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eclipsebykimlipmp3:

atiredtrans:

daisto:

atiredtrans:

atiredtrans:

hot take: hrt, gender therapy and trans surgeries should be free

if cis people don’t have to pay to have a body that doesn’t make them dysphoric, neither should trans people

So by that logic does that mean that I should get anti-depressants and all the other pills for my mental issues for free because the people who don’t suffer from them don’t have to pay to have them?

yes

#so by that logic does that mean [COMPLETELY JUSTIFIABLE AND CORRECT CONCEPT]

cephalotodd:

friends deep lore: the reason chandler is so bad at generally existing in the 90s/early 2000s is he actually died in 1843 of lead poisoning and now he’s been reanimated by dark wizard ross (a homophobe) and the only way to break free of his curse of living undead is to find love and luckily he shares a flat with friendly modern man joey who teaches him the way of the world and maybe just, maybe, he also teaches him the meaning of love. 200k, slowburn, fisting

juniorvarsityjackets:

medusasstory:

crunchbuttsteak:

crunchbuttsteak:

Minimum Wage should be indexed to 2% of a city’s median rent.

And here’s why:

Housing costs are the single biggest financial burden facing Americans today.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development define being cost-burdened as spending more than a third of your income on rent. By that definition, over half of the households in this country are cost-burdened. Source

If we want people to be able to afford to live in cities and not get priced out, we have to make a two pronged approach. One is to build houses towards all incomes and price ranges, not just luxury condos. And the other is a robust wage floor so people can actually afford to live.

Fight for 15 is doing an amazing job and I love them, but we have to realize that is quite a few places, $15/hr still isn’t enough to live on.

Which is where the 2% comes in. It allows a minimum wage that is flexible with regards to the costs of living.

And it wasn’t plucked out of thin air either:

Rent should be a third of a persons income, or to restate the equation: income should be three times a person’s rent.

And since a full time job is 8 hrs a day / 40 hrs a week / 160 hrs a month.

So when you do the math, the ideal hourly minimum wage as a percentage of rent works out to around 1.875%, which for ease of calculation is 2%.

Example minimum wages under a 2% rent rule:

  • San Francisco: $67.40/hr
  • New York City: $56/hr
  • Boston: $55.94/hr
  • Los Angeles: $27/hr
  • Houston: $21.38/hr
  • St. Louis: $18.22/hr
  • Billings, MT: $17.16/hr

I. That puts San Fran’s cost-of-living issue into perspective. 

So… Minimum wage in NYC is $116,000 annually

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

You know, speakers of the Queen’s English throw a lot of shade at non-standard copulas and contractions for folks whose vernacular has historically included the word “’twasn’t”.

I love how most of the reblogs that are trying to come up with goofier variants actually manage to make the word less ridiculous than it really is.

(Hint: the apostrophe in a contraction goes where letters have been chopped off. It’s not “t’was” because there’s no missing letter in that position. The missing letter is at the beginning – “‘twas” and its various elaborations are contractions that start with an apostrophe.)

‘tain’t