Yeah, I definitely phrased that poorly. I meant what you said, that they’re both developmental disorders

I blame my parents.

Yup. It’s a developmental disorder instead of a mental illness (like autism). Our frontal lobe or prefrontal cortex didn’t develop properly.

I think ADHD is a horrible name for it. Executive Functioning Disorder is a much more accurate name.

I know rhasspy can do this to an extent. What’s your use case?

My best friend as a child lived like 4 houses down the cul de sac from us, and I was literally at his house every day.

But still, every day I’d knock and ask if he could play, despite his parents telling me over and over that I could just come inside whenever I wanted.

I mean, I’ve been diagnosed for like 25 years now and I still have to do this.

Exactly. It’s not hard to keep the exterior of those buildings looking nice. You just have to pay someone to maintain it.

The entire post is about low income housing as a solution to people sleeping in tents. Building more apartments won’t stop people from living in tents.

Pointing out that it’s a complex issue that isn’t solved by more houses is pretty much the opposite of a strawman

That’s definitely fair. I just know that whenever someone says, “I hate X type of beer,” they typically mean they haven’t had one that suits their palate yet.

You’re more than welcome to look up statistics. ~60% of the chronicly homeless have life long mental health issues, and ~80% have substance abuse issues.

Pretty much every city/state has resources to help the homeless, but the homeless have to be willing to accept the help. Most shelters are drug free, so addicts don’t want to stay there and they won’t accept people whose mental illness makes them violent.

You can’t force a person to take their medicine or stop doing drugs unless you want to start building more prisons.

Again, I was never saying that all homelessness is a choice, but a lot of people choose not to accept the help that’s available.

Source: My wife has her masters in the field and used to work with these populations as an addiction counselor, in Texas, so I know that resources exist at a state level even in a state that clearly hates it’s citizens.

For many it literally is a choice, and framing homelessness as something that no one has control over is problematic.

I’m a liberal, buddy. Homelessness is a very complex issue that won’t be solved by building more housing.

https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/programs_campaigns/homelessness_programs_resources/hrc-factsheet-current-statistics-prevalence-characteristics-homelessness.pdf

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There’s also the third group of people who realizes that homelessness is a complex problem that won’t be solved by more housing.

God damn, I guess there really isn’t such a thing as an original thought.

I’m not a brewer, but I’m assuming that the process is slightly different. Try a sour from a company that’s known for making sours. There are a lot of very delicious ones out there.

Personal preference is now fact, apparently.

That’s a bad take.

It’s trying to say that low income housing is the solution to homelessness.

It’s wrong, but that’s the point it’s trying to make.

It’s also forgetting that a significant portion of homeless people are homeless by choice, or are homeless for reasons that just providing housing won’t resolve.

People have this idea that all homeless people are just regular people who experienced hard times, but that’s just a minority. Most homeless are mentally ill people who won’t take their meds or drug addicts who aren’t willing to quit.

It sucks, and they shouldn’t have to live on the streets, but you can’t force people to change.