Does it? Or does it just make hard drugs more dangerous and drive up multiple related crimes (burglary, shop lifting, mugging, cocoing, county lines etc) and stigmatise people with addiction issues stopping them from being able to seek help?
Is “ghosts” really the most sensitive word for someone who’s been on deaths door for a while now?
The problem is he’s a symptom of broader socialtal issues. Someone else will just rise to fill his place unless we work to address what caused him prominence.
That’s fair. My point is unless you also at least try to fix the issue in society that caused them to get ill in the first place they’re just either going to relapse, or are best someone else will end up in their place.
Not as a default. People should only be hospitalised if they medically need it.
It also doesn’t address the societal issues which lead to their addiction in the first place.
Giving people housing doesn’t solve the problems that caused them to be homeless in the first place.
Yes
Now you have a concentrated block of people with not just issues, but subscriptions. Mental health, drug, and alcohol abuse.
Yes
You have to address those issues FIRST, THEN get them housed.
No.
You house them and then help then with those issues while in their new homes.
Now the hard and really really important part, you address what caused the issues they were facing.
You create jobs (big incentives for businesses to set up near by), you directly employ people in meaningful government funded projects.
You provide first rate education opertunities (both for adults and children).
You provide good high quality social areas (both indoor and outdoor).
You provide first rate socially funded healthcare both for physical and mental issues.
You legalise drugs so their access can be safe and better controlled. You use the tax money from that to go hard on any non legal drugs.
When this was posted first the person posting said sorry for using ai it was basically because they had the idea but not the skill to draw it.
Old people do loose height. So maybe once upon a time he was 6 3. You just need to remember how fucking old he is
In the theme of above lightroom classic (cracked)
Otherwise not really. You’re looking at digiKam for the library management side and either RawTherapee or Darktable for editing.
For Greenland is a hell of a place
It’s a place that’s never green
Where there’s ice and there’s snow and the whalefishes blow
And the daylight’s seldom seen, brave boys
The daylight’s seldom seen
Fuck sake, I thought we’d left this argument back in 99.
Isn’t it amazing that you can look back on someone who’s objectively awful and think, compared to what we have now they’re preferable
It’s also really hard for children to buy booze. Having it legal and regulated stops kids getting it and stops the illegal activities surrounding it AND brings in tax revenue.
With illegal drings you end up with children and vulnerable people falling victim of county lines and cuckooing.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/19/cuckooing-devastating-crime-hiding-plain-sight-22926126/
https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/crime-threats/drug-trafficking/county-lines