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  • Nougat@fedia.iotoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldUnhoused people
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    6 days ago
    • Panhandling does not produce enough income to maintain a residence; if you think it does, go try it yourself.
    • Shelters are often highly restrictive, crowded or full, and more dangerous to person and property than hiding out somewhere.
    • There is a relatively high correlation between mental illness and homelessness. Pile on top of that substance abuse as self-medication. This makes navigating the bureaucracy that is HUD very difficult.
    • Fuck you.








  • Setting aside the fact that he’s lying

    You’d have to make up the lost tax revenue from somewhere. Either by increasing or creating some other tax, or by cutting spending.

    The programs that would be likely to be cut are ones that poor people need. And he’s likely to try and throw down a federal sales tax, which loads a higher tax burden on poor people.

    Without those details, “eliminating federal income tax for people making under $X” cannot be qualified as good or bad. You must define the other parts of the equation.



  • Oh, I definitely wouldn’t say that “no contact” should be the only option. I think McD’s has taken it a bit too far; you still can order from a person at a register, but it’s pretty much an afterthought now.

    But I do think that having those no contact options available for whoever wants to use them, for whatever reason, is a positive thing. If I’m having a particularly bad bout of social anxiety, just sitting at a table and eating my cheeseburger “like a normal person” can be very grounding, but it might not be something I’m able to do if I have to talk to a person to place my order.



  • Yeah, this opinion piece reeks of “buyer’s remorse” for having paid a premium for hardware that has the Apple logo on it, and then being mad that it’s very locked down. That’s been Apple’s thing forever, you kind of can’t blame anyone else for your purchase decision at this point.

    For most people, the hardware and operating system are “one thing,” inseparable. Most people are not installing a different OS on their hardware, even if it is possible and relatively simple for people who are technically inclined. Does that mean that most people are “locked in”? Not really, not from their perspective. They bought “the thing,” and “the thing” either works for them or it doesn’t.

    So we have this author lamenting that “the thing” he bought doesn’t work for him the way he’d like, without recognizing that if he had specific needs from “the thing” that it doesn’t provide, he failed to sufficiently research “the thing” before purchasing it.