#work week reduction

[alwaysbewoke]

#bernie sanders #work week reduction #32-hour work week #overtime pay #productivity #technology #fair labor standards act #international examples #france #norway #denmark #germany #well-being #stress #fatigue #republican senator bill cassidy #small enterprises #job losses #consumer prices #japan #economic output #labor dynamics #artificial intelligence #automation #workforce composition

[captainjonnitkessler]

I think being on the internet has given a lot of leftists a drastically skewed view of how popular our beliefs are.

Most politicians support Israel because most Americans support Israel - only 8% of the population thinks the US should publicly criticize Israel.

Bernie didn't lose the primaries because the Democrats were just too scared of having a real progressive in office so they rigged the election, he lost because socialists are the least-electable people in America and because fewer people voted for him. That's how elections work. ( In b4 'but everyone else dropped out in a coordinated effort to concentrate votes behind biden!' - yeah, if your candidate can only win when the vote is split eight ways that's not a viable candidate. And I voted for Bernie!)

As of 2021 only about 15% of Americans support defunding the police, 47% would like to see increased police funding, and the number of people who think violent crime is a "very big" problem jumped 20 percentage points up to 61% in one year.

And it's just really frustrating to see internet leftists being super condescending as though everybody should already know everything and be on board with this stuff or else they're a Bad Person, driving people away from leftist ideology or making people too afraid to ask questions lest they be branded as a Centrist or worse, a Liberal, or refusing to engage in politics until they're being specifically catered to even though that would be political suicide (and would therefore not accomplish anything anyway.)

And like. It's fine to think that people who support Israel or more police funding are bad people, frankly I think a lot of them are. But I think even more are just misinformed or not really informed about alternatives at all. And not everyone is in the headspace to do education or outreach, but when you're only 10% of the population I think you need to make a choice about whether you want to feel good about being right on the internet or whether you want to be effective. It's frustrating to have to walk someone step-by-step through why genocide is bad, but it's a lot more likely to change minds than shouting at someone that they're obviously just a genocide-loving racist is.

#feel free to call me a neoliberal bootlicker if it'll make you feel better #i just think that effective action and harm reduction are more important than Being Right On The Internet #and I also don't think the Grand Revolution is going to happen. I think we need to work with what we have. sorry. #also i was having trouble finding recent stats about the i-p conflict #in general sympathy for palestine was hovering around 30% earlier this year #but i don't know if that actually translates to supporting palestine in the conflict or how that might have changed after the Oct. 7 attack #that npr poll was the most recent but it was less than a week after the attack when misinformation and sympathy for israel was at a height #so hopefully that number is higher now #us politics

[idolsgf]

working only 6hrs is great why can’t I always only work 6hr days, why must I toil away with 11hr days

#personal #tbd #i say 11 bc while i only get paid for 10 i’m still there for 11hrs #bc of unpaid lunch #but i took a half day today and it’s great #we should campaign for 4 6hr days with no pay reduction #enough with these you can work 4 days but have to still have 40hrs to be considered full time #like the 32hr work week would be nice but i think we can do better

[kraniumet]

"cultural analysis" youtubers read something that isn't a medium/vouge/vox op-ed as research challange

#creating a new aesthetic called echo chamber core #edit. started thinking about it and actually i think my head died during the aesthetics vs subculture vid why did i watch that. #the bizzare way it ostensibly sets out to critique subcultures reduction to “fashion” or whatever while entirely reducing the concept of #subculture to fashion throughout the video. the seemingly willful misunderstanding of subculture studies origins to make a cheap crack #about 1920s cultural studies “not being interested in women” (also: not true). #the fact that its a 40 minute long video on aesthetics that never once mentions nazism but has a shout out to cottagecore being a positive #new subcultural group. #the annoyance at calling light blue nails “blueberry milk nails” as a “trendy signifier” when that type of naming is exactly like whats #on an actual nail polish bottle. just. the level of internet brain that is unble to fathom subcultures still existing outside the internet #or the idea that fashion isn't always the primary expression of subculture. #the circular fashion brained argument that “how you dress can no longer be counter cultural or revolutionary because everyone can buy a #shein dupe miu miu skirt now" #while acknowledging that working class brittish people's participation in subculture (for instance) #did not improve their financial or social situation #but at the same time not mentioning the arguably inherent fashion marketing origins of punk fashion. #the insistence on constantly citing one single person of origin for internet trends. #the reoccurring narrative of claimed “deeper capitalist critiquing“ fashion movements being ”co-opted“ and appropriated as #”less deep“ fashion marketing trends by big fashion inc. as if that kind of #posture of anticapitalist agenda and confusing pseudo intellectualism (health goth manifesto) isn't commonly occuring in fashion marketing. #like people dont walk down fashion week runways wearing tulle maxi dresses spelling “fuck capitalism”. #or žižek didn't write copy for an a&f mag #recuperation 101

[deep-hearts-core]

WHEN will the city fund our local library such that there are evening hours on ALL the weekdays and such that ALL the libraries in the system are open on weekends

#shispeak #i work six days a week my one off day is a holiday this week i have holds about to expire and i am mad at the mayor! #for reasons unrelated to libraries she just kinda sux but also she should fund the libraries instead of her anti-harm-reduction bullshit!

[steampoweredskeleton]

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#delete later #ibuprofen my one true love #off to try and get some more tomorrow. in a self destructive mood might go without my crutch. nah thatd be a terrible idea. #didnt take painkillers today abd shits swollen so maybe that's enough being shitty to mu body for this week #whats the phrase harm reduction or whatever. also gonna see if i can get sone body butter or whatever that body moisturiser is called #trying to reduce the impulse to scratch at my skin and maybe replacing it with moisturising will help? might at least #reduce the impulse if im Smooth TM #idk man im in s state and the education stress is gonna continue to ramp up so its defo gonna get worse #i need to prepare so i don't fucking lose it completely #booked time off work in may to have a breakdown bc i should be finished by then. i plan to stay beneath my weighted blanket #for the week #god im tired #and ow. but its fine.

[wehadfaces]

🚨i have a job interview tuesday for a job i actually want in an industry i actually want to be in everyone hold hands to use wizard powers and get me hired🚨

#this would mean no more 11 hour days of customer service adjacent work #i need this so much #earlier this week my grandma’s health took a turn for the worse and she’s going to need more care #this job change would allow me to be there for her more to also relieve my mom of some of that stress #we were talking about me postponing my plans of starting another degree while working for me to quit my job altogether #to be able to take care of her full time #so please i ask for any good thoughts vibes prayers or brujeria #even if it’s just for her health too. the bottom line is she isn’t getting better so at this point it’s pain reduction and injury prevention

[nickmillerscaulk]

y’know how i disappeared from our beloved dumpster fire website for a sec? let me catch you up! i spent the month of sept ‘21 in a whirlwind process of interviews and writing tests, started my first-ever, full-time (salaried!) writing job in oct ‘21, and after working my ass off for exactly one year, i was laid off *on* my work anniversary last month lmao

#i'm fine tbh #it's been ~4 weeks since the layoff #it was a 'reduction in force' #25% of the company got laid off #(joke's on me for thinking i was secure in a tech-adjacent org) #i think i've made my way through all the stages of grief #but i'm still salty that they pulled this shit on my anniversary #(a thing the company/my team made a big deal of for everyone) #AND i still have no idea what to do next #writing full time burnt me the f*ck out #but also... that's basically all i've worked toward for the last 10 years #idk if i have it in me to start over completely

[catsniffer420]

i’m anti-botulinum toxin so this is 100% a joke/jape/jest but man i could go for some botox in my shoulder and neck muscles. they are constantly like rock hard from how tensed up i am most of the time . can we medically Relax That Situation

#i’m working on the natural healing - stretching + self massage as often as i can #and of course long term reduction of stress #but the past week. holy shit

[deermouth]

Less overwhelmed by work every day (I know I know that’s how it works) but STILL mad about like. The general concept of having to do this shit for 40hrs/wk.

#txt #I wasn’t Cured when I was unemployed but I didn’t wake up full of dread 5 days a week lol #give me a 20hr work week with no reduction in pay or benefits and I’d be happy to do it. #actually ideal amt would be 18. 3 6hr shifts a wk. #I think I would not hate jobs if I could do that #but I still need health insurance and to pay rent and eat yknow #ALSO I’m back to half hr lunches bc we’re not allowed to combine our 15s and 30s like at my last job :((((((((

[jimmystrudel]

I forgot to give everyone the update about my GP subtly calling a plastic surgeon he tried to refer me to an idiot

#the surgeon wanted my bmi significantly lower but the lowest I've weighed as a teenager was 190lb 4 years ago working out 4-7 hours a week #and this was pre celiac diagonsis where i was practically 2 inches shorter my gp also sees my sister and my mom and we are just built to #survive irish famine and Quebecois insane asylum #plus a breat reduction would make me lose 10-20 pounds and greatly increase my ability to exercise #truly weight but bmi particularly are practically useless data for health outcomes

[reasonsforhope]

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

#climate change #climate crisis #climate anxiety #climate news #climate corps #biden #biden administration #democrats #voting matters #congress #environmental activism #environmental protection agency #environmental justice #climate activism #united states #us politics #good news #hope #hope posting #green jobs #hope punk #seriously this is SUCH a huge deal #climate hope #green energy #disaster preparedness #natural disasters #ecosystem restoration

[thedarklyblue]

he's so all or nothing jesus fuck

#.txt #look dude i have trauma related to religion ! i get it ! lots of stuff sucks ! #but you don't need to throw everything aside because it's religious #okay we had a guy who works at Christianity Today on campus the other week and he came to my religion class #and he seemed very nice! super reasonable about things #like we may not agree on politics but i would be happy to have a conversation with him #but this kid's ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater #like 'oh your religion minor must suck because everyone's. like. telling you gays go to hell.' #no???? Religion™️ isn't ultraconservative homophobia at its core it's so many other things?? #reductive and kind of offensive like i'm agnostic! i don't believe in shit! but i still recognize the value in a religious community #and belief system #and yes bad things can happen (and i study that bc it's interesting!) but that's not /it/ #anyway i continue to dislike this man #also he's like 'oh yeah i won't be asming for [fall show i'm sming] because fuck that!!' ((what's so bad about it??)) #'but i might asm for [jterm show i am also sming and want to enjoy without him there!!!!]' #no you fucking wont #he doesn't know what i'm working on yet to be clear. announcements aren't out and i'm not telling him #but oh boy not looking forward to saying no #anyway. day two of show! here we go :)

[wasteland-soul]

Ok but wherever you fall on the ‘my body is a horrific meat puppet’ to ‘my body is a beautiful temple’ scale I’m gonna say I think its actually much worse. 

You're not a brain piloting a weird meat puppet you’re actually a brain piloting and endlessly complex series of tightly connected biochemical reactions squished into the shape of a meat puppet.

#like 2 weeks into working ER I had this weir epiphany #that its all just chemistry #trauma medicine is 99% just about chemical homeostasis #its not the physical damage that kills its the chemistry #calling it meat is both reductive and grandiose

[asexualjedi]

Let’s hope the ent can find whatver is wrong with me and it’s something they can fix unlike last time. And. Let’s hope my other doc appointment goes well and I soon get my medicine dosage worked out so I’m not just super depressed and anxious all the time. Haha. But also part of me is worried that it’s just law school making me feel like this and I should just drop out haha. But the other part of me is like no that’s just the depression talking. I just. I can’t live like this if this is how being a lawyer feels haha.

#like I started off wanting to be a public defender but then I was like idk I’m very anxious idk if I could handle the stress and now I’m #idk what I could handle to stress of if I can only end up doing fucking like estates and trusts. is it even work it. #i gusss I could still do civil aid #idk isk #it feels very hopelsss and the news and the world just seems to get worse every week new awful stuff law wise and police wise and I want to #here to help harm reduction but sometimes it feels like haha what can I even do it’s so overwhelming and I don’t know how much of these #thoughts are valid and how much is the depression #and it’s also hard Bc I promised I wouldn’t burn myself out again in school luke I did with my thesis #but idk. idk. #idk. #i feel like that might make me a bit to eager to jump the gun #idk #ignore me

[katy-l-wood]

Okay, so here's the sequence of events:

Bought a decorative barometer for my office in a fit of ADHD-must-buy-something boredom.

Thanks to decorative barometer, I start to realize that my migraines seem to be triggered more by high pressure than low, which is opposite how it works for a lot of people.

Winter rolls around.

My office is cold.

Put space heater in office and curtain over office door to heat office but not the whole apartment, but also allow the cats easy access to their litterbox.

Discover that this configuration SIGNIFICANTLY drops the pressure in my office compared to the rest of the apartment, no matter what the weather is doing.

Realize I have turned my office into something of an anti-migraine or at least migraine-reduction box.

Celebrate?

Today is the first day I've really been able to test this system out, despite suspecting it for a couple weeks. I woke up with a migraine that has gotten progressively worse throughout the day, but I have been working in the livingroom rather than the office because I needed more room.

Finally the migraine got to the point I couldn't really work anymore, and the Ibuprofen wasn't doing shit, so I wandered back into my office and turned on the space heater to drop the pressure so I could see what would happen.

It got better within MINUTES.

It is far from gone, but I no longer feel like I'm getting stabbed in the head either, so. I'm calling it a win. And I'm just gonna...nap on the floor now or something.

#Migraine #Migraines