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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • There are multiple housing problems and they’re all probably way more complicated than anyone wants to acknowledge. The highest priority “housing problem” right now imo is that there are people who don’t have a safe place to sleep at night.

    In order to solve that problem you need

    1. Safe housing to provide to those people
    2. A system for assigning those people to the housing.

    Building/acquiring housing costs money. If the government isn’t doing its job and spending money to solve this problem we need to

    1. Hold them accountable through voting
    2. Take matters into our own hands as a community and attempt to contribute to a local solution in whatever capacity we’re able to contribute (donations, volunteering, organizing). Once we have legitimate trustworthy organizations that are doing a good job solving the problem then we can hopefully proceed by driving more support for them.

    Creating a system to assign individuals to housing is probably the more “difficult” part because there needs to be some sort of consensus on the mechanics of prioritization. I personally think we should prioritize housing for individuals and families with children, but after that I don’t know who we should serve next.




  • I don’t think people should have to do that, but including context is generally an important part of asking a question.

    Like if I’m trying to fix a problem and I need help I’d be like “I’m getting error code 123 on my printer (make, model). I’ve tried turning it off and on again, unplugged it from the wall, but the error always pops up as soon as it finishes powering on. Anyone have any experience with this and how to solve it?”








  • Hot take: All criteria used to classify ideas and objects into distinct categories can eventually break down. The only reason to pursue the creation of classification systems is to facilitate communication. If we get to a point where we start throwing chairs at each other I’d argue were no longer willing to communicate, and so arguing about whether something is “this” or “that” is no longer a priority. The priority should become attending to the mental and emotional wellbeing of the individuals in the absence of labels.



  • Yeah, I see where you’re coming from. Although instead of laughing I’d probably reply with “sounds like it’s time for a story.” Because I think I would assume that something happened to them recently that highlighted the danger of fire lol

    “Presenting something well-observed and well-documented as a novel thought is laughable.” I really like this sentence. It made me realize that I’d interpret “laughable” as either “humorous” or “ridiculous” depending on the context. Specifically regarding how genuine the person is being, which is impossible to be sure of. You can only make assumptions about whether a person is being genuine/honest, although you can get more comfortable with those assumptions as you get to know them better.

    Those types of “hey did you know water is wet?” comments can also serve as a jumping off points for sarcastic remarks with friends.