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Gothic chalice from Krakow, Poland, circa 1500

1) Set off your smoke alarm or play the sound on your phone (if your home has no smoke alarms, pease get some!)

2) stand BY THE FRONT DOOR to hand out treats

Do this a couple times and then keep it up NO EXCEPTIONS. Accidentally set the alarm off cooking? Treats by the door. Smoke alarm sound on TV? Treats by the door. Changing your smoke alarm batteries twice a year like you’re supposed to? Give them a test run and your pets get treats by the door.

Most dogs and cats will clue in VERY quickly that hearing that specific sound means go to the front door and wait for treats.

If there’s an emergency and even if you leave by another way, you will still know the most likely place your pet(s) is and can direct first responders to help.

reminds me of this post i saw recently

We are talking about a true "Lettuce Monarchy." CEO Bruce Taylor is the grandson of Thomas Church, a mid-century "Lettuce King." This single family has controlled the U.S. packaged salad market for nearly a century through Taylor Farms & Fresh Express, operating a direct, tightly locked supply network with massive fast-food juggernauts like McDonald's & Chipotle. They use this corporate exclusivity to control exactly what agricultural data makes it to the public, shielding a multi-billion-dollar brand from legal accountability.

But behind that clean retail label is a massive history of exploitation, severe safety violations, & corporate cover-ups.

It starts with their "Permanent Temp Trick." The company uses third-party agencies like Slingshot Connections & Abel Mendoza, Inc. to keep assembly-line workers classified as "temporary" for up to 15 years, systematically denying them benefits, job security, & raises. When confronted with these massive federal civil rights violations, Bruce Taylor famously went on record defending this temp-agency pipeline, claiming those thousands of laborers have plenty of federal protections.

When they aren't exploiting the temp loophole, they are looking elsewhere. They’ve partnered with state transitional prison labor programs, notably in Arizona, to use incarcerated individuals to sort & pack salad kits for national grocery chains.

Even worse is how they treat the vulnerable workers they do hire. Between 2019 & 2023, two HR managers at their Automated Harvesting LLC subsidiary orchestrated a massive internal $3 Million Visa Fraud Scheme. The duo generated & cashed over 1,800 fraudulent checks totaling more than $3 million, intentionally stealing the identities of vulnerable Mexican migrant workers who had already returned home on expired visas. Following a deep district attorney investigation, both employees finally pleaded no contest to felony embezzlement in June 2026.

The disregard for human life inside their facilities is staggering. In late 2025, federal OSHA hit Taylor Farms New Jersey with a massive $1.12 million fatality fine after a worker was killed cleaning machinery. Inspectors uncovered 16 "willful & repeated" safety violations regarding hazardous machinery maintenance, proving that corporate leadership completely bypassed basic, legally mandated workplace safety protocols & intentionally neglected "lockout/tagout" rules—which cut power to heavy equipment during cleaning.

Then there is the Tracy, CA chemical spill cover-up at Taylor Farms Pacific. Plant managers tried to hide a toxic chlorine gas leak that hospitalized 20 people. Instead of evacuating, managers passed out cheap paper dust masks & ordered staff to keep working on the line. Workers had to bypass management entirely just to call 911.

When workers tried to unionize after that terrifying spill, management engaged in extreme retaliation to kill the effort. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) had to step in after finding the branch illegally spied on workers, fired organizers, & hired high-priced anti-union consulting firms to threaten immigrant employees with ICE if they tried to unionize. Bruce Taylor publicly labeled the national Teamsters Union campaigns "frivolous" & claimed it was all a smear tactic.

The discrimination inside is deeply systemic. A massive federal civil rights lawsuit detailed that upper management deliberately forced African American employees into entirely separate break areas. Company leadership was caught systematically burying internal racism & discrimination complaints, leaving workers completely isolated until they finally banded together for a massive 70-page class-action lawsuit.

The public is kept completely in the dark about the dangers. Taylor Farms was tied to major multi-state E. coli outbreaks in 2025 where federal regulators at the FDA & CDC identified Taylor Farms romaine lettuce as the source—but actively hid the company's identity from the public.

How do they get away with it? Bruce Taylor acts as a political puppet master. He pours tens of thousands of dollars into highly calculated local political action committees—like the "Protect Salinas" PAC—to sway California city council elections. Local watchdog groups have flagged his financial contributions as direct attempts to capture local governments & block regulations on agricultural land use & labor.

On top of that, Taylor sits on heavily funded national agricultural boards & trade association PACs—like the Western Growers Association—to heavily lobby congress against strict federal worker-safety laws.

yes, she is the abuser and the student is the victim. yes, it is also sexist and gross that they would assume young boys have those sexual feelings towards their abuser. so the RESULT of those comments is harm towards the victims and defense of the abuser.

but the SOURCE of those comments is less that they can't see boys as victims and more that they think women are sex objects, so how could a boy be victimized by a sex object? you can see that because mentions of the victim are always throwaway lines and projection like "eh, he probably liked it anyway" and the mentions of the abuser are rants about how hot the teacher is and how bad THEY want her.

Important to know, while the overarching Law No. 1 of 1974 on Marriage regulates all citizens regardless of faith, it is heavily influenced by Islamic family law templates. For Muslims, these rules were further entrenched by the Compilation of Islamic Law (KHI) in 1991. Together, these legal frameworks create a dual standard that Indonesian feminists have spent decades trying to dismantle.

The core feminist critiques of how Muslim marriage and national marriage laws operate in Indonesia center on several key issues:

1. Feminist legal scholars frequently critique Article 31(3) of the 1974 Marriage Law, which legally defines the husband as the "Head of the Family" (Kepala Keluarga) and the wife as the "Housewife" (Ibu Rumah Tangga). This locks women into a domestic sphere and gives husbands ultimate legal authority. Critics argue this systemic bias (often called "State Ibuism") weakens a woman's bargaining power in financial matters, employment, and marital disputes, while legally validating the idea that a wife must submit to the husband's wishes.

2. Under the KHI, the procedural hurdles to ending a marriage are highly unequal. A husband can initiate a divorce through Cerai Talak (asking the court to witness his declaration of divorce). A wife, however, must file for Cerai Gugat (lawsuit for divorce) and carries a heavy burden of proof to demonstrate severe legal grounds, such as abuse, desertion, or total financial neglect. Feminists argue this asymmetry forces women to stay in abusive or unhappy marriages far longer than men.

3. Unlike the Indonesian Civil Code (which bans polygamy for non-Muslims), the 1974 Marriage Law permits Muslim polygamy under strict court conditions. A husband can take multiple wives if his first wife cannot fulfill her duties, becomes severely ill, or cannot bear children. He must obtain court approval and the first wife's written consent. Indonesian feminists argue that these clauses treat women as functional commodities rather than equal human beings. Also, the requirement for a "first wife's consent" is frequently bypassed through emotional coercion or via unregistered marriages (Nikah Siri), leaving secondary wives and their children without many of the legal protections afforded to registered marriages.

4. The KHI explicitly contains the concept of Nusyuz, which occurs when a wife is deemed "disobedient" to her husband's lawful demands. If a court labels a wife nusyuz (which historically included refusing sex or leaving the house without permission), the husband is legally absolved of his duty to provide her with financial support (nafkah). Feminists argue that nusyuz functions as a tool of legal and financial coercion and, at worst, undermines the practical protection afforded by marital rape laws. It weaponises state law to punish women who assert autonomy by refusing unwanted sex or leaving abusive relationships.

5. Indonesian feminists gain legislative victory via Law No. 16 of 2019, which amended one part of the 1974 Act and successfully raised the minimum legal marriage age for girls from 16 to 19, matching the requirement for boys. But even with this reform, child marriage persists through court-granted exemptions (dispensasi nikah), which families routinely apply for at the local level.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?