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    The article says the music is played to keep the emergency stairwells empty. If you haven’t lived around unhoused before, they can take up a lot of space with their belongings and can be pretty unresponsive.

    Exactly the kind of thing you don’t want in an emergency stairwell.

    Honestly if the owners of a building CAN’T keep the emergency stairwell clear then the building should be shut down for everyone for safety reasons.

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        It’s a joke. The implication is that the repeated playing of Baby Shark could be considered torture, other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment and punishment.

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            yeah it’s completely legal to torture people so long as you don’t call them your prisoners

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              Dude, I’m not saying this is a cool and good thing to do lol, fuck them for doing this, for real. It’s that the Geneva convention has to do with stuff relating to war and a lot of the things people say violate it often don’t. Like people will say that tear gas is a Geneva convention violation but it actually says tear gas is allowable for controlling prison riots.

              I just wish people would point to actually relevant documents when criticizing people for their misdeeds if they’re bringing up documents. The truth is we shouldn’t need some document to criticize this action. It’s inherently disgusting. It distracts from the point when people bring up irrelevant things like the Geneva convention.

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              I’m not supporting the displacement of homeless people lol, I’m just saying we shouldn’t bring up the Geneva convention as if it’s relevant when talking about the displacement of homeless people.

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    My highschool did this with classical music to make us fuck off after school was over. Jokes on them in into that shit

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      Everyone likes at least some classical music, most people are far too cool to admit it though.

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        Growing up I absolutely did not like classical music. Turns out it was the recording (bad micing of the orchestra) and mastering (the old "super quiet, super quiet, super quiet, briefly louder, super quirt thing). For mastering you could claim you’re being true to the original performance (lots of dynamic range), but when you’re listening to a live performance that’s all you’re doing and there’s no background noise.

        Turns out I do like classical music, I just really didn’t like the way it was recorded and mastered back when I would be exposed to it as a kid.

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    We can solve homelessness once and for all by making every part of civilization just suck as much as possible. If literally no part of our society is capable of supporting safety and life, then all the homeless people will just move along

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          Not to speak for them, but likely that the meteoric rise of the word “unhoused” as used in the title of this post is a ridiculous trend. Homeless people need shelter, not a new and supposedly less offensive word to describe them. Not to mention “unhoused” does not even sound even remotely nicer than “homeless.”

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    • Fuck these greedy, utterly insensitive, bastards.
    • Malls are generally owned by large corps in the business of owning malls. Anyone know offhand who owns this one so I can avoid their other properties?
    • How many “housing first,” programs could we run using a year of the company’s profit?
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      • I love the baby shark song. It would take months for me to get sick of it.
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        Some of the remixes are real bangers. Like the one where they do the Finger Family song and mix in the baby shark song chef’s kiss 😘🤌

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    I mean, this will keep me away too, and I’m “housed” and even occasionally legitimately go to malls with money to spend on things. You play even one loop of that song and I’m Swayze.

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    Interesting case of military tatics in a civilian settings. First Decide is blasted at the Vatican embassy, then born in the USA is looped at Guantanamo Bay, now this

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    Great way to lose customers

    Having said that, what’s up with the “unhoused” thing? It homeless. Are we now calling it differently because homeless is now all of the sudden insulting? How long until “unhoused” suddenly is a bad word?

    Can we please just stop pushing changing words? Homeless is fine, you’re without a home. It sucks, people should support you, not shun you, but changing words is just virtue signalling that doesn’t do anything to make anything better for anyone

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      but changing words is just virtue signalling that doesn’t do anything to make anything better for anyone

      … And if you are the type of neoliberal politician that wants to pretend they care about people while never actually doing anything to help anyone other than the megacorps when you get into power – Then this is literally all you’ll ever do for people. Linguistic fuckery. Making up new words for things. Fucking around with definitions. And you know that there will be an army of people who will defend this, and shoot down people who actually want to do something on grounds that they said the “wrong” words.

      The argument for ‘unhoused’ is that it humanises the person – But it’s really pushing it.

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      Homeless what, exactly? Sorry, you’re gonna need to throw in the word “person” just to be clear.

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        I’ll asume y’all are stupid and privileged and not just cruel. Home can be a public shelter, it is about people. A house is a thing you rent or own.

        Not everything is politics, virtue signaling or about you. We use different words because language changes, because society changes. That is why you don’t speak Anglo-Saxon anymore.

        It’s about precision. The condition people are talking about is not having a house, regardless of whether they have a home. This is why unhoused is being used more often.

        It’s not part of an agenda, it is not about you. Grow up.

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          It’s not precise. A shelter is just that: shelter, not a home. An apartment can be a home, but is not a house.

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    Jokes on them. The homeless loitering are veterans that lost their hearing in the wars we’ve been fighting since 2001.

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    Just in case people do not fully grasp the amounts of "doo"s in this song:

    Baby shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Baby shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Baby shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Baby shark!

    Mommy shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Mommy shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Mommy shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Mommy shark!

    Daddy shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Daddy shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Daddy shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Daddy shark!

    Grandma shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Grandma shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Grandma shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Grandma shark!

    Grandpa shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Grandpa shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Grandpa shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Grandpa shark!

    Let’s go hunt, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Let’s go hunt, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Let’s go hunt, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Let’s go hunt!

    Run away, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Run away, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Run away, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Run away!

    Safe at last, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Safe at last, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Safe at last, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    Safe at last!

    It’s the end, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    It’s the end, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    It’s the end, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

    It’s the end!

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    Reminds me of when I briefly worked in an office upstairs from the Seattle Mariners headquarters. Every time I went up or down the stairs I could hear the Mariners theme song playing in their lobby, so presumably they had it looping nonstop. I don’t know how that receptionist didn’t run screaming from the building by the end of the day.

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    Ugh how did this super old song become a thing… I swear people are getting dumber. I hated it when they sang it at summer camp, and I still hate it now.