Have you heard of 996? It’s shorthand for a common work schedule in China: 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week

So a typical American teacher’s schedule?

Imagine if Eichmann had access to memes.

Yeah - as a result of the investigation I read 10 years ago which has mysteriously disappeared from the internet, there was a push to force employers to also offer direct deposit.

I remember around the same time being pressured at Kohls to use the damn pay card.

Pay cards are pretty popular among a lot of employers.

I know I read a ProPublica article about how fucked they are a while back, but both DDG and Google don’t seem interested in helping me find it…

But yeah, a lot of big retail/fast food places will pressure you into taking your pay as a pay card. These pay cards usually charge you for things like checking your balance or using an ATM.

Another thing I noticed is that you can’t donate if you are on PREP or PEP. The info screen says that you shouldn’t discontinue those meds to donate - but if you are in the situation where you need food, what’s the choice going to be there?

It’s really amazing how expensive being poor is.

I pay interest on my credit card loans, I pay late fees on things like electricity and my internet. The interest and late fees and all that other shit would be enough to start saving up for home.

Gas station food and energy drinks are expensive as shit, but sometimes when you are working two jobs you just want a fucking slice of pizza and enough caffeine to make it through the next shift.

I can at least manage my apartment, and can pick up a third job once school starts up again - but being in these places where I see people who are poorer than me and lack the ability to understand how to navigate the world - who don’t have a college education/the ability to read/the ability to speak English - what kind of sick and evil world is this?

Yeah - that’s what I found dystopian about it. That someone would be desperate enough to come back the next day to try again - it’s not even $50.

He has a website called Angry Gay Grandpa. He’d like to be identified as such, it’s his brand.

Yes, Veterans on Patrol took credit for the attack, and said they planned to attack others.

Any tips for properly hopping a fence? I may want to use that information for good.

We are living in a period of anti-science irrationality, tied with the rise of global fascism.

A significant portion of the US’s population (roughly 1 in 5) believes in Q-anon, Wayfair child trafficking conspiracies, “Frazzledrip” (a supposed video where Hillary Clinton murders a child and drinks their blood for ‘adrenochrome’), etc etc.

I believe Lauren Boebart posted shit about the weather weapons on her Twitter. A good chunk of our elected officials believe this insanity too (remember how fluoridation programs just got nixed). The Oklahoma state GOP platform literally includes a desire to shut down 5G.

They made the physics and chemistry tests even easier in the past couple years.

When I took the chemistry test - I hadn’t even really studied chemistry. Just two semesters in undergrad, never took organic. Didn’t know what hydrogen bonding was. I just marathoned the Crash Course YouTube series - I hadn’t ever wanted to teach chemistry, but the school decided that they were going to make me teach it and emergency certify me for it. I figured that would mess with my student loan forgiveness incentives, so took the test to be legit.

Department head/biology teacher at one of the schools I worked at was a creationist Bible college graduate.

He would compliment students for choosing to not wear masks in 2021.

Rolling coal should be considered a symptom of mental illness.

Like, why?

The Venn diagram of people who do that shit and think that NOAA has evil HAARP weather weapons is probably a circle.

Its likely that this person was involved with “Veterans on Patrol”, a group that has sent threats to weather stations because they believe that radar are “weather weapons.”

I’m not the drag queen - I was referring to a different individual - a case that should have been picked up by the media but wasn’t.

I am trans.

I think the answer to your question is that a drag queen is really their personality when they are in drag.

I have a similar type of job to running a science program at a library, but it is part time and I do not have health insurance.

My student loans are about to come due.

It’s all but illegal for me to teach here. And I can’t get out. I’m so sick of being alive.

Border patrol still participates in human trafficking, rape and murder.

There was a principal at Western Heights (iirc) who did drag on the weekends. No one knew. He was a great principal, had excellent performance reviews, was loved by his community.

Ryan Walters showed up to the school every day to tell them to fire him. And they did.

Ryan Walters is also gay himself. Everyone in the community knows this. He’s a chicken shit human, who helped write the evil woke social science standards, before he decided to have a political career.

And I love teaching autistic kids. Please put me in a group of autistic children. I would absolutely fucking love to teach science to a group of autistic children.

But I am transgender, so I can’t. I don’t count as a human being where I live. Nothing would make me happier than spending all day teaching chemistry and physics but I can’t.