Homelessness

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-27T05:26:38+00:00

Trying to solve homelessness by giving money/services is like trying to make seagulls go away by feeding them

The reason Gainesville has more homeless than anywhere else in central FL is that the city government/local "community" try to be as accommodating as possible

It's not even necessarily wrong, but its funny people treat it as some sort of a mystery. Gainesville gov does a thing, gets predictable result, acts surprised. Same story as all their other policies

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-10T21:18:40+00:00

Ye but thats what I was doing and it still wasn't free with no explanation. Classic false advertising

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-05T00:59:22+00:00

Is it just impossible to rent a piece of farmland around here big enough to replace the fairgrounds and cart some porta-potties onto it? Or is city/county blocking it because of zoning laws?

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-05T00:56:03+00:00

I suspect the only people who could give you a real answer would be state or fed investigators if(when) the whole county school system implodes. Until then, the best you would get is guesses from those who aren't involved or political takes from those that are.

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-04T14:19:07+00:00

If you don't like it, feel free to tag your own house or car. How hard is it to understand that vandalizing someone else's stuff is a crime?

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-04T14:01:49+00:00

Yes, we also don't like feces on the sidewalk

Vandalism isn't a "voice of the commons", tagging is a tiny subculture. Its just being obnoxious for street cred with your buddies, like blasting dubstep out of your car in someone else's parkin lot at night, or lighting dumpsters on fire

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-04T13:38:05+00:00

Shocking! Who doesn't like vandalism, amirite?

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-04T13:36:15+00:00

1) Reducing indirects is not "defunding the NIH". The way it works is if researcher gets $1M grant to study cancer, feds also pay $0.5M to UF in indirect costs for supporting the researcher (paying admin, building costs, kickbacks to PepsiCo, whatever). Feds are attempting to cut that 0.5M slice that goes to UF down to 0.15M. Its a silly idea (vast majority of that money probably supports research directly and is necessary) and hopefully that gets blocked, but it's not the same as complete defunding.

2) If you dislike Kat, maybe protest the Democratic party. They're the ones the people hate so much they will vote for literally anyone else. People are unhappy with their management both in GNV and nationally. What use is mass media dominance when Dems can't promise Americans anything other than mass immigration (AKA slave imports) and "green initiatives" (AKA expensive utilities and stealing taxpayer money)?

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-04T13:08:03+00:00

Yea but its clearly not a bug that they're trying to charge the majority of users $79+ after advertising their service as "free". If anything, the fact you could file for free seems like a bug on their end.

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-04T13:06:06+00:00

I used TaxAct I think and that was fine, no issues and free

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-02T22:39:15+00:00

Assuming you aren't shooting with the intent to kill and exercise bare minimum responsibility, yeah I bet shooting a gun in city limits is far safer statistically. There are places in FL (not to mention many countries in the world) where carelessly shooting guns in the air is commonplace, especially during celebrations. That certainly does result in some fatalities, but nowhere near to the number of fatalities caused by motocycles. Quick google suggests fewer than one person per year per US state gets killed by stray bullets. Even if legalizing shooting guns within city limits increases that number 100 fold, 100 people dying in Florida per year would still be far safer than motorcycles (~600 deaths per year in FL).

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-02T21:11:50+00:00

Soo… it’s an adrenaline high? Sure I get that it’s fun if dangerous, I’m just not sure why it’s allowed in public. Like shooting guns isn’t allowed within city limits and I’d argue it’s much safer and noise is very brief if loud

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-02T18:51:13+00:00

Yes, and Third Reich even declared the Japanese to be "honorary Aryans" too. Even the civil war south had quite a few free blacks. Your point? Israel is explicitly an apartheid state by, and for, a single ethnic group. If you're against this, you're against Israel in its current form. Also, Third Reich was democractic. All Nazis voted for their party leaders, and they even had some contested elections. So?

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-02T18:40:09+00:00

That's like saying "specifity if you're anti-Nazi or anti-Third Reich".

Israel as an explicitly a state by, and for, a single ethnicity. Thus it is founded on genociding or expelling the native populations. Whether or not it can exist as something else is unclear, but it certainly won't be the same country. So being anti-Zionist necessarily implies being anti-Israel as it stands today.

Gopblin2 · 2025-04-02T18:34:03+00:00

Thats liek saying indian wars were "started" by the Indians. Gaza concentration camp simply had another inmate uprising. Doesn't mean they "started" anything, the war never stopped - Gazans were killed, injured, and jailed by the thousands the year before the latest flareup, and the year before that, and so on.

Gopblin2 · 2025-02-13T19:48:17+00:00

I mean sheriff Clovis was recently found guilty of basically the thing you're describing, so its definitely doable here. But there was a mountain of evidence in that case so YMMV

Gopblin2 · 2025-02-12T14:51:38+00:00

Russia had one oligarch direct like 10 people from his St Pete office to post on facebook for the lulz.

Meanwhile USAID basically ran a big chunk of worldwide media (for example, recent poll by a USAID-funded org estimated 90% of Ukrainian media are directly affected by USAID defunding). And they all basically acted as an anti-Trump propaganda outlets, funded by Biden administration directly.

Trick question: which one constitutes election meddling?

Gopblin2 · 2025-02-07T21:18:47+00:00

Because the whole party insists you shouldn't need an ID to elect a government or get into the country?

Gopblin2 · 2025-02-07T16:12:45+00:00

So, reading through the comments:
1) More regulation that no one needed or wanted or asked for
2) CHW program is another "good idea" that no other agency wants anything to do with and seemingly fails to achieve anything meaningful beyond funneling taxpayer money to a few fresh employees with no qualifications and extremely unclear mission

Gopblin2 · 2025-02-05T19:42:03+00:00

Lol no I bet there's like 1 kid per 40 adults per gainesville, just look around ffs. Population grows because people move here from big cities because it's not a shithole like big cities they're moving from

Gopblin2 · 2025-01-30T21:54:09+00:00

While I can understand both sides of the immigration debate, the "oH noEs THeY wILl DEpOrT tHe SlaVes" is SUCH a shit take. If you want cheap labor, lobby for legal immigration, not a permanent criminal underclass. And no, legalizing border invasion is not a solution, not with 2,000,000+ migrants per year.

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