I have a serious topic to talk about and reading this would mean a lot.
So anyone living in the Ottawa area might have read an article about someone named Sandy Forsyth. He’s my teacher’s brother and he recently overdosed on opioids.
My teacher and his wife are planning to adopt their young children who are under 2 years old. He’s started a gofundme (here). Please, please donate. My teacher is an incredible person and I really want to help him with his niece and nephew. It’d mean everything if you would help support him.
I didn’t think I was gonna spend my night finding out about the existence of a thing called ‘Grandma got ran over by a reindeer’ and the raging hard-on the villain apparently gives a lot of people but it’s whatever
wishiwould said: The first half of this made sense…
To be fair, it was my own fault. Everytime cousin Mel was on screen I’d be like ‘Good Lord, what is UP with those boobs’, particularly during that one song she sings about sueing santa ‘cause SHE LITERALLY IS IN A BRA. Which of course led me to ask myself something I should have never asked myself, which led to make a google search for it and-
NOBOOOODY KNOOOOOOWS THE TROUBLE I’VE SEEEEN NOBOOOOODY KNOWS BUT JESUUUUUUS
…“Other inmates are not at all pleased by the wages, particularly considering the incredible hazards of the job. La’Sonya Edwards, an inmate who fights fires in southern California, told the New York Times in August that she makes around $500 per year in camp, plus an extra few hundred for working on the fire line. The salary of a full time civilian fighter starts at around $40,000.
‘‘The pay is ridiculous,’’ she told the paper. ‘‘There are some days we are worn down to the core,’’ she said. ‘‘And this isn’t that different from slave conditions. We need to get paid more for what we do.’’
Incarcerated or not, California’s fires are working firefighters to exhaustion. Though there are around 800 personnel working around the clock to contain them, their strength is being tested.
“There’s no doubt there’s extreme fatigue,” Cal Fire’s deputy incident commander in Napa, Barry Biermann, told the Los Angeles Times. “They are pushing it to the limits. Everyone is.””
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