Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers union since March, has declared “war” on the Detroit Three automakers, with contract demands that even he calls “audacious,” including proposals for a 46 percent raise, a return to traditional pensions, and a 32-hour workweek.
Now the 54-year-old who began work as an electrician at a Chrysler casting plant in 1994, is threatening to take his 150,000 UAW members out on strike. If he doesn’t have contracts with General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, maker of Jeep and Chrysler models, by the Sept. 14 deadline, the UAW could strike all three simultaneously — something it has never done.
“The deadline is the deadline,” Fain said an interview earlier this month at the UAW’s Solidarity House headquarters along the Detroit River.
fuck yes
transcript from shared tag in the last reblog, bolded and enlarged for emphasis
THE 46% RAISE MATCHES THE AVERAGE CEO’S RAISE DURING THE LAST CONTRACT IIRC
Hey @staff just wondering did any of you ever study web design
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Just feels like you’re intentionally making the desktop interface an inhospitable place in order to drive users toward the app or off the site entirely. Is that what you were going for? If so good job I guess.
Wouldn’t it be nice.
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A better world is possible. I even kept some ad space for you.
This is a reminder for those who handmake Christmas presents that now is not too early to start. It may in fact be a good time to start if you have a lot to make/your craft takes a long time. You should maybe start it now, whether that’s brainstorming or actually doing the crafts!
which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?
y- you were putting it in cold water?????
Radish. Answer the question radish.
yeah??? i thought for like. 5 years that ppl just put it in hot water 2 speed up the tea-ification process didn’t realize there was an actual reason
You dont have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes???
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why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it
Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove
Its takes less than a minute
Bestie is ur stovetop powered by the fucking sun
How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove
Like seven minutes
Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat n it boils in like two minutes… less than that is u use a saucepan…
Crying you’re putting the whole mug on the stove ???? On medium heat???? Ur stove is enchanted
Every single person in this post is a fucking lunatic
Yet another post that reads like four shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief
(Enter RADISHN’T, MOTHMAN MISATO, BOIMG FROG and CATS'N RAINCOATS, stage left. They are having a HEATED DISCUSSION.)
RADISHN’T: Prithee, which one of you had planned to tell
Of diff'rent flavours gained by simple act
Of brewing tea with water hot, not cold?
MOTHMAN: Egad! you poured the water cold? Wherefore?!
FROG: An answer from you, Radish, I must beg.
RADISHN’T: Indeed I did, dear friends - why does this shock?
Without the guide of others I assumed
That heat was merely added for the sake
Of expediting this solution’s brewing!
Half a decade I have spent, or more,
Not questioning this worldview I had made.
In fact, I am myself a bit surprised
That you might think that I, your dearest friend,
Might have a patience of sufficient stock
To wait until a pot of water boils.
FROG: Three minutes overtaxes patience so?
The microwave will beep when it is done!
CATS'N: My friend, this answer vexes me the more!
Can it be true that thou dost boil by nuke?!
FROG: Are you in turn, my friend, so shocked to know
That I have not the patience, like our Root,
To boil upon the stove our favour’d drink?
CATS'N: It takes less than a minute!
FROG: On what plate?
Perhaps your dinner cooks atop the sun?
CATS'N: How long can take your stove to fill the task
Of boiling but a single cup alone?
FROG: In minutes?
CATS'N: Yes!
FROG: I counted seven, once.
CATS'N: Perhaps you ought to have your timepiece checked!
If on a middle heat you place the cup
You soon will have the scalding drink you crave.
Two minutes, in a mug upon the plate
Or even less, if you should have a pot.
FROG: You cause me tears - is this how thou dost live?
You place upon the iron stove a mug?
A mug, ceramic, filled with water cold?
How do these flames, though medium in height,
Not shatter like a glass this fragile thing?
Surely, then, your kitchen is bewitched
With magicks far beyond the mortal ken!
(The FOUR realise they have wandered into the THRONE ROOM. The ROYAL COURT watches with fascination.)
KING: Ev'ry single person in this group must be a fucking lunatic, it seems.
IDK, most people hate it, but I’m also the person that purposely lets coke go flat because I like it better flat so me and carbonated drinks have a weird relationship.
microwaving aluminum specifically is known to cause arching, which can cause fires! (thick aluminum is fine, but thin aluminum like aluminum foil, and I assume the edge of an opened can is Not)
on top of that microwaving liquids can be dangerous as they get hot extremely quickly.
just search “microwave aluminum foil” on YouTube if ur curious lol
Ah. That would explain the popping sound. I assumed that was just my microwave being old. Good to note I shouldn’t do that in the future.
fully expected 40k notes ngl
Moodboard for when the friend group gets together to cook
Ok I don’t mean to be doing this too often but I literally just wrote a paper about this so I thought I would comment! The English translation is The Cursed Woman but the original French is La Femme Damnée. “Femmes Damnées” was the title of a Baudelaire poem from his acclaimed 1857 book Fleurs du mal, which was known, among other things, to be a collection that famously dealt with the subject of lesbians. The poem tells the story of the desires and passionate love between two lesbians: Delphine and Hippolyte. As a result of this poem and of the book as a whole, the terms “fleurs du mal” and “femme damnée” became lesbian monikers of the turn of the century. Though some have deemed the term “damned women” to be accusatory of some moral dissonance, the poem it is derived from is actually quite sympathetic to the condition of lesbian love as it is a love which is unable to fully flourish in that time. Regardless, the translated title of Tassaert’s painting is misleading, as the original French is less accusatory and more identifying. The title is more accurately “the lesbian.”
all these videos of people in california walking around playing in flood waters noooooooooooo you don’t enter flood water for the same reason you don’t breathe in wildfire smoke: you don’t know what’s in there but trust that it’s everything it could find before it got to you
The Southern California area doesn’t get floods often (not talking about the desert area, you guys know).
OP is completely correct. Things that regularly show up in flood water:
Raw sewage from pipes or septic tanks that got damaged
Staphylococcus, which when it takes root in any hangnail or scrape, or heaven forbid inside your favorite orifice, is a potentially dangerous infection
Ants. They don’t drown easily and when they find higher ground, for example up the leg of someone wading, they take advantage. Wolf spiders and fleas do this too. And trust, if it’s a city area that flooded, there ARE fleas.
Water that is deeper than you think, which can absolutely swallow your truck. You might know what the ground level looks like when it’s not flooded, but you don’t know what got washed away, or softened.
Glass, metal, branches, wire, really the whole gambit of things you don’t want to be inside your skin. Can you see clear to the bottom in that water? No you cannot.
Dead things. Rats, stray animals that didn’t make it to safety, fish who choked on the muddy water (if we’re talking about a river or creek that burst its banks). Would you get into a swimming pool if you saw even one rat floating around in there? How about fifty?
Seriously friends, be safe. Don’t go canoeing in the street no matter how funny it is. Don’t drive your truck through the big puddles to make it splash. Don’t go swimming. If you really have no choice and MUST enter the water for whatever reason, get out quickly and wash with clean water immediately, especially your eyes and any abrasions. Hospitals and the rescue aids are already going full throttle, don’t add to their workload by being dumb.
just wanted to add that floodwaters can also carry:
tetanus
flesh eating bacteria
Legionnaires’ disease
animal waste, especially from farms
toxic chemicals, including gasoline, pesticides, etc.
submerged live wires that can electrocute you
dangerous live animals like snakes
heavy metals—lead and mercury are commonly found in floodwaters
human bodies
floodwater also often looks to be moving slower than it is!! you are at significant risk of being swept away even it the floodwaters only reach a couple feet!
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