got taken to axe throwing tonight. i may not have impressed anyone with my technical axe throwing skills but my sheer brute animal strength is unparalleled
It is fuckin insane the sheer disregard everyone has for covid and how utterly bizarre it feels to be actively losing credibility in people’s eyes just because I take it seriously. Everyone thinks I’m being “silly” but I literally was in the middle of getting a degree in microbiology when this shit started, I was literally taking immunology and virology courses when the pandemic hit, it’s not like I have a poor understanding of the topic. I’ve been watching the death rate and keeping up with the new variants and vaccines and symptoms and I can bring up all the sources I want but it feels useless, nobody wants to hear it, nobody gives a shit.
Literally today a friend did not come for Xmas dinner because we asked them to test before coming and that “minor cold” turned out to be covid. “I feel well, I’d have never guessed covid unless you’d asked me to test!” And that’s exactly the issue. It is NOT a cold. It affects the body in a very different manner but people are equating ‘not feeling too bad’ with ‘not really doing any harm’ and this is Not True.
Today i tried out a new boba place and they were out of tapioca so i asked what the pudding option was, and the lady at the counter was like here ill get u a sample and i was like word. Anyways when she came back she VERY TENDERLY CRADLED MY CHIN AND FED IT TO ME ON A SPOON? Craigslist.com missed connections dublin you were a beautiful middle aged asian woman i was that guy in the 100 gecs shirt. I am willing to give up everythign i have going on get back to me girl
guys pls no more notes this is so pathetic . Itsmy darkest hour rn
For reference, the federal minimum wage would have you earning roughly on average $1,256.66 a month
It’s recommended your rent only be 30% of your total budget, so with an average monthly rent of $1,827 that would mean your average renter’s monthly income should ideally be $6,090
That would be roughly $35.13hourly or $73,080annually
However, the average renter’s household income is only $42,500 annually or $20.43 hourly (as of 2019 according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey)
This means either rent prices are too unsustainably high and price gouging or wages are too unsustainably low and predatory
Or both
(Hint: it’s both)
not to mention most apartments won’t even allow you to apply unless you make 3 times rent.
In April 2022 (when this was initially posted), the median rent in the US was reportededly $1,827 a month, a new record high.
From CNN article on rent in the US: ‘Rents in the US climbed to a new record high again in April, and they are expected to keep rising. The national median rent was $1,827 a month in April, up 16.7% from a year ago, according to a report from Realtor.com.’
Assuming you were to work full time (40 hours per week) on $7.25 per hour, your monthly wage would be $1,256.57. However, this is not take home pay, as this does not factor in taxes, pension, etc.
It is often recommended that your rent should be 30% of income.
From Herbert et al, 2018: 'The 30-percent of income standard is a widely used and accepted measure of the extent of housing affordability problems across the country.’
For $1,827 to be 30% of your monthly income, you would need to make (1827 / 30) x 100 = $6,090.
Assuming you were working 40 hours per week:
6090 / 4.333 (approx weeks in a month) = $1405.49 per week
1405.49 / 40 = $35.14 per hour
Or
6090 x 12 = $73,080 per year
I had some difficulty corroborating that 'average renter’s household income is only $42,500 annually or $20.43 hourly (as of 2019 according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey)’. This may be from this table from the United States Census Bureau, which found that renter’s household median income was $42,479, which could be rounded up to $42, 500.
Other sources also referenced the average renter’s household income being exactly $42,500 in 2019, but I didn’t feel any of these were reliable enough to link. However, considering the very similar number from the US Census, I don’t have too many concerns about this number.
42,500 / 12 = 3,541.67
3,541.67 / 4.333 = 817.37
817.37 / 40 = $20.43 per hour
I’ve not been able to verify how many US landlords require 3 times rent, as I’ve not found any data on it. If anyone can find anything on this, feel free to send it my way!
KID WROTE “MPREG VORTEX” ON THEIR DOODLE PAD AT LUNCH CLUB
I ASKED THEM TO PUT IT AWAY
ANOTHER KID MUST HAVE SMELLED MY HORROR
ASKED “MS DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OMEGAVERSE IS”
SAMANTHA YOU ARE THIRTEEN WHY DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OMEGAVERSE IS
@too-many-muses I went full on startled prey mode 😭 I froze, shook my head way too quickly and then started aggressively cleaning the whiteboard lmaooo
don’t you fucking DARE I cannot go down in history as the omegaverse teacher
I know for a fact that they think tumblr is dead as they have told me I look like used to have tumblr before it disappeared lmao
favorite hobby when I’m driving is to catch someone trying to climb up my back bumper while I’m going a completely reasonable speed and just slowly take my foot off the gas. you seem upset, brother. why don’t we slow down and enjoy the view awhile
I’d like to add, just on the off chance that someone who tailgates reads this, that tailgating is not doing you any favors. The sheer degree of attention and reactivity and focus you have to maintain in order to tailgate without fucking hitting the person is so much. You’re stressing yourself out. You’re making your day worse. You’re decreasing your lifespan (both statistically by increasing risk and literally by being stressed the hell out). You’re fucking up your brakes. You’re wasting gas. You aren’t going any faster. If you do hit them, it’s 100% legally your fault and you won’t get away with it. And to cap it all off, the person ahead of you has a solid chance of just slowing down. Keep a comfortable buffer distance. When they pass something it should take at least two seconds before you pass it. More, if you can help it at higher speeds. The few seconds you might save by tailgating are absolutely not worth it.
Whenever someone tailgates me I start slowing down. Just slower and slower. Not only to piss them off, but also because if some idiot is going to fucking rear-end me, I’d rather it happen at 40mph than 60mph.
psa for gentiles: “the chosen people” referring to jews doesn’t mean “jews think we’re chosen by god bc we’re just so special and better than everyone else.” it means “god picked us to fulfill the 613 mitzvot and we said ‘ok sure’.” it’s more akin to being a custodian. when we say our duty is to “repair the world” we don’t mean “make everyone like us”, we mean make the world a better place for everyone. judaism is not Christianity LiteTM.
and just so y’all know, “jews think they’re god’s chosen people, they think goyim are subhuman and that they’re superior” is nazi rhetoric. “jewish supremacy” is a white supremacist concept based in antisemitic conspiracy theories abt jewish plans for world domination. please stop uncritically using this rhetoric.
