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We install planters so you don't have to look at homeless people
- danparsonson 3y agoWow that is flat out, unabashedly heartless. Not to mention those things are pretty ugly; not as ugly as human suffering though apparently.
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- AA-BA-94-2A-56 3y agoDead link?
- LispSporks22 3y agoThat’s wild
- daveoc64 3y agoIt's such an odd thing to read. Feels like satire at points throughout the homepage, and then entirely serious at others. Edit: I see that it is satire! Looking closely at some of the other pages on the site this becomes clearer.
- cammikebrown 3y agoMakes sense they're based in Marin, sounds like your average, clueless, afraid-of-homeless Marin resident.
- NonNefarious 3y ago[dead]
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- howenterprisey 3y agoContext: https://www.sfplanters.com/ https://www.sfplanters.com/
- rjbwork 3y agoThat's the link that was posted. What do you mean "context"?
- throwworhtthrow 3y agoThank you for the context. This is great parody, up there with MSCHF’s best.
- pdntspa 3y agoThe .org reads like parody
- yuy910616 3y agoGreat parody. It is sad that this has become the most effective way to remove the homeless, and funny that it struck some sort of balance that our liberal standard tolerates.
- fortran77 3y agoSome of the Hacker News people don't seem to get that this is a cruel parody of an actual business that's trying to help people in the Bay Area add some beauty and order to their streets.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoI want to upvote for you pointing out that much has been missed, but the way you just blaze a trail past all the heartless NIMBYism & zoning your way overtop human inconveniences & take what you can seems super bad.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoWhat's the deal with flagging on this site? How does it work? Are people just able to flag shit they find inconvenient whenever & that's that? There are some very censor-ous voices about, it feels like. This seems like such apt on the nose social commentary, poignant. Are the calls for censorship just abided when asked for? Are there any checks or restrictions on flagging on HN? Can flagging get overruled, and by whom and when?
- fortran77 3y agoThere's a "vouch" option that (I think) can negate a flag. But I'm not sure.
- defrost 3y ago[ vouch ] exists but it's an odd one, sometimes I see it, sometimes I don't - I think I might have lost my 'vouch' privleges by sticking up for too many flagged articles but then perhaps there's another hidden pattern at play <shrug>.
- catlover76 3y ago> What's the deal with flagging on this site? How does it work? Are people just able to flag shit they find inconvenient whenever & that's that? Yes, de facto, it's flag stuff you don't like and/or otherwise do not want gaining attention.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoIt just seems like there should be some means to not let whomever wants to remove content for any reason they feel like. I have sometimes seen "vouch" options but I guess maybe those permissions got removed. Because I ragged on the UK's fascist internet surveillance bill as horseshit, I think? So now I am unable to help others keep their voice. The systems here are undocumented & opaque & it sucks & is sad that hackers are subject to such unclear whims with no transparency & no way to negotiate for speech, of themselves or others. Edit: I still have vouch options on some flagged posts.
- smegsicle 3y agodon't forget that shantytowns are not only unsightly, but also bring crime and disease!
- jzellis 3y agoYou can tell this is effective satire because it's flagged on HN. I swear, some of y'all would read Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and try to do a hackathon to get it implemented, the weekend after TortureNexusCon.