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Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord
Police and Fire are notorious for abusing OT and sick days. Baltimore used to routinely spend an extra $10million+ on police overtime alone and when I lived in Cleveland, there was a scandal with the CFD wherein firefighters were covering each other's shifts in order to accrue months of sick-days before cashing them out at once close to retirement so they could get paid an extra few paychecks.

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PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Knight posted:

Rushing to "assist" a traffic stop and minor tickets must be the one simple trick to grab more OT

They want you to tell the same story about who you are and where you're going that you told to the first officer to a second cop, so if your story deviates at all between them, they can have probable cause to trash your poo poo and maybe find drugs or guns.

JamesKPolk
Apr 9, 2009

Mr Hootington posted:

Fed governor declaring bank crisis is over and soft landing achieved.

hell yeah, we did it

Dr_0ctag0n
Apr 25, 2015


The whole human race
sentenced
to
burn

Nothus posted:

Police and Fire are notorious for abusing OT and sick days. Baltimore used to routinely spend an extra $10million+ on police overtime alone and when I lived in Cleveland, there was a scandal with the CFD wherein firefighters were covering each other's shifts in order to accrue months of sick-days before cashing them out at once close to retirement so they could get paid an extra few paychecks.

I mean the entire 2020 protests were just cops claiming everything was unlawful so they could legally brutalize their political opponents and get paid double overtime for it.

Maed
Aug 23, 2006


Nothus posted:

Police and Fire are notorious for abusing OT and sick days. Baltimore used to routinely spend an extra $10million+ on police overtime alone and when I lived in Cleveland, there was a scandal with the CFD wherein firefighters were covering each other's shifts in order to accrue months of sick-days before cashing them out at once close to retirement so they could get paid an extra few paychecks.

$10 mil? chump change

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/overtime-overview/

$671 million in OT for the NYPD last year, $392 million in OT for FDNY, though the heroes in the sanitation department made $258 million in OT :patriot:

Maed
Aug 23, 2006


Maed posted:

$10 mil? chump change

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/overtime-overview/

$671 million in OT for the NYPD last year, $392 million in OT for FDNY, though the heroes in the sanitation department made $258 million in OT :patriot:

every homeless family in nyc could have their housing paid for by just the NYPD overtime

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

that’s about 10,000$ per officer in the nypd

edit

not making an argument just thought it was interesting

Cyber Punk 90210
Jan 7, 2004

The War Has Changed
Don't forget about the $121 Million that NYC paid out to settle NYPD lawsuits.

edit: Lol, that we know of

quote:

The city data does not account for all police misconduct claims. The NYPD has spent even more on settlements with complainants who never formally filed litigation. In fiscal year 2021, the department paid $206.7 million overall, according to an annual report from the city comptroller’s office. Those payouts reportedly accounted for 37% of the city’s resolved civil cases that year.


As per The Gothamist

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Got Ham City

Jaxyon
Mar 7, 2016
I’m just saying I would like to see a man beat a woman in a cage. Just to be sure.

Maed posted:

$10 mil? chump change

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/overtime-overview/

$671 million in OT for the NYPD last year, $392 million in OT for FDNY, though the heroes in the sanitation department made $258 million in OT :patriot:

LAPD like little babies with an adorable $215m in OT last year.

LA DWP showing how it's done at $330m tho

lil poopendorfer
Nov 13, 2014

by the sex ghost

captainbananas posted:

It's because most of the job is so unimaginably boring and pointless that most people with half a sense of competence and self-respect quit because there is almost nothing about the work itself that is fulfilling.

This is the literal justification for the city's argument in Jordan v. The City of New London, which established that police departments can screen out applicants that score too high on their application intelligence test (these tests are bullshit but ignore that for the moment). High-scoring applicants were screened out because they are too high risk for turnover. Smart people who make the dumb decision to join up quit because policing is poo poo tier work with poo poo tier colleagues who have poo poo tier ethics.

This could describe so many jobs, most of which don’t offer the same compensation or perks, I don’t buy it.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

I think the bigger question is why does the nypd have over 50,000 employees

Jaxyon
Mar 7, 2016
I’m just saying I would like to see a man beat a woman in a cage. Just to be sure.

euphronius posted:

I think the bigger question is why does the nypd have over 50,000 employees

people aren't going to kill themselves

i mean they are, but not as often

Bar Crow
Oct 10, 2012

euphronius posted:

I think the bigger question is why does the nypd have over 50,000 employees

The was a time that New York City’s leadership embraced some socialist policies. As a result it must be punished forever.

err
Apr 11, 2005

I carry my own weight no matter how heavy this shit gets...
Texas taxpayers paid $18 million to a bitcoin mining facility to remain offline for four days. This is what collapse looks like.

quote:

In Texas, the computers kept running until just after midnight. Then the state’s power grid operator ordered them shut off, under an agreement that allowed it to do so if the system was about to fail. In return, it began paying the bitcoin company, Bitdeer, an average of $175,000 an hour to keep the computers offline. Over the next four days, Bitdeer would make more than $18 million for not operating, from fees ultimately paid by Texans who had endured the storm.

quote:

An operation in Dalton, Ga., is using nearly as much power as the surrounding 97,000 households.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html

err has issued a correction as of 19:15 on Apr 11, 2023

Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


err posted:

Texas taxpayers paid $18 million for a bitcoin mining facility to remain offline for four days. This is what collapse looks like.



https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html

I can think of some cheaper, crowdsourced solutions to this

Teabag Dome Scandal
Mar 19, 2002


Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Off-duty cop rear-ends man stopped at traffic light, kills him - 08/22/2022
https://www.wtae.com/article/driver-involved-in-westmoreland-county-crash-that-killed-pitcairn-man-is-a-pennsylvania-state-trooper/40953118

Family of man rear-ended and killed by off-duty cop wonders why nothing has been done - 03/14/2023
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/family-pitcairn-man-hit-killed-031330093.html

https://publicola.com/2023/03/09/ca...estrian-nearby/

Recently in Seattle a cop ran over and killed a pedestrian while responding to a "priority 1 call." The weeks following the death had the cops and fire department covering each others asses as they went around in circles claiming the cop was responding to a call for assistance on a drug overdose and heavily implying it was an opioid overdose. The fire department backed them up by saying they often need cops to deal with unruly homeless people being resuscitated but it turns out the call was because some downtown resident took too much coke or speed and was freaking out thinking they were having a heart attack or something. Still no dashcam video released.

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

lil poopendorfer posted:

This could describe so many jobs, most of which don’t offer the same compensation or perks, I don’t buy it.

in those other bad jobs it doesn't matter if the employees are loyal to the violent and evil system that employs them. cops are selecting for a particular type of simpleton

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord

err posted:

Texas taxpayers paid $18 million to a bitcoin mining facility to remain offline for four days. This is what collapse looks like.



https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html

Bitcoin prices are on the rise again, so look for this poo poo to get way worse

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:

Maed posted:

$10 mil? chump change

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/overtime-overview/

$671 million in OT for the NYPD last year, $392 million in OT for FDNY, though the heroes in the sanitation department made $258 million in OT :patriot:

thanks to the brave sanitation workers of NYC, it is the cleanest city in the world :patriot:

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I really don't think the hiring problems exist, I think the entire narrative is manufactured backlash on protests against police brutality.

It's a veiled threat. "If you keep complaining when we stomp on your face, we're going to leave you to the criminal masses." It's a message to the white middle class, "you can support protests and be left to the wolves, or you can side with us."

:hmmyes:

This tracks.



Iron Crowned posted:

Cops always have to be painted as heroes in the media too. Locally a couple weeks back, a man in his 50's was killed, when a cop hit his car, managed to flip his cruiser and get himself killed. Took the cops a week before they decided he was on his way for an "officer needs assistance" call, to make an excuse why he was travelling fast enough to flip his car.

The news couldn't stop fellating the cop for a week, and just gave lip service to the 50 year old black man he killed by driving way too fast for what was likely a traffic stop, because you know they always have to have at least three of their buddies show up for a speeding ticket.

During one of our many high speed police chases. Sheriff's deputies,the cool ones being in cop gangs with tattoos and everything, tackled and beat a bystander who's car got hit with his family inside and the news helicopter caught it and the pilot/commentator basically said he must have deserved it.

This on top of all of the myriad police procedurals the networks put out presenting them all as very good and very competent and totally not corrupt.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

PostNouveau posted:

They want you to tell the same story about who you are and where you're going that you told to the first officer to a second cop, so if your story deviates at all between them, they can have probable cause to trash your poo poo and maybe find drugs or guns.

You mean plant drugs or guns so they can seize your property.

Nodelphi
Jan 30, 2004

We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.

Ham Wrangler
Also in places where there is legitimate danger the police can never be found. There’s someone who has been shooting up cars on interstate 10 for over a year now in New Orleans East and signs pointing to a possible serial killer with a high-powered rifle and they’ve basically stopped doing any traffic stops in that area for fear of getting shot whereas before they would love posting up speed traps in that area because it has several overpasses they can chill by and make easy money.

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Probably nothing.

https://twitter.com/gurgavin/status/1645858262305198080

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

err posted:

Texas taxpayers paid $18 million to a bitcoin mining facility to remain offline for four days. This is what collapse looks like.



https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html

thats some major major major's dad poo poo right there

Maed
Aug 23, 2006


RealityWarCriminal posted:

thanks to the brave sanitation workers of NYC, it is the cleanest city in the world :patriot:

it's not their fault, people screech like crazy to take away a few parking spots for 40+ bikes, if they tried to put out garbage bins like we need here the people who only ever drive their car 3 weekends a year to long island and to get around street cleaning would riot

net work error
Feb 26, 2011


Looks like number up op

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

that was after the crisis. crisis over.

Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

It's no secret that profits are sky high thanks to inflation.

apatheticman
May 13, 2003

Wedge Regret
Thanks capt...

oh

Tempora Mutantur
Feb 22, 2005

err posted:

Texas taxpayers paid $18 million to a bitcoin mining facility to remain offline for four days. This is what collapse looks like.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html

texans, paying a foreign company $175k/hour to dirt farm on american soil

what a time to be alive

cat botherer
Jan 6, 2022

I am interested in most phases of data processing.
https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1645781519003156480

:yeshaha:

Father Wendigo
Sep 28, 2005
This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.


Ooh, king Prince Charles ain't gonna like hearing that.

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

err posted:

Texas taxpayers paid $18 million to a bitcoin mining facility to remain offline for four days. This is what collapse looks like.



https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html

oh my god they're doing the catch 22 alfalfa farmer thing for electricity lmfao

Father Wendigo
Sep 28, 2005
This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1645746262963294208?t=0Vq_5AB3xw0LAXpnJgVpDA&s=19

limp dick calvin
Sep 1, 2006

Strepitoso. Vedete? Una meraviglia.
now I know where I can store all the oil I bought at negative value

err
Apr 11, 2005

I carry my own weight no matter how heavy this shit gets...

Tempora Mutantur posted:

texans, paying a foreign company $175k/hour to dirt farm on american soil

what a time to be alive

Americucks

Jaxyon
Mar 7, 2016
I’m just saying I would like to see a man beat a woman in a cage. Just to be sure.

Wait, how?

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

how does this make sense whatsoever. defaults aren't anywhere near what they were like a decade ago

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Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Jaxyon posted:

Wait, how?

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/us-housing-market-unaffordable-mortgage-rates-home-prices-inventory-demand-2023-4

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