u/LebrontosaurausRex

I started my day with my roommate knocking on my door.

There was a woman being dragged by a man in the street in front of our house and being repeatedly hit with a gas can.

My roommate called DeKalb 911 out to our area in Norris Lake (cops took 20 minutes) and I went down to do what I could. I've worked for PAD in Atlanta, and various other similar programs and knew enough to know that it'd be way better for me to intervene then someone random.

I get down and learn that he threw her purse into the bushes (had her ID, social and other things), I send him the fuck off and attend to the 19 year old woman. Got her bag sorted and out of the bushes, when a nurse pulled up and started to talk to us as well.

Three more neighbors made their way down and I went to change into something besides fresh out the shower clothes.

By the time I come back down (still no cops), the dude had pulled back up in his busted up minivan. Girl proceeded to get into the car and they drove off.

I took a picture of the license plate, gave it to the cops when they pulled up. They couldn't find them.

I'm confused. Supposedly the reason these flock cameras exist is to track cars involved in criminal activity.

I gave her my email and sent her an email with DV resources, and had her message me on Facebook before I went to change. I'm such a fucking idiot. I wish I would have just stayed and overheated.

I still have the picture of the abusers license plate, and the victims contact information. Cops told me there was nothing they could do.

Is there anything more to be done from this point? I'm too much in a fight or flight kinda mode to be aware of things I missed.

I've worked in harm reduction, peer support and substance abuse services my entire adult life. As my various disabilities have progressed (OCD, ADHD, Keratoconus, hEDS) I've become less functional.

I can't drive at night or in the rain, and I live in an area (Georgia, US) with insanely bad public transit options. I do not think I'd consider trying to apply for disability if I could find a living wage that pays for all my medical bills that also is possible to be accommodating.

I can't run treatment groups any more, there's no way I can commit to being good physically at 7pm at night three months out. I can't sign my name on things that might show up in court since attendance is not possible.

The two jails in Atlanta I used to visit clients at are both massive human rights abuses and disability access is the last thing they give a shit about.

Now I'm unemployed after two rounds of grant cuts made it impossible for my organization to justify keeping me on. And I didn't have any medical paperwork to protect myself.

I'm just now coming out of the depressive haze I sunk into for the last few months, I wish I had been able to afford to keep up with doctors regularly enough the last five years to build paperwork. I wish I had done so many things differently.

As someone who used to help people with their applications to various things I'm aware of exactly how fucked I am. I don't really have the time to wait for rounds of repeals.

I'm not even sure I'm unemployable, it's just the things I can do (talking to someone in a crisis, navigating benefits systems, knowing psychopharmacology basics enough to help people make informed MAT choices, grant management and data management) are not really valuable unless there is a degree attached.

Maybe being on disability three years from now so I can get accommodations to get a degree 6-7 years from now is the play. But that's so bleak.

I can't plan that far out, OCD + ADHD together really put a damper on my long term planning abilities and the medications I can take to manage either.

Ughhhhh

I need a hug and some help. Anyone have experience navigating this in Georgia?

I'm so tired of ghoulish billionaires. I'm so tired.

The world is already bent to a breaking point to cater to these mentally ill hoarders. Dundon wants to use civic resources to make his wealth even bigger. He's being open about it, and he will HAPPILY leave Portland if some other city is willing to commit political self harm on his behalf.

I don't know how it is in other states, but where I live in Atlanta we've had our social services hollowed out by grant cuts and anti science/anti human policies. All in service of hyper wealth and the interests of ghouls like Dundon. There hasn't been a time in America in the last decade where city tax dollars are more stretched.

The social contract is dangerously close to a rupture. Ultimately wether a team is in a specific market or exploiting another does not matter. There's a billion larger issues to care about.

If the NBA is going to okay this brazen attempt at a civic wealth transfer, I gotta stop caring about it.

I grew up with a grandpa who idolized Walton and Russell. It's high grade horseshit that Waltons legacy is going to be ripped away.

Juvenal wrote about Bread and Circuses all the way back in 100 CE. It's incredible we are still struggling with this same bullshit.

I'm so fucking over it. I'm about to be over the NBA too.

Edit:

Do not confuse Juvenal (Roman Poet) with Juvenile (Southern Poet)

Removed one usage of the word ghoul.

It's near that level. These announcers are golden and hilarious.

I used to remember hearing them every time I went to the airport.

Imagine if in American football you could gain a down by losing three yards.

My dad legitimately didn't understand why teams would move back. He understood the point about unsticking the field, similar to how your route tree is limited by being in the red zone. But he legitimately didn't understand that there is a structure to how forwards and midfielders move without the ball.

They are often looking for a specific matchup, or an opportunity to overload on the weakest defensive link. Every time you pass the ball back and reset you have an opportunity to make their best corner cover your worst receiver. If you have two players who are significantly faster than a teams right back you might shuffle the ball around until you can have your two fastest players both run at the same player.

There's lots of little things to high level soccer. And then sometimes there are people who just do things and they are so brilliant that all the above is irrelevant.

It's a dope sport. If you're still struggling to enjoy it please try and think of the above.

I know Gavin Belson was inspired by bunches of people, particularly Peter Thiel with the blood boy. And that Russ was loosely based on a lot of Mark Cuban stories.

Action Jack and Ballmer almost sound the exact same to me when I hear them speak.

Whatever that end of the third quarter was by Tony Brothers deserves to be immortalized. It's just embarrassing to employ brushy brow Angel Hernandez.

Edit:

I do not believe the NBA is "rigged" I am HOWEVER insanely jealous of his ability to do a dog shit job and sleep peacefully at night.

Edit Edit: can someone tell me who to pay to get Jomboy to do a Tony Brothers supercut?

Hopefully he doesn't actually get Tunsil'd. But one can kinda hope.