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wwright commented on Miami advances plan to move homeless onto island   newsnationnow.com/us-news... · Posted by u/type0
wellthatsawrap1 · 3 years ago
No people that done want shit all over their streets, constant breakins, assaults, junkies shooting up in their back yard think this up. You should Google San Fran homeless or Philadelphia Kensington Ave.
wwright · 3 years ago
Buddy, I’ve got some bad news for you: if you want to move everyone you don’t like to an island so that you don’t have “shit all over your streets,” you are actually siding with fascism.
wwright commented on Miami advances plan to move homeless onto island   newsnationnow.com/us-news... · Posted by u/type0
lettergram · 3 years ago
> It's quite obviously not beneficial to the homeless people to segregate them.

Lol what?

There’s a lot of different world views out there. The prominent world view throughout the world is that society forms to protect itself. Pretty basic reasoning: we band together to protect other people stealing our stuff.

Homeless are in effect stealing. They are living beneath the society often selling drugs, on drugs, committing crimes, leaving excrement on the street, screaming wildly, etc.

The homeless are not part of society and are not contributing members. They are living off the society and causing a net negative effect. You could potentially reverse that by getting people into shelters, etc. - how’s that working SF, LA, etc?

The common world view (in Asia, parts of Africa, parts of Europe, etc and historically everywhere) is to push the homesless out of the cities. It’s safer for the society and allows the society to be more prosperous.

Society can care about the homeless, empathy is good. But it’s empathetic to everyone to separate them from the society. People that can conduct themselves can join the society, otherwise your hurting everyone.

That said, the island:

> The program calls for the construction of 50 to 100 “tiny homes” on Virginia Key, an 863-acre barrier island.

Seems like a decent option. They get a home and have the option to rejoin society after they pull themselves together. Although, it’s a barrier island… and I can’t imagine that’ll end well.

wwright · 3 years ago
the entirety of your post assumes that homelessness is a moral failing of individuals when the entirety of what we know about community development and psychology shows that that is not the case; you can believe in this plan, but you are supported by money and ego, not by actual fact friend
wwright commented on Miami advances plan to move homeless onto island   newsnationnow.com/us-news... · Posted by u/type0
jacknews · 3 years ago
I'm agog, who even thinks up this kind of plan?

It's quite obviously not beneficial to the homeless people to segregate them.

And then, the thing that killed/delayed the proposal seems to be a NIMBY protest at 'having a bunch of homeless people on our leisure beach'.

What kind of society is this?

wwright · 3 years ago
Fascists think up this kind of plan; this kind of society is a fascist society
wwright commented on Books helped South African man overcome homelessness   one.org/international/blo... · Posted by u/Tomte
throwaway0a5e · 5 years ago
They're not even US specific. They're "a handful of cities with insane local economic conditions" specific.

Homelessness is not a rampant problem except on the west coast. Yes big cities have homeless populations but they mostly cycle into various shelters (often church run) where the ones that don't have serious mental issues get their lives back on track. It's not rampant like it is on the west coast.

Spend a few years riding the MTA, T or Metro and then compare to BART if you don't believe me.

California can kind of make the "hospitable climate" excuse but even rainy Seattle is just carped bombed with tents. Places like DC and Miami are not exactly known for exemplifying effective social services yet somehow they manage to have much less of a problem than the west coast.

wwright · 5 years ago
My dude I saw homeless people in towns with a population of 4000 in Mississippi. This is just false.
wwright commented on Books helped South African man overcome homelessness   one.org/international/blo... · Posted by u/Tomte
bvcvbuiy · 5 years ago
Maybe I am wrong but at least two points mentioned in your comment are US specific :

"It is caused by peoples' jobs not paying a living wage" Where I come from minimum wage is enough to pay for a rent.

"the cops really hate the homeless. Someone can't periodically destroy a bunch of peoples' meager shelter in completely unproductive "sweeps" without developing a view that they're less than human." Again I may be wrong but where I live there are no 'homeless villages' like there are in the US.

wwright · 5 years ago
Minimum wage in the US is $5.15/hour iirc. At 40 hours per week (which many jobs won’t reliably get), that’s ~$824/month BEFORE taxes, food, and so on. Even in the rural south where I used to live, where the cost of living is very low, many one person apartments would be $400–$500/month. That leaves maybe $400 for everything else BEFORE taxes on a GOOD month. Combine this with the fact that employers aren’t required to, and pretty much never do, provide medical benefits to this sort of employee.

Maybe you can squeak by if you’re lucky… but you have to be consistently lucky. One bad month and the whole thing can fall apart. It’s basically impossible to build wealth or savings in this situation (not to mention care for your own fucking health).

wwright commented on Getting Started with Signal   justingarrison.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/JustinGarrison
Labo333 · 5 years ago
Discord is awesome but does not have support for end-to-end encryption AFAIK
wwright · 5 years ago
Most people care a LOT more about the easy audio and video chat.
wwright commented on Wine 6.0   source.winehq.org/git/win... · Posted by u/coldpie
terramex · 5 years ago
It is surprisingly solid, I have tested multiple Windows games on M1 MacBook Air through Crossover and the only one that had issues was Outer Wilds - its engine (Unity) uses geometry shaders for GPU skinning and Metal has no support for those.

They could be emulated using compute shaders, but MoltenVK does not do this at the moment. Animations work properly inside Windows VM through Parallels, so I guess this is what their proprietary driver does.

Apart from that I played Witcher 3, Sekiro and Dark Souls through CrossOver with no issues and very solid performance on basically the weakest ARM Mac that will ever exist.

But I of course agree that Linux is much better option for gaming.

wwright · 5 years ago
> I have tested multiple Windows games on M1 MacBook Air through Crossover

So you had x64 binaries calling a DX API that called a Vulkan API that called a Metal API all on top of a JIT translation layer to ARM on two month old hardware and it worked well?

That’s fucking incredible, man.

wwright commented on Getting Started with Signal   justingarrison.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/JustinGarrison
wwright · 5 years ago
I think it’s interesting that not many people here bring up Discord. It’s by far the most challenging competitor for the average user, IMO. Full of features and very easy to use.
wwright commented on FBI, Homeland Security Int. Didn’t Issue Risk Assessment for ProTrump Protests   wsj.com/livecoverage/bide... · Posted by u/wglb
disgrunt · 5 years ago
So five Trump supporters are killed and that's not police brutality? I just want to make sure I got this narrative straight.
wwright · 5 years ago
Yes, it is also police brutality, that is correct. The people fighting the police (many of whom are police themselves, and whom some police are collaborating with) also just attempted a violent coup. So they all suck. And surprisingly, Donald Trump managed to support all of the ones doing the systematic violence AND the ones attempting violent coups.

So really, yes, it all around sucks, and we need to fix a lot. But some people are clearly hurting more than helping! Maybe when they’re gone, we can finally focus on fixing these longstanding systemic problems rather than arguing about a man-child.

wwright commented on FBI, Homeland Security Int. Didn’t Issue Risk Assessment for ProTrump Protests   wsj.com/livecoverage/bide... · Posted by u/wglb
mimikatz · 5 years ago
There is also video of them shooting and killing people trying to enter the capital and video of them actively pushing back and being overwhelmed. Much more than one out of context clip.
wwright · 5 years ago
The capitol police definitely don’t seem to have been acting as one unit in this. At least some were trying to protect the capitol.

u/wwright

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