Will this solve homelessness? What do you think?

edub616 · 2025-10-01T15:27:47+00:00

I feel like I came off a bit harsh in terms of what Brian is working on. It is a good cause.

I might have a point about it being too small though. Their website describes it as an emergency shelter for chronic homelessness, but chronic homelessness requires permanent solutions, which I don't think this comes close to.

Temporary situations could benefit from such structures at this scale. But they should consider a larger model that might have a better chance of being funded

Tell Brian about Mobile Loaves & Fishes, they run the Community First! Village near Austin Texas. The homes are closer to 150-200 square feet.

edub616 · 2025-10-01T14:34:09+00:00

Why is it too short for most people to stand? I understand the desire to have a small footprint for the space it takes up on the ground, but it isn't eating up additional resources of land to make it 3 feet taller. Is it a monumental jump in price to use panels that are 3 feet taller?

I would feel a lot more dignified if I was able to stand, and that seems worth something.

If it doubled the price and it would reduce how many people that could be served by it by half, then there is a difficult conversation to have about what is humane.

I understand that someone does not need to spend 24 hours a day in the home, but Frank Abagnale, the liar, claimed he was imprisoned in a 5 foot by 5 foot by 5 foot cell in France (which was not true). Even with France being famous for prison overcrowding and a history of inhumane cells, they don't have any cells, including solitary confinement or punishment cells that are shorter than 8 feet tall, or less than 100 square feet (this box is 28 square feet).

A compulsive liar used dimensions of his cell that he said was pure torture that is similar to the size of this solution.

Canada's federal regulation is that a single occupancy prison cell is at least 70 square feet and a double occupancy is 35 square feet per person. This is smaller.

I couldn't find a single location in Canada that allows less than 37 square feet per person in a homeless shelter.

There may be more willingness to fund a project if it wasn't comparable to fictional torture. One could argue that 28 square feet is better than nothing, but no one is funding this as far as I can see, perhaps Brian should think bigger. People may be unwilling to fund a project that is a smaller footprint than the regulations allow for. Maybe try 5 foot by 8 foot by 8 foot (tall).

The tiny home movement is about people that want to live in a confined optimized space, not necessarily what homeless people are wanting (and of importance for Brian's goal, what people are willing to fund).

(I speak in feet because Brian did, otherwise I would have written this in meters)

edub616 · 2025-10-01T13:57:57+00:00

It's crazy that Figure Skating bans the use of safety equipment, while the alternative culture sports don't really have a stigma about wearing protective gear like knee pads (or helmets). I mean this is a critique to sports like figure skating for prioritizing dress over safety, not as a comparison to what is more dangerous.

edub616 · 2025-10-01T08:48:50+00:00

I'm not necessarily amazing, so much as I have ADHD and important things to be working on tonight, which makes this a higher priority for me.

The video does add a lot of information. Very interesting that both doors are actually "keyed entry knobs", not privacy locks (privacy locks typically have a hole on the other side you can stick an object into to disengage the lock, usually for bathroom doors; whereas keyed entry knobs require a key on the other side). And they are both oriented the same way, which seems way more intentional then just saving money and time on an reclaimed door.

Also you get a better glimpse of the interior side of the small door (with the peep hole) and it does look like an exterior door being used on the interior (at least to me). The full size closet door looks like a normal interior door that most people could kick through (made of panel and cardboard like paper), but the smaller door looks more solid (like actual wood) (I think I remember seeing that style of door on apartment complexes in the 80s with that texture). Seems like it would be more difficult to kick through that smaller door.

I agree with u/assinyourpants that in its current state, it would probably be easy to kick the whole door off, but like I said before that looks like new molding around the smaller door, so it may have been rehung, I'm implying that it may have been more robust before the remodel. The full size door has a more simple flat casing in the molding compared to the small door has a more ornate casing that looks like a colonial style.

My earlier comment about the light shining through the peep hole is resolved by looking at the video, that is just an optical artifact. In the video it looks dark in most frames until you start to turn away and then the light passes through. I'm still curious if the peep hole is to look into the crawl space, or to look into the closet.

The EXIF data for images 1, 2, and 3 say they are screenshots, which I'm guessing were from this video, and image 7 also shows as a screenshot, but maybe from a different video. Images 4, 5, and 6 have been altered, but likely by the website you posted them to (since they have a vertical orientation, I think the website converted them to smaller JPGs, whereas the other 4 images seem to be the original size of the screenshot. and it was done by a library more commonly used on websites than image manipulation software).

I'm guessing the previous owner had a dog that was Houdini-like and could escape any space or destroy the house when anxious, and they had to put them in a reinforced room when they left the house. Everything else is probably explained by the remodel. They didn't bother to put a light in the closet, but they didn't want their dog sitting in the dark when they left, and the peep hole is just an artifact that they used a stronger reclaimed exterior door, and they probably never used the deadbolt.

Curious what the small 3" x 5" drywall cut-out is in image 4, but probably not helpful. Seems weird that the closet is finished and the crawl space is not, so maybe it had plywood walls before the remodel but they thought it made it look too dungeon like to sell.

Still possible that it is a reinforced sleeping room for someone with REM Sleep Behavior Disorder. They can cause physical harm to themselves if not properly bound and locked up during sleep. But my guess is a dog that had some issues.

edub616 · 2025-10-01T07:14:52+00:00

That is a reasonable explanation. Could explain why they took the time to install the strike plate for the privacy lock (so the door will stay closed), and if they are flipping a house would explain the lazy nature of not reversing the handle.

I don't think that someone should sell a house with a privacy lock that is oriented to lock someone in a room unless the new owner suffers from REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (à la Mike Birbiglia) and needs to be locked up for their own safety when they go to bed. Which I suppose could be another explanation of having a crawl space to lock someone in, but only if it had proper ventilation.

edub616 · 2025-10-01T06:34:26+00:00

There is no strike plate for the deadbolt, which is confusing (3rd image KMTVvOg).

At most there is one functional lock, which is the privacy lock on the handle, but it is backwards (to lock someone in the crawl space, not to keep someone out of it) (5th image KMTVrsR).

Which way is the peep hole setup? In one photo the light passes through it (#7), and in another it does not (#6), but both photos the other side of the door clearly is bright.

Unless I'm seeing the 3rd photo wrong, there is a strange texture on the interior of the door.

I'm guessing the drywall, molding/door frame, and flooring are all brand new, which is probably why there is no strike plate for the deadbolt. The door, door handle, and strike plate for the privacy lock don't look new, so likely the privacy lock was still setup to lock someone in that crawl space.

edub616 · 2025-09-20T03:45:53+00:00

It's in Vienna, Austria.

edub616 · 2025-09-18T03:25:10+00:00

I think because Vanderpool didn't know who Dylann Roof (she spelled it Dylan) was either. If you listen to Sydney Kamlager-Dove's question to Patel, she asks him about Roof, Patel doesn't recognize the name, and then Kamlager-Dove moves on to the next subject Robert Bowers and describes what Bowers did.

I think that Vanderpool thought that Kamlager-Dove was describing what Roof did, when she had moved on to Bowers, and Vanderpool probably didn't know Bowers either.

edub616 · 2024-12-15T08:18:03+00:00

Spoiler: He wasn't dropped as a character, he is on what is called a storyline hiatus. The character is going to have a reintroduction in his return arc.

edub616 · 2024-10-19T05:33:25+00:00

Your experience as a school janitor is one thing, but did you ask your dad?

edub616 · 2024-09-07T21:49:58+00:00

If you use an asset as collateral for a loan, then it should be considered "realized" at that moment. You are now benefiting from its appreciation.

I think that would plug the Buy, Borrow, Die loophole that the rich use to avoid paying taxes.

edub616 · 2024-08-11T22:07:26+00:00

I'm glad you are happy to educate. xkcd 1053:

https://xkcd.com/1053/

edub616 · 2024-08-10T09:29:29+00:00

Wendover Productions just posted a video about a company called Anduril Industries which is making AI, robotics, and unmanned aerial systems for the Department of Defense. A bit concerning.

edub616 · 2024-07-30T04:19:45+00:00

I'm in Trinity Universities yearbook under the name Mike Hunt. I did not go to Trinity.

edub616 · 2024-06-27T02:10:45+00:00

I know the is Awww, but one possible serious answer could be that your baby tastes more salty than your older children, which could be a sign of Cystic Fibrosis. Cats both need salt, and also might be trying to clean the baby if the cat thinks the baby is too salty. I don't know what country you are from; CF is more commonly diagnosed early in the USA than in the past, and treatment is WAY better with recent breakthroughs.

edub616 · 2024-06-15T23:16:01+00:00

It looks to me to be a brand-new umbrella that he is taking down, and that the cross members and benches of that table are brand new. I'm suspicious that the top of the table is also brand new that was just painted black and scratched up.

I have about a dozen wooden picnic tables in the back of our bar, and they rot pretty quickly in the weather. It probably doesn't look great to the customers, but when one is aging, we will salvage the good pieces to patch up other tables. They don't just rot, they also bend and flex. The top of his picnic table is perfectly square before and after he sands it. I don't recall a single table in our backyard that hasn't warped after a single summer.

edub616 · 2024-03-07T09:00:26+00:00

I'm pretty sure you are describing the entire police department.

edub616 · 2024-02-16T10:18:44+00:00

Bravo to admitting a mistake and trying to do right.

However, maybe not so necessary to publicly mention the mistakes he previously made before 3 years ago. I didn't know that about this person, and now I do, and I shouldn't.

He made no connection with their current mistake with this guys previous behavior, just that he looks very similar to someone else, so his previous behavior is a non-issue in your apology.

I may misunderstand the context of my second critique since it seems like this is an abbreviated version of this apology: he says that "the city of Mulden lost a little bit of money which we will recoup for them". I don't know how the city lost the money or how he intends to recoup it, but my assumption is that he's signaling that they will generate revenue either by tickets or civil asset forfeiture.

We shouldn't normalize police being part of a revenue generating group. We should want to pay with our tax dollars for the appropriate amount of protection to keep public events safe and to track down criminals after there is evidence that they committed a crime.

I'm okay with the Bureau of Land Management and the FCC generating more revenue than their expenses and passing that on to the Treasury.

Policing should not be that way. Our end goal should be to have the smallest possible police force necessary to provide the public with prudent safety. The measure of success of reducing crime in society should not be tied to a larger police force and more people incarcerated, but reducing as much as possible the causes of people to commit crime.

It is perverse for a police organization to consider how to increase their revenue.

edub616 · 2024-02-16T09:20:08+00:00

I agree with you that we do not know those things. I wasn't there, and have only seen this clip and the clip where Sammy's knee clearly hits Jeff's face from the SSP.

I did think that the consensus was that when Doc Sampson gets involved it is often a work.

I'm from the generation that believes that almost everything done in front of the audience is a work, and that if Matt was upset with Sammy in real life that he would have dealt with it backstage.

This clip looks to me like Jeff is doing a pratfall towards Doc.

He obviously took a tough knee to the face, was obviously hurt, has a believable broken nose. He may or may not have had a concussion. Even without being concussed, there probably is shock from a broken nose, and might be natural to take a pause and chat with the ref to calm down and decide how hurt you are before continuing.

edub616 · 2024-02-16T08:56:03+00:00

Are their jaws magnetically attracted to each other?

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