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re: Portland residents, business owners want city officials to 'fix' homeless problem
Posted on 8/21/19 at 8:40 am to Pettifogger
Posted on 8/21/19 at 8:40 am to Pettifogger
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The impacts are real, but it's so common for everyone on this site to pretend Paris is one large refugee camp, Munich is mostly jihadis and Portland is wall-to-wall drug users and homeless.
Flip Munich with Paris and it makes more sense.
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Posted on 8/21/19 at 8:40 am to LSUBoo
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The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland.
Well played.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 8:44 am to Pettifogger
True to a degree, as there will be homeless anywhere, but by far the most numerous and aggressive I’ve seen in my travels were in San Francisco circa 1990.
Saw a bunch elsewhere in NYC, LA, DC, London, etc, but SF had ones that were cursing out a tween girl (my sister) for not giving them money.
Saw a bunch elsewhere in NYC, LA, DC, London, etc, but SF had ones that were cursing out a tween girl (my sister) for not giving them money.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 8:54 am to Scruffy
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Float North, a flotation therapy center
Is no one else really curious about what that is?
My main takeaway from the article
Posted on 8/21/19 at 8:57 am to Gray12
My sister lives there and the homeless population is enormous.
They enable the shite out of it.
They enable the shite out of it.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:01 am to terriblegreen
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The only way to get rid of homeless us to stop giving them money
Not quite...I have
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:04 am to fr33manator
Baton Rouge needs to pay to rent out a full commercial airliner, pack it full of homeless, and fly them to Portland with a $50 in their pockets and a back pack full of MREs.
#WorthEveryPenny
#WorthEveryPenny
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:05 am to Rouge
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Portland had this currency system that people could give the homeless tokens that could be exchanged at certain locations for food, showers, clothes, etc. Shockingly, the homeless seem to care very little about survival needs.
Isn't this an idea the BR braintrust recently proposed?
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:07 am to TheCaterpillar
Or just drive them to New Orleans airport and book them a one way $29 flight on either Frontier or Spirit to somewhere better.
Those flights are often full of homeless people anyways.
A question I have is how do homeless people renew their drivers license or get a new one in another state without an address?
Those flights are often full of homeless people anyways.
A question I have is how do homeless people renew their drivers license or get a new one in another state without an address?
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:09 am to Gray12
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Or just drive them to New Orleans airport and book them a one way $29 flight on either Frontier or Spirit to somewhere better.
Those flights are often full of homeless people anyways.
This is logistically harder because...
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A question I have is how do homeless people renew their drivers license or get a new one in another state without an address?
They often don't have the necessary documentation for TSA.
Chartering a private flight largely gets around that.
Also, a lot of severe mental illnesses so the chance of avoiding a "situation" are a lot better if they don't have to go through security and hang out at a terminal.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:14 am to 777Tiger
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the PCH looks like a KOA going through town with all of the homeless suburbs
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:16 am to TheCaterpillar
That’s genius then. Without an ID, they can’t come back unless they take a Greyhound or something. I’m ok if Baton Rouge shuts down the bus terminal. Only druggies and homeless people use the busses these days anyways.
We can fly them off to Hawaii or Alaska. They can find work there but they can’t come back from there without an ID.
We can fly them off to Hawaii or Alaska. They can find work there but they can’t come back from there without an ID.
This post was edited on 8/21/19 at 9:17 am
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:16 am to Gray12
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Fox News headline article today morning is about Portland
That made my eyes bleed trying to decode that part of the sentence.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:18 am to Gray12
Portland is doing its best to become Seattle and, as we all know, Seattle is Dying.
This post was edited on 8/21/19 at 10:14 am
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:22 am to Scruffy
Here you go, Scruffy.
Float therapy or floating is also known as Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (R.E.S.T.), sensory deprivation, or flotation therapy.
1,000 pounds of medical grade magnesium sulfate (Epsom Salt) is added to water to create an 11? deep solution in a large tub. The tubs vary in size, we have 8' x 4' and 8.5' x 5.5' tubs. The solution is heated to skin temperature which means your brain cannot distinguish the difference between yourself and the water.
Floating effortlessly, your body is supported and freed from all sensation of gravity, temperature, touch, sight, sound, and taste (which together account for 90% of normal neuro-muscular activity), you conserve and redirect vast amounts of natural physical and mental energy.
The ultra-deep relaxation of floating resets the body’s balance, strengthening resistance to and accelerating recovery from the effects of stress, illness, injury, or strenuous exercise.
LINK
Float therapy or floating is also known as Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (R.E.S.T.), sensory deprivation, or flotation therapy.
1,000 pounds of medical grade magnesium sulfate (Epsom Salt) is added to water to create an 11? deep solution in a large tub. The tubs vary in size, we have 8' x 4' and 8.5' x 5.5' tubs. The solution is heated to skin temperature which means your brain cannot distinguish the difference between yourself and the water.
Floating effortlessly, your body is supported and freed from all sensation of gravity, temperature, touch, sight, sound, and taste (which together account for 90% of normal neuro-muscular activity), you conserve and redirect vast amounts of natural physical and mental energy.
The ultra-deep relaxation of floating resets the body’s balance, strengthening resistance to and accelerating recovery from the effects of stress, illness, injury, or strenuous exercise.
LINK
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:24 am to biscuitsngravy
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Asheville, NC
i'm jelly..... love that town
It is a cool town but every year we get closer to the progressive Portland vibe. We have been here almost 20 years and it is a totally different place now. Not bad but hipster gentrification is like a disease. It starts with brewpubs (sweet!), morphs in to gentrification (new, vibrant stuff is nice so, ok) and ultimately ends up with all of the transplant shitheads deciding that they know best and totally displacing any indigenous goodness that is left. It is still good but I can smell the creeping progressive-ism...
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:26 am to Paluka
Sounds pretty relaxing actually. You could trip on something and listen to trippy music all day in that salty tub.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:30 am to Paluka
I've done the sensory deprivation float tank. We bought it on Groupon a few years back.
It was actually fricking incredible. It was crazy relaxing. Felt like I had taken a xanax the rest of the day. If I was rich, I'd do it a lot I think.
It was actually fricking incredible. It was crazy relaxing. Felt like I had taken a xanax the rest of the day. If I was rich, I'd do it a lot I think.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:31 am to Gray12
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Sounds pretty relaxing actually. You could trip on something and listen to trippy music all day in that salty tub.
People do this. In fact, I was told to drop some L before I did it, but chose not to
It was a really cool experience though. Took a minute to shut off my mind, but once I did it was next level relaxing.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 9:51 am to stickly
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It is a cool town but every year we get closer to the progressive Portland vibe. We have been here almost 20 years and it is a totally different place now. Not bad but hipster gentrification is like a disease. It starts with brewpubs (sweet!), morphs in to gentrification (new, vibrant stuff is nice so, ok) and ultimately ends up with all of the transplant shitheads deciding that they know best and totally displacing any indigenous goodness that is left. It is still good but I can smell the creeping progressive-ism...
I hear you brother. Austin is headed down the same path. Weird and funky has been replaced with hip and trendy. In some cases I believe that gentrification is a necessary evil, but when it begins to obliterate the things that make a place special, it's soul for lack of a better word, it becomes a problem. The west coast refugees move here and begin to ruin the place in the same manner that they ruined their home city/state. It's infuriating and heartbreaking at the same time.
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