Capitalism might actually viable if the bosses would just recognize when a product is good and keep making it the same way. The “gotta move fast and break things” mindset of endless growth and perpetual change wrecks everything.

And to think I came here FOR the funny trans women, and to get AWAY from the AI dweebs

imagine sitting on a potential challenger to the current bloc of social media platforms people are on but dislike for various reasons and going "no, no I must burn through my userbase's goodwill as fast as possible because I'm too bitter that funny trans women are more popular than AI dweebs"

you right

ICE = MURDERERS

if someone (thankfully!) survives an encounter with ICE, it was still ICE’s intention to murder.

Abolish DHS
Abolish ICE
Abolish CBP

Abolish republicans

NEVER FORGET!

tbh depends on the version of Blastoise. Both are correct for different versions~

So my wife and I are home from vacation and while I feel productive, I also feel a sense of urgency and defeat, my wife and I owe rent, and we can’t pay the whole amount they’re asking, but they won’t let us make small payments to pay it off,

I'd call it that way yeah.

Twister <3

What a fanta-see.

Fields of Mistria music and sound effects keep playing in my head even while I’m at work.

I might have a problem.

#FieldsOfMistria #FoM #CozyFarmGame #CozyFarmingGame

Please add:
Puerto Rico Statehood, consideration for ALL US Territories
Term limits on SCOTUS
TAX Churches, Corporation holdings AND income
End Privatisation of Prisons and Public Services
Guaranteed Protection of Public Assets (parks, property, buildings)

Here's my list. It needs Faux News removed from every Basic cable package and #AIPAC being made illegal added. No more US tax payer dollar support for genocidal maniacs and religious nutjobs.

Yet the perception of lifeguards hasn’t changed in 50 years. It’s still seen as a starter job for teens, minimum wage material.

That perception won’t change unless something forces it to.

And I think the only thing which will force a perspective change is unionization.

I just don't know how to.

Thus, why I feel like lifeguards need to unionize.

Aquatics facilities and waterfronts can’t operate without lifeguards, and the position is valuable and requires training and is in high demand.

So lifeguards should be paid approximately and have work conditions conducive towards their job.

There’s always a nation-wide shortage of lifeguards. The demand far outstrips the supply.

Despite this, higher-ups seem to have the attitude that they can just replace the lifeguards who quit, rather than asking the question of what they can do to make them stay.

Maybe they need to be forced to.

Lifeguards require getting trained for just about every possible emergency, pay for the initial training, require keeping the training and practicing it, and all for minimum wage with no real job progression,
Yet have the stress of literally saving lives on no rest while multitasking everything.

Lifeguards are promised the job will provide a platform for careers which will set them up for the rest of their lives, but outside of winning the Leads/Supervisor/Director lottery, the only opportunities are by quitting the job of being a lifeguard. I’d call that a false promise!

It says something about the job that the easiest way to make a living is to not keep doing the job. That’s fundamentally indicative of a systematic failure to recognize the needs of lifeguards and to change the job accordingly to accommodate a lifetime of success. Which the job falsely promises.

The other main way lifeguards advance career is by transferring to even more people-facing positions. Working more directly with patrons, as a trainer, as membership, as a child zone supervisor, etc.

There’s more higher-paid positions available for promotion from there. HR, branch director, etc.

Mind you, I’m quite aware nurses have the same problem as lifeguards of being underpaid and overworked, but even the lowest-paid nurse makes more than the highest-paid lifeguard, so even if the workload and stress is higher, it’s still more pay than lifeguards and thus, technically job progression.