i was a barista for well over 10 years (as an introvert to boot). it’s 100% a side gig. it may cover some food and gas, but NO ONE is paying rent with barista pay, especially since they cut labor every time it’s “slow” for 20 minutes.

i stayed there because of the free pound of coffee every week and flexibility, but don’t act like it’s always the only thing between the workers and homelessness

they’re making a joke of it, but book bans are getting out of control. small libraries really are having to go “adults only” because of the impossible restrictions the new GOP library boards are imposing. project 2025 aims to force anyone who disseminates unauthorized material (basically whatever the fuck the party wants) to become a registered sex offender.

next steps will be to impose “approval boards” (censorship boards) for books before they even go to print or be published. when they’re done with books, they’ll move on to videos.

LGBTQ+ and anti-racist materials are only the starting point. when they’re done eradicating those, they’ll move on to anything that’s critical of any part of the GOP ideology. anything that doesn’t cast the GOP, trump, unfettered unregulated capitalism, white people, “it’s not rape if he’s your husband,” and on and on and on in a positive light–will never see the light of day.

“it can’t happen here!”

it IS happening here

if you can’t handle dealing with endless insufferable people and decided to sign up for a barista job, then that’s definitely on you

don’t forget the red state genius idea of “why pay janitors when we can make the kids clean up each others’ puke? then they’ll think it’s great when they start getting paid $7/hr for manual labor at 14”

“let’s get back to talking about how gay books in the library are ruining our kids’ lives!!”

-GOP

that’s the face of a guy who surrounds himself with people he pays to tell him he doesn’t look like a gone-horribly-wrong high school science experiment involving bumphead parrotfish and hydrofluoric acid

every time you wash your hands, you murder billions of innocent tiny organism who are just tryna live life

no, but seeing how I worked at one as a dishwasher making 19/hr when minimum wage was 5.75/hr, I’d say they’re one percenter shit by this point

what, you don’t want to spend your whole day sitting motionless and drooling in a wheelchair parked in some out-of-the-way corner of the nursing home? because everyone knows that people need to stay alive for as long as humanly possible

what the hap is fuckening

funny how this sounds like something either a nurse or a vending machine restocker guy would say

lol bold of you to assume that “management” cares about any of that

having to work within stone’s throw of a vending machine that i have to deal with people complaining about its fucking bullshit all the time, i feel like this sign is similar to the “whatever you do, DON’T go to scihub and download all your articles for free” “warning” that professors tell their students

LPT: if you right click> copy link on the section of the article you want, the link will take you right to that section e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lego_Group#Gender_equality_and_human_rights

no i don’t know how to do that on a phone

gee, guess i’ll just have to continue never using it, then…

isn’t it pretty much what amazon’s been doing since the beginning? the difference being there’s no “app” like camel yet to track prices over time at a single store

but yea, still another reason not to go to walmart. how do they mitigate the problem of something being $X when you put it in your cart, and the price being X+whatever by the time you get through the 2 mile long line at one of the 2 open registers?

brains to be bukkaked with ads that are designed specifically to bypass our rationality and embed themselves in the very fabric of our beings like psychological rootkits.

and like 90% of people think they’re completely impervious to ads lol

niiiiiice 8008135

i was wondering when the onion would say “fuck it…we’re just going to print straight facts”