God I hate NASCAR.
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Cruises > NASCAR for sure.
How do you feel about Formula 1?
I doubt this guy is going to leave her for someone else like Bezos did.
Same.
Iāve been walking all the interesting neighborhoods in LA lately because I canāt stand to be in my condo anymore. Itās insane how many tents there are - in places where there never were before. Any industrial block is fair game. I assume itās a covid thing. No idea what it will go back to after covid.
The craziest thing is this is juxtaposed with all restaurants spilling out onto the sidewalks and even into the streets sometimes due to only outdoor dining allowed. So the two realities are pushing into each other.
At the end of my walk tonight I passed two women sitting at their table with a giant tiramisu they hadnāt touched yet, while a bunch of tents sat 6ā away.
When I was in India for my work, the guy in charge of our whole relationship with Infosys asked me, āDo you see the two Indias now?ā (basically meaning the huge gulf between the haves and the have nots). Incredibly, the US is actually moving towards stuff like permanent shanty towns in every major city.
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Have you ever heard of Slab City?
Iām sure covid has contributed, but homelessness was growing and one thing that really changed was a Supreme Court decision that said cities canāt just auto-roust/remove homeless people unless they had some kind of housing alternative.
eta: they didnāt rule on it, but refused to rule against a lower court decision
Somewhat related - canāt discharge people to the street from a hospital/ER either.
How does that work in practice? You certainly canāt keep someone who has no home and no spot in a shelter or who doesnāt want to go to a shelter forever. What do you do if they want to leave? Or if theyāre fine and want to stay forever?
Yeah - Iāve been there. But the point is thatās out of sight in the middle of a desert.
I think weāre coming to terms with visible shanty towns a block away from fancy restaurants in LA.
Maybe thatās why Garcetti launched his program to āend homelessnessā in LA, which seems to have done the opposite.
Assuming you are just in the South Bay so farā¦thereās a lot more just in the SF Valley and obviously a lot more in many parts of Los Angeles.
No I worked my way up to Pacific Palisades today (weekdays I do PV). The key seems to be anywhere in Los Angeles proper (which is most of the Valley). Also Santa Monica has plenty.
In practice? I call my social worker and they do all the work thank god. Iām too busy with medical stuff to handle it personally.
If someone doesnāt want to be placed, they can be discharged to the street. Weāre still required to give them a ride to their tent, place they want etc. If they want to leave, they can leave at any time, I donāt run a prison.
It can be a pain in the ass sometimes, but itās not too frequent where I work.
It was a concern when I was applying for jobs in California, because the rule was new. This is an intro to its effects on the ER.
Certainly a hard problem given the resources available and the problems many people on the street have. Iāve worked with the homeless a bit on housing and food, and well, putting this delicately, for some people on the streetā¦anyone who lays hands on them to help is a saint.
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I can probably pick an example that works for that, but a dude wearing a skirt and a leather jacket wouldnāt be it. Iād be inclined to view that person as less dangerous. Now if one of them brought a frat boy homeā¦thatād beā¦well, Iād get over it as long as they were decent.
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Iām sure it would be fine for that if it worked, but I think most people fail to find the motivation theyāre looking for when they try those sorts of extreme measures. If somebody doesnāt have the discipline to block out some working time in normal life I doubt theyāll discover it by confining themselves on a boat. The advice on how to be productive is remarkably consistent across all fields - set aside regularly scheduled work times and stick to them.
Itās really weird that you can so reliably summon this sentiment for objections to the law, but apparently not at all for the law itself.
The boat needs to be there to protect you from the experience of mingling with foreigners for too long.
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