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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure how LAPD handles it, but I know that in a lot of cities, the police may just let you go if they think you're using jail as free shelter.

A buddy of mine spent a couple years homeless here in Austin, and would do low-level crimes like vandalizing things just to get picked up by the cops. He said that the police stopped arresting him after a while, and figured it was because he wasn't escalating his crimes at all; he didn't want to hurt anyone, he just wanted to sleep indoors for the night.

I'm sure LAPD is similarly too overworked and their jails too overcrowded to keep you there for more than a night or two, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Piss on the front door of the jail? idk

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I understand, and I will hurt myself long before I would consider hurting anyone else. Fortunately, or un- depending on perspective, I am extremely capable of creative thinking in the abstract intuitive sense, and nearly what one might call competent at the applied sciences. I can think of many ways to be dangerous. White collar would be most effective in that sense. I could be an advanced script kiddie if I tried. It is not hard to devise a plan that would induce a strong response to make an example out of.

This post is primarily therapeutic; to feel like I can call some degree of attention to the frustrating reality. And to feel a little less hopeless and abandoned in the evenings following another denial of disability after waiting 2 years, and for the second time. My folks are showing their age, and existentialism is creeping in occasionally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Have you tried getting an entry level remote IT job? There are also sites that essentially hire for small programming projects, etc. Might not be steady but might be enough if managed well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Digital vigilante? Target health insurance / medical billing companies plz.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Sneakier, just add legitimate disability documentation into the relevant system and bump yourself to the front of the interview/validation process.

It's a crime sure but not a particularly harmful one and if you never get caught you still get what you actually want without having to feel to terrible about breaking a law since it's government ineptitude that got you into the situation in the first place and civil disobedience is legal and an exceptionally drawn out process for cities and states to fight.