keeping up with the american elections while not being american like

keeping up with the american elections while being american like

Hot take though

my wife worked on an oil rig in Wyoming out of high school because there aren’t a lot of jobs that pay that well for someone without access to college. She was a driller and then a supervisor after the crew supervisor was killed during their shift. She saw multiple people die and loose limbs and she got pretty bad ptsd from watching a friend get decapitated by a chain that went loose and catching his head in her hands.

Shifts are often 20+ hours at a time with an 8-10 hour break between shifts for at least two weeks at a time and then a week off. Rigs are normally understaffed which make it worse and a lot of people on rigs turn to drug use just to be able to stay awake during their shifts. But it’s a job that pays a lot in rural and low income communities for people who don’t have a lot of options. A lot of people go in knowing they’ll maybe die but at least their families won’t have to work afterwards because of life insurance policies from the companies they work for.

I know this post was probably just meant as a joke post the whole thing with Joe Biden and fracking but like sometimes it shows that people who post these things don’t know a ton about what they’re talking about. It remains one of the most lethal jobs worldwide. Switching from oil/natural gas to sustainable energy sources will take time to transition and right now we have millions working in drilling with odds stacked against them. Republicans don’t care about oil workers’ lives because they can be used to make a profit and the left hates them because of a career they didn’t have a lot of choice in choosing.

The oil field is like the military where largely low income and marginalized individuals get preyed upon by an organization that doesn’t care if they live or die. Fracking and drilling being bad for the planet and needing an end and oil workers being worthy of concern because their lives are treated as disposable are two ideas that can coexist.

class solidarity must extend to ALL workers, not just workers of sectors you approve of.

“The oil field is like the military, where largely low income and marginalized individuals get preyed upon by an organization that doesn’t care of they live or die”

Blind Dog Was Scared To Walk. So Owner Made This For Him 

(via)

Isn’t this the potion Snow White’s stepmom used to turn herself into a witch 

I love how pleased with this whole process he looks.

^^^😊

AND a race one since the most affected regions will be Africa, Asia and Oceania

as a friend pointed out, this headline makes it sound like supply will be dwindling. supply is fine. people will be *priced out*.

An excellent demonstration of how it’s cowardly “journalism” to use the passive voice in headline writing. “Companies will raise the price of insulin too high for an estimated 40 million people by 2030” is the news. It’s not something that’s JUST GONNA HAPPEN.

meirl

Meirl

friday and boobs.

meirl

are we ignoring both of the penises, or…..?

Pilots drawing things with flight paths is a niche interest but a fucking fantastic one. Boeing Dreamliner 18-hour test flight.

I’m just happy that the pilots out there have this kind of precision.

Oh I thought some pilot was doing this to some poor passengers who just wanted to go from Chicago to LA or something and then I scrolled up and saw it was test pilots.

“And if you look out the left window, you’ll see the same mountains again, but from a slightly different angle.”

The painting, is complete :3

but what’s in the middle

it’s a good day to have a good day :))

You’ve heard of the Roaring 20s........

now get ready for the Screaming 20s - coming to a decade near you in 2020

is it too early or can we start screaming now