“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

The possible issues that could be caused by poor people abusing the system, whether through human error or deliberate fraud, in order to get what they need to survive is statistically infinitesimal when compared to the harm that has already been, and continues to be, caused by the abuse of the system by the super-wealthy, who have never needed survival-level financial help and never will.

I have volunteered at a couple of different food pantries, and I have to tell you: fraud prevention measures raise the percentage of scam and abuse. "Fraud prevention" doesn't eliminate fraud, it raises the percentage of fraudsters who get help. Let me explain.

I used to volunteer at a food pantry that got some of its funding from a government program that required means-testing. That means, we were required to get paperwork from every person we served that they were genuinely poor enough to need help and qualify for it.

So when they came into the building, the first stop was a large room with 8-12 volunteers (depending on the week), who had files and files full of paperwork that they were required to update every time someone came in. The first time someone came to us, they had to have a bunch of documents--and despite a lot of outreach and publicizing, we would inevitably have people who came with some of the documents missing or the wrong documents. A lot of people simply didn't have the documents, because people on the margins of society often have problems like being thrown out of their housing for one reason or another (fight with partner, evicted by landlord, etc). Once you had the paperwork on file with us, you still had to check in with the paper-pushers every time you came to the food pantry, and then every so often (I think yearly?) you had to update your paperwork to prove you were still poor enough to "qualify" for help.

It was a lot of work to check all that paperwork and check people in and all that stuff. Even with 8-12 people working in that room, and even with most people already on our books and thus having a file already, so they only needed a few minutes to check in, there was always a long line of people waiting.

Once the paperwork was (finally) done, they'd come down the hall to the room with the actual food in it. There were usually 3-4 volunteers working in that room, and the clients would come to the door, hand one of them a slip of paper with the number of people in their household, and get handed a bag of food.

The paperwork took 2-3 times the number of volunteers, and at least ten times the time, as the actual distribution of food did.

And we regularly had people come looking for help and walk out defeated by the paperwork. Maybe they couldn't get the papers. Maybe they didn't have time to wait--they had a job to get to, or kids needing them, or their ride had a job to get to. Or they just got frustrated or humiliated and decided that it was better to go hungry than put up with that shit. Sometimes they left in tears. All that paperwork, all that effort to root out fraud and abuse, it regularly turned away people in genuine need.

You know who had all the time in the world to fight their way through the bureaucracy?

The fraudsters. The grifters. (And we did, very very rarely, get one.) They would take whatever time it took to get what they wanted.

Means-testing didn't prevent them from getting help. It did prevent genuinely needy people from getting help. And, bonus, it required 2-3 times the number of volunteers, and also required more paid government bureaucracy to handle and process the reports.

Any measures you take to prevent people from abusing the system will inevitably increase the percentage of fraud (by driving away people in genuine need), and also make things vastly less efficient and more expensive by requiring lots of people to handle the bureaucracy.

another fun thing that happens is that you up your fraud prevention and then you cut your budgets to the bone in the name of "saving money" and THEN when overworked people trying to do fraud prevention make mistakes you penalize them for it in ways that make the programs even more expensive to operate and meanwhile. the fraudsters -- and there aren't many of them -- are still happily frauding along, and government employees are stressed out, underpaid, and overworked, and food bank volunteers are stressed out and overworked, and people who need food aren't getting food.

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

The possible issues that could be caused by poor people abusing the system, whether through human error or deliberate fraud, in order to get what they need to survive is statistically infinitesimal when compared to the harm that has already been, and continues to be, caused by the abuse of the system by the super-wealthy, who have never needed survival-level financial help and never will.

I have volunteered at a couple of different food pantries, and I have to tell you: fraud prevention measures raise the percentage of scam and abuse. "Fraud prevention" doesn't eliminate fraud, it raises the percentage of fraudsters who get help. Let me explain.

I used to volunteer at a food pantry that got some of its funding from a government program that required means-testing. That means, we were required to get paperwork from every person we served that they were genuinely poor enough to need help and qualify for it.

So when they came into the building, the first stop was a large room with 8-12 volunteers (depending on the week), who had files and files full of paperwork that they were required to update every time someone came in. The first time someone came to us, they had to have a bunch of documents--and despite a lot of outreach and publicizing, we would inevitably have people who came with some of the documents missing or the wrong documents. A lot of people simply didn't have the documents, because people on the margins of society often have problems like being thrown out of their housing for one reason or another (fight with partner, evicted by landlord, etc). Once you had the paperwork on file with us, you still had to check in with the paper-pushers every time you came to the food pantry, and then every so often (I think yearly?) you had to update your paperwork to prove you were still poor enough to "qualify" for help.

It was a lot of work to check all that paperwork and check people in and all that stuff. Even with 8-12 people working in that room, and even with most people already on our books and thus having a file already, so they only needed a few minutes to check in, there was always a long line of people waiting.

Once the paperwork was (finally) done, they'd come down the hall to the room with the actual food in it. There were usually 3-4 volunteers working in that room, and the clients would come to the door, hand one of them a slip of paper with the number of people in their household, and get handed a bag of food.

The paperwork took 2-3 times the number of volunteers, and at least ten times the time, as the actual distribution of food did.

And we regularly had people come looking for help and walk out defeated by the paperwork. Maybe they couldn't get the papers. Maybe they didn't have time to wait--they had a job to get to, or kids needing them, or their ride had a job to get to. Or they just got frustrated or humiliated and decided that it was better to go hungry than put up with that shit. Sometimes they left in tears. All that paperwork, all that effort to root out fraud and abuse, it regularly turned away people in genuine need.

You know who had all the time in the world to fight their way through the bureaucracy?

The fraudsters. The grifters. (And we did, very very rarely, get one.) They would take whatever time it took to get what they wanted.

Means-testing didn't prevent them from getting help. It did prevent genuinely needy people from getting help. And, bonus, it required 2-3 times the number of volunteers, and also required more paid government bureaucracy to handle and process the reports.

Any measures you take to prevent people from abusing the system will inevitably increase the percentage of fraud (by driving away people in genuine need), and also make things vastly less efficient and more expensive by requiring lots of people to handle the bureaucracy.

another fun thing that happens is that you up your fraud prevention and then you cut your budgets to the bone in the name of "saving money" and THEN when overworked people trying to do fraud prevention make mistakes you penalize them for it in ways that make the programs even more expensive to operate and meanwhile. the fraudsters -- and there aren't many of them -- are still happily frauding along, and government employees are stressed out, underpaid, and overworked, and food bank volunteers are stressed out and overworked, and people who need food aren't getting food.

luo binghe cried to the universe and shen yuan answered

Video game: (has main character that travels the world alone)

My fuck brain five minutes in: but what if they had a friend

Happy birthday to Shen Qingqiu and his most avid hater!!!

Made two versions bc I couldn't decide on the lighting It's so funny their birthday is 21st of September lol

sometimes people experiencing psychosis and/or mania will come up to you on the street and talk in confusing or upsetting ways. your job is to either have a regular human-to-human conversation with that person or politely leave. your job is not to call 911. do not call 911. you might kill that person if you call 911.

I don't even have the energy to screenshot and respond to your tags- what the actual fuck is wrong with you? "the cops are scared and rightfully so" "mental health calls are the scariest for cops" OH so this isn't about the safety of psychotic & manic people this is about piggy feelings?

and no, actually, this is not USA specific and no, actually, people from other countries should not ignore this post. police violence and sanism weren't invented in the US and they are certainly not unique to here. if you (or anyone) thinks that this bullshit doesn't happen elsewhere then you are not listening.

THROUGH A RAPIST’S EYES” (PLS TAKE TIME TO READ THIS. It may save a life, It may save your life.)

An Article from Neena Susan Thomas

“Through a rapist’s eyes. A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interview…ed on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts:

1] The first thing men look for in a potential victim is hairstyle. They are most likely to go after a woman with a ponytail, bun! , braid, or other hairstyle that can easily be grabbed. They are also likely to go after a woman with long hair. Women with short hair are not common targets.

2] The second thing men look for is clothing. They will look for women who’s clothing is easy to remove quickly. Many of them carry scissors around to cut clothing.

3] They also look for women using their cell phone, searching through their purse or doing other activities while walking because they are off guard and can be easily overpowered.

4] The number one place women are abducted from / attacked at is grocery store parking lots.

5] Number two is office parking lots/garages.

6] Number three is public restrooms.

7] The thing about these men is that they are looking to grab a woman and quickly move her to a second location where they don’t have to worry about getting caught.

8] If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that going after you isn’t worth it because it will be time-consuming.

9] These men said they would not pick on women who have umbrellas,or other similar objects that can be used from a distance, in their hands.

10] Keys are not a deterrent because you have to get really close to the attacker to use them as a weapon. So, the idea is to convince these guys you’re not worth it.

POINTS THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER:

1] If someone is following behind you on a street or in a garage or with you in an elevator or stairwell, look them in the face and ask them a question, like what time is it, or make general small talk: can’t believe it is so cold out here, we’re in for a bad winter. Now that you’ve seen their faces and could identify them in a line- up, you lose appeal as a target.

2] If someone is coming toward you, hold out your hands in front of you and yell Stop or Stay back! Most of the rapists this man talked to said they’d leave a woman alone if she yelled or showed that she would not be afraid to fight back. Again, they are looking for an EASY target.

3] If you carry pepper spray (this instructor was a huge advocate of it and carries it with him wherever he goes,) yelling I HAVE PEPPER SPRAY and holding it out will be a deterrent.

4] If someone grabs you, you can’t beat them with strength but you can do it by outsmarting them. If you are grabbed around the waist from behind, pinch the attacker either under the arm between the elbow and armpit or in the upper inner thigh – HARD. One woman in a class this guy taught told him she used the underarm pinch on a guy who was trying to date rape her and was so upset she broke through the skin and tore out muscle strands the guy needed stitches. Try pinching yourself in those places as hard as you can stand it; it really hurts.

5] After the initial hit, always go for the groin. I know from a particularly unfortunate experience that if you slap a guy’s parts it is extremely painful. You might think that you’ll anger the guy and make him want to hurt you more, but the thing these rapists told our instructor is that they want a woman who will not cause him a lot of trouble. Start causing trouble, and he’s out of there.

6] When the guy puts his hands up to you, grab his first two fingers and bend them back as far as possible with as much pressure pushing down on them as possible. The instructor did it to me without using much pressure, and I ended up on my knees and both knuckles cracked audibly.

7] Of course the things we always hear still apply. Always be aware of your surroundings, take someone with you if you can and if you see any odd behavior, don’t dismiss it, go with your instincts. You may feel little silly at the time, but you’d feel much worse if the guy really was trouble.

FINALLY, PLEASE REMEMBER THESE AS WELL ….

1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do: The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do it.

2. Learned this from a tourist guide to New Orleans : if a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it away from you…. chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you and he will go for the wallet/purse. RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!

3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car: Kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy. The driver won’t see you but everybody else will. This has saved lives.

4. Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping,eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc. DON’T DO THIS! The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger side,put a gun to your head, and tell you where to go. AS SOON AS YOU CLOSE the DOORS , LEAVE.

5. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage:

a. Be aware: look around your car as someone may be hiding at the passenger side , peek into your car, inside the passenger side floor, and in the back seat. ( DO THIS TOO BEFORE RIDING A TAXI CAB) .

b. If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into their cars.

c. Look at the car parked on the driver’s side of your vehicle, and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)

6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. (Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot).

7. If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100 times; And even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN!

8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP IT! It may get you raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked “for help” into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.

Send this to any woman you know that may need to be reminded that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it and it’s better safe than sorry.

If u have compassion reblog this post. ‘Helping hands are better than Praying Lips’ – give us your helping hand.

REBLOG THIS AND LET EVERY GIRL KNOW AT LEAST PEOPLE WILL KNOW WHATS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD. So please reblog this….Your one reblog can Help to spread this information.

THIS COULD ACTUALLY SAVE A LIFE.”

EVERYONE BOOT THE FUCK OUT OF THIS

i dont think i posted these but here i made a little frog pattern to make tiny frog toys with my grandma

this is the first lil guy I made while still learning how i should sew it

Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.

Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.

As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.

Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.

Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.

Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet. Andrew Scott's Hamlet is here.

Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.

Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.

Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.

King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.

Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.

Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.

The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.

The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!

Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.

Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.

Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.

Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.

Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!

The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one is the Shakespeare Retold modern retelling.

The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.

Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,

Troilus and Cressida can be found here

Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here

Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.

Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here. The BBC version is here.

The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here

Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.

(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)

in fics where luke gets plopped into the prequels i want every jedi within ten metres of him to think hes the weirdest jedi theyve ever seen. he has negative lightsaber form. he doesnt know what a kata is. he handstands when he meditates. his solution to sith is to try and have a chat. hes a political radical who keeps suggesting revolution. you ask him what the jedi code is and he says "kindness and compassion and helping those in need :) ". you ask how he used the force like that and he says some shit about how you are a luminous being limited only by your mind. the councils authority is just a suggestion. he is somehow the new favourite of both qui gon and yoda

Psychosis is so much more than hallucinations and delusions.

It's disorganizing phrases and sentences. Instead of saying "I lost my bag" you end up saying "I bag my lost".

It's saying something out loud and hearing it echo in your head, only to completely forget what you said, or why.

It's lacking words and the ability to organize them in a sentence so that they make sense.

It's thinking you wrote something only to find out you wrote something else.

It's suddenly losing track of what you were telling someone, or thinking.

It's unknowingly misreading words, somehow sensing the sentence doesn't make sense, reading it again and realizing you read half the word or a completely different word.

It's your mind going blank and feeling a need to stay still and stare at nothing in particular.

It's repeating words and phrases for no apparent reason.

It's having an insight or remembering something you want/have to do only to lose it within seconds.

It's not being able to tell if something actually happened or it was a dream.

It's not being able to tell if a memory was a dream, a made up story/memory, or an actual situation in which you were experiencing positive symptoms.

It's losing track of time, feeling it goes too slow or too fast, or that it freezes.

Clarification: These are cognitive symptoms, which are not exclusive from psychosis, schizophrenia or Cluster A disorders. They can happen in many other disorders. Having them does not necessarily mean you have psychosis, specially if you already have other disorders. The main reason why I created this post is because cognitive symptoms are rarely/never mentioned within psychosis.

Sometimes I just giggle to myself about this

being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past ‘dresses are for women and pants are for men.’ i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we’ve made

— Quote by Leslie Feinberg, from TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.

ship dynamic meme where an extraordinary being is completely obsessed with some regular guy is so Bingyuan

Don't be like Shen Yuan and Kim Dokja guys.

fanart so upsettingly good it makes you get up and pace around your room in shellshocked silence

shout out to The Character for enabling the creative expression of some of the greatest artistic minds of our generation that i can easily access and be moved by without even having to leave the house or sit up in bed

never kill yourself there's literally always more art to look at. you can even make it yourself.

me when my disabilities disable me: