It’s terrible that she has to, but so good that she stands her ground and doesn’t answer their question where she was born, which is meant to create a defensible suspicion post-facto for the illegal stop. And despite the threats that they’re going to “put her in the car” and ID her, they end up walking away.

Also, they take her picture presumably to run it through their facial recognition app and if they ID she was not a US citizen, they likely would use the interaction to claim she falsely IDed herself as a US citizen and arrest her on that basis, even if she didn’t have an existing basis for ICE action.

These people are the worst scum.

That’s… Honestly a good theory.

This might be the most thoughtful and kindest reply I’ve received online. Thank you, I’ll definitely look into her.

Well, great. So looking at 2008 for the most recent model, I suppose that means government bailouts or subsidies using taxpayer money to save the companies and thereby prevent a complete collapse of markets?

I suspect very creative firms of accountants and CFOs are working hard right this moment to identify the next step in the shell game. So I suspect some creative refinance could avoid that outcome. But I definitely hope you’re right.

Yup, agreed. But I think if we ever get accurate history written, Stephen Miller will be shown to have been the near-sole driver of the worst excesses and authoritarian moves right now.

There have been multiple leaks that he effectively controls the DOJ and DHS priorities, is setting ICE procedure and targets, all while Wormtonguing Trump on policy. Trump has effectively lost his higher brain functions and is an Id in a body, Noem, Bondi and Patel are just there to be close to power, the grift and the photo ops, and nobody else in Trump’s orbit has the agenda Miller has.

I’d recommend to dystopia a bit harder - if this type of CaaS happens, I expect you won’t get to lay a finger on any real local computing hardware. I think you’d have a computing equivalent of a Raspberry Pi which is DRM-locked to a specific service provider’s cloud computing services, and a remote desktop or streaming GPU service.

I hope so, but there’s a way that bubble doesn’t burst even if we’re right that AI never delivers competent/competitive quality: that monopolies simultaneously integrate AI into their products and the entire world simply gets worse, while consumers pay extra for those very AI features they don’t want and which produce an inferior product.

Yup, that’s exactly the Dunning-Kruger mechanism at work.

His name starts with an “S” and ends with a “tephen Miller.”

It’s thinking through and planning random things for the most part. It could be a work-related issue, or a random thing I just realized I had an idea about how to do better than I had planned, or a specifically-worded challenging google search I need to do to troubleshoot something.

The thoughts themselves aren’t usually high-stress, but my brain starts working on them regardless. Strategies to take my attention off of them might work for a time (counting, imagining a journey, etc), but even if I fall asleep I wake right back up soon enough. I suspect right now the main mental issue is symptoms of burnout, but I have physical eye dryness issues layered on it (all being separately worked on with different specialists - tried all the drops, treatments, strategies…).

I could go on and on, but thanks, exhausting myself during the day is not a bad idea all things considered. At least it may reduce my physical capacity to wake up.

Morning for me, because actually exercise for me compensates for the lack of sleep, “wakes” me up. But thanks, I’ll try anything at this point.

Thank you, sorry for you as well. I have no trouble getting to sleep, it’s staying asleep that’s the issue. Seems to ultimately stump everyone.

The one qualification anyone who works for Trump must have is never, ever admit to anything that reflects poorly on Trump. I don’t know if these people understand how embarrassing responses like Grenell’s are, or if they actively accept it as the price they pay for access to power.

Above 40 and get roughly 3-4 hours after being in bed 9. Exercise daily (and have been since age 20), am at a healthy weight, eat (relatively) right. Been seeing specialists and trying a dizzying array of things for 9 years, but I’m pretty sure this is just me now. Sometimes you just get dealt a bad hand.

The hands slowly travel forward, traced the spongy arms, past the Punisher patch Agent Ross bought in bulk, with a playful but commanding tickle he feels even through his heavy Minnesota-winter coat.

But it wasn’t the weather that makes Agent Ross shiver as the instructor, his ample belly pressing close against his back, whispers in his ear, “Looks like you missed our little bundle of joy there, agent. Now how do you think Kristi would feel about that?”

“N… Not too good,” Agent Ross stammers, the closeness he had been imagining for weeks clouding his brain.

“That’s right, worm - and here they told me your IQ made you a walking vegetable, you just keep right on surprising me,” the instructor breathes. “Well don’t get cocky now, Daddy still needs his martial law. And how do you think we get there, agent? What’s going to get those libs rioting in the street?”

The feeling of the instructor’s domination is exactly like his fantasy. Yes! This is why he joined ICE. He realizes he hasn’t felt this happy since he found his wife in bed with his best friend.

“L… Leave no survivors, sir?” Agent Ross knows he should have sounded more confident, but it takes everything just to get the words out.

“That’s right, agent. Now let papa help you,” the instructor coos as his hands cover Agent Ross’s and their dappled cheeks press together to line up the sights. Together their uncalloused, pudgy fingertips barely squeeze under the trigger guard, and they fire a single shot through the target baby’s head. “Now there’s our hero. See, that wasn’t so hard. One less NPC. Don’t forget to flee the scene, those animals can get rowdy after. Now let’s see if that flapping meat hole of yours can take as good as it gi-”

… Is basically how imagine their training went.

Well, good to know I can blacklist Hilton from any future travel plans.

Yep, at the very least he was governing trying to be good, and had/has a conscience. No comparison to the outright evil for evil’s sake going on now.

Yeah, that certainly could be the FBI’s gameplan here. Withhold evidence while the outrage is fresh and there is pressure to charge, beat the case, and then the murderer has the typical right-wing epilogue and runs for Congress.

Fortunately there is no statute of limitation on murder.