perfect, but if you care about the environment, you know he’s the only realistic option in this election.’ And look, I understand that…”

Hasan Minhaj mentions in his introduction that Canada has a multi-party system, but then gives us this garbage.