So to be pedantic (because that matters with legal cases) she is not suing him for human trafficking. She is suing him for intensely abusive employment conditions, including underpayment, overwork, harassment during attempts to take breaks or leave the city, psychological torment, and housing conditions which conspired to keep her from leaving, which can very reasonably be said to constitute a degree of human trafficking. But the suit is not specifically pressing trafficking charges.
That said the degree of racist and sexual harassment alleged (from his mom) is horrifying and deserves specific attention.
Actually, I think this is worth emphasizing. While human trafficking charges are not being filed, the allegations absolutely represent a pattern of human trafficking control. Sleep and food deprivation, constant surveillance, economic deprivation, housing control, continuous harassment, all of these are behaviors desgined to keep someone burned out and with no time to make moves to get themself out.
Someone living in a city they’re unfamiliar with, with San Francisco’s housing market, no time to establish connections with locals, withheld wages and illegal lies about what wages would be coming, who is constantly sleep deprived and hungry, and harassed constantly by their captor who reacts with extreme measures to moves which might let them leave (like taking a trip out of the city), is how not in a position to leave their job. Pedantry is important in legal matters, but we can recognize when something is absolutely being described in allegations and not on a list of charges only for practical reasons of ease of prosecution.
So to be pedantic (because that matters with legal cases) she is not suing him for human trafficking. She is suing him for intensely abusive employment conditions, including underpayment, overwork, harassment during attempts to take breaks or leave the city, psychological torment, and housing conditions which conspired to keep her from leaving, which can very reasonably be said to constitute a degree of human trafficking. But the suit is not specifically pressing trafficking charges.
That said the degree of racist and sexual harassment alleged (from his mom) is horrifying and deserves specific attention.
Actually, I think this is worth emphasizing. While human trafficking charges are not being filed, the allegations absolutely represent a pattern of human trafficking control. Sleep and food deprivation, constant surveillance, economic deprivation, housing control, continuous harassment, all of these are behaviors desgined to keep someone burned out and with no time to make moves to get themself out.
Someone living in a city they’re unfamiliar with, with San Francisco’s housing market, no time to establish connections with locals, withheld wages and illegal lies about what wages would be coming, who is constantly sleep deprived and hungry, and harassed constantly by their captor who reacts with extreme measures to moves which might let them leave (like taking a trip out of the city), is how not in a position to leave their job. Pedantry is important in legal matters, but we can recognize when something is absolutely being described in allegations and not on a list of charges only for practical reasons of ease of prosecution.
theres literally no wrong way to play singleplayer games btw. savescum, play on easy mode, mod, look up guides and walkthroughs, whatever the hell you want. always remember if it sucks hit da bricks
like i’m sorry but we as a fandom have to stay firm on our anti-AI values. we cannot suddenly start giving AI a pass when it’s something we “want to see” like destiel kisses. it’s not suddenly fine. we’re not going to start using AI to make fanfic scenes come to life or audio AI to make characters “say” stuff we want to hear. you have GOT to be firm on your anti-AI stance. if you start making exceptions then suddenly anything will fly. fandom is for real art and creations made by real people. no AI fanfics. no AI art. no AI rendered “bonus” scenes. no AI audio. none of it has a place here.
like i’m sorry but we as a fandom have to stay firm on our anti-AI values. we cannot suddenly start giving AI a pass when it’s something we “want to see” like destiel kisses. it’s not suddenly fine. we’re not going to start using AI to make fanfic scenes come to life or audio AI to make characters “say” stuff we want to hear. you have GOT to be firm on your anti-AI stance. if you start making exceptions then suddenly anything will fly. fandom is for real art and creations made by real people. no AI fanfics. no AI art. no AI rendered “bonus” scenes. no AI audio. none of it has a place here.
like i’m sorry but we as a fandom have to stay firm on our anti-AI values. we cannot suddenly start giving AI a pass when it’s something we “want to see” like destiel kisses. it’s not suddenly fine. we’re not going to start using AI to make fanfic scenes come to life or audio AI to make characters “say” stuff we want to hear. you have GOT to be firm on your anti-AI stance. if you start making exceptions then suddenly anything will fly. fandom is for real art and creations made by real people. no AI fanfics. no AI art. no AI rendered “bonus” scenes. no AI audio. none of it has a place here.
like i’m sorry but we as a fandom have to stay firm on our anti-AI values. we cannot suddenly start giving AI a pass when it’s something we “want to see” like destiel kisses. it’s not suddenly fine. we’re not going to start using AI to make fanfic scenes come to life or audio AI to make characters “say” stuff we want to hear. you have GOT to be firm on your anti-AI stance. if you start making exceptions then suddenly anything will fly. fandom is for real art and creations made by real people. no AI fanfics. no AI art. no AI rendered “bonus” scenes. no AI audio. none of it has a place here.
>random guy in shit tier iron armor shows up one day saying a dragon is burning down a city
>don’t know why the guards let him in
>figure I can throw another body at my court wizard so I shuffle him over
>Comes back with arrows sticking out of his body and holding the tablet out for my court wizard like its nothing
>Hear reports someone killed literally every bandit, rat, wolf, and rabbit between here and the spot he was sent
>I now need to get this pain immune lunatic murderer out of my city.
>Dragon shows up
>Ohthankthegods
>Send the guy out on a suicide mission to kill a dragon
>End of my worries
>He comes back, apparently having killed the dragon and eaten its soul
>According to reports just stood there and let the dragon burn him while chugging addictive and dangerous health potions he made himself.
>Now standing in front of me eating an entire bushel of apples, two loaves of bread, and an entire side of beef while everyone looks on in horror and disgust
>Need to get him away from my children as fast as possible
>Tell him he needs to climb the tallest mountain in Skyrim and stay with the Graybeards
>He leaves without a word
>Hopefully thats the last I’ll see of him.
I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classicism, and racism but like god the idea that “healthy” food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.
Every time you feel bad for having coffee with cream and sugar or ranch on your salad or putting extra butter and salt on your veggies I want you to imagine the spirit of John Harvey Kellogg in front of you and then I want you to kill him with a real gun and eat your delicious food in peace.
I know there’s the funny ha ha of a capitalist’s worst nightmare of a product being too durable you don’t need to replace it, but the situation is actually quite interesting to look into
A lot of articles tend to point towards a lack of “relevance” but ultimately that’s not what is happening.
One of Tupperware’s biggest hurdles is availability, not demand. They previously relied on independent sellers, down to individual independent sellers, like the Tupperware Parties of yore (people, usually women seeking financial independence from the 50s onward, would hold events to sell Tupperware to other suburban women – similar to Avon). 2022 was the first year Tupperware could be found in places like Target. At All. Their exclusivity and middle(wo)men decreased their reach as the parties became less and less of a thing.
The next issue for Tupperware is in manufacturing. It only has a single US plant (which it now closed) and struggled post-(early)covid to pay for rising costs of plastic and transportation of materials.
THEN Tupperware got fucked by investors trying to make bank first on their success and then also on their failure as they got swept into “meme stock” betting, where inexperienced traders gamble on stock around jokes/irony.
So ultimately, Tupperware has failed to get with the times as it has always relied on suburban lady sales while countless imitation products hit shelves in places where working class people shop for cheaper and sometimes comparable products, the cost to make a good product went up and as Tupperware struggled, investors and gamblers who are addicted to Line Going Up cashed in on betting on their failure rather than success, and because Tupperware is so synonymous with plastic food storage, IP gremlins are more than delighted to crash and burn a company to get it on the cheap and turn it around to make the numbers go back up again.
Rather than a “oh the woe of durability” story, or lament that a product is not used anymore, this is an excellent microcosm of the vulturistic nature of capitalism.
How dare you read the article and add nuance to this headline upon which I may project my grossly uninformed postulations of Our Society and consumer behavior.
Butter continues to be a hot commodity in Guelph, Ont.
At least seven large-scale thefts have been reported over a 10-month period, including two hauls in just the last month.
On Oct. 12, at around 7:45 p.m., two men entered a store on Speedvale Avenue East.
“They placed a number of items in a cart – including three cases of butter with a value of $936 – and left out a receiving door,” the Guelph Police Service said in a news release.
Kind of obsessed with this…seven large scale butter heists?? What is happening in Guelph?? I have to know why but I don’t want these guys to get caught
Okay, I skipped a few days, which I didn’t really wanna do, but midterms and projects were happening so I had to stop for a bit. Anyways, I’m probably only gonna do the prompts I really wanna instead of trying to do ALL of them so I don’t burn myself out.
Btw, I learned today that cats love the smell of lanolin which can be found on the wool of sheep, so naturally, I decided to draw Nari getting a good ol’ whiff of one of Lamb’s fleeces while they’re out doing stuff idk. I imagine he’s just naturally drawn to it, and he’s confused why he likes it so much.
a short talk- why i should be given all of elon musk’s wealth:
i am aware that i could end world hunger with this money and shall try my best to make good on this. my best isnt great but better than whatever the fuck he’s doing.
i have better things to do than sit down on twitter all day, beefing with random people.
i aint doing stupid shit like trying to “fix autism”
i think trans people are super cool<33
if i had a wife, she wouldnt wanna get rid of me.
erm yeah guys. *awkward thumbs up in anxiety*
this is obviously a joke btw
I think you should get Elon Musk’s wealth, this is very convincing
Less magic schools. More magic universities. Unlearn the simplified models of your secondary education. Discover how to reference scrolls written by a wizard possessed by a different wizard. Identify bias in the voices that whisper from beyond the veil. Have your institution be accused of promoting a Merlinist agenda. Become addicted to energy potions.
Less magic schools. More magic universities. Unlearn the simplified models of your secondary education. Discover how to reference scrolls written by a wizard possessed by a different wizard. Identify bias in the voices that whisper from beyond the veil. Have your institution be accused of promoting a Merlinist agenda. Become addicted to energy potions.
this shit owns it’s just a number go up idle game except the idle mechanic comes from you writing JavaScript to automate tasks it seems like the end goal of the game is to perfectly optimize against this little arbitrary system they’ve created. There’s not any plot to speak of so far but even though nothing is happening people send you messages through the computer telling you to trust no one as they all have ulterior motives. Very relatable.
“if you dont ask the answer is always no” yeah but what if the answer is no plus they think im weird for asking. did you ever consider that in ur stupid fucking philosophy
“The worst thing they can say is no!”
You are so unbelievablely incorrect, like legit that’s so far from the truth that I don’t know what kind of world you live in.
the worst thing they could say is if they opened they’re mouth and emitted a single steady tone and it was the brown sound and everybody within earshot started uncontrollably shitting
actually i think the worst thing they could say is magnitude 15 earthquake. blows up earth
so they could say yes is what you’re saying. they could say yes when i ask, “will you blow up earth with magnitude 15 earthquake for me pls” that is wild
me when we start eating billionaires and i have to kill gomez addams
Gomez and Morticia, telling us where they store the spare guillotines so we can go after Jeff Bezos after we finish with them.
Look, I know we don’t want to admit that our heroes can be flawed, but this isn’t just people baselessly picking a rich person and saying they’re a billionaire.
Don’t hold back. Gomez will respect the revolutionary fire burning in your heart!
The Addams would bring the guillotines for the other billionaires, give away literally all their money and then still ASK for executions because it’s been so long since they had a good beheading in the family
honestly, you’d break his heart if you said you WEREN’T planning on sticking his head in a guillotine. morticia, too. they’d be upset at the special treatment, too, but mostly they really want to be executed gruesomely as they stare lovingly into each other’s eyes as their heads are separated from their bodies, and we need to respect that.
As previously mentioned, I am very happily a parental figure to two kids that I played no part in conceiving, which means for those keeping score that I got to jump straight from Maiden to Crone in something of an accelerated program.
Anyway, these kids are semi-obviously not my biological progeny in that they have their dad’s spectacular eyebrows that I covet every day while I am resentfully drawing mine on, and their gorgeous, ethereal, very very very blonde hair from their mom’s side.
So like, we’re walking the kids through the grocery store parking lot to buy dinner the other day, and a woman stops in the crosswalk to look at me, look at my boyfriend, look at the kids, and then loudly ask “WHERE’D THAT BLONDE COME FROM?”
And I’m just like momentarily frozen, like, do I have to explain to this biddy “hey yeah these aren’t my biological kids but they are my boyfriend’s, but rest assured that the divorce was extremely amicable and also i’m a solid stable fixture in their life and they actually take after their mom’s family-“
and then my boyfriend, (who is for the record a fucking stud) eliminated all that worry by saying (very sexily and without breaking his stride in the least):
“The mailman.”
and ooooooooo her indignant faaaaaace i love him so much
“I didn’t know you were gonna keep the calligraphied quotes I sent you”
WHAT???
WHAT??? BABE I WAS TRYING TO LAMINATE THOSE SO I WOULDN’T DAMAGE THEM-
IF ANYONE GIVES ME ANYTHING THAT COOL I’M TREASURING IT FOREVER!
I know!! They look like they were professionally made and she’s saying she would’ve made them look better if she’d known I would keep them…like what??? 😭😭
I’m not royalty lol. If someone thinks of me like that enough to make something for me it could be a scribble and I’d be honored beyond words!
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