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This is fine, everything is fine 🙂

Me, at the greedy executives:

i love when companies try to use propaganda to scare their workers into ending their strike.. capitalism is so so wild

They're panicking hard because another union, the actors, is VERY likely to also be on strike by tomorrow. If the actors also go, the studios are even more fucked than before. Today is a BIG day for this strike as everyone waits to see if the actors will actually do it.

Today as in July 12th 2023

SAG-AFTRA joining the strike would totally bone the studios.

(yayy)

SAG-AFTRA has joined the strike. The studios are boned. Remember that when productions go down the toilet this is the studios' faults for not reaching an agreement.

A special kind of evil by the studios

#LateStageCapitalism

Mister Rogers

found this informative, about how studios are going to attempt to use influencers (particularly small ones) to try to cross pickets by paying a lot for movie promos, and that SAG-AFTRA likely will not let you in if you do this. my suspicion is they're hoping people won't understand the implications so wanted to spread the word!!

Very important note here, yes.

PROMOTION is part of an actor's job. And it's one of the things they're not allowed to do on strike.

SAG Actors are not allowed to do promotions at ComicCon this year. They can attend, as long as they don't:

They are encouraged not to attend at all, in part because those are complex issues and it's easy to trip on them.

TikTok and YouTube INFLUENCERS are likely to be contacted by studios and told, "how would you like to make a LOT of money, talking about this show?"

...Do not take the poisoned bait.

That counts as crossing the picket line, and would result in:

Reframe the narrative. #LanguageMatters

This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats

Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was

Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool

Masai giraffes look cool af

The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!

Masai Giraffe:

Reticulated Giraffe:

can’t find the post that’s already circulating about this now but there really is no medical privacy in star trek whatsoever. imagine if a stranger walked into your doctor’s appointment and asked for your medical details, your doctor obliged without question, and then the stranger demanded you be killed. bonkers

the rest of this scene is hilarious btw

Futuristic insurance provider

Other people have already pointed this out in the notes, but this show was released from 1987-1991 and HIPAA, the federal law that establishes doctor/patient confidentiality, only passed in 1996.

Doctor patient confidentiality did not exist when this show aired.

So many of the rights you think of as sacred and fundamental and universal and permanent are younger than the average millennial. So many of your legal protections are tacked together with the legal system’s equivalent of tissue paper and elmer’s glue.

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So poor people don’t deserve to have money?!

THEY’LL JUST WASTE IT ON SURVIVAL! 

Also, if you’ve taken more than a high school economics course taught by someone who has never stepped foot in a college economics class,

Giving $500 to poor people multiplies it REALLY FAST. That $500 immediately goes into the economy and ripples more purchases until it hits a rich pocket.

Giving $500 to a billionaire takes $500 out of the economy permenantly. You could have set it on fire and made no difference.

That is such an important part of the conversation that rich people seem to purposefully misunderstand whenever it’s brought up

Money exists to be spent, not hoarded. Yes, people should have saving, but no one should be sitting on a pile of money too big to spend in a single lifetime. “The economy” as a concept only works if people are spending money, and the people hoarding the money are so quick to blame the people who barely have any when the economy starts to fail

Having a big string of numbers in an offshore account doesnt make you an economic genius, it makes you a parasite that is ruining the economy for everyone else

Everyone in NYC got a screeching emergency alert telling us not to heat up our food. Yet all the commercial billboards, NYPD stations, and other utterly unnecessary utilities are left powered on. That’s class warfare, plain and simple.

there is a drought, not enough water to drink, yet the wealthy still have ornamental fountains running, full swimming pools, and lush green golf courses

I’ve always wanted to animate something sheep-related and here it is.

There will be more, but animation is very time consuming.

I’m screaming

The original

Ask me how many times I watched this over. Consecutively.

my favorite video. always reblog

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