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stiegosaurus t1_ja3qhx1 wrote

Reply to comment by FaveDave85 in A year on, the Ukranian couple who got married just hours after Russia invaded their country are still going strong! by Beanbag_Ninja

They sure did. They allowed NATO to expand into their country despite the minsk agreement. Do your research. They invited this conflict allowing the USA to dictate their best interests. It's time to wake up to reality. Ukraine is being used by the USA to do their dirty work. Does that make what Russia did acceptable? No. But there is history and context here.

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Lovehatepassionpain t1_ja3q28c wrote

Reply to comment by Kinggambit90 in Florida city opens nature preserve after citizens helped save it by Metlman13

As someone who lives in Florida after spending 40 years in Pennsylvania, I was amazed when I moved here and saw how many nature preserves, natural springs, gorgeous walking trails, and amazing beaches there are here. Truly breathtaking. Just as people hear "New Jersey" and the think of the industrial wasteland of North Jersey, forgetting how beautiful much of the state is,when people hear "Florida", they think of Miami or a Trump loving trailer park in North Florida. There is so much more here than that nonsense

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Frraksurred t1_ja3p1kx wrote

Reply to comment by kchuen in ‘Four days a week is a great experiment’: work options examined in Calgary by AFH_Global

All good questions. When you're new and training, you're on an office schedule, so M-F 40 hr, once you take a bid into a department you move to what is called a rotation schedule. This means work 7 days, have one off, work 7 have 2 off, work 7 have 4 off. You time off only lands on a weekend once a month, during that 4 day period. Since we work with food, it is 24/7/365, so holidays mean nothing outside of more pay. The pay is the only reason they keep people. It is $28 an hour with anything over 8 hours in a day being 1.5x, anything over 40 hrs being 1.5x, Sundays 2x & holidays being 2.5x. We are a Union facility, or it wouldn't be that good.

Hours have always been 60+ a week, we knew this going in, but new corporate trends like "lean manufacturing" that means fewer employees, less maintenance and reduced benefits have made for consistently more hours, more stressful work environment and higher turn over. The people that stay are usually my group, the 50 somethings that don't want to start over some where else after spending 10 years to get to a day shift, and... need the income if we ever want to retire in this economy. The other group is the young bloods, 20-35 yr olds who have never made this kind of money and assume they will be able to move into a decent position in a reasonable amount of time. Usually takes these guys 5-10 years to figure out the company sees us a just another resource to expend. By that point they are used to the income. Divorce rate is high. Spouses feel the hours, but when it comes giving up the money, they tend to say "it can't be that bad".

My point is, the employees that stay tend to do so because they feel trapped. Greed and inflation in America has made it so making ends meet on less than $40k a year is a struggle at best. An old and tiring story.

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Jane_doel t1_ja3mqte wrote

Reply to Florida city opens nature preserve after citizens helped save it by Metlman13

The problem is ultimately how property taxes and local ordinances work in the US. It’s cheaper to buy and develop undeveloped land than to tear down and redevelop existing property. If the tax laws and ordinances were written to make it more profitable to redevelop existing property, it would go a long way to change this trend. And it would make sense for communities to do this, the larger the land area developed for a municipality, the greater the expense for maintaining streets, sidewalks, drainage, police, fire, schools, etc. So how could this be done? One example would be for property tax to be, in part, based on historic boundaries, so the farther you go from the city center the higher the taxes. Or, you could grandfather property taxes, so, you could build a brand new building or house on the property of an old house and charge the taxes based on the old house.

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mrevergood t1_ja3mh2n wrote

Reply to comment by WenchQuench in Florida city opens nature preserve after citizens helped save it by Metlman13

I appreciate the thought, but there’s plenty of “true” Floridians who are so far right leaning they’d rather listen to businesses that would rape the land and not care about the damage than the environmental experts who are pleading with us to do exactly the opposite.

We don’t have to “no true scotsman” this thing. Some Floridians care, some don’t. Some who were born here and lived here a lifetime think the environment should take one more for the team, and folks who move here halfway through their lives think it’s abhorrent that industry gets away with what it gets away with here. It runs a gamut.

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mrevergood t1_ja3lzcx wrote

Reply to comment by _newbeginnings_ in Florida city opens nature preserve after citizens helped save it by Metlman13

You mean a bunch of hyper conservatives from other states got mad that their state actually handled the pandemic like adults, and decided to move to a state that willfully manipulated and then covered up data re: covid and kept the state running as if it was business as usual?

You mean other fascist wannabe’s like the fascist strongman who says and does the things they like and decided to move where their fascist strongman is making moves to set himself up as a king?

You don’t say!

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