For anyone who is undocumented (and people who are documented!), it's important to know your rights regarding ICE:
- Don’t open the door for ICE. They aren’t allowed into your house or workplace without a warrant signed by a judge.
- Ask them to leave.
- Stay silent. Do not talk to them without a lawyer.
- If you ask you your immigration status, your citizenship status, etc, don’t tell them anything. Don’t even speak to them.
- Even if you’re a citizen, still don’t tell them anything. ICE destroys communities, and every second of their time you waste is one less second they will spend destroying people’s lives.
- If you are detained, ask to talk to your lawyer. Note that ICE doesn’t provide lawyers so make sure you get one in preparation.
- Do not sign anything or give them any documents whatsoever without a lawyer in that room.
What with how Trump is pulling out of WHO and deregulating the chicken industry, if the avian flu becomes transmissible to humans, it will make COVID-19 look like childsplay. At which point things may get so dire vaccine hesitancy is likely to get you killed, and I'd probably recommend a quick plane trip to Canada to get vaccinated, if that's even still an option..
The sad thing is, there actually used to be some areas in which you could trust the government. You could trust the CDC for health information, the FDIC with your money, the FDA for food regulations, the USPS to deliver your mail..
Nowadays, everything good about government will be getting axed and everything bad amplified. But what can you do~
Talking about it here because I don't know where else to talk about it, but has anyone else noticed that Reddit has gotten incredibly bad with bots lately? I no longer have an account on Reddit, but I still browse sometime, and came across this post:
Of the top 20 comments, only 4 had karma over 10,000, 0 had profile pics that weren't snoos or NFTs, and all but 3 or so echoed the same vague message 'see a therapist.' Is it just me, or does it seem to anyone else that such cookie cutter comments are not the true thoughts of actual human beings..?
Regardless of whether it's bots or just Reddit culture to have such spammy content, I'm incredibly pleased at least with how many instances require you to write a little message about why you want to join to prevent bots. I've just seen a lot more comments of actual substance here, idk
Because they don't think of themselves as the little guy. No matter how poor they are, they're always temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
For what it's worth, people are usually only inclined to take action after they themselves have been hurt so badly they have no other options left. I wouldn't expect to see any political assassinations until our grandparents are losing their homes, food gets so expensive people cannot eat, censorship has taken away comforts like porn, and unemployment is incredibly high
Once all of that happens and still no action is taken by anyone, then yeah I'll agree most gun nuts only collect firearms to LARP getting to kill minorities.
I'd recommend Ubuntu. I've never tried Mint like others have suggested, but one of the strengths of Ubuntu is that it's one of the more popular distros, which means if you want to install a program, it probably has an easy install version for Ubuntu/Debian, or specific instructions, or just a lot of people online who have had the same errors as you and can give you suggestions when something starts causing issues
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" except frustratingly this actually does work when half the time the solution to technical issues is turning on/off, uninstalling/reinstalling, restarting, or reloading the program. So I guess nowadays the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again for a period longer than 30 minutes before googling to see if anyone else has had the same problem"