How The Times Choose To Cast Us

Comments: Always means always.

Uber drivers can be suspended at 4.6 stars.

Lyft drivers risk suspension under 4.8 stars.

Even for apps where they don’t have a publicly stated minimum, their algorithms will bury you.

4 stars does not mean 4 stars. It means 1.4 stars.

I'm a teacher, and every year, the State sends out a "climate" survey to all students, parents, and teachers. It has a 1-5 scale and a 'not applicable' option. If you select 4 or 'not applicable' it's marked against the school.

For example, I'm a virtual teacher. The climate survey has questions about the safety and cleanliness of the halls and bathrooms in the school. A normal person would assume that, if they attend a virtual school, they should use the 'not applicable' option, since their school has no halls or bathrooms. Nope, if they select anything but 5 out of 5, our school gets marked down.

The abortion fund I donate to has merch now! And you'll never believe what they have!!

If you are nice, Jewish, and pro-abortion (which, statistically you are considering my mutuals lol) then consider getting this cool shirt and helping fund abortions while you're at it!

For example, if someone had to travel to another state for an abortion, but because of those hurdles needed a different type of abortion due to the timing (medication vs surgical, for example). She came to the clinic expecting to pay $500 for the procedure, but it now ends up costing $800 and she doesn't have that $300 extra. The Red Tent Fund gives a grant to the clinic of, say, $10,000. The clinic can now use $300 from that fund to make sure the woman standing in front of them is able to get healthcare. It helps to remove hurdles and take some burden off the patient.

Also, I'm not Jewish myself, but I am a survivor of rape. Seeing all of the rape-denial on the left after 10/7 made me lose a lot of faith in organizations I had previously supported. The founder wrote an article about her experience, and while I don't experience antisemitism, I also felt similarly pushed out.

His timbers have been shivered.

The TAX EVASION MAN MAY BE ULTRAMARINE-DESCENDED....it's beautiful.

I like to imagine he'll storm into Ultramar one day to go off on an absolutely unhinged BUT VERY JUSTIFIED rant on the justice system. Complete with powerpoint presentations and a neatly annotated spreadsheet

Meanwhile Gulliman's like: "Who is this lost pirate and why is he trying to bite me with metal dentures. Who lost their combat servitor. Who owns this man. That thing cannot be my son."

(BUT HE IS HIS SON AND BLUEBERRY MAN JUST HAS TO SUCK THAT UP. HIS SEED HAS SPAWNED THE TAX EVADING PIRATE AND HE JUST HAS TO ACCEPT THAT. AND EVEN WORSE, SAID TAX-EVADING PIRATE IS ALSO COMPETENT. )

It starts off as Guilliman genuinely wanting to figure out what the fuck is wrong with this weird lil creature. Like. Picking his brains. Literally. Like "dude, what the FUCK is wrong with you".

at no point does Huron remember to tell dad that he’s his son, as far as Gman knows this crispy pirate dude is just really into taxes

It shall be done. Someone (maybe me) write a fic.

No sex.

Just 9 hours of tax discussions and liability laws and brackets and how threatening a starving world with gunfire cause it can't pay up will not magically make it any less starving (impressive and avant garde, I know). Ultramarines are taking notes on recorded lectures afterwards. Even RED CORSAIRS have stolen notepads to take notes.

Imperial taxation policy will later be shaped by this discussion.

Truly the best Chaos warlord of Warhammer.

Decades after the Epic Tax Discourse, Guilliman sits bolt upright in bed with a sudden, horrifying realization of Who Huron Is. There is only one primarch who could have sired a guy who made a powerpoint presentation on Why The Administratum Sucks And My Taxation Strategy Was Totally Legit. Only. One. Primarch.

It's the whole "be fr, stop wasting everyone's time" paternity test thing except for Primarchs.

THERE IS NO OTHER GENESEED AUTISTIC ENOUGH ABOUT TAXES TO SIRE THIS. Even Perturabo chucked him out in the rain.

Just wait until Guilliman finds out about the Astral Claws' Chapter heraldry, Chapter aesthetic, Chapter coloring, AND the fact they were bureaucrats running a mini-Empire....