Pensions sound so fake as a zillennial. You work for one place for decades (already sounds fake) and then afterwards you leave and they just. keep paying you. the same amount of money. to do nothing. for the rest of your life. if i wasn’t already aware that this was something that readily and commonly existed during my grandparent’s days then it would sound like some kind of socialist pipe dream
401(k)s became available in 1978, and that signaled the death of pensions pretty much everywhere that they weren’t part of a union contract. Workers who still have pension plans today are almost universally unionized and that benefit has been a holdover from contracts of the past.
The thing about pensions is that they are deferred compensation. You take a slightly smaller salary than your role should have, and the difference is being invested and paid out to you in retirement. But when 401(k)s became a thing and companies dropped pension plans, compensation never rose enough to offset the difference, and employer contributions to 401(k) plans is lower than what they had to invest in pensions. They got to have their cake and eat it too, and workers got screwed.
And now we’re into a third generation of workers who don’t foresee actually having enough money to ever fully retire.
The romanization of Hawai’i only tightens America’s grip on my people.
We are not the land of Lilo and Stitch. We are not a paradise.
We are a nation suffering.
There are only around 600,000 Native Hawaiians left. Only around 200,000 of them live in Hawai’i.
Hawai’i has the second largest homeless population in the nation, falling just behind New York. There are 19 million people in New York. Hawaii only has 1.4 million people. Yet their homeless rates are neck and neck. A majority of those experiencing homelessness in Hawai’i are Native Hawaiian.
Tourism destroys sacred land. Mountains are moved to make room for telescopes. People live in tiny concrete apartments that cost $2k a month because the rich move to the islands to carve their own paradise. My people spend every night praying we can afford to eat the next day
The Navy poisons the water over and over. They lie and say it’s safe. People fall ill. Then they dump the waste into the ocean and promise to do better. They lie.
End the romanization of Hawai’i. There is no paradise under American occupation.
Please fucking lie to your employer. Like they don’t need to know your mental health issues or what drugs you do. Ffs
its not lying if its to employers or cops
and look up ur rights on what they can and cannot ask u many places ban asking about ur record and transportation status and things like that resources will also tell u how they reword sketchy questions so ur prepared
here’s a quick guide for Americans with very common interview questions I’ve been asked:
🚫 illegal: how old are you?
⚠️ dicey: what year did you graduate?
✅ legal: are you 18 or older?
🚫 illegal: do you have kids?
⚠️ dicey: what responsibilities do you have at home?
✅ legal: can you adhere to this schedule?
🚫 illegal: do you have a disability or are you mentally ill?
⚠️ dicey: is there anything we should know about you that would interfere with your job?
✅ legal: can you perform these specific (named and described) duties?
🚫 illegal: have you ever been arrested?
⚠️ dicey: would you like to tell us about any problems you’ve had with the law?
PSA for people who got into Barbie because of the movie:
Just because it was in the movie doesn’t mean it’s like, an actual fact about the line or Mattel.
Like, the idea that Earring Magic Ken was discontinued. Like. Yeah, he was, but that’s how all doll releases work? He had a normal run for a doll. He wasn’t cancelled early or pulled from shelves. They still make Ken dolls. “Discontinued” is really misleading. By that logic all the Barbies in Barbie land not being currently sold in stores are discontinued. Ponytail 1959 is discontinued. President Barbie is discontinued. Ect. Ect.
Also those tiktoks claiming to explain Barbie history and lore? A lot of those are spreading misinformation as well. Just be careful at taking info at face value.
Even the part where they declare there were nothing but baby dolls before Barbie–setting aside the entire rest of the history of dolls, there was already a trend for adult/teenage plastic fashion dolls, starting in the mid 1950s. Barbie just ‘won’ because the size was most appealing (others were larger, like Miss Revlon, or smaller, like Cisette.)
Even Mattel’s version of doll history is not always trustworthy.
Yeah like, I get it was for a joke, but I’ve seen a lot of people take Mattel’s word for it and it’s annoying.
People need to keep in mind Mattel is a corporation. This movie is ultimately an AD for their dolls. They are trying to sell you things, they are not going to be 100% honest. They want to make themselves look good.
Like Ken never having a job? Funny, but not actually true. Ken has had 40+ careers during the line’ long run. Growing Up Skipper was not the only time Mattel ever used the boob growing gimmick. They brought it back for MyScene in 2007.
The line’s diversity is a VERY recent development. Yeah, they’ve had dolls of color going back to the 70’s, but they were few and far between. The people behind these dolls has to really push Mattel to get them made. Do not give Mattel credit they don’t deserve.
minos was such a pussy. if my wife gave birth to an epic minotaur baby i wouldn’t have locked him in a labyrinth. i would have taken him to the mcdonalds play place (athens) every day and let him eat as many stray mcnuggets (athenians) off the floor as he wanted. i love you hungry son
(pulling a painted vase out of my wallet) and this is my youngest at his first nose ring fitting. isn’t he handsome
