no longer any barrier to local governments utilizing the substantial resources provided by the State, in tandem with federal and local resources, to address encampments with both urgency and humanity
With those “substantial resources” and a sense of “humanity”, you’d think they’d build housing for those in need.
Nope! It just means shuffling people experiencing homelessness to another place. What an absolute asshole!
Shuffling them to other places is how many arrived in California to begin with. But an eye for an eye is bullshit. The la times has no love for newsome
This reminds me of the story of the German family that went on a trip to Death Valley and ended up accidentally driving up an Arroyo they thought was a road, getting stuck, and dying of dehydration after they tried to walk to safety.
If you’re going to go to a new and strange environment, make sure you get some advice from a local and don’t push yourself. Many tragedies like this are caused by people making genuine mistakes, but they can be prevented. If he’d simply asked someone if walking around Death Valley in flip flops was a good idea, he’d be fine.
I live a half hour from Death Valley, and it’s not named ironically, it’s a death zone. It’s not really habitable for humans, you should never go alone, have full body covering clothes, heavy duty foot wear, lots of food and drink, and know how to get out from where you are at all times. It’s not safe, many people still die there every year. It’s just sad to me. I’m always sad to hear about anyone that dies or gets injured, we’re a little isolated out here and tourists are some of the best people we regularly deal with, I love tourists. They just aren’t always aware of the risks out there.
I remember that! The write up by the guy who found their remains was pretty interesting.
One line really stuck out to me: ‘at that point they were in a survival situation, although they probably didn’t realize it yet.’ He really detailed out how, without making any obvious mistakes (from their perspective), they ended up in a deadly situation. From their point of view, it was situation normal… until it wasn’t.
Ngl, trying to crack down on this seems like a hopeless battle without authoritarian controls on chemistry lab equipment. This general problem is going to be much bigger in the future as well. Today it’s fentanyl and in the future it will be synthetic pathogens
I was about to say wait until you find out how easy it is to mess with viruses and shit at home on your own. I remember watching a kurzgesagt video explaining how trivial it is.
Edit: it may have been cas 9 editing I can’t remember
the state warned that shutting down the farm line once the heat index hits 88 degrees Fahrenheit (31.1 degrees Celsius), as requested by plaintiffs in their emergency filing, would “open the floodgates” to cease work “in any institution across the South.”
Maybe - and just hear me out - maybe that’s not a bad thing if your work is all slave labor. ¯*(ツ)*/¯
Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Thursday introduced legislation…
The Health Over Wealth Act would increase the powers of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to monitor and block private equity deals in the healthcare industry. It would require private equity firms buying healthcare providers to set up escrow accounts large enough to fund five years of operations, and would require more transparency on debt, executive pay, and other financial data, while prohibiting the “stripping” of assets.
Editorial: Five years of cash flow with no asset stripping greatly increases barrier to entry and operational cost. While it may decrease the frequency of bullshit, patient cost will simply rise across the board in response. Markey & Jayapal propose a piece of a solution that they’d like to build upon. Literally no one wants this bill to pass as it is.
Five years of cash flow with no asset stripping greatly increases barrier to entry
That’s the whole point: it’s meant to disincentivise private equity from seeing healthcare as a business like all others that they can destroy for profit.
patient cost will simply rise across the board in response
Not if it’s enforced strictly enough that private equity stays away entirely, see above.
Literally no one wants this bill to pass as it is.
I and probably millions of others would. Healthcare is a basic human need and should never be at the mercy of asset stripping profit vultures.
None of the rules are inherently unreasonable. That they’re still considered strict enough to be a barrier speaks volumes about the predatory practices of private equity.
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