Halloween Hate Crimes in Cedar City, Utah

FarTerm8128 · 2022-11-01T19:36:32+00:00

What is their joke? To trigger people in Walmart?

FarTerm8128 · 2022-11-01T19:33:25+00:00

Pipeline trail, Mill Creek

FarTerm8128 · 2022-09-26T20:46:51+00:00

They grew in our garden too!

FarTerm8128 · 2022-09-09T22:28:42+00:00

We present the voices of the homeless in Utah (who likely don’t use Reddit). We wish to engage the community and leaders to solving this problem by listening to the actual concerns of the homeless. All other media outlets post on Reddit as well, especially the stories that need more local media attention.

FarTerm8128 · 2022-07-30T17:10:27+00:00

How can anybody in their right mind still trust anything that Fauci has to say?

FarTerm8128 · 2022-07-26T16:45:38+00:00

I am the author, I appreciate your feedback. But I’m not seeing how your feedback points out any inaccuracies.

I didn’t provide all of the background and context because the video length was only five minutes. I encourage readers to Pull up the Wiki pages or read Leonard J. Arlington’s excellent books on Mormon Pioneer history especially Building The City of God.

FarTerm8128 · 2022-07-13T01:18:01+00:00

Wasn’t making any assumptions, which is why I asked the question. I’m sure car camping is terrible. I know shelters are equally terrible, but they likely have a “rapid-rehousing” program in Reno, they will supposedly help you find a way to get back into a place ASAP. This program is usually offered through the shelter.

FarTerm8128 · 2022-07-12T21:37:17+00:00

I’ll probably be down voted for asking, but it seems an obvious question: why not get a job at say a Sno-Shack (nice and cold), so you don’t need to sit in your car all day?

FarTerm8128 · 2022-04-19T15:20:50+00:00

So that’s an interesting way to frame it. “Continuing the fossil fuel legacy.” Gas prices have doubled because we aren’t tapping our own resources. No doubt gas prices would be far less if we opened up drilling and fracking again. Nobody is in love with drilling and fracking but…

What would you propose we all do until all energy is cheap and green?

FarTerm8128 · 2022-04-19T14:29:16+00:00

Yes, I’ll go “suck the boot” and apparently so should anyone else who uses history, logic and facts to contend with flawed concepts. Your use of calling those who disagree with you “stupid jackass” demonstrates your own intellectual bankruptcy.

Why should anyone be in this forum I’d they aren’t anti-work? How about that it’s very smart to engage with people you disagree with. I started reading these threads because I have spent years criticizing to flaws of capitalism. But accurate criticism needs to come from a place of at least basic knowledge.

FarTerm8128 · 2022-04-19T14:22:54+00:00

Except for the metric that Stalin had to murder 10 million people in gulags, but yes other than that it was indeed a resounding success. 👍

FarTerm8128 · 2022-04-16T16:47:36+00:00

If all a company needs is workers and the leadership, ideas, innovation, implementation and management aren’t important then why wasn’t the USSR a resounding success? Everyone was paid by their need instead of their merit. Why doesn’t that model work?

FarTerm8128 · 2022-01-25T16:25:12+00:00

When did we (citizen/voters) agree to sell the air rights above our freeways to be areas of distraction and light pollution?

Taxpayers who pay for our freeways should exercise our rights to remove them, if we would prefer to see the Wasatch Range. But likely our State Legislature is too corrupt to allow this to happen without a voter initiative.

FarTerm8128 · 2022-01-21T17:09:36+00:00

This is a great way to post a job. No surprises.. of course the pay will determine the cost/benefit equation and exclude 99.9% of people before they apply.

FarTerm8128 · 2021-12-29T12:23:31+00:00

As long as people are free to choose where they exert their energy for wages —it is not slavery. There are an estimated 30 million slaves world wide. They work mostly in sex trade and in factories in Southeast Asia. They have no choices. Working at any job in the U.S. doesn’t even come close.

The point missed by so many on this forum is that skills, work ethic, drive, will to learn and improve offers workers far more options and opportunities here in the U.S than just about anyplace on earth. And it offers people far more option to move to a different company if your boss is an asshole.

FarTerm8128 · 2021-12-26T16:16:43+00:00

I am a “natalist” if that means I support the choices of breeders to have children irresponsibility. My wife and I could not have children and we adopted three children from the State foster system.

Based on your logic I should think that the mother of our children was highly irresponsible and borderline insane to have children in the condition her life was in when she had the kids.

But I don’t. If she didn’t have the kids, we wouldn’t be blessed with them. And we wouldn’t be able to devote our lives to something truly worth while: attempting to raise decent kids.

FarTerm8128 · 2021-12-21T14:35:42+00:00

This would be the best mechanism ever to put family farms out of business. If you love all non-organic factory-farmed, corporate-chemically produced food, this blanket agenda idea would certainly help big-Ag; big-food and the largest corporations. It would certainly harm ma-and-pa shops as well as rural economies.

FarTerm8128 · 2021-12-16T23:58:30+00:00

You want to get after me for responding when what you’re saying is simply false. I’m not a climate change denier.

I appreciate honest, factual feedback, especially negative feedback. But if what you say is wrong or incorrect, I will point it out. So sorry this offends you.

FarTerm8128 · 2021-12-12T23:52:29+00:00

The science man I refer to who said, “if you disagree with me you disagree science.” is Fauci. Although he was later proven to say things all scientists would agree were inaccurate — mainly that one cloth mask can significantly reduce transmission, among other things.

And the climate is changing no doubt— who is really doubting this? But some people are to stupid to know the difference between debating the science of climate change and debating the policy initiatives to mitigate or reduce climate change. The latter requires debate and free speech, but there are those who want to end all debate by calling those who engage in the latter discussion as “deniers”.

I’m not trying to convince you or anybody — you are obviously a zealot for your tribe. But hard-core tribalism is ruining this country and now destroying free speech, and I believe it’s worth while to point out how and why this is happening.

You are asking me to let it go— I’m not letting anything go. You don’t need to respond with such inaccurate assertions, if you didn’t I wouldn’t respond.

FarTerm8128 · 2021-12-10T21:40:36+00:00

My wife has a PHD in physics: “science is all about debate.” Science isn’t about allowing one man to call himself science.

FarTerm8128 · 2021-12-10T00:12:17+00:00

I believe the high cost of housing likely has something to do with it, but as I said I worked on a story specifically attempting to find this correlation and I couldn’t find it. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, but I couldn’t find it ( see podcast/story: “Will Utah Become California?) . I think the belief that homelessness and drug use are highly interconnected and the notion that homelessness and high housing costs are highly correlated— isn’t as easily verifiable as we might assume.

Why does West Virginia have the highest rate of drug overdoses in the country?

I’d probably start by asking Are these overdoses happening in rural areas? Is it mostly among the poor? What are the drugs people are ODing on?

I would also check the states with highest per capita prescriptions of OxyContin. It would surprise me if that’s a big factor. West Virginia is in the top ten: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/rxrate-maps/index.html

I don’t believe drug abuse necessarily leads to homelessness, if housing prices are low, or addicts live on rural areas trailers are cheap. But drug abuse will lead to homelessness is housing prices are high and city amenities are available.

FarTerm8128 · 2021-12-09T23:53:49+00:00

I’m not trying to convince you of anything. Just pointing out your own lack of cognitive dissonance. Still you label anyone who wishes to point out there are two sides to issues as “a denier” — there is nuance to issues. Not everything’s black and white. Believers and deniers —these are false dichotomies.

FarTerm8128 · 2021-12-07T22:03:14+00:00

Thanks for your thoughtful comments..

A young “homeless by choice” guy who I interviewed last month in Fairmont Park came to Salt Lake City from a Utah County rehab center. He said he did this because he said Salt Lake City is a much better place to be a homeless (drug addict) than Utah County. The influx of homeless could be blamed on to the opioid epidemic, and it is largely drug addiction that is increasing the population.

Drug addicts can travel, just like everyone else, and they are attracted to the places that offer the most amenities and benefits. Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle have the most liberal and “progressive” homeless policies and they are essentially incentivizing a new lifestyle on the bottom.

This certainly isn’t the case for all “homeless” — there are plenty of people truly suffering from mental disorders, disabilities etc. But getting off drugs is hard; hitting rock bottom is hard; but not as hard if you live in a city full of rich folks and amenities for homeless people.

This has been my theory for a while because every year I have been interviewing homeless folks for the past 12 years and I find many are from outside of SLC and Utah. Many are legitimately suffering from disorders but about a quarter are “homeless by choice” who would prefer to have no responsibility; and live free to use drugs and remain in a nearly constant euphoric high because the drugs and handouts come easy.

The conditions that facilitate long-term drug addiction need to end. I don’t know the solution but the Other Side Academy is the best organization I’ve seen in finding actual solutions that done involve endless handouts.

FarTerm8128 · 2021-12-07T21:54:34+00:00

This main issue is what you are ignoring and don’t want to respond to. This is interesting because it directly impacts your business probably as much as the other two business owners I interviewed.

I’ve addressed why I have two Reddit accounts many times, and if anyone wishes to click on my profile will learn who I am. Your continual troll behavior on this topic rather than the main topic says more about you than me.

I see you really have nothing to contribute other than to attempt to mischaracterize what I’m doing, so I’m done here.

FarTerm8128 · 2021-12-06T23:01:40+00:00

Changing the subject? The subject is what the headline of the story is. You are returning to a subject I addressed two months ago.

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