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Literally psyops instead of helping. The people who did this are the characters you see getting shot in the movies and don't feel bad about it.
Let's do more of that.
Shooting them?
How about guillotining them?
Preferably
Oh, good!
Yes.
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This will drive them insane, but it will not deter them.
Soon, the city will be dealing with a bunch of unfortunate folks who are not only poor, but also enraged.
There you go, berserked homeless people!
I love the idea of deterring them as if they have a choice and are just very persistent in exploring their passion, being homeless.....
“Ok, we hear you, but how can we add the irresistible craving to eat human flesh into the mix?” - the business owners, probably.
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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.
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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Did they pay for the rights to play the song publicly?
So were they deterred? Did this help them find a home?
"We just need to show them that homelessness isn't as comfortable as they think!"
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?
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
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
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.
missed opportunity to use the 7 dirty words:
shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits
it has a cadence to it. musical.
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.
How about getting everyone who's upset that they have to see homeless people and blinding them with hot pokers? That should work it out and we wouldn't need to pay royalties.
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But I know the phenomenon. They also do this for shopping promenades to deter musicians etc.
This is permission for vandalism.
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