• paranoidcyborg@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    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.

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    7 days ago

    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.

  • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Been doing rideshare late at night the last week, holy damn I didn’t realize how bad the public bathroom situation was in my town, and I’ve got a car to hunt for one.

    We should genuinely have a public bathroom minimum. You want to run a store in town? You gotta make your bathroom open to the public. Don’t care if the people using it are customers or not.

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    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.

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    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