With a PhD in stats you should be able to make more than most software developers. Companies need scientists to sign off on certain claims for liability reasons and it’s easier for them to just have one in house. That’s a licensed position that AI will not be able to take away.
Military Ops.
Their reporting requirements are often reduced out exempt so exact numbers are difficult to pin down, but the US DoD is the single largest consumer of fossil fuels.
When they aren’t flying to kill people they are flying to practice killing people, their terrestrial vehicles weigh significantly more than civilian counterparts, and the intent and practical effects of their munitions is literally destruction.
Seems like it’d be easier to just add a tax on the domestic internet plans rather than try to gather a tax from every recipe site and blog someone visits.
That’s … that’s a weird thing to do. Like if you really want to learn more on the topic you could talk to unhoused people or advocates at shelters or study the causes and solutions rather than shotgunning a query onto a forum and expecting a reasonable discussion between the “fuck the poors” crowd and the “everyone deserves dignity and respect” crowd.
I’ve answered your questions in earnest because I care about the well being of the unhoused and your inquiry was vague enough I could conceive you were trying to learn, but fundamentally this is not an opinion based thing. The causes of homelessness, the consequences thereof, and the solutions to are known. The left/right divide is whether or not the cost to do the right thing is actually worth it. Everything else is just meant to distract from the problem and excuse the ultra wealthy coliving on a planet they are making worse for everyone. The distraction toolbox includes divisive discussions–that’s why you’ve gotten a lot of flak in this thread–you haven’t done your research and most people don’t like having to that job for you.
Housing first means to provide housing as the first step to ending homelessness. No means testing: if you need a home you get a home. Shelter is imperative for survival and housing is the best type of shelter. Once housed, everthing else becomes easier. Rehab is easier. Getting a job is easier. Staying healthy is easier. Avoiding violent crime is easier. Because it has so many positive knock on effects–more than any other approach–it should be the first step to reintegrating in society. It’s important to note, however, that it puts housing first and not only. Other wraparound services are still required to lift people out of poverty. For instance, it makes rehab easier, but if there’s no rehab options nearby healing from a drug addiction is harder than it needs to be.
Ideally it would be housing for all and society wouldn’t let people fall to the point of living in the streets, but we failed that and so housing first is what is needed to get back on track.
Housing first does not mean everyone gets a free single family home, it means everyone has access to reasonable shelter and privacy. That could be served by hotels, retro fitting empty office complexes, or tiny homes. Something enough for people to be safe and dignified.
And hey, like UBI, whenever it’s been tried it works.
There are almost 3/4 of a million people homeless in the United States. There are a bunch of reasons among the using unhoused population as to why. Some used first and lost their housing. Some lost housing and then started using. Some people are also compelled to use drugs, BTW. There’s no single unifying reason that applies to everybody.
But in normal situations people rarely lose homes without doing something extremely stupid.
Like being laid off to boost corporate profits, being replaced by AI, or rich boys playing with the market like in '08!
All of this is spoken from a US perspective, BTW.
I work with unhoused people. Really the only thing they have in common is that they don’t have a house. It’s hell on the streets and no one deserves to be there. Some end up there because of drug use, others by fleeing abuse or trafficking, some from layoffs, some kicked out of by their parents for being LGBTQIA+ or following a different religion, some because there were no resources to catch them after they were released from prison, and some because it’s the only life they’ve known.
Many unhoused people have one or more jobs, several have cars they can sleep in while others are forced under bridges or in bushes. Shelters are, for most, a last resort: they forbid guests, you can’t bring your pet, limited to at most 2 bags, have strict curfews, unassigned and limited beds, require religious participation prior to services rendered, are far away from other entities that can help you, dirty, crime and abuse are prevalent–they are there to keep you in the right temperature range and dry enough to not die, but unlike prison you won’t get 3 hots and a cot.
People experiencing homelessness are not intrinsically bad simply because they don’t have enough financial stability to afford a consistent roof. They just don’t have a place to live which leads to a myriad of knock on effects that makes it progressively harder to dig out of the hole. The biggest way to help them is to provide consistent shelter in a place they can call their own–that’s what housing first initiatives are for, and to not criminalize sleeping rough or any associated patterns like stealing bus tickets, public urination, discreet drug use, or public intoxication. Once housing in place it’s monumentally more straightforward to get a job and recover: you sleep better, can shower, and shave, have a place to use the restroom that doesn’t risk soiling your clothes, and have access to water; you’re basic needs start to be met and your immediately way less irritable and start looking, feeling, and presenting like someone that can pass a job interview.
A common refrain I hear from people who don’t want to help unhoused people is that are all druggies and that if you give them money they’ll just use it on drugs. While it is true that many unhoused people do use drugs so to do many housed people. Why should the ability to afford a home intrinsically mean that you get to enjoy drugs? Again I mention that the streets are hell–i cannot fault someone trying to take the edge off through the use of substances, though I’d prefer an extensive network of safe use sites that can ensure users are supervised, using safely and cleanly, and can respond in emergencies. Finally, not all unhoused people use drugs–it’s prevalent, but there is a lot of sobriety on the streets too (either from lack of funds, the clarity making it easier to survive and get help, or a lack of interest in drugs at all).
I hope that answers your question well enough. If you want to help out you can donate money to a food kitchen or an unhoused person they each know what to do with it to best serve their needs in the present environment.
Most popular languages have relevant libraries to help you build what you’re trying to build, but that doesn’t mean a language is particularly good at doing such a diverse list of things. JavaScript is, bluntly, a crutch with so many different tools to bring it to a variety of different ecosystems, but fundamentally you’re still probably writing web stuff with it (unless you’re using something like NodeGui).
As a student your top priority is to learn the fundamentals. Learning a specific language is secondary (and once you’ve learned a couple, new ones are easier to pick up). If you are just looking for a single language to start with, I’d choose something typed and compiled which will help you build an understanding of what is actually going on more than JS’s magical black box of working until it doesn’t. Languages like C#, C++, Go, and Rust fit this bill. Of those, I’d personally choose C# if you’re looking for one language to do web stuff, gaming, mobile, and desktop applications.
Why the fuck people calling the popo over this?
Most reject honey. There are those who don’t and there are vegans who want to strictly deny that label to those who don’t.
Eggs? That’s pretty universally rejected.
You could watch it and decide.