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they have been doing this along market street in san francisco for years

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Decades

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Great way to lose customers

Having said that, what’s up with the “unhoused” thing? It homeless. Are we now calling it differently because homeless is now all of the sudden insulting? How long until “unhoused” suddenly is a bad word?

Can we please just stop pushing changing words? Homeless is fine, you’re without a home. It sucks, people should support you, not shun you, but changing words is just virtue signalling that doesn’t do anything to make anything better for anyone

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but changing words is just virtue signalling that doesn’t do anything to make anything better for anyone

… And if you are the type of neoliberal politician that wants to pretend they care about people while never actually doing anything to help anyone other than the megacorps when you get into power – Then this is literally all you’ll ever do for people. Linguistic fuckery. Making up new words for things. Fucking around with definitions. And you know that there will be an army of people who will defend this, and shoot down people who actually want to do something on grounds that they said the “wrong” words.

The argument for ‘unhoused’ is that it humanises the person – But it’s really pushing it.

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Yeah, this… Stop haggling with words, actually do something to fix it

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Spoiler: they won’t

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Homeless what, exactly? Sorry, you’re gonna need to throw in the word “person” just to be clear.

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I’ll asume y’all are stupid and privileged and not just cruel. Home can be a public shelter, it is about people. A house is a thing you rent or own.

Not everything is politics, virtue signaling or about you. We use different words because language changes, because society changes. That is why you don’t speak Anglo-Saxon anymore.

It’s about precision. The condition people are talking about is not having a house, regardless of whether they have a home. This is why unhoused is being used more often.

It’s not part of an agenda, it is not about you. Grow up.

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Of course! Relax. It’s more precise to be clear they’re talking about people unhoused.

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It’s not precise. A shelter is just that: shelter, not a home. An apartment can be a home, but is not a house.

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Jokes on them, noise canceling headphones are cheaper than a house

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The article says the music is played to keep the emergency stairwells empty. If you haven’t lived around unhoused before, they can take up a lot of space with their belongings and can be pretty unresponsive.

Exactly the kind of thing you don’t want in an emergency stairwell.

Honestly if the owners of a building CAN’T keep the emergency stairwell clear then the building should be shut down for everyone for safety reasons.

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Yeah, if this were a problem with teens they would likely threaten to trespass them.

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  • Fuck these greedy, utterly insensitive, bastards.
  • Malls are generally owned by large corps in the business of owning malls. Anyone know offhand who owns this one so I can avoid their other properties?
  • How many “housing first,” programs could we run using a year of the company’s profit?
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  • I love the baby shark song. It would take months for me to get sick of it.
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Some of the remixes are real bangers. Like the one where they do the Finger Family song and mix in the baby shark song chef’s kiss 😘🤌

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