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Can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit, even if you are a silicon valley megabuckster.

Of course, the encampment is a group of wonderful, civilized, talented, industrious and organized individuals, temporarily down on their luck, who just need lots of free money to get them back on their feet.

Maybe they are squatting software engineers, waiting for Adobe to start blinking the hiring light.

Ceffer says

Maybe they are squatting software engineers, w

Actually, one of the interviewed was an engineer living out of his car because he lost his job and his apartment at the same time.

Very few homeless these days are chronically so. Most are, as you put it, 'temporarily down on their luck'.

Any surprise? The largest bubble in housing is in Silicone Valley.

Silicone or silicon?

People, get your terms right.

Silicon Valley is the tech region in the SFBA.

Silicone Valley, however, is the San Fernando Valley, the b**b job capital of Southern California.

Rin says

Silicone Valley, however, is the San Fernando Valley, the b**b job capital of Southern California.

Am I strange to hate big boobs? Real or fake, they look very unhealthy. How can those woman even maintain a good posture?

Article says

Many are out-of-work professionals, like the husband and wife who can’t find work or to afford rent anywhere. He is a former engineering consultant, his wife still has a job as a medical clerk.

First of all, if you don't have a high paying job, leave the Valley immediately!

Seriously, even outside of Boston, if you're willing to commute certain distances, finding reasonable rent isn't out of the question.

And then, there are regions like the Carolinas or Texas, where there are a growing number of tech jobs but with reasonable costs of living.

Peter P says

Am I strange to hate big boobs? Real or fake, they look very unhealthy. How can those woman even maintain a good posture?

No pun intended, but bent over rowing, with dumbells, will do the trick for the posture.

Yes, you're strange. In fact, big boobs are the only things which help me to unwind from my work.

Rin says

Yes, you're strange.

To me, eyes are all-important.

One way to deal with the homeless problem is the construction of interconnected private enclaves. They are like gated communities connected by elevated or subterranean roadways. Perhaps we can call them 21st Century Fortified Cities?

Since these will not be public areas, homeless people can be asked to leave.

I wonder if Cupertino will remain a "fortress."

When is the new Mad Max movie coming out?

Peter P says

Rin says

Yes, you're strange.

To me, eyes are all-important.

What about sliding one's pole between a pair of bazonkas?

Isn't that also important?

Rin says

Isn't that also important?

To me, mental stimulation is just as important. But then I'm strange. ;-)

Hasn't it been said that to conquer a man one can stroke his penis or his ego?

Peter P says

Rin says

Isn't that also important?

To me, mental stimulation is just as important. But then I'm strange. ;-)

Hasn't it been said that to conquer a man one can stroke his penis or his ego?

In the future, we'll have the opportunity to slide our poles between the bazonkas of some sex androids. Once that occurs, our bodies will be satisfied.

Afterwards, we'll probably get all the mental stimulation we need with our other intellectual male friends, who're into the sciences, philosophies, or arts.

Rin says

Once that occurs, our bodies will be satisfied.

But then I am the one who predicts the emergence of machine-induced lucid wet dreams. :-)

"GANG WAY!! I Said GANG WAY you riff raff, scallywags and ne'er-do-wells! Outta my way, you piss riddled leaches. "

Got get your Dickens face on when dealing with the down trodden that you're too ashamed to look at.

darlag says

Actually, one of the interviewed was an engineer living out of his car because he lost his job and his apartment at the same time.

Very few homeless these days are chronically so. Most are, as you put it, 'temporarily down on their luck'.

That doesn't sound like down on his luck that sounds like a pattern.
Move to Silicon Valley get a high paying tech job, spend most of your pay on rent and living expenses. Lose job your lifestyle quickly evaporates. People making that kind of money shouldn't be down on their luck because they missed a month or two of work.