i believe you can do this if you choose and when you’re ready. i won’t lie - it’s not easy, but you may decide if is easier than staying. the dv hotline can direct you to local services, including housing. be careful if you begin to explore your options; he may escalate.
(800) 799-7233. if you can safely search, they also have text and chat contact online.
unfortunately, this is often true in big cities as well.
things are a lot better in that regard than they used to be. dv is no longer by default regarded as a “private matter,” laws and resources have improved.
on the flip side, dv can be hard to prove, especially to a busy cop or judge. and policing is also not a profession averse to abusers.
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i mean, a great many people don’t appreciate being told they are murderers. it provokes defensiveness rather than an openness to pro-vegan arguments.
i ran into this kind of garbage the other day looking for a Nicholas Jaar video when i couldn’t recall the name. like BoC, there’s tons and tons of tracks by Jaar, but results gave me one or two of his most popular tracks and a buuuuuunch of other stuff. i couldn’t even just keep scrolling, there were a dozen results and then the “related search” garbage.
ugh, i’m so fed up with google, and at the same time not motivated enough to figure out workarounds. i have work and shit to do around my house.
i guess, with me, they won.
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is the insurance good enough to cover the cost of a knee and a hip for me? because that’s what i’m gonna need if they want me to take up running. at minimum.
this is not a bonus available to employees who can’t take up running, for whatever reason.
https://ncdp.columbia.edu/ncdp-perspectives/disaster-response-and-equity-texas-power-outrages/
edit - so it looks like it was less about being wealthy, and more about being white.
please stop with the “Just Leave.” we can’t all just leave and i tire of hearing it. what limitations and obligations keep you where you are?
and if you genuinely can Just Leave wherever you are, reflect for awhile on your privilege, then try to recognize how many people do not have that option for any number of reasons.
sometimes i think this sentiment is only a little less tone-deaf than “just have a baby.”
and nobody should be drinking that gamey-ass, garbage vodka anyway, tbh
frilly dresses. plush toys and collectible figures. cute pens/paper/stickers/markers.
i will give you that one. 😮💨
what? i can’t speak specifically to crunchyroll (not willing to pay for it), but i watch a lot of movies in languages other than english with english subtitles on roku.
if roku is insisting on this (?), they aren’t insisting on it for other services like hbo.
the ads on roku do not impact my experience, they go away as soon as i open anything.
i was gonna say 6 at the first pic, but the second pic makes me think it’s an 8! nice taper, nice size, i like how the little nubs add visual interest.
many of the folks i work with are functionally homeless and i wish i could do more. i’m glad you made it out alright!
it’s not like you fix up the homeless people the one time and then you’re all set forever.
mental illness is an ongoing issue for people dealing with bipolar/schizophrenia/recurrent depression, and new people are going to evidence mental illness on the regular. new people develop addictions. people lose jobs. people suddenly have major health problems or accidents. people are forced to escape violence.
providing the things you mentioned along with case management and follow-up care where appropriate helps. i live in a major city with a municipal umbrella organization that’s considered one of the best (ie most effective) in the country. that doesn’t mean nobody is homeless here.
what would come closest to fixing it long-term? addressing all the other systemic issues and shortcomings. universal medical care (which includes mental health care), ubi and housing, addressing violence (in families and communities) providing quality education, social justice.
the systems we have now only meet the needs of some, and for most only to a limited degree. those with the most needs have the most difficulty accessing appropriate and sufficient support.
in other words? i think capitalism is a big part of the problem. i don’t have any illusions that fixing any of this is easy.
yes, i noticed. bleh, i probably shouldn’t even bother, but i find the idiocy of this argument absolutely infuriating.
i hear you. this is why i think what we’re doing isn’t working, and i think it’s going to get worse if we don’t help homeless people with actual housing and medical / mental health care.
nobody is paying my bills but me. i’m just getting tired of the argument i have been seeing around lemmy lately that wanting to stay in the city (where many of us have JOBS) is “entitled.” i think real estate and rental markets are fucking bonkers when they are pricing out most americans. i have a middle class professional job and i can barely afford it - what about those who work in the service industry who make even less? rent is even harder to cover, and small towns don’t have job markets that can accommodate many.
guess what? people go where the jobs are. this isn’t about being “too good” to live somewhere, it’s about being in a catch-22 of choosing between employment/healthcare/family and rent.
quit putting your words in my mouth (“too good,” where the fuck did i say that?) and try talking to actual people.
yes, i’m sure i should quit my job in a big city, give up health insurance (which i have gotten for the first time in my adult life), uproot my kids and move to ?, to do ???, so i can live in a depressed backwater for cheap rent.
i’m so fucking entitled.
edit - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_City,_California
welcome to fashion. you can add things to the body that emphasize good stuff, detract from stuff you don’t like, draw the eye in a particular direction, create an illusion, break up an expanse, etc.
enjoy!