I am the owner of multiple colors of hard hats and hi-vis vests. You’re going to want to get an orange/yellow bucket. These are the ones that crew wear. I.e. the people that don’t know what’s actually happening, they’re just “doing their job”. Don’t get white or any other color because those mean you know what’s happening and shouldn’t be working.
TIL there are colour-coded helmets on worksites. Makes sense, I suppose. If you need a first aider or something it’s probably easier to look for a particular colour helmet than just Jim.
A lot of the time you don’t even know Jim, never met him. So wearing the hat for what your job is let’s people know who to ask for what without everyone needing to know each other.
I don’t know everyone on my job sites wear white wide rimmed helmets and the crew owners typically wear the grey carbon fiber helmets, but then again we’re mostly electricians.
Small crews can use whatever they prefer. If you get on a big job with 1000+ people then color code really helps.
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Enabling the homeless to sleep in public spaces like park benches and in front of businesses doesn’t make them safer. It creates more conflict for them, leaves them exposed (to people and the elements), and worsens how the community sees them.
And taking away the littlest comfort of not having to sleep on the cold floor next to the bench solves this how?
It doesn’t, providing spaces for them and working on improving access to help does.
How is letting them sleep on benches helping them?
A little thought experiment, since you’re having trouble following what should be a self evident line: would you rather sleep in your bed or on the floor, if you were forced to choose? Now if I swap your bed with a bench?
Obviously a bench is better than the ground, but what I’m saying is a system that gives you some form of shelter is better than both. Even if that’s a tent and a space heater, or a room in a shelter (which I know can be problematic in their own way).
Thankfully, people are capable of doing more than one thing at a time. Removing hostile architecture doesn’t stop you from campaigning for better policies nor from organizing a leftwing bloc.
That is not the system that exists. The system that exists tries to rob you of your last bit of dignity by denying you even this little bit of comfort. So, staying in the system that actually exists in reality, are you still against removing those bars?
I’m not in favor of adding the bars in the first place, but just removing the bars individually is setting some homeless person up for trouble. I’ve seen cops hassle guys for collecting cans, when they sleep on the bench that used to have a bar those cops are going to take it on the homeless.
I’m saying advocate to change the system. Advocate to remove the bars, advocate for better shelters for the homeless than a bench.
The only effective thing to do is get parties voted that enable general social safety. In countries where people don’t starve when they don’t have a job criminality is much lower.
The American public generally supports the kinds of policies we see in “good socialist” countries like the Netherlands, but our voting and representation system has locked in a right and far-right party. We’re going to have to get Approval Voting and Proportional Representation installed via referendum if we want the elected officials to actually represent the will of the people.
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Yes, I don’t want to not help the homeless, helping them resolves most of the issues with them.
But I don’t like having run ins with them anymore. I don’t like going to parks where they hangout, I don’t like having to step over them on the sidewalk, and I’m very happy I no longer work downtown where I was accosted by them regularly. I assume if they had a safer place to they would mostly choose to be there, which is why I try to donate money.
Those types of programs are a minimum bar to do so that we can all have nice things and spaces.
Jesus, the mods here are silly…
The bar is obviously to use as a blunt weapon in the first step of preparing a rich meal.
A CEO runs into a bar…
Just remember that if anyone asks, act irritated that you were called in on your day off because the guy who was supposed to do it fell sick, then catch yourself and say “anyway, no time to chat, I got a quota to meet” before grumbling about how you should have listened to your mother.
This is absolute gold.
One of my first jobs – My wife said I would call her and go on mumble rants for about 10 minutes, and she’s talk me down from quitting because we needed the money. It was all a blur, but I remember doing those calls while getting coffee or a sandwich, and always remembering that my orders always came out 100% perfect and really fast.
I was probably annoying AF and workers just wanted to get away from me.
People are just crazy these days
Yes, it is indeed crazy to try and make life even more shitty for unhoused people.
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People with drug addictions and mental health concerns are being screwed by the system even moreso than those you personally consider the “good” ones
Well yeah, I’m already a fucking bear to deal with and I woke up in a warm place with my cat and husband cuddling me. If I had to get hassled by the cops, get my shit stolen, and could only sleep a few hours at a time, I’d do any drugs available and be irritable af
The real solution is not to punish the 90% but to provide help to those 10%.
