I don't think they were being apathetic as much as they were acknowledging that no state funds behavioral healthcare adequately.

That is what lobby means

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Definitely flooding

That’s rain

Spooky reminder of when Shockoe flooded because the flood wall was closed and the pumps failed causing the Shockoe bowl to fill with 9ft of water.

Edit:. Here's an account of the flooding on that day, and how/why it happened:

https://richmond.com/news/local/why-richmond-why-officials-say-floodwall-didnt-fail-during-gaston-in-2004/article_7bcd6202-7ae8-5116-891b-a36c86df4db4.html

They don't call it the dry wall

We are full in RVA

https://preview.redd.it/re94mgibcuha1.jpeg?width=1009&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=c1ff1c58671566ff53832cec5bb423f0d4e4bfa3

It's almost like slashing away the top marginal tax bracket every few years since 1970 has resulted in budget issues for the government. Who knew.

“The behavioral health lobby,” aka advocates trying to get people health care to keep them safe and healthy after decades and decades of underfunding and divestment that has led to a crisis point where people are dying from a lack of care

Ok food snob

Could it? Did you read the article? Virginia ranks middling to lower end when it comes to access for mental health care, particularly in regards to youth mental health. These kinds of issues have knock on effects, ever wonder why kids keep showing up to schools with loaded handguns?

Ya'll say we should do more, and speak more about the problems facing us, but when someone does more and says more the general response is apathy?

Having worked with the author of the article, and having gotten to know her, she is a very passionate advocate when it comes to mental health access and treatment, particularly for vulnerable populations in the state. She isn't trying to sell you something as much as she is trying to highlight the disparities between access in Virginia vs other states.

Frig off we’re full

That's not good.

I think that's a lift station...

I've always thought that was a pump station for the wall, perhaps they are testing or flushing the system.

Shokoe Bottom is essentially a bowl between Navy Hill and Church Hill. Water runs downhill and collects into larger and larger puddles. The flood wall is meant to keep the overflowing James River from flooding into the bowl not to prevent the collection of water from the run off.

But the water rushing off the top of that tower! Looks wild

Flooding

Looks like it’s raining.

Sorry I didn't like the stew that tasted like they used Texas Pete as a base?

The behavioral health lobby sure is dropping a lot of money lately. It's mentioned two or three times every morning in the axios newsletter, and now on Richmond.com too.

I don't have any opinion on behavioral health, I'm just annoyed by anything so blatantly advertised at me.

There are a ton of obligations for modern governments and not enough revenue to fund everything. And no one wants tax hikes.

From what I gather, people are just angry that people from NoVA are moving here because they're driving up the cost of property due to paying way over what houses are worth. I wouldn't tell you to stay out of here though.

Richmond City is fairly queer friendly. We have a couple of LGBT+ bars, diversity thrift shop, and pride events. There are, as always, people who discriminate, but it's less common in the city and more outside of it. Don't go anywhere really rural. Our LGBT+ community is kind of small though.

We have a diverse range of restaurants. Indian, Mexican, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Greek, all that.

Our population is pretty diverse as far as nationality.

I personally find that Richmond people are very clicky. It's not easy to make friends imo.

Nothing to worry about as far as internet.

I also think being a weeb, you'll fit right in. We have to many people here who love anime and gaming.

Lol whenever I see that sign out I’m tempted to go in there and check it out. What’s that place like?