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Re:A stranger secretly lived in my home by trulyme on Saturday September 11, 2021 @01:38PM (#28493951)
Or maybe just offer them some basic food for free, so they don't need to dig in trash cans for it? At least the western societies (I don't know and have no opinion on others) are producing enough food that there is no reason not to offer some basic nutrition to everyone.
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Re:A stranger secretly lived in my home by WarOnPrivacy on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:02PM (#28494194)
> At least the western societies are producing enough food that there is no reason not to offer some basic nutrition to everyone.

I live in one of the southern US states that tends to be hostile towards people in need. My kids and I had on-and-off hunger 2008-2018.

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Re:A stranger secretly lived in my home by yesasaservice on Saturday September 11, 2021 @01:50PM (#28494064)
(created alt cause of HN's idiotic "posting too fast" - how dare I have a conversation with people online)

I don't understand what I said somehow excludes helping in other ways.

My views are probably a bit more radical, in that I think that everyone should have free food. Homeless, homeful, working, unemployed, citizen, foreigner. Everyone. No exceptions. And, we already have a basis to maintain this system - SNAP.

So when I talked about how to help those whom are experiencing homelessness combined with debilitating mental illnesses, I'm talking of making that program... Not by destroying other programs.

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Re:A stranger secretly lived in my home by WarOnPrivacy on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:08PM (#28494270)
My 1 second old idea is for their psych clinic to offer free food in trade for checking their blood levels. It the meds are insufficient, they get Rx food.

Can't tell if I'll offer that idea again, once I think about it.

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Re:A stranger secretly lived in my home by kelp on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:48PM (#28503685)
No one is really looking for food in the trash cans in the Bay Area. They are looking for recyclables that they can turn in for cash. Or other things that have some value that they can turn in for cash.

In the Bay Area there are plenty of ways to get fed. Happy to be shown I'm wrong, but I don't think it's common to be lacking for food.

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