I don't see how having homeless people everywhere in LA and SF is related to whether they have a functional legislature.
Is there some law that California could pass to solve homelessness and they're just too dysfunctional to do so?
If the legislature focused on passing thoughtful laws and not feel good nonsense designed to appease their base, we might get somewhere.
But specifically to homelessness, obviously no easy solutions since the problem has been allowed to go from bad to worse and more. But how about enforcing existing laws. The governor made a big deal about enforcing the law about clearing out the homeless from under the freeway bridges and some other public places, where it was getting out of hand. The media came, he had his publicity shot, the cops cleared out the homeless. Mission accomplished... and a week later, the homeless are back.
This is a specific example of feel good nonsense with zero follow through.
But the main problem is the endless funding for the homeless problem. In LA alone, the state has spent $6.5 billion in the last 10 years (number has been increasing over the years). This means, every year there is roughly $650 million to be doled out between businesses, local governments, activists, etc... Given that more homelessness results in more money to all these organizations, you would be hard pressed to ask them to actually solve the problem that feeds them. This problem is on the legislature.
> The media came, he had his publicity shot, the cops cleared out the homeless. Mission accomplished... and a week later, the homeless are back.
It's almost as if removing them didn't solve their homelessness. If you ignore the actual problem and only make a lazy effort to address the most visible symptom of the problem being ignored than it's not really surprising when the symptom returns.
Short term emergency solution: Take the massive amount money that's being used in a wildly inefficient manner on token permanent supportive housing projects and instead shelter 100% of people on the street. Treat it as an emergency on par with Covid and target 90 days to get everyone off the street. Enforce bans on street camping 100% after shelter is guaranteed statewide.
Long term:
Amend the state constitution to defang the California Environmental Quality Act and the Coastal Commission with regard to new housing development
- Amend the state constitution to punitively remove local zoning privileges for 10 years on the first offense, permanently on the second, for any region that fails to have its housing element plan approved.
I'm not sure if stuffing innocent people, including children, into prisons is a great idea.
> take people off the streets into shelters (prison-like) with strict policies (no drugs/no alcohol) outside of population centers.
What's the point of a no drug/alcohol policy? That violates the rights of Americans and we've already made our stance on prohibition pretty clear. What happens if someone has a glass of wine? Do they get kicked out of their shelter and become homeless again? That's illegal. If you're so keen on taking people's freedom away why not just throw everyone in prison to start with?
What does "outside of population centers" mean? That the prison/shelters should be away from where jobs are that would allow people to get back on their feet? That only people outside of population centers should be put in a prison/shelter?
> Deport all non-citizens who do not positively prove that they have unsubsidized housing where they can live.
Why not just deport all non-citizens who aren't here legally no matter what their housing situation is like? Any non-citizens here legally who find themselves homeless should have the same chance as anyone else to get back on their feet.
I think a better solution would be to prevent non-US citizens from owning any kind of property used for housing in the state. Ensure that the owners of residential single family homes are actually occupying their property and not just renting it out to tourists. Prevent any corporation from owning a residential home in the state (although they can own apartment complexes). Implement a "use it or lose it" policy where companies who leave their overpriced apartment complexes more than 30% unoccupied lose their entire property to the state who will turn the whole thing into low rent housing. Companies who want to keep their empty apartment complexes will be forced to lower the price of rent until they are filled. Increase the availability of free child care, drug treatment, and mental health care services, as well as job placement, food assistance, and other support for those seeking help so that people get back on their feet more quickly.
CA has a notoriously dysfunctional legislature, doubly so due to the Democratic super majority in place that means any legislature the Democrat party wants would sail through without a hint of opposition.
Look at the no fee law that conveniently exempted all restaurants for example. It's abundantly clear the legislature doesn't have the average voter in mind when it comes to the work it does.
Are there a lot other TTRPGs that have some software required to run them? Also this sounds like it would be fun to play based on these examples in the rules:
> Example 3:
Brody declares his character's intent: "I want Wasp to display her stripes and scare
the living beejeesus out of the Worker Bees! I want her to dive in towards them,
buzzing menacingly and waving her abdomen around in, like, a threatening and
provocative manner! I want them to run away screaming from buzzing, venomous DEATH!
BzzZZZzzZZZZzz!"
> Example 4:
Cody negotiates with the GQ: "But Wasp is Venomous so she can display her Stinger and
maximise the intimidation of the Minor Termite Soldiers".
I wonder what the origin of the fd100 system is. I haven't heard of it before.
Thanks for reading my game! The fd100 system is mine, it's a riff off the d100 system popularised by Chaosium's Basic Role Play. It's my homebrew system that I've been tweaking for the last ten years or so, finally written down in all its crunchy glory!
The style of play is really up to the players. The mechanics don't encourage one style of play over another, except that "Dramatic modifiers" are awarded for creative and imaginative behaviour, described in sufficient detail.
>> Are there a lot other TTRPGs that have some software required to run them?
You mean less/more or a text editor? You don't strictly speaking need those to play the game - you could always print the rulebook and the character sheets out, and not have to use a computer at all. I'll make sure that this is easier to do in future versions (the page length is currently awkward for printing).
On the other hand, I've considered delegating the procedural generation of the Nest environment to software which would then be necessary to be able to play. I don't know how well that would work and I'm probably going with rules for table-top random generation after all. But I might end up doing both, as altrenatives.
That makes sense. From what i remember of using redis a few years back, it doesn't do file-based cache, only in-memory. Something like nginx is very good at file caching, though.
Most people don't learn the term from commercial aviation, they learn they term from movies where someone turns on the "autopilot" then goes to handle whatever is happening at the back of the plane.
I assumed autopilots in planes could actually fly by themselves and the pilots were really only there for take-off, landing and turbulence.
But neither planes nor cars with autopilot + autoland/park functionality are fully autonomous.
The only place where we have this today is on some on rails systems (trains like in Paris, buses on fixed rails like in Tokyo's Yurikamome or some amusement parks, etc.).
That's in the context of an action film though, if people based their ideas on those we would live in a strange world indeed.
Hmmm, actually come to think of it...
Nevertheless it's true. Autopilot as seen in countless movies now means "set it and forget it" to more people than a rudimentary aeronautical cruise control.
It's not just YouTube that's automation obsessed. The groups filing the DMCA takedowns are also automatically scanning and flagging content on YouTube.
The vast majority of content YouTube removes is not due to DMCA requests. It's pretty dumb to file DMCA requests with YouTube, because their manual claim process is easier to do and operates outside of the legal framework of the DMCA.
If YouTube actually followed the law instead of making up their own bullshit system those people could be sued for damages in court for filing false take down notices!
This is extremely exciting for me. I started writing a toy application for my iPhone using SwiftUI a few months ago and have been very impressed by Swift (coming from C#).
So far, SwiftUI has felt exactly like what I wished XAML would become.
Regarding error messages, which Xcode version are you on? They substantially improved after the Xcode update with an overhauled diagnostics engine. Documentation has been steadily improving, I’ve found that Apple does respond to Feedback Assistant reports about missing overviews and code listings, albeit way slower than I’d like.
I’m generally always on the latest released version. It _has) gotten better, but its still not good enough.
For example, having two @Published variables in the same class with the same name causes a crash in the compiler with no pointers to the source.
