#minimum wage is a lie

[stardustedknuckles]

God I hate being asked for professional references for a minimum wage job. I am a dog trainer applying to work your kennels and daycare and clean up after dogs. You want professional references. Sure. Okay. Fuck off. I wouldn't even be training. Yet.

#if I didn't like dogs so much I'd be a lot more put out #not me calling ryan from 2016 petco and saying hey lie for me the way you offered 6 years ago? #that just leaves two others which is still!! I hate this. #so many assumptions go into this stupid request #you are paying minimum wage motherfucker I promise I am qualified to give a dog a bath and scoop its shit

[purplespacecats]

i signed up at the local youth employment center to get help with the whole job thing (surprisingly, they accept anyone under 35!!) and my counselor is teaching me how to write a cover letter

and i'm a tad apprehensive about the fact that the draft i sent her to evaluate is uhh full of lies lol. like i hope she doesn't tell me to stop lying; that would be entirely unhelpful

#i'm not not gonna lie in job applications obv i just need help with framing my lies #but yeah. i am trying very hard to Start A Career instead of just taking another minimum wage job #bc sure i can get by living paycheck to paycheck but when shit hit the fan i had to ask my parents for money #and i never want to have to do that ever again #also i /will/ get renovicted when my elderly landlady dies which will double my rent if i wanna stay in my neighborhood #so. gotta plan for that #hopefully i can get a salaried job that pays enough that i can save up a down payment for a condo

[soapdish290]

Made the mistake of thinking about my salary again and I'm just sad. It's just sad. I don't even know how to be mad about it any more. Without going into any detail, I do the kind of job that should be societally important? It's necessary. It USED to have a huge amount of societal clout and "oh she's set for life that one, lucky bugger got a job with x" And now like... we're losing people to go work at Tesco. Because they get paid more stocking shelves. We're losing experienced and intelligent people who were doing good things. Please don't take this the wrong way - I am not disparaging Tesco. I am not disparaging minimum wage jobs. I'm saying that What I am saying is that my job should be able to poach people from Tesco. It shouldn't be the other way around. My job used to be a comfortable, support yourself and your family job. Now, after years and years of stagnation and freezes, my employer is - for the second year in a row - forced to give me a payrise to keep up with minimum wage. They should be fucking ashamed. They should be so, so fucking ashamed.

#anyway fellas is it controversial to think that the minimum wage should be enough to live on? Maybe even afford housing? #especially in uk where it's not called the minimum wage it's called the “National Living Wage” #which is a fucking lie #anyway this is peak “it's 3am and I'm sad” posting so this will not survive the stark light of day

[notquiteaghost]

love when an Official Form asks my gender and only gives me 'male' and 'female' as options. are the cis aware that this is logistically complicated beyond just how i feel about it

#yelling at clouds #doing a ~right to work check like okay. are you gonna flag me as a fraudster if i check 'male' #i Have to give my deedpoll cuz i dont have a passport so i have to give my birth certificate #and the fun thing abt my deedpoll is it also says my title is Mx. #the right to work form wld not let me put my title as Mx. #how many times are you going to make me lie to you!! for the privilege of sixteen hours a week at minimum wage!!

[rxkuyo]

not me having to cancel the one event I was actually looking forward to because of work last minute 🥲

#not gonna lie to y'all #my will to live is dwindling so fast with every passing day ✌🏻 #everyday I wake up to another minor inconvenience happening #but at this point with my worsening mental health they all feel like massive inconveniences lmao #I hate my fucking piece of shit life so much and I see no realistic way out of my current living situation #other than the option to off myself 🥲✌🏻 #I'm literally so tired of my existence ngl #I'm doing all this for a shitty minimum wage job at a place that doesn't pay me for half the shit I do because they are fair and all #to barely make enough money to feed my pets and treat myself to a videogame every couple of months #which I am aware is more than some people have #but it isn't enough to move tf out and away from my piece of shit dad #and it certainly isn't enough to be able to afford actually working towards my trainer's license aka #the only bearable line of work I can see myself actually being somewhat good/ successful in #like I'm working my ass off and it's getting me literally nowhere and I'm starting to get so fucking frustrated #but then I also can't leave this place because I have to take care of my sick horse that isn't even my horse #but there's no one else who'd look after him #his owner certainly isn't #and I am fully aware that I cannot save him and he is doomed to be put down in the forseeable future #but I can at least keep on doing everything I can to at least ease his suffering for whatever time he has left #while seeing him get worse is also affecting me mentally like pretty negatively at times #like that horse has been the one single good thing in my life for the past years and with him likely dying #my reason to bear it all and keep going is just like gone ? #which is fun #it's fun #I love it #love my existence so much I literally just want this shit to be over aha #<3 #personal #suicide mention tw #not literally but also literally iykwim ✌🏻

[kryptyd]

oh fuck gotta keep myself from online shopping for comfort now because i have faced a crisis

#that is what happens now i sniffle a bit and impulse buy shit using my minimum wage income instead of yknow saving it or something #because the future isnt even real guys like im pretty sure its a just a lie #anyways

[currently-having-a-gay-crisis]

waiting for a call to see if i got a job and i swear every time my phone so much as vibrates i move the fastest i’ve ever moved to pick it up

#job #it’s literally a minimum wage job idk why i’m so pressed about it but anyways #it’s literally a job in my local supermarket and i’m out here acting like it’s my dream job #i just want to know though #i have better things to do than sit waiting for my phone to ring #that’s a lie but i still just want it over with

[infinitemonkeytheory]

So of course the fast food industry fought hard against the new California law. It was originally $22 an hour, and a government council would have the ability to force companies to provide better working conditions for employees, and a franchise restaurant’s parent company would be on the hook for any violations. But the industry got a compromise: $20 an hour, no required improvements to working conditions, and only the franchise owner would be liable for violations.

Yet still, they’re not happy. Thus we get this press release: paying these employees a few extra dollars an hour, that’s why all delivery drivers will be fired.

But…why only delivery drivers? Why not lay off some people at the counter, or operating the pizza ovens? Or, gosh, why not a pay cut for the executives, like those who are running the $36–80 million (or more) Pizza Hut franchisee PacPizza that owns dozens of restaurants and is part of a $7 billion corporation? Just kidding, that would obviously never be on the table and you know why.

But why the drivers, specifically? Well, because unlike the cooks and the cashiers, the drivers already have a large crowd of hungrier men standing behind them willing to take 30 cents for a 50-cent job. Those are what we call “gig workers,” and they are the people driving for GrubHub and UberEats and other companies that, like the fast food industry, have lobbied for years to be able to pay their employees – sorry, I mean their independent contractors – less and less money for more and more work.

#skepchick #pizza hut #minimum wage #corporate greed #lying liars who lie

[piplupod]

also i'd have to make an account on the employment website and i dont really want to do that ngl. i hate making accounts. tired of making accounts all the time. why do they require me to make an account. just give me an email address to contact goddamn.

#but also......... $10 over minimum wage an hour............... arghhh #my bank account is well off rn but . an income would be so fucking nice #also i wonder if this would hurt my chances of getting accepted for disability lmfao #i think i am going to go lie down and cry for a little bit #this is too confused and too difficult #idk what to do fdsjkl i wish i were not an adult fdsjkl this sucks shit and i have no idea what im doing ever #like obviously nobody knows what theyre doing but i am so woefully unprepared for anything ever and im drowning over here #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

[wilwheaton]

The GOP wonders why young people (and others) don't want to vote for them. Some wise scribe assembled this list.

1.) Your Reagan-era “trickle-down economics” strategy of tax breaks for billionaires that you continue to employ to this day has widened the gap between rich and poor so much that most of them will never be able to own a home, much less earn a living wage.

2.) You refuse to increase the federal minimum wage, which is still $7.25 an hour (since 2009). Even if it had just kept up with inflation, it would be $27 now. You’re forcing people of all ages but especially young people to work multiple jobs just to afford basic necessities.

3.) You fundamentally oppose and want to kill democracy; have done everything in your power to restrict access to the ballot box, particularly in areas with demographics that tend to vote Democratic (like young people and POC). You staged a fucking coup the last time you lost.

4.) You have abused your disproportionate senate control over the last three decades to pack the courts with religious extremists and idealogues, including SCOTUS—which has rolled back rights for women in ways that do nothing but kill more women and children and expand poverty.

5.) You refuse to enact common sense gun control laws to curb mass shootings like universal background checks and banning assault weapons; subjecting their entire generation to school shootings and drills that are traumatizing in and of themselves. You are owned by the NRA.

6.) You are unequivocally against combatting climate change to the extent that it’s as if you’ve made it your personal mission to ensure they inherit a planet that is beyond the point of no return in terms of remaining habitable for the human race beyond the next few generations.

7.) You oppose all programs that provide assistance to those who need it most. Your governors refused to expand Medicaid even during A PANDEMIC. You are against free school lunches, despite it being the only meal that millions of children can count on to actually receive each day

8.) You are banning books, defunding libraries, barring subject matter, and whitewashing history even more in a fascistic attempt to keep them ignorant of the systemic racism that this nation was literally founded upon and continues to this day in every action your party takes.

9.) You oppose universal healthcare and are still trying to repeal the ACA and rip healthcare from tens of millions of Americans and replace it with nothing. You are against lowering the cost of insulin and prescription drugs that millions need simply to LIVE/FUNCTION in society.

10.) You embrace white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and other groups that are defined by their intractable racism, xenophobia, bigotry, and intolerance. You conspired with these groups on January 6th to try to overthrow the U.S. government via domestic terrorism that KILLED PEOPLE.

11.) You oppose every bill aimed at making life better for our nation’s youth; from education to extracurricular and financial/nutritional assistance programs. You say you want to “protect the children” while you elect/nominate pedophiles and attack trans youth and drag queens.

12.) You pretend to be offended by “anti-semitism” while literally supporting, electing, and speaking at events organized by Nazis. You pretend to hate “cancel culture” despite the fact that you invented it and it’s basically all you do.

13.) Every word you utter is a lie. You are the party of treason, hypocrisy, crime, and authoritarianism. You want to entrench rule by your aging minority because you know that you have nothing to offer young voters and they will never support you for all these reasons and more.

14.) You’re so hostile to even the notion of helping us overcome the mountain of debt that millions of us are forced to take on just to pay for our post K-12 education that you are suing to try to prevent a small fraction of us from getting even $10,000 in loan forgiveness.

15.) You opened the floodgates of money into politics via Citizens United; allowing our entire system of government to become a cesspool of corruption, crime, and greed. You are supposed to represent the American people whose taxes pay your salary but instead cater to rich donors.

16.) You respond to elected representatives standing in solidarity with their constituents to protest the ONGOING SLAUGHTER of children in schools via shootings by EXPELLING THEM FROM OFFICE & respond to your lack of popularity among young people by trying to raise the voting age.

17.) You impeach Democratic presidents over lying about a BJ but refuse to impeach (then vote twice to acquit) a guy whose entire “administration” was an international crime syndicate being run out of the WH who incited an insurrection to have you killed.

18.) You steal Supreme Court seats from democrats to prevent the only black POTUS we’ve ever had from appointing one and invent fake precedents that you later ignore all to take fundamental rights from Americans; and even your “legitimate” appointments consist of people like THIS (sub-thread refuting CJ Roberts criticisms of people attacking SCOTUS' legitimacy).

19.) You support mass incarceration even for innocuous offenses or execution by cop for POC while doing nothing but protect rich white criminals who engage in such things as tax fraud, money laundering, sex trafficking, rape/sexual assault, falsifying business records, etc.

20.) You are the reason we can’t pass:—Universal background checks—An assault weapons ban—The ‘For the People/Freedom to vote’ Act or John Lewis Voting Rights Act—The ERA & Equality Act—The Climate Action Now Act—The (Stopping) Violence Against Women Act—SCOTUS expansion.

21.) You do not seek office to govern, represent, or serve the American people. You seek power solely for its own sake so you can impose your narrow-minded puritanical will on others at the expense of their most fundamental rights and freedoms like voting and bodily autonomy.

22.) Ok, last one. You are trying to eliminate social security and Medicare that tens of millions of our parents rely on and paid into their entire lives. And you did everything to maximize preventable deaths from COVID leaving millions of us in mourning.

Source: https://imgur.com/gallery/e8DBZLH

#republicans are garbage #uspol

[wizardmilfs]

management telling me not to talk abt my wage w coworkers is so funny to me. 100% guaranteed way to make me talk abt my wage w coworkers.

#told one guy i’m only making a buck above minimum #and he was like ‘you quit then came back and they’re only paying you a buck above minimum???’ #and i was like ‘yeah’ cause that’s still a shit wage why would i lie #and he was like ‘fuck this i’m quitting’ #idk if he quit but i haven’t seen him since lol

[b0bthebuilder35]

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#unskilled #unskilled labor #flipping burgers #employees #employment #livable wages #raise the wage #raise the minimum wage #fact #facts #straight facts #big facts #no lies were told #no lies detected #no lie #reality #real shit #true shit #no bullshit #no bull #no bs #no but seriously #truth #true #real #real life #no but fr #no but forreal #no but frfr #no but really

[beetlebip]

I’ve been strictly eating a decent sized breakfast every morning for years and being STARVING only a few hours later and now I’m discovering that I can just skip breakfast and eat super light and my appetite won’t kickstart??

#unhealthy capitalism mechanisms don’t follow this #I just. can’t afford to get enough food to eat three square meals a day #and I’d love to not have to take my breaks at work and gain that sweet extra $6 #💀 #NEVER live in the DMV. a bag of chips is $5 #rice is $10. RICE #this and the life hack of ‘if I eat thing that’s bad for me I won’t be as hungry :) #is getting me by tbh #this is mostly just a frustration rant #cause I’m hangry #I’m so strong for being a picky eater 😔 #but I’m not gonna lie! this is WAY better than the blood sugar crashes at noon! #that hunger hurts!! #and I’ll note the only reason I can’t afford enough food [barring jacked up DMV prices] is that half my income #goes directly to savings for scotland #which I am getting zero assistance on from my family so it’s literally all me and my minimum wage job #this is amazing material for my journal I’m trying to finish so I can get a pretty new one #‘I need to write this down again!!’ lmao

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Lies, damned lies, and Uber

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT in PHOENIX (Changing Hands, Feb 29) then Tucson (Mar 10-11), San Francisco (Mar 13), and more!

Uber lies about everything, especially money. Oh, and labour. Especially labour. And geometry. Especially geometry! But especially especially money. They constantly lie about money.

Uber are virtuosos of mendacity, but in Toronto, the company has attained a heretofore unseen hat-trick: they told a single lie that is dramatically, materially untruthful about money, labour and geometry! It's an achievement for the ages.

Here's how they did it.

For several decades, Toronto has been clobbered by the misrule of a series of far-right, clownish mayors. This was the result of former Ontario Premier Mike Harris's great gerrymander of 1998, when the city of Toronto was amalgamated with its car-dependent suburbs. This set the tone for the next quarter-century, as these outlying regions – utterly dependent on Toronto for core economic activity and massive subsidies to pay the unsustainable utility and infrastructure bills for sprawling neighborhoods of single-family homes – proceeded to gut the city they relied on.

These "conservative" mayors – the philanderer, the crackhead, the sexual predator – turned the city into a corporate playground, swapping public housing and rent controls for out-of-control real-estate speculation and trading out some of the world's best transit for total car-dependency. As part of that decay, the city rolled out the red carpet for Uber, allowing the company to put as many unlicensed taxis as they wanted on the city's streets.

Now, it's hard to overstate the dire traffic situation in Toronto. Years of neglect and underinvestment in both the roads and the transit system have left both in a state of near collapse and it's not uncommon for multiple, consecutive main arteries to shut down without notice for weeks, months, or, in a few cases, years. The proliferation of Ubers on the road – driven by desperate people trying to survive the city's cost-of-living catastrophe – has only exacerbated this problem.

Uber, of course, would dispute this. The company insists – despite all common sense and peer-reviewed research – that adding more cars to the streets alleviates traffic. This is easily disproved: there just isn't any way to swap buses, streetcars, and subways for cars. The road space needed for all those single-occupancy cars pushes everything further apart, which means we need more cars, which means more roads, which means more distance between things, and so on.

It is an undeniable fact that geometry hates cars. But geometry loathes Uber. Because Ubers have all the problems of single-occupancy vehicles, and then they have the separate problem that they just end up circling idly around the city's streets, waiting for a rider. The more Ubers there are on the road, the longer each car ends up waiting for a passenger:

https://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Uber-Lyft-San-Francisco-pros-cons-ride-hailing-13841277.php

Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. After years of bumbling-to-sinister municipal rule, Toronto finally reclaimed its political power and voted in a new mayor, Olivia Chow, a progressive of long tenure and great standing (I used to ring doorbells for her when she was campaigning for her city council seat). Mayor Chow announced that she was going to reclaim the city's prerogative to limit the number of Ubers on the road, ending the period of Uber's "self-regulation."

Uber, naturally, lost its shit. The company claims to be more than a (geometrically impossible) provider of convenient transportation for Torontonians, but also a provider of good jobs for working people. And to prove it, the company has promised to pay its drivers "120% of minimum wage." As I write for Ricochet, that's a whopper, even by Uber's standards:

https://ricochet.media/en/4039/uber-is-lying-again-the-company-has-no-intention-of-paying-drivers-a-living-wage

Here's the thing: Uber is only proposing to pay 120% of the minimum wage while drivers have a passenger in the vehicle. And with the number of vehicles Uber wants on the road, most drivers will be earning nothing most of the time. Factor in that unpaid time, as well as expenses for vehicles, and the average Toronto Uber driver stands to make $2.50 per hour (Canadian):

https://ridefair.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Legislated-Poverty.pdf

Now, Uber's told a lot of lies over the years. Right from the start, the company implicitly lied about what it cost to provide an Uber. For its first 12 years, Uber lost $0.41 on every dollar it brought in, lighting tens of billions in investment capital provided by the Saudi royals on fire in an effort to bankrupt rival transportation firms and disinvestment in municipal transit.

Uber then lied to retail investors about the business-case for buying its stock so that the House of Saud and other early investors could unload their stock. Uber claimed that they were on the verge of producing a self-driving car that would allow them to get rid of drivers, zero out their wage bill, and finally turn a profit. The company spent $2.5b on this, making it the most expensive Big Store in the history of cons:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/infighting-busywork-missed-warnings-how-uber-wasted-2-5-billion-on-self-driving-cars

After years, Uber produced a "self-driving car" that could travel one half of one American mile before experiencing a potentially lethal collision. Uber quietly paid another company $400m to take this disaster off its hands:

https://www.economist.com/business/2020/12/10/why-is-uber-selling-its-autonomous-vehicle-division

The self-driving car lie was tied up in another lie – that somehow, automation could triumph over geometry. Robocabs, we were told, would travel in formations so tight that they would finally end the Red Queen's Race of more cars – more roads – more distance – more cars. That lie wormed its way into the company's IPO prospectus, which promised retail investors that profitability lay in replacing every journey – by car, cab, bike, bus, tram or train – with an Uber ride:

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1RN2SK/

The company has been bleeding out money ever since – though you wouldn't know it by looking at its investor disclosures. Every quarter, Uber trumpets that it has finally become profitable, and every quarter, Hubert Horan dissects its balance sheets to find the accounting trick the company thought of this time. There was one quarter where Uber declared profitability by marking up the value of stock it held in Uber-like companies in other countries.

How did it get this stock? Well, Uber tried to run a business in those countries and it was such a total disaster that they had to flee the country, selling their business to a failing domestic competitor in exchange for stock in its collapsing business. Naturally, there's no market for this stock, which, in Uber-land, means you can assign any value you want to it. So that one quarter, Uber just asserted that the stock had shot up in value and voila, profit!

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/hubert-horan-can-uber-ever-deliver-part-twenty-nine-despite-massive-price-increases-uber-losses-top-31-billion.html

But all of those lies are as nothing to the whopper that Uber is trying to sell to Torontonians by blanketing the city in ads: the lie that by paying drivers $2.50/hour to fill the streets with more single-occupancy cars, they will turn a profit, reduce the city's traffic, and provide good jobs. Uber says it can vanquish geometry, economics and working poverty with the awesome power of narrative.

In other words, it's taking Toronto for a bunch of suckers.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/29/geometry-hates-uber/#toronto-the-gullible

Image: Rob Sinclair (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Night_skyline_of_Toronto_May_2009.jpg

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

#pluralistic #uber #hubert horan #fraud #toronto #geometry hates cars #urbanism #ontpoli #olivia chow #self-regulation #transport #urban planning #taxis #transit #urban theory #labor #algorithmic wage discrimination #veena dubal

[ham1lton]

i’m with the band.

pairing(s): lando norris x singer!reader

warnings: v slightly angsty? but happy ending.

summary: pop band CHANGE! has just released their anticipated third album; however, fans notice that the songs seem to tell an unsavory story….

author's note: i didn’t know whether u wanted me to do a happy song or sad but i like drama. i refer to y/n’s bandmates by their roles. so guitarist, bassist and drummer so you can add their names in! also this album is loosely based on SAWAYAMA and 5sos’s album youngblood. listen to them both if u haven’t!! incredible albums. if you can name all these songs that have been mentioned then MWAH!!! 😍

liked by harrystyles, landonorris and 3,388,728 others.

changeband: thank you so much to the best, coolest and awesomest fans in the fucking planet. shoutout to everyone who showed up to our listening party in philly last week! you were metal as hell and we loved meeting everyone of you. no more fomo for the rest of you all now that our newest album is now out! please stream and buy and recommend to your friends and family and colleagues and even that annoying neighbour that everyone hates. we love you and we love this album!! here are some behind the scenes pics of us making and brainstorming this baby!

user1: this album is sooo good!

user2: ooh y/n got her masters in cuntology with a concentration in motherlogical studies from the university of servington… that NOTE in dynasty??? oh goddddd.

-> user4: DYNAAAASSSSTTTTYYYY 🗣️🔊

user3: the casual photo dump like they haven’t released the album of the CENTURY?

user8: you guys have come such a far way from working minimum wage and having to pool money for a recording booth omg. i’m so proud of you guys 🥺

*liked by changeband.*

user5: the way guitarist is eating this album. whoever greenlit her guitar solos i want to kiss them on the mouth.

user28: bad friend is my fav! both the acoustic vers and the normal vers!! PUT UR HANDS UP IF UR NOT GOOD AT THIS STUFF!!!! 😍😍

liked by messyass1, messyass2 and 278,727 others.

ham1ltonshaderoom: girl band CHANGE! have released their new album ‘babylon’ and it has sent twitter in flames after the first tweet (pictured above) went viral. especially after the songs ‘lie to me’ and ‘want u back’ both contain lyrics that have sent fans of the power couple lando norris and y/n l/n spiralling. what do you all think of the drama ham1ltons?

user1: i do think it’s slightly suspicious… not necessarily a break up confirmation but it’s interesting. especially as she didn’t even bother to confirm or deny whether or not they’re still together on jimmy fallon….

user2: why do we speculate into these celebs lives? if they broke up, who cares and if they’re together… who cares?

hater1: who gives a fuck. she can’t even sing.

-> user3: you clearly gaf if you’re commenting under y/n related posts???

loveislanduk: don’t worry y/n! if need be, you can always find a new man on the island!

-> user98: messy asf 😭

user6: is tkl supposed to be y/n talking about how lando was super adored and that although he could have any girl, she’d be the only one who really loved him?

-> user4: tokyo love hotel is a homage to drummer’s japanese heritage not a lando worship song?? also it’s a metaphor for their heritages as three of them are women of colour who grew up in the west and saw their cultures exoticised.

-> user6: ‘yeah your fascination is my world’. that could be interpreted as her saying ‘your obsession is my boyfriend’.

-> user4: girl yeah but that’d be a lazy one would it not? lando ain’t that special 😭 i think that it’s reductionist to make everything she writes about a man and not her.

user44: calling the album babylon after the bible story? maybe they started with the idea of creating this amazing relationship and then grew apart? they stopped speaking each other’s language?

-> user56: maybe you need to put this energy into analysing your resume and figuring out why you’re still unemployed….

user65: idc if she broke up with that troll because that’d mean drummery/n will thrive!!

-> user9: um… u mean guitaristy/n??

-> user34: both wrong. bassisty/n is the best version!!!

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CHANGE’S INTERVIEW W/ JIMMY FALLON (transcript)

JIMMY FALLON: welcome, everyone! we have a special treat for you tonight. please give it up for the current leaders of the world charts, the incredible band CHANGE!"

(audience applause as the girls take their seats)

FALLON: alright, alright! now, there have been some rumours swirling around about your latest album and its connection to some personal matters. especially in regards to y/n. care to shed some light on that?

Y/N: well, jimmy, first of all, thank you for having us. i’m aware that there have been some rumours, but you know how it is. people love to speculate. our music is definitely personal, and yeah, it does reflect some of what's been going on in my life but i want to set the record straight. the songs on our album are inspired by a variety of our experiences, including relationships, but they're not always directly about any specific individuals. sometimes i’m inspired by other forms of media or my loved ones’ experiences. that’s the joy of making art, it can be whatever you want.

DRUMMER: yeah, and y/n is such a talented songwriter. she has this incredible ability to channel her emotions into our music and make you feel whatever she wants.

BASSIST: exactly. we're just here to make music that connects with people, and if our songs happen to resonate with someone going through a breakup? then we've done our job.

FALLON: is it true that you’re performing two songs for us tonight? can you confirm which ones?

GUITARIST: yes! we’re performing ‘want u back’ and ‘frankenstein’. both of our newest singles from babylon.

FALLON: well, you heard them, folks! get ready for an amazing performance from CHANGE!

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yourusername: we’re fine y’all perfectly fine please don’t call paw patrol.

user1: OH THANK GOD.

landonorris: she’s lying. i’m in my lemonade era…🍋

-> user23: you wish you could be that iconic. you’re in your dogwater era.

-> landonorris: UNPROVOKED???

user3: we needed this confirmation.

user8: PARENTS AREN’T DIVORCED WE WON 🙌

landonorris: now can you release the bonus tracks please please please 🙏🏼 ‼️😩

-> bassist: no :)

-> guitarist: yes :)

-> drummer: one of them is lying… guess who and i’ll send the whole album plus excluded tracks.

-> landonorris: … um 😅 guitarist?

-> drummer: WRONG ‼️ but i’m scared you’re gonna complain to y/n so i’ll send them over to you 🙄

user27: at least we’re back to having lando being CHANGE!’s biggest fans. what did he think of ‘exile’?

-> yourusername: he cried so hard he threw up.

-> user27: real shit.

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Kinda getting tired of news headlines that’s talk about how the economy is shrinking. Like of fu*king course the economy is shrinking, major corporations are allowed to price gouge without consequence, participate in shrink flatiron without informing their customers, and the federal minimum wage hasn’t been raised to match a living wage in 13 years. It’s almost like when people have limited funds to spend they do so frugally and don’t spend in excess to promote the economy. The economy sucks for a known reason my guys, and they aren’t doing anything to fix it.

#i’m so tired guys #economy #minimum wage #the news got me drained not gonna lie #we know the solutions to so many of these problems #yet despite this we’re stalled time and time again from legitimate progress by folks who just want to line their pockets.