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sumofchemicals

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  • If you were a community, municipality or country committing to the principle that all people deserve shelter, how would you make that principle a reality?

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  • Yeah, not sure what's up with that. Here are the working links as best I can tell:

    • "A recent HUD study found that the cost of providing emergency shelter to families is generally as much or more than the cost of placing them in transitional or permanent housing"
    • "All the residents at this Housing First styled residence..."
    • "A cost study of rural homelessness from Portland ME found significant cost reductions when providing permanent supportive housing as opposed to serving the people while they remain homeless"
    • "A study from Los Angeles CA... found that placing four chronically homeless people into permanent supportive housing saved the city more than $80,000 per year"

    Lastly this link did seem to work but I thought the statistics and the FAQ were helpful.--

  • If you were a community, municipality or country committing to the principle that all people deserve shelter, how would you make that principle a reality?

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  • Some others here have highlighted that "shelter services" is not the same thing as an actual shelter. People can't stay as long as they want, they don't have a secure place to store their belongings, and they can be dangerous. Here is a post with sources that outlines why permanent supportive housing is more cost effective than temporary overnight shelters

  • If you were a community, municipality or country committing to the principle that all people deserve shelter, how would you make that principle a reality?

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  • If you were a community, municipality or country committing to the principle that all people deserve shelter, how would you make that principle a reality?

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  • Can you share sources about the idea that some people don't desire shelter? My understanding is more that drugs or mental illness make it difficult to retain housing. Their behavior towards others and their inability to pay means they end up homeless, but seems like people universally want a roof over their heads. My understanding is that among professionals working in this area, the view is that having a place to live is the first step in addressing issues like drug abuse and mental health. I'm aware of one organization in Philadelphia, Project Home, that others view as a model.

  • If you were a community, municipality or country committing to the principle that all people deserve shelter, how would you make that principle a reality?

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  • I'm interested in actual approaches. Not saying I want to perpetuate capitalism, but asking how you would tackle the problem, and could be from the viewpoint of any of those entities.

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    If you were a community, municipality or country committing to the principle that all people deserve shelter, how would you make that principle a reality?

  • USATODAY: Group of friends take over Nashville hotel for hours after no employees were found

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  • I could see at a lower flagged hotel, but any full service property is going to have a manager on duty in addition to the rest of the staff. For example extremely unlikely to happen at a full Marriott, but maybe at a Residence Inn

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    Starlink quietly lost over $250,000,000 in burned satellites this summer.

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  • Yeah why are there any comments taking this seriously? Not that it couldn't be true, but the linked site talks about prayer being the reason the satellites are going down, and how non human entities are attacking us.

  • NLRB Complaint Calls a Noncompete Agreement an Unfair Labor Practice

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  • Good news. They mention that the law doesn't apply to managers, I wonder how they define that? As an example, I have "director" in my title, but don't have any direct reports, and have kind of dotted line people who have different official supervisors.

  • Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare"

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  • I wondered about that too. Maybe it's stuff like "driver visits this address every Friday and Saturday night" but that hardly seems like solid data. Could just always listen to the installed mic intended for hands free calling and instead analyze for moans...

  • What's your ideal version of a democratic system?

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  • The sustainability of a monarchy is the problem. Even if you have a great king, they're smart, they're competent, they care about the good of the people, what about their successor? And what's more, every person is fallible, susceptible to blind spots or maladjusted thinking. With a monarch there's not a true means to address that sort of problem. Democracy has all sorts of problems, it's true. But as the quote goes, it's the worst form of government after all other forms of government.

  • What's your ideal version of a democratic system?

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  • Other comments have mentioned ranked choice voting, proportional representation and single transferable vote - these are all voting systems which encourage having more than two parties. The reason we don't have them in the u.s. now is because people know they're throwing their vote away or even helping the candidate they don't like by voting third party.

  • What's your ideal version of a democratic system?

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  • I like this concept. Do you have thoughts on how you would address gerrymandering? One reason I like proportional representation is it addresses that challenge, but wouldn't have the same intimacy in the concept you're describing.

    I could also see challenges with too many steps meaning that officials in the upper tier of representatives don't actually now the tier below them and so may not have that sense of interpersonal obligation.

  • White man faces trial in US for shooting Black teen who went to wrong house

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  • I don't consume conservative media, but I'm wondering is there some current of thought that's leading to all these shootings after someone goes to the wrong door? Seems like there's been a lot recently, and makes no sense to me.

  • All the Mug Shots of Donald Trump and His Alleged Co-Conspirators

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  • Yeah am I missing something? I've yet to get a page at this domain to load

  • UO People is an accredited and tuition free college that offers full degrees and certificates

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  • Yeah, I guess it is kind of an old phrase. Basically something a more conventional or conservative person might say about something that's impractical/naive/overly idealistic. You can imagine like a 60s American dad saying it about tie dye kids

  • Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store near Lake Arrowhead

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  • There are times violence is necessary, with Nazi Germany being the classic example.

    That said, most of the time, even for many times where violence might be "right" it's still a strategic error. It's much harder to build than destroy and any "successful" deployment of violence requires physical and institutional/relational rebuilding.

    Violence can make it harder to attract supporters to your cause. It gives your opponents the feeling of moral justification in also exercising violence. In a full on conflict, it reduces the ability of key supporters (the young, elderly, disabled, many women) from contributing to the struggle compared with non violent action

  • UO People is an accredited and tuition free college that offers full degrees and certificates

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  • I'm a fan of the concept. Two notes:

    While the name has noble intentions, it's a horrible choice in terms of conveying "this is a respectable institution and you should hire this person." Obtaining the knowledge should be enough, but we all know part of why we choose the educational institutions we do is to help get a job, and some schools are viewed more favorably than others. "University of the People" sounds hippy dippy and fake.

    Second, if you like this model you might consider looking at Western Governor's University. It's regionally accredited (ie. the kind you want), online, and the name seems like it would be more appealing at first glance to employers.

  • What is your opinion on tickling ?

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  • Can't say I have much of an opinion at all, but seeing this post is reminding me of that documentary where the guy was commissioning videos of young dude wrestlers tickling each other, and he played it off like it wasn't, but of course it was for sex reasons

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    Why is fountain soda better than canned or bottled?

  • ChatGPT has a style over substance trick that seems to dupe people into thinking it's smart, researchers found

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  • I have seen someone type "tell me how make a million dollar business" into chatgpt. Of course that's not going to work. But LLMs have immediate obvious value that crypto does not, and I think making the comparison reveals a lack of experience with those useful applications. I'm using chatgpt nearly every day as a tool to help with coding. It's not a replacement for a person, but it is like giving a person a forklift.

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    What is the best "climate change" clothing?

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    Have you noticed spotify removing stuff from your liked songs list?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are some "new" rights you'd like to see countries commit to?