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social relations have gotten way too complex and now everyone’s confused and angry. so i say we just get back to basics, lay down some easy-to-follow ground rules here:
fun fact about me is that when i was a kid id write capital E’s with as many of those little horizontal lines as possible and id call them ladder E’s and adults fucking hated them
artistic rendition
All capital letters should have a leveled-up form
So far I’ve got
ladder letters: A, E, F, H, T
humpback B’s and P’s get as many bumps as you think they need
circle O’s, you just keep spiraling in til you feel like you’ve made your point
tree letters branch into smaller versions of themselves ad nauseum: X, Y
spider Q’s, so many legs
Please add your own unsettling godtier capitals!
New alphabet dropped!
oh my god, it’s beautiful
(future handwritten notes are gonna be so wonderfully cursed now, thank you! :D )
well it’s going to take some getting used to, @ceekari (don’t mind the redacted letter between T and U)
But I think i’ve taken a real shine to it!
recursive
So i may have done a thing in an insomnia fueled jaunt into insanity.
I’m a very “incremental changes don’t fix a broken system” type of person, but Biden’s NLRB deserves credit. It’s obviously operating within existing labor laws, but it’s a been doing everything within that legal power to help unions and it’s a significant reason for the success of so many unionization pushes in the last several years
I should actually do some research on why this is, huh. one sec
Biden, to his credit, went and fired the Top Lawyer of the Board immediately (the first time a President has exercised this authority since 1950 lol). I don’t think he himself has done anything that different since then - his appointees came from SEIU, which is pretty normal afaik, and he waited for a normal term to expire before getting his 3/5 majority on the Board itself.
That alone has been pretty big - it reset the inertia of the Board, putting a new majority to work with a new General Counsel, who has forced Amazon to allow workers to organize throughout their facilities. This was crucial to many (all?) recent Amazon unionization votes. They’ve also forced employers to hire workers fired for organizing.
I’m not finding huge seismic changes in policy - obviously Biden isn’t passing new labor laws even if he wanted to. It just seems like his firing of the General Counsel allowed the NLRB to really hit the ground running and give full support to a wave of grassroots unionization. Nice
Wait I found a seismic change in policy
6 days ago the NLRB released a decision reviving the Joy Silk doctrine. Starting now, the federal government will recognize a union as soon as a majority of employees sign union cards - no election needed. If the employer requests an election (I’m sure they always will), the Board will automatically recognize the union if the employer is found tampering with the process. This means firing organizing workers, intimidation/harassment, etc., will result in an immediate union victory.
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call this the biggest change in labor law since the doctrine was killed off in the 70s. I also actually believe that Biden’s NLRB will enforce it. This actually deserves its own post, it’s that huge and it just happened. I’m so glad I did this research lmao
for context theyre doing a new halloween crossover event in call of duty and are selling horror movie characters you can play as but unlike the other characters which are just outfits for existing operators, ghostface is listed as their own character in the warsaw pact faction thus canonizing ghostface as a communist from 1980s USSR
how are people mean to stuffed animals one time i was trying to clean up my room and tried to justify giving away a stuffed animal by saying ‘well its a little ugly’ and immediately i was just overwhelmed with monstrous guilt and i understood the concept of a catholic hell and i was going there