Read anything by Irving Kirsch.

He used The Freedom of Information Act to study All the antidepressants studies that were sent to the FDA by the pill pushers, Not just the cherry picked studies, but All.

He found they basically don't work better than Placebo.

Personally, I think the "Happy" drugs have been the biggest con job the American suffering have ever endured. At least we know opioids work--for awhile. Antidepesssnts just make Dr. Wealthy more wealthy.

My hope is most of these wonder drugs are sued into history, along with those mandatory doctor office visits.

Ask yourself this--why do Psychiatrists have the highest rate of suicide if these drugs work?

I'm glad we have residents whom picked an easy speciality upon graduation, but these drugs have such low efficy rates they should be illegal, or over the counter, with the exception of a few. Trazadone can be nasty. A bad reaction is cured by a needle to the middle part of the brain.

Most are easy on the body, but don't do anything besides make an Artist (Medicine is an art, and Psychiatrists are the milking to the bone.) wealthy.

God help our suffering Americans.

I'm not into the "Throw it all away trend. That whole minimalism trend the wealthy can experiment with.", but when it comes to paying for a mini-storage (I'm just assuming); it's a win, win.

I worked at two mini-storages whilein college on the weekends.

I learned men and women valued different possessions.

In 99% of the cases, the rent/fees did not add up, but we like our stuff. I get it.

Once a month, an angry customer would empty their unit into a dumptster. The owner had signs up about dumping, but I wasen't paid enough to deal with the person who was at their last bit of hope, and decided Saturday was the day to finally dump it all. One out of 50 customers finally realized that junk they were hanging onto was not worth it.

I did talk one guy out of getting rid of his first edition books though. I was watching him throw away case after case of books into the dumptster. I was sweeping near the dumptster. The first book I picked out of the trash, was a signed book by Hemingway. I knew he wasen't crazy, but he was angry with life.

There was a part of me that just wanted him to leave, and my broke ass could make some good money selling the books.

I decided to tell him forcefully that he was being rash. He took his books out of the trash, and put them back in his unit.

I left the job a few weeks later. Always wondered how his life turned out.

(If you ever have to use a mini-storage: 1. Prorate the rent to the 1 day of the month. Mini-storage owners love late fees. Pick a mini-storage with cameras. People steal, even the mini-storage owners. If renting on the top floor, and the owner only used chicken wire to enclose the ceiling of the unit; you are taking a risk. It's easy to get into your unit. Realize the hardest part of storage is moving your crap in. Most people leave their belongings in way to long. The mini-storage owners know this, and that's why you see ploys like 1st month free bs. I've always felt the government should provide all homeless individuals with free lockers. I saw so many people trying to live out of their car whike renting a unit. I only was one guy who succeed year, after year. My Mini-storage rant is over.)

2. They charge $9.00 return shipping, and I bet make a healthy profit?

3. They might break even, minus the goodwill, on Ibud replacements? (I don't know Apple products anymore. Excuse the nomenclature. Ibud sounds off.)

2. If anyone hears me, yes, it would be great if all homeless had access to good Psychiatric help. And what's help good these days?

3. The chronic homeless I know just want a legal place to poop, and pitch a tent.

4. Most aren't seriously mentally ill; just the end result of a careless, brutal economic system. A system that fails many of us, especially the ones without a stable support system. What's that support system? Usually a caring family member. That caring family member that is always left out of the "I'm a winner" speech.

5. Rich boys can find themselves in college, and the job market.

6. Poor boys have one, or two chances.

7. A mental/physical hiccup can bring a poor boy down quick.

8. I don't want to debate, but we need areas of land that people who don't fit in can camp. We need it immediately.

9. Counties are using that "break on the glass theory" to harass poor souls to suicide, and worse. Worse is deficating on your streets? You don't like it, nor do I, but where are they suspose to relieve themselfs?

10. We need free plots of land, and bathrooms for the homeless. I've never heard a homeless person ask for much. My buddies just want to legal place to sleep, and a legal place to relive themselfs.

11. We are currently living in a society where everything is basically illegial. 100 years ago most people were basically homeless, but they had hope, and weren't harassed, vilified for not fitting in. Those days are gone, and we wonder why they do drugs?

He would just yack, and yack. Some times I would put the phone down, and come back in 5 minutes, and he would still be talking. He was eccentric, had a horrid childhood, but genuinely nice.

I thought he was nuts, but nice.

We ended up becoming best friends. They used to call us the odd couple.

I ended up trusted him more than family. We just included each other in everthing without even thinking. My girlfriends were put off by him at first, but he would wear them down talking, and before I knew it, he was calling them daily. And when he missed a day, they would ask me if he is ok. He never crossed the line either.

He died a few years ago, but his friendship technique was something I thought was brilliant. Just wear the person down.

I can pass this along, I once heard a therapist say something like, make friends with people your own age, or younger. Her rationale was they will die before you.

When I was in my tewenties, I just didn't have much in common with my peers. I wasen't more mature, but didn't like my generation that much. My friends were just older. I really loved all of them.

If I had a do-over, I might have really tried to make friends with people my own age. I'm all alone now. It does suck.

Anyways, my eccentric friend knew how to make friends. I haven't tried his technique, but might?

It all great, except for the Side Hustlers?

(I recently saw the shimmy man argue with a Uber driver over having to declare bankruptcy. Just wrong. Drivers, maybe it's time to slowly look into forming a union? Quietly. Will it ever happen? No--because too many people are desperate for any work.)

When I was a kid--it was kinda frowned upon. "Don't waste your time fooling around?". I think times have changed though? I hope?

The other day I made a watch band using the leather from my old boots, and dental floss. I didn't tell anyone because I knew it would be considered excentric.

It looks good to me. That's all I wanted.

I love mechanical watches. I repair watches. I love all things related to horology.

That said, if I bought a new Rolex, I really wouldn't own the watch the minute it went out of warranty.

What? Yea, Rolex, and 99% of the other Swiss Watch Companies will not sell parts to their customers. They want you to send it back to the factory, at factory prices, when it needs a service, or breaks down.

If anyone from The Swiss Watch Industry is listening, enough with the "quality assurance" bs. Your industry is in a very delicate point in history. If you don't clean up you act, the quartz crisis of the 70's will look like minor stumbling block.

I never though I would say this, but lately, that Apple Watch is looking better. I just don't want to carry around an IPhone.

So, stop abusing the anti-trust act, and be very friendly to anyone whom buys your overpriced hunks of metal. You're in no position to call any shots, or get cute. If I owned your stock; I would short it yesterday.

(Sorry if I sound bitter. In the last 7 years, the Swiss watch companies pissed off a lot of Independant Watch Repairers, by not selling parts. The average dude with the $25,000 watch has no clue that he/she really doesn't own that watch. They are essentially leasing it. Having the right to repair(let the customer decide whom is going to repair) is so essential to the future of mechanical watches.)

At 18, he had to join the Army. He spent the next two years in Europe.

He came home, and went to school on the GI bill.

He then went from job to job--trying to find one that had purpose. He decided to live in a commune. He bought a Indian motorcycle, and took off across the United States. When he need money, he would take odd jobs.(almost impossible today, unless you want to end up like that guy in Alaska who died in a bus.) He liked to drink, and smoke. He got into bar fights.(see how that one lapse of judgement will ruin your life today.) He finally found a job he liked. It was journalism. Within months, he had Union benefits.(again--try to find that today). Within a year, he had a house.(again--blah, blah, blah.) Then a wife, and kids.

I took away two things from that speech.

I couldn't imagine having to go to war at 18.

The other was all the things he did when he got home, and how now---just one mistake could ruin the future of a young person.

I'm not a millennial.

That said, I don't like this economy. I don't like knowing if I make one mistake, I could seriously derail my life. I don't like the fact that we have made so many things, once legal, illegial. Hell, you can't even smoke a cigarette in a park. You can't bum around until you find youself. You're lucky if you have a parent that has a basement you can throw a mattress in.

I really just don't like this current American society.

Would I want to be thrown into a war at 18--no.

That's about all I don't like about the past though.

(I won't be back to debate all the clever counter points. All I know is it's not great today. America has lost a lot. This is not the best country anymore. We need change. I would like to start with rolling back laws. It seems like there's a law against everything? Again, I won't be back, but understand the frustration out there.)

It's good for other field too. I've know union Electricians who didn't know how a three way switch works. They could wire it, but couldn't conceptualize it. Same with relay, and transformers.

It wasen't there fault. They just weren't taught it in the right fashion.

I do feel the book is dry though. I don't feel you need to read it front to back. I personally got more out of the diagrams, than the writing.

(My pet peeve in most technical books is the apparent lack of editing. If anyone is on the road to writing a technical book; there is nothing wrong with short books. People will pay for short books. Less is more--much of the time.)

Just say you were going to vote for Trump. Someone stops you on the street, or call you up; would you admit it?

I wouldn't.

The guy is an absolute joke of a person on so many levels. He's stupid. He's just aweful.

But there's a tiny bit of Trump in a lot of us buried deep in that ID.

Personally, I do think we need to get much more vigilant on immigration, even though Obama has sent more illegials home than any other president. Would I admit this in public--hell no.

And I have never believed in Globilization. Would I admit this at work--hell no.

I really think a lot of people will vote for Trump in the privacy of that booth.

I won't because I won't vote for a president this year, or will I?

The problem is a lot of people are tied to a certain goegraphical area.

The person might be old, and needs the assistance of Very hard to cultivate true friends, or family.

The person might not be the most economically viable specimen? The person might have a hard time doing manual labor? The person might be one of the millions that should qualify for dissabliity, but doesn't.

The person is so close to being homless, this magical move to mystical cheaper part of the country might be the last straw?

"I'll spend my last $1000 on moving my belongings across the country. Hopefully I'll find an apartment that doesn't require a security deposit, first and last, and perfect credit? I hope my heating bill won't be high? I hope that minimum wage job is waiting?" A lot of hope? No wonder we have such a problem with Homelessness? (My last move was 6 grand)

It's not so easy to up and move when you don't have a nest egg, or a job that doesn't moves well, or a retirement, or helpful friends/family.

I'm tired of debating housing.

I know a lot of you hate rent control--fine, I kinda get it in certain markets.

A lot of you blame prop 13 in California--I think that's just blame becuse you ran out of reasons.

Good luck building high density housing.

Good luck trying to ease restrictions on adding on to existing residential homes. I got a ticket because I parked on the street last night.

Good luck making it harder for foreigners to buy our land.(Right as we speak their are foreigners, for instance Chinese buying our land with a phone call.)

So back to, "No one forces anyone to live anywhere."

No they don't--Slick. What are these people suppose to do?

Forget about living off the lands, like our Frontieer forefathers did. Camping for free--where? Hunting, and fishing without a paying money? Those days are long gone. We are tied into living a certain modern way. A way where pretty much everything costs money. Any deviants will be fined, and punished.

What are poor people, people on fixed incomes, people who don't have marketable skills, people without fancy degrees, and oh, so helpful parents, at opportune times suppose to do?

That's right move to the Midwest, and hope Wallmart is hiring?

And why do you think people in these mystical low rent areas are moving to high rent areas? It's not the beautiful beaches/mountians. It's the hope of a job, and a better life. Not even a better job--a shit job that's becomming harder to get. "Hay--l'll join the sharing economy? "I'll spend my last wad on a 2008 four door vechicle, and live in it?"

Yea, I got mad. I know too many people whom are basically homeless. A large percentage of them are former Programmers.

I don't see a solution. I think we need to open up large sectors of land across the United States that a person, or family could camp for free. Kinda like Kibbutzes?

I immediately thought, I don't care if he's the best student in the class; he probally will have a horrid time getting a job.

I don't think I've ever seen an industry that's so guilty--actually I won't say the word, but if I was offering a bootcamp, I would just mention the game is geared for youth.

I'm not saying you can't take the courses.

Actually, does anyone know anyone who has taken one one of these bootcamps, who's over forty, who got, and kept a job in tech?

(The older guys I know, interested in programming/web developement all had to work for themselfs. I know one guy who made a killing. The rest are barely supporting themselfs. None went to a bootcamp. They couldn't justify the cost. I don't know if they did the right thing, by not going to a bootcamp.)

That said, since the average owner of a Rolex knows nothing about Watch Repair/Servicing; Rolex decided to make getting parts a pain. Essentially, Rolex wants you to send the watch to the factory for service, and repair. At factory prices.

They claim it's for quality assurance, but I feel it's just a money grab.

I wish these better watch companies didn't decide to do this. A lot of you will be buying your first nice watch. Remember, since you can't call the factory and even order a gasket; Do you really own the watch?

This will mean nothing to a lot of you. It's just a trend I don't like. I guess being American, I'm not comfortable being told what to do?

(Seiko sells parts to the public. And I'm not claiming a Rolex is not overpriced. I would never buy a new one. I'm just claiming they made a good product. A product that doesn't need an upgrade.)

And yes, if we had tough tests, make it illegial for an employer to even ask where you went to school.

For example, if a person can pass the CA bar, let him/her practice law?

I bring up the CA bar test because it's especially hard.

There are some professions that wouldn't lend themselfs to testing, but they would be the exception.

For instance, is a physical keyboard even necessary? Do you use FB? Apple, or Android phone? Contracts, or prepaid? Do you buy stuff from small websites? Or, is it just not worth the security risk? Does it bother you if a website demands a profile picture? Does the repairability of a electronic device matter? I'd appreciate any feedback.

I'm just curious. I'm not one of these rich guys trying to corner the next big trend. I'm pretty poor, but interested in tech., and would like to get a gauge on where it might be heading.

You would take the Fiesta?

A few reasonable metrics;

A better looking vechicle(Falcon), with a minimum of plastic. Subjective. Sorry.

Ease of repair. Objective. Win, by a long shot. Engine--easier to repair. Transmission--easier to rebuild. Electrical--bone dead simple. There's a reason you still see them on the road--50 plus years later.

There's objective reasons guys of differing demographics/tastes hunt for old Falcons. They are collector cars. They were simple. They were less complicated. In my eyes, they were miniminslistic cool.

I don't think in 56 years we will have Fiesta clubs, or guys scouring the Internet looking for restorable Fiesta's, or maybe they will? I don't know.

(In terms of emmissions you win hands down. Maybe I missing your point? If that's the case--sorry. If I had a huge garage, and some capital, I would be, right now, buying up collector cars, and keeping them for retirement. The only stumbling block I see is the federal government making older vechicles so hard to smog, they will become impractical to pass emmissions. Even, if that happens, I have a feeling guys will retrofit some of these older desirable classics with electric engines? )

My heart goes out to you. I know words are cheap, but I truly understand how you feel.

2. Want to avoid stepping on feces/urine? Build some restrooms? Oh no? They will just have sex in them, or shoot up. Problem. (By the way, I can find a restroom in that lovely city.)

3. That study concluded most homeless are from San Francisco. "Oh, no they arn't! It's a bad study!" Problem.

4. "There here for the benefits?" What benefits? I only know of one benefit, and that benefit was for homeless animals. It was shut down years ago.

5. Every county in the Bay Area has been essentially harassing the Homeless. In Marin County, where your bosses live; there's not one square inch of land that's legal to pitch a tent, or sleep--that's free. If you have no money--you are breaking some municipal/county law by sleeping.

6. Our economy has desimated most jobs. The jobs left don't provide a livable wage. This has been going on for 25-30 years. Problem.

7. I haven't even got to drug use, or mental patients. Problem.

8. Oh yea, why is the Bay Area going to do this day of homeless awareness now? I think the writing us on the walls. I know Willie Brown is publically wondering what SF is going to do with thousands of newly unemployed tech. workers.