Skylark Starflower's Silly Blog of Silly

i'm honestly more concerned about the fact that:

1) very obvious freshwater (angelfish) and saltwater (blue tang, oarfish, eagle ray(?)) species are sharing a tank. angelfish and tangs also typically live in much shallower water than oarfish (and possibly eagle rays, tho i don't know much about rays in general).

and 2) oarfish have never been successfully kept in captivity and can barely survive in shallow, low pressure water (such as the kind that the other species in the tank would need to survive). this is also a very small oarfish which either means it's a juvenile (does not look like it) which will probably outgrow this tank (assuming it survives that long) or is just weirdly shrunken in order to fit in the tank (and even then it has to swim at an uncomfortable angle bc it can barely fit in the tank vertically).

"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.

"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?

"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.

If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.

You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.

Spiny Turtle (Heosemys spinosa), juvenile, family Geoemydidae, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore

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As the juvenile turtle ages, the point serration of the shell becomes less pointy and pronounced.