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There are 2 food kitchens, 1shelter, and 1 food bank with 2 miles of that location.  In addition, there are  3 or 4 halfway houses within a half hour walk, and on Sundays a full lunch in a bag is pased out by the local interfaith church.  This last Wensday, Christmas, pulled pork and an extra 'weekly bag' was handed out by the kitchen I volunteer at.  And the amount of state clinics and support sevices nearby is actuallt suprising.

  my point being there is alot around, and the erractic nature of requests was offputting.  He walked off towards the shelter, which hands out bagged dinners of 4 ham/cheese sandwiches and 2 apples on the weekend.

  Asking passersby for stuff is not done offa sidestreet, where burned out factories and abandoned housed are the prevailing feature.

I feel you don't fully grasp the strain put on these organizations, their inability to manage the large amount of starving transients and poor in general, or the lack of actual resources any of these places have.

The amount of food kitchens in America has exploded, especially with food stamps being cut constantly, and they simply do not have the funding to feed enough people.

And as for homeless shelters, they generally fill up almost immediately, every night. They are also wretched places.

Next time, just give the dude some food. You'll get a great feeling that you did another soul a good deed and all that.

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Quote from: Tawarochir on December 27, 2014, 07:15:43 pm

* Tawarochir's eyes nipples explode

WHAT.

Junior Scientist Power Hour. Also was on Strip Search.

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That's just silly. Sherlock Holmes didn't even really like women except for one single woman, and that was because she outsmarted him.

He would not just stick it in any lady. He was probably heteroromantic anyway, or biromantic. I don't think he was into sex.

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Quote from: SalmonGod on December 27, 2014, 07:10:30 pm

I do not have fun playing with "Stop Having Fun Guys" who refuse to play outside of competitive rules, strict metagames, etc.

I don't know any of those people. They're a small minority even in the competitive scene. The guy who was fanning as meta knight up there was having fun and he's generally considered to be the best Brawl player in the world. I'll play with two stocks, no items etc. usually, but if someone's like "yo we should play with items" I would just say "yeah okay".

Hey, that's exactly how I play!

I generally stick to Ike, Ness, and the occasional Snake for Brawl, and Robin, Villager, and yet again Ike in 4. I occasionally turn items on for fun, but I make sure I've got the real game-breakers like Gust Bellows, Poké Balls, and Bumpers off.

ooh is that avatar from Chronotrigger?

it shouldn't be about locking people away anyway, it should be about creating a space, possibly not a dangerous, humanity stripping, hostile space, for them to be rehabilitated. Yes, that even includes the rapists.

Personally, I don't think petty theft should ever result in jail time. That individual could just as easily be under house arrest or on probation. Theft isn't the kind of "this person is dangerous to society" crime we should reserve prison for.

Don't get me wrong, there are cases when people should be locked away for life. Serial rapists and killers would fall under that. But prison should always, even in those cases, focus on rehabilitation and helping those people better themselves.

Very few people enter prison, and come out fixed, and even if they do, the requirements afterwards are so crushing that it's almost impossible not to end up back in jail or doing something illegal.

Quote from: smeeprocket on December 27, 2014, 06:33:56 pm

I don't actually approve of it, I'm just having a hard time feeling sympathy when it happens to rapists (Steubenville) and murderers (police.)

And that's why we have laws and courts instead of trial by popular demand: It's wrong regardless of who it happens to. If you start undermining this principle you get into alll kinds of trouble ideologically...

but it doesn't really make sense for the rapist to go to jail for 2-3 years and the doxxer of the rapist being shielded because he is a minor (if you rape somebody, you aren't a minor, that status should be revoked) potentially getting 10 years.

that' stupid, skeletons can't even drink juice, it would just spill out all over their ribcage.

(SJW=social justice warrior)

You're not in trouble? 4maskwolf was talking about the derail, not problems with you asking questions.
Unless something else happened that I missed, it sounds more like your questions being vague or nonspecific.

earlier he warned me, and it was not at all expected. He's locked the thread twice now in the past couple of hours. I think it's been excessive.

it's cool, I had a hitchhiker bestow a christian blessing on my mother-in-law's SUV when we drove him to his house (he was walking ten miles in the blazing heat so maybe it was heatstroke.) Personally, I find that kind of entertainment well worth the trade off of a ride, some money, or some food, and I'm not exactly rolling in cash.