sp3ctr4l

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago

... Yeah...

Ironically, the last job I had... before becoming homeless...

Was the Co-Lead of the Data Team... for Mary's Place, the largest non profit network of shelters and other programs ... assisting the homeless... in and near Seattle.

About 24hrs after the assault that crippled me, I dragged myself into the main office... for a sandwich.

They handed me my papers on the spot.

I told the HR guy to go fuck himself, as he was crying.

... Fuck Seattle, at this point.

They are almost certainly still using my databases, my online, public facing intake forms, my process flows and documentation...

Anyway, I was literally the expert on exactly how fucked I was, as a single white cis male, in terms of getting housing or shelter assistance in Seattle.

We shared at least shelter capacity and eligibility info with almost every other shelter in or near Seattle... and almost all of them prioritize families, minorities and/or female domestic abuse victims.

Made more sense to head pretty far east to lower CoL areas and stay in roach motels than to drag my crippled ass around trying to find a working path to housing, given how often I was being mugged, assaulted, held hostage by a psychotic fentanyl addict for a week at one point, missed being shot in a drive by by about 100 feet at one point...

Anyway, all our the widely publicized PIT headcounts of homeless people in any given city or nationwide... basically need to be multiplied by about 4 or 5. So that'd be about 3 to 4 million, not the almost 800k of the last nationwide PIT count.

If you compare the demographics of living situations people are in who requested our help... to the demographics of who actually gets counted by those PIT count methodologies...

Yeah, you need to multiply the PIT count by roughly 4 or 5 to make it actually representative of all the people who are requesting help, but are not counted by the PIT.

... And that will easily balloon up to 10, 20+ million ... fuck, probably within a year from right now given how utterly fucked the economy is about to become, and how many governement assistsnce programs are getting cut.

...

But uh, back to things I can now just laugh at...

yeah, Boeing is fucked. They were fucked before the tariffs, and now they are turbofucked, and all the right wing anti union asshats that work for them will just retreat further into delusion and a sense of enraged, denied entitlement as they all get exactly what their AM talk show radio hosts have told them they want for 30+ years.

... and of course who can forget about the liberal tinged, smug, self serving, fake ass corpo tech shitheels who all don't realize they're basically dressed down Patrick Batemans because they go to Pride marches... yeah, a whole lot of them are fucked as well as they get laid off, their 2nd and 3rd homes can't generate AirBnB rents anymore...

Oh no, who could have forseen that working for giant tech megacorps that have explicitly stated they want to automate everything for 20 years... are now automating their own jobs, and that they are not actually special?

...

I dunno if I qualify as a rags to riches tale...

I got maybe halfway through that article before I had to stop.

... Too similar to what I went through, too ... way too similar. Its not just that basically no one gives a fuck about it, its that almost everyone assumes the absolute worst about you, all the time, unless you 'perform' perfectly for them.

I was recently diagnosed with PTSD. I actually cannot handle reliving, or apparently even reading about those experiences.

They fill me with rage and terror.

Make me double check and make sure my knife is in the spot it 'lives in' in my motel room.

...

The teeth thing is real. Somehow I have been insanely lucky with baffling infection resitant teeth... I have never had a cavity in my entire life, despite literally being homeless for over a year.

But I've seen the immense agony of other homeless people with bad teeth. Seen people bite into a sandwich and 2 1/2 broken teeth come out in bits...

... Seen people with fucking gangrene, massively infected feet and other wounds...

... For a while I was able to trade my rudimentary first aid skills for respect, cigarettes and food, became kind of a defacto medic at some encampments and shelters I ended up at.

Seen people OD and die in front of me, stumbled upon the bodies in the back alleys, either OD'd or beaten or stabbed or shot to death.

... I can't believe I survived it. I can't make sense of why I did.

... Just a skinny, out of shape, Autistic tech dork, streets should have eaten me alive.

... At least I was able to eventually get connected to Physical Therapy, and ... not a very good one, but at least at newbie Social Worker.

Solid Snake may wanna go over the basics of CQC... I wanna go back over the basics of CBT.

Physical Therapist has me in aquatherapy. Too many torn and otherwise fucked up ligaments in too many places, have to have the bouyancy and water resistsnce to do any useful stretches without extreme pain.

... sorry. rambling. yay trauma.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah, my west side bias is showing, oops.

I've travelled over the Cascades many times, but only really spent basically vacations or weekend trips actually out in Spokane or the Tri Cities.

Tacoma is where a bunch of the hipsters I knew went in the early to mid 2010s... but now it has largely ... gentrified, and also crime and drug addiction and homelessness is now much more visible.

After I got assaulted, I ended up homeless untill the SSDI kicked in, a good part of that in Tacoma, and jesus fucking christ fentanyl addicts are basically fucking zombies, nearly got killed by a few.

But yeah, basically all of WA is just... way way way too fucking expensive to live in, unless you, individually, make at least 6 figures... and the job market for getting that kind of job is pulling in candidates from literally the entire world, competition is insane, nepotism abounds, basically all tech work treats you like or literally as a contract worker unless you have massive connections or got grandfathered in a decade or more ago.

Also Boeing is definitely gonna get fucking wrecked from retaliatory tariffs... there was already a story in the last 24 hours of a Chinese airline returning a recently delivered 737 Max because the Chinese ret. tariffs applied to it.

Just fucking flew it back to Boeing Field even after their local plant in China had just finished putting the Chinese airline's livery on it, fuck it, nope, return it, too expensive.

It doesn't matter how progressive WA is generally... untill it gets a state income tax, it'll be a playground for corpos and rainbow capitalism.

My current plan is to ... well, hope to god that my SSDI doesn't get massively curtailed or cancelled, keep doing physical therapy and living off of soup and trail mix untill I've built up some savings (all my fucking cards got stolen, years later i am still trying to convince all the credit agencies that I am me and 90% of the rung up CC debt was not me)... and then move on up to Minnesota.

Minneapolis/St.Paul is roughly the same population as ... the actual population that lives in Seattle, and just generally, way more affordable, not as solid blue, but decently so... and the risks from accelerating climate change are actually significantly lower than most of WA.

They've got more effective state based rental ... basically tax relief for low income people, you get a subsidy each tax year cycle that offsets some of your rental costs, SNAP (if it still exists) will go further...

... and their apartments actually have heating and AC, unlike a large chunk of PNW apartments... that fucking heat dome a few years back nearly killed me.

3 days, 72 hours straight of no less than 90 degrees indoors, up to 105, even with space blankets and then blackout curtains to try to keep the sun out... had to just keep taking cold showers... and I still ended up sweating out nearly 10 pounds.

Anyway, if I can get to the point I am not in constant pain, I am just gonna try my hand at making my own videogame, solo.

If it works out as a decent revenue stream, hurray! If not? Don't really care, I got absolutely chewed up and abused by the corpo data analyst jobs I worked, I'd rather firebomb their offices than go back to a similar job, I would literally rather be impoverished and at least mentally sound than have to deal with the hyper gaslighting corpo tech culture anymore.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing you are describing either Bellingham or Everett (or their sort of... basically attached, suburb cities)... in which case, my condolences, I've lived in both rofl.

I hear Tacoma finally stopped smelling like farts all the time somewhat recently...

But yeah, all the 'medium sized' PNW cities are absurdly overpriced now.

I ended up getting assaulted and seriously injurrd.. and am living off of SSDI while recovering... many states away, where a person can actually rent a place off of disability alone.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

Yep, there have been growing warning signs for about 2 years, with more and more areas piling up inventories, longer and longer times to close a sale, and actual amount of closed sales lowering... and then all the Trump induced insanity just kicked in the weak foundations.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago

No, you got it, a whole lot of the predicted losses are pretty highly correlated to areas that actuaries (who work for insurance companies and use highly advanced climate models based off of the science) predict will suffer increasing numbers and frequencies of climate disasters.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

In that case, the LA at the end refers to the LaLeLuLiLo from MGS, indicating their involvement, and plans to turn these cities into beta testing grounds for the weird biorobot hybrid MetalGears from MGS4.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Its not me doing the wishing or future predicting here.

It is Zillow.

They have the largest, most comprehensive, and most frequently updated database of information on US home prices... basically, in existence.

They are saying you are wrong.

Not me.

Worth noting that the -1.7% figure is ... nationwide, amalgamated.

There will be areas that keep appreciating, areas that stay flat... but many, many more areas that will depreciate.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

... Not sure if you'r joking, but LA means Louisiana, the state.

Much of the coastal south... is just literally sinking/being overtaken by rising sea levels... and also the generations of utterly farsical mismanagement of all kinds of infrastructure and public services.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

Jesus fuck it broke through 38k when I was taking a piss, oh boy...

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Oh no, that was gasoline, not water!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago

You gotta realize how much financial loan leverage goes into the real estate market.

It may not seem huge to you as a single potential buyer... but a whole lot of people's business models are based on 'price always go up' and set their margins and leverage accordingly.

That all unwinds, in a slow motion, much larger scale version of watching an idiot daytrader or cryptotrader lose everything in a flash from compounding margin calls.

The level of leverage isn't nearly as high, but the level of actual money involved is insanely more.

Know anyone that is currently or will soon need to do a HELOC or other reverse mortgage type thing to pay for something?

Well they may now be even more fucked as their home depreciates.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Glad you agree!

=)

Also I just realized we both assumed Libra is a he.

Whoops!

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