Wat. This does not resemble my experience over there at all. Though I’m sure the long weekend thing is pretty universal.

I was bitching on the train about Br*ts due to brexit and the older German dude I was talking wouldn’t have a bar of it, calmly replied “they have to make they’re own choices and go their own way and that’s ok” or something to that effect. Auto Bahn was fine and everyone was super friendly when I proclaimed to be a tourist by stating in German “sorry I speak little German, do you speak English”? More often than not they complimented my pronunciation and replied in English.

Hell in the smaller towns, shops didn’t even open on weekend before 10am. Shit was awesome. Would go back in a heartbeat. Though I will concede had I answered differently when they asked where I’m from, it may have been a slightly different experience.

I used to order somewhat frequently when I first moved to the city on a weekend before the pandemic and the prices became cooked. Going from a small city of 3 Chinese restaurants and one sushi place to an entire city you can order from was awesome and novel.

Gradually every other order just started getting messed up. I was home pissed one night and decided to order some food while gaming with some mates. It came hours late and Uber offered me like five bucks off my next order and that’s after bitching about it. That’s was pretty much the end for me. The food can arrive whenever, in whatever state and so long as it arrives, fuck you eat your hour cold slop. I can buy and/or make better junk food myself for far cheaper in most case. With one of their main competitors folding I doubt it’s gotten better.

It also felt like some of the stores didn’t want to do Uber. That management saw the dollar signs but then wouldn’t put more staff on Fri/Sat when the stores would get swamped with orders from boozers.

Yeah give me an hour or two with the documentation and I could write COBOL, look out IBM stocks! Will it be elegant or even coherent COBOL? No. Will it at least not contain heaps of in-built time bombs in the form of bugs and security flaws? Also no, but I could write it. As the other commenter said, fuck with the COBOL wizards at your own peril.

Having a temporary injury still affects ability.

But is not disabled, by definition and therefore calling people criticising them ableist, is incorrect. Let’s try to keep this based in logic and rational objectivity.

The point that sailed over your head in your further attempt to do what passes as virtue signal by your metric, is that you’re engaging in the same behaviour you’re criticising. Judging people without attempting to understand, hence my attempt to explain they likely are not, as you accuse “assuming all disabled should have aides”. While providing potential reason for why the initial comment was downvoted. Ableism while morally bankrupt and disgusting behaviour doesn’t warrant referring to people as “subhuman slime”.

The ironing of assuming the worst, that someone is ableist before using dehumanising language by referring to people as slime. Cant beat it. Dude was temporarily injured anyway.

Every person ever has an excuse to ditch trollies of varying validity. No one would ever answer “because I’m a lazy, inconsiderate arsehole” if asked why they left it. Which can easily explain people assuming he’s one of said people and the downvotes. As someone who’s disabled would say “Im disabled” or something to that effect, not “I hurt my knee”. Much more likely than they hold the physically disabled to the same standard or are assuming “everyone who’s disabled should have an aide”. Get a grip.

Yeah that would make sense, wasn’t sure if it was the case though. Cheers for clearing that up.

Yes becoming hysterical enough to be (almost) violent with people because you don’t understand important to me =/= important to the rest world, makes you a giant, unaesthetic arsehole.

Now to the actual point, DMV can someone explain? I thought that’s where Americans go for licensing, maybe vehicle inspection?

You should talk to a therapist. Your post history is consistent in going between wanting to go your own way and dealing with your parents because you’re financially dependent on them due to being on SSI. All the question posts are just bordering on procrastination.

I think i want to earn money to gain experience but i also dont feel ready for a job?

This is what I mean. You’ll never feel “ready” for a job until you get one. No matter where you are there will likely be low skill, low barrier to entry jobs going. They’re shit, they pay fuck all but they’ll pay more than SSI. More importantly you’ll learn some important skills. Namely being accountable to people who aren’t related to you. You’ll probably appreciate the additional income. You’ll probably lose the job because out in the real world you’ll quickly learn that people will only accept excuses for things a few times until they realise it’s a recurring thing.

You’ll then realise “oh shit, not being entirely broke all the time is pretty good actually” and then you can look towards upskilling and/or going back to school. Move out of your parents and let them worry about their hobby~jobs and messy house. Start worrying about your own life. More importantly start doing shit, fucking it up and learning from it. Anyone who told you they immediately knew what they were going to do with their life and didn’t make any mistakes as a young adult is lying or had a trust fund.

Yeah 90s born here and the idea of just wandering up to someone while they’re out in the street, shopping or pretty much anywhere that isn’t like a bar (and even then unless they give some sort of indication) and running a line is wild.

My mates older brother in high school would insist that sort of stuff is how you do it. Fuck that. I hate people, mostly sales people or weirdos, bothering me when I clearly have every indication about my demeanour not to talk to me, do it. So why would I? It’s weird.

I always thought the opposite, that they weren’t allowed to as that was a job more appropriate for a Sargent. That not only it was against articles of war but it was conduct unbecoming. Not for moral reasons, obviously, but as a holdover from the lords/upper classes being officers and it being beneath them.

It’s referenced in Sharpe’s rifles based during the Napoleonic wars. Sharpe an officer made up from the ranks is looked down on by the other officers who are all mostly lords/wealthy with the odd prince thrown in. He gets into a fight with a regular rifleman who’s hungover and mistakes him for a typical soft officer. He’s then chastised by another pair of officers for brawling with the “common soldiery” or something to that effect. Seems like a good idea to prevent lords newly minted as officers making the mistake and getting mauled by actual soldiers.

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Ok, so we’re banning guns for the gender that overwhelmingly features in the entire rest of the shootings then, right? Just kidding, I would never pretend Fox, who themselves admitted to not being news, are anything more than rage baiting, Murdoch funded grifters.

Just wanted to say these replies in my absence were appreciated, cheers.

Given the comment chain, I’m sure this isn’t a productive use of my time but just to be clear that is not at all what my comment implies. In Perth, where the article is based for example, there are homeless shelters. My point remains that most if not all of them have rules (hint: especially the ones with Saint in their name or vaguely religious sounding), that some are not able to comply with due to the issues they face. Nor do I think “the homeless do this In every city”, or all of them in any given city for that matter, hence my use of “subset”, “a good portion of” and other specifying terms.

but people like you with this viewpoint aren’t going to let them get the help they need.

Your misinterpretation of my comment aside I could probably wager I’ve spent more time with the homeless and around them than most. While they can always use more services and facilities, the group Im referring to (and that the article/OP references) the problem is largely one of rights i.e. involuntary psychiatric detention or outpatient rehab. The former doesn’t happen until they present an immediate threat to others or themselves and once they get released, they disappear and learn to avoid areas (e.g. shelters) where they’re likely to be sectioned by the police again. The belligerent/trouble making group Im referring to (and I’ll reiterate, used the term subset) have generally fallen through the cracks and have absconded from facilities. Or genuinely do not want to attend them due to not wanting “rules”, knowing they’ll be evicted or in the case of violence, knowing they’re no longer welcome there. A more complex approach is required beyond just “building shelters” as the comment I replied to stated.

Problem is people like OP is referring don’t stay at shelters long as they generally require you don’t drink/do drugs/keep your area clean. A good portion of the homeless population aren’t just “down on their luck” they’re long term homeless/unemployed due to undiagnosed mental illness and substance dependence. There’s also a subset of them who are frequently belligerent so you’d need staff able to work around people like this, pay them adequately for doing so and pay for security. It’s usually not that simple an issue to address as anyone who’s been around homeless areas can tell you.

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Look he likely just drastically misinterpreted the expression “darker than a coal miners arsehole”. We as a country really don’t like talking about the time Scott Morrison took a large piece of coal to parliament, bent over and really just went for it.

Fun fact: the choreography was far easier for the prehistoric sea monsters to learn due to their inability to metabolise LSD.

deadbeat dad that bails on family to the US

stated he wouldn’t care about her being sexually assaulted because he’s got two other daughters

Trump supporter and they had a massive argument about Trump prior to the shooting

He gets drunk, a former boozer, on .5L of wine

aka 2 cup, aka 4-5 standard drinks. Former boozer.

history of arguing with daughter about owning a guns

Takes her, by the hand, to his bed room to show her his gun

“Oopsies gun went bang, and I just couldn’t understand, as a gun owner, what happened. My daughter who I told immediately prior to the shooting was replaceable if she got SA’d, meant a lot to me. ”

Clearly no crime happened here. All just a big accident, no charge.