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I threw a dog on the ground today 😭😭😭

I am embarrassed by how hard this made me laugh.

…..does this mean cat people hurl cats at the ground?

you just kind of… open ur arms and they sort themselves out. if you try and place them down they get mad and wiggle and make everything worse

some friends of mine have the most un-cat-ish cat i have ever met

my quintessential example of this:

i was holding him in my arms petting him while we were picking out what games to play that night. when we’d decided on a few, i needed to put the cat down in order to, you know, carry boxes. so i started letting him down, expecting that he’d eventually do the cat hop thing… but he never did.

i ended up lowering him all the way to the floor. and even then he never got his feet under him. i just sort of… plopped him down on his side as he stared up at me like a betrayed sack of flour.

I saw this so clearly in my mind and I’m never going to stop laughing at betrayed sack of flour.

Miette’s long lost brother, the betrayed sack of flour

Speaking as the owner of an elderly, increasingly geriatric chihuahua mutt; yes, I pick him up and put him down like he's a particularly thin-skinned and overfilled water balloon. My cat, on the other hand, launches herself out of my arms like a fuggin' ROCKET on a regular basis. She'll demand my lap and attention, and then 30 seconds later I'll be gasping from a painfully kickboxed bladder and bleedy shredded thighs. I love the little brat but faaaaaaackkkk owwieowwieowwwww

He actually summed it up really well.

extremely fucking weird to have to convince leftists that fighting for a better public education system & better wages for teachers is not, like, the Lame Establishment Dem take or whatever.

It is not Cool and Radical to advocate for the dissolution of the entire public education system in favor of Everyone Doing Their Own Thing. what you're describing is libertarianism, and a system that directly and dramatically benefits fascist right-wingers and child abusers.

the community-centered child rearing yall love to talk about exists. it desperately needs to be improved, but the bones are here, and they're already doing a lot of legwork in the fight against aggressive nuclear family isolation.

it's called public school, you fucking dweeb.

Public education is a thing we did right.

We just really, really need to update it.

If you advocate libertardianism, you aren't Left, you're crypto-fascist.

We are going to hell

We're not, they are.

The fact that this is addressed to the parents, not the kids, is especially creepy?

Anyway, Federal Child Labor Laws: (apply to ALL states)

--Children under 14 (13 for agricultural labor) can only be employed by their own parents/guardians

--14-15 year olds are limited to 3 hours per day, 18 hours per week during the school year (up to 8 hours on weekends/holidays), and 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week when school is not in session.

--They are also limited to working 7am-7pm (or 9pm during the summer), and only outside of school hours

--Only a specific list of jobs are permitted for children of this age (relevant to this, they are allowed to reheat food, wash dishes and equipment, and do some limited cooking/food prep such as washing vegetables). Any work outside this list is prohibited.

--There is also a broad list of jobs/duties they are prohibited from (including any work with ladders, or work with powered meat slicers or several types of powered baking equipment)

--Oh, hey, this is interesting! The federal minimum wage for employees under the age of 20 is $4.25 for the first 90 days they hold a job. I wonder how many days fall between the end of the school year and the start of the next. Oh? Just about 90? What an odd coincidence, that this company would be looking to hire children just before the time of year when they can work (a) later hours (b) more hours per week and (c) likely to need to stop before they get shifted to the full minimum wage.

(An entirely different set of rules apply to agricultural work, and for working directly for one's parents or family. There are also some jobs allowed to children under 14. I'm not going into those.)

Now, I'm not opposed to 14 and 15 year olds working appropriate jobs. I babysat at that age, other kids mowed lawns, raked leaves, life guarded at pools, etc.

But there is something a little predatory about this sign, particularly going up now.

And as people have pointed out, kids that age don't know their rights. They don't know the laws. And even if they do, they don't know that the laws are there to *protect* them. I've known plenty of teenagers who think they boss is *doing them a favor* by allowing them to work outside their limited hours, or continue working while clocked out for their lunch break. When I worked as a waitress, my manager suggested this as a way to earn extra tips. Heck, I was almost THIRTY, and you wouldn't believe how many little ways they tried to wriggle around the rules to get a little more work out of me. (Unless you've worked this kind of job, then you'd absolutely believe it.)

Another thing--these jobs are *exhausting.* I've worked manual labor, I've worked in schools, retail, all kinds of jobs, but nothing made me end the day, back throbbing, fling-myself-into-bed tired like working in a restaurant. I don't know what it is, maybe the hectic pace of the busy hours, maybe the way you're expected to be busy every second of your time there, maybe it's the fact that I spent most of each day walking as fast as I could from one end of the building to the other. I don't know. But I wouldn't wish that on any 14-year-old.

So, anyway, I'm looking at this little flyer, and I'm concerned. Not because I don't think a 14-year-old should ever work. But because I'm trying to think why a BK would put out a sign SPECIFICALLY asking for the youngest age they can employ, with NO details suggesting this is a special youth-support or training program, only A FEW WEEKS before summer vacation, and targeted to their PARENTS who, let's face it, are probably eager to get some time away from the kids after the last year.

Why would any business make this SPECIFIC ad? I don't know, but every answer I come up with doesn't sit well with me.

With the current shortage of adults willing to work an exhausting job at a non-living wage, they are looking for anyone else they can exploit. A business should be considered failing if it can’t pay its adult employees enough to get by.

Also relevant: these kids are almost certainly not vaccinated, and its extremely clear they will not be protected, especially as places relax mask mandates. In 2020 being a line cook was the most dangerous job in the country, the conditions that caused that danger haven't changed. This will get some of these kids killed.

Oh hey, remember this post?

I remember when my grandpa's child size coal shovel I have in my shed that he used when he first starting working in the mines was a relic of the past but one of my nieces or nephews might need it if things keep up.

Sure would be a shame if the local parents decided to do an arson or five in the dead of night on any shops that are targeting their teenagers like this. Just. SUCH a shame.

reblog to kill god faster

quick before his health bar resets & he switches to his second attack pattern!

June 13 2020 - New Orleans Black Lives Matter protesters knock down the bust of slave owner John McDonogh, before throwing it into the Mississippi River. [video]/[video]

…and?

The original tweet is the corniest thing I’ve ever fucking seen

A. They're not gonna tip you, periodt. So already the $10mil is looking better.

B. They're not gonna talk to you, so any "business advice" you thought was gonna be worth more than $10mil, that's null and void, aint happening.

C. Here's the real secret of their "success"; they're all bad people. That's literally it. They're willing to lie, steal, cheat, bully, oppress, rape, etc to get what they want, and their appetites are never sated, so they never stop lying, cheating, etc. You don't get that kind of money through hard honest work. If you're willing to be a big enough piece of shit, you could easily be one of these guys.

So yeah, if someone's offering that choice, get it in writing and stay the hell away from these creeps.

But if you're serving them you can poison the food

A lawsuit filed in Florida this week alleged that Florida real estate mogul M. Patrick Carroll has been banned from multiple restaurants in Miami for a variety of poor behaviors.

As The Daily Beast reports, Carroll was first banned from Carbone and other establishments owned by its parent company late last year after calling a service manager who worked there "a street n---er" after getting upset that a restaurant server "poured a glass of wine for a guest that Mr. Carroll disapproved of."

Carroll was then subsequently banned from local sushi restaurant Hiyakawa Miami after he lustily followed a female patron "to the restroom" and then spat at an employee who intervened to get him to leave her alone.

The lawsuit also alleges that Carroll accused the employee of "c--kblocking him," which also led to Carroll threatening to "beat [them] up" in retaliation.

But you know, apparently it’s trans women who are a “Threat to women” ._.

I'll bet each of those restaurants has a Dumpster out back they could have used to take care of him.

BuT dRaG QuEeNs aRe ThE ReaL PredAtORs!!

YES GOOD <3

The 2024 republican primary is gonna be buck wild.

De Santis: "Hello median American voter, the only thing I have for you is transphobia."

Trump: "Ron De-sanctamonius you're little pudding fingers boy."

Biden: "Back in Scranton we used to make a thing called Dirt Nachos."

Why is Biden in the Republican primary

Got lost

Fucking liberals cry cry cry. Wait until your world gets turned upside down. It will be legendary. 🤣🤣🤣

Hey man, you got any good recommendations for grandma porn?

theyre literally finally admitting that they think poor people should starve to death lmao

If I remember my pop culture version of history correctly I think the guillotine is meant to come out after this part

When I tell you I snorted!

legolas:

gimli:

aragorn:

gandalf:

BLEASE

Gollum

Eomer:

Boromir:

Elrond:

This post is like getting pelted with marshmallows shot out of a tennis ball launcher

@karaboutmyart

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

elrond big naturals

😢😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭💔

Ocala, FL.

Gunshine State is cesspool for white scumbags.

My heart breaks for Ajike Owens and her sweet beautiful children.

My mind sharpens on stopping Florida and shitbag racists like Ron DeSantis from influencing our country.

The murderer was not charged. She is back home as if nothing happened.

Wait WHAT she wasn't CHARGED????

The history of corporate propaganda.

I vividly remember attending a training session with a scan from an 1880-something newspaper that said "unions used to be something we needed, but we're past that now." The corporate propaganda hasn't changed in 130+ years.

Somewhere out there is a clay tablet with Ea-nāṣir claiming his copper is shitty because "no one wants work anymore".