#insulate

[cavenewstimestoday]

Democrats seek to insulate security for judges from executive branch politics

A U.S. Marshal looks on an auction in 2009 in New York City. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images Congressional Democrats introduced a bill Thursday that would shift control of the U.S. Marshals Service from the executive branch to the federal judiciary, in an effort to insulate the agency from political interference and guarantee that judges receive…

[idontmindifuforgetme]

“she’s aging so well!!” and the woman they’re referring to is like 27. touch grass

[10001gecs]

i think there’s something to be said about how the gig economy makes things ostensibly more convenient but also worse. and not just like, doordash guys take too long to get to you so your food is cold. but because the business model is centered around a million people doing work without any familiarity with what theyre doing and decentralized from the businesses they’re working with, you get service that’s being reinvented from scratch every time it’s purchased.

it happens all the time that I’ll order an uber and when they pick me up, they’ll just stop in the middle of the street with their hazards on, making me dodge traffic to get to them and pissing off the cars around them. and then I’ll get in the car and chat with the driver and find out they’re actually from two counties over and they’ve never driven here before, so they don’t know where parking is or whether they’re heading to a wide open parking lot or a busy downtown. and then you start to realize that they’re not being a dick, they’re just given as little information as possible every time they pick up a ride so they have to just guess how and where to pick up a passenger. and since they’re paid by ride, they’re incentivized to pick you up as fast as possible. and all the people who cared about finding a safe place to pick you up quit the app or stopped doing that so all you’re left with is the pissed off cockroach motherfuckers.

and then you see that this happens with every fucking app. doordash sucks because you pay 8 million dollars for delivery and you still have to hike half a mile to find the guy because he got lost in your apartment complex. Instacart sucks because the guy picking your groceries couldn’t care less about getting ripe fruit and replaces your heavy cream with shaving cream. customer support for all this sucks because the guy helping you can’t do anything more than offer you $5 credit, beg for your forgiveness, and hope you get out of the queue fast enough for him to go to the bathroom. because all of them aren’t given enough time to do a good job or enough money to care.

and every time a gig worker makes the experience suck for you, it’s a rational decision. they’re evaluating the money they’re being paid and if it’s worth getting paid less to do a good job, and correctly deciding that it isn’t. so you can’t even get mad, because you’d do it too. and so the company manages to pass on its race to the bottom to its lowest-paid employees.

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[txttletale]

increasingly growing dissatisfied with the framework of tma/tme and more partial to to 'transfeminized' / '(currently) non-transfeminized'. specifically i think situating the focus of the term's analytical power on a certain relation to a system of power rather than an isolable trait locatable discretely within an individual has much more explanatory power and leads down more produtive theoretical avenues

[so-very-small]

“how do borrowers live inside walls with all that fiberglass around?” well, we eat it. it’s no ones first choice, but fiberglass wall insulation is perfectly fine for borrowers to consume. during the winter of ‘83, the cold was so bad that the human wasn’t going out for food, so me and six other borrowers wound up having to devour all the insulation in his house. the house got so cold the human got hypothermia. when they wheeled him off to the hospital, i hitched a ride on a stretcher, and spent a decade tearing my way through a hospitals worth of prime fiberglass wall insulation. i have caused thousands of dollars in structural damages. it was delicious.

[matttheratkingart]

You know when you’re at the beach and you bury yourself in the sand under the sun and it’s like a lil oven

[is-this-fascism]

help me move out of my tiny car and into a vehicle like this!

i'm disabled and homeless, and while i'm in the process of getting approved for disability, i need more safety and stability.

with a larger vehicle like these, i could have enough space to install a kitchen, bed, electricity, shower, etc, and essentially make a home out of it. if you've ever wanted to help house a homeless person, please consider donating to my fundraiser!

the goal is 10k, but vehicles like this sell for much cheaper! as soon as i can, i'll purchase a suitable vehicle and start the project immediately. i'll use whatever i don't spend buying the vehicle for maintenence it might need, the tools and materials i'll need to convert it, plus the legal stuff surrounding registration, first year of insurance, etc. anything still left after that will be used to just allow me to live longer and have a safety net while i get income.

this is something i've been dreaming of for a long time, and as the housing market gets crazier i've realized it's probably the only way i'll have a stable home. i've been researching this project for years and i'll have some helping hands, so your money will be used well to create a home for me.

we're on pace to get me into a van by the end of summer or early autumn, and i could finish the conversion before it starts snowing! this is way sooner than i ever expected. please consider donating, and/or boost this post to keep up the momentum!

GFM

$733/10k

[jingle-jangle-spurs]

Robert House watching The Courier rip all the copper wiring out the walls of the Lucky 38

[tgirlwithreverb]

Begging some of y'all to realize that rural people are human beings too, not a different species that's inherently evil

[illusive-delusions]

patrick ball describing mel’s vulnerability and willingness to ask for help as her generosity of spirit and i’m supposed to be normal about them? okay.

[sluggoonthestreet]

Reggie has pre-prepared for Chonky Squirrel Winter.

[somegrumpynerd]

Ah yes, very mature indeed

I love these two getting far enough into their truce to annoy each other playfully, Dream is great at it immediately but it's good to see Nightmare starting to take part too

And don't worry, Dream did get revenge

[bernummm]

they're building All Blue

[bastards-utopia]

I YEARN to speak up about that one thing that i think the community got wrong-

I think that what Rogue wers is not fur or anything like that but bundled straw mino (蓑) Mino was used by farmers, travelers, and samurai alike, especially during rainy or snowy weather. Mino also provided some warmth and wind protection due to the straw's insulating properties... It was typically worn draped over the shoulders and tied at the chest.

Although, because its LEGO, it’s much smaller and more decorative than a real mino. It guess its more symbolic than practical.