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adding "tactics" on the name of any game is inherently v funny to me

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Many of us are returning to northern Gaza, gasping for life. We have no choice but to stand up and recover. But what does this mean for our martyrs? For my brother who I lost in previous wars..

Will he come home too?

Help my family here to recover and get their life back on track. Your donation gives us hope.

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"In Sacramento, California, an estimated 6,615 people are experiencing homelessness, a number that — while still heartbreakingly high — has declined 29% since 2023, according to the latest Point In Time counts. 

But a new project, which has been in the works since 2022, might bring that number down even lower.

A new 13-acre property purchased by Sacramento County will soon be home to the Watt Service Center and Safe Stay. 

The county broke ground on the mixed-use service center this week, which will provide shelter, emergency respite, safe parking, health services, and more to community members who are unsheltered — meaning they don’t have a place to safely sleep at night.

“We wanted to do something that is not only larger, but a large-scale campus to provide more than just the shelter,” Janna Haynes, of the county’s Department of Homeless Services and Housing, told KCRA3 News.

The Watt Service Center will have amenities to help meet the needs of anyone staying there, including bathrooms, showers, laundry, and food, as well as mental health, treatment, and employment services.

“You can also meet with your case manager, get behavior health services, look for a job, get rehousing services, a place for your dog,” Jaynes added. “It’s really everything you need, not only for your day-to-day life, but to hopefully end your homelessness.”

While the center is a costly offering, the city explained that it is ultimately less expensive than allowing the homelessness crisis to go unmitigated.

The land was purchased for $22 million and will cost an estimated $42 million to construct the center. According to ABC10 News it will be mostly funded by the American Rescue Plan Act.

While the center will have the capacity to host 225 beds in Safe Stay cabins, 50-person capacity in Safe Parking, and 75-person capacity for emergency/weather respite beds, it will serve countless others outside of the 350 total people it can house at any given time.

According to a press release from the county, “conservative estimates” have found that over the course of 15 years, the center will serve 18,000 people.

In 2017, the city found that the average cost for an “unsheltered individual” was about $45,000 a year, considering public systems like county jail, shelters, behavioral health, and more.

With the projected impact of the shelter, that cost lowers to less than $3,600 per person.

“If you break down the funding, it’s actually not that expensive,” Rich Desmond, county supervisor for District 3, told ABC10.

“It’s a heck of a lot cheaper than letting someone stay out in the community, unsheltered where they are extremely expensive in terms of the emergency response from fire, our emergency rooms, our law enforcement response.”

Providing what the county calls “wraparound services” not only brings down costs but truly helps people meet their basic needs.

“The really great thing about this site in particular, that we don't have at any other shelters, is the sheer size and the ability to really wrap everything people need,” Emily Halcon, director of the Department of Homeless Services and Housing with Sacramento County, told ABC10. 

One notable feature is the center’s Safe Parking spaces, which are the first of their kind in the city. People living in their cars will now have a safe place to park, monitored by security.

“We know a lot of people who are unsheltered actually are living out of their cars,” Desmond said, “maybe a family that’s barely hanging on but they still need that vital transportation to get their kids to school or get to work.”

This support is especially helpful for those who are newly homeless, Halcon added, building on the amenities provided in the county’s two other “safe stay” facilities. 

While Sacramento County just broke ground on the Watt Service Center, officials say they hope to begin moving people into the facility in January 2026.

“Our staff is putting in extra time and attention to this campus, ensuring that it houses everything we need to end homelessness for people,” Desmond said in a statement.

Once it’s up and running, Jaynes told KCRA3, they plan to onboard formerly unhoused community members as part of the staff at the facility.

“When you have a conversation with someone who understands where you’ve been, and you see the success they’re having now,” Jaynes said, “it really does give you hope something could be different.”

-via GoodGoodGood, January 24, 2025

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At the risk of being controversial, I tend to be suspicious of Americans who are super identitarian in their politics. For example insisting on prioritizing first and foremostthe “queer community,” meaning more or less the American subculture. They almost always end up being reactionary and incapable of actual political consciousness beyond thinking in terms of I vs Not-I and citizen interest group slop. I think after this year, this tendency in radlib identitarian politics will become increasingly blatant and some conscious, direct response to it will be unavoidably necessary after years of people tolerating it or counterposing some other usually workerist identitarianism instead

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To all kind hearts, I am Ahmed, a father of five children. I currently live in the Netherlands. I traveled a month before the war to earn a living and endured the suffering alone in Gaza after the occupation destroyed our home. Our situation is very difficult. We live in a tent and suffer from the high costs of war. Children suffer from some serious diseases, and need help in obtaining the necessary medical care, in addition to food and shelter. Please donate and share. https://gofund.me/f18c36b8 Verified by @gazavetters, my verified number in the list is (#33)

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This is what my children's lives have become... Every night, instead of dreaming about their future, they are haunted by scenes of blood, destruction and genocide. All they have left is fear and hunger. Your small donation, 5 or 10 euros, makes a big difference in their lives. Help us share this message so that their suffering can be heard and heard by everyone. Be their hope... Donate now.

Please donate so we can live.

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Liberals who think the rules and regulations will save us from fascism constantly receive L’s and yet keep going. Bruh this is the county in which the Trail of Tears was determined to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and all Andrew Jackson had to say was “they’ve made their decision, now let’s see them enforce it.”

Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump understand American power far more than their liberal detractors. Liberals can’t do more than appeal to the rules, when the ruling class wrote those rules not for itself but for their subjects. It is military force that determines political outcomes, not some words in a book. Andrew Jackson essentially taunted the Supreme Court, stating their decisions are invalid because they don’t have the military on their side.

There’s a reason Trump admires Jackson. Trump isn’t an aberration, he’s the realization of America’s already existing racist, nationalist and antidemocratic tendencies. He’s not a deviation from American history, he’s part of a continuous line of tyrants.

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related to last reblog. the AI panic as it exists on social media right now, decoupled from any real analysis of labour relations, is a mass epidemic of millions of people giving each other moral OCD.

you people discard anything that isn't completely pure; you flame a music artist and spread callouts about them for using an AI generated soundbite as a sample, you boycott a movie for using an AI tool to clean up audio recordings, you disavow an entire scientific field for using AI for statistical modelling, you send death threats to some 15 year old kid for playing with character AI. you have this compulsive need to signpost being "anti AI" every time you are "tricked" into feeling a genuine emotion. you are so afraid of experiencing an emotional response to "morally corrupt" art or technology you think it's gonna turn you into a "morally corrupt" person.

there's no end goal to this behaviour, you're going to keep categorising your feelings into ones that you are "allowed" and "not allowed" to feel; you're going to keep resonating with things that you don't fully morally agree with, you're going to worry yourself sick by fighting the part of yourself that appreciates aspects of it. It's an endless spiral. stop encouraging each other with this behaviour, it's like the pro-ana shit all over again.

just let yourself feel for fucks sake. your emotional response to a shitty little AI voice clip of ben shapiro talking about lolita dresses has no bearing on what you believe is good for the world. and I know you people are trying to suppress your emotional responses the way you comment "this is the only good use of AI" under any popular comedic AI generated video, cuz apparently comedy is the only emotion exempt from moral interrogation for most of you

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Reblog and talk about your experience in the tags!

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alright everyone. how do we think elon's gonna bite it

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One thing to come out of this, Republican white women are realizing DEI didn't mean only race, so they're getting their faces eaten by the leopards bc they forgot white men in power also hate women regardless of affiliation.

The way this administration, and conservatives in general viscerally hate “DEI” is so disturbing because it’s very clear now that they see….. any person of color having a job that they think is “above them” as an example of DEI and that they should be fired. They think just seeing a black or brown person working in any position that isn’t minimum wage as “woke” and clearly undeserved

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really heavily reject this idea that just by virtue of being oppressed you understand everything about all types of oppression, and that reading theory is unnecessary or is something that unoppressed people do to make themselves feel good. do not fall for this trap. you need to be reading . you need to be learning. your own ideas are good but they can only carry you so far. learn from others.