IMO aside from being a black hole of charm, I don’t think Vance could keep up the pace of fuckery Trump has. Hard to focus on Trump shooting someone in Times Square yesterday when he’s bombing Greenland today and tariffing the moon tomorrow all while posting 35 tweets a day with random capitalized words calling sesame street communist and depicting himself as elvis via AI. Vance lacks that juice.

spotify execs bet on land war in asia

Man says he won’t kick puppies or burn down orphanages.

Trump is afraid of BBC.

Use this headline as you will.

Hence why they started D.A.R.E.

Drugs Are Really Expensive.

My main problem is that you don’t know that unhoused, which is a term I use in this field, is not the same as sleeping rough, another term I use in the field.

I mean, I did say, “And everyone who isn’t affected by it and doesn’t work in the field, or to put it succinctly, the overwhelming majority of people, can intuit what “unhoused” means: Without a house.” I get that in a trade folks might have their trade specific name for stuff, but often you use that with average person and you’re gonna lose them. E.g. The sociological definition of racism vs. the common one, or calling them stanchions instead of something like barrier ropes.

What do you call it in your neck of the woods when someone is both unhoused, ie without a home, and sleeping in a public place, vulnerable to strangers and the elements?

I don’t think the U.S. differentiates all that much, it all gets lumped under ‘homeless’ or ‘experiencing homelessness’ in more progressive areas, which IIRC the rationale is that it changes it from a noun/identity to a verb/shit that’s happening to them, but I may be a bit off there as it has been a while.

I said one line about how one wording was more clear and the person responding to me dropped two paragraphs about how his linguistic choice was superior. You are attacking the wrong person if you’re mad about dithering.

And sleeping rough is not offensive, and not cute, and it does not reduce the idea to something cute.

‘Sleeping rough’ sounds variously like having a neighbor who has ragers until 3am and/or camping in the woods to me, so annoying or cute. Maybe its a Euro v. U.S. “Lift vs. elevator” thing though.

Everyone who is affected by it or works in the field knows what it means.

And everyone who isn’t affected by it and doesn’t work in the field, or to put it succinctly, the overwhelming majority of people, can intuit what “unhoused” means: Without a house.

“Unhoused” states it far more plainly.

eat the beans then do a shot of the bean juice like god intended

Bluesky has a lot of libs, which is certainly better then twitter these days, tho annoying in its own way sometimes (most recently: platner glazing up til he finally dropped.) more robust blocking then twitter, and lets you subscribe to lists of shitters to block. I have had issues with bots but they’ve been fairly easy to spot, and largely resolved when I subscribed to a list that simply blocks everyone who follows 10k+ people.

Resident Shawna Casey said: “Hartman is not a failed town. Hartman is a town that was failed by the systems designed to protect it.”

Years not fixing water to the point where it was unusable, sub 100 population and apparently not growing, all admin staff quit amid fistfights and arguments over fraud and the like. Homegirl is snorting dangerous amounts of copium.

Oregon does this. At 16.80 in their metro areas atm. Different levels the further outside the bigger cities too.

https://www.oregon.gov/boli/workers/pages/minimum-wage.aspx

Personally I don’t bed read because I try to make sure my bed is for sleep alone, which in turn makes it easier to fall asleep. Half laying on a couch works well for me, or lazing in a adirondack too as I can keep drinks nearby.

oh no, anyways

Not sure how any of that is relevant to my comment but okay.

Broken censorious genocidal clocks… or something like that.

There’s certainly stuff like The Bear or Hell’s Kitchen that present one view of things, but you might want to give Jiro Dreams of Sushi a watch sometime, which shows a alternate view. Guy runs a ten seat Michelin starred sushi joint that does a ~500 dollar tasting menu with 20 courses. He’s not rushing things.

Plenty of real stuff we can still hate him for though: the video game cheating, transphobia, epstein stuff, transphobia, doge, list goes on