homelessness is a good case study for this sort of thing there are roughly three tranches of homelessness: 1. homeless for economic reasons. lost job, have family, basically functional people. dealing with this is straightforward
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Replying to @eigenrobot
2. homeless because of addiction problems. this is difficult because the dependency is strong enough that people will refuse to eg go to a shelter if they have to stop using, and shelters have a difficult time putting addicts up because they often have behavioral issues
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3. homeless because of mental health. this is extremely difficult to deal with because the afflicted people are worse than nonfunctional, often destructive or unpredictably violent, can't keep up a living space. cures dont really exist
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we used to have asylums for (3) but they were often very bad, involved a lot of forcible drugging, in the 20C there were things like forced sterilization or lobotomies even rich families did this shit, eg rosemary kennedy. just evil so we got rid of asylums mostly
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this is the result and this kind of thing is a common pattern, you can generalize from this to other classes of problems :/pic.twitter.com/jLqUfHQi8q
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i mean, okay but still, bold of you to believe in statistics
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i dont but simply plotting data is often fairly reliable if you dont like that im going to simply pull rank and remind you that you were not even a twinkle in your daddys eye when many major us cities were largely no go zones
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Replying to @eigenrobot @acidshill
Simply not poisoning ourselves with lead was a good start. wonder what else can be done
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you wont like the answer i dont either
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