'Baby shark, doo, doo.' Popular kids' song used to deter the homeless
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Thanks for the offer, but unless you have quite a bit of disposable income, my situation cannot be improved by one person due to the nature of how this country works. As kind as your offer is.
Homelessness is a systemic issue. Getting housing often requires a job. Getting a job often requires housing. And it's easy to lose that job if you're unhoused, even if you're in a shelter.
Then there are infrastructure issues, like LA being terribly car-centtic while also having massive traffic issues, and pathetic alternative transit options. Lack of biking, walking, shade, third places, etc. There're 2 buses that stop nearby, but they are slow, and connections infrequent. Even the fastest public transit is slower than typical LA traffic. The region has a short term car rental option that's handy, but the kiosks aren't within reasonable distance.
I live within a 15-minute walk from 3 different grocery stores, but they're the "not good" kind. Many other homeless shelters are within food deserts. Since I can't have a fridge and can't really cook (1 tiny microwave for ~100 clients), I require shelf stable foods, which usually contain excess salt, fat, and sugar. Also more expensive per ounce / unit. And they're about to crack down on our "pantries" because the COO did a walk thru recently and didn't like what she saw (instead of trying to understand and rectify the causes).
There are no nearby gyms for things like cardio and resistant training, or alternative showering (the main driver of homeless in gyms). Yes I could go for a walk – or try some running, but I'm overweight with several injuries – but the aforementioned showers are terrible, so I try to shower every 2 days.
Most in this building aren't permitted to do laundry on the weekends, as that's reserved for people who work (with no apparent regard to when they actually work). And laundry hours are limited between 8am and 3pm. With ~100 clients it's easy to potentially miss days of laundry. The laundromat nearby is a massive ripoff.
Public healthcare is often laborious with long wait times (like all other public assistance).
Wages have stagnated across the country. My last job was my best ever paying job at $22/hr. And while it's possible to subsist on that in Los Angeles, it's not a wage anyone can thrive on. Especially if they decide to use a car. I was taking Uber rides after work since there were no buses at that time.
I have a savings. I'm getting unemployment (after months of hassle). I'm even planning a trip abroad in the next year since the math works (because I'm not gonna sacrifice what little joy I might get in this shit life just because I'm homeless).
I lost my prior job working at a detox after 3 months due to "performance" (it wasn't a good fit, I preferred more outpatient environs). Despite living in a tumultuous homeless shelter while working 2nd shift (and the shelter turns the lights on at 7am, off at 11pm), I managed to do the majority of my work effectively. They didn't care. Bye-bye. Despite that, I'm possibly the person with the best stability in this specific shelter.
Again, thanks. But I doubt any single individual can provide what I and most other homeless need in this capitalist hellscape run by fascists.
In the USA, it's easier for the housed to become homeless, than it is for the homeless to become housed.
Even the fastest public transit is slower than typical LA traffic.
No rail?
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Even the fastest public transit is slower than typical LA traffic.
No rail?
We have rail. But often the rail is at-grade with the street, and cars get priority.
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Apparently you can't swear in YouTube comments anymore.
When did that happen?
Within the last year. Everyone decided that McDonald's doesn't want burger ads next to no no words and it's ruined the mainstream Internet
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Not so fun fact, ths cia used "i love you" by barney the dinosaur as a method of torture for prisoners during the war on terror and beyond!
The US Military used Metallica in Iraq after 9/11 too.
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Apparently you can't swear in YouTube comments anymore.
When did that happen?
I deleted my TikTok after my comment was removed. I said "gross" to some people being racist. Yes, apparently just the word gross is enough. I knew this was coming. Censorship of the internet was my first concern when AI started to be rolled out. It's getting bad to the point I no longer want to participate.
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Within the last year. Everyone decided that McDonald's doesn't want burger ads next to no no words and it's ruined the mainstream Internet
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Ahhh.... Feels good.
A true pity over the mainstream internet though. The timeframe in which it was beautiful... Was brief. Maybe someday it can be, again.
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The US Military used Metallica in Iraq after 9/11 too.
Oklahoma county jail used baby shark on inmates
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paying customers
They aren't getting these because of the homeless. The whole area is becoming completely void of businesses and the buildings are completely falling apart. Your argument goes the same for the homeless. If they want the benefits of society they get the good and the bad with it as well.
Ok then someone should hire the homeless to clean up, those business owners could pool their money and offer food and they'd have a nicer area after
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The argument that the homeless benefit from dog eat dog capitalism and the society that we pretend exists around it is so terrible that you should consider taking a time out from posting for your own mental health.
no one benefits from dog eat dog capitalism but the most wealthy, homeless people the least
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I'm in a homeless shelter in Los Angeles. I am not required to leave during the day. We are provided with 3 meals a day (I always miss breakfast, sometimes miss others). The showers suck, and often run out of hot water. Each bed has an outlet, and an attached locker with various shelves.
The program that made this place happen didn't exist 5 years ago. And sure as shit didn't exist when I was previously homeless 13 years ago.
It's not perfect, but it's movement in the right direction.
Congrats, you're getting assistance in one of the wealthiest and most progressive counties in the entire U.S.
Your experience is sure as fuck not the norm
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So you agree.
I definitely don't agree with you.
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Unfortunately the number of toddlers loitering about has tripled
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"Are you going to help them? Use the money to help anyone, or maybe take this moment to highlight people in need?"
"The fuck? No, I'm going to make their lives worse for having the audacity to be poor and seeking shelter. How dare they ruin my view with their homelessness."
oh, pretty much everyone's a nimby when it comes to the homeless. it sickens me.
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"Are you going to help them? Use the money to help anyone, or maybe take this moment to highlight people in need?"
"The fuck? No, I'm going to make their lives worse for having the audacity to be poor and seeking shelter. How dare they ruin my view with their homelessness."
Just for the sake of my own learning, how can you help them?
In my personal experience when I've tried to help them they will take free clothes, food, and money... But if they don't want to get off drugs and actually clean up their act then they won't.
How can you help the ones who won't help themselves? In this case the homeless encampment seemingly hurts business and communities.
I donate time and money to homeless shelters and things but the problem is just getting worse where I live. When these encampments pop up existing residents are less safe, and the sense of community as a whole goes down.
These are not bad people, but addiction is hell on earth it seems. I honestly want to know how I could help more than I do, but most people don't know how to fix it either
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Fuck shit bitch piss fucking cunt shit snargletooth fucked asshole bitch cock.
Ahhh.... Feels good.
A true pity over the mainstream internet though. The timeframe in which it was beautiful... Was brief. Maybe someday it can be, again.
A revoir.I'm so happy that people on Lemmy hate self-censorship as much as they should. Whenever a meme with a censored word gets posted, the comments are nothing but complaints until OP fixes it.
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Fuck shit bitch piss fucking cunt shit snargletooth fucked asshole bitch cock.
Ahhh.... Feels good.
A true pity over the mainstream internet though. The timeframe in which it was beautiful... Was brief. Maybe someday it can be, again.
A revoir.wrote on last edited by [email protected]missed opportunity to use the 7 dirty words:
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it has a cadence to it. musical.
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Just for the sake of my own learning, how can you help them?
In my personal experience when I've tried to help them they will take free clothes, food, and money... But if they don't want to get off drugs and actually clean up their act then they won't.
How can you help the ones who won't help themselves? In this case the homeless encampment seemingly hurts business and communities.
I donate time and money to homeless shelters and things but the problem is just getting worse where I live. When these encampments pop up existing residents are less safe, and the sense of community as a whole goes down.
These are not bad people, but addiction is hell on earth it seems. I honestly want to know how I could help more than I do, but most people don't know how to fix it either
Publicly paid for rent free housing. Not group shelters. Full on housing. That's literally all it's ever taken. Season on some free mental and medical Healthcare and you've got a recovery sandwich. Even if they don't end up fixing their lives, the amount it costs the public to just give them this is cheaper than it costs to have the police harass them, build anti-homeless infrastructure, and repair damages caused by the unhoused from defecation or public property damages. The other one-two punch is fixing economic problems, which rent caps, unions, minimum wage being a living wage tied to inflation,, and changing fines to imprisonment for corporations doing crimes will fix a lot of that.
It's too bad this can't happen while corporations can buy the government with "donations" and lobbying (legalized bribery), and massively benefit from homelessness as a way to force people into exploitative work, or imprisonment for cheap legal slave labor (See 13th amendment). Only way I can think to fix that problem is to remove the source of their power, which is to pull money out of the equation. Essentially building communities that work together without money like we used to, though the government has standing orders to kill or break up people who try that (see Malcolm X, M.L.K. Jr., or places like lake Lanier).
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Just for the sake of my own learning, how can you help them?
In my personal experience when I've tried to help them they will take free clothes, food, and money... But if they don't want to get off drugs and actually clean up their act then they won't.
How can you help the ones who won't help themselves? In this case the homeless encampment seemingly hurts business and communities.
I donate time and money to homeless shelters and things but the problem is just getting worse where I live. When these encampments pop up existing residents are less safe, and the sense of community as a whole goes down.
These are not bad people, but addiction is hell on earth it seems. I honestly want to know how I could help more than I do, but most people don't know how to fix it either
Someone already wrote a really good answer, but using the money to help fund programs would be a start. Maybe make a safe place where they can hang out that doesn't offend you (not you specifically, just in general). If possible, I would even try and talk with them, become neighbors instead of enimies. While tackling homelessness would take a system wide change, I think sometimes just not adding to the problem and shame is the best we can do.
And I get it, I've had homeless people scream at me, see them urinate outside, not everything humans do is pleasant, and I also wouldn't want all of that right in front of my business. But, at least in this example, there is a ton of empty space, the building itself is mostly empty. Come together and make the rest of the unused property a shelter. That parking lot behind them alone was gigantic and I don't think I saw any cars there, why not let them have part of the parking lot? It just seems easier to be kind and try to work with them than set up a sound system to keep the entire neighborhood up.
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Not so fun fact, ths cia used "i love you" by barney the dinosaur as a method of torture for prisoners during the war on terror and beyond!
I think that was an Abu Ghraib favourite
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Fuck shit bitch piss fucking cunt shit snargletooth fucked asshole bitch cock.
Ahhh.... Feels good.
A true pity over the mainstream internet though. The timeframe in which it was beautiful... Was brief. Maybe someday it can be, again.
A revoir.I dream of a pure information protocol. Kinda like RSS, but... More.
- allow any piece of information (news article, DM, sensor reading,...) to be wrapped in a standard format
- subscribe to any number of source directly or indirectly (e.g. through a self-hosted relay server)
- allow networks to define default data sources (e.g. get sensor data from machines as soon as you are connected to corporate networks
- make the data declare what UI elements are required,
- but allow clients to display them however the fuck they want
- allow user to assign priorities statically or programmatically to any source, and to filter, sort, categorize based on it
Essentially: I want "the feed" from universes like The Expanse
