By: Revanche

Just a little (link) love: Pomegranate edition

December 5, 2019

Just a little link love

Being in a constant state of rage can wreck you slowly (or quickly). I should know, after the past 20 years which included my financially abusive family and two terribly toxic workplaces spanning 7 years of my career, and today’s world. I like these action items for doing things to combat the rage and alleviate the stress. It’s a simple list but I still need the reminders when my dander gets up. I’ve also done a lot of work to remove toxic people from our lives, to simplify, to induce calm and it’s made a huge difference.

I was just thinking about my comment over at Abby’s about how emergencies piled up when I was low income – it was always one thing after another. Then I realized that’s still true today. We just had a family situation that cost nearly $3000 to take care of. No sooner had I calculated those costs, we had another incident that cost $1300 to start fixing and is going to cost another $400+, at least. We can bear those costs because I aggressively save but by golly, having less than $10,000 in savings in the face of this level of costs would make me physically ill.

On principle I would like Nicole Cliffe because she’s a rich person who advocates for paying people a fair wage and none of that nonsense about stiffing them because “we’re like family” but she’s also an entertaining writer so I read her gift guide mainly for her writing. Except it turns out, it’s also got really neat stuff. Why did I doubt her? I don’t usually buy kids toys but I will make exceptions for good ones.

A SpEd teacher shared this with me. They work really hard to teach and advocate for their students but it’s rough.

LAPD issued a warning that hackers are targeting handy USB stations but Snopes is skeptical.

Dang, when will people stop price-fixing and forming cartels? Bumble Bee still owes $17M from their fine and is filing for bankruptcy, Starkist was fined $100M, and it looks like Chicken of the Sea got protected in exchange for cooperation with the federal investigators.

I didn’t know people were still watching America’s Got Talent (we don’t have TV anymore) but it sounds like the show culture has issues: “Union was subjected to a very specific critique — that her rotating hair styles were “too black” for the audience of “AGT,” a note she received over half a dozen times, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the exchanges who spoke on the condition of anonymity.”