I haven’t seen anyone mention Pandora but it’s still around. I kept using it even when I was paying for spotify. Over and over again Pandora has played new (to me) artists that have really caught my ear. I listen to a lot of different things and it’s been responsible for probably 50% over the last 15 years that I’ve been using it. The ads are less invasive than spotify and can be easily removed with uBlock origin in the web player. Can’t recommend it highly enough.

Same, and just like this tweet. I genuinely can’t be sure if it’s real or not, at first sight.

Fr, imagine pirating and settling for a worse experience

The reddit r/piracy megathread has more wikis/hubs, more sources is always better, expand your reach and crosscheck what is said because people lie. Hence i won’t recommend anything specific

I arrived at that point a few years ago. You’re in for a world of discovery. As an fps fan myself I highly recommend Ultrakill. There’s a demo so you don’t have to commit.

I have been in a similar position and will vouch this is solid advice. Best to build some kind of rapport over time when computers/working in IT is involved. Some people know extremely little about it, and some people are quite afraid of what they don’t know. The best way to overcome that fear is understanding, simply having a decent trust for you as a person probably won’t suffice.

Edit just to say I nearly teared up reading your post, I really feel for your experience. Remembering tomorrow is a new day always helped me when things were worst. I bid you success in all you try.

Maybe I miscommunicated my position. I’m not interested in withholding housing or support from anyone. As a previous recipient of such services, I will always advocate their value. I think we should be doing more, not less. I simply think the value of housing and mental health services is multiplied exponentially when they are combined.

Being homeless causes mental health and drug abuse, not the other way around.

You’re saying this with authority as if it’s some sort of universal truth when it is not. Speaking from experience having been homeless myself (2 years between Seattle and LA), both are true. Many people end up homeless because of how their mental illness has affected their ability to go about daily life. For these individuals specifically, housing alone is not a cure-all. If that person doesn’t receive some other kind of support, their life is still unmanageable for them.

To treat the general problem of homelessness, both types of people in this binary have to be considered.

Needing housing is unfortunately only part of the problem. Whether it’s part of the reason they became homeless, or damage incurred in the course of being homeless, mental illness and co-occuring substance abuse go hand in hand with homelessness. (Though that majority dynamic may change with the way things have been going, it’s becoming easier to fall through the entire net or what’s left of it). If those issues aren’t addressed simultaneously, the person ends up right back where they were, or even worse off.

Meanwhile I unveil a plan to continue not giving a goddamn cent to J Bozo. Ever.

Weird as in outside of the norm? Sure, just a bit. Weird as in dangerous or creepy? Not in the slightest. If I were out for a walk and saw someone juggling at the park, that would make me happy. I wish I felt as comfortable to do things outside.

Dow chemical; lack of progress be damned, not being poisoned en masse would be amazing for the human race. Honestly nestle would have been my first choice but you got me thinking.

Your prof is incredibly turned on by your hot hairy pits and needs you to tone it down so he can educate properly, lmao. That’s my guess (best explanation for hairy pits comment)

The ammo can is a solid idea, wish I thought of that myself. That would raise the safety factor enough for me to give it a try once or twice as well. Still, covered outdoors area or similar. Agreed on having a healthy fear/respect for big cells, it’s wild how much power we can fit in a battery these days and even more so to watch it escape.

Nice trick but there’s a reason the charger is designed to not do what you’re getting it to do. Preventing explosions and such. I’d recommend looking up why/how the chemistries are different at low voltage so you can ride the line more safely

Weird incel-ass title.

It’s worse than clickbait, the article doesn’t list any of them.

I think you’re being intentionally obtuse. The article is anything but vague. Are they supposed to name the exact agencies and businesses involved, or can we reasonably assume that Laydon is referring to state funded assistance? Here’s some select bits of the article since you don’t want to read.

Douglas County had created a team of experts, known as the “Homeless Engagement, Assistance and Resource Team," to help tackle the issue.  The HEART team, as county officials call it, is made up of experts in behavioral health and who are deployed in branded vehicles to help people living on the streets.

Here’s how the county handles it. When a report is made about a panhandler or a homeless person, a  HEART vehicle is deployed to the area and make an assessment.

Laydon called Douglas County’s approach “housing plus,” which, he said, is a balanced approach to “trauma-informed practices.”

“For us,” Laydon added, “‘housing plus’ means wraparound. So, it is housing, but it is also food, shelter, job counseling, mental health counseling. It’s treating those substance abuse issues that we know often come hand in hand with a lot of the issues that the unhoused face.”

Edit: Additionally, I fail to see the relevance of money spent if it actually results in less people unhoused. Denver spent way more money and ended up with a higher unhoused population than before.

Did you read the article? The actual details of the program are pretty far from what you say here. Don’t have time to bullet point at the moment but please trust me and just take a full look. As someone with deep personal experience around this issue, their method might be a genuine answer to the problem, when properly scaled. Not the first time a plan like theirs has been tried either; Olympia, WA has a similar program for direct outreach.

Let’s not forget this is the same company that invented ‘Embrace, Extend, Extenguish’ as a guiding business model behind closed doors. For me, that trust is broken until proven otherwise.

Where are we again?

And they know a thing or two about sewers in Paris!