Nobody Cares: PRS

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Somebody deleted a tweet.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I feel like I'm about to explode. Every goddamned stupid quote from any of those shitgibbons is setting me off...

And after 4 years of even my worst expectations not being bad enough to anticipate the utter malicious stupidity to which they're capable, I feel like I'm being dragged up the side of Mt. Everest a second time.

I feel like I'm tied to a rope gang that in their hypoxic frostbitten mania, is going to drag me off a cliff with the rest of them as their leader points bravely to the dumbest of all futures, one that this nation will be paying for long LONG after his rancid shriveled little excuse for a heart finally calcifies.

I need a new hobby. One that keeps me far from the internet. I feel like I'm gonna go insane otherwise.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

I need a new hobby. One that keeps me far from the internet. I feel like I'm gonna go insane otherwise.

Have you thought about martial arts?

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Have you thought about martial arts?

I can see the general appeal and benefit, but no. Very very much not my scene. =)

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I can see the general appeal and benefit, but no. Very very much not my scene. =)

Guns are popular in your country.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Guns are popular in your country.

I hate loading, shooting, cleaning, carrying, or even owning guns. I don't care if the zombie apocalypse is eminent, I won't own one or have one in my house.

There is probably only one thing I like about guns. Taking them apart and putting them back together, they're nifty little 3d puzzles from that perspective.

Years ago I needed a dress rapier/sword to be in a wedding party (very Three Musketeers in style/theme). Which was fine, but I didn't want one of those in my house either, even unsharpened. So I got rid of it.

I'm near enough downtown that crime is higher in my zip code than most in my city, but that doesn't stop me from going out walking alone at night. People generally don't mess with me. Maybe because I'm a solid tall, Irish-American looking guy.

If I ever have to deal with a home invader at night, I have a full length very hard wood walking staff within easy reach of my bed. It'll have to suffice.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Ok Boomerica.

 

[Beebo Brink]

If I ever have to deal with a home invader at night, I have a full length very hard wood walking staff within easy reach of my bed. It'll have to suffice.

Back in her college days, Mrs. Beebo used a bullwhip to send a stalker back out the window he came in through.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I need a new hobby. One that keeps me far from the internet. I feel like I'm gonna go insane otherwise.

Try keeping bees! If you don't have room at home, you shouldn't have a hard time at all finding someone with a crop farm who'll let you keep some there, as long as you take care of them.

Working with small animals in general tends to lower humans' blood pressure, and it's no different with bees. They even have a special little way of bringing you back down to Earth if you're getting too distracted and careless while working with them.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Try keeping bees! If you don't have room at home, you shouldn't have a hard time at all finding someone with a crop farm who'll let you keep some there, as long as you take care of them.

Working with small animals in general tends to lower humans' blood pressure, and it's no different with bees. They even have a special little way of bringing you back down to Earth if you're getting too distracted and careless while working with them.

I shouldn't be trusted with bees. The next time a car alarm goes off all night long keeping the neighborhood awake, I'd probably find a way to fill their car with bees as punishment/deterrent.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Anita Bryant, a popular singer who became known for opposition to gay rights, dead at age 84

Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular singer who became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights, has died.

apnews.com

May she burn in the hell she threatened the LGBTQ+ community with.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Tired: The LA Fire Chief is DEI.

Wired: Eminem and the Beastie Boys are DEI.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

In case you were wondering whether the no-worker-protections "gig economy" was limited to taxis and delivery drivers, nope it's just the people actually working in actual stores now, they're no longer store employees they're "freelancers" and they have to pay money in order to receive their paychecks within a month.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

In case you were wondering whether the no-worker-protections "gig economy" was limited to taxis and delivery drivers, nope it's just the people actually working in actual stores now, they're no longer store employees they're "freelancers" and they have to pay money in order to receive their paychecks within a month.

Need Communist Revolt reaction.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I thought in the UK the gummint actually jumped feet first on companies that pulled such shenanigans. Like, they have laws and everything.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I thought in the UK the gummint actually jumped feet first on companies that pulled such shenanigans. Like, they have laws and everything.

I think the UK has some pretty hefty worker protections, but the main point of the companies behind the gig economy is to use legal definitions to rules-lawyer their way around worker protections. The workers are all "self employed contractors", and the company that gives them their paychecks says that it's not their "employer" and it's not paying them "wages", it's merely a third-party service provider that routes the client's service payments to them.

Because this bullsnuffery is relatively new, it's often a legal grey area. In the US, dealing with it has required either legislative changes to make sure this activity is explicitly covered, or court cases ruling that the BS is void and those workers are in fact employees and the "payment service provider" is in fact their employer and subject to the law as usual. I'm guessing something similar will have to happen in the UK as well.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Steve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’

Pot, meet kettle.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I think the UK has some pretty hefty worker protections, but the main point of the companies behind the gig economy is to use legal definitions to rules-lawyer their way around worker protections. The workers are all "self employed contractors", and the company that gives them their paychecks says that it's not their "employer" and it's not paying them "wages", it's merely a third-party service provider that routes the client's service payments to them.

Because this bullsnuffery is relatively new, it's often a legal grey area. In the US, dealing with it has required either legislative changes to make sure this activity is explicitly covered, or court cases ruling that the BS is void and those workers are in fact employees and the "payment service provider" is in fact their employer and subject to the law as usual. I'm guessing something similar will have to happen in the UK as well.

The new Labour government has legislation going through parliament at the moment to bring a new range of workplace rights, though it doesn't cover gig-economy workers, where companies pretend workers are self-employed contractors rather than employees.

That's apparently coming, but the government says it needs more time to sort out legal definitions of who is and who isn't genuinely self-employed.

As far as I can tell from the article, the gig workers are typically paid weekly, 30 days in arrears, but they can be paid earlier if they pay a fee.