I want to buy a boathouse in florida for the winter

[rhino]

That would be great wouldnt it


But i may not return to dub v

[agony bagony]

motherfuck everything about florida

[rhino]

[agony bagony]

correct

[User]

kayak to florida ryan

charge them mp3 player batteries

[Mesarthim]

correct

[jawn galliano]

motherfuck everything about florida

[brandonfromohio]

Florida is an awesome state. I wish there was a death metal museum

[Mesarthim]

Mana studios is a thing

[Ninny]

As a business Ryan?

[rhino]

No sir. In america its a thing for old people to retire and move to florida for the year long warm weather. I know some old folks that live here that have two houses. They will stay in incest adventure park during the summer, and during winter they head to florida

[Ninny]

And kayak But there are alligators there

[rhino]

Yeah, i dont know how much i would like kayaking with some crocs or alligators around. I definitely wouldnt be as relaxed as i am here

[droidspawn]

motherfuck everything about florida

[rhino]

Lotta florida hate up in here

[agony bagony]

florida is a shitty state full of shitty politics, shitty weather, and fuck off mosquitos

top five worst states easily,

[Noyka]

Still beats California the worst state

[agony bagony]

california is beyond a million times better than florida

[Noyka]

Florida doesn’t have shop lifting gangs, mass homeless in major cities, and people can afford to live there

[Noyka]

There are pockets in california that are better than Florida

[Mesarthim]

Florida doesn’t have shop lifting gangs, mass homeless in major cities, and people can afford to live there

you're delusional if you don't think there aren't a shit load of homeless people in Florida.

[Noyka]

Florida doesn’t have shop lifting gangs, mass homeless in major cities, and people can afford to live there

you're delusional if you don't think there are a shit load of homeless people in Florida.

They aren’t in people’s yards

California is known as one of the top places regarding homelessness it is also legal to shoplift up to 900 it is why businesses are leaving san francisco

[jawn galliano]

'businesses' leaving SF is really just 'walgreens' who was going to close the stores anyway - this was announced in an 8K filing in 2019. this 'shoplifting epidemic' is largely a scam narrative being propped up by the rightwing media sphere whose ultimate objective is quite simple: destroy the SF DA and throw more people in prison

adam johnson has written a couple essential pieces on it

https://web.archive.org/web/20210720214 ... 327614.php

https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/4-majo ... -organized

[Mesarthim]

in my experience whenever shoplifting became a major problem it was usually directly related to organized crime (steal all of X product, resell X product on the black market at a steep discount). my old store in florida used to get hit every so often by groups who would come in complete with lookouts. you usually didn't even notice until they already split and had to look at the camera footage. even if they were identified, they were smart because these people never hit the same place twice. the odd person stealing food was insignificant in comparison.

[Noyka]

'businesses' leaving SF is really just 'walgreens' who was going to close the stores anyway - this was announced in an 8K filing in 2019. this 'shoplifting epidemic' is largely a scam narrative being propped up by the rightwing media sphere whose ultimate objective is quite simple: destroy the SF DA and throw more people in prison

adam johnson has written a couple essential pieces on it

https://web.archive.org/web/20210720214 ... 327614.php

https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/4-majo ... -organized

Stores are reducing hours as well

It is legal to shoplift up to 950 no matter how you try to paint it, its not good.

Edit: they have directly stated its due to theft business owners have complained since before 2019. I think its ignorant to say oh its just walgreens.

I do not think the desperation thief should be trwated the same as these organized criminals either

[Noyka]

in my experience whenever shoplifting became a major problem it was usually directly related to organized crime (steal all of X product, resell X product on the black market at a steep discount). my old store in florida used to get hit every so often by groups who would come in complete with lookouts. you usually didn't even notice until they already split and had to look at the camera footage. even if they were identified, they were smart because these people never hit the same place twice. the odd person stealing food was insignificant in comparison.

They are who i am talking about in sf

The desoerate thief is never going he problen

[jawn galliano]

they are reducing hours because that is what retail stores do: punish the handful of people they actually do give hours to by forcing them to make do with inadequate resources. it is strictly to pad the bottom line. the fact they're reducing hours gives away the game, walgreens does not care one bit about the shoplifting. if they regarded it as a serious problem, they would be increasing store hours because proper staffing levels massively reduces shoplifting opportunities.

[Mesarthim]

reduction in hours has zero to do with shoplifting. that is directly related to staffing issues that is being seen nationwide. I think people really underestimated how many people left retail and the service industry during the pandemic, on top of how many people have been permanently removed from the labor population due to covid deaths, and long term health issues of covid-survives who cannot return to work. not to mention parents (who I don't blame one bit) that don't want their teens working in these environments thanks to antivaxxers. its a shit show that certain portions of our population have decided to make worse.

[Noyka]

The stores themselves said its shoplifting not staffing. Maybe its a combination i just do not understand why people think crime doesn’t impact business and in turn jobs. I don’t think some understand my stance on this either

We can all agree texas’s abortion law is bullshit though.

[Mesarthim]

even my conservative parents think texas went too far with the abortion shit

[Mesarthim]

interesting timing mr oliver

[Noyka]

even my conservative parents think texas went too far with the abortion shit

Mine keep trying to justify it. I come from a healthcare background I keep telling them many conditions you aren’t aware of until second trimester not to mention most women wouldn’t know they are pregnant at 6 weeks.