it’s funny that the idea of a politician having to appeal to their voterbase has been completely lost in america. like the biggest proponents of our democracy act with complete acknowledgment of the incapability of the american people to meaningfully influence our president-elects. they’re fucking realists. even they don’t actually believe in the usamerican democratic project they’re just yelling at you to poke its corpse with a stick until it twitches in the direction you want
It gets worse. When I worked for a nonprofit ARC (Association for Retarded Citizens - yes they use that word in the name) I was tasked with conducting “time studies” of disabled workers to determine their hourly wage.
Basically the way a time study worked is an “able-bodied” worker was timed doing a task. This became the standard. Then disable workers would be timed doing the same task. If they performed 60% as fast as the set standard, they’d only be paid 60% of the hourly wage set for the task.
Which sucks.
But, it gets even worse.
I was tasked with conducting the time studies so I head out and start doing them. The majority of the disabled workers were performing to 85% or better of the “able-bodied” times.
I turned the reports in and was told, “that’s not possible. Do them again.”
So I did them again. We’re talking a few hundred time studies.
The results were the same. In fact at least a dozen of the workers actually improved their previous times.
I turned them in and was told, “This can’t be right. They can’t be doing that well.”
I told them results spoke for themselves. They (the head of the client services department [at this ARC disabled workers were called clients]) said it wasn’t possible for the workers to be performing above 65% at the highest. So I must be doing something wrong or falsely reporting to try and get the clients more money.
I vehemently denied this.
So they sent me to do the studies a third time. This time with a supervisor to ensure no funny business on my part.
Once again, the disabled workers performed to an average of 85% of the standard.
With the supervisor’s approval I turned in the third set of reports.
I was told that the standard time must be out of date. Go and time one of the abled workers and use the new time as the standard and conduct all of the hundreds of studies a fourth time.
So, I went and timed an abled worker. Their time was slower than the existing standard. Not wanting to get yelled at, I decided to time 10 Abled workers and average their times to get the new standard.
The new standard was only 6 seconds faster, but it was faster.
So, using the new time standard, I did all of the time studies again.
And again, the disabled workers times averaged out to about 85% of standard. With a good number of them performing at 100%.
I girded my loins and turned the studies in.
I feel like I should mention that these studies are reviewed by ADA and the State Labor Board for compliance with the “sub minimum wage” rules. So they’re a big deal. Because if an ARC or similar organization is found in violation of the rules it could be the end of that organization.
I was already pretty nervous about the fact that we’d conducted so many studies and how that would look. But I was just a 22 yr old worker bee also earning just minimum wage ($8.25/hr) and didn’t want to lose my job.
So yeah, turned in the studies. And was told by the DIRECTOR OF CLIENT SERVICES - the person who was supposed to be the TOP advocate for the disabled workers at this ARC - that if we paid the disabled workers at their reported rates that it would impact her annual bonus.
She then told me to go back and falsify the reports to average 65% performance.
I refused.
So she fired me for “violating dress code”.
I couldn’t afford a lawyer, so I couldn’t file a lawsuit for illegal dismissal.
This was 20 years ago.
That ARC is still in operation.
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Employers in the US are still legally allowed to pay disabled workers less than the minimum wage. This practice is known as the “subminimum wage” and is a shocking violation of workers’ rights. People with disabilities have the same right to fair and equal pay as everyone else!
It gets worse. When I worked for a nonprofit ARC (Association for Retarded Citizens - yes they use that word in the name) I was tasked with conducting “time studies” of disabled workers to determine their hourly wage.
Basically the way a time study worked is an “able-bodied” worker was timed doing a task. This became the standard. Then disable workers would be timed doing the same task. If they performed 60% as fast as the set standard, they’d only be paid 60% of the hourly wage set for the task.
Which sucks.
But, it gets even worse.
I was tasked with conducting the time studies so I head out and start doing them. The majority of the disabled workers were performing to 85% or better of the “able-bodied” times.
I turned the reports in and was told, “that’s not possible. Do them again.”
So I did them again. We’re talking a few hundred time studies.
The results were the same. In fact at least a dozen of the workers actually improved their previous times.
I turned them in and was told, “This can’t be right. They can’t be doing that well.”
I told them results spoke for themselves. They (the head of the client services department [at this ARC disabled workers were called clients]) said it wasn’t possible for the workers to be performing above 65% at the highest. So I must be doing something wrong or falsely reporting to try and get the clients more money.
I vehemently denied this.
So they sent me to do the studies a third time. This time with a supervisor to ensure no funny business on my part.
Once again, the disabled workers performed to an average of 85% of the standard.
With the supervisor’s approval I turned in the third set of reports.
I was told that the standard time must be out of date. Go and time one of the abled workers and use the new time as the standard and conduct all of the hundreds of studies a fourth time.
So, I went and timed an abled worker. Their time was slower than the existing standard. Not wanting to get yelled at, I decided to time 10 Abled workers and average their times to get the new standard.
The new standard was only 6 seconds faster, but it was faster.
So, using the new time standard, I did all of the time studies again.
And again, the disabled workers times averaged out to about 85% of standard. With a good number of them performing at 100%.
I girded my loins and turned the studies in.
I feel like I should mention that these studies are reviewed by ADA and the State Labor Board for compliance with the “sub minimum wage” rules. So they’re a big deal. Because if an ARC or similar organization is found in violation of the rules it could be the end of that organization.
I was already pretty nervous about the fact that we’d conducted so many studies and how that would look. But I was just a 22 yr old worker bee also earning just minimum wage ($8.25/hr) and didn’t want to lose my job.
So yeah, turned in the studies. And was told by the DIRECTOR OF CLIENT SERVICES - the person who was supposed to be the TOP advocate for the disabled workers at this ARC - that if we paid the disabled workers at their reported rates that it would impact her annual bonus.
She then told me to go back and falsify the reports to average 65% performance.
I refused.
So she fired me for “violating dress code”.
I couldn’t afford a lawyer, so I couldn’t file a lawsuit for illegal dismissal.
This was 20 years ago.
That ARC is still in operation.
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Employers in the US are still legally allowed to pay disabled workers less than the minimum wage. This practice is known as the “subminimum wage” and is a shocking violation of workers’ rights. People with disabilities have the same right to fair and equal pay as everyone else!
Disabled people should be allowed to exist in public. Yes, I mean all disabled people.
That includes people with tic disorders.
That includes people who smell ‘bad’.
That includes people who can’t help being loud.
That includes people who move ‘strangely’.
That includes people with bulky mobility aids.
That includes people who drool.
That includes people who struggle with incontinence.
We all should get to exist, however that looks, and go out in public, use public transport, do activities outside our homes. And we should be allowed to do those things without being glared at or having ableist things said to us.
Bodily autonomy includes the right to do drugs. Yes, even the drugs YOU think are bad and scary and dangerous.
People absolutely deserve access to free, compassionate recovery resources, but ONLY if they want them and find them useful.
You have to understand just how many “rehab” programs are effectively prisons, cults, or both. You have to understand and be compassionate toward the reasons behind self-medication. And above all else, you have to LISTEN to drug users about what is actually effective, useful, and wanted aid.
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
If you want to know how bad the injuries caused by white phosphorus Israel is using in Gaza, just know that senior UK doctors shown images of children burnt by it had to sit down from shock. The burns are down to the bone.The agony is unbearable. Gaza is out of pain killers.KIDS! [@/ MyriamFrancoisC on X. 12/31/23.]
The IOF has used white phosphorus in Gaza and Lebanon. There was evidence it happened and was confirmed by Amnesty International weeks ago -thr Washington Post even covered it, but there have been ZERO follow-ups for investigations in these blatent war crimes. The IOF is depraved and monstrous.
Watching the way some men are having a Very Normal Reaction to the term “pavement princess” is hilarious to me. I saw one guy make a tiktok where he showed his truck said “see, I put OFROADER stickers in three places and I went in this gravel road! It’s not a pavement princess!”
Pavement Princess is the name for a jacked up super truck, you know the ones, that really mostly only exist in suburban areas with custom paint jobs and the brightest LEDs you can buy on the market and pickup beds smaller than a Honda Acty. They’re gas guzzling, road destroying, pedestrian killing, ego-boosting machines.
And yes, the Cybertruck is absolutely a Pavement Princess.
Like, damn, maybe we finally do have a slur for cishet white men.
Remember Longcat? I remember Longcat. Fuck the picture on this post, I want to talk about Longcat. Memes were simpler back then, in 2006. They stood for something. And that something was nothing. Memes just were. “Longcat is long.” An undeniably true, self-reflexive statement. Water is wet, fire is hot, Longcat is long. Memes were floating signifiers without signifieds, meaningful in their meaninglessness. Nobody made memes, they just arose through spontaneous generation; Athena being birthed, fully formed, from her own skull.
You could talk about them around the proverbial water cooler, taking comfort in their absurdity. “Hey, Johnston, have you seen the picture of that cat? They call it Longcat because it’s long!” “Ha ha, sounds like good fun, Stevenson! That reminds me, I need to show you this webpage I found the other day; it contains numerous animated dancing hamsters. It’s called — you’ll never believe this — hamsterdance!” And then Johnston and Stevenson went on to have a wonderful friendship based on the comfortable banality of self-evident digitized animals.
But then 2007 came, and along with it came I Can Has, and everything was forever ruined. It was hubris, Jane. We did it to ourselves. The minute we added written language beyond the reflexive, it all went to shit. Suddenly memes had an excess of information to be parsed. It wasn’t just a picture of a cat, perhaps with a simple description appended to it; now the cat spoke to us via a written caption on the picture itself. It referred to an item of food that existed in our world but not in the world of the meme, rupturing the boundary between the two. The cat wanted something. Which forced us to recognize that what it wanted was us, was our attention. WE are the cheezburger, and we always were. But by the time we realized this, it was too late. We were slaves to the very memes that we had created. We toiled to earn the privilege of being distracted by them. They fiddled while Rome burned, and we threw ourselves into the fire so that we might listen to the music. The memes had us. Or, rather, they could has us.
Remember when you could summon Longcat in Scribblenauts
And it just got worse from there. Soon the cats had invisible bicycles and played keyboards. They gained complex identities, and so we hollowed out our own identities to accommodate them. We prayed to return to the simple days when we would admire a cat for its exceptional length alone, the days when the cat itself was the meme and not merely a vehicle for the complex memetic text. And the fact that this text was so sparse, informal, and broken ironically made it even more demanding. The intentional grammatical and syntactical flaws drew attention to themselves, making the meme even more about the captioning words and less about the pictures. Words, words, words. Wurds werds wordz. Stumbling through a crooked, dead-end hallway of a mangled clause describing a simple feline sentiment was a torture that we inflicted on ourselves daily. Let’s not forget where the word “caption” itself comes from: capio, Latin for both “I understand” and “I capture.” We thought that by captioning the memes, we were understanding them. Instead, our captions allowed them to capture us. The memes that had once been a cure for our cultural ills were now the illness itself.
It goes right back to the Phaedrus, really. Think about it. Back in the innocent days of 2006, we naïvely thought that the grapheme had subjugated the phoneme, that the belief in the primacy of the spoken word was an ancient and backwards folly on par with burning witches or practicing phrenology or thinking that Smash Mouth was good. Fucking Smash Mouth. But we were wrong. About the phoneme, I mean. Theuth came to us again, this time in the guise of a grinning grey cat. The cat hungered, and so did Theuth. He offered us an updated choice, and we greedily took it, oblivious to the consequences. To borrow the parlance of a contemporary meme, he baked us a pharmakon, and we eated it.
I think a lot of alloros fundamentally misunderstand how being aro actually feels
I don’t go about my day as a hetro person who just happens to opt out of romance when it pops up
I’ve known i was different since before i even knew different was something i could be. Since i was like 12 or 13 I’ve known somehow what i was feeling was off compared to everyone around me. Growing up like that was fundamentally a queer experience for me, even if i wasn’t trans. In fact, i feel like my experiences being aro tie me closer to being queer than even my gender. While i can’t relate to everything in them, other queer coming of age stories do mirror my own aro coming of age. So to say that an aro person, regardless of their other identities, can’t be queer is just baffling to me.
One of the best things about Tumblr, imo, is sometimes you can scroll through the awful content… But you don’t then get it recommended to you.
On tiktok, you see some godawful opinion and you want a further look at what exact kind of crazy they are? Are they being ironic? Is this satire? Oh, no, they actually do think that… Ex. Women should belong to their husbands. Welp, you’re now gonna have tradwife / terf / alt-right / trumpie content on your fyp for weeks because you scrolled that account for a few minutes. You keep pressing ‘not interested’ but tiktok believes you’re a republican now.
Here, you see something crazy - let’s say, uh, Human Pet Guy (rip, example would be before he deactivated obviously).
You see a post of his and you’re like “Woah, wtf, is this satire or is he just like this?” You go to his blog to check and Tumblr does not assume looking at human pet guy’s blog = you want a human pet and does not start bombarding you with human pet content. When you are done trying to understand how someone can think like that you can return to the safety of your dash, which remains unchanged.
Long live the hellsite, please don’t give us weird new algorithms
Listen man, you guys can’t be like “you guys need to be normal about asexuality” and then turn around and get weirdly judgemental when you find out someone doesn’t have sex by choice. Like that’s weird that some of you do that.
Genuinely some of you sound 3 seconds away from using the word Virgin as an insult unironically
i’m tired of seeing memes for shit i’ve never fucking heard of so here’s some memes for a piece of media that doesn’t fucking exist. fuck you.
i was getting real sick of this post and seeing everybody reblog it and thinking “what the god damn is with these memes from shit ive never heard of that everybody suddenly knows that i dont” and then i finally read the comment
Why do so many people make tiktoks while they’re clearly driving. What the fuck. Stop that shit, you’re gonna kill someone.
I think people online treat driving too casually tbh, like there was a poll about people’s bad habits while driving and they weren’t bad habits or problematic or whatever, they were all things that literally kill people every single day. You are driving a massive vehicle that can very easily turn into a murder weapon with your carelessness, take this shit seriously.
“Haha I never use my turn signals” you are going to kill someone.
“I don’t do full stops at stop signs lol” you are going to kill someone.
“Sometimes I text while I’m driving 🤭” YOU ARE GOING TO KILL SOMEONE.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri judge on Wednesday temporarily halted a first-of-its-kind rule restricting access to gender-affirming health care for transgender kids and adults, just hours before it was set to take effect.
St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Ribaudo put Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule on transgender health care on hold until at least Monday.
It’s very temporary but right now every inch of ground matters
On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump released an anti-transgender tirade of a speech on his social media website Truth Social, outlining a genocidal plan against all transgender existence in the United States. Everyone on the right from mainstream Republicans to hardcore neo-Nazis are celebrating the video while Democrats and legacy news media outlets have so far largely ignored it. “So this is what we are up against,” tweeted legislative researcher and pro-transgender activist Erin Reed. She continues, “a national transgender ban in 2024. This is what they are planning. DeSantis is practicing this through executive actions in Florida. Trump is openly saying he will do the same.” This is unambiguously genocidal territory. Holocaust museums have warned that this rising anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric mirrors the hate that led up to the rise of Nazi Germany.
Here are the proposals outlined in Trump’s genocidal three and a half minute rant:
Pass a bill that falsely claims there are only two genders, male and female
Reverse legislation for life-saving gender affirming healthcare
Ban all education of transgender and non-binary issues in schools nationwide
Ban transitioning for youth nationwide
Sign an executive order to end programs for gender transitioning for all ages nationwide
Criminalize and hunt doctors and educators who try to save transgender and non-binary lives
hi loves!!i have made a post about this already but, i really need responses to this so i am back afqds.i have this questionnaire for my major work, its just a short survey that takes a couple of minutes!! all the writing questions are optional also.the results are completely anonymous!!i would appreciate SO much if you could tank a couple of minutes of your time to do it for me.thank you all so so much!!!! i need a minimum of 150 responses to even be allowed to use the data so it really would mean so much to me.again, thank you!!!! <3333
When I say nonbinary people can look like anything I am aggressively including nonbinary people who have beards, body hair, and who are assumed to be cis guys, firstly because that’s also me and secondly because we’re always overlooked or subjected to cringe culture. Nonbinary doesn’t just mean skinny, pale and absent of gender signifiers.
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i’m smoking that bottom shelf storm drain scranton dirt. i’m boiling adderall in a crock pot blowing non newtonian bubbles. weed man rolled up in a white polo shirt, tried to sell me a fifth of givanium, i told him i don’t fuck with that shit, cause i don’t fuck with that shit. i’m sick in the head, if i wanted a real bad trip i’d go sober. this shit aint nothing to me, i’m in the pussy like genghis khan. i don’t even need all this money, they let me take shit for free cause they know i’m him.
i’m smoking straight ass, downright despicable nefarious devil-on-the-shoulder type shit. this shit is actually awful, i’ll fucking kill you. if you invite me to your function and there aren’t any fat ugly bitches i’m nailing you to the wall like the son of god. after three days the only thing rising again is my pants after enough viagra to knock out an elephant. opps asked for a charitable donation, beat their skull in with a suitcase full of more stacks than you’ve ever seen. dropped that shit right then and there cuz i needed both hands to light the nastiest, headiest, seediest blunt on god’s green earth. this shit ain’t nothin to me man
tsa asked me if i had anything to declare, i told them the green xanax makes me act gay and walked past with a third world gdp in rare watches and glickies in my carry-on. i’m moving abnormal. they took my stash of runts, so i rolled ‘em in their bedsheets and smoked 'em while they were sleeping. pope john paul thought he could flip ice on my turf and look what happened to him. i’m smoking that rinky-dink back alley bubble butt blowout green. i’m smoking on the shit that makes jordan peterson tweet like rupi kaur writes. go to “him” in the dictionary and you will find my graven image.
