"Illinois will become one of three states to require employers to offer paid time off for any reason after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law on Monday that will take effect next year.

Starting Jan. 1, 2024, Illinois employers must offer workers paid time off based on hours worked, with no need to explain the reason for their absence as long as they provide notice in accordance with reasonable employer standards.

Just Maine and Nevada mandate earned paid time time off and allot employees the freedom to decide how to use it, but Illinois’ law is further reaching, unencumbered by limits based on business size. Similarly structured regulations that require employers to offer paid sick leave exist in 14 states and Washington, D.C., but workers can only use that for health-related reasons.

Illinois employees will accrue one hour of paid leave for every 40 hours worked up to 40 hours total, although the employer may offer more. Employees can start using the time once they have worked for 90 days. Seasonal workers will be exempt, as will federal employees or college students who work non-full-time, temporary jobs for their university.

Pritzker signed the bill Monday in downtown Chicago, saying: “Too many people can't afford to miss even a day's pay ... together we continue to build a state that truly serves as a beacon for families, and businesses, and good paying jobs.”

Proponents say paid leave is key to making sure workers, especially low-income workers who are more vulnerable, are able to take time off when needed without fear of reprisal from an employer.

Bill sponsor Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth, a Peoria Democrat, said the bill is the product of years of negotiations with businesses and labor groups.

“Everyone deserves the ability to take time off,” she said in a statement. “Whether it’s to deal with the illness of a family member, or take a step back for your mental health, enshrining paid leave rights is a step forward for our state."

“This is about bringing dignity to all workers," she said at the signing."

-via ABC News, 3/13/23

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

the trap of star wars is that it lays out concepts like a city-state run by an "elected" monarch and its "reformed" fascist governor that fawn over the democratic society they've created while exporting their labor to what are essentially robot prisoners of war maintained by a segregated alien workforce. something that COULD be deeply interesting if anyone involved in making it had anything to say. like i'm aware that it's chiefly a vehicle to sell merch to children, i'm just unfortunately inflicted with a terrible disease.

issuing a retraction. i don't know how i missed this.

A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

…Walder the White… or whatever idk I never read Lotr

“A Boar and some Boarlings out for a stroll”

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The relief I felt when I saw the person filming was in a car.

so my english professor told us this story last year about how he met his wife and it’s completely possible that he made it up just to entertain us but he says it happened and the story is this

he’s a a cruise with his parents to australia where he’s gonna spend a year or so for some reason. can’t remember why but it was job related. his mom is worried that if he spends too long away from her without her constant advice (my mom is also like this lol) he’s going to do something impulsive and ridiculous. 

so, he decides to prank her by pretending to get married to a woman he just met. because he’s obviously so impulsive and ridiculous. so he’s talking to people and stuff and he asks this woman if she’s cool with pretending to marry him to prank his parents. and she says yes. then he goes and talks to the captain and crewmembers and he’s like “i have this ridiculously funny prank where i’m going to pretend to marry this lovely woman to freak out my mom.” and they, of course, reply hell yeah. so like since the first mate has the power to marry people, i guess, he agrees to the fake wedding. 

so at lunch he’s like “mom, dad, this is alyssa. i met her last night and we’re in love and also getting married.” and his mom freaks out and that could be that. but no.

if they’re gonna do this they’re gonna go big or go home.

so, he changes his facebook status to “married to alyssa” and invites all his friends to his wedding in the middle of the ocean. (and they believe him and congratulate him and he’s concerned that his friends think he would really marry a random woman he met like six hours ago) 

now his mom is getting really nervous b/c alyssa (the fake bride) got her friends she was on the cruise to be her bridesmaids. they got the first mate to “marry” then at dinner in front of people. the mom is horrified. 

anyway the next day he goes “just kidding!” and it’s hilarious. but then he has to contact all his friends who were calling him on the phone and stuff to congratulate him to tell them it was an elaborate joke and they all think he’s an asshole and he and alyssa part ways but keep in touch b/c they… actually get along pretty well. 

anyway like a year later they meet up again in boston (i think? big city that wasnt new york) and talk and end up dating for like a year and then end up engaged for real. and now he invites his friends to his real wedding and all their RSVPs essentially say “i’ll show up, but if this is another fake one i’ll fucking murder you” and the mom just flat out didnt believe him for a month because she’s not falling for that again.

and now they’ve been married happily for like three years and they’re expecting their second child who has probably been born by now 

and the overall point of this post is: imagine your otp

Well this is a prompt for fic if I’ve ever seen one.

he sure fuckin is

I think if you're still supporting Harry Potter at this point (and to be clear, this post is not about if you should or shouldn't), then you need to understand that trans people will not trust you. And you have to be okay with that. You can't get upset about it.

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You are so right. I'm trans so I was thinking about this from a solely trans perspective, but you're so right. Her antisemitism shouldn't be over looked. Especially with Blood Libel The Game being out.

Hello world! I'm 17 minutes old❤️

The real reason millenials say "Adulting" is that that if you say something is "for adult reasons" or "grown up reasons" we've been trained to associate that with sex and shit when we just wanna say, be vague about our chore habits

...you know I don’t think I’ve ever seen it put into words so concisely but that is exactly why I use “adulting” over any other term.

“doing adult things” = almost always a euphemism for sexy stuff (when other people say it)

“adulting” =  all the tedious things like laundry and cooking that you become responsible for as an adult

There’s also just the way we were raised, where adulthood was treated as automatic and innate. The authority of adults was meant to be unquestioned by virtue of their adulthood. When you get older, you too will automatically Be An Adult, and be inheritor to this great authority.

Basically the word “adult” or “grown up” was used to condescend to us and exclude us. And what made a person an adult was treated as inherent.

Then we got older and tripped into what actually doing adulthood meant and came to find that

1. The people who were supposed to explain to us how this worked had completely failed to do so

2. They had done so in such a way that was meant to protect their authority while also (possibly inadvertently) barring us from the experiences and skills that would’ve helped us transition into adulthood better.

3. There is no inherent authority that comes with adulthood. The adults around us were talking out of their ass. Adult is a verb, not a noun. It’s not an inherent source of authority, it’s a thing you work at daily and you have to maintain it.

And what’s more the same people who lorded their age over us, telling us repeatedly we’d suddenly come to agree with them with age, completely failed to cede any of that authority or power even as some millennials are now staring down 40. So clearly “adulthood” is a game you’re trying to play to control us, even now. Fuck that. We’re not playing.

Honestly that some in Gen Z find it irritating is fine by me. If they think it sounds juvenile, that’s because it is. It is specifically useful in that it breaks the illusion of adults being better than kids. When kids are like, “you sound absurd. You’re in your thirties” I’m like, yeah kid. That’s the thing. Being an “adult” never stops being absurd. If it makes me sound like the mundanities of my life are all a performance that has nothing to do with my actual age or ability, good. That’s why I say it. I’m glad you’re growing up knowing that age isn’t an inherent door to authority. I’m glad you’re growing up thinking “fuck, these adults ten years older than me don’t act grown up at all.” That’s what we want. That’s we call it “adulting”, instead of claiming adulthood as part of us.

Maybe if your gen is lucky you will feel more appropriate claiming your adulthood without caveats. Maybe your definitions of adulthood are more versatile, so you won’t feel barred from the signifiers you’d need to feel like an adult. Maybe you’ll have a better launching pad. Maybe you’ll always hate we call it “adulting”. That’s okay. I hope you get better than we did. But I’m still gonna call it adulting.

As to Boomers who don’t like it, you shouldn’t have defunded my practical education and made getting a foot into a normal stable life so damn difficult, you fucks.

This delivery kills me every time

Ron DeSantis just kidnapped a 13-year old boy.

Earlier this evening, at around 7 PM CT U.S., Rebekah Jones (notably one of DeSantis’ biggest political enemies right now) underwent a raid on her home by state police.

Guns were pointed in the face of her 13-year old son, Jack. They arrested him under the charges of digital terrorism and “on state orders.”

They are refusing to let him go home and they are refusing to let Jones see him.

These are her screenshots recounting the incident from earlier tonight. They were taken at 10:23 PM CT U.S.

Reblog. I don’t care who you are, reblog this. We have to make sure that this doesn’t get buried – it’s already happening.

An update by her. She’s the COVID-19 whistleblower in FL. The scientist that pointed out that FL was covering the real number of cases

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Its okay they could call me on a rotary faster than i could explain to them I’m old enough to know what a rotary phone is

I can actually speak to this.

Mind you, I’m of the opinion that people should be dragged into the twentieth century, kicking and screaming if necessary. But… here’s the thing.

Until relatively recently, most of this stuff wasn’t mandatory. Cash is becoming increasingly expensive to use, and it wasn’t that long ago that you could just hand your card to the clerk. And it doesn’t help that what started out as “swipe your card” is now a five step process where you have to decline a store discount card, a donation to a shady charity, and a new loan on your house.

And the thing is, these older people are scared. Because they’re vividly aware that the world they know how to operate in is going away. The added benefits– which really aren’t as many as you think– of doing it the new way weren’t worth the effort of learning a completely new way of doing things before– and now they’re faced with the reality that the old way just isn’t there.

I don’t think a lot of younger people truly understand how much the process of getting and spending money has changed. When I was in my early twenties, I went for two years without a bank account at all. My job would write me a check, I’d endorse it, and they’d give it to me in cash.

I was able to pay my rent and phone bill with money orders, and my internet service was tacked onto my phone bill. As far as buying things online… that…. that wasn’t a thing. If you wanted to buy something online, you were still going to be mailing someone a check or money order.

And while the new way of doing things is more convenient, it’s not actually better. Don’t get me wrong, data breaches and identity theft happened before 1997, but… they weren’t a goddamn industry. I did not ONCE during the twentieth century walk into a place of business only to learn that the credit card machine wasn’t working anymore. And it really does not help that movies and tv shows actually make the problem sound somehow worse than the cyberpunk dystopian hellscape we’re currently in.

And you laugh, but this is going to happen to you. 25 years ago, nobody NEEDED the internet at home. For anything. Oh, there were things that could be accessed with the internet, but as a general rule it wasn’t anything you couldn’t get elsewhere. Sixteen years ago (as of this writing), the first iPhone had not yet been released, and there really wasn’t such a thing as the “mobile internet.”

Think about that. The people born the day before the first modern smartphone hit the market have not yet graduated high school.

And the fun thing? The rate of change is increasing, and it’s affecting everything. And it’s not going to be much longer before you find yourself saying “I just want to buy a goddamned pizza. No, my credit card doesn’t have Wi-Fi R capability. Why the fuck would I even want that? No, I don’t have a bioimplant with the details. That’s just madness. That’s how the four corporations that control the world track you. Just give me the thing to scan my card AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S BUILT INTO THE CEILING? ”

I mean maybe it’s gonna be different but I would like to believe that 30 years from now I would get a Wi-Fi R capable credit card suitable for ceiling scanning with bioimplant security if that is what the standard was, even if my old chip card were still technically compatible.

Maybe I’m wrong, idk, but right now as a Young Millenial I love the fact that I can pay for stuff at the grocery store with just my phone and my fingerprint, and I’m sure it will get more convenient as society progresses.

Oh, don’t get me wrong. I absolutely adore being able to pay with my phone. But “convenient” is a relative term– it’s convenient for you because you have a smartphone, and know how to use a smartphone.

But sooner or later a technology is going to come out that you’re not going to need. Maybe you appreciate it, maybe you think it’s pointless. It provides a new way to do X, but you already have a way to do X, and either don’t have the money or just plain don’t see the need to have the new shiny, since you can still do X perfectly fine, the way you’ve always done it.

And then ten or fifteen years later, you’ll discover that you no longer can do X, because the only way to do X is with a technology that has been absent for the first 40 years of your life, and optional for the last ten or fifteen, but suddenly you just can’t. Not without buying this new technology that you don’t know how to use and don’t want.

Here’s a real-world example that’s absolutely fucking the over-sixty crowd: Two Factor Authentication.

When it first rolled out, it was only in high-security operations, and consisted of an electronic keycode generator– the little keyfob. Then they added the ability to send codes over text. Then they developed smartphone apps.

Now, the thing is– each one of those options require its own technological infrastructure. And when 65% of the client base is using the app, and and 30% is using text, the 5% that’s using the little keyfob generators are now an unreasonable expense. You’re maintaining the infrastructure to work with the keyfobs and a business relationship with the manufacturers of those keyfobs, not mention the manpower required to add the keyfobs to individual accounts. So you drop the keyfobs. A few years later, only 5% of the people using text messages for 2FA, because smartphones have really caught on, and once again– you’re spending a huge chunk of your budget on the servers that generate the 2FA codes, the capacity to send the codes, and a per-code cost. (Admittedly, usually broken up across a batch of thousands, but still.) So you drop that capability.

Now, a lot of 60-70 year olds have never owned smartphones, and are being declared “unavoidable collateral damage” by companies that use 2FA, because the cost of supporting such customers is more than the profit they generate. To make it worse, the apps themselves are, by necessity, getting more advanced, and in some cases older phones won’t run them.

And that’s a change dictated by security, market, and cost factors. That’s not even getting into things like… well, have you noticed a lot of companies are trying to get you to order and pay with the app? It has nothing to do with YOUR convenience, and everything about how McDonald’s wants to spend less money on cashiers. There’s a lot of technology out there that’s “for your convenience” but really it’s “for our profit”, and “for your protection” but what they’re protecting you from is saving money or spending it somewhere else.

I mean, hell… you don’t even have to leave [tumblr] to see Millennials complaining about how physical copies are going away and you can’t OWN things anymore, whether it’s music, software, or movies. Or how we used to have a cable provider, then it was a cable provider and Netflix, now it’s fifteen streaming services and a cable provider.

I can’t tell you what it is– though as Gen X, I will probably start complaining about it before you do– but some major component of how you interact with the world is going just go away. And maybe it will just be the steady march of progress, or it may be the forward offensive of capitalism. Maybe you WILL be keeping up with the technology, but the company that makes the technology goes out of business and you have to learn something new. Maybe the company that makes the technology gets bought by another company for the sole purpose of shutting down the easier, better technology instead of the one that is more difficult and makes the new owner more money.

But I assure you, you will find yourself saying “It doesn’t need to be this complicated. I could do this LAST MONTH. I have been able to do this since before you were born, and there is absolutely no reason I should not be able to do this now.”

This problem will be complicated by the fact that the first time it happens, it will turn out to be totally possible, it’s just that this particular clerk doesn’t know how. The second time it happens, it will be hidden behind a menu option that maybe makes sense once it’s in front of you, but neither you or the clerk feels like they should have been expected to figure that out intuitively. There will probably be more than one case where the problem is, in fact, the little shit behind the counter doesn’t want to admit they they might be wrong, or just doesn’t want to spend forty-nine seconds to find out/do it the hard way because they could spend that time talking to the cashier in the next line. And then one day there will be a hardware upgrade, a policy change, or the last guy in the store who knew how to do it accidentally was talking about going to Communion and management just heard “union” and now he’s not allowed within 500 feet of the store or any of its employees.

(Although I did not know it at the time, when I left my first help desk job, I was the last person who knew how to use the cockamamie Rube-Goldberg system that was used for…. well, in modern terms, dial-up VPN. They didn’t know it at the time, either, and because the damage was done, there was absolutely nothing they could do to help the guy who HAD to use the legacy platform, and if it weren’t for the facts that he remembered my name, I was listed in the phone book, I remembered HIM as a caller who was always easy to work with, I had the time, I had the patience, I had the kindness, and most importantly, I am a goddamn robot who was able to sit down on the floor and pull up all the configuration screens for an app I had not even seen in three months in my head like a fucking terminator HUD, he would have blown a I-shit-you-not EIGHT FIGURE SALE. To this day I’m mad that extortion didn’t even cross my mind.)

But the day is going to come where you Just Can’t Do It Like That Anymore… and that day is going to come sooner for you than it will for me, and sooner for Gen Z than for you. Technological growth is exponential, and prone to sudden leaps forward that nobody can predict until mid-leap, and even then we’re not even sure where we’ll land.

@yeah-how-about-nope, your tags raise an excellent point.

#they plan to close down the bank in my grandma’s town and expect the ppl living there#of which a majority are elderly people. to just do online banking instead. offices that you could show up at without an appointment#want appointments made through an app or website now too or else they won’t help you at all.#at some point all of us will experience a New Thing in technology we consider worse than what we’re already used to.#either bc we don’t trust it or it feels unnecessary or not yet well thought-through. and suddenly we missed the memo#and it became the standard and then mandatory. it can happen so fast. and it will be annoying and frustrating and probably embarrassing too#reblogged

The economic and political factors shouldn’t be ignored here. I live in a haunted forest just outside a no-stoplight county seat. Until very recently, a large chunk of the internet was more or less unavailable to me because my only internet options had bandwidth caps that assumed you didn’t want to watch more than one movie online per month, and sort of forgot that 75% of the web pages out there embed streaming video ads.

And a lot of the people entering retirement now? They can’t AFFORD to keep up to date. What’s left of their life savings is worth 61% of what it was 20 years ago, and it’s not getting better.

obsessed w jupiter ascending because the most elaborate and nuanced deconstruction of capitalism i have ever seen in modern media is literally just a backdrop for whatever the hell was going on with channing tatum for 90 minutes

Lost DS9 season 8 episode plot : Quark becomes a rainbow capitalist

And we wouldn’t wan’t to disrespect tradition, would we ?

YAASSSSS!