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Sun Apr 01 08:37:54 UTC 2018 <adlai> hmm. i guess i should call the fellow in miami a beggar, rather than a bum; or just a disheveled veteran who asked me for cash.
Sun Apr 01 08:37:00 UTC 2018 <adlai> "Is it not enough to see that a garden is beautiful, without watering it indiscriminantly?"
Sun Apr 01 08:36:27 UTC 2018 <*> adlai enjoyed miami, though - gladly paid a bum some banknote for his tale
Sun Apr 01 08:36:12 UTC 2018 <funkenstein_> Bern went through a rough time when opioid handouts bought in junkies from across the globe
Sun Apr 01 08:35:22 UTC 2018 <adlai> lol NYC has bums stinking up downtown hallways with synthetic cannabinoids. quite a shithole.
Sun Apr 01 08:35:16 UTC 2018 <funkenstein_> yeah I got to know a few who lived around the Bahnhof, some in fact were quite well-to-do I was informed but just were looking for social interaction
Sun Apr 01 08:34:31 UTC 2018 <adlai> they were polite, and had a pet dog or two; but seemed, for all intents and purposes, to be professional beggers.
Sun Apr 01 08:34:06 UTC 2018 <adlai> fwiw, i have a distinct memory of beggars of all age and color outside the central train station in .ch
Sun Apr 01 08:33:33 UTC 2018 <funkenstein_> yeah there's a fairly large portion of the population who would rather see de-escalation of conflict
Sun Apr 01 08:32:48 UTC 2018 <adlai> switzerland seems to have grown quite a pleasant buffer zone over the course of the past several centuries
Sun Apr 01 08:30:51 UTC 2018 <adlai> (dude lived in a wasteland of surplus ordnance and had a big friendly dog)
Sun Apr 01 08:30:23 UTC 2018 <adlai> arguably, the most tense moment of my service was delivering an umpteenth eviction notice to a settler.
Sun Apr 01 08:29:09 UTC 2018 <adlai> iirc, idf paid couple hundred bucks a month for standard "combat" service (which mostly also consists of sitting on ass, but much more frequent relocations, less air conditioning, fewer or shittier upholstery, and occasionally you gotta lie or run)
Sun Apr 01 08:27:26 UTC 2018 <punkman> .gr pays 1.5eur a month or something
Sun Apr 01 08:26:52 UTC 2018 <funkenstein_> switzerland's solution in comparison seems a lot more reasonable
Sun Apr 01 08:26:18 UTC 2018 <adlai> it's a surprisingly reasonable bureaucracy and i hated every moment of it :D
Sun Apr 01 08:24:23 UTC 2018 <adlai> yes, but not much. you could probably earn more as a fulltime collector of glass bottles that people leave out as legal sub-minimum-wage employment of the homeless.
Sun Apr 01 08:06:53 UTC 2018 <adlai> forgive my compulsive streamcrossing, but recent treellama logs are quite the likbez regarding why mandatory military service is not such a bad form of, uh... social engineering?
Sat Mar 31 18:03:45 UTC 2018 <kakobrekla> hm, yeah no space to be found for year, now everyones got a workshop
Sat Mar 31 14:20:42 UTC 2018 <*> adlai doesn't have a library of designs ofc... automation is the rute of all boredumb