DesertCreosote

joined 1 year ago
[–] DesertCreosote@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m fairly similar to this myself. I don’t really care too much about my gender identity; it feels like if I woke up tomorrow in a female-presenting body, I’d be totally fine with being a woman. At the same time, I don’t mind being a man, and don’t have any strong desire to change anything.

At the end of the day, I don’t strongly identify with being either male or female, so I’ve just called myself gender apathetic. I stick with he/him pronouns because it’s easiest, but I’d be fine with any other pronouns as well. I’m me, and that’s the most important thing.

[–] DesertCreosote@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Depends on where you are.

I’m in the Midwestern United States now, where summer is often pretty frustrating due to the high humidity. But I’m originally from Phoenix, where I really enjoyed summer (in the shade), because I love the feeling of warmth soaking into my bones, and I never got sweaty.

[–] DesertCreosote@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As the press release I linked explains, IBEW represents a lot of rail workers, though not all. Sick leave agreements have also been reached with several other rail workers unions, which means that around 60% of rail workers now have sick leave. That's still less than it should be, and the unions should not stop pushing until 100% of workers have sick leave, but it's progress.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/most-unionized-us-rail-workers-now-have-new-sick-leave-2023-06-05/

[–] DesertCreosote@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Except the rail union got what they wanted, and credited Biden's administration for making it happen.

https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid

[–] DesertCreosote@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

This is why I always record calls with major corporations when I'm talking about money. I've never had to actually resort to sending them recordings, but I have used the "Well, every call made from this phone is recorded, so I can go back and pull the recording of what I've been told if you don't have it in your system" line a couple times.