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Interesting…I’ve been going for over a year and have only had one half bad experience (it involved nail art). But other than that I usually just do gel and haven’t had any issues. I used to go to Venus nails on Mineral Spring but I found that the gel didn’t last very long

I second this! They listened to me about all my tmj issues and were incredibly helpful

Their google reviews (especially the recent ones) look bad but I’ll give them a try!

I'm renting out a room in Fall River, 20 mins from Providence. I have a cat 😁

People can ride bikes without a bike path that will destroy local businesses.

Are you aware that 4 people stabbed a homeless man in Kennedy Plaza last night? And do you know why they stabbed him? Because the homeless man refused to let them take his Sour Patch Kids candy.

There are real issues in this city. Not having a bike path on Hope Street isn't one of them.

Have you ever considered that cities are a nuanced social environment that should simultaneously provide for people who use bikes along with providing for homeless people?

J&J Nails on admiral street!

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I mean what is the solution here for the US? Flip a switch to turn over control of utilities, housing, health care, etc to solve homelessness? That’s not a practical answer.

There’s better support services that can be provided for the homeless and needy by the government. And there’s examples of this. If they are better supported it will give them an opportunity to maintain jobs that do exist.

There are plenty of capitalist countries that have much stronger support in these areas. There’s no direct correlation.

Yes, housing is an issue. These people living in tents are not simply working 60 hour weeks and just can’t find a place to live — there’s other significant factors at play in most cases.

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Newsflash: people are selfish and irrational. And selfishness is just as likely to take the form of, “I don’t want a bunch of people living around me” as it is “I want to make a profit on my home.”

I get the resistance to subsidizing any developer but the shortage of housing supply overall, I believe the phrase "beggars can't be choosers" is very fitting here. The city/state needs to increase the housing stock dramatically. We're better off with the Superman building, Fane tower and that South Water development existing.

And it's baffling and infuriating that D.A.R.E. won't or can't see that, though this feels more like the principled progressivism viewpoint where people will argue against any good thing because it's not the full and complete solution to every aspect of the problem.

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Yeah I guess I don't understand the "I paid this money to be isolated" mentality which often naturally coincides with the "I can't stand seeing homeless people everywhere!!" mentality. If you don't want homeless, provide more affordable housing lmao.

I feel like we're talking across each other here. Of course the government could literally mandate desegregation and the government could literally force people to allow a bunch of new construction in their neighborhood. Of course that's something that could happen.

The point is that at this exact moment in time the vast majority of Americans oppose that and they don't oppose it only because of the "profit motive." They oppose it because they fear crime, because they don't want more traffic or noise in their neighborhood, maybe because some of them are racist. They have lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of reasons to oppose it that have nothing to do with capitalism. Not all of those reasons are good. It's just that a lot of them have nothing to do with capitalism.

So, I'm sorry, but it's just extremely naive and unserious to say that it's all about capitalism.

Could also just do a really decent quality mesh to go from the basement to the 2nd floor. There are a lot of systems that will cover that distance especially as a temp fix until the lines get run.

They wouldn't be able to do MoCa as the lines to the apartment have been cut so there is no Coax, it is a great suggestion though. This would work if they have any active outlets in the apartment, but so would just moving the modem.

Here's the thing, we have fixed homelessness in the US before. The sort of homelessness we see today is the result of two policies: the elimination of public spending on public housing, and deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. Both of these were done for (some) good reasons; conditions in both could be horrendous, and mental institutions were absolutely horrid. But they were also done for ideological reasons, and the resources to house people in their communities were never provided. Public spending just stopped, and local and state governments were left to jury-rig solutions.

The other aspect is that the State of RI has literally developed a plan to end homelessness. Everyone in the system absolutely knows how to end homelessness, what's required is political will to procure the funding to do it. It's not a question of capitalism, it's a question of action.

Yes, I don't know if people maybe have the impression that I'm defending the opinions of homeowners, but I am not. I am an urbanist. I like living in cities and I would like to see a lot more building around me.

But most people are not me! Most people oppose new construction in their neighborhood and the notion that the only reason they do this is the "profit motive" is the opinion of someone who has never been to a community meeting. It boggles the mind, actually. It's a completely absurd proposition. People don't want density around them and they don't want noise and they don't want traffic and they don't want crime and they associate all this stuff with cities. It's just totally absurd to say that it's entirely the "profit motive."

The people who live in suburbs aren’t going to be like, “well I guess now I have no reason not to allow a bunch of new housing in my neighborhood” if you take away the profit motive. Get real!

I guess I've lived in countries where entire communities live next to each other in mega high rises vs the US where people want to live isolated. In Singapore for example the government strictly regulates housing ratios based on ethnicity to ensure everyone lives next to everyone else. They try to minimize the "I'm not living here bc the <insert minorities> are moving in next to me" attitude like you find in the US.

I'd agree the supply issue is a huge, huge part of the problem but I do think it's a very fair statement that capitalism was a driving factor in eroding so many of the safety nets, particularly in mental health that lead to the homeless population more than tripling during the Reagan years. And I also think that the "bottom-line" thinking that's the lifeblood of capitalism is a big roadblock towards more comprehensive solutions.

I'd never be someone who'd argue for full on communism or anything but it's hard to pretend that this problem exists because our status quo lets it.

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This is wrong. To have lines wall fished regardless of voltage you need to be licensed as it can interact with the high voltage system.

Cable/internet installers are able to drill through walls and floors but are not allowed to fish as they are not licensed. If the landlord does not want it run on the outside of the home it needs to be fished and that needs to be done by a licensed electrician.