happy pride month to this man
the barista here is gay and immediately clocked me because of my shark keychain HELP MEEEEE
they saw this and were immediately like I Know What You Are
If that pokewalker is functional I would die for you
then perish
I remember in my Arabic class we were going over the alphabet and the teacher was like there’s no ‘P’ etc and this white girl was like wait what but my names Paige and my teacher was like lol then we’d pronounce it as beige and she was so offended I’m crying thinking about it
One of my mom’s friends, Hugh, went to France and they had a lot of trouble pronouncing his name because the entire thing was silent.
salut je m'appelle [REDACTED]
lol when I lived in France my host family had a friend names Hugh. We saw him and his family a lot.
They pronounced it “oog” and I didn’t know until the day before I left France that his name was Hugh. I just thought he had some weird caveman nickname 😭
that is hands down the funniest addition to this post
ppl who oppose gender affirming care for kids are nuts like the extent of medical intervention for trans kids is maybe puberty blockers but they’ll still be like “SO UR SAYING WE SHOULD LET TODDLERS HAVE TOP SURGERY???????” barbara toddlers do not have a top to surgery
Saw someone asking "so do you endorse giving puberty blockers to five year olds?"
Friend, a five year old should not have puberty to block. If they do that's called precocious puberty and is the original reason puberty blockers were invented. If a five year old is going through puberty I absolutely endorse them being given puberty blockers
When the author describes a character’s appearance way too late and you have to quickly redesign the image you already have for them in your head:
This is why if you want people to know your character has long raven-black hair with red streaks and eyes like limpid tears, you need to make sure you say so in your first paragraph. Christ. Imagine someone thinking your character’s a prep.
Holy shit I’m dying.
That. That literally explains the opening paragraph of My Immortal I was making a joke but this person came out here with receipts holy hell
sad-boy-hank asked:
mom said its your turn to look at the sun bear
bunjywunjy answered:
WE HAVE TO LOOK IT'S OUR TURN
May I offer you regular moon bears & one golden moon bear though?
hm. I'll allow it.
So happy to see a clear pic of a golden moon bear. They used to just be a rumor.
He's just a regular mom bear with a negative color filter.
I know you’re being silly, but let me be serious for a moment.
So, a lot of the species in certain parts of Asia aren’t particularly well-documented in the ways we’re accustomed to in the “Western world”. Which gets into a lot of ambiguity. There had been rumors of “golden bears” for a long time.
And to those who know about bears, this is incredibly exciting! The problem is, the people who would mention “golden bears” didn’t distinguish them clearly.
Understand, there’s sorta three tiers:
Species - distinct, separate species. This used to be treated as meaning “cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring” but that has proven a little fuzzier than we used to think.
Subspecies - can interbreed, but generally doesn’t.
Morph - distinct set of features which show up within a population but do not constitute a separate population.
(If you’re the nitpicky kind of person, you will please note how i said “sorta” before you do your “Well actually” bullshit. The last couple of decades have wrecked our approach to taxonomy.)
Anyway, so there had been rumors of golden moon bears, but no proof. The most optimistic but least likely option was that these would prove to be an entire new species of bear. Which is, remarkably, plausible for the regions in question where our knowledge of species populations is vague enough that there could be a whole other large carnivore out there. And finding a ninth species of bear would be a hell of a thing. But that’s not likely.
Finding a subspecies would be pretty damned cool, and explain why they’re only rumor most of the time.
But the most likely option was color morph. Just like some people are blondes or readheads, sometimes moon bears are golden.
It wasn’t until the 90s that someone actually mounted a trip to various parts of Asia, following rumors of golden moon bears - which was challenging as these rumors often originated with illegal hunting - until they managed to find a number of actual golden moon bears, and gather enough DNA samples to determine where they fit taxonomically. Disappointingly, it turns out they’re just a color morph - but now we know.
Ok, but if you’re an independent contractor in the US and this happens? Find a lawyer, because you might have just gotten a huge payday.
Your position was just referred to as employment. Independent contractors do not have employers; they do not have employment. Congrats, your contact at this company just provided evidence that you were illegally missclassified.
This contact is claiming that you have set hours you’re obligated to fulfill. Unless a work task can only be done at a set time for practical reasons (i.e. you’re an audio freelancer paid to support a live event that occurs at a particular time and requires a certain amount of pre-show setup), a company cannot set an independent contractor’s work hours. This is further evidence that you were missclassified.
The whole exchange establishes that the company is interpreting an employer-employee relationship rather than expecting a service. Discipline and potential for firing (you cannot fire an independent contractor; no longer purchasing their service is not equivalent) establish that this person views themselves as a manager. Independent contractors cannot have managers.
This one text exchange could:
- Get you back pay for the full duration you’ve worked there, to bring you up to the compensation that an employee would have gotten
- Get you back compensation for lost benefits that an employee would have gotten
- Get you back pay for the additional self-employment taxes the company should have covered
- Get the company to pay back taxes to the government
- Get the company to hire everyone who performed a similar role, or face further penalties and fines
- A win would encourage the rest of their missclassified workers to sue for the same, or give them leverage to demand a better deal
If the company is going to screw you over like that, may as well make them pay for it.
Since this is getting a lot of reblogs, here’s a federal source that can help you determine if you’re illegally classified as a contractor:
You can also file a form with the IRS to force the company to correct your classification (assuming you meet the criteria), without necessarily having to sue:
Keep in mind that this is just federal. Most states also prohibit missclassification as an independent contractor; and even if states have more lenient rules, companies still have to comply with this federal law. The rules have largely been bipartisan and existed for decades, so they’re common.
States also have an interest in having regulations about missclassification: it’s a significant loss of tax revenue. Your self employment tax does not fully equal what a company would have paid for you in payroll taxes.
A lawyer can help point you in the right direction if a company is currently missclassifying you.
Fantastic addition
true story
me for the first 33 years of my life: my dad used to say "what would happen if you woke up on the titanic?? think about it" when he was tucking me in at night from at least age 5 and up, a form of psychological torture
me in my 33rd year of life: my dad optimistically thought i would have $250k to blow on something stupid by now and shut that shit down at the jump in the 90s
this was his response 5 seconds later