Damn, this is the first time I have seen something that isn't the opposite issue of overcrowded and underfunded schools. Well the underfunded part still remains at any rate.
As an adult with a family: Yes, but nothing like when I was younger. The biggest shift for me primarily was to games that are not competitive or multiplayer.
I can't do the 25-60 minute intense gaming sessions with or against other players. I have to be able to stop everything I am doing at a moment's notice. I feel bad having to drop on people.
Also I can't do the FPS games now because I'm old and my eyes just can't anymore.
I said this in another thread about this article: They're just flatly dividing the 1.3 billion total budget that was allocated over the years by the 6,300 number of homeless counted in 2023.
This budget likely includes programs serving homeless populations as a whole and its staffing, administration, etc. Given the time period this likely includes program funding that started, and then ended, with special funding local health juridictions recieved during covid.
Source: worked in the region in question in a local health juridiction through covid. Cutting programs and keeping police sweeps didn't help the homeless but it tended to satiate the local businesses and residences impactes.
Part of my 2025 mental and physical health plan has been building and landscaping my little slice of land to go from an unfenced hillside of lawn to a walled and terraced garden.
Removed the sod and got a dumptruck load of granite stones at the start of the year. I am building using a dry stone technique and moving it all by hand on purpose. Currently finishing the main terraces and wall base, beginning raised garden beds now. Every day I move a couple stones into place and it feels like an accomplishment that is quite literally building on itself.
I look forward to seeing how it (continues to) come together.
It gets real dangerous if the National Guard unit hesitates or refuses to take a shooting order and the Marines are ordered to respond to that as mutiny.
That's how it'd be an equivalent flashpoint for violence I think.
They don't even have to pass those if they don't want to. In portions of America it is just: win an election, appoint your friends and lackies.
A lot of departments use the admission tests to screen out candidates who might be overqualified: they specifically won't want the best. An overwight blob is preferable to an in shape individual that might think before acting.
They hate it when you clown on Sparta like a smug Athenian too.