When he panned the camera over to that TITANIC redcedar...
Is this about Seattle’s recruitment dropping almost to 0 after the implementation of the living wage? Does anybody have a link?
YES! it is!
"Since the Army is not subject to local minimum wage laws, Seattle pay now outstrips what locals could earn by signing up for the Army. $15 per hour is not only more than the base pay for privates, but corporals and specialists as well."
Fuck this article for trying to make me sympathize with the military complex tho. Boo-hoo, Sargent Bootlicker won't get Friday off for failing to sign up new recruits
Hmm, it’s almost like the US military pays more than minimum wage in order to recruit people or something
It’s almost like the US military actively campaigns against attempts to raise minimum wage so that they can still prey on low-income teenagers, too.
I almost joined the Marines so I could pay for college. I recognize how LUCKY I am that I had other options... SO MANY of my peers did not. So many folks get scooped into the military for sheer economic reasons. It is predatory.
A male pufferfish tries to impress potential mates with his masterpiece. ✨
Anonymous asked:
what’s a salmacian? :0
It's a term to describe someone who wants/has mixed genitals (both a penis and a vagina). You can check out the r/salmacian subreddit (there's a good mix of afab and amab salmacians & even some folks who have gotten surgery), Salmacian.org, and A Guide to Salmacians (very comprehensive)
Also as a quick surgery summary for anyone interested:
For people who were AFAB, you can get phalloplasty or metoidioplasty without vaginectomy (here's someone who got phallo, and someone who got meta). You can also leave your tdick unburied w phallo and basically have two dicks, if you so choose!
For people who were AMAB, you can get penile-preserving vaginoplasty, with or without orchiectomy (here is one person who got it with)
No matter what you are starting with, it is possible to have a penis and a vagina (and balls, if you want!). It is very much something people can and have gotten.
Me (waking up from a 40 minute nap): Hwf auag... ouugh,,
Glowing tree outside my house:
Whats your fucking problem dude
made a visit today
knight/lord ships are like. what if i would die for you. what if i wanted you to live for me. what if i wanted to touch you but could only be satisfied with being near you. what if i could touch you but only through the safety of our gloves. what if i couldn’t stop thinking about you right next to me. what if i bloodied my hands for you and never looked back at the wreckage. what then
what if i wasn’t allowed to love you. what if i loved you anyway. what if you knew and i knew but we wouldn’t dare to take that step. what if we made meaningful eye contact as i knelt at your feet and devoted my whole being to you. what if i whispered your name for only you to hear
“my lord” is actually something that can be so personal
what if i said “my lord” but i actually meant “my love”
Drawing a bear from memory after waking up from a ten year coma
Chada our beloved! What a relatable dude
The categories are extremely arbitrary and most likely incorrect. Bare with it.
(*) - activities that tend to be done in a gym studio of sorts
Personality test, is 80f/26c too hot for you?
Oh no, that's awful! Wolf attacks are so rare, I wonder what happened?
Oh...
And why did the value plummet, Marissa? Why did it plummet?
Would like to know how exactly she wouldn't fuck up Netflix or Hulu
Yahoo thought Tumblr would be the next PDF
What does that even mean? PDF as in Portable Document Format?
i cannot stress enough that i dont think yahoo even knew what a pdf was
There's no think. They had no fucking idea.
Khalaf walked into one team meeting about Tumblr saying the popular blogging platform was “going to be the new PDF.”
“It didn’t make any sense,” the employee recounted. “We’d walk away scratching our heads.”
>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.
>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.
>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.
>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.
>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.
>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.
>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.
>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!
>Lemmings problem now solved.
>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.
>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.
>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.
>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.
>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.
>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.
fastest reblog in the west
Yeppers. :)
reblogging for study later AND to spread the info.
My favourite recruitment is in Dragon Age, actually. Zev fails to kill you and languishes artfully on the ground as he tells Warden he's too sexy to die and the Warden agrees. No other meet cute compares.
saw a reddit thread that genuinely boggled my mind so here’s a poll: