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People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco

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Re: People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco

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Post by labster »

burtonator wrote: post #8

I have a modest proposal to end this problem. There are too many homeless in San Francisco. Additionally, California has too few wolves. I propose that we release wolves into the streets of San Francisco once per month. Only the strong will be able to evade the wolves and the weak and sick will be eaten. This will lower the homeless population will simultaneously helping the wolf population rebound to record numbers.

I doubt this will help. The wolves of Wall Street have done little to solve the homeless problem in NYC.

Re: People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco

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Post by cmurf »

burtonator wrote: post #8

I have a modest proposal to end this problem. There are too many homeless in San Francisco. Additionally, California has too few wolves. I propose that we release wolves into the streets of San Francisco once per month. Only the strong will be able to evade the wolves and the weak and sick will be eaten. This will lower the homeless population will simultaneously helping the wolf population rebound to record numbers.

You've never watched the homeless fight. I give 3 to 1 odds to the homeless vs the wolf. Meanwhile, I expect the wolves will instead go after San Francisco's few children.

Re: People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco

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Post by henryfjordan »

jcims wrote: post #9
Scoundreller wrote: post #2

Soooo, build bathrooms and make them free (as in beer)?

People that shit on the Market St sidewalk in broad daylight are not doing so because they were looking for a restroom and ran out of time. There’s a little more going on.

If you've been told "no, you cannot poop in our bathroom because you are homeless" at every restaurant/business in the city, would you bother looking for a bathroom the next time you had to shit?

Why bother trying to have dignity if the world doesn't want to let you have any?

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Post by [deleted] »

burtonator wrote: post #8

I have a modest proposal to end this problem. There are too many homeless in San Francisco. Additionally, California has too few wolves. I propose that we release wolves into the streets of San Francisco once per month. Only the strong will be able to evade the wolves and the weak and sick will be eaten. This will lower the homeless population will simultaneously helping the wolf population rebound to record numbers.

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Re: People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco

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Post by jakevn »

jerrysievert wrote: post #4
Scoundreller wrote: post #2

Soooo, build bathrooms and make them free (as in beer)?

they have those in portland (see: https://portlandloo.com ) but the problem persists there as well, even around the toilets.

Why would _one_ of these solve any problems?

Re: People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco

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Post by manfredo »

kradroy wrote: post #3
Scoundreller wrote: post #2

Soooo, build bathrooms and make them free (as in beer)?

They have some of those throughout the city. However, they require attendants to be on site during operation because people shoot up drugs, prostitute themselves, or sleep in them. The solution will require much more than some free-to-use restrooms.

They could have open holes in the ground that connect straight to the sewage system. Maybe add a simple lever to open/close the hole if odor is an issue. Sure it'd lack privacy, but privacy evidently isn't an issue if people are taking dumps on the sidewalk.

Re: People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco

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Post by jakevn »

manfredo wrote: post #17
kradroy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have some of those throughout the city. However, they require attendants to be on site during operation because people shoot up drugs, prostitute themselves, or sleep in them. The solution will require much more than some free-to-use restrooms.

They could have open holes in the ground that connect straight to the sewage system. Maybe add a simple lever to open/close the hole if odor is an issue. Sure it'd lack privacy, but privacy evidently isn't an issue if people are taking dumps on the sidewalk.

If you're not going to give someone a dignified place to relieve themselves, why would they care about using such a thing?

Re: People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco

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Post by akoumis »

burtonator wrote: post #8

I have a modest proposal to end this problem. There are too many homeless in San Francisco. Additionally, California has too few wolves. I propose that we release wolves into the streets of San Francisco once per month. Only the strong will be able to evade the wolves and the weak and sick will be eaten. This will lower the homeless population will simultaneously helping the wolf population rebound to record numbers.

I don't have enough points to downvote you... this is why people hate techies, you view the displaced as a separate species altogether, they are just like you and your family, likely without the same upbringing and privileges

Edit: Thanks guys I understand the proposal is a joke, it's just sick and callous. So all the people riffing on this joke are making nuanced social commentary as well with their analysis of homeless fighting abilities?

Re: People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco

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Post by exelius »

SllX wrote: post #7
kradroy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have some of those throughout the city. However, they require attendants to be on site during operation because people shoot up drugs, prostitute themselves, or sleep in them. The solution will require much more than some free-to-use restrooms.

You know something, we already have police patrolling the streets, and even if it were only open 16 hours a day, that’s still 16 hours of availability. So really, we just don’t have enough, and I don’t think anyone really cares if people are actually shooting up drugs in a bathroom. That’s better than doing it in playgrounds or on park trails and leaving the needles strewn around. It isn’t that we can’t. It completel…

Or provide safe injection sites so junkies have somewhere to go.

Our society’s attitude is “if you don’t pay taxes, you don’t deserve help.” That’s so morally wrong I can’t even explain it without going red in the face, but that’s the situation we’re in.

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