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  • The last thing a construction job needs is a system of cameras that nanny workers.

    The pictured example would need a larger ladder or even a scaffold. So a quick bit of work then takes a half hour or more because the next largest ladder is on the truck, which someone else took and now you need to hunt down a ladder off your truck that someone else “borrowed” or you need to transport and assemble a scaffold.

    There are scaffolds in the picture, but they are in use, so you would be waiting for them to be available and that could be a long wait or it belongs to another contractor and you can’t use it. Sometimes you need to move a bunch of shit just to be able to get the scaffold in place and that takes more time.

    Why am I talking about time being the justification of not doing things the safest way? Because job sites have an expectation that things get done fast enough for the successive steps and adding hours of time spent per week for just one person, compound that by however many workers, slows things down a lot and that means timelines aren’t met. Not finishing on time can have big consequences, so you are pushed to rush and save time to allow for unavoidable slowdowns cause by outside influences.

    As safe and fast as possible is the modus operandi of construction and an AI nanny would be hated by everyone under the lens.

    There are over 8 million people in the US construction industry, a 1,000 deaths a year is a pretty great statistic given the dangers of working around stuff that can kill you instantly even if you follow every rule and are cautious.


  • Yeah, having a distribution of “classes” within a communal housing makes the most sense.

    The issue of having a maladapted homeless person within proximity of “normal” people is that they may negatively affect others in meaningful ways. So an intermediary step from the streets to communal housing is necessary to act as a rehabilitation point to filter out the homeless that would actively harm the peace, safety, and security of everyone else. Without that intermediary step, the community will step up and “handle” the situation in a less than desirable manner. “So you are saying the guy that we have had various complaints about multiple times a month just decided to jump off the roof and nobody saw anything?” That sort of dynamic has played out throughout human history.

    So a degree of isolation and counseling is necessary and the duration would be highly dependent on the individual’s needs.



  • I don’t disagree with you, but I feel a communal housing with lots of homeless people in close proximity would be deleterious to homeless rehabilitation as the worst examples would negatively effect the best examples in the same way that prison turns a normal person into a broken person that can manage existing outside of that system.

    You couldn’t even separate the degrees of maladaptions and have productive rehabilitation because there would a point at which you create a oroboros class that would never be capable of rehabilitation in proximity to similar cases that would fester and grow until you need a larger capacity that never really makes progress.

    The same sort of thing happens on the streets now. The influence of the worse cases drag down others until you have a common population of bad cases that are decivilized until rehabilitation is almost impossible.

    A more separate and isolated rehabilitation program would allow for a greater ability for improvement in a vacuum devoid from the detrimental influence of worse or more of the same influence. Obviously that would be more costly and have greater logistical needs, but that is the cost of meaningful homeless rehabilitation.


  • Prison labor isn’t free, they still get paid. They don’t get paid a “fair” wage, but they do get paid to skirt slavery just barely enough.

    Also they cost taxpayers more to keep in prison than if they were abusing welfare and not working and someone else was paid a “fair” wage to do the same work prisoners do.

    It would be nice if they were paid a fair wage for their work and were rehabilitated so taxpayers didn’t have to subsidize prisoner exploitation for as long, but that would be too “commie”.




  • I have an older Dyson stick vacuum that works perfectly fine. The batteries for it are reasonable in the aftermarket, but I got an adapter that lets me use Milwaukee batteries and I have plenty of those. I have only had to replace the catch for the canister. I got it for $20 at Goodwill.

    My mother has a Dyson from like 20 years ago that needed like $80 in parts to fix to make it just like new. It just needed the canister latch, after being dropped down stairs, as well as the main hose and the secondary hose.

    Are they good vacuums? yes.

    Are they bulletproof? No.

    Are they reasonable to repair? Mostly, but major parts are expensive, but we are talking about a $$$$ vacuum.

    They aren’t a Kirby, but they don’t cost Kirby money, especially if you buy a Dyson second hand and do a bit of maintenance. For US people, shopgoodwill.com has Dyson’s for sale second hand for cheap, like $50 for a stick and under $100 for an upright.



  • There doesn’t exist a means through which a state could grant citizenship because the federal government grants citizenship.

    Green cards are the next step below naturalized citizen. So you are looking to establish a process to become a green card holder, or lawful resident. That is, once again, a federal process.

    To make a state originated green card would require an act of Congress and a constitutional amendment because granting citizenship or lawful resident status is a power granted to the federal government.

    So basically no chance without a major change in voting, like a clean sweep of federal and mid-term elections with a supermajority Dem congress. That would not really result in a state originating green card, but would allow for mass naturalization of illegal immigrants once the appropriate appointments were made. Enacting a state originated green card at that point would just get challenged and would get struck down due to citizenship being granted to the federal government in the Constitution and affirmed by the Supreme Court in Chirac v Chirac.




  • I have seen ants form nests in decomposing organic litter on roofs higher up than you are.

    Some species of ants may travel 100m to forage, but that is rather exceptional a distance for most varieties.

    My guess is some foundation ants or similar have a nice easy shot into the building and the scouts discovered your place.

    It would be prudent to report it to the management, so long as you do not expect some negative outcome for you. Otherwise just keep your place clean and kill them as you see them and they should only be a problem once or twice a year.