“I think it is right I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decisions that affect my life. I think it is right that socially, I am afforded the same respect as men.” —Emma Watson
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hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3
caterpillars in the chrysalis on day 3
This is actually a really hopeful way of looking at it.
Ok, but if you’re an independent contractor in the US and this happens? Find a lawyer, because you might have just gotten a huge payday.
Your position was just referred to as employment. Independent contractors do not have employers; they do not have employment. Congrats, your contact at this company just provided evidence that you were illegally missclassified.
This contact is claiming that you have set hours you’re obligated to fulfill. Unless a work task can only be done at a set time for practical reasons (i.e. you’re an audio freelancer paid to support a live event that occurs at a particular time and requires a certain amount of pre-show setup), a company cannot set an independent contractor’s work hours. This is further evidence that you were missclassified.
The whole exchange establishes that the company is interpreting an employer-employee relationship rather than expecting a service. Discipline and potential for firing (you cannot fire an independent contractor; no longer purchasing their service is not equivalent) establish that this person views themselves as a manager. Independent contractors cannot have managers.
This one text exchange could:
- Get you back pay for the full duration you’ve worked there, to bring you up to the compensation that an employee would have gotten
- Get you back compensation for lost benefits that an employee would have gotten
- Get you back pay for the additional self-employment taxes the company should have covered
- Get the company to pay back taxes to the government
- Get the company to hire everyone who performed a similar role, or face further penalties and fines
- A win would encourage the rest of their missclassified workers to sue for the same, or give them leverage to demand a better deal
If the company is going to screw you over like that, may as well make them pay for it.
Since this is getting a lot of reblogs, here’s a federal source that can help you determine if you’re illegally classified as a contractor:
You can also file a form with the IRS to force the company to correct your classification (assuming you meet the criteria), without necessarily having to sue:
Keep in mind that this is just federal. Most states also prohibit missclassification as an independent contractor; and even if states have more lenient rules, companies still have to comply with this federal law. The rules have largely been bipartisan and existed for decades, so they’re common.
States also have an interest in having regulations about missclassification: it’s a significant loss of tax revenue. Your self employment tax does not fully equal what a company would have paid for you in payroll taxes.
A lawyer can help point you in the right direction if a company is currently missclassifying you.
Fantastic addition
Ok I’m really curious
What do you guys call this
Puppy cone
Puppy cup
Kitty cone
Kitty cup
Fluffy cup
Fluffy cone
Bunny cup
Bunny cone
Something else????? (Tags)
lmao
Apparently this has the remaining chemists all in his menchies right now due to cis being a Latin term meaning "on the same side" I.e. Cis-alpine, cis-isomer etc.
my best friend from high school is a chemist and when he joined an LGBT group in college, the first question from the people there (for whatever insane reason) no context no lead-up was "cis or trans?"
and he, as a good chemist was like "oh trans of course" ("because it's more stable" he said to me later) and the people were like "yay cool!" and he hung out with them for MONTHS with them thinking he was either a trans girl or trans guy (he is neither, just very short and ambiguous). until it came up again when someone was like "wow cool we're all transgender at this table" and he's like "but I'm not???"
they got very upset and accused him of lying to them to join the group?? (he is gay) and then he remembered that very first conversation and was like, oh motherfucker.
this is the same friend who got hit on by a lesbian in Toys R Us because she thought he was a butch girl. until he was like "oh yeah I'm getting a gift for my boyfriend" and she was like, "oh my god I'm so sorry, I thought you were gay!!"
and he's like, "I am..."
and she goes "...you mean, you're bisexual?"
and he goes "...no...just gay..."
and this back and forth continues until it slowly dawns on them both that this girl completely mistook his gender and she is so DEEPLY mortified. and my friend starts trying to console her like "oh well I admire your gumption, you're very brave for asking me out, never give up!!"
Anonymous asked:
re: https://www.tumblr.com/olderthannetfic/720976550392119296/im-seeing-more-people-say-that
I think a salient point being missed here is that people are not usually intentionally making the characters they write fic about 'OOC'. If they are, it's generally tagged for--otherwise, what one person considers OOC another may think is a reasonable extrapolation given whatever scenario they've concocted for the fic that never actually happened in canon, so any relevant characterization is inherently subjective.
And it's not as if characters being 'OOC' doesn't happen in the source material, too. It's all subjective, obviously, but arguments can be made about poor characterization within a book or tv series, and when it comes to comic book characters? Please! They often can't keep characterization consistent from one run to the next! (That's what happens when different people take the helm and interpret the characters differently depending on whatever scenario they've been given, and it just becomes more pronounced the further removed the character becomes from their origin story. The only real difference between an OOC comic run and someone's half-baked fanfic premise is that people actually have to pay for the former and someone was paid to create it. Fanfics are provided for free, at the expense only of the writer's labor, and should not necessarily be subject to the same level of scrutiny.)
Sometimes someone just wants to take, like, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers and go "what if one of them was a vampire and the other was a werewolf", and the resulting fic may not seem to characterize them the way you, personally, think they would behave... but then you could just close the fic and go read something else. It doesn't mean that the writer was intentionally slapping well known names on their own OCs. (and even if they were, it's not as if they were getting paid for it so who really cares?)
olderthannetfic answered:
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