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Whenever I get a capcha of anyone on a vehicle, I always make it a point to highlight the entirety of the driver too because I’m not going to just let Google train its self-driving vehicles to just ignore that every motorcycle has a rider on it.

I only barely understood every other word. Could we get a transcription?

This must be somewhere in the Midwest, that’s the only place strange enough to think “theses” rhymes with “Reece’s”.

🎶 It's the Cambrian explosion 🎵

"wow, that's animals and stuff"

How was this guy found in the first place? Article didn’t seem to say. Did he publish threats online or something?

“Upgrade”

It would be more like a few thousand pieces, but it’s not like it’s an absolutely impossible task or anything. Broken vases can be repaired, even in a few thousand pieces, because each piece fits together. Get yourself some vase experts, some glue experts, some puzzle experts, some scientists to microscopically examine the broken edges, etc, and I see no reason why it can’t be done. You can literally ask the kids what their parents’ names are. You can ask them where they used to live. You can contact the government of that country and ask if that person has had an address in the last 5 years, or a job, or been to the hospital, or paid taxes, etc. You can ask the kids if they have any family or former neighbors that might know the whereabouts of their parents. Do the parents not have a phone number or a Facebook page? Not even an email associated with them? Surely a large squad of investigators backed by the government should be able to track people down in a world as filled with surveillance and digital records keeping as it is.

I find it very hard to believe that hundreds of families have simply vanished from the face of the earth, are now entirely impossible to locate, and that it’s unreasonable to expect any progress at all at this point. That’s defeatist thinking for no reason at all. Doxxers online can find out your name, where you live, where you work, and much more without ever even having to meet you, all just from small hints from your online presence. And you’re going to tell me a massive interagency task force assembled for specifically this purpose and has the full backing of the US government is naturally powerless to do anything? It sounds like you should hold the government to a higher standard. Just because the government never meets those standards doesn’t mean we should lower our standards. We shouldn’t be quiet about it when the government isn’t meeting those standards, either.

Yeah, Trump started this, no denial there, but Trump isn’t president anymore and hasn’t been for a few years. Trump almost certainly wouldn’t be capable of reunification of those families and had no plans to, but Biden actually might be able to, so I’m going to push him hard to do so and get it done ASAP.

I never said it should be fixed instantaneously, but we are now getting into the final year of his term and his administration’s lawyers in the DOJ are still actively fighting to prevent those separated families from getting any kind of restitution. Again, it’s been over 5 years now since the multiple hundreds of remaining kids were first separated and are still being kept in squalid, prison-like conditions. Imagine spending 5 years in prison without charge and no end in sight. Burglars regularly get less time than that. Even if these kids can’t simply be released, they can at least be kept in better housing, which should absolutely be within Biden’s power and shouldn’t take years to arrange.

Are we supposed to just shrug all that off? Hell, maybe we are; most seem to not even care, evidenced by the downvotes just for pointing out this failure after someone tried to say it was no big deal. I, however, find this whole situation absolutely unconscionable top to bottom. I don’t care who’s in charge, they just better get it fixed. If whoever’s in charge isn’t getting it done, I’m going to call them out for it, period. In your mind, how long is an acceptable timeframe for this kind of thing? A decade? Longer? Because that’s the direction we’re heading right now. Most of those families that have been fortunate enough to be reunited are still being deported right afterward, too.

Biden can’t be squared with all the blame for causing this situation, but his actions since coming to office, especially in this, among his biggest failures as president IMO, are certainly not above reproach by any means. I also can’t see how Biden is some powerless small fry when he’s the head of government for basically the most powerful country on Earth. There are truly very few people in the world with as much power and influence as Biden wields as president of the US.

Anyway, in conclusion, I fully stand by what I said; the fact that hundreds of those kids are still in prison 5 years later is an abomination and a national embarrassment regardless of whoever’s in office. I don’t even know what to say to anyone who could disagree.

Even if this was ultimately started by Trump, it’s still a massive failure of intelligence and management that this still isn’t completely fixed even multiple years later. The kids and families are still all packed together, over a dozen to a room in literal ICE detention facilities and military bases. Biden didn’t start it, but I’m far from willing to give him any passes for this at this point considering a not insignificant percentage of those kids are still in holding and how much time has passed.

It hasn’t been “a few days” for the remaining kids, it’s been literally years now. For the kids that have already been reunited, it certainly wasn’t as quick as a few days, it would have been months at least. And the vast majority of kids wouldn’t have been unaccompanied when they first showed up, but only became so after separation by the government, so using that as justification for them being held against their will doesn’t make any sense. Kids who have yet to be reunited with their families (of which there are still a few hundred) have been in detention since 2018. Some of them aren’t even kids anymore, they’ve been sitting in ICE detention facilities for so long without the ability to leave, receive an education, or anything else. There is no excuse for the outright prison-like conditions these kids are still subject to.

Biden as the president has the duty to make this right even if it wasn’t his idea. He has made some headway, which is good, but I haven’t been impressed by the rate of progress.

The context is right there on the trailer.

“Look twice” is a phrase to raise driver awareness of motorcycle safety. Right below it, though kind of hard to see, it says “[MO]TORCYCLES”

Then there’s the Yamaha sticker. They make motorcycles (and musical instruments lol).

Finally, you think some deadly pathogen would just be transported in a flimsy-ass consumer grade trailer? How about some Occam’s razor?

To “cry wolf” is to unnecessarily raise the hue and cry (either on purpose, or through naïveté), something those taking this phrase literally are far more guilty of than the owner of this trailer.

If I say “Watch out, don’t hurt yourself thinking too hard,” that, like the above, would be understood as a joke even though it takes the form of a warning. It’s not my fault if you freak yourself out worrying about literally hurting yourself by thinking too hard.

Genie, for my first wish, I wish that everyone who has ever seen this photo or ever will can just look at the stickers right there on the bumper and see that this is just a joke about being obsessed with dirt bikes, not any kind of deadly pathogen or anything.

Seriously, it’s sad how many people over the years have taken the phrase written there far too literally.

Yeah, those kids aren’t even at the camp anymore, they all went out for a morning-after pill.

You’d think the internet would have come up with a new punchline than “Australia upside down lolz” since literally 2011, but here we are well over a decade later making the exact same jokes and pretending it’s still funny.

This shitposting community consistently disappoints me. Way too often, the actual shitposts only get a couple dozen upvotes. Meanwhile, we get tired, generic memes like this voted to the top. A shitpost isn’t just some random iFunny meme, but that’s all I ever seen to see coming out of here. The other top post right now is a years-old webcomic, not even edited to be a shitpost or anything.

My window faces east, so the sun shines straight into my room first thing in the morning. Around this time of year, several beams even fall directly across my pillow as the sun rises, so if you move out of one beam, you move into another. I want to move.

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