Tripped And Fell Into The HDG Fandom. As A Trans Woman, It Might Be Over For Me. I’m Stuck Between

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People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter

My oil painting of an Uncrustable

hi here's some vampire yuri

Cherry blossoms are gay

Cherry blossom affini are by default gayer

Prove me wrong (you can’t)

I honestly don’t understand why there aren’t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don’t simply distill it to the simplest of facts:

A forty hour work week is considered full time.

It’s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed should be considered the maximum work schedule required of an employee. (this, of course, does not always bear out practically, but just follow me here)

A person working the maximum amount of time required should earn enough for that labor to be able to survive. Phrased this way, I doubt even most conservatives could effectively argue against it, and out of the mouth of someone verbally deft enough to dance around the pathos-based jabs conservative pundits like to use to avoid actually debating, it could actually get opps thinking.

Therefore, if an employee is being paid less than [number of dollars needed for the post-tax total to pay for the basic necessities in a given area divided by forty] per hour, they are being ripped off and essentially having their labor, productivity, and profit generation value stolen by their employer.

Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

Our goal as a society should be to protect each other, especially those that most need protection, not to subsidize failing businesses whose owners could quite well subsidize them on their own.

You can't even deliver interesting final words to a great enemy any more because they'll just act like you're flirting.

I got the upper hand against a corrupted-noblewoman-turned-dark-mage the other week and before I ended her I said, "It was always my destiny to strike you down."

And she giggles before going, "Really? Me?"

I rolled my eyes and apparently that was the split second she needed to teleport away, which is just ridiculous when you think about it.

I'm sure I'll defeat her again, but in the meantime she keeps sending me love letters laced with powdered poisons and, honestly, it's starting to make me a little uncomfortable.

I can't keep having my rivalries against evil go like this.

inspired by a friend misspeaking

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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