Lupi

look i'm not gonna advocate for General Piracy on my fucking work account but i will wholeheartedly advocate for piracy in cases where It Is Otherwise Impossible To Buy The Thing In Question.

you can't buy 3ds games anymore. sure, you could pay scalper prices for a cartridge (none of that money goes to the devs or publisher) but if the game you want was never released on cartridge? too fuckin bad, your only option is to pirate it.

nintendo is obvs within their rights to make piracy on their platforms more difficult, but to do that immediately after shutting down all legal methods of purchasing games is just pointless. who benefits from this? literally no one. what does nintendo gain here? some sort of ideological superiority? it's dumb.

anyway. it's really easy to hack your 3ds. anyone can do it. i recommend doing it while it's still easy.

im gonna advocate for General Piracy on my account though you should pirate nintendo games and give them none of your MONEY! they are ruthless pigs and while i wont judge you for buying nintendo (ultimately it's down to your situation and your discretion) it is absolutely empowering as an end user to be able to say NO! to IP monopolies like Disney and Nintendo

knowledge on how to pirate and emulate, and the best places to find warez, are available online - you just have to look for it! the reddit piracy megathread is the best place for it

Yeah, it's about your truck; yeah, it's gone into blimp mode. It's inflated big and round, I'm really sorry.

Regulating Uber and Lyft wasn't the only thing Minnesota Democrats did this session: SF3035, one of the most comprehensive labor bills we've seen in awhile, is also going to make quite a few waves in the state when Governor Tim Walz signs it sometime in the near future. Virtually every worker in Minnesota will be affected by at least one change in the bill, which is effectively a labor union wish list and likely the biggest legislative win for unions in recent memory.

The headline changes include:

• Virtually all of Minnesota's employees now being eligible for "paid sick or safe" days. Under the bill, workers will accrue one hour of paid leave for every 30 hours of work. There's a cap of 48 hours a year to this, but it can be used for a wide array of reasons from sickness to seeking counseling or escaping a domestic abuse situation;
• Non-compete and non-poach agreements being rendered legally unenforceable in the state. Non-compete agreements alone currently affect perhaps 350,000 workers in the state, and non-poach agreements almost certainly impact more. The FTC may federally ban these in the months and years to come, but for the time being Minnesota is ahead of the curve here;
• Captive audience meetings are now banned in the state, meaning employers can no longer force their employees to listen to anti-union propaganda;
• Amazon (and technically all companies with more than 250 employees that operate warehouse distribution centers—but particularly Amazon) is now legally required by the state to provide workers with their work quotas and, by request, to provide a worker's productivity data. When a worker is disciplined for failing to meet a quota, that productivity data must also be given to them. The bill also makes it unlawful to force workers to meet a quota that interferes with functions such as restroom breaks or meals, or for employers to discipline workers for not meeting such a quota. The state is now directed to investigate any workplace in which injury rates are "at least 30 percent higher than that year's average incidence rate" in comparable workplaces;
• In the nursing industry, near-section-wide bargaining is being introduced through the creation of the Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board. This board will be empowered to set minimum pay and benefits for nursing home workers; should a nursing home be unable to comply with the board's pay and benefit proposals, that nursing home's increases will be frozen until the Legislature provides it with more funding.¹

Other smaller but noteworthy provisions include the ability of teacher's unions to negotiate class sizes; general construction contractors being made liable for wage theft and being required to make up the pay difference if their subcontractors skimp out on paying workers; the mandating of injury prevention plans at meatpacking factories and the creation of a state meatpacking industry worker rights coordinator; and the establishment of mandatory ergonomics programs for industries in which repetitive strain may be an issue such as meatpacking, healthcare, and distribution centers.

Quite a lot!

1. Basically all nursing home funding is either state- or federally-granted, if you're wondering why this provision is this way.

if my fursona were a witch, or styling themselves as one in general, I'd have witch hats for cow and snake heads all, and my familiar would be a snowy egret or a cattle egret

but definitely an egret. a lil zooper. that's the important part.

the egret familiar would also have a hat