A very high percentage of homeless use a controlled substance. You can philosophize correlation vs causation but it's definitely more difficult to climb out of poverty when you are stoned or drunk.
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high percentage of everybody uses controlled substances. I've done my share of odd jobs and it's depressing what you'll see in the cup holders (out in the open) in six figure cars when you're a valet. No part of this has anything to do with whether or not we acknowledge that everything with a tailpipe is going to have emissions and we can either provide a place for that to happen cleanly or accept the outcome of not providing public facilities. For everybody whether members of the First Chairborne Division deems them worthy or not. My wife has a professional job distributing controlled substances pushed by the legal substance addiction industry to high class
employed junkies and is a homeowner and has IBS so when something has to happen it's gonna happen like
right now not an hour up the road, is she worthy of abundant public facilities? My next door neighbor is retired and has limited mobility and incontinence so she has to plan any travel she does with extreme care. By travel I mean going to get groceries, she is pretty much excluded from real travel in part because of this. Is she worthy of abundant facilities?
The problem of dookie isn't a class situation. Part of it is good ol' tragedy of the commons, we have more humans alive now than ever and we're packed in closer to each other than ever and finally having to come to grips with the fact that no man is an island. Part of it is managing the scale. If we had more open recreational areas then the most popular spots wouldn't get as trampled. If we kept more public facilities open then the only places that would need to accept out-in-the-open deposits would be deep in the woods and that would keep the density relatively low. This is a problem with solutions if we decide to actually solve it instead of using it as an excuse to punch down.
In the vein of how to bury what you got, if you're backpacking those ultra light palm trowels are great for digging runoff canals around your tarp perimeter, to help get traction when you need to climb or descend a really slippery grade without risking injury and of course for digging your private vault. In an emergency you can use the shovel as a sort of squeegee in lieu of toilet paper and then "wash" it by digging in the dirt to knock your
mud off with the ambient, perhaps preferable local mud. I know you don't want to think about that but this is specifically the topic we're here to discuss.
Another cool shovel trick for seated activities, just need to be careful with handle placement and how you aim:
