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My name is Patrick. I'm 30 now, and married. I’ve had this blog since 2013. It’s gone through all kinds of phases. Lots tagged and more untagged. I’m not on much anymore, but if you want to say hi feel free. I write poetry sometimes on a side blog.
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Ethiopian Christians praying for Nelson Mandela outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria on June 30 2013. (AFP)
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Olympias is a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme and a great example of experimental archaeology. It is also a commissioned ship in the Greek Navy.
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I wanna see a ufo
Look at a flying object and simply choose not to identify it
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This would be nearly perfect is the authleft bit wasn’t so week and esoteric compared to the other three. Tankies really dragging everyone down smh
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idratherberunning49-deactivated:
I really feel this.
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I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is “if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in.”
“These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends.” Okay, so you’ll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald’s or Starbucks on your lunch break.
“They can get a roommate.” For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?
“They can live farther from city center and just commute.” Are there ways for them to commute that don’t equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.
If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.
You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There’s only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.
“Nobody wants to work anymore” doesn’t hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.
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[Image description: A worker is hanging a “Think Safety First!” banner with one foot on the top of a cabinet and the other foot on a stair rail. Behind him is a ladder he’s not using.]
An entire story in one image.
*looks more closely*
The worker seems to be older than a teenager, so is less likely to be hanging that sign as stunt of personal bravado.
That sign is big and flashy, and certainly projects the image of concern about safety (but does not actually contribute to safety by providing useful information).
It is therefore reasonable to conclude that the worker is hanging the sign in that location because their boss told them to.
The worker went to the trouble of getting an appropriate ladder that would have made it safer to hang the sign in that location.
But the way the stairs wrap around that corner, there is no safe place to position the ladder to do the work requested.
But it’s clear that the worker did not feel free to refuse to do the task requested, on safety grounds (very likely because they either need the paycheck, or because the authoritarian social hierarchy of “boss over worker” is so deeply ingrained in their thinking).
The failure is in the system, not the fault of the individual.
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i remember when we were in typography II and also editorial design I we got shown the fucking text hierarchy image
and I’m seeing more and more people not grasping this concept when editing so i thought that if for some reason you haven’t seen this image i probably shouldn’t gatekeep it. Text hierarchy is literally essential knowledge to make yourself understood. Try to have an order in your text, investigate, test things, show your edits to people and ask “hey what order are you reading this on?” because the golden rule is that your design should be easy to interpret most of the time.
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