#but yea no labor

[dailyloopdeloop]

DAY 75: onehat

[sketchy-tour]

Hiiihi hello is there an specific thing you like doing in your drawings? Like coloring, lineart, sketch, the reference, anything you want 💐💐

OH SKETCHES FOR SURE!!!! Sketching is so so relaxing to me. Its just me blotting down the image in my head as quickly as possible and it makes me so happy! The lining can be relaxing sometimes but oooo coloring my detested. I love SEEING it finished, but coloring takes oh so long. I fuss so much with the colors to make them look nice. It takes ages. Sketching, however, is nice and easy for me! Super fun! Here! Take some sketches of Wally I did recently!!!

Oh and here, have a WIP for a piece I'm still working on!!! On the lining phase, pray this doesn't take a million years to finish. But Wally....Wally catching frogs....

[thedisablednaturalist]

People should get reimbursed for commute time

If it takes someone over an hour to get to work, that should be part of their pay.

Many people have to commute long distances/through areas of slow traffic because they cannot afford to live closer to their workplace. This is also why work from home is a big thing.

If corporations want people to return to their offices, they need to make it appealing enough. I'm not going to fight through traffic for 2 hrs in my free time just to sit at a computer all day, when I could just stay home and don't waste that time.

Corporations would be forced to invest in local affordable housing, perhaps even affording housing credits. They would need to invest in local infrastructure (which in the US is falling to pieces) and improve public transport in their area (faster commute -> less cost to the company, less cars on road -> traffic moves faster, employees without cars would still be able to get to work). Also people would be less stressed and actually take the time to drive safely because they wouldn't feel the need to rush. It would make companies actually take an interest in how their workers get to work and investing in local communities.

I live sort of near DC. We have a HUGE amount of workers commuting into the city and its surrounding cities. Retail workers also have to commute to these cities and suburbs because they cannot afford to live in those areas. My boyfriend commutes an hour to his part time job at a kennel in a rich town. A lot of people live in the more affordable, lower income, far away areas in the nearby states because housing prices in my area are fucking insane. I knew someone who commuted 2+ hours to work and 2+ hours back. There are people who drive even more than that.

And where do these employees have to live? Food deserts. Crumbling infastructure. No parks, no walkability, no public transport, bare bones everything. Only the cities which only the few can afford have basic infrastructure. And even the people living there have to commute to OTHER even richer areas. There's a ton of places where housing developments have just been shoved and are surrounded by nothing but farms. There's nothing local to do, so everyone goes to the closest town and city. It's also why you see a lot of older towns have abandoned main streets. Why have your business cater to the 100 people who live there when you can be in a city with thousands?

There has been some recent interest in paid commute times. 1 2 especially with corporations trying to get workers to go back to the office. Personally, I love working in my office because having a separate space outside my home helps me keep work and home separate and allows me to focus easier since I'm not in "home mode". I don't have room for an office in my parents house so working from home kinda sucks rn even though it would help a lot since I'm disabled. But it is nice being physically near my coworkers, even if it gets annoying sometimes. Also many jobs involve fieldwork (like mine!) which can't be done remotely anyway!

There would be incentive for corporations to keep their employees close AND provide more remote work options for those living farther away. As well as matching pay to fit rent/housing prices in the area (or vice versa).

Also there needs to be something done about corporations having their entire workforce sourced from another country entirely, working for pennies. But that's an even more complicated situation that I don't have experience in.

[firelise]

drake didnt even address HALF the shit kendrick said about him, he was too busy tryna put out the pedophile grease fire with a splash of water

[toytulini]

god I know this is like The Wrong Stance on AI. I know its not about whether the art is Real and Human or If It Has A Soul and how a lot of the arguments against it are the same bullshit arguments people made against digital art like I Know. I Knowwww. but god, I'm really sorry, not to post like one of those annoying poetry bloggers I cant stand (yall are valid, live your truth, theres nothing wrong with what you post I'm just a petty bitch who hates poetry. unless I dont hate it.)

But theres just something about the way AI art will almost certainly never be able to mimic the exact way my pencil leaves an indentation in the paper, the way some of the lines I can never fully erase cause I pressed too hard, theyll have to at least train them to draw with a physical pencil first, and sure, they could train it to draw with a pencil and even erase the exact same piece I drew, line for line, on a piece of paper with a robot arm powered by AI, but they can't replicate. idk. the lineage of lefty bitches in my family, and the way I grew up going through school with my entire left arm silver with graphite, from doodling on my schoolwork. not yet anyway. but I guess I do live for the day we make the ai sentient enough that we can traumatize it by giving it homework after kneecapping its executive functions so it copes by drawing a big tiddy lobster monster. sure

[shabbyshoebox]

Sometimes I'm like "even though I'm autistic, I'm pretty good at socializing" and then I routinely panic over text conversations because There's No Tone Or Body Language Please Help Me Oh God Oh Fuck

[beeapocalypse]

one day and im already rlly in love w the physical kitty clones idea. cats tip-tapping around my brain. theres so many weird possibilities

[rum-inspector]

I now have access to "student job offer portal" with "amazing opportunities" so looked it up out of curiosity

- year long "project" to build / market apps for for profit startup company, you get "paid" by study points (worth only 2 weeks of normal studies)

- 12/hr to brainwash middle schoolers into capitalist mindset for 3-5 hours a week. Some sort of child labor camp painted as local business philantrophy.

- the horrible company my mom worked for a bit (and what radicalized her into labor union) is having recruitment event like they aren't constantly on the news for the most awful stuff

And you wonder why "Nobody wants to work anymore"?

[moonlightcookie]

ppl in the notes of that last reblog like "stop singling out shein, theyre all bad, get off your high horse, etc" like idk about yall but the majority of the clothes i buy for leisurewear i specifically buy from small brands BECAUSE they explicitly use ethical labor and ethical materials sourcing 🤨

[frenchtoastie]

Yeaaaaa I haven’t been posting a whole lot lately bc I’ve been putting together a really labor intensive cosplay for a convention I’m going to, people who know my main blog know what I’m talking about lol but yea that’s why I’ve been so missing from here lately lol

[gurorori]

tryin 2 think fo a single possible scenario where a кагехира мика cud unknowingly walk into the trap of an unlicensed underground doctor (& absolutely an organ trafficker)

[another-dra-anew]

:angy: the fact i can’t talk about [redacted], a character who’s such a interesting culmination of how hopes peak and their system fails and neglects people, and also of how having a school like this has given people the opportunities to do great things which change lives, all because they’re a spoiler for something THAT IS LITERALLY [redacted] fucking GETS ME sometimes.

[orcelito]

The fact that lugging a several thousand pound pallet by myself up some hills to the storage room was barely even a footnote to my day... probably says smth about me, actually

[toytulini]

But Also i do think. Expecting Crisp Ironed Clothes of someone in a fucking job interview is Unhinged. I think most professional dress standards are Stupid.

[kalmeria]

i am listening

[menotthatkindoforc]

if u complain enough about it being in the 70s during December eventually you will wake up in the middle of the night cold because you don't have the heater on and it's 44 outside