… 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.

Except the first night the winds in the Palisades were too strong and erratically gusty to fly anything, especially the kind of daredevil flying necessary to drop water into a fiery maelstrom, in the thick smoke and rugged terrain. So they were limited to a ground attack, which is why so many homes and acres burned. The fact so few people died is a testament to much of the work they did accomplish, saving lives rather than property.

I was referring to the rat’s nest of pubes on his head

Insurance CEOs are immoral.

Billionaires are garbage.

“Pædo” under Kavanaugh

Donald’s a dickhead, complete with pubes.

Meta’s a bog, and Zuck is its boggart.

Free enough?

(Too bad I don’t have an account to test it out.)

IMHO it’s being in the carrier, since they start complaining before they’re even in the car. As a young college idiot I drove 3 days with a cat and a friend, and we didn’t have a carrier. The cat found herself a "safe spot under a seat, and since it wasn’t the driver’s seat we let her stay there. She was quiet, seemed pretty calm, even slept. If I knew my cat would stay in a safe spot like that, and would get back in the carrier to go into the vet’s office, I might let her out for the drive. But that’s not gonna happen.

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.

The door looks high enough to come over the drinks, but I do have bad depth perception. If not, I think there’s room to squeeze a person out the side of the door and get the delivery, but you wouldn’t want to fling the door open.

Sounds like terrorism to me

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

Feeling very fortunate to live in SoCal where avocados are a local crop, even grow in backyards.

Bird flu, too.

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?

Toddler nothing, my cat apparently knows more macros than I do.

The Turtle Moves!

Yes his mom shouldn’t have to do this stuff for him, but if she’d taught him right he’d have been doing it for himself all these years.

I guess the one positive thing about his “whores” is that he won’t be trying to get you to take your mother’s place in bed. If he catches a disease, at least it can’t hurt your mom now.

Being stuck at home sucks, but I understand you need the financial support to get through university. Do whatever you can to ensure you have a good job lined up before you graduate so you can move out.

Any guys you might want to get involved with, bring them home to test, and eliminate any who don’t tell you, unsolicited, how wrong he is, and set an example by helping you.

It’s in Cats. Every post here is special, because every cat is special.

You couldn’t give a DOG the job of guarding all the bones every night, you’d find them all buried and have to start over!