Rivalarrival @ Rivalarrival @lemmy.today

Posts

1

Comments

3,260

Joined

2 yr. ago

IMO, email isn't for answering questions. Email is for documenting that the conversation occurred.

If they won't answer the questions in email, ask them in a phone call, then send a "Per our conversation" email summarizing the answers they provided. Until they send a rebuttal, I am free to act as though my email was their answer.

My father and my grandmother (who lives with us, in the USA) are PRC Citizens with legal US permanent residency.

"Permanent" residency just means there is not currently a specific intent to revoke their status. It does not mean that they are immune from the immigration witch-hunt currently sweeping the US. More than a few "permanent residents" have been deported, most for simply pissing off someone empowered to use deportation in retaliation.

But I don't think they are looking at some anonymous Lemmy account, right?

Your account is currently "anonymous". But everything you post is online, and documented forever. What happens 6 months down the road, when your anonymity is pierced, and your name is permanently tied to your past acts? Have you said or done anything that would lead the head narcissist-in-charge to think you don't like him?

My advice would be to focus your activist energy on long-term, local issues. Lobby for public transportation, school funding, homeless shelters, victim assistance, bike paths, free clinics, legal aid, Habitat for Humanity, or any of a thousand other worthy causes with broad, positive effects for the community. You don't have to keep your head down, just stick it out where it will do the most good. We don't need more evidence of the current regime's malfeasance; we do need good people focused on what happens after they are out of office.

Take your upvote and choke on it, prick.

/s

Irrelevant to the issue at hand: Even private sales are prohibited between residents of different states unless the sale is conducted through an FFL dealer in the buyer's/recipient's state.

But to answer your question: Very few states restrict private sales beyond federal requirements.

The only viable means of being able to reliably prosecute private sales to prohibited persons is to make NICS checks available, freely and anonymously, to the general public. With such checks readily and freely available, sellers cannot reasonably argue that they "didn't know" someone was a prohibited buyer. With those checks available, "I didn't know" is no longer exculpatory evidence. With those checks available, you can reasonably know their status; you should know their status; your failure to check is evidence of criminal negligence.

But every time "Public Access to NICS" has been proposed in the past 20+ years, Democratic leadership stops it, because it conflicts with their "no guns for anyone" ideology.

FFL dealers can only sell to residents of states in which they are licensed to operate. It is unlawful for a resident of one state to sell to a resident of another state, without involving an FFL dealer licensed in the receiver's state.

No state. Only guillotine.

Nah, I'll just use my "Tariff Dividend" check when Trump writes it. China will pay for it.

That would be the first iPhone I'd actually buy.

Online shopping is a fucking waste and every day we have dozens of shipping companies coming to the city with their vans to drive through each street bringing small packages to every apartment. Polluting, blocking streets, increasing traffic. Just because we are too lazy to go to a shop and buy it in person.

So It's morally superior for me to be the one driving to the shop, polluting, blocking streets, increasing traffic, taking up a parking spaces?

There's 20 families on my block. If the 20 of us got together and agreed that only one of us should drive to the store every day, picking up everything that we collectively needed and distributing it to us, you'd be praising us for reducing our impact.

I totally the words

The whole thing!

Others have mentioned the varying thickness of the atmosphere that the sunlight has to pass through, but cloud cover is the more important factor. The map you are looking at seems to include cloud cover in its calculations.

Britain by contrast achieved celebrations as conscription ended and loud drunken Beatles concerts, but not much else.

You forgot "Every major life event of pompous aristocrats"

My favorite phone was the Galaxy S Relay, which featured a sliding, 5-row thumbboard. Numbers, letters, period, comma, and question mark were all available without alt or fn keys. The number row had !@$#%^&*() with the shift key, just like actual keyboards.

It even had four arrow keys for cursor navigation!

I absolutely loved that phone.

Rubbing alcohol is about the only solvent I know of that is unlikely to fog the sensor. Might take a little while swabbing it with a q-tip.

"Fair Use" doesnt even enter into the equation: copyright protects distribution, not reception. It is illegal to send the data; it is not illegal to receive it. It is not illegal to read something you didn't pay for. It may have been illegal for someone to provide you with that content, and it may be illegal for you to share that content with others, but it is not illegal for you to receive it and to read it.

It is the copyright-trolling "you wouldn't download a car" types that have spread the propaganda that downloading is somehow illegal. It is not. Uploading is the illegal part: distributing without permission is the violation of copyright. There is nothing illegal in asking for a copy, nor in receiving an unauthorized copy.

Don't let the zealotry against AI lead you to fight against your own interests.

Boomers grew up in a world with a 91% top-tier income tax rate that drove businesses to spend their excess income on products and services, which became their parents' paychecks.

Then I'll continue:

P.S.: the antivax movement happens because of lack of trust in medical institutions.

They learn not to trust medical institutions. This is a learned behavior. What antivaxxers are learning about medical science is not reality. Whoever is teaching them is an utter moron who does not understand the subject themselves.

Likewise, the people who denounce the CLI as "unfriendly" and try to hide it away from the user. All they are really saying is "I don't know how to use it, so nobody else should use it either." What actually happened was they never learned it, never learned how useful it was, and never made an informed decision as to whether to use it or not: their decision against using it was based on ignorance. Just like the antivaxxer.

people shouldn't need to be "medicine savvy" enough to know what each drug or procedure does

One does not need to know every single command and utility available on the command line. It is sufficient to understand broad, basic concepts like pipes, and man pages.

If anything, this need for "medicine savviness" is what pushes people into "doing their own research" and becoming antivax.

Ignorance and naïveté are never a part of a solution.

The more wealth inequality grows the less important 99% of the population is as consumers and the more important the 1% becomes.

Not as consumers, no. The 1% doesn't consume more than the 90th percentile. They just park a higher percentage of their wealth in wealth-generating financial assets, which leech wealth from the rest of society.

We need a tax on all registered securities, (with exemption for the first $10 million owned by a natural person.) That tax should be paid not in cash, but in shares of the security: the IRS should slowly liquidate those shares over time, such that IRS sales never constitute more than 1% of total traded volume.

We further need the punitively-high top-tier tax rate we had for most of the 20th century. That tax rate pushed businesses to spend their excess income, turning it into other people's paychecks. It discouraged the kind of wealth-hoarding investment that is stunting consumer spending.

Everybody says this. Nobody posts recipes.