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I appreciate it, thank you.

Benefits in a very broad sense. This includes both e.g. SF General Assistance payments and things like cleaning the streets from syringes, urine and poop on a weekly basis.

The fundamental reason and ground for these morals will remain in fairy tales. You don't see how divisive and fragile that is? This is fundamentally wrong, even if it used to work …

You are so stuck in your bubble that can't even imagine that societies exist today without a massive homelessness problem. Societies that do not have a "supportive loving community…

Yes, and we can solve drug addiction directly by giving people drugs. What is free housing? Free as in indefinitely free with no strings attached? Free utilities, free services, fr…

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Agree with all your points. We just need the people in power to recognize and act on that, instead of pandering to the extreme vocal minority and throwing money at an industry that…

That's where I disagree with this approach. IMO sending over fully rendered views just because some state changed is antithetical to the UI needs. UI is the state that users intera…

Ha, well, yes. But despite sounding so anti-religious and pro individual responsibility, I am not only optimistic, I am always inspired and heartened by us, humans. I believe, we a…

I am not surprised by that in the slightest, and I agree that most people struggle with that, myself included. It is THE struggle of our lives. Being told as a child that if you ta…

I mean, they anticipated the effect of eating shellfish and allowing women to speak up in Whatever X:YY, is this going to end the world as we know it as well? Finding purpose and o…

I am mentioning Steam as an example of an ecosystem that offers exclusive apps on different devices. The fact that I can install Steam on a Mac is sort of irrelevant considering th…

Thanks for the summary. All of that confirms that the shelters are not full, they are underutilized. I am opposed to the idea that we just need to pump more money into this issue, …

> You're acting like people aren't emotionally attached to their home cities. Respectfully, you misplace the responsibility. When people go through a rough breakup, we don't call f…

Our maturing world (not just the US) is starting to recognize that religion is BS. We can't go back to relying on religion for keeping our bad instincts at bay. The influence of re…

I get that. I disagree with the idea that to stop that we need Jesus.

If the choice is between using HTML in JS (e.g. JSX) vs using JS in HTML (essentially, that's what HTMX is), my choice is unequivocally the former. Ignoring some very basic use cas…

> America has not filled that with anything else That's not an issue that America has to solve (i.e. the government or the society). It's an individual need that every individual i…

Up to you mate. Just don't blame the society for your choices.

In my bubble I switched everyone to Signal. I acknowledge that this is an anecdote and don't propose this as a solution. However, complaining about features in different apps is ev…

There are many other examples of failed policies that increased financial pressure on taxpayers but did not result in an overall improvement in the homeless situation. E.g. what is…

Available shelter space, housing vacancies: https://www.kqed.org/news/11668623/why-do-thousands-of-l-a-s... https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/san-f... https://…

> Basically what unemployment rate tells us is that USA has enough jobs for people who want to work. It says nothing about people who have given up looking. That's a fair point. If…

While I agree that the reduction in the role of religion in the US is partially to blame for the increase in severe cases of drug addition, the idea that we need to bring religion …

This assessment contradicts all evidence we have on the homelessness in the US. Unemployment rate is very low in the US, shelters are very often half-empty. Drug-addicts and homele…