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Montreal shopping mall plays “Baby Shark” on repeat to prevent unhoused people from loittering (montreal.ctvnews.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Unhoused? Has homeless as a word been banned?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

Not sure about Canada, but in the US:

Homeless = no permanent residence, which also includes couch surfing, parents and children who just fled an abusive family member and are temporarily ltaying with friends or relatives, and people who are living in their car. All people without a home.

Unhoused = homeless people that don't have a roof over their heads. Might include living in a car.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Welcome to the euphemism treadmill

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

In the US they mean different things, as homeless includes people living in other people's homes. That can include people whose house just burnt down and are living with friends or family because they lost their permanent residence (home). Unhoused is about where they are staying.

People on the street are homeless and unhoused.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

At least its music, though this does confirm that Baby Shark is something they'd have played at Gitmo if it'd been around 2 decades ago.

I have been to many places where things like these are everywhere:

Imagine this but diesel powered, a bit chonkier, and they just emit this high pitched scream (there are other versions called 'mosquito alarms'), and has extremely bright, blue strobing lights that will induce seizures in anyone susceptible.

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

Oh if baby shark had been around two decades ago…

They have one of those outside the Home Depot in DC playing classical music to pacify all the day laborers hanging around hoping to pick up work.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So as a worker with a house, can I sue when I go insane from hearing that song over and over? Didn’t they do this in Guantánamo to torture and break people?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They only had death metal and industrial goth music back then. Nothing as terrible as Baby Shark existed at the time.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I honestly don't know if this is better or worse than the ear murdering high pitched screeching they play in the stairwells at a mall in Ottawa

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

laughs in Deafness

[–] [email protected] 186 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (25 children)

This is from the city where it's illegal to be homeless. One man even collected over $100,000 in fines for being homeless.

Yeah, that'll help.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

Aaaah, I love living in a capitalist hellscape

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What happens if the man does not pay? Will they put him in jail?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

In the ultimate act of irony… Maybe they’ll put him in a house.

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Man that sounded wild to me, so I dug around a bit and it's fucking true. Although the amount is closer to $110,000 it's still insane.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Hey, we heard you can't afford a house, so we're charging you fines in the amount of what it would have cost to buy a house.......we're so cool! We solved homelessness! Because now if you want to be homeless, it actually costs more to NOT buy a house. So you may as well just buy a house!

We did it guys! We ended the concept of homelessness! High five!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

we're charging you fines in the amount of what it would have cost to buy a house

Oh how I wish I could buy a house for that kind of money. You should go look at what housing costs in Canadian cities.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

$169k https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/27687505/158-douglas-avenue-fredericton

Although the being sold "AS IS, WHERE IS" is a bit concerning. Flood risk maybe?

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean why don't the homeless just buy a house? Are they stupid?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have they tried just being rich and buying their own building to sleep in front of?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe it's their broke mentality that's the issue bro stay on the grind 🔥 💯

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