Weird, i totally cannot relate. I don't see decay around me. The decay is mostly the geopolitical situation in several places in the world, together with climate change. If it were not in the news, i wouldn't even know.
Where do you live mate?
Readit Newshezralig commented on The 'Return to Office' Lies blog.avas.space/rto/... · Posted by u/speckx
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hezralig commented on How San Francisco staged a comeback economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/sylvainkalache
This hasn't been my experience in Texas at all, or any mid-west state. The police have always been timely and responsive, for both myself and my colleagues.
Wow that was not my experience. They were just as eager to call up their friends and hold a kick back while making my partner and I wait only to refuse to file a report for a break and entry of our rental in Houston.
hezralig commented on How San Francisco staged a comeback economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/sylvainkalache
First time driving through San Francisco I saw someone shooting up heroin on the sidewalk. Seen lots of stuff in NYC, Trenton, Camden, etc., but never such obvious issues with drug addiction and homelessness.
First time I was walking through Houston I saw a man shit on the sidewalk and fall into it. What was your point?
Which fraction of people did it get past temporary hurdles?
Which fraction of people did it give time to work on their problems?
Which fraction of people did it help find stability?
Which fraction of people did it help on mental illness / outlook / comfort / whatever?
Which fraction of people did it move within recommended nutrition baseline?
How difficult is it to come up with more interesting measures than "improved"?
"Those who got the stipend were less likely to be unsheltered after six months and able to meet more of their basic needs than a control group that got no money, and half as likely as the control group to have an episode of being unsheltered."
Money is good, but how about only 750 of them US Dollars?
I have been going through the exercise of "what if I became homeless?" and where/under what conditions would I live, where, what support I could be getting, etc.
$750 or even €500 would give me an 'amazing life' in certain places in Europe. One could even buy a crappy/rotting minivan and convert it to a 'small home', as long as it is in a warm country (can't make it on the seldom -20 C of the Nordics).
The problems will begin when someone is around 70 yo and even if by that age he/she would be healthy, at 70 health challenges will definitely come up.
Is there not socialized healthcare in Europe? This would just be replacing cash disbursements in lieu of a total monthly or yearly UBI payment.
hezralig commented on Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. in 2023 axios.com/2023/12/15/home... · Posted by u/safaa1993
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
Or there is a K-shaped recovery in the economy.
hezralig commented on X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says nytimes.com/2023/11/27/bu... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd
lol, lots of salty Twitter users in these comments
It was a sewer long before Musk took over, that's why the previous owners were so happy to dump it on him, cash out and let him polish that turd
The reason the previous owners were eager to dump Twitter was because Elon offered far more than it was worth, despite it being a cash flow positive business.
He backed out because he was foolish enough to think that the legally binding offer was not in fact binding.
hezralig commented on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive signal.org/blog/signal-is... · Posted by u/mikece
A lot of people, myself included, have it installed but never use it after they dropped SMS support.
Only a tiny fraction of my contacts use Signal, and most of those are also on Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord, and others.
Signal offers essentially nothing to me.
My lawyer stopped using signal due to the sms support being dropped. It became too much of a hassle and wasn't worth it.
Many of my family also dropped Signal.
It is now really only used by the hyper-privacy conscious.
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