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I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.
Current mood: Singing “do you want to hear some bullshit?” to the tune of “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?”
I see a lot of incomprehension online about our pension reform and the anger it generates in France, and what it often boils down to is "why are they so angry, 64 is plenty young to retire?"
I don't agree, but even if I did I would still oppose the reform. Here are some of the reasons why:
- We already need 43 full years of work and tax contributions to be able to retire. Which means college-educated people were never going to retire at 64 anyway, let alone 62. This reform is aimed at people who start working early, mostly in low-paying jobs.
- There's very little provision made in this law for hard/dangerous/manual labour.
- There's no provision made for women who stop working to raise their children (51% of women already retire without a "complete career," which means they only retire on a partial pension, vs. 25% of men).
- At 64, 1/3 of the poorest workers will already be dead. In France, between the richest and the poorest men, there's a 13 years gap in life expectancy.
- Beyond life expectancy, at that age a lot of people (especially poorer, non-college educated) have too many health-related issues to be able to work. Not only is it cruel to ask them to work longer, if they can't work at all that's two more years to hold on with no pension
- Unemployment in France is still fairly high (7%). Young people already have a hard time finding work, and this is going to make things even harder for them
- Macron cut taxes on the rich and lost the country around 16 Billions € in tax revenue. Our estimated pension deficit should peak at 12 Billions worst case scenario.
- While I'm on wealth redistribution (no, not soviet style, but I think there should be a cap on wealth concentration. Nobody needs to be a billionaire.): some of the massive profits of last year should go to workers and to the state to be redistributed, including to fund pensions. The state subsidized companies and corporations during the pandemic, Macron even said "no matter the cost" and spent 206 Billions € on businesses. Now he's going after the poorest workers in the country for an hypothetical 12 Billions??
- Implicit in all of this is the question of systemic racism. French workers from immigrant families are already more likely to have started their careers early, to have low-paying jobs, are less likely to be college-educated, more at risk for disabilities and chronic illnesses, etc., so this is going to disproportionately affect them
- This is not even touching on the fact that he didn't let lawmakers vote on it, meaning he knew he wouldn't get a majority of votes in parliament, or that 70% of the population is against this law. Pushing it through anyway is blatant authoritarianism.
TL;DR: This is only tangentially about retirement age. The reform will make life harder for people with low incomes, or with no higher education, for manual workers, for women—mothers especially, for POC, for people with disabilities or chronic conditions, etc. This is about solidarity.
Hope (sincerely) this helps.
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I love Deanna Troi because she’s representative of an autistic experience you don’t see on TV a lot which is “I learned all about human interaction the same way that one might learn about cool bugs so I know what makes people tick and in THEORY I know the right things to say in social situations but socializing like that is not the least bit natural to me and I don’t know what to do if the situation doesn’t match up with what I studied.” Except for her instead of having JUST learned about human interaction she is also psychic and so she partially relies on that too.
The episode where she loses her powers and suddenly cannot read people at all, not even to the level humans usually can, totally screws up trying to give therapy, and becomes so distraught she tries to resign from her job as a therapist, is so real. Like listen if she wasn’t autistic that wouldn’t have been such a big deal. Deanna Troi is an empath with low empathy, she’s using her psychic powers to compensate for her symptoms.
Also the episode where she hears some annoying music and completely loses her mind about it and screams and sobs and must be put into a medically induced coma because she’s so upset by the music and the alien that made her hear the annoying music seems genuinely confused about why it bothered her so much (meaning that like, that wasn’t the intended or normal effect of his annoying music ability).
Even outside those episodes where it’s so obvious though, everything she says to people tends to read as extremely scripted, like she knows it’s what she ought to say but it isn’t what she would say if she was just being herself. Queen of masking. What is the real you like, if you even still have one? She’s just like me for real
Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle
I’m literally zendaya reacting like he didn’t have to go that hard and yet..
if this comes up on my dash and i don’t reblog it - just assume im dead
*sigh* it’s time again
Reblogging as always. This is the Way…
@ people who were not born in Ireland and particularly Americans
- It is not Patty’s Day, it is Paddy’s Day. Patty is short for Patricia, Paddy is short for Pádraig which has been anglicised to Patrick. - It is not Gaelic, it is Irish. In Irish, the language is called Gaelige but that’s pronounced Gwayl-geh. - Literally no one in Ireland has ever eaten corned beef and cabbage - We have also never said top of the morning - If you pinch an Irish person for not wearing green on Paddy’s Day they’re likely to slap you. - Why do you dye your drinks green? - It is not “North Ireland” it is “Northern Ireland”. It is not “South Ireland” it is “The Republic of Ireland” or just “Ireland”. - No, I do not know the Dohertys of Mayo. - Please, if you must, do things for the craic and not the crack. Cocaine is not a great habit lads. - Drinks like the “Irish car bomb” and the “black & tan” are incredibly offensive (you wouldn’t drink a “9/11”)
However
- Wearing green is grand - Having a few drinks is also grand, they don’t even need to be Irish (I drink a Swedish cider most of the time) - Aye sure queue up some Irish music on youtube it’s great. - If you want one Irish word to use throughout the day a good one is Sláinte (pronounced slawn-sha) - it’s the equivalent of saying “cheers” before you drink!
Please be respectful on Holidays like this! It’s great to join in and show your respect & appreciation for other cultures celebrations, but remember to actually do that! Have fun, but stay respectful to the culture and religion. 😊
Fun history of corned beef and cabbage.
Beef is cheap in America (lots of land, lots of cows, so there’s such a thing as cheap cuts). So a lot of immigrants who could never afford beef in their home country now had access to beef.
(Example spaghetti and meatballs is an Italian-American invention).
Now Americans hated immigrants (plenty stilldo sadly) and hated anyone who wasn’t Protestant so you had segregation. So in New York the Irish Catholic area was next to the Jewish area. There was solidarity between American Irish and American Jewish immigrants. So Irish-Immigrants bought corned-beef from Jewish butchers.
(In Ireland, you may eat bacon or lamb for St Patrick’s Day, but lamb was (and is) expensive in America, and Irish Immigrants got their meat from Kosher butchers - no bacon).
Brisket is a cut of meat from the front of the cow. It’s a very tough cut of meat. The salting process (it’s like soaked in salt for over a week) and cooking for hours and hours (it’s an all day stew) makes it tender.
So corned beef and cabbage is a dish that evolved out of affordable ingredients (tough cut of beef, cabbage and carrots and potatoes are dirt cheap) and proximity to Jewish immigrants.
St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations as we know them now (parades and the like) were started in America by Irish-American immigrants. Because WASP Americans (white, Anglo Saxon, Protestants) hated Catholics and hated the Irish.
And for all immigrants there was a big push to assimilate (give kids English sounding names, forget your language, become Protestant). But people don’t give up religion easily, names and language maybe, but not God.
So still today you have Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, Mexican Catholics, etc and even Americans who aren’t practicing Catholic or aren’t religious may view being raised Catholic as part of a cultural identity linked to their heretage (the same way someone who doesn’t practice Judaism is still Jewish, some difference since Judaism is a hereditary religion, but for immigrants in a country that hates Catholics, being Catholic, having that tradition was and is part of being an outsider to American, part of an identity those in power hated and tried to erase).
So holding giant Irish pride parade celebrating the Catholic patron Saint of Ireland was sort of a “fuck you” to anti-Catholic anti-Irish sentiment. A “fuck you” to the idea that being an American meant erasing your traditions and history and pretending to be a White Anglo Saxon Protestant.
Look at us being proudly Irish and still Catholic. Obnoxiously, visibly Catholic and acting ways that the puritanical Protestants hate.
So what was a family religious Holiday became a big, visible celebration of heretage and homeland (a shared identity). And since it’s a celebration immigrants splurged by buying a big cut of beef (beef is cheaper in America, but immigrants did not have a lot of money and meat is still more than vegetables, so any cut of beef was still a special occasion thing) and supported their Jewish neighbors who ran the butcher’s shop.
(also, since it’s a St’s Feast, Lent restrictions on meat and drinking alcohol didn’t count, so eat a lot of meat and drink).
St Patrick’s Day in the US has its own history, heretage and ties to religion (and persecution for that religion). Traditions are tied to that history. So Corned Beef and Cabbage may not be a thing in Ireland but it’s a part of Irish-American tradition, history and culture.
What a lovely explanation of diaspora culture!
You don’t have to reblog this, please don’t feel anxious when these sorts of posts appear on your dash.
I’m posting it because extra luck towards a certain piece of good news is something I will take any way I can get.
Reposting the magical golden potato. Bring me good news, oh beloved potato.
i made a cursed picture because my friend requested it so uhhhh
sorry
update: More Ass
Thank you for the tag, @professormcguire!
Last song I listened to: Whatever was playing last in my car? But the last one I deliberately searched for was Life is a Highway, for toddler appeasement reasons. And It’s Raining Men was playing in my brain earlier.
Three ships: USS Enterprise... oh wait, you meant the romantic kind. Spuffy, Spirk, Garashir.
Currently reading: Nothing right now, but might read Project Hail Mary over my spring break. I read The Martian over winter break and really enjoyed it.
Last movie I watched: A Bug’s Life (for toddler reasons).
Craving: Monday, actually. I’m on spring break! Also kind of craving a good flirt.
Tag nine people: @deepspaceclawstation @autism-significantly-spicy and anyone else reading this who wants to do the thing.
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I just had all 4 removed so now I’m curious how many ppl here have too
Baja Blastoise.
Hey OP, do you have a shop anywhere on the internet where I can buy stuff with this on it?
So, I just saw a post about how the problem with Star Trek: Picard is not that it’s trying too hard to be nostalgia bait but rather that it’s just badly written. I agree with this, and I don’t want to derail that post, but also it’s not even good nostalgia bait!
Like, okay, let’s talk season 2 because it’s fresher in my mind.
Slingshot around the sun to travel through time? That was some good nostalgia bait. I was literally bouncing up and down saying “slingshot around the sun” under my breath in the lead up to that moment, and I happy flapped when they said it.
But then everything after that was terrible.
Like, if you’re playing the nostalgia bait game, why in the fuck would you kill off Elnor rather than putting him in a silly little beanie? We deserved to see Elnor in a silly little beanie.
And then Guinan should have recognized Picard, and should have acknowledged that she recognized him. Picard walking into Guinan’s bar in 2024 should have earned a “Really, you again? Didn’t you tell me I’d have to wait a few more centuries to meet you?” kind of response, because Guinan met Picard in that episode where they had to go back in time and cure cholera because Data’s head was found at an archeological dig site. And I get that not everyone in the writer’s room is going to have the same level of extensive Trek knowledge as I do, but they should have a fucking continuity expert to check those things, because they know that if they don’t then the internet will. And you don’t even have to change the plot for that! She can still not trust him! She’s only met him that one time over a hundred years ago! She can still be burnt out on Earth and humans and all of that! She can still tell him to fuck off and he can still have to win her over! Literally nothing changes except better continuity!
And then there’s Q. Fucking Q. He’s dying??? Q don’t do that. But there is precedent for a Q to leave the continuum or to be kicked out or turned human or whatever. Literally all they had to do was write in a line like “The continuum decided I had become too human, and so now I’m growing old and feeble just like you.” Just make it a thing that was foisted on him by the continuum rather than an “Oops, I guess we do die???” It’s not that hard.
The Wil Wheaton cameo at the end didn’t feel like it added any value. (I love Wil Wheaton, but my brain recognized him as Wil Wheaton before Wesley Crusher.)
The Soong stuff was just annoying.
Don’t even get me started on the Picard backstory about why he hasn’t opened himself up to romantic relationships. (It’s because he’s aro. It pisses me off that his friends kept giving him shit about it all season.)























