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  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Billionaire's False Narrative...
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    1 个月前

    Not even $20 billion to get started. I’d imagine, for a city like mine, $1 billion would be enough to get started.

    The problem is you have to build the infrastructure first:

    1. Medical facility, staffed, with the capability of both short and long term medical, mental, and addiction treatment.

    2. Job placement facility, staffed, with skills training, resume assistance, interview skills, clothing assistance, laundry facility, permanent address for applications, phones and email. Will also likely need specialists capable of working with people who have criminal records.

    3. Housing assistance, staffed. Work with local housing to get people into facilities. Will also likely need specialists capable of working with people who have criminal records.

    4. Prison facilities for those who have active warrants or are currently committing crimes.

    Once you have invested in all that, $1B? $1.5B? Then you sweep the homeless off the streets and figure out where they need to go.

    Need medical care? #1. Medically and mentally fit? #2 and #3. All of the above but an outstanding warrant? #4.

    For the folks with mental health and addiction issues, the goal needs to be to release them into #2 and #3. Folks do their time in #4, release them back to #1, 2, or 3 as needed.

    Eventually, everyone gets the help they need, and the only problem children are the minority “homeless by choice” “Fuck you, man, I aint part of your system! I throw it on the ground!”

    Those folks need their asses kicked. Give them a place to live but the price is cleaning up homeless camps.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Yes, Kamala is responsible for the genocide in Gaza
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    1 个月前

    Somebody doesn’t know what the official duties of the VP actually are.

    The only official action the VP takes is to cast the tie breaking vote if the Senate is stuck 50-50.

    Harris did that 33 times.

    Which one authorized Israel to commit genocide?

    Pro-tip - 31 of the 33 tie breaking votes were before the October 7th attacks that Israel used to justify the genocide.

    https://ballotpedia.org/Tie-breaking_votes_cast_by_Kamala_Harris_in_the_U.S._Senate

    The TWO that came after?

    December 5, 2023:

    The Senate voted 50-50 to invoke cloture on the nomination of Loren AliKhan to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia. Harris broke the tie to invoke cloture. This was Harris’ 32nd tie-breaking vote, the most tie-breaking votes ever cast by a vice president.[2]

    The Senate voted 50-50 on the nomination of Loren AliKhan to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia. Harris broke the tie to confirm the nomination.[3]

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoscience@lemmy.world•Drug turns human blood into poison for mosquitoes.English
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    2 个月前

    Correct, but this would only impact the species that bite humans.

    Amazing resource here with a ton of info I did not know:

    https://www.livescience.com/what-if-all-mosquitoes-died

    To your point, yes:

    “mosquitoes are a primary food source for numerous animals, including bats, birds, frogs, fish and dragonflies, it’s likely there would be at least some ecological impacts, at least in the short term. Dragonflies, for example, are often known as mosquito hawks, owing to their ability to eat as many as 100 mosquitoes in a single day. It’s likely they, as well as a host of other critters, would, at the very least, have to change their diets somewhat.”

    To the larger point:

    “There are around 3,500 mosquito species, but ‘only around 100 will potentially bite and spread disease to humans,’”

    So we eliminate the 100 species that bite humans, that still leaves 3,400 species for the bats, birds, frogs, and dragonflies.

    In fact, it may not even be necessary to completely elimimate the 100 species that bite humans, kill enough of the biters, and they may evolve into a species that just doesn’t bite us.

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