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“If you have time to watch Netflix you have time for a side hustle” my side hustle is relaxing so that my body and brain can heal from by this nose-to-the-grindstone bullshit. I refuse to feel guilty for being a human with the need to relax sometimes. my side hustle is no.
whenever i hear about hustle culture i always think about this post on r/antiwork
brown sugar and cinnamon are lesbian married
in the club straight up squandering it. and by it i mean. my potentioal
theres actually no rules to transitioning and youre allowed to want contradictory things for your transition. it's fine if you only want some of the changes that come with hrt and take preventative measures for the rest (like wanting bottom growth but not body hair or vice versa). you can want to have vagina AND a dick. you can be a woman and want top surgery, or wear a packer. you can be a man and want to have a pussy. you can change your transition goals one or a million times or not have any goals at all and just take things as they come or as they feel right.
there are no rules.
i think there is a single rule and the rule is that if it makes you want to live you should do it
…feEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN NO ONE ELSE CAN FEEL FOR YOU ONLY YOU CAN LET IT IN
Pokemon Heritage Post
i think rice with things on it & also some sort of sauce is like basically the best food genre tbh
Make that make sense. People have to quit blaming the poor for being poor.
it’s literally sooo much more expensive to incarcerate people than it is to house and feed them. In my state it costs $90,000 to incarcerate a single person for one year. $90,000. Other states are even more expensive. for comparison, my rent is $1,050 a month. The annual cost of my housing is $12,600.
A word of advice for people advocating for criminal Justice reform to republicans and people who literally do not care about human rights: use these numbers. Republicans and conservatives and even moderate Dems don’t actually care about moral appeals of why it’s wrong to criminalize homelessness. They do however care about how much tax money this would cost to enforce. It makes financial sense to NOT incarcerate people. (Obviously it makes moral sense too, but most people don’t actually care about that)
It's so much more expensive to put people in jail. If they are in the custody of the state (jail or prison), they have to be given food, clothes, heating, and healthcare. Most of the people who are homeless have health problems--either problems that caused them to lose their homes, trauma from being on the street, substance abuse disorder, anything. The average person experiencing homelessness is much sicker than the average American.
At this point, the largest healthcare provider in the U.S. is the Department of Justice. And legally speaking, they have to provide care. (Granted, a lot of places will avoid that as much as possible, but ideally, they get what treatment they need.) There is a giant prison in Rochester, MN, because it's next to the Mayo Clinic. It's where people with rare and serious illnesses go. My old psych prof worked there part time, providing counseling. He saw people who committed horrendous crimes getting surgeries and chemo. To be clear, prisoners should be getting surgeries and chemo. They deserve healthcare. But it's jarring to hear that a murderer got a tumor taken off his lung while his victims' families have to pay out of pocket for therapy.
I also need to point out that if you're giving people housing, you're just giving them housing. Maybe you include heating, water, and electricity. You aren't giving them clothes (uniforms). You aren't paying guards. You aren't installing metal detectors and cameras. You are just giving them a place to live. That's obviously much, much cheaper than prison.
I am horrified that I have to resort to spelling this out, but yes, this is the only argument Republicans will listen to. Give them the cost-benefit analysis
Y'all are all forgetting about for-profit prisons that use prison labor for business contracts.
This shit is on purpose.
people are way too comfortable being dismissive of children and teenagers. if a toddler comes up to you and starts explaining skibidi toilet lore or if a 13 year old asks you if you want to hear about their mha ocs you have to listen with utmost sincerity or at least pretend to. this is the only way you will get into heaven.
genuinely depressing how people will dismiss the interests kids have because all it does is make them retreat into shame and never want to talk to you about anything again
other queer people have GOT to get more comfortable with fat hairy queer men.
do the people in the rbs know that sexualization is. not the same as acceptance? or that op can see their tags?
i *know* you want to fuck bears, but do you see them as people? do you listen to them? do you use “reddit/discord mod” as an insult? do you make jokes about “ugly fat neckbeards”? how do you treat the fat, hairy men that you aren’t attracted to?
if you only like them when you want to fuck them, you don’t really like them.
When you're driving home at night and you meet a Ford F-150 on the road
Really though, like we've made our cities so uncomfortable even for housed people, just in an effort to hurt the homeless. Parks and beaches close at night so homeless can't sleep there. Loitering is illegal so homeless can't sleep there. No bench at the bus stop because someone might sleep on it. No overnight parking because someone might sleep in the car there.
These laws aren't even beneficial to housed populations of the city, and they purely exist out of a) hatred for the homeless and b) an attempt to make your city look "presentable" to tourists. And it just sucks all-around.
They're so hostile to the homeless that now they're actively hostile to the elderly, the disabled, to pregnant people, to anyone with a temporary injury.
If you are tired after a long day and need to sit down and rest - you probably need to pay to sit in a Cafe! If you need to use the washroom while you're out? Same thing. Covered malls are out of fashion where I live because the homeless population would be able to use the public areas - at the same time, the weather is very bad for half the year so if you don't absolutely need it, you aren't going out. Which means again, elderly people who could use the open public halls to meet with walking groups remain inside. People with disabilities remain inside. People recovering from injuries remain inside.
But that's okay to those who design the public structures because the homeless remain outside! So they've accomplished their goal.
It's more than anti-homeless, it's anti-community. When attempting to exclude one aspect of our society seen as unwanted, they've excluded countless others.
I doubt this'll have reach but I'm curious.
I swear I am going to start a seminar in How to Exist in Public. We do not block our coworker from getting their food out of one microwave while waiting for our food in the other microwave. We do not walk four carts abreast through the grocery store, nor do we park our cart next to an end cap and wander off to another aisle. We do not start making a left turn we will not be able to complete, thereby bringing the entire intersection to a screeching halt. We do not stop dead in the middle of the hallway to answer a text. We live in a society.
Spicing up this Friday morning with an earthquake here in NYC
Not wrong
Just an FYI,
These are very very rare in this part of the world and not just the East Coast being dramatic.
Because this part of the east coast is basically all connected thru a mountain range (I’m no longer in the Appalachias *technically* but the mountains I hike in are juuuuuuust disconnected from them), people local to me here in Connecticut felt the earthquake at the same intensity as people much closer to the epicenter in New York and New Jersey.
I didn’t really notice anything, but I’ve lived through other earthquakes of similar intensity where I noticed nothing due to being so close to a highway and so any vibrations or rumbles I just chalked up to big trucks going by at light speed as usual. Friends of mine more disconnected to the road texted me alarmed and meanwhile I was like “…what earthquake?”
Anyway my sister lives pretty close to where it happened in New Jersey and it really freaked her out. She’s never experienced an earthquake at all before. I lived through one I did actually feel when I was much younger and it was a pretty startling experience, not knowing where that rumbling is coming from and the bang of the plates bonking together legit sounds like something’s exploding right under your feet if you don’t know what it is. My folks shot out of bed and ran to the basement because they thought our furnace exploded when it happened. Many of our neighbors ran out of their houses thinking someone drove off the nearby overpass and needed rescuing. I thought someone hit the house with their car.
That’s how rare it is here- we’re so used to so many other reasons for earth vibrations and rumbles and bangs that we instantly think of a million different reasons it could be happening and not “it was an earthquake”.
To my knowledge, any damage reported thus far has been fairly minor despite our architecture and infrastructure really not being built for it. We may find some little cracks in foundations or retaining walls as the dust settles but nothing too intense currently. So startling, but the east coast is also being kind of dramatic about this one. But I was just talking to my coworkers about how people in ye olden years would have thought the world was ending or that the gods were angry just from what’s happened this week.
