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[–] 68 points 1 year ago (7 children)

We can't be giving homeless people free drinking water when there's golf courses to maintain in the desert /s

It's ridiculous how society treats homeless people like pests

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We need to reinforce our free water at businesses law that made the businesses liable if someone is turned away and suffers injury without water

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Not all places have this law, although it probably should be a law everywhere. That said, most businesses are able to skirt it fairly easily by giving away tiny cups of water. Some buy tiny cups just for this purpose and nothing else

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    It'll probably be better for them in prison.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I was homeless in Phoenix in 2008 and it was beyond brutal. The heat was so intense that the soles of my shoes partially melted one day. I used to break into apartment complex pools just to cool down. And then monsoon season is a whole other beast.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That city is a monument to the arrogance of man.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I grew up there. It's definitely hot, but I can say living in a high humidity city in the south can feel much worse.

    With low humidity if you're in the shade Phx is great most of the year. You'll sit outside and eat in the 90s. Sure, above 110F is friggin' hot but 95F and 90% humidity in GA or FL or south TX is worse if you're outside, and shade doesn't protect you from humidity. 115F has its own special problems like how hot car door handles and metal seat belt buckles get, but that's better than the hot wet blanket effect you get in the south during the summer.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We live in a true dystopia. The headlines are so insane as to prompt laughter and tears. I especially like this one from the very next post in my feed:

    Suspect in Austin Target shooting that killed 3 people was found naked and holding Bible

    What will people who study us 1000 years from now think? The sane ones advanced technology in remarkable ways, yet they allowed the most insane among them to lead their society. They used taxes to help fund miraculous pharmaceutical research, but then allowed private companies to reap all the profits, and to price the drugs beyond what the citizens could afford. They were fully aware of their downfall yet somehow powerless to stop it.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It will not be a problem for long. Mr. Trump will fix it. The homeless will no longer be in the city, so no chance of heat injury

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    To be fair, a city in the middle of the desert, where men was not supposed to go, taunting the will of god like Babel, might not be the best place to keep homeless people around.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's not that someone's "keeping them around." They live there.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You are free to assume that I made a deliberte word choice there, or you can just assume that I mean something sensible with it. Whatever suits you best.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm not trying to be dense here, but what sensible thing did you mean?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fair enough, "sensible" is a very subjective term these days, always has been, but now even more. I mean to not leave people out on the street to die in scolding hot temperatures, but rather arrange for decent emergency shelters and ultimately proffesional help to get people back on their feet, or at least off the street.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Ah, that is sensible. Thanks for clarifying, and I agree. Homelessness is a failure of a community. If the climate is already hostile to people who have shelter, we better make damn sure unhoused people are protected too.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Ain't that America?! Home of the fee baby!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    And people wonder why there are so many homeless people in California.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If they didn’t want to be burned by the sidewalk, why did they choose to become homeless?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Instead of helping people, they're villainizing them. Disgusting

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Just as planned.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I don't understand why the state Governor isn't doing anything about this. Katie Hobbs is a the definition of a DINO

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)
    1. Find a MAGA idio-er-person you're on... level footing with and bet that next year, temperatures will be higher.
    2. Wait a year
    3. Profit
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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is this part of the Chinese hoax?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Can't provide any relief for this. Without an inherent and unrelenting threat to their lives, homeless people would have no motivation to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. /s

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