What Now?

me sending encouragement and compliments on anon

chaotic neutral

I try to keep politics off this blog but god damn

Impeachment isn’t about trying to get the president you want. It’s about punishing the ones who break the law

This isn’t because Burger King is nicer in Denmark. It’s the law, and the US is actually the only so-called “developed” country that doesn’t mandate jobs provide a minimum amount of paid vacation, sick leave, or both.

kinda debunks that claim that they can’t afford to pay their workers those sort of wages and still make a profit

Its corporate greed, plain and simple.

and that story right there? is exactly why Republicans in the US work so hard to bust unions. it’s because unionizing WORKS and they’re terrified of workers actually having some power.

So I want to point out for anybody who didn’t get it that those companies would not be operating stores in these Nordic nations if they were not STILL PROFITABLE - even when forced to pay reasonable wages and give reasonable benefits. People STILL PATRONIZE them - they are not priced out of the ability to buy a burger or a watergun, or the stores would have shut down. 

Read up on the story of Wal-Mart failing in Germany, and how badly they fucked up, especially when it came to unions and firings

When unions were more common in the United States, employers would have better wages and benefits, even if their employees weren’t unionized. These employers were still threatened by unions, and if they didn’t provide what unionized businesses provided, their employees would either leave or form their own union. And it’s not like the workforce in the United States was ever majority union. But it was unionized enough to be threatening to greedy employers and benefit all workers.

Are you kidding I want this product immediately delivered to my door

Float on your maxi pad and fuck the haters

For your heavy flow days

For your heavy float days

There are three kinds of people: the hopeful, the exhausted, and the pragmatic.

Small tip to help some of your blind friends: do not put 10,000 emojis in the middle of a text or a post if you continue to put text after the emojis because I will tell you that I will Straight give up if I have to listen to “face with tears of joy, face with tears of joy, face with tears of joy,” 23 times just to hear the rest of your text or post.

Oh my god, that’s what screen readers say when they read out emojis?? I didn’t realize.. I will change how I write my posts now… My bad…

This is good to know. Pretend there are twenty three light bulb emojis indicating sudden understanding following this text.

So the clap hands emoji post would be extra annoying since you can’t just speed read it, damn!

Is it okay to use emojis sparingly? I don’t ever use a million like that, the most I’d put in a row is probably two different emojis, lol. But I do feel the need to use either emojis or ASCII faces in order to get emotion across in my writing. Which is better for you, a traditional ASCII face like :-) or a newfangled emoji like ☺️? Can your screen reader “translate” things like :-) into “smiling face” or do you just hear “colon dash right parentheses”?

There’s so much good info on this post! I didn’t know any of this. Thanks for making it!!

Schrödinger’s boys

FUCK

What about cracking open a cold milkshake

As we all know, the milkshake brings the boys to the yard. The presence of the boys is a prerequisite for the cracking open of a cold one, but cold ones do not have any inherent boy-attracting abilities. Milkshakes, however, do. All else being equal, the boys would proceed to the milkshake yard. While it is possible to announce the presence of cold ones in the hope of attracting some boys, the pull of the milkshake is much more powerful by comparison.

mind you, all of this nonsense hinges on whether or not the boys are back in town

When people ask how I can run so far without meaning to, it takes me back to this.

this is a cool way to think of it

WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY

My dad told me recently that the most important public health workers are garbage collectors and janitors. So much of our health relies on a clean environment. These people do some of the most important work in society. If we learned in dirty public environments full of garbage, we’d all be sick. I cannot thank these people enough for the valuable work that they do.