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Employees came out with numerous collaborative stories about how minorities were payed less than their white counterparts.
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He had multiple conversations with employees about eugenics and the “white master race”
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Sexual assaulted an employee
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Numerous severe safety violations.
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Tons of other stuff coming out.
Nah, all killed by poisonous nats the size of a comma.
They’re called Crocs.
It really depends on what your life is like and what you have to give up.
I grew up in Illinois and Michigan. Ended up in California largely by accident of graduate school admissions offers. I cannot tell you how much better things are here. West Coast Best Coast.
If you can have a comparable job, just figure out how to make it work. We only have a short time on this planet and most places in this country stink. Hell, even the good ones kind of stink but it’s still so much better.
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I think I see a quick and dirty solution.
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Pretty close. The largest saltwater crocodile ever sighted was 8.6 metres (28 feet) long.
Australia used to have a lot of even crazier wildlife. There was a wombat the size of a hippopotamus, a carnivorous marsupial lion, a 10 foot tall kangaroo, and a carnivorous goanna (a subtype of lizard which still exists in smaller forms) which might have grown as long as 23 feet. All of the above went extinct in a timeframe suspiciously close to the arrival of Aboriginal people in Australia.
…and the invention of barbecues.
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Barbie dammit!
Re: guilt – an interesting piece in Jacobin:
White people “stepping up” to “take responsibility” for their privilege won’t get us very far. But forging real solidarity through concrete campaigns, protests, and movements can. There are a couple of reasons why.
First, our struggles are structural, and they are interconnected. We live in a society that quickly marshaled thousands of troops, dozens of curfews, and countless police armed to the teeth in response to protests, but that left hospitals without enough ventilators and PPE to deal with a deadly pandemic. We live in a society with devastating levels of homelessness, on the precipice of a potential wave of evictions, but that would rather spend money to arrest and brutalize people than provide decent housing.
But if the struggle for racial justice is going to avoid being isolated and quelled, multiracial solidarity is essential. The movement will need a base that is wide enough and deep enough to force concessions from an entrenched power structure that benefits from the status quo.
That solidarity is not only necessary, it has a material basis. While white people clearly do not suffer under the boot of racism, poor, working-class, and even middle-class white people have much to gain from the fight for racial justice: one of the primary reasons the United States has such a lackluster welfare state and weak labor movement is that racism has been used to divide people and obscure their shared interest in challenging corporate and ruling elites.
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RIP Ian Holm 
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If you all haven’t stumbled across the Sundry Chitchat thread “reviewing” Mason’s history book please do yourself a favor and take a look. @jmakin and @NotBruceZ each took one for the team and bought the book. The thread does not disappoint
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I’ll never understand the fascination with McCandless. There are so many other people who have chosen to step away from society and be true to themselves as itinerant free spirits, and subsequently not died in a really stupid and preventable way.
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It’s that he died in a really dumb way that feeds the fascination.