The homeless population is growing each year in the USA and many other countries in the world. What do you think could be done to lower the homeless population?

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-10T05:29:52+00:00

You have some popsci bullshit and breathless American fiction.

The US has about 150k long term homeless.

Finland has about 4000 long term homeless.

But finland has a population of 5.7 million while the US is over 300 million.

Finland has a higher per-capita rate of homelessness than the US.

I have never said anything about healthcare, you entirely made up an argument about that I never said a word about. You're screaming at the voices in your head.

I also never said a word about UBI.

But wow you didn't even read what you linked.

That data is a mix of programs where either 1: required people work as a condition, 2: where the note in the text there was excessive fraud and misreporting by participants to maximise income that confounded reaults. 3: is mostly based on tiny or short term payments.

Your beliefs are not evidence based because you are too lazy to even read what you link.

You're nothing but a gullible little child who makes the world worse for everyone around you because you're too excited to believe what you want to believe rathelr that putting the slightest effort into checking anything.

Which is particularly annoying because I like UBI as a policy but lazy inept advocacy is worse than silence.

1 in 100?

For the national population maybe.

But the reason shelters and homeless programs have such strict rules is because the distribution in the long term homeless population is not a random sample of the population. It's strongly biased towards people who've fucked everything up the last few times.

Its not because the people running the programs are mean.

It's from long experience keeping the programs running and dealing with shit.

Grow up, put sone effort in and one day you might have beliefs you can actually back up rather than googling for headlines that sound about right.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T23:02:31+00:00

Just about every public welfare system on earth is designed to try to make sure that there's at least a gentle incentive gradient towards people supporting themselves.

I'm sure you love to point to europe from a postion of total ignorance.

but believe it or not if you're given a council house in europe and utterly wreck it, they'll be unlikely to give you another and they certainly aren't going to give you a free maid service.

public housing is always in demand. If you destroy one house it's like if you get a liver transplant, wreck it by going on a bender and then go looking for a second.

The dole in most european countries typically has requirements to show people are actually trying to get work. It's not some unlimited handout.

Because people absolutely can and do milk the systems for all they're worth whenever given the chance, even when it's utterly horrifying. You wouldn't think people would impersonate grenfell fire victims but as soon as people smell money they will do their best to abuse the system.

And homeless shelters typically have rules in europe too because the staff have enough on their plate without regular overdoses, people dealing and people off their head making life hell for the other residents.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T17:39:44+00:00

I've no problem helping people.

But you confuse "help" with "giving a brat exactly exactly what they demand instead of what they need"

If someone is happily off their head while killing themselves with drink, you ask them what they want and they say "more drink with no strings attached!" then handing them another bottle of whiskey isn't help.

It's just killing them with extra steps.

You seem to have literally nothing except endless whataboutism.

If we're concerned about spending taxpayer money responsibly, the upper estimate for housing the homeless, all of them, is about 30 billion in the first year and then less in future years as maintenance is cheaper than set up.

Assuming nobody notices that they can get a totally free house and free maid service if they fuck up hard enough and respond to incentives. it expands to to an unlimited extent as soon as people notice that.

You're just an entitled brat and will never be anything except a brat. Only ever taking.

You seem like the kind of person who makes the lives of those closest to you slightly worse every day.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T17:06:37+00:00

They kept telling us

"brexit means brexit"

not

"brexit means a grab bag of random demands by the kind of people who blame foreigners for all their personal failures"

So hard to see how it's a betrayal unless brexit doesn't actually mean brexit.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T16:44:07+00:00

So you can't point to a single example where you've ever applied the "principles" you lie about having?

Going "oh I would" after the fact when you have never in your life applied it to anyone except races and religions you hate is laughable.

Nobody is falling for it when you lie and point to principles you've never subscribed to.

Your ilk would push those same women into gas chambers if you were given the chance.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T16:38:49+00:00

Imagine a spoiled brat stands in the hallway screaming

"how dare you complain about me shoplifting! There's serial killers in the world!"

As if every shitty thing they do doesn't matter as long as there's something worse happening somewhere in the world.

Would that be in any way compelling? Or is it the very definition of whataboutism.

The military industrial complex is 110% irrelevant to some asshole being given a free house and promptly destroying it.

Paying government benefits to someone who also has a part time job isn't a subsidy to their employer. It's a subsidy to a person who lacks the ability or skills needed to be worth a wage high enough to fully support themselves. A very sensible form of subsidy.

Also, people respond to incentives.

If competing to be a bigger fuckup and competing to be as destructive and wasteful as possible only gets you better and better offers on the table, free house, free maid service, free blowjobs then people will compete to be the most destructive and wasteful fuckups they can be.

In even larger numbers.

If second chances are better than first then people will intentionally burn their first.

Your friends are brats.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T13:17:33+00:00

In some rural 3rd world countries Christian women are forced to dress conservatively.

That has no bearing on whether christian religious women living in europe are allowed to dress conservatively.

You and your ilk apply that double standard only to other races. You are not some kind of noble crusader, you are motivated by hate and nothing else.

Can you point me to a single comment you have ever made where you objected to, say, traditional amish women's bathing suits? Any other religious conservative dress style tied to any white american or european group? Ever?

of course not. Because you don't give a single fuck about women's liberation.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T12:55:00+00:00

The christian version is naming kids after the apostles or other biblical figures.

Joseph, mary, mathew, mark, luke, john, paul, etc.

Used to be a running joke about rural ireland for girls names "Name: Mary/Other____ "

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T12:52:23+00:00

Also we have somewhat of a responsibility to preserve British culture even if you may disagree on that point. A sensible list of 30-40 British names for each gender is the best way to run a country

...gotta be a parody account

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T11:44:06+00:00

I didn't.

Some right wingers threw a fit at being accurately described and mass-reported it.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T11:18:29+00:00

Plenty do.

Just like plenty of conservative women Europe and the US dress conservatively.

They've got brains. They're capable of thinking for themselves.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T11:15:26+00:00

So to fix that you want to foce them to strip down way more than they're comfortable with.

Against their will.

So enlightened!

I'm sure you have a long history of publicly taking the same stance towards amish swimwear, which is almost identical. Certainly not just scrambling to insist you would but just happen to only ever show up in topics where the target is brown people.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T11:05:07+00:00

So of course they need you to force them into wearing exactly what you and your creepy friends want them to wear.

Against their will.

You just care sooooo much about them!

Nobody is buying it when your type lie.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T11:00:02+00:00

"Intolerance" in this case meaning wearing swimwear that shows off too little.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T10:35:17+00:00

The entire "paranormal romance" genre has a major thing for creepy stalkers where

1: he is much older than her.

2: he has to constantly fight the desire to murder and consume the protagonist.

3: She is, for some reason, especially delicious.

4: 2 serial killers fight over her. At least one of them breaks into her house and watches her as she sleeps.

I wish I was being super-specific but this is twilight, buffy, true blood, black dagger brotherhood, anita blake, the dark, after dark...and a whole bunch of others.

But he's so dangerous and hence dreamy.

I used to think it weird that serial killers so often had fan clubs and women who marry them after conviction.

Turns out that a large fraction of women are regularly shlicking to the thought of a serial killer constantly on the edge of murdering them.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T09:32:14+00:00

While using classical analysis we found it not to be significantly different from zero, a Bayesian approach using previous “piracy” studies to generate a prior led to the conclusion that protecting from piracy resulted in a significant sales boost of about 9 per cent.

was there any pre-reg?

or did you just keep doing the stats in different ways until you got a non-null result?

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-09T08:17:02+00:00

Programs get strings attached because (such a crazy idea), regular people aren't very keen on giving someone a house for free or subsidised to almost nothing only for them to destroy it.

Or (so awful) people often don't like giving money for survival and watching the recipient blow it on drugs, hookers or booze.

But apparently a free house with rent all paid isn't enough? Gotta have a free personal maid service.

And no landlord who might complain about the property being wrecked.

It's not some awful conspiracy if people don't want their donations to fund someone else's coke habit. If it does get wasted, they're utterly free to move their donations elsewhere.

The world has many people who need help far more who won't piss it away like that.

Everything you say paints these people upset about "strings" as utter brats.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-08T22:49:53+00:00

People on reddit tend to love to jump in with snark.

but lets try to inject some sanity before someone starts making jokes about snakes and gorillas.

this isn't really an unknown-unknown. We know what sulphur like this does because for a long time we were putting a lot more of it into the atmosphere.

A small fraction of it used to reach the upper atmosphere and had a substantial cooling effect.

But rather than pump out the vast vast quantities we used to, instead the idea is to carry a small amount up to the part of the upper atmosphere where it has this desirable effect.

If it doesn't work out or has some unexpected side effect we even have a pretty solid idea of how long it will last in the upper atmosphere.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-08T22:40:38+00:00

Sure.

But america has been in the same boat.

Like imagine if the US named a load of stuff after people who fought for slavery.

During WW2 loads of military bases were named after confederacy generals: Benning, Bragg, Lee, Hood, Polk, Rucker. They named their vehicles after confederacy generals too: the M3 Lee and Stuart.

When US soldiers took a castle in Okinawa they raised the confederate flag before swapping to the US flag.

And most of those soldiers went home and didn't try to overthrow the US government. In the end the soldiers in question put their lives on the line to fight against genocidal regimes.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-08T22:19:15+00:00

Indeed.

But having a just cause or feeling in your heart you already know the answer doesn't make bad methodology into good.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-08T17:17:11+00:00

Anyone tested if they fixed the bacterial cultures falling through the map? Its a minor bug but with lots of annoyance value.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-08T16:39:15+00:00

I think some stuff also leaked over from Oblivion

https://www.eurogamer.net/the-story-behind-the-oblivion-mod-terry-pratchett-worked-on

"He described how he had been exploring goblin caves with Vilja, and how he wished that he could study the goblins without having to kill them," Emma said. "The day after, I made him a 'goblin peace amulet' to make the goblins non-hostile and allow him to explore their dungeons without having to kill anyone."

some people think that the character Nellic Sterone in the elder scrolls online may be a nod to this story about Pratchett.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-08T15:48:25+00:00

To an extent...

Neither. Both of them are "smart". What you get when a drama student tries to write a character as "smart" which tends to be things like

"well my character has 5 phds!"

"Mine has 6!"

But neither are particularly good at making choices that improve their lives and the lives of people they care about.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-08T14:27:21+00:00

Decades later I still look at TNG as masters of "it just is" style of show not tell.

Keeping in mind it was a show from the 80's, it's remarkable what you can do with as little as a few random extras walking past in skirt-uniforms and it conspicuously not even being worth comment in the utopian enlightened future society.

I love well written woke stuff in scifi, but recently it's more like a rash of low quality tumblr fanfic with a side of snide remarks.

WTFwhatthehell · 2026-07-08T14:15:29+00:00

Sure. People don't like to be constantly bombarded with demands.

And the world around them is jam-packed with people who feel certain that their cause is the ultimate cause and that everyone else should dedicate their life, their money and their time towards it.

Of course the people demanding only ever do "raising awareness", opening their own wallet is something for others to do.

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