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"Surely Californians aren't that weird about Yoga."

One time my mom quit on the first day of a yoga class because the instructor told everyone to "connect your essence to the native American ghosts"

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Y'all need to stop reblogging that Travel Bible artifact blog (museum-of-artifacts).

It's not informative, links back to a Buzzfeed-style listicle that may not even have information on the object in the post (if it links to a specific article listicle at all), and is a Christian travel blog that's a discount Buzzfeed at best.

The images are also lifted off places such as Reddit, Buzzfeed, Twitter, and Tumblr from the images I reverse searched, some from years ago. I actually skimmed over a lot of the posts that made it to my dash because I saw them years ago (or at least the images) but that blog re-posted them within the past year or two.

They're also taking posts from the subreddit r/ArtefactPorn that are from different users so either they have a mountain of sockpuppets or they're taking what others post, passing it off as their own, and directing people to their own site if they want more information on the artifact even though most of the time, from what I've checked, it links to a listicle that has no info on the object and sometimes just links to a landing page.

Because sometimes the artifact they post isn't even on the site despite linking back to the site as if it is.

Speaking of the subreddit, all the links on the right side link to the pre-TB sites and the founder of the subreddit tells people to "Read More" by linking the TB site rather than answering questions. Both also have links to give MoA money. I'm all for paying creators and scientists but I do not support paying someone who steals someone else's work to pass off as their own.

Finding photos of artifacts interesting or pretty is fine! But find a better source than that blog as it has zero sources or further information on the objects, tries to direct you to their own site for further information when much of the time there's literally nothing there, and tries to get money out of from you. The click-throughs to their website also bump up stats and they say they have monetized ads on it so, again, they get money from work they stole.

(I say they say because that's what it says in their privacy policy and I'm not disabling all my ad- and script-blocks on my main computer for a site that's already shady, goes against Web Design 101, and one of the home links is for .localhost instead of the site itself, but I do see tracking sites and an ad-provider still being blocked so I have no reason to doubt they have ads on their site.)

Oh and TB posts AI "art" on their Facebook page and tries to pass it off as real photographs. That in and of itself should discredit any artifacts or information about said artifacts from that blog as it cannot be trusted.

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Can we just do away with the puritanical work ethic that says we should spend the majority of our lives working? Often for others and only getting a fraction of what our labour is worth despite it physically affecting us?

Besides, most people's bodies start breaking down from work one way or another long before they hit current retirement age. Unless this increased lifespan/physical/mental ability includes free and accessible healing beyond what is available, that isn't going to change 'cause labour isn't just about a number on paper, it's what's physically possible.

#also i've been hearing 'in 10 years we'll live longer' since i was a little kid #meanwhile the general expected lifespan has actually gone down #and i very much doubt billionaires would be happy to share life-extending technology with us plebs #not when they could just get us to breed more workers instead by restricting/banning sex ed and abortion #oh wait...

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Hours are already being cut over a decade ago, before the pandemic and rapid inflation we've been dealing with for the past couple years. Not just in the grocery industry but in every industry and it's only gotten worse, but I was working in a grocery store at the time and saw myself and coworkers working fewer and fewer hours with there being less and less shift coverage.

Customers complained but that didn't do anything because that's the fun thing about being a monopoly or oligopoly, it doesn't matter if customers get upset because even if they quit going to Store A, they're probably going to go to Store B or Store C and you own those as well. Loblaw, Empire, and Metro have enough brands under them and have essentially carved up the country so they're the only option that most people shop at one of the three.

Sure they may end up shopping at the competition but unless they do research, odds are they're still going to be giving the company money.

Also if Loblaw is so hard up that they're cutting employee hours and having to jack food prices up so high ($20 cheese? $100 roast??) to try to compensate, Galen and the other Westons could easily afford to foot the bill of whatever is needed given they're millionaires and billionaires. They could easily afford to finance all the staff wages at every location for years and not have it impact their life in anyway, and Galen was one of the ones bragging recently about how Loblaw's profits are up yet again.

Profits, not revenue, so the company could definitely afford to not cut hours or staff.

And anon, it's not just about you. You can't expect people already struggling to afford food to keep going broker and broker while licking the boots of people who continue to jack prices up no matter how much it harms them. Galen has shown no remorse for fixing the price of bread for over a decade above where it should have been. He's shown he doesn't care about average Canadians, only how much money he can make, thus the only way to possibly get his attention is by doing something that affects his income.

Because he has no empathy.

Your hours and shifts were already going to be cut because neither he nor the company care about you or the other workers, only how much money they can make while paying labour less and less. It's the same across multiple industries, Loblaw is just part of a larger problem that started in the 80s, the main difference is companies have gone full mask off recently with their greed.

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And for posterity, I have to share a screenshot of the Galen Jr. wikipedia page. I doubt it will survive long but it gave me a chuckle.

i work at a loblaws umbrella store and the thing that bothers me about the boycott is that no one seems to be thinking of the employees of these stores. hours get cut and people lose work if business slows down. people who choose not to participate will still complain to the employees about costs that are out of their control. not to mention the less than livable wage most employees make, which they often have to funnel right back into the store because they have to buy groceries too. i support and appreciate people’s right to boycott and protest, but the galen weston’s profits will not be the only thing affected.

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#there's also a massive issue with all the food waste and plastic waste because people can't afford it #or can't justify paying $10 for something that costs $7 elsewhere and was $5 a couple years ago #but getting employees scared about hours/shifts is how companies try to control the workforce an dissuade them from doing anything #it's part of why they're so against unions and some companies will shut down unionized stores (while pretending it's not about that) #and i'm not kidding that it's across multiple industries #so many have the major players bragging about how much they made in profit #while also laying off hundreds or thousands of workers #because there is no incentive to put that money back into the company when it can be taken out for for individuals to hoard #capitalism always encouraged that but the break lines were cut thanks to reagan/mulroney/thatcher

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#the line must always go up even if they effectively own the market #a steady profit may as well be bankruptcy #as is having a massive part of the marketshare and not making as much money as possible #if you don't want to go back to the 60s just look at the past year with unity and netflix #and it's not about workers or users #it's about execs and shareholders extracting as much as possible before jumping ship #then they'll just buy or weasel their way onto the board of another promising company and do the same thing

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#also buy decent salmon instead of farmed that was then frozen and sat around for how long #there's a world of flavour difference between what you buy at the grocery store (especially when it's from a bunker and not a counter) #and it being wild caught less than a week ago #also learn when the salmon fishing season is and aim to buy within that time as the rest of the time it's likely been frozen for months #but you know the red salmon meat is? that's natural when they're wild but they're fed a dye when farmed because they don't get #that deep children's hospital red when in an overcrowded pen and only fed pellets #usually i don't snark on food but salmon is one of those things where a lot of the time when people say it's crap or flavourless #it's because they're buying bad cuts (assuming they're preparing it in a decent way) #(it doesn't take long to cook and you very much don't want to overcook it and it should have enough flavour you don't need tons of spices) #i'm fine if someone genuinely doesn't like salmon but i always raise an eyebrow when someone is in a landlocked area #and declares salmon is always bad with too fishy a smell and/or too little taste and they don't know why it's popular #semi-related: i still find the cut in the op too light #fat isn't bad but i'm used to wild sockeye what with being on the canadian west coast #so that colour implies atlantic or farmed to me #i'm sure atlantic is fine if you're on the east coast but not when it was flown/shipped across the continent

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#last one was 8+ years old and only died because something internal died #this one is a couple years or so old and i'll keep it until it also dies #i think the flip phones i had in high school still work but have dead batteries and no service #what i'm saying is i don't replace my phone every year or two #it's me i'm the type of person companies hate so use forced obsolescence to try to get me to buy more #instead i either go without or switch to a different brand because why would i go with the one that died quickly

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just found the most fascinating anti-ai person who is only anti-ai because they make and sell the software that spambots USED to use to flood the internet with low quality SEO-bait garbage and chatgpt is putting them out of business. what a fascinating category of human to be. i had never even considered that someone had to be actually making the spambots and that they have feelings too.

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Some adults will label kids as having "issues with authority" like they'll insist on resisting and opposing any and all authority for no good reason, for nobody's benefit, just for the sake of doing it. Most of those adults insist on being an authority for no good reason, for nobody's benefit, just for the sake of being one.

"Fuck you, that's why" goes both ways.

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So you know this scene?

I'm so used to the sexualizing of violence against women in media I had knee-jerk mixed feelings about it at first but sometimes you really do just need to yank a boob out of the way.

#it helps that neither the show nor manga sexualize female characters so it's not yet one more part of a larger pattern #also it's a proper grab and pull instead of a coy stroke meant to titillate cishet male viewers but wouldn't actually do anything #that pun was absolutely intentional btw

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my name's cougar but my friends call me mountain lion and my mama calls me puma and today's my first day at big cat high. i'm so nervous i hope they don't realize i'm not panthera >ܫ<

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All I'm saying is anybody who thinks the Japanese animation industry commits uniquely baffling crimes upon the English language has not properly appreciated what it does to German.

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I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth

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*grabbing mlm shippers by the shoulders* guys nobody needs to be the twink. nobody needs to be the sub. nobody needs to be the femboy. they can both be big fat hairy men who bask in each others masculinity or they can both be unspeakable monstrous creatures with inhuman genitalia it’s okay I’m holding your hand. Let me show you the way

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