valek879

@valek879@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If this has been asked recently just link it no need to be mean, because I am emotionally sensitive right now. Thank you for your attention to this matter.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t know for sure but I think it’s a safe bet that you lose everything you can’t get friends and family to rescue. There is some logic to this beyond cruelty, the US government is cruel to be sure but this is not extra cruelty.

  So just to frame this, if you commit a crime and are wanted by the police. They hunt you down and arrest you. Do you get to bring your stuff? No. Do you lose it? Also no. …Unless you don’t have a home in which case it’s considered litter and removed, throwing all the blankets, tent, and any knick knacks you might have acquired into the landfill. There’s a story about this happening to the ashes of a man who’s widow had become homeless. Just heartbreaking stuff and it feels like the point is to break people down… But that’s editorializing.

  We are supposed to have a cool thing called Due Process in this country. That is the process of law, searching for facts and going through a fair and unbiased review from someone taught to be good at reviewing things, a judge if you will. And you should because that job is titled judge.

  Anyway, that judge overseas a process in which you are told what you are accused of and given the space and time to defend yourself. People aren’t guilty, they are found guilty by systematically laying out all the evidence and facts. This process usually takes a fair amount of time and many people are allowed to return home during this time. Usually on Bail. We can argue the merits of bail but basically you pay a decent chunk of money and you get to go home with a promise to show up for your court date.

  Now while doing court stuff you also have to find time to plan for your stuff or money for fines or whatever comes next.

  Anyway, all this stuff doesn’t matter because ICE, DHS, the Trump admin. they don’t work like that. They are supposed to. The law says they must do it that way. They are not. If you get abducted (detained is the word they will use but without due process your not being detained.) by federal agents right now I would expect to lose everything, maybe not right away but quickly enough unless you can get friends and family to help.

  This is because of government has revoked three right of due process for people it deems “illegal.” This is crazy because how do you prove whether you are legally allowed to be somewhere if there is no process for showing your documents? Like I could show you my driver’s license, my passport, but if no one verifies them, and there is no process to make sure I get released once they are verified…you can see the problem right?

  Anyway, once you’re in their custody they want to deport you, period. Wife at home? Kids to feed? Pets that rely on you? Work and friends wondering where you went? Doesn’t matter to these people. They just want you give and will try to do it asap. You can try to fight it but there few stories of it being successful. Those that are successful take months and months of work and money. Most people however just can’t do that. You file a petition or two and get the boot anyway.

  So much like the Japanese Internment during WWII much of the stuff not saved by friends and relatives will be repossessed, stolen, and eventually thrown away. Cars and homes will be sold and if these people ever get to return to their families everything in their lives will be different and they and their families will be much poorer for it.

  In my opinion, it’s kind of like we all have paid taxes so the government can take the dreams of hopeful immigrants looking for a better future for themselves and their families and smash it on the ground before grinding it to dust beneath jack booted heels. But maybe someone else has a different take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a millennial, the last time this advice worked for me was in 2019. I applied to the job online and went and sat in their office for an hour and a half waiting to talk to the manager for the position I wanted.

  Eventually we chatted for like 5 minutes, I told him my name, that I applied on line, and that I’m ready to start as soon as they’re ready to hire me.

  I got the job. The next one was a bit less dramatic but still involved some extra bugging after applying online.

  But all of this in a county of 30k people for a labor job that I was overqualified for. I think this would still give you a leg up in the right environment or job search. But I haven’t looked for a job in 4 years and my wife is a programmer and you can’t do this stuff for those jobs. We’re at least 50 applications deep at this point with no contact from companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is in for the antivax in a government?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, that’s what we see. No one is a villain in their own mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is in for the antivax in a government?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But it does describe an embattled hero surrounded by villains on the snatching victory from the jaws of defeat.

  Heroes kill people all the time in stories. We don’t disparage the hero because they killed because it was for a good cause. And like imagine if the hero didn’t kill the bad guy and next week you’re dealing with the bad guy again. Clearly RFK and friends are fighting the good fight and have to defeat the bad guys once and for all.

  Obviously to me it’s BS but the point is that they might see the bad stuff and justify it because of the greater good or whatever. We’ve learned through countless tales that ends don’t justify the means and doing bad things for the greater good is usually bad and often terrible. But we also have an imagination and empathy. And know how to read.

  Fiction is full of stories that teach you right from wrong. The distinction gets more complicated as we get older so we use stories to explore the ideas. WE do that, our current leaders do not. And because of that they are lacking in empathy and didn’t see the patterns that they are following. And don’t see the history that they are rhyming with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely lemmings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Peanits

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Angry Man⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Power Ranger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer wants to build 60 apartments and 24 parking spots. New York politician tells him to build less housing and more parking spots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay so hear me out, public, neighborhood car parks but also a network of car free streets.

  Like my neighborhood is surrounded by arterials, what if you had a car park that was free like within 5 blocks. Is it a waste of space that could be used for housing? Yes. But it also moves cars to the periphery and opens up like 25 blocks to be car free neighborhood streets where people can walk, children can play and we have less noise pollution and can easily build community.

  We can designate areas of on street parking for disabled people and allow services into the neighborhood but we could limit the entrances and have more clutter and places to sit and vibe instead of having to maintain vigilance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any AI services that don't work on stolen data?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard about Notebook LM recently. I couldn’t tell you what it’s trained on but I’m order to use the LLM you need to provide it source material.

  So say you’re writing something for school. You can gather 50+ papers on the subject you’re trying to write about, upload them, then ask the LLM about what you uploaded. Sounds like turning research from a search for info to an interview with an “expert.”

  Again I can’t speak to how it was trained in the background but this seems genuinely useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have 10 lipa and you don't!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn! Mine are definitely coins, mixed in with a bunch of coins from other countries I’ve been to…I just need to find the yogurt container they all live in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have 10 lipa and you don't!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure I have some Kuna around somewhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Powerpuff Girls fans in the modern day reassessing how the show portrays non-heteronormativity [Day 56]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah the take is:

  Often times in media the only queer representation is a villain.

  It’s actually difficult to find characters that are gender non-conforming and good or at least neutral in any media before like 2006. Only having queer people show up as villains subtly hints at your brain that something is wrong with queer people, that you should be wary, that they are bad. This is held out in scientific studies and also applies to bipoc representation in media too.

  I’m all for queer and bipoc villains but we also deserve to be heroes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just looked at that books by the foot website and their example of reversed books is really gross looking. I’d rather have all white books than have them reversed. It just looks closer and gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait what? Can you even do that? A clean look? What!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives in the midwest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d go so far as to say it’s bad that it is unusual

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apps that encourage/gamify walking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll add Geocaching to this list. Walk around, find hidden caches and solve puzzles.

  It’s not focused on the walking places but instead on the finding of caches. I personally need to get out and do some that involve going on hikes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet my new puppy: Ass!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Strawberry

  Or alternatively: Breakfast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The post title is "Best Tablet for Kids 2024"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I love my tablet for reading manga. I know that as a kid I would have found a way to use it for other things but I think I would consider it for my kid for reading manga and comics. Maybe some type of e ink device…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They threaten to do this every time… And so like whatever, there are other news aggregators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you turned on?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Time vs 24hr?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Pshh I bet you use acoustic time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does cigarette smoking do for people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  It also gives you a way to interact with social situations where you feel awkward. Or if you’re like me and you are awkward it gives you positive learning social situations. Makes it much harder to quit when you get suicidal interactions that you’re craving and don’t otherwise get.