Re:MyPowerbank hacks Santander bikes so London's homeless ca...
by jeffbee on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:03PM
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Every aspect of your statement is false and you can't have gained this understanding from speaking to actual homeless people in California. California homeless are from their local area and they just ran out of money. This has been demonstrated over and over again. For example, of Alameda County's 10k homeless individuals, 82% were living in Alameda County before they became homeless and 96% were living in California at that time. They don't come to our county for the services, because there aren't any. The idea that homeless people migrate around to find good weather and free stuff is just propaganda. No significant subpopulation of homeless people does that.
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Re:MyPowerbank hacks Santander bikes so London's homeless ca...
by denton-scratch on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:40PM
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None of the homeless people in my town seem to be from here. They don't speak with the local accent; they speak with the generic London "druggie" accent. (The local accent is quite easy to recognize)
This is a nicer town than London, generally; at least, it is in the centre, where the homeless people concentrate. The police seem very tolerant of homeless tent-dwellers. There was a small encampment around the corner from where I live, camped directly outside the courthouse and opposite the police station (!), for about two months. I found them rather intimidating - they were very shouty.