stop giving smartphones and tablets to toddlers to make them be quiet and start doing some actual parenting omfg
How about I take away your SmartPhone and Tablet and make you cry?
So y’all really dying on this hill to defend your right to stick your 2 year olds in front of a tablet instead of dealing with them huh
play with your 2 year old and the tablet together, problem solved
Some of my best childhood memories were playing that old pixel tank game a billion years ago on an ancient computer with my mom. I learned how to type in the command prompt even.
Like people haven’t been giving their toddlers things to play with on their own to distract them since time immemorial, but hurr durr technology bad.
Baby boomer goals: home ownership, 2.5 kids, dream vacations to florida/hawaii
Millenial goals: having any money left after bills, an apartment without roommates, dying quickly and painlessly in the initial nuclear exchange to avoid witnessing the collapse of humanity
Accurate
Guys, the fear of nuclear annihilation hung over half the 20th century, it defined the entire boomer generation. Other boomer goals included not getting drafted, marrying someone of a different race, and living past 70.
also, not dying of AIDS
GenX = worst of both worlds; we started out with dreams of not getting nuked or dying of AIDS, and now a majority of us are in the same shitty financial state as the Millenials, plus we’re still young enough to live to see the world’s full ecological collapse. We are fucked coming and going. At least we had good music in the 90′s.
tbh if you think that cis lesbians are super highly scrutinized for transmisogyny and there’s just this horrid epidemic of cis lesbians being unreasonably called terfs i think the correct way for you to address this issue is to log off. some popular cis lesbian blogger you like a lot getting called out for being awful to trans women on tumblr is literally not remotely a representation of what actually happens in real life and you’re edging hard on “conspiracy theorist” territory if you think cis lesbians are just being constantly and systematically attacked for suspected transmisogyny in real life by evil all-powerful trans activists or something… if you logged off you’d probably realize tumblr social dynamics do not extend to the real world and most transmisogyny from cis lesbians, even in its most blatant forms, goes by with nobody giving a shit because trans women are a small and powerless group of the population and few people even care about us.
Yeah if that kid was black he would be called a thug this is nothing against the kid , I mean knowing how to use a gun is not a bad thing but for him at that age it’s a lil too early for that
That’s abjectly terrifying.
KIDS SHOULD NOT BE HANDLING WEAPONS THAT ARE LITERALLY BIGGER THAN THEY ARE WHAT THE FUCK ARE HIS PARENTS EVEN THINKING
4 YEAR OLDS SHOULD NOT EVEN BE TOUCHING WEAPONS MADE FOR KILLING LET ALONE KNOWING HOW TO USE THEM
my heart fucking stopped just seeing a kid that close to a weapon
I have such a thing about small kids in danger, my anxiety is going through the roof jfc
He is four. That’s not cute. That gun is bigger than the the kid. If you want to teach your kid how to use a gun that’s your business, but please wait until they are bigger and old enough to comprehend the damage a gun can do.
as if trnmp cares about small businesses and charities in this country
Nooooo, ugh, it probably will happen, but I surely hope it doesn’t.
I HAVE VERY STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT THIS.
The tarriffs part sucks— but the “woe is us, it’s not our fault” tone of the email really pissed me off. JoAnn’s prices have gone up each of the 3 years I’ve worked there, and the employees (of course!) aren’t getting paid more.
The company is actively shutting out their older client base– customers who may not spend much, but who come in regularly for supplies. The VIP discount program has been discontinued (shutting out the older generation of quilters/crafters en masse), and I’ve had many elderly women say that they’re going to have to give up their hobbies because it’s just too expensive.
So, all of this is to say that the way JoAnn has prioritized profits over people has led to this. The wanted reps who would lower taxes and loosen regulations for businesses while pushing their employees to the wayside. They got that. Now that their wish has backfired??? Awww, it’s a MADE IN AMERICA TAX THAT WILL HURT SMALL BUSINESSES.
No, it’s the fact that their customers can’t afford a blanket 25% increase in already ridiculous prices, and the tarriffs will cut into their profits.
I wholeheartedly agree that we should be calling our reps over these tarriffs, but it’s also the culmination of profit over people. Everything is made overseas because those workers are paid so little. Minimum wage workers (hello, all of JoAnn’s retail employees) can’t afford to buy anything, just as most retirees on social security can’t afford anything other than the essentials. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BUSINESSES ARE ALLOWED TO DO WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY WANT.
Ahem.
On a more personal note, I was at a brand new store when Jill Soltau did a walk-through. The store was full of employees who had put everything together to get ready for the grand opening.
She came through without saying a word to any of us.
So, this email that’s attempting to make us believe that JoAnn and its CEO really care about people?
Ha.
For the love of all that is holy, get out and vote in the midterms. Not to make sure that businesses don’t see a change in profits, but to change the government’s focus back to the people.
Reblogging for commentary, it is such a shame how many American companies are prioritizing profits over people.
Corporate greed is a terrible part of the American Way. From a quick Google search I gathered that JoAnn’s is no longer a public company (it was privatized in 2011) so they can’t even use the excuse of shareholders to blame the rise in prices over the last few years.
Here’s to hoping this doesn’t increase them further, but shame on JoAnn’s for doing it previously.
If the prices on Halloween decor are any indication, they’re already doing it. Yarn and fabric are going up as well.
I definitely noticed it on fabric, I had to double take when ¼ yard of fabric was $3.00!!
This is basically the reason that Hancock Fabrics went out of business (I mean, I know there were a lot of reasons that Hancock Fabrics went out of business, but this is a big one at least). They froze wages, cut hours, had their stores being run by basically a skeleton crew – and tried to claim that they were failing as a business because “nobody would buy anything without using a coupon”, shoving the burden of their business failing onto the customers, when really the company was being run terribly, workers had no loyalty because we were being paid minimum wage with no hope of any kind of raise, managers were extremely overworked…
Unfortunately corporate greed seems to be the downfall of many American companies. That is basically what happened to Toys R Us as well. No one has any loyalty anymore because the basic principles of a living wage and decent benefits no longer exist. As long as the people at the top can maintain a hefty salary and get a yearly increase, the people who work the hardest get the short end of the stick. It is shameful how larger American businesses have become.
Don’t forget how the internet means people have options they didn’t have in the past, but the corporate greedsters aren’t willing to let their companies change, because change = risk, which = potential bad things happening very fast, while ~sticking to the old ways~ means the company death will be slow and able to be milked for years.
And the ones that do change and thrive? Get bought by Amazon or Walmart, so it’s a different kind of death.
(of course I’m being a bit facetious here. a bit.)
This is a common theme, as retail continues to eat itself to death. Ames, Circut City, Radio Shack, JC Penney’s, Sears …
When times are bad and resources are overstretched, customer service is where bad leadership makes the deepest cuts. Fast-forward and the staff is crap (you don’t get good employees by paying them crap and treating them like shit) and your customers are gone and your company is bleeding cash–
Online shopping didn’t kill retail. Retail killed itself and Amazon is feasting on the corpse.
Theories of political conflict or division (such as the ever-popular “tribalism”) that assume irrationality as the source of such conflict, rather than contradictory and/or incompatible sets of recognizable interests and real positions of power, are silly and wrong
Also generally used as justifications for colonial violence, even among leftists. See “Israel and Palestine have been fighting forever sooooooo” or “indigenous tribes naturally fought each other pre-colonization”
If you view being racist as integral to white childhood and being asked + taught to critically engage with how you view people of color as someone destroying innocence or forcing a child to grow up, you are indisputably implying children of color should be silent victims.
if you don’t teach children to be racist in the first place (and this includes weird homogenous raising of children so that they think anything non-white is super weird and react as such) surprisingly you don’t get children with much to unlearn personally all they gotta do is adapt and understand the systemic shit
“Mike Pence is so anti-gay, you just know he’s closeted.”
Or you know, maybe he’s just a violent bigot that hates LGBT people. Maybe we should stop shifting the blame for the violence LGBT people face onto LGBT people and accept that he’s a hateful fucking person. Every homophobe is not hiding in the closet. More than likely Pence would just rather see gay people tortured as a “cure,” and rid from this Earth. Maybe y’all can stop with this pathetic cop out and actually push back against people like this in our society?
I hate idea that homophobes must be gay to explain their hatred. In the same way that racists are not secretly BAME and sexists aren’t secretly women, homophobes are not gay. They’re just hateful shits.
the problem with the monogamy polyamory discourse imo is the focus on identity. you let monogamous or polyamorous be who you are instead of a mere description of the way you form relationships. people aren’t hardwired one way or the other, at the end of the day you’re making choices about your boundaries. why don’t you just let life surprise you sometimes so it’s not a full on identity crisis every time you want something or someone you didn’t expect
👆☝👆☝ “what do I want right now?” “What am I comfortable with right now?” “What do I feel safe doing right now?”
One of the many reasons why I identify with descriptive rather than prescriptive language, and not just around relationships.
Some people feel identified by their relationship style. Cool. Some don’t. Rad. Some change many times over their lifetime, or even over a few weeks? Go you. Take care of yourself, be honest with yourself, and the haters can pound sand.
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