#and international regulations

[anony-mouse-writer]

stuff hermits have been excited about the mail system for

- spam

- sending each other tnt (doesnt work because shulker boxes dont light tnt)

- reaching impulse about his equine extended warranty

- licking hermits faces

- spam

- stealing other hermit’s mail

- committing mail fraud

- spam

[guiltyidealist]

I just think we should start framing these things in the first person. I am not immune to propaganda. I have implicit biases, in spite of my explicit beliefs, which I need to keep in check.

[quinloki]

So

I learned a thing yesterday and chewed on it a bit before deciding to share, but I have to.

My spouse shared a "Things you think are illegal that aren't." article with me, specifically one line item, and I have to admit - I really thought it was illegal myself, but! it really makes sense why it isn't.

Step-Siblings can get married.

Commonly referred to as Step-cest in fandom circles, there's nothing actually incestuous about step-siblings getting their get-it-on on. Since incest is defined by being too closely related in a biological sense, and also by definition step-siblings are not blood related.

if they were they'd be half-siblings or just siblings.

I just wanted to share, from a social stand point I find it really interesting because I really did think it was illegal - I knew it was at the minimum at least frowned upon, but that's just social hang ups.

[shopwitchvamp]

might as well start warning ya'll now...

[heroesriseandfall]

I know it is likely the result of yet more story writers just not knowing anything about modern archaeology. but every time Jack Drake or even Bruce Wayne keep an artifact in their own possession that legally and ethically they should not get to keep (especially without paying mind to how well it’s stored), and nobody in the comic says anything about it, I go a little more nuts.

Jack Drake canonically being an “amateur archaeologist,” emphasis on amateur because he really just dug up an ancient artifact in Asia then took it home as a gift to his fiancé. And then he kept another artifact in a dirty storage closet. You can tell he is a rich businessman with a hobby interest in archaeology rather than anything else.

[bandzboy]

i think it's time that we discuss how bad fancalls are and how much they have ruined idol/fan interactions and not only that it's something that added to idol's schedules after covid and it makes absolutely no sense that they do fansigns AND ALSO fancalls every comeback it's ridiculous i'm sorry 😭

[hexalene]

Looks like you average 175 calls a day! :O

Depending on your shift length that's about 20 calls an hour, dang. I've heard 911 inbound calls are very mentally taxing, sometimes. How do you handle it?

It depends!

There’s kind of a mentality you develop doing this, which is that there is no closure. Once the line has disconnected, it’s over, you’ll never know what happens next.

It gets easier to compartmentalize. There are a good number of calls I think about a lot, but for the most part I let myself forget them.

As for the bad calls, I take breaks. My center has a policy that if you need a break, you take a break, it doesn’t matter how much the phones are ringing, if you need to step away, step away. This helps A LOT. I can go outside or to a private room and breathe, cry, talk it out, whatever I need.

If I’m being really really honest, I can compartmentalize terrible emergency calls a lot better than other difficult calls. With the emergencies, I do whatever I can to help and close the call knowing I’ve done all I can.

The calls I have trouble with are the people who call to verbally abuse us and the mental health frequent fliers, who also call to verbally abuse us in a different flavor. These suck because they’re just on the line to scream, cuss, threaten, and abuse you until you confirm there’s no emergency (and they’ll avoid letting you know if there is one to keep you on the line).

But even those? They’re fine. I might be annoyed with them, but they don’t know who I am and I don’t take the insults personally. It’s just exhausting to see a particular phone number in the queue and be like “oh boy, time to take my headset off because Jane Schizophrenia is about to call and scream as loud as she can into the microphone.” Or worse, to be answering in succession and be shocked when the scream belts out at full blast.

But again, even that? Not that bad.

There’s a LOT of talk about how awful the job can be and how not many people can do it, but honestly?? I think a lot more people could handle this job than they think.

Like bruh have you worked in an abusive retail environment for shit-tier pay and stayed calm while a 45 year old woman with a cropped haircut screams for the manager? Have you gotten into an argument with a coworker and managed to de-escalate it without mediation?

Have you successfully been in behavioral health therapy and have a good regimen of SSRIs, ADHD meds, anxiety pills, or all three (guess who) and can hold off the big emotions until you’re in a safe environment?

You’ll be fine. You can do 911.

[sovonight]

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[tiktoks-for-tired-tots]

Tag with your autistic subtype. I'll start.

[drumlincountry]

An insane thing I learned is that chicken used 2 b more expensive than beef or lamb - as recently as the 1970s (in the UK and Ireland)! Chicken was a luxury meat! b/c chickens eat grain while cattle & sheep eat grass. & 50 years ago grain was Very Costly.

& that's just flipped completely now! Red meat is high status & chicken is what you throw into any dish because it's the cheapest meat imaginable.

All these things we think are constants can change SO fast. And then we forget that they were ever different! I asked my aunt about Expensive Chicken Days and she was like 'huh. yeah. I forgot that.' I told my sister and she thought I was bullshitting her.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

Photographs taken by Yon Shimizu, a Japanese-Canadian who was exiled from the west coast of Canada to Ontario during the second World War, along with hundreds of other Japanese-Canadian men. In 1942, he worked along with several dozen other men as a farm labourer with the Ontario Farm Service Force near Glencoe, equidistant from Sarnia, London and Chatham.  These are photographs he took of the sugarbeet harvest, and were digitized from a DVD of Yon Shimizu’s scrapbook by the Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive. All dated 1942 though they definitely show a range of time during that summer and fall - final harvesting of sugarbeets is in late October or November, and the last photo shows the men huddling from the cold in November.

1) At Glencoe train station; the ‘49′ Gang, according to the caption. Left to right: Tsutomu "Stum" Shimizu, E. Ono, T. Okamoto, T. Kuwabara.

2) Blocking 48 Gang, that is, thinning or "blocking" the sugar beets; left to right: S. Miyashita, Y. Madokoro, S. Kawahara, J. Henmi.

3) “He-Men.” Left to right: B. Hoita, K. Goto, T. Hoita.

4) “Siesta Time!” T. Okamoto taking a siesta during the beet harvest.

5) “Block Busters!” Showing off some huge sugarbeets during the thinning (blocking) process.

6) Gang 5 "Toppers A-1" Butch Hoita and Stum Shimizu.

7) Gang 5 "Toppers A-1" Tommy Hoita and Tomo Okamoto.

8) Gang 5 "Toppers A-1" Stum Okamoto and Esao Ono.

9) Gang 5 "Toppers A-1" Tom Kuwabara and Yon Shimizu. Toppers defoliate the beets as close to harvesting as possible.

10) Lunch, Cold November Day

[workersolidarity]

🇦🇺 🧑‍🔧✊ 🚨 AUSTRALIA BECOMES THE FIRST NATION IN THE WORLD TO BAN ENGINEERED STONE DUE TO HEALTH RISKS TO WORKERS

Australia became the first nation in the world to ban engineered stone due to the health risks to workers, local media reported on Wednesday, with the ban due to take effect in July, 2024.

Australia made the decision during a meeting of the Commonwealth, State and territory workplace ministers. The move was made in response to a surge in the lung disease, Silicosis.

Australia's Assistant Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Liam O'Brien, is quoted as saying, "Engineered stone is a fashion product that is killing the workers who make it."

"With alternatives readily available, why are we risking the lives of tradies for a fashionable finish in our kitchens?" O'Brien added.

Engineered stone has been used in Australia since the mid-2000's, with the first cases linked to engineered stone arising in 2015, with hundreds of cases having since developed.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[cassatine]

one very annoying (to me) kind of post is those "don't lose hope! look at how polluted and environmentally damaged [country x, usually the us] used to be and how regulations made it better" type posts because i see the point, i really do, but also there's something deeply dishonest about the framing here because mostly, what those regulations did was accelerating the outsourcing of polluting and environmentally damaging industries to the global south.

[the-physicality]

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