Fortunately, woodland creatures don’t hire lawyers

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldImposter syndrome
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    19 days ago

    6 figures used to be ‘you made it money’. Like if you were making $100k a year, you were decidedly upper class. Now this puts you probably right smack in the middle of middle class, especially if you have kids.

    I’d say that ‘made it’ threshold is now probably around the $300k a year mark, if not higher.


  • Here’s a sample of an interview he weaves into his songs:

    Well at that time we were working 10 hours a day, and we were getting 6 and a fraction cents an hour. Well, we breaker boys, we’d have our feet in the chute. And we’d be picking the slate out, when the breaker boss would sneak up behind us, and if he’d see a piece of slate coming through, he’d pick up the scrape and he’d hit you in the back with it, and he’d hit you hard! And then he’d say “Pick that slate out!”. Well they used to abuse us, actually

    A breaker boy is literally a boy who sits in the mill, sorting ore, pulling out waste rock.

    Remember, capitalists did this to us before, and they would do it to us again if they thought for an instant they could get away with it

    Don’t believe me? Look at the use of international Temp workers in agriculture, mining, meat packing, or oil and gas








  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldBeer
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    22 days ago

    The “I’ve just spent 14 days in the bush digging holes and staying in a dry camp” beer hits like a fucking freight train. You’re exhausted, been craving beer for weeks, and your muscles ache. It’s consumed after a hot shower, a shave, and some scrubbing to try and get the dirt out of the fold of your neck. It’s all that is cold (but also warming!) bubbly goodness


  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldBeer
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    22 days ago

    those beers are a necessity for grad school. I do a metric fuckton of technical reading and writing. The “Fuck you, braincells, slake your thirst in a sea of alcoholic foam and recall what it’s like to be human again” beer hits hard.

    i also call it the “If I tilt my head, my brains will pour out my ears beer”