just noticed that in the pilot when shauna gets out the car as jackie’s going inside she says love you. jackie doesn’t say it back, she just starts to walk up to her house. which is fine and great and all but then less than idk ten minutes later she’s having sex with jackie’s boyfriend in his car and asking him to tell her he loves her. now at this point she doesn’t know jeff has told jackie he loves her and she hasn’t said it back. she doesn’t find out about that until much later in the season. so now not only is she using having sex with jeff as a replacement for having sex with jackie but she’s using it as a replacement for intimacy with her as well. tell me you love me, i won’t hold you to it. it was never about jeff.
listen. listen. the consumption of animal products is about mutually beneficial relationships Not domination and that’s why prioritizing animal r*ghts over animal welfare is an absolutely brain fungus take to have
urban leftists who’ve never so much as raised a chicken will be like “umm think about the politics of your diet???” because they can’t conceive of the fact that domestication is an incredibly sweet gig for most livestock where they don’t have to look for their own food or shelter or water are protected from predators and also get free healthcare and a quick clean death
100%
The actual issues with our current livestock system are because of capitalism and industrialization. Can we please focus our energy on the global paradigm being cruel and unsustainable to us, the planet, AND livestock instead of getting lost in virtue signaling
we need to make fun of people who eat at chick-fil-a. if you eat at chick-fil-a you are directly funding police militarization and are intentionally anti-lgbt at best. it should not be socially acceptable to eat at chick-fil-a. it costs zero dollars not to eat at chick-fil-a. if you eat at chick-fil-a you are a spineless dweeb and stand for nothing. internalize that.
I’ve been a UPS employee for 18 years. The strike terrifies me. It makes a lot of my coworkers worry, too. Financially, during that time, we’re going to take a hit. And there are no guarantees that we’ll come out of it any better at the end of it. But we’re gonna do it anyway. Because the alternative is worse.
There’s a reason news outlets are starting to fear monger about how “disruptive” this could be for the public. I read an article where Deutsche Bank, of all people, is warning UPS to work with the union. FedEx already said they won’t be able to handle the influx of volume if UPS stops working. If Teamsters strike, we will stop the world from turning, just about. And that’s the point.
Because from the start, UPS has been built on the backs of part-time workers like me. And for those of you who are thinking, “Well, why don’t you just get a full-time position, then?” NEWS FLASH: UPS provides very little of those. The only chance you have for that is to become a driver, which is simply not possible for many of us. And those positions are limited, too. Package handlers, which are actually most of us, are part-time positions only. We are guaranteed only 3.5 hours of work a day. And believe me that they wring out every ounce of energy you have for that time.
To illustrate this point: I currently have an inflamed rotator cuff (left side), a tear on my lateral meniscus (right side), and now my left knee is giving me issues, too. I have never gotten injured at work. (In fact, I’m one of the folks who teaches proper safe work methods at the warehouse and have for over 15 years.) That’s just normal wear-and-tear. I started working at the warehouse when I was 21 years old. I’m almost 40 now.
Over the years, I’ve seen how UPS has invested more money in automation than it has in its employees. Even now, I’m still pushing for a ventilation project for our warehouse that has been stalled in the books for over a year. (“Not enough money,” they say. Multi-billion dollar corporation. Cut me a break!) It’s a 3-story building. During the summer months, the temperature on the second floor rarely goes below 100 degrees. We have a mounted thermometer, so this is no exaggeration.
Our drivers are no better off. They deserve air-conditioned vehicles, but the company only promises fans. Even though they can and have installed sensors in the frickin’ trucks to monitor how long a driver is taking to deliver each package. I’ve seen my buddies driving around in downpours with the side doors open because the trucks are too stuffy. (Also, saves on precious seconds of having to open and close the doors when making a delivery. Yeah, they check that, too.)
Understand that if we strike, it’s because we’ve already tried everything else. No one is listening.
