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Skid Row
- TheChaplain 6y agoMy disappointment when the article wasn't about the demo/cracking-scene group Skid Row. :/
- flobosg 6y agoOr the band.
- lorejs 6y agoAnyone who ever owned an Amiga probably remembers the group. Their cracktros were really cool.
- CleanCoder 6y agoThey still exist and are as good as they used to be! The only caveat these days is downloading 60GB ISO is not as appealing.
- vardump 6y agoWhy not? People using Steam download that much or even more all the time.
- ASVVVAD 6y agoI used some of their PC game cracks! Their cool cracktros is what made me remember their name
- zepearl 6y agoDamn, I was trying to remember where I heard the term (a band? a song? a game?), hehehe... . This is it, thanks!!!
- meinstein 6y agothis is america: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCvcd0FYi58LwyTQP9LITpA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCvcd0FYi58LwyTQP9LITpA
- ASVVVAD 6y agoSeems like a great channel, thanks!
- zepearl 6y agoNice interviews, thanks! As non-native english speaker I liked the one with the mafia boss ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjwnDF2dRgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjwnDF2dRgI ) as he was talking nicely. Others use a lot of slang and/or people get stuck from time to time ("and you know..., well, I did.., I did..., well, the thing is..." => this makes me nervous).
- pedroma 6y agoI've been there with a van full of sandwiches and juice boxes for extra credit for some underwater basket weaving class. The food was gone in 10 minutes, with some getting portions for their immediate and extended families. Other than the obvious mental illness many were facing, some were nice enough to line up.
- oiasdjfoiasd 6y agostop feeding them. you're only making the situation worse. i've stopped giving money to them completely.
- klyrs 6y agoA better title for this link is "Skid Row, Los Angeles" per the page title. In the Pacific Northwest there's a longstanding debate about the origin of the term -- afaik both Seattle and Victoria claim primacy of the term, which is originally related to logging. As I understand it, these neighborhoods were first named Skid Row because of the logging, and due to economic realities, the name became associated with poverty and then spread to other towns without significant logging industries. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_row https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_row
- thebradbain 6y agoWhat struck me reading this is all the issues SF and LA have had around housing and homelessness are not new — and, more importantly, the knee-jerk reaction of “cleaning the streets” (a nicer way to say incarceration) every-other city council has tried simply does not work. The real solution is potentially more expensive, less immediate, and less politically feasible. Build more housing: build more public housing, more market rate housing, more publicly-subsidized private housing, affordable housing, luxury housing, social housing, mixed-income housing — just build! But don’t stop there, the city should provide support not just to those currently living on skid row, but to private caretakers, nonprofits, churches, property developers, business owners, everyone in the area. The solution won’t be cheap by any measure, so why cut corners? Go all the way.
- RobertRoberts 6y agoMore housing won't help if they don't _want_ housing. I lived on the streets for awhile and _many_ people did not want homes, they wanted comfort, food, happiness, forget their pain, booze, drugs, entertainment.... a house? Nope. Now what do you do with those people?
- peer2pay 6y agoI think thebradbrain is talking more about a longer timeframe here. Nobody is born with the goal to become homeless and therefore eliminating the factors that cause homelessness before the people actually end up on the street should be the focus.
- 7373737373 6y agoThe factors that cause homelessness are not only material, but psychological and social as well. A mentally ill or socially isolated or outcast person won't be necessarily less so just because they have a roof over their head. I once met a man who's only social contacts were other homeless people around him. He shared his food with them, although this might have not been reciprocated. This feeling of giving something was important to him, even though it seems one cannot be friends with other homeless people. Other than this, he had absolutely no one who cared about him. He got into psychotic episodes and had a criminal record. I met another man who once had it all, and then lost it, money, purpose, love, meaning. These people are utterly lost, forgotten, neglected at a spiritual, psychological and physical level. Drugs rob them of their agency. They were forced to see behind the memeplex that is society, with its values and ideals and virtues that only exist when one is privileged enough to live away from the chaos that is reality. They have personalities or had experiences that are not compatible with a civilized society, their human desires cannot be constrained by teachings of morality or even the abstract threat of state violence. They are extreme risk takers, or have sociopsychological differences/difficulties, different modes of thought, sometimes temporary, sometimes induced due to traumatizing life circumstances or drug use.
- pkorzeniewski 6y agoThere is an interesting documentary narrated by Charles Bukowski called "The Best Hotel on Skid Row" from 1990, you can find it on YouTube.