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lewbornmann · 1 year

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Our Failing Infrastructure

It seems to me…. “Infrastructure development is economic development.” ~ Kay Ivey[1]. When infrastructure works, most people never think about it. The problem in the U.S. today is exactly that – it has been much too long since most people have thought about it. The U.S. is the wealthiest nation in the world, yet it ranks 13th when it comes to the overall quality of its infrastructure[2]. …

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pikslasrce · 29 days

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god the watercooler chitchat in this place. daily affirmations im here to make money not friends im here to make money not friends

#open plan office space..... techie dudebros............ FUNKO POPS.. 34 of them....... the things one does for 600 dollars a month...#the things a guy does to get her brother to get off her back if she doesnt want to go to uni anymore in order to freeload #plus. when a lazy bitch doesnt want to go on a job hunt... calculating how many boxes a moving company will need to move ppl it is.....#god there is one singular american in here and i overheard him talk abt his hs experience and like there was some clique talk #and how he used to hang out w different cliques so he can have a gf in each one 💀 and that he got away w it for a whole year #like dudeeeee. wtf...#piksla.txt

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iero · 17 days

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Found out this morning that I might be losing my health insurance through my work and I’m fucking losing it badly because I don’t know what to do if I do lose it.

#personal #Any other Americans awake? Please help?#It’s one of the main reasons I’ve been staying at my job and if I lose it… I think it’s time to look for another job.#Truly. It’s bad enough I feel like I’m on the verge of panic nearly every day I’m here.#<- Someone who already had a panic attack this morning #Wish health insurance in America was easier. I really had it made when I was under my family’s plan until I was like 25.

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sleepingfancies · 7 months

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Everyone who's not in their 20s owes me a million dollars for every time they say "well your 20s are *supposed* to be stressful" bro y'all didn't have to worry abt the world burning to death or the violent end of democracy and human rights or an untenable economy only benefitting the wealthy or a world-changing pandemic . Leave me alone

#personal #'this is normal' NO ITS NOT. STOP FUCKING TELLING ME ITS NORMAL #anyway im fine. im not. im quite angry. but im fine #idk it just feels like everyone older than my immediate peers are not paying a lick of attention #i would LOVE to have the 'idk what im doing with my life lol' 20s experience. id LOVE to #but no instead im trying to plan out which country i can most feasibly flee to if american democracy collapses #im trying to work out how to get a $100k annually job because that's the only way i can live comfortably in this stupid country #anyways. whatever

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randyite · 7 months

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#mcarthy #House #government shutdown #pelosi #speaker of the house #american rescue plan #inflation reduction act #infrastructure and jobs act #chips and science act #respect for marriage act #postal service reform #safer communities act #electoral count act #democrats #republicans #rethuglicans

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ren-from-mars · 2 months

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Me when a single day alters the course of my life forever

#in a good way ofc #(gonna start rambling today was a good day)#so like. made plans last night to hop on and play some warframe with a friend #thst friend is uber cool. and also american so we dont get to vc and game togethdr much #but i woke up at 8 30 #had brekkie #and got on at 9 #played gamed with coolest homie for 3 hours #watched the first ep of jjk while eating food w them and takijg a breather from games #as we finished up motivation hit so i had my adhd med abt 20 mins before we finished #cut my hair so i no longer feel wonky abt the length #tried a new way of styling the cut and it works really well #then went to the mall to get some things ive been meaning to get for years #came back home cleaner my room #saw facebook advert for a job opportunity i have been seeking out for quite some time #sent in a very formal and well written email application while figuring out how to go further in depth about the things i said #went back to room and sewed on the last remaining badge for my scout uniform #checked up on fb for scout things happening tonight #hyped myself up to go #night went better than i thought it would and nobody got unreasonably upset and everyone stayed levelheaded #and!! i got secretary!! one of the four core exec roles!!!#came home and chatted to parents about an event they went to #it was just. such a good day #and now i eeby #ren rambles #OH AND NOT TO MENTION #before i came home but after scouts #i talked with my closest friends abt my hyperfixations (and the ones we share!!) and it was sososo fun #i love sharing hyperfixes with friends #<3333

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nomaishuttle · 6 months

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what's the kirsten video?

its by babbitykate, it just released yesterday! its a 6 hour long video covering the entire history of kirsten from american girls (going over all her books and catalogue releases) i rly liked it :] she also has abt a 45 minute video covering the the history dolls from american girl in general

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#i think she did a good job of talking abt some of the issues with kirstens story irt their portrayal of native americans #im not an authority on that tho so just Beware since kirsten is. a settler from 1854 and the books are from the 80s yk.#but yeah aside from that i rly liked the video #i listened to it at work yesterday it was perfect length #OH and im prettyyy sure shes planning on doing one of these for all of them ! im rly excited for samantha and kit bc they were my favs when #i was little

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eijiroukiriot · 2 years

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How do you get to Japanese Disney+ I didn’t even know that was a thing!

you move to japan! lol hello

#sort of a lot of effort for an expanded anime catalog but wouldn’t that be funny if i pretended that’s why i’m here #but haha hello this is my post-graduation plans! tadaaaa!#also i know from experience actually trying to access the jpn version of disney plus from america it won’t let you put in your american #credit card #which surprised me bc they’d rather miss out on money instead of expanding the system but oh well #in all seriousness i do have a job here and will be living in japan for the foreseeable future!! so if i start posting at weird times #then you know why #good morning to everyone in america and good evening if you’re over here too!#asks

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mikiviki111 · 2 years

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defensenow · 6 days

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punching-today-in-the-dick · 4 months

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So, I’ve just had an interview that has kind of blown me away. And not, in any respect, a good way. More in the way that, even though I’ve been unemployed for a year now and am rather desperate to find a position that will let me relocate cities (which this one would do), had me thinking no one in their right mind would accept this job.

I was already concerned when the job description was long enough to be three people’s jobs, but that’s just what EA jobs tend to be. And then this guy started talking and…. Yeah. This interview went for an hour and a half, by the way. He just kept going.

“We work predominantly with the mining industry”

Okay. Alright. That’s a bit squicky for me, ethically, right out the gate but I can probably grit my teeth and bear it if the rest of the job is respectable.

“Because we work with a lot of international clients, we’re really not a 9-5 company”

Okay, so I imagine you’ve got some sort of flexi-time or hours tracking thing going on.

“No.”

Alright, but there would at least be overtime, right?

“No. You’d get a yearly bonus that I get to decide arbitrarily and, because of that, we feel like we have the right to have you on-call 24 hours a day.”

Okaaaayyyy…..

“We’re an American-based company”

That doesn’t make you exempt from Australian labour laws, mate, and what you’ve proposed is very much illegal. I know you know this; you have a Law degree.

There’s literally no other compensation for forfeiting my entire life to this job?

“Nope! Just the bare minimum required by law and, actually not even that.”

“Let’s talk about your mental health…”

Buddy, respectfully, fuck you.

“Yeah, the woman currently in the role is leaving because she’s exhausted. So I laughed at her and said she should have taken a holiday four months ago when I told her to.”

Wow, you sound great. Please never contact me again.

#I think I kind of bombed the interview anyway because I was so uncomfortable the whole time and I’m kind of glad about it #there were already several red flags in the phone interview before this #and I mentioned them to my lawyer-mother and she’s like…#‘well that doesn’t sound great. probably best not to mention fairwork australia at the first interview in any case’#job hunting #American job philosophy is fucken nuts #like some of the stuff I’ve found online #‘some employers will even offer sick leave!’#uh. yeah. they have to. they don’t get a choice #‘you might get contributions towards a retirement plan like a 401(k)’#yeah. it’s called superannuation. they have to do that. it’s the law #all you Americans should just emigrate out here #and then you can be horrified at *our* racist refugee policies but at least you’ll have labour protections

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silhouettecrow · 7 months

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365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 268

Adjective: Yellow

Noun: Funeral

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Yellow: of the color between green and orange in the spectrum, a primary subtractive color complementary to blue, or colored like ripe lemons or egg yolks; (informal) cowardly

Funeral: the ceremonies honoring a dead person, typically involving burial or cremation; (rare) (US) a sermon delivered at a funeral; (archaic) (literary) a procession of mourners at a burial

#im about to snap about my job #people keep pushing shit on me without as much as asking me first so im fully taken off guard by these new responsibilities im being given #and im pretty sure my temporary supervisor is subtly homophobic and/or transphobic and/or possibly racist #cos she keeps misgendering me on top of listing these new policies she wants to enact that seem pretty bigoted (from a minority perspective)#like she wants our offices to be decently plain #meaning she will likely want me to remove my rainbow flags and the numerous reminders of my pronouns and that its a safe space #as well as my coworkers blm flag and girl power painting #she even wants us to dress professionally all the time (which is not possible for my disabled ass)#and that comment came about after i noticed her looking closely at my sylvia rivera 'we have to be visible' pride shirt #not to mention she made a big deal today about me asking our clients for their pronouns on our client forms #its ridiculous especially after all the horrible shit i went through with my past supervisor and coworker #im planning on emailing her first thing tomorrow morning about the misgendering so we will see how that goes #on a happier note my girlfriend and i played escape from the aliens in outer space (one of the board games we bought yesterday) tonight #and it was lots of fun #anyway i like this prompt a lot because it subverts the ideas we tend to hold of 'funerals'#at least from the perspective of someone raised in an american christian household #i like the idea of a 'funeral' being a genuine celebration of someones life #and the colour 'yellow' feels very celebratory to me #so i think thats the direction im going to go with this prompt #thanks for reading #writing #writer #creative writing #writing prompt #writeblr #trying to be a writeblr at least

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noisy-weasel · 7 months

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Man how do you explain to your parents that no I don't have a future like stop pitching all these ideas to me because you sound insane. Like I guess they genuinely don't realize how close to death I am. I'd already be gone but there's no knives in the house Sharp enough. Like that's the ONLY reason I am alive. Period. And the fact I'm still here is so fucking stressful because every second I'm still alive is money and energy my family is wasting on me and I fucking hate hate hate it. Honest to god forcing people who are horribly suicidal to continue living is a crime like every year I'm still here increases how awful I feel tenfold and I should be able to buy pills that can kill myself just over the counter and there's just no excuses that I can't

#i know that sounds insane but if you've ever been horribly social you'd know how sure i am of this #it's genuinely a for society to try so hard to keep me here but there's also no resources to make me better #no healthcare no therapists can't even get afucking antidepressant without a therapist #at Least while i was still on my dads insurance my doctor couldn't put me on any #and then he forwarded me too a therapist that ALSO didn't prescribe pills #i couldn't pay for the sessions because of course i can't so WHYYYYY AREN'T YOU JUST LETTING ME KILL MYSELF???#like do you see how this doesn't make sense????#personal #suicide tw #srsly tho my parents just trying to pretend I'm not suicidal but i am genuinely going to be dead before 30 that's not a Joke that's #something i know in my heart is true #i was actually all planned and ready to kill myself when my parents went up both in July but my mom got sick and stayed home #it literally ruined everything #ahhhhhggg being alive sucks so much i feel so broken and worthless #someone buy me a knife please please please please #and honestly i think it's gotten to a point where i view getting a job as death #because i know i NEED a job because I'm nothing but a burden but i also know the moment i have money I'm starting a ticking click to my end #new killing myself is simply inevitable so getting a job ill hate (i have no prospects bc college too expensive and barely any experience #which will simply funnel me into a soul crushing American retail job)#so it's just like okay... my paychecks will be going toward a knife or a gun and itll be literally imposible for me to live if i have a #means of dying

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vander-12 · 8 months

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2020 and 2021 ERC Program Differences

If you’re familiar with the Employee Retention Credit (ERC), which was signed in March 2020 as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), you’ve probably noticed some significant changes in the program since its inception. Three additional important acts have been passed that amended the CARES Act of 2020: Relief Act of 2021 American Rescue Plan Act of…

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#American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 #CARES Act #Employee Retention Credit #ERC #Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)#Relief Act of 2021

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batboyblog · 13 days

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Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #13

April 5-12 2024

President Biden announced the cancellation of a student loan debt for a further 277,000 Americans. This brings the number of a Americans who had their debt canceled by the Biden administration through different means since the Supreme Court struck down Biden's first place in 2023 to 4.3 million and a total of $153 billion of debt canceled so far. Most of these borrowers were a part of the President's SAVE Plan, a debt repayment program with 8 million enrollees, over 4 million of whom don't have to make monthly repayments and are still on the path to debt forgiveness.

President Biden announced a plan that would cancel student loan debt for 4 million borrowers and bring debt relief to 30 million Americans The plan takes steps like making automatic debt forgiveness through the public service forgiveness so qualified borrowers who don't know to apply will have their debts forgiven. The plan will wipe out the interest on the debt of 23 million Americans. President Biden touted how the plan will help black and Latino borrowers the most who carry the heavily debt burdens. The plan is expected to go into effect this fall ahead of the election.

President Biden and Vice-President Harris announced the closing of the so-called gun show loophole. For years people selling guns outside of traditional stores, such as at gun shows and in the 21st century over the internet have not been required to preform a background check to see if buyers are legally allowed to own a fire arm. Now all sellers of guns, even over the internet, are required to be licensed and preform a background check. This is the largest single expansion of the background check system since its creation.

The EPA published the first ever regulations on PFAS, known as forever chemicals, in drinking water. The new rules would reduce PFAS exposure for 100 million people according to the EPA. The Biden Administration announced along side the EPA regulations it would make available $1 billion dollars for state and local water treatment to help test for and filter out PFAS in line with the new rule. This marks the first time since 1996 that the EPA has passed a drinking water rule for new contaminants.

The Department of Commerce announced a deal with microchip giant TSMC to bring billions in investment and manufacturing to Arizona. The US makes only about 10% of the world's microchips and none of the most advanced chips. Under the CHIPS and Science Act the Biden Administration hopes to expand America's high-tech manufacturing so that 20% of advanced chips are made in America. TSMC makes about 90% of the world's advanced chips. The deal which sees a $6.6 billion dollar grant from the US government in exchange for $65 billion worth of investment by TSMC in 3 high tech manufacturing facilities in Arizona, the first of which will open next year. This represents the single largest foreign investment in Arizona's history and will bring thousands of new jobs to the state and boost America's microchip manufacturing.

The EPA finalized rules strengthening clean air standards around chemical plants. The new rule will lower the risk of cancer in communities near chemical plants by 96% and eliminate 6,200 tons of toxic air pollution each year. The rules target two dangerous cancer causing chemicals, ethylene oxide and chloroprene, the rule will reduce emissions of these chemicals by 80%.

the Department of the Interior announced it had beaten the Biden Administration goals when it comes to new clean energy projects. The Department has now permitted more than 25 gigawatts of clean energy projects on public lands, surpass the Administrations goal for 2025 already. These solar, wind, and hydro projects will power 12 million American homes with totally green power. Currently 10 gigawatts of clean energy are currently being generated on public lands, powering more than 5 million homes across the West.

The Department of Transportation announced $830 million to support local communities in becoming more climate resilient. The money will go to 80 projects across 37 states, DC, and the US Virgin Islands The projects will help local Infrastructure better stand up to extreme weather causes by climate change.

The Senate confirmed Susan Bazis, Robert White, and Ann Marie McIff Allen to lifetime federal judgeships in Nebraska, Michigan, and Utah respectively. This brings the total number of judges appointed by President Biden to 193

#Thanks Biden #Joe Biden #student loans #student loan debt #debt forgiveness #gun control #forever chemicals #PFAS #climate change #green energy

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reasonsforhope · 7 months

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Holy crap, I didn't think Biden would be able to get the Climate Corps established without Congress. This is SUCH fantastic news.

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"After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program.

In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation and help prevent catastrophic wildfires.

The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was jettisoned amid strong opposition from Republicans and concerns about cost.

Democrats and environmental advocacy groups never gave up on the plan and pushed Biden in recent weeks to issue an executive order authorizing what the White House now calls the American Climate Corps.

“After years of demonstrating and fighting for a Climate Corps, we turned a generational rallying cry into a real jobs program that will put a new generation to work stopping the climate crisis,” said Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, an environmental group that has led the push for a climate corps.

With the new corps “and the historic climate investments won by our broader movement, the path towards a Green New Deal is beginning to become visible,” Prakash said...

...Environmental activists hailed the new jobs program, which is modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps, created in the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, as part of the New Deal...

Lawmakers Weigh In

More than 50 Democratic lawmakers, including Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had also encouraged Biden to create a climate corps, saying in a letter on Monday that “the climate crisis demands a whole-of-government response at an unprecedented scale.”

The lawmakers cited deadly heat waves in the Southwest and across the nation, as well as dangerous floods in New England and devastating wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, among recent examples of climate-related disasters.

Democrats called creation of the climate corps “historic” and the first step toward fulfilling the vision of the Green New Deal.

“Today President Biden listened to the (environmental) movement, and he delivered with an American Climate Corps,” a beaming Markey said at a celebratory news conference outside the Capitol.

“We are starting to turn the green dream into a green reality,” added Ocasio-Cortez, who co-sponsored the Green New Deal legislation with Markey four years ago.

“You all are changing the world,” she told young activists.

Program Details and Grant Deadlines

The initiative will provide job training and service opportunities to work on a wide range of projects, including restoring coastal wetlands to protect communities from storm surges and flooding; clean energy projects such as wind and solar power; managing forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires; and energy efficient solutions to cut energy bills for consumers, the White House said.

Creation of the climate corps comes as the Environmental Protection Agency launches a $4.6 billion grant competition for states, municipalities and tribes to cut climate pollution and advance environmental justice. The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants are funded by the 2022 climate law and are intended to drive community-driven solutions to slow climate change.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the grants will help “communities so they can chart their own paths toward the clean energy future.”

The deadline for states and municipalities to apply is April 1, with grants expected in late 2024. Tribes and territories must apply by May 1, with grants expected by early 2025."

-via Boston.com, September 21, 2023

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