Landlords threatening tenants with poor habitability as punishment for winning a rent freeze is just more evidence that we need stronger habitability laws too
y’all have no respect for the ppl who make your life easier. the person making your morning coffee deserves a livable wage. the person stocking the groceries you buy deserves a livable wage. the person cleaning the restrooms in the office you work at deserves a livable wage.
Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number.
When the UN replied saying 6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end Famine for the year he never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for 44 Billion.
You struggle and suffer because people like him are allowed to exist, not because your neighbor is an immigrant.
@marsdelac I was genuinely losing my mind there… one day (bc the machines were so loud and i was so miserable and idgaf) i sang Olivia Rodrigo and cried bc my ex and i were fighting before i clocked in and i was mentally prepping for breakup 😭😭😭
Thinking about how in college my factory job where i cried while packing as fast i could in 90*+ heat netted me the same hourly rate as my hybrid (2 days in office) HR internship with paid hour lunch where i played league on the clock 😭
Companies replacing junior roles with AI, only to complain about the lack of senior talent in 4-5 years, is going to be the most predictable crisis in hiring history.
We’re in a strange era where a guy gets publicly shamed for running his sprinklers, while a data centre the size of a Walmart drains millions of gallons of water so AI can generate pictures of people in astronaut suits, and the data centre gets tax incentives for it.
One of the saddest parts of the Trump-ification of America is people saying “Mamdani’s speech was AI,” because they’ve forgotten what a competent, articulate speaker is. This is the modern version of calling someone “a witch” for knowing how to start a fire. & it’s just as dumb.