I don't think theres a large enough cult following of Raiders. So it's mostly regular fans.

However, active servicemen still risk losing their job if they admit 16 hour days, institutional abuse, rampant workplace sexual violence, and extreme isolation is mentally challenging.

To be fair, in terms of the no trespassing signs, it says they went up after the 30th anniversary brought 1500+ visitors PER DAY to the neighborhood.

I think anyone should understand that’s reasonable to close your house off to, and it likely had a lot more going on than just people coming by to take pictures.

I definitely think their political views were garbage, but let’s not pretend it’s an extremely entitled way of thinking to believe it’s shitty to close your personal home off to the public.

I lived in Astoria for a while. The Goonies love is still very much alive. Goonies weekend brings a lot of tourism to the small city.

it's a testament to the repetitive nature of american place names that as i opened and began reading this article i progressively thought "astoria" was in new york, kansas, missouri, and oregon

I was out in Portland once and made a point to see all the main building featured in the show Grimm. I parked across the street in front of each. If there were cars in the driveway I simple checked out the house for a bit and then left. If there weren't, I got out and took a picture of myself in front of it from the sidewalk.

But I didn't make noise, leave a mess, or intentionally disturb anyone. At the end of the day they are still people's homes and I didn't want to be a dick. I wish more folks would act like that and not ruin things for everyone.

Does anyone know of veterans can get free therapy

My friend isn’t suicidal but I think some therapy would help him feel more motivated to get out more.

My dad is going through the VA mental healthcare system. This is the way he explains it to me, "if I had no healthcare at all, it would only be slightly worse than this. And sometimes having no healthcare would actually be better." The US doesn't give a fuck about out veterans despite being the home of the free because of the brave.

too bad you have to go to Cleveland to see it.

To be fair they had owned the house for years before allowing filming there and becoming the BB house. Agreed they’re dipshits though by not accepting reality and huge wasted monetizing opportunity.

Why are all Vets not eligible for free care at all VA facilities all the time?

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That wife doesn't look pleased.

Reagan put the system out of it's misery, the deinstitutionalization movement is what killed it and that began decades before.

When you give schizophrenics the 'right' to decide to AMA themselves, big surprise: it turns out a lot of them eventually have an episode and do exactly that.

As soon as the legal criteria for an indefinite involuntary hold was changed from being unable to make decisions for yourself to an immediate physical risk to themselves or others the state hospital system was dead as enough Chlorpromazine will eliminate that risk in nearly anyone and as it wears off they have plenty of time to AMA before they recover enough to pose a risk.

Funding for programs like the state hospital system is always proportional to the demand and after the activists won the right for the mentally ill to make bad decisions the demand dried right up to the point that it was difficult for the few patients in some facilities cognizant enough to realize they really needed to stay because the facilities lost all of their economies of scale.

Deinstitutionalization as a concept only works is you assume the mentally ill will never make a decision during a crisis and will put the community's well being above their own. Those are very big asks in any population let alone the mentally ill.

Legally where we are since right before Reagan took office is at best catch and release. You can get a 72hr hold, but it is almost impossible to get longer or release conditional on continuing medication until they have committed a serious crime.

Since 80-90% are just going to AMA anyway it is extremely difficult to justify more than 10% of the spend we had on the 1970s which was already a severe reduction from what we had been investing a few decades before.

If it hadn't been Reagan it would have happened itself after a longer period of substandard care as the funding ran out on its own.

as they should. You don't spend money on a house with a following like that and expect to cut it off.

>The last owner had to close it off from the public because people were being inconsiderate- showing up at all times of the day and night and leaving trash in the yard.

That's about what I would expect, unfortunately. There are a lot of inconsiderate people out there who think that, just because a house was on a movie or TV show, it's now public property and they can do whatever they want to it.

The owners of the Breaking Bad House have had to deal with that. Stupid kids coming by day after day with the incredibly original idea of throwing a pizza on the roof, trampling through the yard, etc. They finally had to put up a big iron fence and plant warning signs all over their yard. People can really suck.

I hope it goes better for this guy. I suppose the fan base for BB is a little different than the one for The Goonies.

Your lack of imagination doesn’t matter.

Yes, like that other Spielberg cult classic: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Not gonna lie. I'm pretty jealous of folks that can purchase a $1.6 million dollar home with no plan of what to do with it and not even going to live in it.

That formed a fan cult.

Owners

Interesting you refer to rain water as gray water in the US.

For me (and I think generally anyone in Australia) that word is reserved for recycled water, eg from shower, sink etc.

Rain water can easily be used as drinking water provided you have clean gutters, roof, etc and a little bit of treatment.

Rain tanks are incredibly common here and, unless you aren't on town water, are generally used for the garden more than anything else.

California's drought is interesting to watch from afar. It's all the same things we were dealing with 15/20 years ago here in our drought years. A good impetus for change if nothing else. And hopefully some innovation comes out of it.

Now do it for all healthcare, and all people.

You make a point, but your age doesn’t dictate how the world remembers and enjoys movies. They outlast us.

It's like a suicide booth that uses nitrous oxide aka laughing gas to kill you peacefully