David

for I am involved in mankind

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

I want to be clear this does not come from a place without compassion. It's a mixture of anger, compassion and disgust.

I find it absolutely disgusting how we treat our homeless with obvious psychiatric needs. Not to mention the ongoing enabling of horrific drug use and addiction via unaccountable non-profits.

For those with severe cognitive disabilities, the compassionate thing would be to take them off the street and place them in a fully staffed mental institution where their bed is always save and clean, they get three warm meals a day, and all the meds they need to take them into their golden years. We would never let children rot on the street in their own literal shit. Why would we let adults with childlike cognitive abilities do the same?

For those with drug problems, it's complicated, because so many use because they're mentally ill. For those people, an institutional stay would be needed to address the underlying psychiatric issue. For those without a mental illness, if you're caught using in public, it's immediate involuntary rehab. When you get out, you get support through mandatory AA/NA, placed in a sober house, and connected with jobs programs. Mandatory daily drug screenings. If you're caught using again, the cycle repeats. You get three strikes, then it's prison. For their sake and for the community's sake.

Housing first works great for specific types of homeless people. It does not work in the cases above, and in many instances can make their psychiatric or drug problems worse.

The status quo isn't working. We have to do something. Funding and building more beds in our existing psychiatric institutions would be a great start.

[David @davidlbjr]

@dbessner @Tyler_A_Harper Pennywise for Senate! 😂

[David @davidlbjr]

@LUFC1992_v2 It’s a good place to become nocturnal

[David @davidlbjr]

@shaunvlog_ Roast beef…

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

A ~30,000 km-wide hexagon on Saturn's north pole, spinning counterclockwise, finishing one revolution every 10h 40m… and it’s been there for ~40 years 🪐

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

So cool.

53 years ago today, School House Rock Premiered.

Have you ever wondered who the voice was behind your favorite School House Rock songs?

Meet Jack Sheldon and Bob Dorough performing a live rendition of Conjunction Junction.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

“You watch ‘Little House on the Prairie,’ and no one was depressed—everyone was miserable, but no one was depressed.”

@AdamCarolla says modernity—not abandoning religion—is behind skyrocketing rates of despair in America:

“We were meant to go out and work and be with nature… And in the last 10 minutes, we put everyone in a cubicle, fired air conditioning at them, were told to do data entry on a computer, and we started eating our own brains.”

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Iran spent billions to build a nuclear bomb and the proxies to destroy Israel instead of a water infrastructure.

Iran or Gaza: stop attacking Israel and rebuild your own failed nations.

Israel isn’t going anywhere.

[Owen Benjamin 🐻 @OwenBenjamin]

Tim Dillon is fucking hilarious

[Theo Von @TheoVon]

I’m glad there was clarification…

[Rep. Mark Pocan @RepMarkPocan]

There’s nothing beautiful about ripping healthcare away from 17 million Americans.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Author Malcolm Gladwell explains why he thinks driverless cars will fail in urban centers—and why he ran circles (literally) around a Waymo vehicle.

[i like food @messedupfoods]

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[Variety @Variety]

Clint Eastwood: “I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like ‘Casablanca’ in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea. We live in an era of remakes and franchises... do something new or stay at home.” https://t.co/IjgKmIUdsR

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Took some of my kids to see the Revenge of the Sith rerelease in theaters. Hadn’t seen it since it first came out. Even worse than I remembered. The worst dialogue I’ve ever heard in a mainstream Hollywood film. Abysmal action choreography. Not one good acting performance in the film. Truly a terrible pile of shit. An insult to the art of cinema. George Lucas should have been arrested.

[David @davidlbjr]

@Logically_JC @BillAckman @Waymo

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

This is old, but it’s relevant now:

A JFK conspiracy theorist dies and arrives in heaven, where God is there to receive him.

“Welcome,” God said. “You are allowed to ask me one question, and I will answer honestly.”

Without hesitating, the conspiracy theorist asks, “Who really shot Kennedy?”

God replies, “Lee Harvey Oswald shot him from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. There were no accomplices. He acted alone.”

The conspiracy theorist pauses, thinks for a moment and says, “Shit… this goes higher up than I thought.”

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

It’s hard to state exactly how much of our current turmoil is a direct consequence of the Covid years, but I’m certain it’s not insignificant.

The protective cocoon built around those anointed as experts who used censorship to mask their own complicity, incompetence and most importantly, the truth, hasn’t been defenestrated.

Till today, no real moral reckoning has occurred, except for the slow drip of admissions from the mainstream media and various intelligence agencies.

What we’re left with is the utter and complete destruction of institutional credibility, facilitated by the media.

All this cynicism has turned into nihilism and is, in my opinion, one of the major reasons why our discourse and politics is the way it is right now.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

The grief of watching your parents age is something no one prepares you for.