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Thank you. I believe you are right. I was merely trying to identify the people in my story concisely and accurately. With a helicopter hovering 300 feet overhead. In the dark.

To me its the nut of the homeless problem bias. I did not cry 'WOLF'. I said 'Chiropractor' and the rest is inference and in this case I believe mistaken judgement but I would be curious to know what others think.

Excuse me but how are you still missing my point? I merely used the vocational terms to identify the people in my story.

If you can get past your witchhunt against chiropractors then I think you may understand more of what I am trying to say. With respect

Wow I have had more constructive social interaction communicating here in the past half day than I have experienced in the past two years. Thank you hn! Im overwhelmed in a good way. Even if it just lasts for half a day before I screw it up somehow, it's a welcome change.

So please let me express how much I appreciate the responsiveness from each of you who have read my comments and especially each of you who have responded. I get that it isnt easy talking with a homeless person, it isnt easy talking to a new profile on hn, etc. So I very much appreciate the courageous among y'all.

Please don't give up on me if you want the rest of the story its just that I didn't anticipate the response.

But from comments it's more important to me to say:

1. To whoever posted asking for advice because you are facing an impending homeless situation please do not wait for my response. Take the details you wanted to share with me and instead take those to 1 or 2 people you already know right now its a Saturday and see if you strike some sort of 'partnership' where each gets value and you stay housed. Think outside the box on this. Be sure to approach people you already know but if that number is too low then ask who they would ask for help. You see how your credibility gets thin once you move further from direct contacts so i would say focus on the people you know. Ask for help from those you already know and do it now while you still can. If everyone says no...ask them why not. Perhaps down the road you can come up with a different way they can help, a way that bypasses their previous objection. Geez I sound like a sales manager but its what I would if I were you. Dont give up no matter what.

2. The back-n-forth about chiropractors in the comments seems to illustrate the key bias impeding any real effort to solve the homelessness problem. Not all chiropractors are bad, just as not all homeless are bad. Whether you use Webster's or Michael Jackson's definition of bad I think what I say stands true.

Here in the US they offer health insurance and dental insurance as two completely separate programs. They are separated enough that it strikes me as remarkable.

Thanks but I must disagree. Will you come with me awhile and let's look for the bigger fish here before pointing the finger?

Are you aware that for the poor, as I sadly came to find out, the injury attorney is in charge? Just like a coach who calls the plays and decides which players to put on the field, the atty decides on which doctor chiro surgeon etc to send the victim to.

The injury lawyer sent me to a chiropractor who has apparently been in business a long time.

Let me ask you: of all those stories you've heard of injury and paralysis by chiropractors...how many of them resulted from car accidents or other cases where the victim is 'sent' to the chiropractor as opposed to 'choosing' them?

I have met many over these past years who were car accident victims and at least anecdotally it seems like I am not much of an edge case in this specific regard.

I am not trying to argue with you. I guess I am thinking about what you said and I am trying to point out that mere cash payments to homeless are pointless if there are not other changes to these systemic frauds that exploit the poor, the weak, the homeless.

Thanks for your question. I do not believe I am a representative example of the homeless population.

But I would venture to say I represent the effects of a culturally biased view of the entire homeless population. A bias that inaccurately portrays homeless as somehow 'deserving' of their miserable situation(s).

Drugs, mental issues, stupidity ... after all I have seen out here these are not typical root causes of homelessness. They are typical consequences of being homeless.

So i was renting a bedroom in a 2bd apartment. It wasnt a motel. I had been living there several months and there were no known issues although I could tell we likely were not to become friends due to differences in value systems. I suspect he has lied successfully many, many, many times in the past.

Thank you for this question. I don't have an answer with high confidence right now. Still recovering from a trauma from Monday.

A year ago was different, with less traumas stacking on me.

It seems because a basic evaluation of the extent of my injury has been so elusive.

Im not a quitter but since monday im seriously starting to lean toward pivoting from trying to find work to pursuing disability income status.

I thank each of you for your thoughts. And its my fault for not getting to the next part of my story yet.

I believe there are good chiropractors despite my experience. I ended up finding a few who I believe have been able to reverse some the damage done prior.

To me there are good and bad doctors Good and bad chiropractors Good and bad attorneys Good and bad financial advisors (I was one for a short period into 9/11)

Shop around is my advice.

To the OP topic I would use any financial assistance first to address my spinal cord injury as opposed to further developing the RTS game mod I am creating.

And I guess my segment is no exception...there are good and bad homeless too.

We gotta look deeper than the labels!

Its dangerous to talk to anybody out here. I feel like I am taking a huge risk even posting about it.

If someone is close enough to talk to you they are close enough to hurt you.

To your point I had reached out to a collge girlfriend after my accident in 2017. She asked for my address and I gave her c/o Chrysalis which is a work help program here in Santa Monica. Unfortunately, she wanted to do somethinf nice so she sent a care package of shampoo and other things but I will never know. Chrysalis kicked me out for 'abusing' their mail service. I never even saw the package she sent to me. I received 2 dentist bills, 0 responses to the resumes i was sending out, and 1 unannounced care package. I am so clearly not an abuser of anything except possibly myself somehow.

Thank you. I would upvote your comment but havent yet found out how.

Thank you for your thoughts but you sir are selling me short.

>The first mistake he made was not seeking assistance after the stabbing incident

Sadly I found no assistance. I clarified some things about the surgery decision in another comment that may enlighten you.

>going homeless was the only option

No friends, no family. I have a brother who graduated Harvard Law under Dershowitz and worked for Weinstein. My younger brother. He called the police to tell them I was suicidal and they showed up at my ex-girlfriend's house to haul me away. (I was not, and have never been suicidal).

Sadly for me but luckily for you, you have much more support.

No, I refused the surgery and I do not regret it one byte.

The accident atty had arranged a chiropractor who hurt me, and being homeless, to me it was clearly greedily intentional in order to 'Maximize my monetary recovery'. because the atty takes a % of the award!

The timing is critical to understanding the conveyor of terror I was on. The chiro did this to me after my accident MRI was taken.

So then the atty arranges a surgeon to perform c2-c5 spine surgery based on the old MRI and he tells me "it's routine. A piece of cake."

Felt like the perfectly plausibly deniable way to put me in a wheelchair as a quadriplegic and then charge the insurance company $2 million instead of a paltry $30000.

"Oh there were complications during the routine surgery.." is the risk I was facing.

Someone please enlighten me as to why in 2021 DOCTORS and DENTISTS are still completely separate in the healthcare system?

Danny I sincerely hope your team's efforts will accelerate the bridging of this divide.

Jay Z for Pres you heard it here first y'all.

Ok it's clear the chopper left.

Arrrg and now there is a santa monica police helicopter hovering dirctly over my head for the past 10 minutes after I started writing this (pico blvd and ocean blvd). If you are in the area you can attest. Its hard out here.

Cash will help some homeless people like me. I have endured five years homeless in Los Angeles. Still here, somehow, despite covid, curfews, looters, lack of police, being shot at twice and attacked more than a dozen times.

I managed to setup my hn login last month but have yet to figure out how to follow the comment threads effectively from my phone.

Yes Los Angeles. Some call it ground zero of the US homeless problem.

It started on a Friday morning in December 2015 when my roommate/landlord rushed me from behind with a knife at 8 am in Santa Monica California. Long story short, police believed my white assailant when he lied and said I made it all up. They put his lie down on the report and lied further saying I was agitated and looked crazy (i was in shock because the attack was a huge surprise, and had I not sensed the attack in time it would have been a 7" henkl straight through the heart from behind). I left next day, homeless day#1, but filled with hope for a better tomorrow with no further unprovoked attacks from behind.

I got a job at McD and worked min wage living out of an old chevy cavalier i bought off craigslist for $300. And it took a full year to save up enough to rent a small room. Just as I was calling the first ads, in Feb 2017, an armed forces veteran rear ended me in broad daylight breaking my neck and totaling my cavalier. He told me it was his second accident in two months. Hmmm so i guess he fuct up someones Christmas before messing up my Valentines day.

I went to an accident attorney who sent me to a chiropractor who broke my neck further and also broke my back. I was expecting therapy, just as any of you might expect. But I was served pain instead, essentially giving me a replay of the original knife attack trauma.

So I was not happy when they next recommended I now needed surgery. It was just to use me as meat to bid up the price of an insurance settlement. The surgeon they sent me to wore makeup. As easy as it sounds now to say no to that...it was hard to say no because I have been in constant pain every hour of every day since that car accident.

Arg this is too tiring to type this much with thumbs. From my meager start on hn a part of me feels like it isnt even worth sharing the rest of my story. But I am a social creature and I do not want to be homeless until death which is what the Santa Monica police want at this rate.

So consider experimenting more please, and you are welcome to start with me.

>I chuckled at this post on WSB yesterday. Someone wrote "if I had any cash, I'd buy more GME to average out my cost."

I chuckle at your chuckle. To me that "someone" sounds like a short trolling for more longs in the stock.

I say this as someone who has lurked WSB on reddit for a long time.

"Absorbed" is a nothing burger. It tells us nothing.

Enslaved by humans is just as conceivable an outcome for the Neanderthals as being wiped out.

And it would explain the 2% homology.

Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky struck me as a better novel. But it's almost 1000 pages.

Currency means the current instrument of exchange.

As a currency, gold is too heavy to be practical and too malleable to be trusted without testing it every time it is used.

Bitcoin by nature would seem to avoid these problems, but it does introduce the new risks and limitations inherent with passwords.

Less harm there in the trash than in the cloud to be used by perfect strangers to profile you.

"This will go down in your permanent record" comes to mind.

Not a publicly traded company. Perhaps disclosing does in some way assist their patent application(s).

thank you for the clarification of no conflict.

Net neutrality is fairness. Access isn't fair if it isn't neutral.

Anyone telling you otherwise (Ajit Pai) doesn't care about you.

So it seems that the natural human immune response to covid 19 (e.g. making polyclonal Ab) actually selects for mutant variants of the virus by only neutralizing a sub-set of the viral particles hmmm.

So giving plasma from a covid surviver is not a cure but rather a death sentence?