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Cake day: August 29th, 2023

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  • Just so you know, you’re getting downvoted because what you’re saying is wrong and actually contributes to the problem.

    Mental Illness and Violence Among People Experiencing Homelessness: An Evidence-Based Review

    Please read the full study and it’s sources. It’s so important and negates a large portion of misinformation you’re going to hear. I’ll highlight some points in case some people don’t want to.

    The US media is saturated with coverage of perceived threats to public safety by people experiencing homelessness (PEH) with purported “mental illness.” … a content analysis of 6,400 tweets regarding PEH collected over three months showed widespread generalizations that PEH posed a high risk of violence and that homelessness was caused by untreated mental illness.3

    About 30% of PEH have a mental health condition.73 The framing of these narratives have been identified as further entrenching the dehumanization of PEH, contributing to oversimplified understandings of PEH and mental illness, and motivating policy interventions that are not evidence-based.4 Physicians’ lack of specific training in working with PEH can create additional barriers to accessing care,5 especially since PEH may perceive negative attitudes in their physicians,6 exacerbating feelings of alienation.7 Stigma is pervasive,8 and that experience is often compounded by PEH’s past negative experiences with medical care and ongoing structural barriers to engagement

    There’s many more passages that are relevant and have way too much info for me to copy/paste here, like:

    • Mental Illness and Addiction Can Be One of Many Precipitants of Homelessness and Should Not Be Seen as the Underlying Cause
    • Homelessness and Mental Illness Are Not Driving Surges in Violent Crime
    • Permanent Supportive Housing is Cost-Effective and Associated with Better Outcomes for PEH
    • Putting People Away Without Essential Care and Basic Needs
    • Learning “From the Misses” Does Not Breed Compassion

    Again, you’re going to be reading, watching, and discussing homelessness in media for the rest of your life. It’s only going to take you 20 minutes to get real facts about the debates and form an evidence based opinion on the matter. Or just disregard and continue watching/reading misinformation to form your thoughts for you.











  • Ok, now I’m wondering how common this is. I’ve ran into this a few times at my local gas station the past month and when I asked about it they said it’s been doing it a bunch lately. Would be interesting if we find out there’s some sort of malware attack on gas station pumps, would be an easy way to shut down an area remotely to cause panic.


  • I’m actually in a state of confusion over the fediverse, reddit, and social media as a whole atm. I loved switching over to Lemmy because of the foss/decentralizing and lower user count at first. If I see a thread with 1500 comments I’m less likely to interact with it, like trying to hold a meaningful conversation at a concert event.

    Forums and articles are slowing becoming harder to find for information without going through 6 AI pages repeating the same paragraph in 20 different ways without really telling you anything new, so that’s slowly becoming more of a burden. Reddit is so inundated with mainstream now that even a specific trade community just has terrible trash comments that get upvoted and can even drown out a professionals real informational response (like youtube does a lot) but … at least it’s there I suppose.

    Lemmy… well yes this space is “nerdy”, but there’s very few specific nerds. by that I mean like the true nerd definition of someone so into this one niche thing that they completely lose all touch with social ques because their area came up in conversation and they are salivating to talk about it. I just recently got told in the most popular pc build community here that they never really bothered looking at memory speed… I was flabbergasted.

    so idk what I would like to see Lemmy become or the future of these types of sites in general. I forced myself to make that post on the pc build community because I was going through the process and maybe it would help someone out in the future and a little socializing while going through a project seems interesting. But, I have so many other posts I think about and just don’t do because it’s going to be either generic responses or me talking into the void with putting a lot of work into collecting all the data I have and formatting it/etc. Time is always limited, so it’s a battle over priorities and responsibilities.


  • By your very same logic then what’s been portrayed in media for decades for “standard” relationships has manipulated lgbtq+ into being straight when they are not.

    It’s clear by your terminology use, way off-base side rants, and continued use of impractical/inappropriate metaphors that you just don’t care or are willing to try and understand. You hold heterosexual relationships above all else and nothing will change that. Luckily your kind of limited exposure and thoughts are now in the “abnormal” minority.




  • Ahh, I think what your missing is something called perspective.

    If you’re in a good relationship with a partner then as the years pass you find yourself appreciating them more and more.

    If you’re a hardworking business owner or manager that’s actually there doing the work alongside the employee, you gain the appreciation that even though their task may be different, they are just as dedicated and as hard working as you are (while also receiving less income).

    If you’re absent or detached from the process, of course you’re only looking at the contractual obligations and if they’re “holding up their end” of the deal. It takes time and emotions, hard sweat and tears. Not something you’re just suppose to “get”. It comes after those nights where equipment eventually breaks, A/C goes out, Rush times are beyond your capacity or anything your facility could handle, customers are literally in your face screaming at you. It builds a bond in hell that a contract could never really spell out properly.

    If you don’t feel anything after that especially with a romantic partner, you might want to explore the idea that maybe you’re missing out on a part of life that wasn’t emotionally developed in you and there are steps to rectify and address the situation.


  • Oh man! You’ve just giving me something that I think will really help stoke the fire in my relationship!

    I’ve never really been into sexual roleplay and it’s one of the things my partner previously expressed an interest in. We regularly game together either doing co-op or single player since we feel it’s more engaging sometimes than zoning out on a movie., so the recommendations like “Leap of Love” sounds like the perfect gaming/drinking night that might kinda dip into the roleplaying aspect!

    I really wish I claimed it when I saw it, just a few clicks and I’m kicking myself for it now. Are there any others you or anyone else would recommend that are more fantasy roleplay focused and might be good for two people?