It's a bad law, but tbc, it doesn't prohibit anyone from giving a sandwich to someone on the sidewalk. The ordinance holds that anyone organizing an event at which food is given out to more than five people in need is required to publicly register the event and get permission from the property owner (in this case the city of Houston since it was on the grounds of the library).
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 3 August 2023 14:24 (one year ago) link
much like the time a potluck for the homeless was shut down a few years ago in some state, with all of the food seized, and then doused in bleach so nobody would eat it afterwards. they claimed it was because the food handling wasn't up to code/improper temperatures etc and "homeless people deserve the same food standards that everyone else does", but you know damn well that if it was some other type of potluck for any other reason, nobody would have given a shit.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 August 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
i would imagine it’s motivated more by “CYA” rather than any genuine concern for unhoused folks’ well being
― brimstead, Thursday, 3 August 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
nah table is absolutely otm
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
the state is great at throwing up a bunch of valid-sounding reasons that ultimately have the same effect, protecting capital
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
yep, table otm
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
right, wasn’t disputing his point, more just responding to straw men
― brimstead, Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
I'm ambivalent about 'dystopia' because that implies there's an attempt to create kind of ideal utopian society, but goes horribly awry (1984, Brave New World, etc.)
Any country that can't/won't feed its people, and then criminalizes others who attempt to do so, is in no way a failed utopia.. it's just a failed state
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
a potluck for the homeless was shut down a few years ago in some state, with all of the food seized, and then doused in bleach so nobody would eat it afterwards
^ if that's not dystopian i don't know what is?
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link
i think it implies a failed utopia, it's comparable to a utopia more in the sense that it seems unreal or impossible
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
*don't think
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:37 (one year ago) link
like, it's just beyond belief
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:38 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I've always thought of it as the opposite of utopia.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:38 (one year ago) link
The general "attitude" towards homeless people in this country borders on genocide. Trump is campaigning on a "Escape from the Bronx"-esque roasting homeless alive with flamethrowers.
― Moritz von Oswald von Wolkenstein (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 3 August 2023 22:47 (one year ago) link
As a person who lived in a truck while holding a full time job, I can attest to the hatred and loathing that the US and many of its people have for the unhoused or marginally housed. The “fuck you i got mine” bootstraps ethos is so inculcated in the populace, no wonder this country is broken and so full of rage and pain.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 3 August 2023 22:50 (one year ago) link
It's a problem as well because yea ok we know a lot of liberaly people are massive hypocrites, but homeless people are where many of them dngaf about proudly demonstrating it
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 August 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of Mussolini if someone wants to build a shelter in my zip code
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 3 August 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link
― Moritz von Oswald von Wolkenstein (Boring, Maryland)
y'all i figured out where it all went wrong
A website dedicated to both this film and its predecessor 1990: The Bronx Warriors was set up in 2004.[12] The site contains two interviews with Enzo G Castellari and details an ongoing attempt to locate Mark Gregory (Trash) who vanished from public view in about 1989.[13] There is also a message in MP3 format (in Italian) from Enzo and his son Andrea to Mark asking him to get in touch and saying how much they miss him.
we need mark gregory now more than ever in these dark times
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 3 August 2023 23:20 (one year ago) link
Nearly 4,500 children were found to be working in violation of federal child labor laws in the last 10 months.Some of them were operating dangerous machinery like deep fryers and meat-processing equipment.It's corporate profits over everything — including the safety of kids.— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 3, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 August 2023 09:15 (one year ago) link
don’t worry, we’re solving that by… loosening the labor laws in states
― mh, Friday, 4 August 2023 12:53 (one year ago) link
implies there's an attempt to create kind of ideal utopian society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_upon_a_Hill
― budo jeru, Friday, 4 August 2023 15:15 (one year ago) link
Always makes me flash back upon Land of the Dead
https://scarina.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/fiddlersgreen.jpg
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 4 August 2023 15:27 (one year ago) link
there's an Irish pub here with that name and I always look over my shoulder from time to time due to that movie
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 August 2023 18:37 (one year ago) link
from wikipedia: The relationship between utopia and dystopia is in actuality, not one simple opposition, as many utopian elements and components are found in dystopias as well, and vice versa.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 4 August 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link
WIkipedia otm.
― Tommy Gets His Consoles Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 August 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link
Dianne Feinstein, 90, cedes power of attorney to daughter — but still serves in Congress https://t.co/6ii3oDWEeI pic.twitter.com/HZN99fr0uq— New York Post (@nypost) August 4, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 August 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link
ugh The NY Post though?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 4 August 2023 20:56 (one year ago) link
It's also the name of an open-air venue south of Denver, Colorado. It's plopped in the middle of a business park. When it was built in the late 80s, it was kind of the pinnacle of corporate rock venues, which is, in a very real way, dystopian.
From 2010 to 2013, it was known as "Comfort Dental Amphitheater."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 4 August 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
they got spoon, qotsa, wu tang, weezer, and “lost 80s live” coming this fall. and somehow gwar. overall vibe: preserved in amber.i would only see gwar if it’s original members. q: how can i be sure
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Friday, 4 August 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
I saw Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty (with the Replacements opening), Jimmy Buffett (with the Neville Bros. opening) there back in the day. Kind of the same vibe.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 4 August 2023 21:22 (one year ago) link
that Petty tour was where he ripped off 'rebel without a clue' from Westerberg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 4 August 2023 21:26 (one year ago) link
xp Ha i think ima go see weezer (spoon opening). maybe it’s a “savior opening” secret vibe
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Friday, 4 August 2023 21:27 (one year ago) link
I don't think they got along too well. The 'Mats played for 30 minutes, announced that that was all they were being paid for, and left.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 4 August 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link
Hunt3r, Dave Brockie died several years ago. Sorry.
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 5 August 2023 01:26 (one year ago) link
there have been 5 Flattus Maximuses
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 August 2023 01:41 (one year ago) link
:( rip
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Saturday, 5 August 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
One of my fondest memories of writing for alt-weeklies was getting to interview Brockie in the late 90s/early 2000s. He picked up the phone and said, "So do you want to talk to Dave, or do you want to talk to Oderus?" I opted for Dave, with a little bit of Oderus at the end.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 6 August 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link
I did not know him personally, but we moved in adjacent circles in 90s Richmond. My tolerance for getting sprayed with fake blood was low, at the time. Should I have seen them more than I did? Maybe. In any case, by all accounts he was a decent fellow.
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 6 August 2023 01:48 (one year ago) link
Lāhainā was once wetland.Boats circled around Waikoloa Church. It’s only became dry and fire-prone because of illegal water diversions and land theft by sugar barons in the 1800’s.Today, the same families reap insane profits off continued control of our irrigation, land…— Kaniela Ing (@KanielaIng) August 11, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 August 2023 14:22 (one year ago) link
https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/
School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books
― rob, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 13:54 (one year ago) link
sounds like that one might be a bit of malicious compliance
― mh, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/451367/space-forces-first-targeting-squadron-brought-life
totally normal new Space Force (a branch of the US Armed Forces) logo unveiled
― koogs, Thursday, 17 August 2023 13:16 (one year ago) link
that’s not really that, but if you’re interested in the weird history of that stuff:
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World
https://a.co/d/3fSdgQc
― the late great, Thursday, 17 August 2023 13:20 (one year ago) link
huh, okay
Charles Haywood, creator of the Society for American Civic Renewal, has said he might serve as ‘warlord’ at the head of an ‘armed patronage network’
The founder and sponsor of a far-right network of secretive, men-only, invitation-only fraternal lodges in the US is a former industrialist who has frequently speculated about his future as a warlord after the collapse of America.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
good luck fella
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
Pic of this man pls
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link
Idahohoho: Other filings identify three lodges in Idaho – in Boise, Coeur d’Alene and Moscow – and another in Dallas, Texas.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
https://theworthyhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CRH-12-22-2-1024x1536.jpg
Not super warlordy imo
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
he made his fortunes in shampoo, which is also not very warlordy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 20:08 (one year ago) link
Smash his glasses and he is defeated
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 20:08 (one year ago) link