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Homelessness (fedia.io)

submitted 3 months ago by xfreed@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I used to work in a country club while I was homeless and living out of my beat-up car. It was pretty difficult to go to work and see all these other young people my age living the good life, pulling up in brand new Corvettes and BMWs that their parents gave them, spending as much money as I made for an entire two weeks on breakfast, and then heading out to play golf all day, while I was working harder than any of them to have none of the luxuries. The only thing they did better than me was be born to rich parents, yet they were set for life, and I was homeless while serving them gourmet food. Thankfully I managed to eventually fight my way up the ladder, but motherfucker is it hard!

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I grew up not seeing my mom or dad at 8pm. We were never hungry, but food wasnt always available and they'd open up a can of spaghetti or make soy sauce/rice and we'd share that as a family meal of 4. I was the first one to go to college, and mostly lived in the college library and slept in a closet or friend's couch. I busted my ass to become a software engineer and happy that I made it.

But honestly, my life wasn't so bad, compared to the many other immigrants, broken homes, and other struggles people have.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago (6 children)

What about the shareholders? ... if we deal with homelessness, it will affect the shareholders!

Won't someone think of the shareholders?!?

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Boatless please help

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I get your joke, really and truly, but you might be surprised to know a lot of poor people live on boats. I did it. Down at the marina was the shadiest place I’ve ever been.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Now be honest, your pee and poop went into the water, didn't it?

It's technically illegal, but we all know everybody out there does it.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We were illegal poopers. However! When you are living so close to nature, you are aware of your “footprint”. And it’s just poop. Chemical cleaners were minimal, which is not something “landlubbers” think about.

You just assume it goes down the drain and the problem is solved. But we knew how often the sanitation plants for civic sewage had “incidents” when they couldn’t operate properly and just dumped it all into the river.

So my poop; just a drop in the bucket; picture it. It isn’t all those chemicals; it’s just poo. Picture my poo, picture my poo, picture my poo.

Anyway, if your local news says something about boaters polluting your water, that is a red flag about civic sanitation because a little bit of poop is a small concern when stacked up to everyone’s poop and chemicals. And don’t even get me started on those macerator things some people have in their sinks; those are the worst.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

How often did you have to go back to land to get clean drinking/showering water supply?

I'm fascinated by the boat lifestyle because I live in a van. I think living in a boat would be charming but a little more complicated than van life.

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just want to point out that the other commenter's experience isn't universal. My mom lived on a boat for years and loved it. I couldn't do it long term as there's very little space available, but it doesn't have to be a negative experience.

This particular marina had bathrooms with showers up on land which the majority of, if not all, residents used. There was also a restaurant on the water with bathrooms. Electricity and tap water were available at each slip. Heat wasn't necessary, because it was Southern California.

I never knew how much it cost, but I know for a while she lived there while working as a waitress at that same restaurant, so it couldn't have been too expensive.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Funny that you mentioned the public washroom. I avoided bringing it up because we were told (under no uncertain terms) we weren’t allowed to use it. Back in the day, an openly gay couple was not common, I guess. So, apparently, straight people peeing and pooping and showering nakedly was fine; but me doing it was “pornographic”. I apologize to everyone I accidentally introduced to hot gay porn. Sorry; my bad.

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[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The good news is, homelessness is illegal in many places now which solves the "unhoused" part of being homeless.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We plan to cut all homeless people in half by 2025!

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Carl, that's killing people!

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Caaaaaaarl

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"You're not allowed to not have a home!"

"Oh so you're gonna give me a home?"

"No!"

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

"I'm not being broke to fuck with you. My life is just shitty..."

-Louis CK

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg54mg/republicans-push-to-legalize-property-owners-killing-homeless-people-in-kentucky

Kentucky wants it to be legal to just fucking shoot them.

[–] maculata@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago

Marvellous. What a Christian solution.

[–] blender2142@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 months ago

What?

[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

yup it just makes you unemployable with a felony YAAAYY!!!

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, look at it from the bright side: the person in this picture does have a roof over their head.

Do I need to slap an /s on it?

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Somebody somewhere will eventually downvote it either way:-P.

Although there's also some truth to it, in being one of the reasons that people end up behind bars.

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Land of the fee, home of the slave

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

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Fwiw, it wasn't always - the government used to have a top marginal tax rate of 90 fucking percent, and money was just handed out by outright socialist policies. Maybe that wasn't good either, especially when distributed ~~primarily~~ exclusively to white families, but dayum the pendulum sure has swung the other direction now that people learned that minorities might get some ever so small slice of that pie. Yeah, surely better to turn us all into slaves than for that to happen. (To be clear, I am joking, and actually unfortunately so bc with globalization and automation, the ultra wealthy don't really even need slaves at all, so better for the population to just fall to levels that they can more easily control.)

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