Reminds me of the PornHub branded snowplows clearing the streets last year.
If companies want to be civic minded I’m all for it. It’s not like other people were stepping up to hand out tents to the homeless in that area.
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As a tourist yeah any time past 3-4 days is likely too much but honestly its not that bad when you’re a local. It’s an interesting city even if you’re not a gambler or into the club scene, i moved there because i had a group of friends so my main draw there was them. I do miss the city but after 6 or so years of living there i did need a change of scenery and my life is better for it 
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I’ve heard good things about the foodie scene, but again, as a poor college student that wasn’t on the menu.
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“There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents,”* but that was neither.
Not my best work though, if you have to ask.
(Bob Ross)
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Oh yeah the food there is phenomenal. Of course the ritzy expensive places with renowned chefs are going to be great, but there’s also the city’s small “Chinatown” with loads of really good Asian restaurants. Oddly enough sushi is a city-wide obsession and at one of my apartments i counted a minimum of like 10-12 sushi places within a 10 block radius so fish and sushi tends to be incredibly fresh, very well made, and affordable as hell.
I also miss the Filipino, Thai and Vietnamese restaurants. There’s decent ones where i live now but not quite as good as Vegas.
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I’m sure like many places the town has its merits when you get to know it. Sorry if I sounded like a bad-mouthing tourist putting Vegas down. Passing through in the dead of summer didn’t help my impression.
Obviously lots of people put Austin down, and to me it’s home. I should be more careful about glib regionalism.
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Around 1975, a group of local strippers did a show for charity, the money going to the Chikdren’s Hospital. They did it for a few years, but then the hospital wanted to distance itself, so
I think the benefit just faded.
I know I thought it was a way to see strippers, the charity aspect making it more acceptable, though I never went.though
The organizer went by tge name “Fonda Peters” if I remember properly. But some years later she was in that documentary “Not A Love Story”, about pornography. She was Lindalee Tracey.
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Nah no offense taken. Visiting Vegas, even for me these days isn’t great… i pretty much only go to visit friends and that’s it. But living in Nevada is something i miss because i like the desert and reminds me of where i grew up, that said i wouldn’t go back to that city to live 
if anything i would be more inclined to move to Reno/Tahoe given the chance (and money).
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You have to pay a $20 cover and 2 drink min for that.
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Really? Why does a strip club have a bunch of tents sitting around? Not buying it.
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I have NO problem with this. The logo is not naughty. If they really don’t want to see this they should provide adequate housing. I would be more embarrassed having to explain why these people can’t sleep inside.
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This turns Slavoj Zizek’s “First as Tragedy, Then as Farce” into new and weird rule34 territory.
The business of Deja Vu aside, donating tents is the tiniest bandaid on the problem of homelessness. They need to donate to organizations that actually provide housing and services. Helping people camp out might make them more comfortable and safe in the short term, but it does fuck all to get them off the streets.
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Exactly. Branded tchotchkes suck, and are sometimes hard to unload.
https://www.getbrandwise.com/branding-blog/bid/21726/Branding-or-just-Tchotchke-Promotional-Junk
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Well you played it so straight it was hard to tell… kudos!
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Homeless people living in tents are already quite vulnerable to all kinds of predation. If a grouping of identically marked tents show up in a neighborhood, I could see that as being psychologically beneficial to their occupants, and psychologically treatening to homeowners. The way birds benefit from being in a flock.
The percieved threat to homeowners is something the club has already considered, Im sure, since the same people oppose homeless encampments as oppose strip clubs opening in their neighborhoods.
Some pretty master-class trolling, I’d say!
Eh, homeowners don’t really need an excuse to harass the homeless. The only difference is the homeless people are dry when they’re being harassed.
OK. 150 tents. Say, about $40 a tent. So that’s $6,000.
If you can get homes for 150 people for $6,000, write up a proposal and put up a GoFundMe; if I thought you could actually do it I’ll send you the first donation towards it.
I mean, there are good things you could do with $6K for 150 homeless people, but I doubt if anything would extend past making them more comfortable and safe in the short term.
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Just tell them “Oh, deja vu is that thing where you think something’s already happened and it makes you feel all weird. Having it on the tents just brings up the topic as something people can talk about.” What else do you need to say?
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Everything everyone says about tents just being a bandaid solution that doesn’t really solve much may be totally true and fair enough, but only if you’d say exactly the same about any other type of business.
