The sound of a million necks cracking from whiplash.

I can also ask someone else to read a book for me, but I don’t get any enjoyment from that.

That money could go to a billionaire!

Holy mother of Adblock. Can’t even see. I’ll check this at home on my laptop.

Iiiiit’s taco time!! 🌮

You’re thinking of republican jesus.

One of many gifts given from billionaires, to billionaires, paid for by you! Thank you for your generosity. I’m sure they deserve it.

How is that possible? We banned it. We had a whole vote on it any everything.

The rich are thieves that steal from us, our kids, our future!

It’s backwards speak like most conservative legislation. Right to work actually means you have no rights at work.

It’s all we can do. We can hope.

My wife was fired from a job for getting sick (kidney stones). We were told if we don’t like it, sue, but I bet you can’t afford either with the medical bills. It took us years to pay for that stone.

There are some very unkind people out there who take advantage of their position. It’s a right-to-work state which just means that you can be fired for any and no reason with no recourse. It’s dystopian as hell. Most people in these positions put up with it because they enjoy eating.

The biggest failure of the US is ultimately its educational system.

It’s hard to tell. I’ve worked at places that would definitely fire me for using a week of vacation, and legally in my state vacation isn’t a tangible guaranteed thing; it’s completely legal to just fire the employee instead if they try to use it without compensation. Practically some jobs don’t have time off. You just get fired.

Please do not go down the path of the US. It’s far easier for two parties to collude.

Who feels the need to watermark this?

You’re supposed to wind the tape around the pencil and eat it like spaghetti.

I’m not angry. I’m deeply disappointed.

E-mail is the original fediverse!

If only it worked like that in practice everywhere. It’s a pretty addictive revenue stream, and the district is incentivized to bend the rules to collect their money.

Of course, I write this from the US, which is currently at critical levels of internal corruption, so this could be a factor.