Quote:A foul odor permeated from a massive bag of human excrement sludge left on a street corner in San Francisco's Tenderloin district Saturday.
The horrendous smell and sight quickly gained notoriety when a Reddit user posted a screen shot of a report made to San Francisco's Citizen app for identifying crimes.
"Twenty pounds of feces dumped onto sidewalk," the report called out.
Nancy Alfaro, a spokesperson for 311, says three reports of the human waste at the corner of Cedar and Polk were made to the city's customer service number and app on Saturday.
"The customers did report a large amount of waste," Alfaro says. "It was sent to Public Works."
Quote:Another Reddit user posted an image of the bag of poop on Saturday evening and said it was still there "as of 8 p.m."
"It was the most atrocious smell I've ever smelled in San Francisco," user tusi2 said.
The user said the waste was still on the corner at 10 p.m. but by Sunday morning it was gone.
"I wouldn't say this typical," said tusi2, who has lived in the Tenderloin for two years. "I can't say I've seen anything like that. I've seen open feces, smeared feces. I commend whoever put it in a bag. It could have been much worse."
Quote:Complaints about human waste around San Francisco increased by 400 percent from 2008 to 2018, according to 311. There were more than 21,000 reports made to 311 in 2017 alone. (Note: Some of the increase is likely due to more people using 311 when it became accessible through an app in 2013.)
The waste is largely linked to the thousands of people living in the city without housing and without access to public restrooms.
Quote:A website and related app that allows local residents to request maintenance or non-emergency services from the city has received 16,034 complaints with the keyword ‘feces’ in the last week at the time of this writing, and many pertain to human waste in public places.
Quote:A website and related app that allows local residents to request maintenance or non-emergency services from the city has received 16,034 complaints with the keyword ‘feces’ in the last week at the time of this writing, and many pertain to human waste in public places.
A major medical convention to be held in San Francisco just cancelled because of it being the sh#thole it has turned into.
Quote:to industry summits to multi-day multinational medical gatherings. (There are even conferences held by this very publication.) But the city’s challenges with homelessness and street life are well-known—so much so that San Francisco has lost at least one major physicians conference over the situation.
According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle, a survey of past attendees of the unnamed medical conference cited feeling unsafe walking on San Francisco city streets, prompting the doctors group to seek a new venue for its semi-annual gathering. Their reported concerns: open drug use, threatening behavior, and mental illness on display.
The decision is extraordinary because such events take years to plan. It’s the first time the city has lost a major convention due to visitor discomfort and concerns about safety, according to Joe D’Alessandro, president and chief executive of the San Francisco Travel Association, speaking to the Chronicle. He added that the five-day trade show helps the city generate $40 million from its 15,000 attendees. (Speaking to the Chronicle, D’Alessandro declined to name the medical group in hopes of bringing it back to the city for a future event; he did not respond to a Fortune request for comment.)
Tourism is San Francisco’s biggest industry, and the SFTA estimates the city had 25.5 million visitors in 2017. That’s an increase of 2.6 million people since 2013. In 2017 alone, visitors to San Francisco spent $9.1 billion with conventions accounting for an additional $687.4 million in direct spending.
How can liberals not see that their beliefs, left unchecked, lead to this kind of society? When you hold no one accountable many people simply won't self regulate and you end up with folks in a downward spiral that ends up with them crapping on public streets. You allow them to not be self reliant, or try to, but you leave so many cracks that way too many fall through and it becomes a bottomless pit of trying to fill those cracks with more and more handouts. Eventually you can't even afford to help the really needy and the whole thing collapses.
(07-06-2018 10:08 PM)usmbacker Wrote: A major medical convention to be held in San Francisco just cancelled because of it being the sh#thole it has turned into.
Quote:to industry summits to multi-day multinational medical gatherings. (There are even conferences held by this very publication.) But the city’s challenges with homelessness and street life are well-known—so much so that San Francisco has lost at least one major physicians conference over the situation.
According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle, a survey of past attendees of the unnamed medical conference cited feeling unsafe walking on San Francisco city streets, prompting the doctors group to seek a new venue for its semi-annual gathering. Their reported concerns: open drug use, threatening behavior, and mental illness on display.
The decision is extraordinary because such events take years to plan. It’s the first time the city has lost a major convention due to visitor discomfort and concerns about safety, according to Joe D’Alessandro, president and chief executive of the San Francisco Travel Association, speaking to the Chronicle. He added that the five-day trade show helps the city generate $40 million from its 15,000 attendees. (Speaking to the Chronicle, D’Alessandro declined to name the medical group in hopes of bringing it back to the city for a future event; he did not respond to a Fortune request for comment.)
Tourism is San Francisco’s biggest industry, and the SFTA estimates the city had 25.5 million visitors in 2017. That’s an increase of 2.6 million people since 2013. In 2017 alone, visitors to San Francisco spent $9.1 billion with conventions accounting for an additional $687.4 million in direct spending.
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:
- waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality
- promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
- living five adults to a two room apartment
- being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you
- 'totally not illegal taxi' taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet
- everything slaved to the needs of the military-industrial complex
- mandatory workplace political education
- productivity largely falsified to satisfy appearance of sponsoring elites
- deviation from mainstream narrative carries heavy social and political consequences
- networked computers exist but they're really bad
- Henry Kissinger visits sometimes for some reason
- elite power struggles result in massive collateral damage, sometimes purges
- failures are bizarrely upheld as triumphs
- otherwise extremely intelligent people just turning the crank because it's the only way to get ahead
- the plight of the working class is discussed mainly by people who do no work
- the United States as a whole is depicted as evil by default
- the currency most people are talking about is fake and worthless
- the economy is centrally planned, using opaque algorithms not fully understood by their users
My late mom was a very Christian woman -- the epitome of kindness. She volunteered and donated generously to local soup kitchens. She tirelessly lobbied her local, state and national elected officials for laws and programs to assist the less fortunate among us. She semi-adopted foster families who were struggling to make it, and would have them over for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.
And she was quietly disappointed in her son, who by the time he reached adulthood had rejected her kindhearted approach to the downtrodden.
If she were still here today, and if I were to point out to her what has become of San Francisco (one of her favorite cities to visit), she would still, I believe, view this as a failure of society and not as a failure of individual responsibility and counterproductive progressive policies
This is one of those disconnects in the human psyche that probably will never be bridged. Some people (like my late mom) literally are "kind to a fault". Others (like me) lack an overriding empathy gene.
I guess they have pushed it all into the Mission district (brown areas). They have massively cleaned up the homeless/beggar problem close to the Bay. Its not nearly as bad as it was in the 80s.
(07-07-2018 07:19 AM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote: My late mom was a very Christian woman -- the epitome of kindness. She volunteered and donated generously to local soup kitchens. She tirelessly lobbied her local, state and national elected officials for laws and programs to assist the less fortunate among us. She semi-adopted foster families who were struggling to make it, and would have them over for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.
And she was quietly disappointed in her son, who by the time he reached adulthood had rejected her kindhearted approach to the downtrodden.
If she were still here today, and if I were to point out to her what has become of San Francisco (one of her favorite cities to visit), she would still, I believe, view this as a failure of society and not as a failure of individual responsibility and counterproductive progressive policies
This is one of those disconnects in the human psyche that probably will never be bridged. Some people (like my late mom) literally are "kind to a fault". Others (like me) lack an overriding empathy gene.
It has nothing to do with genes, it has to do with having Jesus Christ living inside you as your Savior and Lord. Those are not just words, its a REAL thing that happens when you believe without doubt.
That is life and heart transforming in a way non-believers do not understand.
(This post was last modified: 07-07-2018 09:27 AM by ericsrevenge76.)
(07-07-2018 07:19 AM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote: My late mom was a very Christian woman -- the epitome of kindness. She volunteered and donated generously to local soup kitchens. She tirelessly lobbied her local, state and national elected officials for laws and programs to assist the less fortunate among us. She semi-adopted foster families who were struggling to make it, and would have them over for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.
And she was quietly disappointed in her son, who by the time he reached adulthood had rejected her kindhearted approach to the downtrodden.
If she were still here today, and if I were to point out to her what has become of San Francisco (one of her favorite cities to visit), she would still, I believe, view this as a failure of society and not as a failure of individual responsibility and counterproductive progressive policies
This is one of those disconnects in the human psyche that probably will never be bridged. Some people (like my late mom) literally are "kind to a fault". Others (like me) lack an overriding empathy gene.
Your mom came from an era where that was likely the case; where people were downtrodden not because of personal responsibility, but because few opportunities existed in a very difficult time period of this country. They wanted to work, they wanted to make it, but times were difficult. Its very difficult for people of that era to conceive the notion that people are now out on the streets simply because of personal responsibility and bad choices, because for the most part, that didnt describe a single person back then.
(07-06-2018 10:19 PM)banker Wrote: How can liberals not see that their beliefs, left unchecked, lead to this kind of society? When you hold no one accountable many people simply won't self regulate and you end up with folks in a downward spiral that ends up with them crapping on public streets. You allow them to not be self reliant, or try to, but you leave so many cracks that way too many fall through and it becomes a bottomless pit of trying to fill those cracks with more and more handouts. Eventually you can't even afford to help the really needy and the whole thing collapses.
Cause we just haven’t gotten communism/socialism “just right”, yet...
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