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by swearwolf 5y ago
When you just look at how much she made in isolation, of course it seems like she’ a spoiled brat for suing to get more. But Disney promised her one thing (an exclusively theatrical release) and delivered another (a dual theatrical/str
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by swearwolf 5y ago
If it wasn’t for the ceaseless gaslighting on my local subreddit, I would have never learned that I was a compassionless NIMBY who belongs in the suburbs! Who knew that it was perfectly normal for cities to be overrun with crime, trash, dru
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Because commercial real estate leases are long and chances are your company doesn’t want to pay to break it. Not really a good reason, but a popular one I’d be willing to bet. Also sales people. More specifically sales managers. Who, incide
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Given the right’s decades long push to invalidate a woman’s right to obtain an abortion, I find it pretty hard to accept the idea that most conservatives aren’t authoritarian.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
If crack was a big driver for the previous crime wave, it heroin/fentanyl is likely to be a driver for this one. Or, on the West Coast, meth. It’s made a pretty big comeback since 2017, but it’s been mostly overshadowed by the opioid c
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Thanks for sharing your perspective, I found it to be enlightening and perspective widening. One of my close family members is very much like yourself, having been hospitalized many times with periods of independence in between. He was able
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by swearwolf 5y ago
There are some policy issues at play, particularly the ones that essentially allow people who are in difficult circumstances to completely avoid any kind of consequences for anti-social behavior. For example, Chesa Boudin’s refusal to prose
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Unfortunately that viewpoint is fairly common among contemporary West Coast liberals. A shocking amount of anti-social behavior is tolerated for this reason.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Good lord, yes. I just helped a relative of with poor credit find a place to live and it was only the luck of finding an understanding small time landlord that he isn’t homeless right now. I fear this is only going to get much worse in the
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by swearwolf 5y ago
If you mean the West Coast, it was the 9th Circuit court ruling in Martin v. Boise that brought about the visible camping. That ruling states that a city can’t penalize someone for sleeping in public if they can’t provide a meaningful alter
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by swearwolf 5y ago
There’s no single answer, but: 1.) A lot of the visibly homeless population suffers from either mental illness, drug addiction or both. The statistics I’ve seen for cities on the west coast put it at approximately 40% for mental illness and
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by swearwolf 5y ago
One cause I don’t see listed in these discussions but I’d be willing to bet is extremely common - the company signed long (10+ year) leases on commercial real estate and nobody wants to take those leases over, so they expect people to come
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by swearwolf 5y ago
From what I’ve heard from mental health professionals, in practice simply being able to answer some very basic questions (like “Are you hungry? If so, what should you do?”) with plausible answers (“I should eat”) is sufficient to pass the “
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by swearwolf 5y ago
For the record, this kind of thing is absolutely happening in San Francisco, and it’s happening in other West Coast cities as well, like Portland. The OP is a little off in their attribution. The biggest cause of this is the 9th Circuit rul
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Nothing. That desire isn’t horrifying. Vigilante justice is.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
At least on the West Coast of the U.S. it seems to me like there’s been a big change over the past ten years or so in what kinds of security events could happen in a given public space. These days it feels like anything is possible. We’ve h
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by swearwolf 5y ago
It was a cutesy art trend. This is the first artist I noticed doing it: https://berkleyillustration.com/ It spread from there and became ubiquitous, at least in the Pacific Northwest.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
I realized after I posted this that account number is ambiguous in this context. It was my membership ID number at the credit union, not the bank account number itself. Their membership numbers were nine digits long and you would use them t
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by swearwolf 5y ago
I used to bank with a local credit union, and now bank with one of the largest banks in the United States. The credit union was nice enough, but they signed up with that mobile banking provider that many credit unions seem to use, and the u
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by swearwolf 5y ago
I grew up with my parents behaving as you are suggesting. Anything extracurricular I wanted to do, beyond a token cost, was my responsibility to pay for. That ended up having some consequences you might not be thinking of, so I thought I’d
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Is it this one? https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-03-01-19970600... Or maybe this one? https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/14/us/ama-board-studies-ways...