Posts posted by hayden_horn
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AUSTIN -- The Public Safety Commission debated on Monday if ordinances “primarily targeting homeless people” should be taken away.
The ordinances allow for those with the Austin Police Department to give homeless people tickets for panhandling, camping or living in public areas, or sitting or lying down in downtown Austin.
Marissa McGovern said she’s lived in Austin her whole life and works downtown. She said she’s noticed a spike in the homeless population in the recent years.
“Every day we're getting accosted, harassed by people trying to solicit money,” McGovern said. “And then when we say no, they get more aggressive, more physical, name calling, things like that, where it's kind of already not a very safe place to be.”
She said the ordinances allow her to call police to get help.
McGovern said she hopes they can find a better solution.
“I actually want to help work toward a solution that involves more beds for the homeless, more shelters,” McGovern said. “I don't think repealing these ordinances and letting people sleep on the sidewalks is really helpful to the community, it's not helpful to the homeless, and so I think they need to look into other solutions as opposed to just taking out the ordinances.”
The public safety commission voted and wants the city manager to get ideas from homeless and community members to see if the ordinances are making things better or worse for homeless people.
The commission is also asking city leaders to work to fund and expand community-based solutions so people facing homelessness can get connected to social services efficiently and effectively.
i don't really have any good answers here. i've long contended that arresting non-violent or criminal homeless people is a terrible answer. but at the same time, it's gotten quite aggressive downtown. to the point i don't want to go down there. when i was down there for a convention, i couldn't go a couple of blocks without our little party getting hit up for money.
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7 hours ago, Red Five said:
I’m guessing we won’t be seeing those Lando and Boba Fett movies anytime soon. Or the two Solo sequels.
it's too bad, because i think they laid some solid framework for solo to go on having adventures. maybe it's recency bias, since i just saw it yesterday, but i really enjoyed myself. they did a fairly good job of making you like characters and then killing them. the table was set when rio died pretty early on, as well as val's death. rio's line "mom was right, dying alone is the worst" was particularly poignant for me.
i'm still a little puzzled by the big enfys nest reveal? am i supposed to know that face for some reason? i only just now found out that they were keeping the actress's identity secret for some reason? what am i missing?
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12 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:Brisket makes me want to buy Jim Baker buckets
every time you post one of these, i watch it in a weird mix of humor and horror
haha, di he really say god spoke to him and that the buildings in LA will all fall down because it went democrat?
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5 minutes ago, woohorn said:
Think grocery pick up is diff than ship 2store. Stores now have special grocery pickup areas around the side with huge signs and special spaces so you sit in car and they bring it to you car at assigned time.
GP hit on my prob with all the grocery delivery systems- substitutions. Esp problematic at Walmart because stocking is so bad.all i know is that this increases the shopping cart density at heb in the aisles, as the have those stands there for the employees to aggregate items on lists.
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5 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:
did anyone ask about the letter he read and then didn't 8 minutes later?
[condescending tone]well, i think you're obviously misrepresenting the president's remarks, because you are the media and that's what you do. simply looking at something and saying it looks nice is not the same as reading it, and you know that, next question.[/condescending tone]
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so, uh, exactly what did he win? that the commission was unfair to him? okay. i take from the ruling that the state laws in 2012, and prior to obergefell, presented a very different situation from today, and that at that time, his treatment was unfair. nowhere in this ruling does it talk about whether or not he discriminated against the gay couple unfairly, or that he was righteous in his refusal to bake the fucking cake. i'm no legal eagle, but that's my takeaway. congrats on your martyrdom, dude, but you probably still have to make the gays their cakes.
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7 hours ago, JohnRedHorn said:
https://www.sciencealert.com/reality-doesn-t-exist-until-we-measure-it-quantum-experiment-confirms
Well since quantum theory tests have shown reality doesn't exist until we observe it maybe that's just the way the simulation preserves processing power. The creator of our simulation seems to have gotten bored and decided to throw series of craziness into the game:
"What happens if I program a war mongering simpleton to be president and then destroy that countries' two signature buildings? Ok, now let's drop them into economic turmoil and make a black guy the president! Alright, now lets take a corrupt reality t.v. idiot and scam artist and make him president!"
Let's all hope he's gotten bored with throwing disasters at us.
it's the point in simcity when you start lobbing meteors and godzilla into the mix
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Where in the World is Melania Trump?
in Cloak Room
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when the first lady is unexpectedly hospitalized for a relatively benign procedure, then is not actually discharged as usual, but held for the better part of a week, then disappears from public view for the better part of a month, there are going to be rumors. confining them to this thread is actually a pretty good move.