I’m glad you have all that in your kitchen.

They still sell panini press grills. It’s generally a bachelor pad thing though.

it is absolutely fair to tell them "being homeless and nuisance in the street is from now on illegal. either you want help to get back to society and then you will accept the help with its terms - you are really not in a position to make demands - or you can move to some unabomber cabin in the middle of nowhere, and there you can do whatever you want

This you?

So you want to create an alternate society in the wilds?

Well that’s one I haven’t thought about since the last time I read Brave New World and thought, good thing we’d never do that.

Oh I know there are people advocating to abuse homeless people. But when you assume all mental health facilities are lockdown facilities for dangerous people you’re hurting the entire mental health community. When pressed, people do not want lockdown facilities.

You let them continue until they can get a spot in a medical setting where they can safely withdraw.

I think someone benefits from creating that expectation, but nobody I’ve talked to wants to bring back cold war era mental institutions.

Have you seen alcohol withdrawal?

It’s a glowed up version of “The law binds both rich and poor equally”. A transparently untrue statement that’s meant to draw attention to laws that are a mere inconvenience for the rich but seriously hurt the poor.

I just need to say that 31k/22k with health as a bottom line would be a dream for so many Americans. They’re running on 25k without medical, and having to fit rent in there too.

Hilariously Los Angeles and a bunch of California cities just told Newsom to fuck off with his orders to clear homeless encampments.

If I could create the system it would be the level at which you cannot sustain yourself outside the system. But I would not be treating them in with the level at which you’re a danger to others. Two different systems with two different goals. It would be far more residential, an apartment building with a clinic on the ground floor type thing. Everyone jumps straight to lockdown wards but it doesn’t have to be that.

Your city obviously decided to employ psychologists in a 1 to 1 ratio.

Have you seen the engines they put in minivans? They’re pulling upwards of 300 horsepower. When Mom wants to go she’s going to beat your crossover.