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Comment on How do you survive time change? in ~life.pets
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Comment on How do you survive time change? in ~life.pets
DefinitelyNotAFae LinkThey really don't accept it, I've been working for the past week to get my cats regular feeding time pushed back around an hour but I suspect they'll still wake me up early tomorrow. I am...They really don't accept it, I've been working for the past week to get my cats regular feeding time pushed back around an hour but I suspect they'll still wake me up early tomorrow.
I am constrained as well by my work schedule and the 12 hour length of the insulin. I can't really adjust more than an hour at a time and a half hour is better.But mostly I've been working on it for a while.
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Comment on US judges say Donald Trump administration must continue food aid during shutdown in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentAdvocating orgs like that is a great way to help. ThanksAdvocating orgs like that is a great way to help. Thanks
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Comment on US judges say Donald Trump administration must continue food aid during shutdown in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentI'm glad to hear it. It wouldn't make sense to ship your food to cities if you're donating in your more rural communities. Cities have more ways for donors to acquire food. (I'm sure the deer are...I'm glad to hear it. It wouldn't make sense to ship your food to cities if you're donating in your more rural communities. Cities have more ways for donors to acquire food. (I'm sure the deer are a nuisance the point is they're not free in time, investment or storage space. Plenty of people don't have a freezer, much less space to process a deer or land to hunt them on. )
This is just a stopgap. It's not a solution. We'll need a functional government or even a half ass functional one to recover. Pantries feed one meal for every nine that SNAP provides. You can be pessimistic about whether that happens, I'm just telling you to spare the hot pockets vs rice and beans talk.
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Comment on US judges say Donald Trump administration must continue food aid during shutdown in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentThings are already bumpy. This is not "stock up" time, as there are not food stamps to stock up with. You talked about not eating hot pockets because they'd feel better, you can claim this is...Things are already bumpy. This is not "stock up" time, as there are not food stamps to stock up with. You talked about not eating hot pockets because they'd feel better, you can claim this is actually just practical "life saving" advice now but you were bragging about your full freezers and not how much you were donating, or how many families you're feeding. Advice doesn't fill bellies. Nor does the idea that the poorest folks can stockpile.
As I said, people buying convenience food are doing it for reasons not solvable by telling them to buy beans or pretend that the residents of NYC are going to take a deer. Everyone has heard "rice and beans." And the ones who haven't certainly aren't here. So as someone whose family isn't getting SNAP this month your advice is worth absolutely zero.
Take those tags and work with the hunters in your area to fill your community's freezers. That's what my partner's family did with their hunting, fishing, trapping, and cooking. He's disabled now and can't do that anymore. And because he is my family he'll be ok. But community is how we take care of each other.
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Comment on US judges say Donald Trump administration must continue food aid during shutdown in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentI think a number of people have considered the possibility that they won't. But your solution of "buying beans" and hunting is not actually helpful. What will help people survive is taking care of...I think a number of people have considered the possibility that they won't.
But your solution of "buying beans" and hunting is not actually helpful. What will help people survive is taking care of each other, not giving them advice on what to buy with the money they don't have while they still have to keep doing everything else or be homeless too. If the problem is with the system, we don't need to shame folks at the same time. I'm not sure any people in NYC are going to start taking deer on their non-existent land with nuisance tags.
I don't think your economic solutions are viable so it sort of doesn't matter if they work, but spare the world the rice and beans advice as if it's never been uttered before and donate to your local food pantry that will take hunted meat.
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Comment on US judges say Donald Trump administration must continue food aid during shutdown in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentThe issue is that the food stamps are gone. And dignity policing is exhausting. WIC, which restricts the food permitted significantly, is much harder to use and leads to tears at the checkout as...Don't waste food stamps on stupid things like soda or hot pockets - switch to basics, you'll eat better and enjoy it more.
The issue is that the food stamps are gone.
And dignity policing is exhausting. WIC, which restricts the food permitted significantly, is much harder to use and leads to tears at the checkout as it is. If people are buying prepared food whether it's because they lack the cooking facilities or the time or the skills that's not an issue that will be solved by telling them to buy beans. Not everyone enjoys eating more when they cook, even when they can.
Nuisance tags are only for landowners here, though they'll be allowed to be given to other hunters next year. Sounds like a very unlikely situation for most SNAP recipients to end up in. But I know food banks that take venison if you're so inclined to influence what poor people eat.
Let people buy a treat, have the same caffeine addiction as most Americans, live without a functioning stove, work late when kids need to heat up their own meals, etc. Especially right now what folks need is help, not lectures.
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Comment on US judges say Donald Trump administration must continue food aid during shutdown in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentGotcha no I did think there was some funding there at risk but it's just cutting Medicaid in general that's going to cause rural (in particular) hospitals to close. I appreciate those who stay in...Gotcha no I did think there was some funding there at risk but it's just cutting Medicaid in general that's going to cause rural (in particular) hospitals to close.
I appreciate those who stay in states that are making their lives hell and also I don't blame those who leave. But things just suck all around.
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Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentNo evidence of a work requirement so labor camp wouldn't be accurate at least for now. It very much depends on the details that the guy in charge doesn't want to share.No evidence of a work requirement so labor camp wouldn't be accurate at least for now. It very much depends on the details that the guy in charge doesn't want to share.
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Comment on US judges say Donald Trump administration must continue food aid during shutdown in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentYeah so I'm aware of that. I was saying I was under the understanding that some of the federal funding sent to hospitals to cover that cost was being cut. But I'm digging deeper and it seems more...Yeah so I'm aware of that.
I was saying I was under the understanding that some of the federal funding sent to hospitals to cover that cost was being cut. But I'm digging deeper and it seems more like the broader Medicaid cuts are the concern. I was not aware EMTALA was an unfunded mandate.
I'm not sure what I said to give you the impression I didn't know what EMTALA itself was other than not phrasing it as "under EMTALA"? Or maybe specifying ERs? Trying to avoid the confusion in the future.
There is a potential threat to EMTALA with the federal fuckery around abortion though it seems.
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Comment on US judges say Donald Trump administration must continue food aid during shutdown in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentI thought I saw that some of the funding given to hospitals treating people without insurance (EMTALA) was also cut in the stupid big bill and that it was part of the demands to be addressed,...I thought I saw that some of the funding given to hospitals treating people without insurance (EMTALA) was also cut in the stupid big bill and that it was part of the demands to be addressed, especially in rural hospitals. That may have been changed? But either way still not about immigrants, it's about funding hospitals.
Trans healthcare is also at risk.
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Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentIt's targeting the homeless. So we should obviously not be targeting the homeless. It's a symptom. Are we ok with mandating any "illicit" drug user be pulled from their home and job, placed in a...It's targeting the homeless.
About 42% of all participants said they began using drugs regularly before they became homeless for the first time, and 23% said they began using drugs regularly after becoming homeless for the first time.
So we should obviously not be targeting the homeless. It's a symptom. Are we ok with mandating any "illicit" drug user be pulled from their home and job, placed in a locked facility, losing their personal property, and mandated to get treatment? Or just the ones we are forced to see in the street? Once we start fucking with civil rights, it becomes a very thin line as we've seen in many places in the US.
Also like 50% of Californians drink and a quarter smoke weed, so we got a lot if we're expanding this to alcohol and cannabis
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Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentIf I understand that article the criteria they're using are basically the same level as currently exists in much of the US and they're opening a facility for people who are currently in a higher...If I understand that article the criteria they're using are basically the same level as currently exists in much of the US
care and treatment for people experiencing mental illness so severe that it impacts the safety of themselves or those around them, and they cannot — or will not — be treated voluntarily.
and they're opening a facility for people who are currently in a higher level of hospitalization than needed. Not to ban homeless people from the street.
That's not the same as warehousing people using drugs as an alternative to jail in a locked facility without any indication of all the caveats they put in there. What this facility is wanting to do is currently not legal in Utah (wouldn't be legal in IL either.) I don't agree with "greatly" expanding involuntary treatment but neither does BC from what I can read.
The article linked from that one even makes it clear it's about improving quality of care. Maybe it's also awful but it's entirely different from what this facility is doing. We have several homeless encampments in town that have had to move since SCOTUS made it legal to kick them out despite a failure to provide enough shelter options. Utah's facility would want to round them all up, since it's illegal to sleep outside.
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Comment on Good News - A thread and a challenge in ~news
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentOnce again, I encourage you to post a specific good news story here!Once again, I encourage you to post a specific good news story here!
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Comment on Five more arrests as Louvre jewel heist probe deepens and key details emerge in ~news
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentThe people who reported Luigi were specific folks though. Iirc the customer was interviewed and the employee was known but kept anonymous. I think it's specific enough that someone at that...The people who reported Luigi were specific folks though. Iirc the customer was interviewed and the employee was known but kept anonymous. I think it's specific enough that someone at that location would have spoken up and said "none of us called" if that had been the case.
I haven't followed the Louvre situation but while I think we are on more cameras than we think we are, it is usually just that most people are not movie level criminal masterminds
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Comment on Why Disney ditched ‘Doctor Who’ in ~tv
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentAmerican fan here! There are dozens of us!American fan here! There are dozens of us!
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 27 in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentI appreciate your sacrifice comrade. Ai videos are weird and they clearly did so much editing. Honestly, it's such a piece of trash that it's very fitting for Cuomo's campaignI appreciate your sacrifice comrade.
Ai videos are weird and they clearly did so much editing. Honestly, it's such a piece of trash that it's very fitting for Cuomo's campaign
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Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentThe guy in charge waves away the specifics when the reporter asksThe guy in charge waves away the specifics when the reporter asks
Mr. Shumway allowed that planning was at an early stage, and many questions remained: What would happen to people who did not comply with the campus’s sobriety or treatment mandates? Would people who wished to leave be free to do so? Could sobriety requirements result in people losing subsidized housing and returning to homelessness?
“You’re looking for granularity in a blue-sky conversation,” Mr. Shumway said. He said he had presented the plans to federal officials and “got very positive signals.”
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Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentSince the topic is about this specific situation in relation to the Trump executive order and whether or not it would be voluntary given the intent of those building this, I didn't really address...Since the topic is about this specific situation in relation to the Trump executive order and whether or not it would be voluntary given the intent of those building this, I didn't really address involuntary commitment in general.
I do not believe in it as a solution for homelessness.
I am involved in sending people to the hospital on an involuntary or "voluntold" basis regularly and work with them afterwards. When it's needed it can be literally life saving. But it can also be incredibly traumatic. Mostly we ( specifically American society) have agreed the latter is worth the trade off of the former. Not everyone who has experienced it agrees.
But without the "saving lives" level of trade off, I'm not nearly as keen on it. And most of it is very short term - days - with longer term treatment requiring a much higher level of proof. In Utah that requires a court hearing with rights for the defendant/patient.
And that's without even considering how traumatic even voluntary congregate shelters can be, and how you often lose your pets, and are split from your families based on
genderoh wait, it's Utah, by "sex" in an imaginary binary only. And when people start talking about saving souls like in this article I start to have questions about religious expectations and requirements. That doesn't even get into how bad jails are - and how a locked campus substance abuse program that's explicitly coerced is not that much different.I have no doubt this is actually about removing the "eyesore" that these people consider the homeless to be from the political level at least.
But my full thoughts on involuntary commitment are complex and off topic. The executive order pushes involuntary treatment for the homeless not because it's best practice but because they want to force people into being "fixed" and if it doesn't work they'll just keep forcing.
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Comment on US libraries scramble for books after giant distributor shuts down in ~books
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentYes I got a notice from my library that they're pivoting to another service (Palace Project) but that existing holds and checkouts won't come with.Yes I got a notice from my library that they're pivoting to another service (Palace Project) but that existing holds and checkouts won't come with.
When I had the automatic feeders I just kept the time the same but without, mine is constrained around those work hours so I have to.