Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

more reasons why murica is the shrill idiot festival it is. Well, at least corporations were making money on the endless production of swill, right? Meanwhile any mature sense of historical or political reality was slowly consumed by the termites of neglect

the banality of the colossal

Pretty much…

In her profound and thoughtful book “Ordinary Vices”, Judith Shklar discusses political vices. One of her central themes is that we pay too much attention to hypocrisy as a political vice, and that cruelty is the worst of all political vices.

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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

Glowing blue cosmic cloud looking sort of like a dolphin.

Scary, unsettling times on this world. Meanwhile, 5,000 light years away, this beautiful giant cloud, the Dolphin Nebula, glows, blown by hot winds from a massive star. About 60 light years across, it covers an area about the size of a full moon in our skies. 🧪

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20030...

In this culture of rampant consumerism, the library is a bastion of counter culture. There one can check out things for free. Great books filled with profound ideas are all available for free.

One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this

looking forward to this

Image of text in a book that reads: For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break.

Kurt Vonnegut writing about the hypocrisy of so-called Christians.

#Vonnegut #Writing

EXACTLY!!
Or, as Kraus wrote: “How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read in the newspapers.”

FYI: I’m a retired ex-pat in Canada available at any time for free copy editing services. 🙏🏻

well, Leon, as long as you get your husband to maintain the tariffs on those much better, less expensive Chinese EVs

very fasci-nable. Hopeful blue is so 2016 donchaknow?

…and every non-human organism can relax, breathe