getting older for me has just been realizing how important it is to check the weather forecast ever day
rain from 4 to 8 today? gotta make sure i tell every person i see
Okay so apparently it's fucking impossible to actually get real answers on this. So:
Use the poll for your main answer, use the tags, replies, or reblogs for secondary answers.
All answers are regardless of the sexuality or emotion of the daydream.
PLEASE reblog for a larger sample size. Seriously I tried so hard to get concrete answers on what people daydream about and every single link just says "fantasy scenarios".
watching a video on brewing Mesopotamian beer and look at this orange man (his ass cannot guard the barley)
to me Superman doesbt fight villains he spends all his time raising his gay son and saving cats from trees (noble but boring ). and batman has the exact opposite problem where whenever he isnt raising his 20 000 heterosexual sons he is covered in a writhing pile of villains so high you can't even see him so there's no point
Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. The overwhelmingly lucrative contract raises wages for all workers, creates more full-time jobs, and includes dozens of workplace protections and improvements. The UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee unanimously endorsed the five-year tentative agreement.
“Rank-and-file UPS Teamsters sacrificed everything to get this country through a pandemic and enabled UPS to reap record-setting profits. Teamster labor moves America. The union went into this fight committed to winning for our members. We demanded the best contract in the history of UPS, and we got it,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien. “UPS has put $30 billion in new money on the table as a direct result of these negotiations. We’ve changed the game, battling it out day and night to make sure our members won an agreement that pays strong wages, rewards their labor, and doesn’t require a single concession. This contract sets a new standard in the labor movement and raises the bar for all workers.”
“UPS came dangerously close to putting itself on strike, but we kept firm on our demands. In my more than 40 years in Louisville representing members at Worldport — the largest UPS hub in the country — I have never seen a national contract that levels the playing field for workers so dramatically as this one. The agreement puts more money in our members’ pockets and establishes a full range of new protections for them on the job,” said Teamsters General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman. “We stayed focused on our members and fought like hell to get everything that full-time and part-time UPS Teamsters deserve.”
I sort of called this four days ago, when the Independent Pilots Association (which represents UPS freight air arm) announced that they would honor the Teamsters’ picket line. Even if UPS could have found enough scab drivers to move the packages, it would be damn hard for them to get the packages to the scabs without freight air.
Yet another reason why strategic corporate research is important, because visualizing the bottlenecks of a corporation shows you where the weak points are.
Short answer: Henry Ford was terrified of Jews and saw square dance as a way to immunize whites against jazz music, which he saw as a tool of Jews to corrupt and weaken us.
Long answer: Ford believed that Jews had invented jazz to corrupt our youth and used blacks as their weak-willed puppets to introduce it to the public. Square-dancing was based in rural white culture and corrupted by Jews,
So, Ford created a manual for square dancing, required his employees to attend square dancing events, and funded square dancing clubs across the US. This led to the development of modern square dancing, a universal form of the old local practices.
(Ironically, the call and response style of square dancing comes straight from black dancing in the countryside.)
He also basically convinced half the school systems in the US to institute square dancing and it has survived in many states.
Re: Barbie feminism discourse: It's obviously ridiculous to expect that the film was going to give us a Shulamith Firestone treatise or something, but it's also weird to me how many people who do understand that still seem to be underselling what it does do with its feminist themes? I was surprised by the movie because what it had to say really wasn't just "pop feminism." It's critical of the way that companies that are run by men (including Mattel itself) sell female empowerment while still denying women power in concrete ways. It discusses patriarchy as a systemic problem that no one individual woman can solve, but something that can be chipped away at through collective action. Much of Ken's arc is essentially a gender-flipped examination of the way that patriarchy, and particularly the way that it encourages women to compete with each other over men and discourages us from finding a larger purpose outside of who men want us to be, keeps women down and keeps us feeling inadequate -- while also connecting that to concrete examples of that from the real world via America Ferrera's character. Not only is it the most radical movie we could expect from Mattel but it's a strong feminist statement even by the standards of other movies. The reason shitty men are getting as panicked about it as they are is because it did in fact say something that was genuinely threatening to them, and in a film that is going to be watched by a much wider audience of people than usually go to see movies about feminism. Idk, guys, as someone who feels confident saying I've read way more radical feminist theory than most people Discoursing Online: I see literally no reason for feminists to be upset or even "measured" about this one.
the medieval fantasy fandom experience. to me. is mostly thinking about what abba songs various characters would prefer. 85% abba 5% critique of feudalism 5% wolfs 5% swords or whatever
theon winner takes it all. obvious. jon waterloo also obvious. jaime name of the game, cersei lay all your love on me OR gimme gimme gimme. asha voulez vous. sansa knowing me knowing you or chiquitita. or super trouper. i can do this all day
this may seem like a cop out answer but i know in my heart of hearts that dany loves dancing queen more than she loves most people dancing queen comes on in the club or grocery store she’s going crazy this song is about meeeee
I think we should have a turn of phrase for "I'm not in the right, but I AM annoyed with this situation, so I just need to go bitch to a friend about this before I suck it up and go do the right thing" because more and more I'm finding this is a critical element of functional adulthood.
European: Americans will be like I’m going to watch a whore movie and eat a hamburger slathered in lard
Americans: it’s true I do do this.
American: British people will be like alright I’m off to eat some wheezy bangers (beans and bread out of a can)
Brit: I’ve seen this reblogged by several people I normally trust so: How mocking British cuisine and dialect has a long classist history and how it became frighteningly normalized on an American (uniquely cruel, uniquely ignorant) internet: a thread. 1/?
The one I see the most is
American : y’all colonized the world for spices yet don’t season your food
Brit: HOW ARE ALL THE SCHOOL SHOOTINGS GOING? HUH??
Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. The overwhelmingly lucrative contract raises wages for all workers, creates more full-time jobs, and includes dozens of workplace protections and improvements. The UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee unanimously endorsed the five-year tentative agreement.
“Rank-and-file UPS Teamsters sacrificed everything to get this country through a pandemic and enabled UPS to reap record-setting profits. Teamster labor moves America. The union went into this fight committed to winning for our members. We demanded the best contract in the history of UPS, and we got it,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien. “UPS has put $30 billion in new money on the table as a direct result of these negotiations. We’ve changed the game, battling it out day and night to make sure our members won an agreement that pays strong wages, rewards their labor, and doesn’t require a single concession. This contract sets a new standard in the labor movement and raises the bar for all workers.”
“UPS came dangerously close to putting itself on strike, but we kept firm on our demands. In my more than 40 years in Louisville representing members at Worldport — the largest UPS hub in the country — I have never seen a national contract that levels the playing field for workers so dramatically as this one. The agreement puts more money in our members’ pockets and establishes a full range of new protections for them on the job,” said Teamsters General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman. “We stayed focused on our members and fought like hell to get everything that full-time and part-time UPS Teamsters deserve.”
The United States government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, a group of senior advisers informed Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, more than a year ago.
The size and scope of the government effort to accumulate data revealing the minute details of Americans' lives are described soberly and at length by the director's own panel of experts in a newly declassified report. Haines had first tasked her advisers in late 2021 with untangling a web of secretive business arrangements between commercial data brokers and US intelligence community members.
What that report ended up saying constitutes a nightmare scenario for privacy defenders.
“This report reveals what we feared most,” says Sean Vitka, a policy attorney at the nonprofit Demand Progress. “Intelligence agencies are flouting the law and buying information about Americans that Congress and the Supreme Court have made clear the government should not have.”
In the shadow of years of inaction by the US Congress on comprehensive privacy reform, a surveillance state has been quietly growing in the legal system's cracks. Little deference is paid by prosecutors to the purpose or intent behind limits traditionally imposed on domestic surveillance activities. More craven interpretations of aging laws are widely used to ignore them. As the framework guarding what privacy Americans do have grows increasingly frail, opportunities abound to split hairs in court over whether such rights are even enjoyed by our digital counterparts.
“I’ve been warning for years that if using a credit card to buy an American’s personal information voids their Fourth Amendment rights, then traditional checks and balances for government surveillance will crumble,” Ron Wyden, a US senator from Oregon, says.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) did not immediately respond to a request for comment. WIRED was unable to reach any members of the senior advisory panel, whose names have been redacted in the report. Former members have included ex-CIA officials of note and top defense industry leaders.
Wyden had pressed Haines, previously the number two at the Central Intelligence Agency, to release the panel's report during a March 8 hearing. Haines replied at the time that she believed it “absolutely” should be read by the public. On Friday, the report was declassified and released by the ODNI, which has been embroiled in a legal fight with the digital rights nonprofit the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) over a host of related documents.
“This report makes it clear that the government continues to think it can buy its way out of constitutional protections using taxpayers’ own money," says Chris Baumohl, a law fellow at EPIC. “Congress must tackle the government’s data broker pipeline this year, before it considers any reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” he said (referring to the ongoing political fight over the so-called “crown jewel” of US surveillance).
The ODNI's own panel of advisers makes clear that the government’s static interpretations of what constitutes “publicly available information” poses a significant threat to the public. The advisers decry existing policies that automatically conflate, in the first place, being able to buy information with it being considered “public.” The information being commercially sold about Americans today is “more revealing, available on more people (in bulk), less possible to avoid, and less well understood” than that which is traditionally thought of as being “publicly available.”
Perhaps most controversially, the report states that the government believes it can “persistently” track the phones of “millions of Americans” without a warrant, so long as it pays for the information. Were the government to simply demand access to a device's location instead, it would be considered a Fourth Amendment “search” and would require a judge's sign-off. But because companies are willing to sell the information—not only to the US government but to other companies as well—the government considers it “publicly available” and therefore asserts that it “can purchase it.”
It is no secret, the report adds, that it is often trivial “to deanonymize and identify individuals” from data that was packaged as ethically fine for commercial use because it had been “anonymized” first. Such data may be useful, it says, to “identify every person who attended a protest or rally based on their smartphone location or ad-tracking records.” Such civil liberties concerns are prime examples of how “large quantities of nominally ‘public’ information can result in sensitive aggregations.” What's more, information collected for one purpose “may be reused for other purposes,” which may “raise risks beyond those originally calculated,” an effect called “mission creep.”
read that last paragraph again
sometimes i think abt how if a man from 1942 saw me vaping on my little e-cigarette he would think i looked impossibly futuristic and also like a haunting allegory for humanity's progressive alienation from itself by technology. "where's the smoke? the fire? where's all the goddamned romance?" he'd demand, impassioned
anyways. should we talk about how jaime lannister’s story isn’t about becoming a “hero” (even though that’s what he tells himself to get around the truth) but is in fact about him learning to be a Real Boy Who Makes Choices
