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It would be more like a few thousand pieces, but it’s not like it’s an absolutely impossible task or anything. Broken vases can be repaired, even in a few thousand pieces, because each piece fits together. Get yourself some vase experts, some glue experts, some puzzle experts, some scientists to microscopically examine the broken edges, etc, and I see no reason why it can’t be done. You can literally ask the kids what their parents’ names are. You can ask them where they used to live. You can contact the government of that country and ask if that person has had an address in the last 5 years, or a job, or been to the hospital, or paid taxes, etc. You can ask the kids if they have any family or former neighbors that might know the whereabouts of their parents. Do the parents not have a phone number or a Facebook page? Not even an email associated with them? Surely a large squad of investigators backed by the government should be able to track people down in a world as filled with surveillance and digital records keeping as it is.

I find it very hard to believe that hundreds of families have simply vanished from the face of the earth, are now entirely impossible to locate, and that it’s unreasonable to expect any progress at all at this point. That’s defeatist thinking for no reason at all. Doxxers online can find out your name, where you live, where you work, and much more without ever even having to meet you, all just from small hints from your online presence. And you’re going to tell me a massive interagency task force assembled for specifically this purpose and has the full backing of the US government is naturally powerless to do anything? It sounds like you should hold the government to a higher standard. Just because the government never meets those standards doesn’t mean we should lower our standards. We shouldn’t be quiet about it when the government isn’t meeting those standards, either.

Yeah, Trump started this, no denial there, but Trump isn’t president anymore and hasn’t been for a few years. Trump almost certainly wouldn’t be capable of reunification of those families and had no plans to, but Biden actually might be able to, so I’m going to push him hard to do so and get it done ASAP.

I never said it should be fixed instantaneously, but we are now getting into the final year of his term and his administration’s lawyers in the DOJ are still actively fighting to prevent those separated families from getting any kind of restitution. Again, it’s been over 5 years now since the multiple hundreds of remaining kids were first separated and are still being kept in squalid, prison-like conditions. Imagine spending 5 years in prison without charge and no end in sight. Burglars regularly get less time than that. Even if these kids can’t simply be released, they can at least be kept in better housing, which should absolutely be within Biden’s power and shouldn’t take years to arrange.

Are we supposed to just shrug all that off? Hell, maybe we are; most seem to not even care, evidenced by the downvotes just for pointing out this failure after someone tried to say it was no big deal. I, however, find this whole situation absolutely unconscionable top to bottom. I don’t care who’s in charge, they just better get it fixed. If whoever’s in charge isn’t getting it done, I’m going to call them out for it, period. In your mind, how long is an acceptable timeframe for this kind of thing? A decade? Longer? Because that’s the direction we’re heading right now. Most of those families that have been fortunate enough to be reunited are still being deported right afterward, too.

Biden can’t be squared with all the blame for causing this situation, but his actions since coming to office, especially in this, among his biggest failures as president IMO, are certainly not above reproach by any means. I also can’t see how Biden is some powerless small fry when he’s the head of government for basically the most powerful country on Earth. There are truly very few people in the world with as much power and influence as Biden wields as president of the US.

Anyway, in conclusion, I fully stand by what I said; the fact that hundreds of those kids are still in prison 5 years later is an abomination and a national embarrassment regardless of whoever’s in office. I don’t even know what to say to anyone who could disagree.

Even if this was ultimately started by Trump, it’s still a massive failure of intelligence and management that this still isn’t completely fixed even multiple years later. The kids and families are still all packed together, over a dozen to a room in literal ICE detention facilities and military bases. Biden didn’t start it, but I’m far from willing to give him any passes for this at this point considering a not insignificant percentage of those kids are still in holding and how much time has passed.

It hasn’t been “a few days” for the remaining kids, it’s been literally years now. For the kids that have already been reunited, it certainly wasn’t as quick as a few days, it would have been months at least. And the vast majority of kids wouldn’t have been unaccompanied when they first showed up, but only became so after separation by the government, so using that as justification for them being held against their will doesn’t make any sense. Kids who have yet to be reunited with their families (of which there are still a few hundred) have been in detention since 2018. Some of them aren’t even kids anymore, they’ve been sitting in ICE detention facilities for so long without the ability to leave, receive an education, or anything else. There is no excuse for the outright prison-like conditions these kids are still subject to.

Biden as the president has the duty to make this right even if it wasn’t his idea. He has made some headway, which is good, but I haven’t been impressed by the rate of progress.

More like the NHL tried to do an inclusive event, but 2 or 3 players were able to spit on the whole thing, and the NHL allowed them to very visibly undermine it, justifiably calling the whole thing into question. If the NHL allows that, then I’m sure they aren’t as progressive as they’d like to appear.

If it was truly only 2 or 3 players, I doubt there’d be much pushback from the union for taking action after making them all look bad. This kind of thing only works if literally everyone participates. If those players refused, they shouldn’t have been let on the ice at the very least. Being willing to do that would say way more for the NHL’s support for the LGBT community than wearing rainbow jerseys.

The NHL has shown this was just a PR stunt and doesn’t actually have the backs of its fans. Now, those 2-3 players have somehow forced a multi-billion dollar corporation to completely roll over and drop any pretense of support for the LGBT community in its entirety. I’m surprised they didn’t just fire them for causing such a headache and to help save face.

A few players cause a massive public relations nightmare for being bigots, and your conclusion is to get mad at the public for having bad relations and not the bigots? That’s a terrible conclusion.

Yeah, those kids aren’t even at the camp anymore, they all went out for a morning-after pill.

You’d think the internet would have come up with a new punchline than “Australia upside down lolz” since literally 2011, but here we are well over a decade later making the exact same jokes and pretending it’s still funny.

This shitposting community consistently disappoints me. Way too often, the actual shitposts only get a couple dozen upvotes. Meanwhile, we get tired, generic memes like this voted to the top. A shitpost isn’t just some random iFunny meme, but that’s all I ever seen to see coming out of here. The other top post right now is a years-old webcomic, not even edited to be a shitpost or anything.

Meanwhile, Steller's jays:

WAAGH WAAGH WAAGH

Although the ones near my house can imitate a red-tailed hawk call pretty well when they want to scare the other birds from the feeder so it can have it to itself, but that's the only thing I've heard them do besides their ordinary calls.

My window faces east, so the sun shines straight into my room first thing in the morning. Around this time of year, several beams even fall directly across my pillow as the sun rises, so if you move out of one beam, you move into another. I want to move.

I think you’re looking for antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

Same with the US, no official language.

A real classic! What wasn’t featured in the original news story was a passerby who had demolitions experience in the army in Vietnam. He approached the guy in charge of the job and explained that this would never work because when you detonate explosives in sand like they were going to, instead of blowing the whale entirely out to sea laterally, the blast would create a cone of explosive force straight upward and shear off massive chucks of whale hundreds of feet into the air, while leaving half the carcass basically untouched. Here’s a 25 year anniversary retrospective with some extra bits of fun info.

I don’t understand why they didn’t come at high tide and tow it miles out to sea using a couple tugboats. No dismemberment necessary, just a big strap around the tail-fin. Once miles from shore, the whale could be lanced to release the decomposition gasses and allow it to sink naturally where it could benefit the sea floor for decades. If they’d gone maybe 50ish miles offshore, that would have been proper deep sea abyssal zone and perfect for a whalefall.

You seem to be of the belief that street politics exclusively means gangbanging, but street politics is way wider than that. I never said he was in a gang because I know he wasn’t, but you’d have to be willfully ignorant to say that street politics had nothing to do with his death. Are you gonna tell me it was an accident next?

Tupac most definitely had gang affiliations with both Bloods and Crips even if he didn’t bang himself. If being as close to Suge Knight, a very high ranking member of the M.O.B. Piru Bloods, as Tupac was doesn’t automatically count as being involved in street politics, then I don’t know what would be. Tupac even had a M.O.B. tattoo and past members have confirmed his affiliations. Not to mention, Tupac was right at the heart of the East vs. West rivalry, something some people took very seriously, especially in a business as potentially lucrative as rap music. Do I need to remind you that Tupac had already been shot multiple times right in the studio building? If gunmen try to assassinate you twice over street politics shit, that kind of makes you part of street politics. I never said he was a banger, because he wasn’t, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t involved in street politics.

Ok kids, let’s review the requisites for involuntary hospitalization in the US (specifically regarding suicidal ideation)!

Do you:

1. Have a plan? ✔️
2. Have the means to carry out that plan? ✔️
3. Expressed the intention to carry out that plan in the immediate future? ✔️

If all of the above are true and you tell your mental health professional, then you better pack those bags! If not, you get to go home.

(That said, I’ve at least heard stories of some mental health clinicians apparently not understanding these minimum guidelines and committing people involuntarily with only 1 or 2 of these requisites having been met, so it may be worth it to review these guidelines with your clinician before getting too deep into it)

You don’t think it could have been street politics even though Tupac was very much involved with street politics? What legitimate reason is there for the FBI to kill Tupac in the first place? He was a little subversive, but nothing crazy. Why would they simply shoot Tupac in front of so many witnesses? You’d think that the FBI would be capable of a little more subtlety.

While it’s kind of funny, I hate that this clip gets posted because it’s blatantly doctored. In the actual video, the kid calmly greets his opponent to the stage and plays a game with him with a significant time handicap. It wasn’t enough, though, and he refused to surrender even when it was clear he would run out of time. He only started crying once he officially lost.

“History is written by the victors” is a tired cliché that doesn’t always hold up super well if you spend a moment to consider it.

Who conquered Rome? Surely, it was a people remembered for their great military prowess, right? Nope, still commonly remembered as barbarians thousands of year later.

The Mongols had one of the largest empires in history, and yet in much of the lands they conquered, they’re remembered as being monstrously ugly brutes, which is where words like “mongoloid” and “mongrel” come from.

Song plays twice a day on the radio station my work is always tuned to. I only just learned awhile ago that Everlast is the same dude rapping in “Jump Around”.