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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I applaud this, it just makes me sad thinking other industries don't have similar leverage to get fair compensation for their labor. The studios were happy to wait our the writers because they had the funds to do so and the writers largely didn't. They can't play chicken with sag-aftra though, and they know that so they're smearing them trying to point to other parts of the industry this'll harm as if this whole thing wasn't started by their (the studio's) greed....but yeah what's an amazon warehouse worker to lean on, or uber/lyft drivers when faced with obvious corporate greed? le sigh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I'll be damned. Super interested to see how they implement this since they operate across all states. So not only dealing with the fact that there's still a federal ban on marijuana (my wife's a licensed vet and is going through her DEA licensing for distribution of controlled again and found out under no circumstances is she allowed to be prescribed medical marijuana), but also the fact that some states haven't even passed their own decriminalization.

Will it just be "you might get arrested, but you won't be banned from playing football?" And if they do random tests, and someone tests positive and is in a state where it is criminal, do they have to reveal the identity of the positive result to the state?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Seriously this, I mean there won't really be places that can comply with this. Yeah Texas has some of the highest rates of heat related deaths, they also have some of the hotest hots in the country. Taking the requirement away is just malicious on Abbott's part, but it likely won't change anything. My wife worked as a vet for the USDA in Waco for 2-3 years and those cutting floors at the meat processing plants frequently got to 120f during the high summer months. They have a couple of box fans, and water literally everywhere and that's it. This is an article hitting on a problem, but from the wrong direction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Probably not? the migrant paths are a lot more limited now than they used to be i think.

 

I have a habit of reading far too many books at once, and have developed "themed" reading months for myself to help keep my focus (for instance I usually read one Stephen King novel a year, and only in October).

This year I found myself really wanting to dedicate my month of reading to the LGBTQIA+ community. Both educational and informative reads, and books written by LGBTQIA+ authors. I've been all over the place in my exploration of the Fediverse so I wrote a quick lil article over here on a WriteFreely instance.

I also imported my goodreads reading lists here on bookwyrm. Right now I'm about two thirds of the way through Fever by Jonathon Bazzi. I'll probably dive into The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo next. It's a retelling of The Great Gatsby from a queer/female point of view. I peaked in at the first few chapters and am already in love.

What other pride books would you recommend? I'm going to try and do this every June so I'd like to build out an impossibly long backlog of books to read if at all possible.