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by pandaman 11mo ago
>It's strange, and i don't think it's unintentional. How do people call the homeless in Chicago? I've lived on the West Coast, in the South, and in the Midwest (not in Illinois though), and people called them "ho
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by pandaman 11mo ago
I am not a lawyer, but I don't believe this is entrapment. For entrapment you need to force someone to do a crime they would not do otherwise. Even persuasion is allowed (there are many public cases where an undercover cop organized a
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by pandaman 11mo ago
>And I've seen the DA charge bike thieves. Really? After finding out that the police reports you have also "seen" do not actually include charges you now have seen the DA pressing charges while strolling through the court
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by pandaman 11mo ago
Police reports do not include charges, DA office charges, police reports just describe what happened... What you experience now is called "cognitive dissonance" - the thing you want to believe is proven to be not true and you are
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by pandaman 11mo ago
>Bike theft is rare, parts theft is even rarer. Idk what you don't get. Source for these claims. "People I know" is not really a source. >Bike thieves are charged, regardless of housing. Why would their housing affect t
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by pandaman 11mo ago
>No, nobody I know has had their bike stolen. I am acknowledging that bikes are sometimes stolen. This argument makes even less sense then. You proclaim that stealing bike parts is an absurd idea and never happens based on the people you
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by pandaman 11mo ago
So you are arguing that people you know only had their whole bikes stolen and not wheels/saddles/etc ? I don't think it's a good argument, tbqh. Even if the people you know made a meaningful sample of Chicago population
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by pandaman 11mo ago
This is the ultimate American urbanist conundrum. Bikes are pretty useless for transportation in American cities because of rampant theft. Locks get cut in the broad daylight and even if the thief is too inept to steal an angle grinder, or
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by pandaman 11mo ago
>Detention is literally being used arbitrarily, before the decision is made to even determine the person is an alien. If something is uneccesary its usually being used as punishment. It is not. There has to be a reason to believe the per
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by pandaman 11mo ago
It feels like you have some unique model of detention in your head (or mean something else than the common meaning of the word). The process is very simple - you are detained and then, when enough people are accumulated, they get loaded ont
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by pandaman 11mo ago
A rational relief for being in the country illegally is a removal of such an individual from the country. Same as if somebody enters your house and you don't want them there, you don't ask for a dollar a day or to clean up the dis
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by pandaman 11mo ago
Do you mean that the things like annulling the elections when the "wrong" candidate won [1] or barring the opposition candidates from running [2],[3] are not the worst excesses? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by pandaman 11mo ago
They were not saying such a thing, you can open the post and Ctrl-F for "jail" to 0 results outside the quote.The comment says that treatment would be the best option, but anything else would be better than letting dangerous crimi
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by pandaman 11mo ago
If professionals harass people under drugs (or without) we do jail them. It's just the homeless in the liberal cities who have untouchable status and can freely violate all kinds of laws.
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by pandaman 11mo ago
I am sorry, I cannot read that "actual research" but I figure it did not include places with the most inequality, like ones I've listed? >Note that your claimed statistics for such enclaves could still be true but not disc
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by pandaman 11mo ago
does not explain why places with more wealth inequality see more homelessness That's just because it's not true. Aspen, Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard and other places with the peak wealth inequality do not see more homelessne
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by pandaman 11mo ago
Since the US had been deindustrialized, most of the working class is now in service sector and does not produce much. Thus service labor is discounted and the construction labor is at premium. Basically, if it costs 1000 man-days of labor t
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by pandaman 11mo ago
Even when rents go down to cost, they are still going to be greater than zero and labor and materials won't turn free. Cost won't ever be so low that one could afford housing while doing nothing productive and even less so while i
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by pandaman 11mo ago
What do you mean by "The scale of homelessness isn’t explained by individual traits."? Are you saying it's not obvious that being high all day with no income will eventually lead to eviction from whatever housing you had?
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by pandaman 11mo ago
It is not, the number you present is the number of immigrant visas issued at foreign service posts from here https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Annual... There are immigrant visas iss
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by pandaman 11mo ago
Considering that there are over 2M immigrants per year and the USCIS staff is about 20K, it's actually pretty quick. If all USCIS did was just immigration it would still be ~100 immigrants per year per employee or about 2 workdays per
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by pandaman 11mo ago
I would not be using the "natives were wiped out by foreign conquerors" argument in support of uncontrolled (or any other kind) immigration, if I were you.
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by pandaman 11mo ago
Is it fair that Bugatti Chiron has to obey the same speed limit as Geo Metro? The country cap is the limit on the speed of immigration from that country. If we establish such a limit for any reason, why does it have to be proportional to t
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by pandaman 1y ago
Both walking and jogging are aerobic. Unless you can jog 6 miles under 2 minutes, of course.
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by pandaman 1y ago
The databases you are concerned about are, most likely, not indexed by pictures so how does it matter if your identity is determined by face, fingerprints, passport, or another government identification document?
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by pandaman 1y ago
Next time try to study the topic before making ignorant and false assertions.
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by pandaman 1y ago
Thus nobody is arrested over immigration but is held in an administrative detention.
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by pandaman 1y ago
Can you explain more how you reached the conclusion that the enforcement of immigration is meant to be resolved in courts? Parking is not a criminal issue, does it also mean that I need a court order to tow a car blocking my driveway? Build
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by pandaman 1y ago
The problem I see with the e-bikers is that they just can't ride even at 20 mph. They don't fall off the bike because it moves fast enough but otherwise they are completely inept: break with the rear wheel only, can't stay in
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by pandaman 1y ago
You might have different problems but you don't have the American problem with bike theft. Homeless here steal bikes regardless of their price and condition.

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