So right now with our current — trying to hire at $22 an hour, you’re never going to see another person again walk through those doors. That’s it," Smith said. “Unless you guys do a dramatic change.”
Smith stressed the urgency of the matter and said smaller police departments he has looked into pay at least $30 an hour.
I wonder if these cops support raising the minimum wage.
Yeah, except I know plenty of people who have gone into policing bright eyed and idealistic. Your coworkers are regular police who reinforce every bad thing you hear about.
I mean in fairness, our local McDonald’s is paying 16-18 an hour… So getting 22 to do a job that most people wouldn’t want to do and forces you to deal with people you’d normally try to avoid, doesn’t sound like a hard ask.
Why not confiscate the wine instead of destroying it, and make some use of the proceeds from its sale? My first thought was donate the wine to the homeless, but that might not be such a good idea.
Wtf regarding aging the wine at the bottom of the ocean??? Is that to keep it cold, or what?
Also has to do with socio-economic status, which determines if you are inside a brick house during a storm or on the street, in a truck or on a bicycle, working from home due to the forecast or forced to man your shift at the Waffle House.
Who’s willing to bet that if it does start to look bad, this guy will suddenly appear as a frail old man in too bad shape to properly face justice. No more make-up or hairdye.
Reminds me of a Pink Floyd lyric:
And when you lose control, you’ll reap the harvest you have sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And it’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around
I mean, in this case I kind of understand it. Hawaii was essentially forced into being part of the US and then forced into being the holiday stop for rich people. I would also hate it if I lived in a small island with lots of tradition and it all was turned into a mere tourist attraction for people who don’t give a shit.
It also doesn’t help that some rich folk have ravaged the islands by literally buying them
And while that may be, it resonates with my own upbringing in a town transitioning from more traditional industry of logging to tourism with similar hatred of tourism and other incoming groups. I understand the emotions behind it, but it doesn’t make it productive or useful. It’s a common problem for humanity and Hawaii isn’t special in that other than some of the history being more recent.
It’s one thing to have an industry shift (which also sucks), but it’s another thing to be colonised, have some of your islands bought and almost completely owned by rich folk, who can do whatever they fuck with them and having to feel like a tenant in your ancestors’ lands.
There’s one hell of a difference and I wouldn’t be surprised if we eventually had an IRA situation there.
The concession Disney wants is Reedy Creek back under their control, and DeSantis will look even weaker than he already does if he pushes to reverse the law that took it from them in the first place.
He can’t, and won’t, concede anything, because if the court rules in Disney’s favor he can at least blame the judiciary for the decision, so Disney won’t, and shouldn’t, stop hitting him with everything they got.
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