Having people shooting themselves up in public bathrooms doesn't negate the sanitary benefits of having public bathrooms. It's just an excuse for having poor public services.
Plus if they actually cared about folks shooting up they'd just have blue lights in the bathroom.
Local bars around me all have blue or green restroom lights to keep people from shooting up, makes it nearly impossible to find a vein by sight.
Having trained as a paramedic, I could find a vein on a patient by general anatomy and feel. Not sure if I could do that on myself or not.
Will this prevent them shooting up? Or just cause them to shoot up badly?
We had safe supervised injection sites in my province/City. It was awesome, I live in an area that had three of them, way less people on the street overdosing, way less garbage and fecal matter...and this was with a housing crisis and a rise in homelessness. Our premier just ended this program in April and I've noticed a large difference, way more garbage and fecal matter on the street, people are more agitated and things feel less safe. It was nice treating people with minimum decency while it lasted.
Welcome to Ontario.
Yup, everyday it regresses a little more.
What province? I assume this is talking about Canada since you mentioned premier?
A bit how the governments doesn't build more houses to meet the demand and make it more affordable but instead make anti homeless benches etc. Almost like it would stop people being homeless
What's crazy us, there's actually enough existing housing for everyone, at least in the US to have a home. It's just all owned by massive real estate corporations and left empty. The state doesn't need to build more housing, they just won't distribute what's there. But let's be real, they don't want people to stop being homeless. Our prison industry is private and for-profit, they want them to be homeless so they can criminalize and arrest them, so they can make them do cheap/free prison labor.
This kind of circular bullshit is exactly what makes modern day America pathetic.
There used to be a can-do attitude here in this country. People would look at a problem and go 'okay lets fucking fix it' and then we would (or at least fucking try). Now, way too many fucking people just want to sit and bitch about problems and something not being perfect, and refuse to do anything to fix said problems. This can't-do attitude bullshit is fucking infuriating.
Perfect being the enemy of good is how we roll.
teaming up with "we have been living with this problem therefore we don't need to fix it"
I live in Vancouver and there are literally no bathrooms, public or private, in the densest parts of the city for this exact reason. I've damn near pissed myself on long transit trips because all of the restaurants near transit stations won't let you use the bathroom even if you buy something.
You used to be able to pay to use the bathroom by buying something, now you can't relieve yourself even if you wanted to pay. Like build coin operated toilets like they have in Europe at this point because it's better than literally not having access to any bathrooms at all.
My mom moved to BC two years ago, I've had this problem every time i visit. It super sucks, I heavily rely on the free/public bathrooms everywhere in Toronto.
We spend so much time and effort trying to disuade the people with "negative behavior" who we have discarded from our "civil society"
Where I live the grocery stores have carts whose wheels lock if you try to take them too far from the store. As if anyone trying to do that would know until they couldn't push them anymore. Thing is the store doesn't unlock them. Somehow they make it back and then they end up to front carts. People will try to use them until they realize they can't be moved. Some do get unlock, but the wheels aren't round anymore. People dragged them flattening out part of the wheel. If there are no other carts, which happens often because there are so many with locked wheels, you get to click and clack through the store with everyone looking at you like you are some kind of asshole.
There are literally hundreds of cameras. Including ones raised high on trailers in the parking lot. The same pole has blinking blue lights to simulate a police cruiser and a loud speaker reminding you the parking lot is being monitored. Back in the store as you walk in there is an electric gate and a camera and monitor. On which is writing which also reminds you you are being monitored. You have to wait to let them get a picture of you before the gate will open.
But the best of all of this. After you finish checking out your groceries as if you work there, you have to keep your reciept handy before your cart is checked by armed guards. Body armor. A gun. Not the police (as if that would make it better, but at least their job is to "protect and serve" the public) As you walk up they are usually shooting the shit with each other, and they maintain that pleasantness while they check your receipt (as if they actually are). You are at complete ease until you realize you went through a security checkpoint with a riot squad.
All of this. All. Of. This. Because our society sees it as acceptable to punish the entire public for lack of empathy for those who need it most and to prevent petty crime.
*you're
No, it's MY supporting drug use. Get your own!
*you’re
Nationalize the drug industry.
I used to watch that show religiously. This was the last episode I watched, I couldn't take it anymore.
What show was it?
Orange County Choppers
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*fewer
Lol, gottem!
true story for berlin
