Poor bastard

What a way to die

Worse when you realize that through government funding, everyone in the Tribe has housing.

There are *no* homeless people here locally.

Anyone living on the street is there because their family got fed up and kicked them out until they straighten up, or sober up.

I knew a family when we first moved here, the guy lived on the streets the first week of every month, because he'd get his check, get drunk, and his wife wouldn't let him back in until he was sober.

Years. That was "normal" for his family for years.

That it is not a way to live

Nope. Some have changed their ways, and are trying to better things for the entire Tribe, but it's a small percentage.

i been thinking, why does starbucks fuck up your name?
i went into one first time in sweden and they called me something like Thomas

Shinyan real question is

Why are you going to Starbucks

I've never been in a Starbucks.

That's good that some are trying to change, but I doubt they will change

Unless they move out if the area

because i was in a foreign place and didnt know where to get coffee

Of*

Oh

The old die off, the young grow up, and the change is slow.

i'm gonna bank on starbucks employees being somewhat illiterate

probably

Oddly, ones that get sober and rebuild their lives *do* move away.

Mostly.

...And the skunk is back. Ugh.

I just heard a dog howl down the road I thought it was a wolf

you have an annoying skunk too?

It seems like they are stuck in a cycle

there's a little bastard that keeps spraying outside my window somewhere

Off and on this past week.

They're working to break the cycle, but it's not easy, and there's not much incentive to do so.

If you had cradle to grave full health, monthly cash for existing, cheap to free housing, and no need to work?

sounds like a boring existence

Oh, and the more kids you have, the bigger your monthly check is, so incentive for breeding.

That's a large part of why they drink, Meryl. Nothing else to do.

Dsmn

nice to know where tax money is goin

so they're perfectly capable both mentally and physically to work?

There's a movie theatre in the local town that has been open for about seven years, shows one movie a week before Corona. No other entertainment within 60 miles.

Yep.

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Wow