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[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 372 points 1 month ago

Always keep a couple crackheads. Also, make sure you filter your crackheads. You want the ones who'll help you clean your garage for $10, not the ones who will clean out your garage for about $10 down at the pawn shop.

Promote a positive environment, help turn the crackden into a crackhome.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

You have never lived in a Crack friendly neighborhood.

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 137 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You just have to control the rent by buying a gun and shooting in the air every other day.

Then someone will steer their drone next to you, yelling "We have been monitoring you. Disperse immediately!"

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 39 points 1 month ago
[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

that's such a good tip. you should tell the russians

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Shh lmao shhh no don't tell em

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

when I was in the army we were taught roughly how to shoot at a helicopter, but generally the idea was "you have a rifle (not a shotgun), you're not gonna hit a very fast flying thing, but here's ROUGHLY how much to anticipate with it if you have to try".

If we're not talking about long-range drones which fly at proper altitudes, and instead something one could even viably shoot at, then we're talking like 1000 smaller than a helicopter, but with similar speeds. Like the size of the armament on those drones is usually bigger than the drone itself.

I'm fine with us telling Russians to shoot at them, they're just gonna be wasting their (already waning) munition.

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[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Please use blanks and ear protection for safety.

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[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 107 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gotta fire some rent control rounds into the air.... it's all about #balance

[-] somewhiteguy@infosec.pub 31 points 1 month ago

If you're going to do this, use blanks or shotgun with birdshot. That way you're not raining lead on some unsuspecting person a mile or so away and birdshot is just small bbs that don't have a high terminal velocity.

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[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 month ago

Now get a recording of a couple different gunshots and repeat the process. Problem solved!

That's why you befriend them instead of scaring them away.

Until the fact that you befriended them gets you fired because it scares your coworkers.

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 45 points 1 month ago

I lived in a run down part of town a few houses down from a crack/coke distributor in college and once a friend locked himself out of the car. Before we could even panic someone popped out with a hanger and opened it in like 30 seconds. Crisis averted!

Also got pulled over on my own street regularly though (“you looked nervous”) and my dad almost got arrested when he was dropping off plants (cacti and flowers).

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

"You look nervous"

"Bruh I am nervous, all the time, everywhere."

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

It’s because you pulled me over my guy

[-] Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 month ago
[-] Random_German_Name@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago

There are some radical left-wing neighborhoods in Germany, that try to keep rents low by shooting into the air with blank firearms

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[-] nevaseerius@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago

Fuck! That drone was just some chump? I'm telling the boys we got the block back!!

[-] pickman_model@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago

No good deed goes unpunished

[-] snue@feddit.dk 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What a dehumanizing way to talk about homeless people :/

People you know, and yourself, could become homeless tomorrow. This dehumanization leads to violence against homeless people.

They're people too and they deserve a place to be. The solution to homelessness is not just moving them to another side of town, but among other things reducing the cost of apartments and houses.

[-] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

Are all Crackheads homeless?

[-] snue@feddit.dk 23 points 1 month ago

Not necessarily, but it is often used as a derogatory word about homeless people.

Whether it's perfectly synonymous, my point still stands about respecting the humanity of other people

[-] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Wait, no your Point just crumbled to dust.

You say he is disrespectful towards homless people because he calls them Crackheads and uses a drone to shoo them away.

But then you say you don't even know if he really meant homless people because Crackheads are not necessarily homeless.

In fact, you just said he meant homless instead of Crackheads, and now you are angry about something you said he meant?

[-] snue@feddit.dk 15 points 1 month ago

Most people, who call other people "crackheads" have not seen those people take drugs. They use the word because of how the other people look.

Being called a crackhead more often than not means "looks like a homeless person".

[-] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

Respect is a two-way street, though. People don't deserve to be disrespected or dehumanized just because they've fallen on hard times, it could happen to any of us, after all. My respect for crackheads is about as limited for my respect for the guys jerking off to lone women on the subway, though. If the system has chewed you up so thoroughly that you need to smoke crack to get through the day, you have my sympathy Go do you, hope things get better for you. On the other hand, I've got effectively no sympathy for the crackheads where I used to live that would get high as hell, then shit in the staircases, get into fights with the only elevator in the building until it broke, or just sat outside all night, screaming and blasting music.

I'm a reasonably healthy younger person, so having the elevator out of commision for months at a time because of their antics was a nuisance, especially when it came time to haul groceries up to my apartment on the seventh floor, or bring my laundry down to the basement to wash it. It was outright dangerous for more elderly residents on the upper floors, who essentially became housebound, though. My mother-in-law couldn't deal with all those steps, and there were elderly people on higher floors put at risk because paramedics couldn't reach them nearly as quickly if they had an emergency, not to mention the challenge of bringing someone down a bunch of narrow stairs on a stretcher.

Just because they're suffering at a given moment doesn't give them the right to degrade everyone else's quality of life, if not outright endanger their lives.

[-] snue@feddit.dk 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I agree, but we should get mad about the root of the problem, not the symptom.

We should definitely get rid of "crackheadness", but I think we should do it by building a better system and supporting each other.

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[-] HertzDentalBar 8 points 1 month ago

Nope, shit untill housing prices went up so high most crack heads had stable housing.

But in most places income assistance isn't enough so they end up homeless

[-] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

Let's assume this is real, if you are noisy to the point of bothering others and you happen to be spending your time on the street doing it, being called derogatory names is expected, irrespective of your home ownership status.

[-] snue@feddit.dk 8 points 1 month ago

The post is not just about calling people derogatory names, it is also about flying a drone with a voice message. When push comes to shove, the voice message is a threat of calling the police. Where are the crackheads going to go now ?

They have no other place to be. So asking them to leave is just asking them to go to a new place, and then a new place after that and so on, while each day some of them die due to cold, violence and other accumulating factors.

This is a systematic issue, and we need to fix the system and be compassionate, rather than just push poor people around.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Who said they were homeless? That's a pretty pejorative assumption you're making.

[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.

Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

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[-] AugustWest@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This whole comment section is nuts. Who knew a green text about drones and crackheads could set off such vitriol filled discussions about gendered language, homelessness, and whether human dignity can be measured in dollars?

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[-] chetradley@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

This one's for every friend who got taken off the streets
So the upper class could sleep, so the upper class could sleep
I'll miss the spraypaint and slashed tires.

-Pat "the Bunny" Schneeweis

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