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Can't imagine it's a rate limit in my case, it happens the very first time I try to load a video with the in-app browser

Apex ran fine too until they blocked it with the anticheat

Another deprecated feature for old.reddit and third party client holdouts. Pretty soon the whole site will be fully unusable

I'm getting it constantly in my old reddit app with vpn off. Seems if it doesn't recognize your browser fingerprint it will call you a bot.

You've twisted what I've said yet again.

You're starting from the assumption that they're an addict, because that is your moral judgement of them. Not mine.

I didn't mean to give the impression I thought the food/coffee/magazine I offer solves the root of a problem. Merely that it's a thing I can do to solve an immediate need.

No worries, I actually didn't get that impression of you but I see that sort of sentiment a lot, so I suppose I was just trying to get ahead of it. I'm sorry if I was accusatory in my wording.

I agree it's absolutely a great thing to address a need, even if it's a simple comfort item. My concern just comes in with the "I'll give you this but not money because you'll just buy drugs" mentality that is so prevalent.

10 people donating £5 a day also pays for a shelter to hire a motel room no?

In a perfect world, maybe. I'd like to believe this, but I don't. Do you really trust a shelter to solve this problem for that specific person? I don't, but I can trust the $5 will go to whatever immediate need that person has. At some level, it's also a sort of marketing problem. Not many people are doing that donation to the shelter, because they don't see it. But you can plainly see the homeless person on the street corner in obvious need, and you can affect them specifically and immediately.

Here are the problems I, personally, have with cash donations:

Firstly, I don't carry it, but adding one more coffee to the one I'm buying anyway is no issue.

I have to say, at least where I'm at in America, this is a non-issue. We are a digital society, homeless included. I've rarely encountered someone who can't take a digital donation. Everyone has cash app, even if they have to take their phone to a McDonald's Wi-Fi to access it. Barring that, I could likely get cash back anywhere I could get a coffee. And we all know how inefficient a coffee purchase can be.

Secondly, it doesn't support panhandling as a career, shitty career choice probably a minority. So minor that if you want to argue that "The rate of professional panhandlers is zero (it isn't) and this point is invalid" I won't push back

Sure, use your judgement. I do make a distinction between panhandling and busking, or worst of all, common street scams.

But do you really think someone would be panhandling if they had access to a better option? If you're able to inch them closer to the more comfortable life that you enjoy, why does anything else even matter?

Basically the money you accumulate from asking for money will get you alcohol/drugs faster than it will get you shelter.

And that's fine. A severe drug dependence is a need, not a bad habit. You can't expect someone to stop a drug they have a physiological dependance on overnight, because you don't want to 'enable' them. Yes, that includes alcohol. Severe alcohol withdrawal can kill someone.

A drug addict chasing a fix without the means becomes a violent threat to society, and themselves. This is not the 'harm reduction' you are claiming.

Where have I inserted my morals here? I do not think people don't deserve help because they are addicts. I merely acknowledge that they need a different kind of assistance than my pocket change will provide.

I'm sorry to inform you, but in a capitalist society, a lack of money is how someone ends up on the street, and it's how they stay on the street. I can agree that in a perfect world there would be better solutions. The fact that people are still homeless in a society only proves that the solutions we have are currently inadequate, and those who slip through the cracks of our systems wont be helped by those systems as they are.

You can choose to help them in this reality they are in, or you can wax philosophical about what their reality should be. That's up to you, of course

What a tangent dude. Everything I offer is always based on what they request. I do not ever give them anything they didn't ask for. If they got something that's a burden to them, it's because they asked for it. I'm not shoving food down their throat or forcing socks on their feet.

Great. Good for you. The whole start of this conversation was simply to point out that offering exclusively food is not always the most useful way to help. I'm emphasizing this point for anyone who comes along to this thread with that viewpoint.

Show me the story of the homeless person who accumulated enough fivers to afford rent.

So this is another disengenous oversimplification. You will take the position that a homeless person can sustain a hard drug addiction from panhandling, yet they would not be able to afford a motel room for the night, or an extended stay, and begin their climb back into society. This is purely a moral judgement on your part.

I wont bother trying to convince you, there is plenty of homeless reporting available online that shows these struggles, you've just made up your mind and refuse to look.

It only takes ~10 people a day offering $5 to pay for a cheap motel for the night. And yes, survival is the number one priority. A motel room provides a locked door, a shower, a bed, and peace of mind for a whole day.

Shelters are chronically over-capacity and prioritize women and children. Ask yourself, what demographic do you typically see panhandling in your area? I know who they are near me, and those people deserve survival too.

Also shelters often require things like drug/sobriety tests and restrictive curfews that would prevent homeless from holding down evening jobs, which are some of the most common types of jobs available in that situation.

I don't know where you live, but there is not a single place in my city where I can't find water to drink, a cheap or free bite to eat, or even a dumpster full of edible, contained food, and of course, a steady stream of people thinking that their 1 of 5 meal offers in a day will somehow solve the 'roof' problem.

I'm not telling you not to offer food. But if they are not hungry and you would have spent $5 on a burger, but not 1/10th of a motel, you are judging, not helping.

I'm also not telling you not to donate to shelters. If we all did, things might be better systemically. Personally, I am highly in favor of a far greater tax contribution to housing people. But that struggling person on the street corner today won't get the help they need from wishful thinking or even a spare $5 to the shelter. But they could have a bed to sleep in tonight instead of a piece of cardboard if you give to them directly today.

They likely can't buy shelter with a fiver or whatever you decide to give them either. The truth is that charities, food banks, and churches are much better equipped to supply the homeless with what they need because it isn't a one-size-fits-all solution, which is why I donate to those organizations instead of trying to hand out money.

What world do you live in that a fiver can buy someone a substantive quantity of hard, addictive drugs? You're being completely disengenious here and asserting more moral policing. The absolute worst case scenario is that they use my fiver to get just enough of a hit to stave off withdrawal symptoms, and even if that's the only relief I give them, it's still better than offering more food to someone who isn't hungry.

The solutions you are suggesting are turning away the addicts, the ones who need help the most. I'll happily put it directly in their hands over giving it to a church with an ulterior motive to push their religious views onto the most vulnerable class of people, thanks.

Offering food is fine, if they are hungry and they want it. But if they decline food when that is not the type of help they need is not some admission of guilt, as it is so often portrayed to be. Often, they're rightly skeptical of food from a stranger. Some will accept it to be polite but throw it out for their own safety. It only takes me and ~9 or so other people offering them that fiver to pay for a night's stay in a cheap motel. Offering supplies if they refuse your food is also great to help them with urban camping, but too many supplies is also a liability where they now need to be concerned about theft. Packing light is just as much a survival tactic.

So yes, let's be real here and help people with what they need not what you think they need. If that's relief from withdrawal for a night, so be it. If it's saving for a motel, even better. But services contingent on passing drug tests is not helping any drug addicts, it's just putting them back onto the street.

Nobody has ever gotten a home from food and supplies, but they sure as hell do with money.

Worth pointing out that most people who help will offer food, but you can only eat so many times a day. Food is plentiful in developed nations. Most restaurants/grocery stores are throwing away and donating tons of food a day, these people will know where to get it.

You can't buy shelter with food. Supplies are great, but they also wont help someone off of the street.

It's not an easy problem to solve, but when I'm helping someone I don't think it's my place to be the morality police. In a perfect world, we would have systems in place to help these people overcome, or prevent it in the first place . But we don't live in a perfect world.

ELI5?

You can use the steam deck launch option on any PC, but yeah it's really fucking dumb. Reminder to back www.stopkillinggames.com to end these bullshit practices

I used to be a big fan of rhythm games on android, but the loss of the headphone jack has completely killed it for me. Bluetooth latency is still like 200ms, it's insane. I can't stand to even watch video with it

So we're calling legitimate criticism review bombing now?

Yes with an emulator. Look up dolphin for the gamecube version or torzu for switch. Dolphin + gamecube will be easier to run if your laptop isn't very powerful

Right. I can watch a restream of 15+ tiktok lives in the middle of the action, why would I watch fox news push narratives for 55min an hour, with a 5min clip of a burning car or someone spraying graffiti

Put it in a laptop

Yep no DNS blocker will stop fullscreen local scripts from running. This shit is why forums and the legacy web are dead

I've seen many a forum in my day, but I clicked the X before I saw one at that dogshit URL

I'd have switched years ago if I could get the economy of scale that a restaurant does