You’re assuming crippling dependency and yes you are making a judgement, it’s your whole reason why you’re not giving money. Yes I know how addiction works I’m 6 years clean from hard drug use and was an addict for about an long.

Addiction is rarely the root cause of homelessness, it’s a byproduct, and it’s something people do to cope with their hard reality. If these people’s society hadn’t failed them they likely wouldn’t be turning to hard drugs to numb the pain of their existence.

This is just putting your own morals and conditions on generosity and also assuming you know what’s best for the homeless person. Yes, I agree we need systemic change to address homelessness but that’s not what this is about. I think we should give without judgement. You’re not gonna give them the whole rehabilitation treatment and society has failed them, who are you to judge if the next fix is or isn’t the best thing for them to cope, minimize their suffering, make it through a hard day or cold night?

This whole conversation wreaks of holier than thou.

Lol yes it is. Most of the population would be mitigated suffering if you just gave them money. Literally money buys happiness until you’re like a millionaire. Get off your high horse and treat these people like humans and not as something less than.

This is such a bad take. If it’s so profitable why don’t you quit your job and go beg for a living? Someone is asking for help and your response is to question their worthiness or intention?

Someone is asking for help. Help if you can. It’s not easy to get out their and hold a sign belittling yourself and putting your fate in the hands of strangers. Have a little humanity.

God dammit I just read record high over drugs and completely misinterpreted what this story is about. Time for me to go to bed.

Try https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=eVP_Zj2Iaw0, it worked for me, but the site has a warning that YouTube started issuing captchas for videos breaking a lot of services

Some of those inefficiencies are by design though, especially for any department that might pay out to the customer for the company’s mistakes. You would make a well reviewed call center that big companies don’t want to hire because they’ll actually do the job.

Hundred percent. It feels pretty fucking thought-crimey to vilify the people who use these services.

They definitely do lol. My kid uses chat gpt, and he also has critical thinking skills. I’ve taught him to look for evidence and apply logic, not trust blindly what anyone or anything tells him.

Mostly he gets frustrated that chat gpt struggles to precisely remember the imaginary dinosaurs he created with it’s help.

Oh yeah, and he knows how to write with a pencil on paper. He’d rather dictate and let speech recognition do the typing (which he is also capable of), but what kid do you know that doesn’t love a shortcut? I’d blame lazy parents, but most of them are just too tired after working 2.5 jobs to earn a living wage for them and their families you can’t really blame them.