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The Luddites were early trade-unionists who sabotaged their bossesâ machines as part of a strike action against layoffs, low wages, and unsafe conditions.
Today the Luddites are remembered as a gang of dirt-eating weirdos who sabotaged their own machines because they were afraid of progress. This lie is so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that we will use âLudditeâ to mean someone who prefers flip phones to smartphones, even though itâs fiction.
When people tell you that the stuff you think you know about history has been colored by propaganda and implicit biases, this is a good example of what that means.
And down with all kings but King Ludd.
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lies. Â I put in hours and hours of effort and get tears. Â only tears.
so you just make an effort? and then it pays off?
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The Southbound I-75 overpass at the 75S/24W split in Chattanooga has just collapsed
There is no I-75 south access.
There is no Northbound access to I-24.
American people: âOur infrasctructure is crumbling! What shall we do?!?â
Republicans: âGive trillions of dollars of tax breaks to the rich!! Theyâll create jobs!! Theyâll build roads and bridges for communities at their own expense! Theyâll help the poor and homeless!!â
Elon Musk: **uses his billions to launch one of his cars into outer space**
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My lactose intolerant body: please, for the love of god, stop eat so many milk products
My North European monkey brain: you need to get vitamine d even if it kills you
Rational brain: you have supplements for things like that
North European monkey brain: but. cheese
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Just being there for someone can sometimes bring hope when all seems hopeless.
Dave G. Llewellyn
(via surqrised)
WHY IS THIS SUCH A HARD CONCEPT FOR PEOPLE????
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Canât believe Bram Stoker once sent a 2000-word fan letter to Walt Whitman which included his exact height, weight and how much he loved his poems and wanted to be friends with him, and that Whitman wrote back saying he liked his letter and hoped they could meet some day, how cute is that
And then he finally got to meet him and Stoker said âI found him all that I had ever dreamed of, or wished for in himâ HOW CUTE IS THAT
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When the Boss Says, âDonât Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paidâ
The HR manager tried to convince me that the offer was competitive. She told me that she couldnât offer more because it would be unfair to other paralegals. She said that if we did not agree to a salary that day, then she would have to suspend me because I would be working past the allowed temp phase. I insisted that she look into a higher offer and she agreed that we could meet again later. Before I left, she had something to add.
âMake sure you donât talk about your salary with anyone,â she said sweetly, as if she was giving advice to her own son. âIt causes conflict and people can be let go for doing it.â (This is to the best of my recollection, not verbatim.)
It wasnât all that surprising to hear this from a corporate HR manager. What was surprising was the dĂ©jĂ vu.
Just three months earlier, some of my coworkers at the coffee shop told me that our bosses, who worked in the office on salaries, and even the owner, got a higher cut of the tips than we did. One barista told me that when she complained about it, the managers reduced her hours.
When you make minimum wage and have to fight for more than 30 hours per week, tips are pretty important, so I sat down with my managers to discuss the controversy. Thatâs when they told me not to talk about it with the other baristas. The owner âhates it when people talk about money,â my manager added, and âwould fire people for it if he could.â I sulked back to the espresso machine, making my lattes at half speed and failing to do side work.
In both workplaces, my bosses were breaking the law.
Under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA), all workers have the right to engage âconcerted activity for mutual aid or protectionâ and âorganize a union to negotiate with [their] employer concerning [their] wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.â In six states, including my home state of Illinois, the law even more explicitly protects the rights of workers to discuss their pay.
This is true whether the employers make their threats verbally or on paper and whether the consequences are firing or merely some sort of cold shoulder from management. My managers at the coffee shop seemed to understand that they werenât allowed to fire me solely for talking about pay, but they may not have known that it is also illegal to discourage employees from discussing their pay with each other. As NYU law professor Cynthia Estlund explained to NPR, the law âmeans that you and your co-workers get to talk together about things that matter to you at work.â Even âa nudge from the boss saying âwe donât do that around hereâ ⊠is also unlawful under the National Labor Relations Act,â Estlund added.
And yet, gag rules thrive in workplaces across the country. In a report updated this year, the Institute for Womenâs Policy Research found that about half of American employees in all sectors are either explicitly prohibited or strongly discouraged from discussing pay with their coworkers. In the private sector, the number is higher, at 61 percent.
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Everyone always wants to talk about Hook or Pan. Everyone always wants to debate which one is good and which is evil - who weâre supposed to follow and who we arenât. The Peter Pan mythos has pretty much shrunk down to nothing but Hook and Pan (Hook, SyFyâs Neverland, Pan, OUAT, etc). Occasionally Tinkerbell factors in (Hook, Disneyâs Tinkerbell, OUAT, etc). Thereâs one character, however, that always gets sidelined - which is puzzling since they are the main character of both the play and the book. That character is, of course, Wendy Darling.
Peter Pan is Wendyâs coming of age story. Wendy who decides to run away from home. Wendy who realizes that she must grow up - and that thereâs no shame in that. Wendy who sees Peter as deficient and sees Hook as empty and decides that, no, she doesnât want to be a part of that. Wendy gets the adventure sheâs always wanted and she turns away because she realizes that itâs lacking. Sheâs the only one who truly sees the hollowness of being young forever. Barrie even says âYou need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than other girls.â
People always debate on who the hero is. When they learn that Peter could be horrid they assume it has to be Hook. Of course, the answer is that neither of them are the hero. Wendy is the hero of the story. Youâre not supposed to be like Peter, who kept every good and bad aspects of being a child and canât tell right from wrong. Youâre not supposed to be Hook, either. He let go of everything childish and loving about him and became bitter and evil. Theyâre both the extreme ends of the scale. Youâre supposed to fall in the middle, to hold onto the things about childhood that make it beautiful - the wonder, the imagination, the innocence - while still growing up and learning morality and responsibility. Youâre not supposed to be Hook. Youâre not supposed to be Peter Pan.
Youâre supposed to be Wendy Darling.Â
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very nervous jew here would really like goyim to respond here pls
hey @ goyim could y'all reblog this if you're actually willing to listen to Jewish people and protect us?
we really need allies right now, and I know seeing this on peopleâs blogs could be comforting to other Jewish people.
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can we stop only blaming british people for colonialism and how they donât take any responsibility today? because hi, spain massacred the entire center and south america. france? destroyed entire civilizations and ruled the worldwide slave market. european countries literally sat down and divided africa to themselves. y'all donât get blame free just because itâs more trendy to be after british people on tumblr.
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If your ADHD is causing you to fuck up more, it doesnât necessarily mean that the ADHD is getting worse.. you could just be doing more things which gives you more opportunity to fuck up.
This is one of the reasons, ADHD can get âworseâ as an adult. A child has very few responsibilities. An adult on the other hand, has all kinds of opportunities to fuck up on.Â
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Okay but the often overlooked line âOh my father didnât fight in the clone wars, he was a navigator on a spice freighter.â becomes so much funnier when you realize that spice in this universe is slang for drugs. And itâs not like this was something added later in the Expanded Universe, Hanâs in trouble with Jabba because of his âspiceâ shipments. So Owen canonically told his nephew that his father was a drug dealer and Luke was just like âoh, just that? boring.â.
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Hey, please stay safe
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This cartoon from 1959 really got it.
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