What a cutie! Rats are such social creatures, smart and make great pets.

Yeah, there was one day I had a cohort of 50 animals that need to be harvested. Halfway through I had to take a break to throw up, and powering through to finish the rest of the group just had me dry heaving the entire time. I’m a Buddhist, I had not signed up for that originally, but sometimes the research leads places you didn’t expect to go. Finishing my postdoc and leaving that research was a happy day for me.

These cone things are for rats and mice. When you put them into a tunnel shaped object, their instinct is to crawl forward. So they crawl all the way up, and their face sticks out the other end so they can breathe. You close up the bag/tunnel behind them with your hand, then you can flip them over and inject them with what ever your are testing. For those that never worked with animals, or just don’t have the dexterity to scruff the neck and grab the tail with one hand, this is a godsend. I also used these at the end of my experiments to decapitate my rats so I could harvest their brains to test that tissue for stuff. (I had to decapitate without anesthesia because we were studying phosphorylation of proteins in the brain, and most anesthesia absolutely fucks with that shit on its own.) I still have trauma from that work 15 years later.

It is. Many retail jobs like this maintain the same requirement; be available all the time, but we won’t schedule you enough hours to qualify for benefits or be able to afford rent.

Found some info on various sites. The average Safeway salary in the United States is $32,976 per year. Safeway salaries range between $27,000 a year in the bottom 10th percentile to $39,000 in the top 90th percentile. Safeway pays $15.85 an hour on average. Geographic location also impacts Safeway salaries. Safeway employees in Yakima, WA get paid the most. California’s minimum wage is $16.50 per hour. (Strike is happening out in CA.) Most of the data I am finding is taking the average across the whole country, which doesn’t take into account the higher min wage in CA. We can safely say that the floor for safeway workers out there should be $16.50 hourly in CA based on state law, and I imagine that someone working checkout, bagging, or the customer service desk isn’t making $27 an hour. Per Zip recruiter: As of Jul 15, 2025, the average hourly pay for a Safeway Employee in California is $12.43 an hour. While ZipRecruiter is seeing salaries as high as $15.66 and as low as $7.59, the majority of Safeway Employee salaries currently range between $10.67 (25th percentile) to $14.23 (75th percentile) in California. The average pay range for a Safeway Employee varies little (about 3), which suggests that regardless of location, there are not many opportunities for increased pay or advancement, even with several years of experience.

Basically, Safeway is paying higher wages to scabs because they think they can outlast their workers who will be on strike with scab labor. In theory, when the strike comes to an end, all the scabs would be out of a job. Higher wages for the scabs is supposed to offset the instability of their employment with Safeway. If the strike goes on long enough, theoretically, Safeway will cross a financial line where the scabs end up costing more than just giving workers a fair deal.

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8675309 gets them every time.

My coworker’s husband works in a target warehouse. He started on the floor and moved his way up to supervisor. They get differential pay for working night or weekend shifts. The husband’s differential pay was just reduced, which fucks up my co-worker’s ability to potentially pay their mortgage and put a child through college. She was like, “I don’t understand why they are doing this.” I had to explain that Target’s decision to end DEI alienated their main customer base, may of which stopped shopping there. For those that aren’t boycotting Target, they are reducing spending because of economic uncertainty. I told her Target is circling the drain and her husband should find another job. I said the next step up the rung would be to work in logistics, but considering our current tariff policy in the US, we are about to fuck ourselves out of lots of trade, which will negatively impact logistics in general as an industry.

Bro, this is what unions are for.

Split Fiction looked like it was going to be a good game. My girlfriend wanted us to get a copy and play it together. I told her I would not buy a copy of this nor play it because, EA. I told her I’m not the boss of her money, and she can do what she wants. I still mourn the death of maixs and simcity.

Incest is best!