A number of homeless are indeed are victims of our terrible socio-economic system. However I have heard many homeless outreach workers say the same thing "The ones who stay homeless are the ones who stay addicted". Addiction is a serious issue and the challenge of beating it is nothing we should dismiss, however it is clear some people end up homeless due to drugs and stay homeless due to a refusal to get clean. When your life is centered around just getting high, you won't care much about anything else. All the horrors of living on the street disappear once you get your fix, and some people are okay living like that.

I guess I'm writing all this to say that homelessness is a very complex and nuanced issue. They aren't all victims, they aren't all criminals, they aren't all mentally ill, they aren't all addicts, and for some its the only life they've ever known.

This is why the conversation around homelessness is so difficult. People just latch onto their idea of what being homeless is then build their argument from there, dismissing the remaining context of the concept.

I highly suggest doing homeless outreach to broaden your perspective on the matter (look up a local Food Not Bombs group if you live in a city!). If that isn't something you'd like to do, there are plenty of videos on youtube that give you more insight into the homelessness experience. Obviously watch out for the videos that treat living on the streets as a spectacle or oddity, I absolutely hate these videos because they serve to shock and entertain, not educate.

That was the biggest mindblow for me, and I really appreciate that the first biblical scholars didn't try to bury the truth when archaeology conflicted with the bible.

How does that video not have more views!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I LOVE YOU PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME

Many of these answers are great, thank you for being graet, lemmy is great.

This is a much more legalese take, I feel like some folks would disagree in terms of the spirit of wage theft vs the letter of the concept. I like it though, I appreciate it, I appreciate you.

I'll buy 3 more, thanks for the advice

Wouldn't the exemption be considered wage theft though? What makes this scenario more complex?

Well my night is ruined

I'm not even into star wars but star wars fans ruined star wars for me. Ahmed best is my liiiiiiiiiiiife.

Based on all the replies it really juist seems like this system is fucking shit at giving people a resource to live their damn lives.

I'm so jealous I want to cry, I fucking love birds.

I don't have a breeding fetish, but like, I get it.

That is wild, so many salary jobs act like you should work more than 40 hours. I even had a manager that said upper level employees should be willing to work more than 40 hours per week. What a cock wart.

I really like your response, you seem like a kind warmhearted person, I wish you the best,

The thing I'm now realizing is that I too have been a victim of wage theft, but didn't suspect anything under the guise of "the system is good numbers always go up YEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWW"

Cheers to my sinking mental health yet again, I think I'll name her the titanic fucking capitalist icebergs everywhere.

Whoever explained this to me originally reallllllllly sucked at it

You explain it so simply, and yet I was so confused before hand, thank you so much, why is life so hard?

Wow I applied to Cloudflare a few months ago, glad I got rejected because I was just laid off late last year.

Follow up question, could the same metrics be captured without a network connection? An alternative might not be as user friendly as an IoT device, but for the last what decade? It seems like investment in IoT is investment in security vulnerabilities.

Ah! I love linux too, unfortunately my setup couldn't handle running games and photoshop through a VM so I switched to Windows LTSC. Have you ever played around with Qubes? Its worth toying around with and imaging you are some sort of ultra cyber criminal or something. I uh...... used arch btw (I'm just doing this for the meme lol)

Hope you've been able to get good rest!

LinkedIn is an aggregation of everything wrong with social media. I got laid off and tried to use it to find a job, never again.

I found my new style

Piano is just a hobby really, I might start tinkering around with the Ableton free trial though, how does Reaper compare?

I think the replies to this post really captures Lemmy's energy and I love it.

True love is actually a great wish. Money runs out, the earth doesn't have the resources to power an x-wing, super dude can't do anything super or else society will now expect him to be Superman, which is a huge responsibility anyone reasonable would want. But TRUE LOVE, the fucking stuff from Disney movies? I'd take that in a heartbeat, then proceed to do a lewd photoshoot with my partner on the defunct x-wing.

weird I always feel out of place when I post there lol

Mind change, and yoga mind are two books that really helped me work through my trauma. They aren't for everyone, but if you're struggling to figure your shit out its a place to start at least.

Why the fuck is there a debate? Why do we care? Just watch the movies you like and don't fucking gate keep maybe?

OH MY GOD ITS MARGOT ROBBIE I LOVE YOU!!

This is a great explanation

Ooooooooooh this is a great explanation!

Wow, I'm so sorry for what you're going through, yeah we're pretty similar, when the industry was doing ok I'd be drowning in interviews, now it feels like I'm not even being seen. It is rather weird. I'm hoping for the best for you and your family!

Yes I did! Thanks!

Mini Rant:

When you think about it software development is a relatively young profession compared to medicine, law, construction, public services, the arts, and so on. This is why modern tech kind of sucks despite being so cool, I say we are in the "Hey maybe we shouldn't build our huts right on the river" phase of writing code, still figuring out problems that will appear mind numbingly simple in the future.

Another issue is the fact that tech builds on itself and its flaws can be painted over with abstractions, while the aforementioned professions can't get away with being subpar for too long. So the full metaphor really is after the river floods we build on top of the ruins and claim victory because we are slightly more elevated and will take less damage during the next flood.

The secret to better tech is rebuilding everything from scratch. The internet wasn't designed with security and bad actors in mind. Plenty of corporations are running a Frankenstein system that contains code older than most millennials, botched modernization efforts, buzzword laden over-engineered applications, and bugs that aren't features just permanent residents in your code base.

....But there is profiteering to contend with, good code takes time, time is money, good code is expensive. "Good enough" code is easy to write, so its better for the bottom line.

In the end it really is....

Developer: "Hey the river flooded and our huts were demolished, we should move to higher ground and build there"

Corporate Leadership: "No that is too expensive, just build on the ruins and next flood we should be safer, oh also you're laid off"

I know you didn't ask for this, but its been on my mind for a while and I felt like this was a good time to get this out of my head haha

Oddly enough I had more recruiters talk to me about Kotlin recently than Java, are there any certs you would recommend, if they even exist?

I'll definitely keep this in my back pocket, I live in a hot area so I'm sure I could find an HVAC job, thanks for the input

Really just any job, the A+ idea was a back up plan at best, and at worst just another buzzword to get my resume picked by automation

Thank you for taking the time to write all of this, I definitely needed such a perspective.

Thank you for the insight!