Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.
I’m an ant biologist and I’d like to point out that ants also spend a significant percentage of the time doing nothing.
Turns out sometimes the most evolutionary useful thing you can do is chill and not wear yourself to shreds, whether mammal or insect. It helps you deal with emergencies and adapt to change. Plus, you can act as living food storage!
That last part is probably more an ant thing than a human thing, but hey, live your dreams.
it’s also a bear thing, which absolutely explains me
Doing absolutely fuck-all is how antarctic sea sponges live to be over 10,000 years old, so live your best, longest, laziest life.
If you are American, PLEASE SUPPORT THE SSI RESTORATION ACT OF 2021
This new bill has been introduced in both the house and the Senate.
Among other things, it will:
Raise the monthly disability income by just over 30 percent - bringing it to poverty level.
Remove penalties for recieving financial help from friends and family.
Increase the amount of assets a disabled person may have from $2,000 to $10,000 (this hasn’t been updated since 1989)
Update outside income restrictions to allow disabled people to receive up to $399 a month without reducing their benefits.
REWARD, not penalize, people who want to receive additional income while on social security income.
REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT THIS WILL REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN
For those unaware current regulations do a lot to oppress disabled people. In fact marriage equality doesn’t even extend to disbled people who risk having their benefits reduced or outright taken away if they marry someone. This means that in common law states disabled people can’t even live with their significant other or they risk losing their financial independence.
Current regulations mean that if you’re disbled you can’t have so much as one penny over $2,000 to your name. So buying a car and gaining more independence or freedom is largely out of the question for disabled people.
Current regulations penalize social security recipients who receive income from outside sources, even if those sources are reimbursement. Did you get paid to babysit for a few hours? That’s income, and you get your benefits reduced. Did you loan a friend $10 and they pay you back? The government considers that $10 income, and you get your benefits reduced.
These aren’t mere anecdotes - these are all examples of actual things that have happened to disbled people I know, and if you have any disabled friends in your life I’m sure they can tell you the same stories.
If you value marriage equality, if you value financial independence, if you value the rights of disbled people, please PLEASE support this bill! Contact your reps, vote, and make noise! This is a great thing!
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i get so sad thinking about all the little girls growing up on tiktok and seeing all the insane beauty standards on there
like literally every other week there’s a new trend promoting small waists or “hourglass figures”, the “i guess i won’t eat today” comments, the current villainization of fat women happening, the trend happening a while back with literal teenagers bragging about their nose jobs and showing their ethnic noses and talking about how excited they are to get it “fixed”, people using pictures of them as literal children as their “before” for glow ups. i could go on forever but it’s just become a cesspool of everything wrong with the internet’s beauty standards
“Yes, there is a superyachtinvestor.com. Go look at it and it will make you so angry, you could chew glass.”
we stan class traitors on this blog
Abigail Disney has no control or input on the operations of the corporation, she is a Disney heiress and, in that respect, nothing else. She puts her money towards philanthropy, especially women’s movements around the globe and peace organizations like Peace is Loud and the Global Fund for Women. She is a documentary filmmaker who explores these themes as well.
There are problematic family investments she earns money from that, legally, she cannot divest from. Instead, she donates these profits to charities that counter to those investments.
Reblogging this version because I needed to read this after watching the video
“I have literally sat in a room with the people [at Disney] who pour your soda, and the people who clean your room and scrape gum off the sidewalks, who have told me, “I have to ration my insulin.” I have sat with them, and I have felt a kind of rage that I don’t even know how to describe to you.”
GO OFF GO OFF GO OFF
This woman, with no control over where the wealth she was born to comes from, looked around and said “well, this isn’t fair” and advocates to fucking fix that shit.
I’m copying and pasting this response I made the other day to post (by a gay person, surprisingly) who was criticizing Lil Nas X for “
strengthening the public’s perception of gay people as satanic perverts
“:
People still thought that gay people were satanic perverts when they saw Will and Grace being polite on tv. They still thought we were satanic perverts when Ellen Degeneres voiced a beloved cartoon fish. They still think we’re satanic perverts when gay conservative republicans push for “family values”.
The problem is not with us. A gay man cannot hurt the community by “fulfilling stereotypes”. When Lil Nas X dances on high heels, when he wears a leather harness on the red carpet, when he sings about bottoming, these aren’t stereotypes: this is a man expressing his sexuality in a genuine way.
I’ve seen a lot of people saying that deceased queer icons would have loved this video; George Michael, Freddie Mercury, Prince. I agree! Queer art is a very powerful way that we can take the hate projected onto us and turn it into something else.
The music video for Montero is funny, it’s sarcastic, it’s sexy, it’s taboo, and it’s saying “this is who I am and fuck everybody who has a problem with that”. This is what queer art is all about! It’s camp and it’s angry and it’s full of love for himself and the community.
A friend asked the other day what percentage of people I went to youth group with “deconstructed” and what percentage remained evangelical. As I thought about it, I realized that for the most part it was the kids who took their faith the most seriously who eventually walked away.
Those of us who tearfully promised that we would follow Jesus anywhere eventually followed him out the door. The Queer kids, more than anyone, learned exactly what it meant to work out our faith with fear and trembling.
They told us to read the Bible and take it seriously and then mocked us for becoming “social justice warriors.”
Now they’re warning us not to deconstruct to the point of meaninglessness.
But they took a chisel to God until he fit in a box. They “deconstructed” the concept of love until it allowed them to tolerate sexual abuse, celebrate white supremacy, and look away from kids in cages.
Some of us got to where we are because we took it all to heart. We took the most foundational elements of our faith to their natural conclusions. Folks who deconstruct evangelicalism aren’t drop-outs; they’re graduates.
“Your
kids are not leaving the church because you didn’t train them enough.
Your kids are leaving the church because you trained them well enough to
develop a sense for truth and justice. You let them read the words of
Jesus - and they got it. And they’ve recognized that the church doesn’t
seem to be interested in those words. They’re not leaving because they
don’t know the truth, they’re leaving because they do.“
Sir Ian McKellen urges gay people to be better allies to the transgender community.
The legendary actor and Stonewall co-founder joined It’s a Sin star Olly Alexander for a special LGBT+ History Month talk on TikTok on February 25, Pink News reports.
Sir Ian said:
“I do hear people – gay people – talk about transgender people in very much the same terms as people used to talk about your common or garden gay.
“The connection between us all is we come under the queer umbrella – we are queer. I quite like being queer actually.
“The problems that transgender people have with the law are not dissimilar from what used to be the case for us, so I think we should all be allies really.“
This is not the first time the actor has stood up to transphobes.
Speaking to lifestyle magazine Attitude, the veteran star talked about how happy he was about Elliot Page coming out as transgender.
He felt “so disappointed” with himself for not recognizing the struggles that the then-teenage actor could have been facing when they worked together.
The actor talked about why it is important to be honest with oneself.
So they’re gonna undercut pharmacies until they corner the market and then jack prices back up, but higher than before and reep all that profit. Right?
Not only will it give Amazon a new market to lord over, but more data on its customers. Knowing what illnesses a person has will help them sell other items by advertising things that will seem tantalizing. Bipolar makes you impulse buy? Amazon will know that. Depression makes you crave sweets? Amazon can sell that. Bezos doesn’t care how predatory this business practice is because he’s a monster and all of humanity is his prey.
I work retail pharmacy. My specific job title is Inventory Technician, which means that my job in addition to the regular duties of a technician (inputting prescriptions, filling prescriptions, navigating insurance issues, ringing out patients for their prescriptions, ensuring paperwork is filed, ensuring confidentiality laws are adhered to, etc.) I’m also in charge of ordering medicine, as well as ensuring that expired medicines are disposed of and recalled medications are pulled from our shelves and waiting bins.
Now, the reason why Amazon is able to undercut the prices of Pharmacies is because basically, they are going directly from the manufacturer to the patient, which allows them to bypass the standard issues that we at retail have to deal with with insurance (basically in the US when your insurance pays for your drugs they pay a certain amount to the manufacturer, a certain amount to the vendor, a certain amount to the Pharmacy, and then the rest is usually your copay.) Since they are the vendor and pharmacy, they can just go directly from price of purchase from manufacturer to patient. But there’s another issue I see here. Amazon is probably sourcing their drugs from a cheap market. And let me tell you something, I have had to deal with a lot of Class I and Class II drug recalls this past year that my pharmacy was unaffected by because we didn’t use the “cheap” suppliers.
Amazon WILL cut corners to maximize their profits on this, they WILL use the lowest bid supplier for their drugs and there WILL be class I recalls on their medication, and at that point the users will have to what? Mail it back to Amazon and have them send a replacement?
I also know how much of an issue prescriptions can be when a Doctor sends in ambiguous scripts, but Amazon isn’t going to care about clear instructions. Hell, I doubt they’re really going to actually have someone go through and type up the clear instructions, it will probably just take the escript data and type it up exactly as it came in and send it to billing and filling. So be prepared to get a shipment from Amazon containing a single insulin pen that’s supposed to last a month because the doctor put a dispense quantity of 1 box, but the escript said 1 pckge and the computer interpreted a package to be a single pen.
Now technically PHI law states that Amazon is legally not allowed to use your health profile to market items to you. Practically that doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. I already have had one person tell me that they abandoned setting up an Amazon profile because they were worried about the personal questions being asked.
However one of the biggest concerns is that they’ll offer a system “for conveniences’ sake” where if your credit card is attached to your Amazon profile that they’ll just automatically fill, bill, and send your medications to you. And that this system will bypass all insurance and DUR issues. Doctor sent a $300 rx for eyedrops? Yup, that comes to you no chance to say “can we call my doctor for a cheaper alternative?” You have a peanut allergy and they sent in a prescription for Progesterone? Sure, here you go. Patient is on Suboxone and the doctor sent in an RX for Norco? Have at it buddy!
And when something inevitably happens, they’ll just shrug and go “oh well, we’re not liable because reasons!”
The $300 eyedrop situation is real. There are multiple very good and common eyedrops out there that sometimes copay for $10 but sometimes end up costing $600. And sometimes we don’t know which one it will be until the patient shows up at the pharmacy. I always, ALWAYS tell my patients not to pay more than a certain amount of those drops and have the pharmacy call me if it ends up being more. Amazon will not do that. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, as the above comment says.
Also, not only will Amazon be able to undercut prices because of cutting out middlemen and using inexpensive sources, but they can literally afford to sell at a loss. A lot of large corporations do this to destroy their competition and then, once they’re the only option left, they jack up the prices again. But Amazon can afford to lose money on prescription drug sales for a few years while it corners the market. Bezos is the richest man in the world. A few million in losses over a few years to secure the American pharmaceutical market is completely worth it to him. And the profit he’ll make down the road will pay him back for those losses and then some.
Private pharmacies will never be able to compete, and even other large pharmacies like Walgreens and CVS won’t be able to keep up unless they find a way to stay a step ahead of Bezos.
Amazon needs to be broken up. It is monopolizing our entire market, every corner of it. And healthcare needs to be public so everyone gets drugs for the same price regardless of where you’re getting them from.
