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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, this doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Too many state reps are willing to bend the knee to Trump.

 

For me, my job has been hybrid for 20 years. So, WFH some, and in the office some. We were told on Thursday, March 12th to prepare to WFH full time for the next 2 weeks. Little did I know that Sunday, March 15th would be the last time I would be leaving my house for months, at least not in any meaningful way.

The evening of Monday, March 16th, the Governor of my state issued a state wide lockdown of non-essential business, to go into effect at 5 PM Tuesday the 17th. I can’t recall what the timeline was for how long that was supposed to last, but it ended up being almost 2 months before business like restaurants had figured out how to be open for takeout only. It was almost a full year in my town before things were back to the “new normal”.

We’re still full time WFH, and there’s no going back to the office for me. They sold the building, so there’s no where to go.

Life has never fully gone back to the way it was prior to that, and it probably never will. That’s a scar that will just never heal.

On a weird personal note, I was notified on March 18th, 2020 that my divorce from my toxic ex wife was finalized. Didn’t get to celebrate for like 6 months lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Curious. Did you use a tool to delete it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I can’t even imagine fucking around with immigration or the TSA. I get stopped often enough when I’m not doing anything.

Funny story. I usually use my Passport Card when I travel domestically. Makes sense, right? I mean how much more official of an ID can you have from the government. Anyway, a few weeks ago I was flying from NC to FL. I get to the TSA agent, and hand her my ID (Passport Card) and boarding pass. You would have thought I had handed her some piece of alien technology. She looked at it, turned it over a few times and then asked me “Do you have your passport, or any other ID”. I was literally dumbfounded. In all the years that I’ve been doing this, it’s never once been questioned, or caused any confusion. I replied “ma’am, you’re literally holding my passport in your hand”. Shockingly, that did nothing to alleviate the confusion, and she eventually had to get a supervisor to help. Coming back from FL, handed the TSA agent the card, they scanned it and told me to move along lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fair. We really shouldn’t be forced to think about this bullshit, but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The guidance comes after Rebecca Burke, a 28-year-old U.K. citizen, was detained and deported from the U.S. and returned to the U.K. on March 18, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Burke, a cartoonist, had been backpacking across the United States, sharing her journey on Instagram, where she posted about her stays in Portland and Seattle.

Her father, Paul Burke, voiced concern in a Facebook post, explaining that his daughter had no criminal record and was on her way to Canada when she was denied entry due to an "incorrect visa." She was then refused reentry into the U.S., classified as an "illegal alien," and detained by ICE.

It’s that part that’s concerning. In the past, this wouldn’t have even been something that was a concern. Mistakes happen no matter how diligent people are. She likely would have just been referred to the consulate to get things in order.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Why don’t you explain to us, what absurd logic you used to determine they’re the same?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

There was a recent arrest in my hometown, where they were driving around a neighborhood in unmarked, basically beater cars. They burst out of the cars, were wearing masks, and refused to identify themselves. The story also claimed there were no visible badges, but that the ICE logos were visible on a few of them. They arrested 3 young men from India, and that’s the last that’s been heard about it.

Point being, and I say this NOT as someone who’s out looking for a fight. I am a gun owning (many times over) liberal leaning centrist (most of the time). If I saw that shit going down in my neighborhood, I would probably have responded with an armed response. I will not stand idly by and watch my neighbors be drug from their homes by armed thugs.

 

This shit has surpassed ridiculous. I feel like the writers of Spaceballs, and Idiocracy, are somehow making things happen.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I’m about at my wits end with Reddit as a regular user. I have 2 accounts that I’ve used there for a while. One of them is my main user account, the other I use mostly to mod some subs.

My main account recently caught a 7 day ban because of their stupid new “Violence” bullshit. It’s so targeted, and blatantly obvious that it really only applies to comments about certain things. They removed the comment that supposedly triggered it, but all I was was

Hey Leon, you remember when you hit the cybertruck with a baseball bat? Why don’t you go fuck yourself with it.

That’s it, that’s all I said. You could post that same comment directed at an actual Reddit user, and not catch a ban.

Don’t misunderstand me here. I am not now, nor have a I ever been under the delusion that Reddit was the bastion of free speech they tried to claim for years. But seriously, they need to get their fucking heads out of their fucking asses.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

I think you have to buy a new Tesla to get that aid now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

You could not support their wars, and also not stoop to their level of pettiness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

No, he’s not. Even if he could get congressional approval, which is highly unlikely, the military would have to comply with the order. The likelihood of that happening, I can’t even fathom.

He’s just a fat ass blow hard making noise.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Liberal American here, for a long time conservatives here have miscalculated how well armed many of us are. The anti-gun crowd (not to be confused with gun control) are just the vocal minority on the issue, giving the impression that liberals hate guns. My gun safe begs to differ, and I own more guns than any conservative I know.

 

Heads up.

 

Hi everyone. I’m Cinder Bloc. I joined Lemmy very recently, and this was the first community I went looking for. Did some digging and realized that the creator had abandoned the community and deleted their account. I requested to take over, and here we are.

So, for now, bear with me a little as I get a handle on how things work.

Otherwise, let’s get this thing going and active, and post that Intel.

 

The creator of this community, [email protected], is not active, and appears to have deleted their account. I would like to take over this community and build it up right.

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