JuniperMesos

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by JuniperMesos 1y ago
The power to detain a bunch of people for hours when it's not clear if any of them have committed a crime is a power the cops already have, and use from time to time. And ordinary city cops, not just ICE specifically.
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by JuniperMesos 1y ago
This wasn't the first one either.
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by JuniperMesos 1y ago
Yes, claiming to feel harassed or uncomfortable by other people with the aim of forcing a moderator to threaten them with expulsion from the space if they don't recant a political statement is absolutely, 100% a way that many people at
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by JuniperMesos 1y ago
> I do think we need a visa category for people who have completed an education in the US. Yes, there's OPT for certain fields for F1 visa holders but it's not enough. There's already enough of a problem of foreigners enro
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by JuniperMesos 1y ago
Yeah, and in at least the past two elections the side that won has tried to promulgate memes that the voting machines are reliable and it's wrong to suggest that there's fraud going on; while the side that lost has tried to promul
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by JuniperMesos 1y ago
Sometimes democracy is the sheep area violently and unconstitutionally seceding from the wolf area and then ethnically cleansing the region of wolves, to make absolutely sure that no wolf will be around who can vote about what to eat (see e
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by JuniperMesos 1y ago
That's precisely my point - people will call any country doing something that they dislike "authoritarian". There's no way for me to verify that without spending a bunch of time learning about what specifically Modi is d
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by JuniperMesos 1y ago
> But a lot of skilled labour left anyway. Partly because the general atmosphere got unpleasant. But also highly paid people have spouses, children, parents and other relatives. Once you are told you barely cleared (very high) criteria,
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by JuniperMesos 1y ago
People describe all of these countries as authoritarian for various reasons. Multiple Indian immigrants I have worked with in the US have expressed displeasure at authoritarianism in India today, which I find difficult to distinguish from j
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by JuniperMesos 1y ago
When I was in high school (shortly before smartphones became widely available, but when feature phones definitely were), it was explicitly against the rules to use a cell phone in class. I believe that similar small electronic devices like
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by JuniperMesos 1y ago
This is obviously a famous "Linus gets mad" moment. Honestly, I think Linus' comments, while intemperate, were not super-unreasonable, and I think the amount of flak he got for this was unfair. It's better in some sense
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by JuniperMesos 2y ago
I watched the entirety of Yes (Prime) Minister relatively recently despite being younger than the show and not British; and found it delightfully entertaining and often surprisingly relevant to contemporary political issues.
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by JuniperMesos 2y ago
This is the reform of ICE. Trump was elected explicitly promising to do much more arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants, which is instantiated by having agents of the federal government do things like arrest and deport illegal im
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by JuniperMesos 2y ago
That's exactly what the thread OP is complaining about - mom-and-pop homeowners choosing not to increase the housing supply by adding an ADU that they would rent out to someone, even though this is now legal to do, because they can&#x2
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by JuniperMesos 2y ago
You had terrible taste in the 90s, the best Sailor scout was obviously Ami/Amy ;)
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by JuniperMesos 4y ago
See https://github.com/casey/just/pull/1470