Me explaining what Big Brother is about to someone who has never watched:
It’s a strategic game of manipulation where you form alliances, lie, scheme and compete for power to pick your opponents off one-by-one with the hopes you are the last one standing so you can win a large cash prize
im a huge supporter of the lily james as adult lyra belacqua fancast, but in all her roles where she has dark hair in a period drama she is also very much giving ruth wilson
there’s this push in media on the idea that it’s okay to act aromantic and/or asexual as long as you replace those expected things with ambition. babe i’m just here to vibe. i was not put on this earth to have a fucking career. where are the rest of the chill aspecs who don’t do shit
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.
So what this paint company does is take iron pollution from abandoned mines that are polluting soils and rivers and makes iron based red pigment paints out of it.
Basically they realized hey no one’s cleaning this shit up, it’s polluting the streams, killing all the fish, making the water undrinkable and there’s a huge market for it so why not make money by cleaning it the fuck up?
They remove this stuff by the industrial bucket load from the rivers. The idea is if it’s in a painting, if it’s in your home, it’s not poisoning wildlife.
If literally ONE person would have thrown a hinky vote for Reilly to stay that would have sent hisam into such a tailspin and it would have created such drama this week leading into the pressure cooker I hate unanimous votes so much
I’ve been critical of Izzy but I have to give it to her for how handled trying to educate Jared about what’s wrong with his beliefs about women and how many “bodies” they have . Of course he isn’t waking up to see it. Izzy had my respect for how she challenged him on this.
