Second step: Hallucinated virus

Nothing could possibly go wrong

… you deserve a deep scratch and a HISS!

I think it’s more about “these rich people will finally get some little taste of how hard it is to live without a home.”

Except some of them won’t. Those who are truly wealthy will already have other houses, or be able to buy or rent a temporary home while waiting to rebuild. If they already had empathy they’ll realize how comparably " inconvenient" rather than"desperate" their situation is. The others will whine, and use it as a reason to be even shittier to the homeless.

There’s a lot of people also who aren’t wealthy, they have just owned a house in the Palisades from way back when it wasn’t so expensive, or lived in the trailer park. They too already have attitudes re homeless people, which may or may not evolve.

I think anyone who’s unhoused, it’s the result of a disaster, whether a public or private one.

Hey, WE didn’t vote for him!

We’re just lucky these fires happened while Biden is still President or we wouldn’t have gotten a penny.

Gulf Of Eggs

Oh I agree. It really requires -supported affordable housing. Although the best results come from integrating low-income units into mid-price housing so people can be near jobs and have decent groceries etc. Also mixing mid-price housing into high-end neighborhoods so the people who provide services can also live near where they work.

The real problem is landlords who’d rather sit on empty homes than lower the rent. And collude to keep rents inflated.

I’m pretty sure this is what you were listening to, and yeah it’s a pretty bleak situation:

2024 saw one of the slowest housing markets in 30 years. What will 2025 bring? https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/nx-s1-5240991/2024-saw-one-of-the-slowest-housing-markets-in-30-years-what-will-2025-bring

The only glimmer of hope seems to be in cities that have put effort into building more homes. Capitalism isn’t going to solve this, because it only gets “luxury” housing built for the Haves.

One thing that is helping in California is the Builder’s Remedy Law projects, where, in cities that haven’t come up with a legit plan to create more affordable housing by the deadline, (usually because they don’t want Poors living there) developers can create huge new projects that don’t have to conform with the existing (overly restrictive and often based on redlining) zoning laws as long as they include 10% low-income units.

Sounds like terrorism to me

Separately, bird flu has egg prices up again. Which may or may not affect you.

Don’t try this at home, folks.

Even if you find a lot of gunk, remember it’s had hot soapy water washing through it every time you ran the dishwasher, killing a lot of the germs at least.

For every denial of claim, the burden of proof should be on the insurance company. The assumption should be, if a doctor ordered it, it was necessary.

It’s as sweet as soda and no bubbles to take up space needed for Special Sauce and fries.

Pull up to McDonald’s, order a Big Mac, fries and orange juice. Pay and take the bag at the window. Open the bag at the park, it’s cancer medicine! Some little kid in the hospital is eating your fries! Stupid AI, second time this week!

Edit: I’m willing to take my downvotes, but I need to know, is it because I made a joke about little kids being denied cancer medicine by stupid AI? Or is it because I like orange juice?

She’s weaponizing the soulcrushing banality of the DMV for good! Her deadpan face and stolid “I’m here all day anyway” refusal to give an inch, and then the little chink of sunshine through her castle wall as she helped you, a normal person who treated her with respect.

What if you crush and sniff the Phenylephrine pills, or dissolve in water and squirt it up your nose?

Just to add to the confusion, the “pseudo” drug is the one that really works.

Now does anyone know, if I can crush my old PE pills and snort them, will that be the “effective nasal spray” they’re talking about?

Assuming you don’t have a manual to read: First, start with a freshly -emptied clean dishwasher, no spills in the bottom. Wear rubber gloves if you’re easily grossed out. Pull out the bottom drawer. Look in the bottom, you see anything that looks like you could turn it 🛞, with maybe a couple arrows ▶️ ◀️ to line up? Lefty-loosey it, pull it out and take it to the sink, along with any screenlike thingamabobs that come out with it. Run warm water and use hands, sink brush, or scrunge to gently remove all the gunk. You don’t have to abuse it, you want it to last the life of the machine. Also feel in the hole, removing any gunk left behind. If the filter pieces come apart easily, do that, but put them back as they were before reinserting into the machine. Fit it back into the hole and righty-tighty to match up the arrows. Don’t over-tighten! Go rinse out your sink, dry your hands, and set a monthly notification on your phone. It’s much less gross if you do it monthly.

You might wine up with a mess of shards and stains. Whereas you can pummel an assailant to death and still have Chicken Corn Chowder for lunch. (Just don’t put away any dented cans, use them immediately.)

You should anyway. Especially if you’re walking/taking public transportation.