It's amazing this was never fixed. In Korematsu v United States, a Japanese-American citizen didn't report to Manzanar concentration camp and was imprisoned. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that it was legal to imprison citizens for national security reasons. That case still stands. And a similar executive order could be issued to do the same at any time, and Congress would be the only thing stopping it.

The order was based on the Alien Enemies and Sedition act of 1798, which was also already involved by Trump on this term.

I would love to be wrong, but I feel like more camps are in our future. CECOT is just the beginning.

Thanks, that's some pretty important context from the judge's prospective.

The other side is that ICE wants to sow fear, making the legal process impossible and then they can point to that and say "see? We should just put everyone in a camp in El Salvador without trial!"

It's hard to get an unbiased view from the news, but what I saw:

ICE showed up at a courthouse, looking for a guy with an obviously immigrant-sounding name. He was due to appear in court over something. The judge allegedly had the dude (in her courtroom) go out the back staircase.

This is from a biased source, so I expect there's more to it, and I edited out the "he's an illegal criminal!" Crap they were saying in both articles I read.

Kind of like how COVID reset our expectations on everything. Bare shelves at Christmas might reset what we really need to buy.

Is that a real photo of his knuckles? I mean, the MS13 is clearly added on and likely a "decoded" read of the pot leaf, smiley face, cross, and skull tattoos that are clearly in the knuckles (very dubious on that symbolism) but are this even Kilmer's actual knuckles? Or just a random photo of someone else?

Edit: yes, those are his knuckles as you can see pictures of him talking to that senator.

I strongly doubt, based on a quick search, that those are in any way related to a gang. They are evidence of drug culture (gasp!) but I've yet to see any evidence that any gang uses those.

Edit 2: it appears MS13 members literally just get tattoos that say "MS13" and don't attempt to hide it. It's a proof of loyalty thing, apparently.

This is such a bad idea. Don't trust any technology to be safe. I guess they're banking on other countries picking up the slack, but we're all going to get hacked now. A lot.

So remember when people made jokes about Latvia and how they really wanted a potato?

That's us now, guys. The billionaire elite and ineffective politicians made us the butt of the joke we used to tell about former Soviet countries.

And on Nintendo's website, there was an elevator sidebar that'd take you to different levels, each one having some other function like upcoming releases, tips, and stuff.

One was labeled "secret" or something, and opened on a black screen. You'd think it was a broken page. But if you moved your cursor around, you'd find a hidden link that'd take you to their secret page. I can't remember what was there, but I sure remember feeling like an elite hacker at 10 years old when I did it!

So are we jigglin', or...?

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water! It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence! -Immortan Joe

I would guess that if you have any metric data, you could see how many visitors vs comments/posts you have, and then work on engagement. Post more open ended things to try to get people to want to post.

Otherwise, a sure bet is to get the word out about your community and try to bring more people in. Which means telling people who aren't on you server to come join it. Probably Reddit and maybe a website/post that's going to get search indexed at some point that leads people here.

I wish there was more. Nothing I've done seems very effective. Being in Oklahoma, that's how I've felt my whole life. Anyone I vote for loses. Any time I protest, it happens anyway. Any time I volunteer, it's too small.

My friends and I have recently started a small support group to share survival skills, gardening, canning, and basic marksmanship to recently threatened, marginalized, and like minded people but that doesn't fix the overall problem. I've taught a lot, learned a lot, but I just don't see it getting better.

I feel powerless, and I guess that's the intent.

One whopper for the copper!

That's a legitimate concern. Anything that's on the Internet can also get an "update" (as if a dishwasher needs one ever) that accidentally bricks it, and you now need a new one.

I absolutely resist the Internet of Things.

I would love to know more, especially how law enforcement is tracking us, but this has a paywall. So I guess I'll die in ignorance.

Gojira just played the Olympics and won some awards, so I'd say they're fairly critically acclaimed right now.

Blood Incantation just released a new album that's a mix of death metal and Pink Floyd, and I believe it won't since awards as well.

That's definitely more, but those two I listen to regularly and can think of off the top of my head.

You might want to state what actually happened because this is really difficult to follow. I'm not aware of what you're taking about, and if these people that are supposedly judging whatever situation happened don't know either, this is going to be less effective.

I learned to fix it. Before YouTube, that usually means not so great. But now, I usually do at least as good as a job as the people I'd hire.

Fixing stuff is easy, and you have to accept that there's no perfect fix.

Ants, set out ant bait traps. Look outside and see if there's a trail, follow it to the source, and spray it with ant poison.

Cracks, YouTube that. They may be nothing.

Leaks, if it's plumbing, you can buy pipes at home Depot and replace them.

Granted, it will take a while. Maybe all day. But you'll get an endorphin rush when it's done and eventually you'll come to know all the ins and outs of your house.

But it's you look at it and it's too big, Google a company to do it. Even if you're halfway, and find you're stuck. No shame in getting help. This shines you don't have a family member or friend who's already handy.

But really, if you can't fix it, can't afford to have it fixed, just do what you can to keep the house clean and work on it a little bit or put aside money till you can. That's hard, but that's owning a house. Like anything in life, it's difficult. But it doesn't have to stay that way, with enough time and practice.

You're already smarter than many, asking for other's opinions. Don't suffer in silence. I believe in you!

Until we find that Nestle is just bottling the same tap water at twice the price. Oops!

I doubt it matters what we think anymore. It barely did before, but I can't see any light at the end of this American Experiment tunnel.