Telorand @ Telorand @reddthat.com

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Brain drain, the collapse of public universities that rely on international students (which is probably many), and making tourists, legal residents, and non-natural-born citizens afraid to come or stay here.

Constantly attacking foreigners will make them leave or never show up, leaving the US a little dumber, a little poorer, making a little less economic/scientific/social progress, and a little more white.

And it's that last piece that they'll trumpet among their propaganda outlets and call it a victory.

I'm open to being wrong, but this certainly doesn't pass a smell test. We'll see what happens.

Maybe like Renaldo?

I appreciate your skepticism, but the sales numbers reported by some of the dealerships in question are nothing short of miraculous. I know, because car dealers are my company's clients.

So even if they had a backlog of rebates, the sales numbers would still be normal, and they're not.

This looks and smells strongly of fraud.

That's not even what happened. I work in the auto industry, and they very blatantly abused the rebate program with what are almost certainly fake vouchers.

Some individual dealerships reported thousands of sales in a single day, and that would be a miracle even at the best of times for a well established dealer. There's no way Tesla is declining around the world and still selling miraculous numbers of vehicles.

That's gonna happen when a riot occurs or a protest gets violent. Presidents can do it for any length of time, and only Congress has the power to reign them in. And of course, none of them would do that, so it's "Marshall" Law until they crown Trump or Vance emperor.

Probably nothing would happen to you. They might correlate your IP address and ban you, but that's likely it.

However, don't do that. Servers aren't free, and if people abuse the charity of these services, they'll stop offering free options for everyone.

If you need extra addresses, use something like https://addy.io/. if you need more storage, might be worth considering self-hosting your email.

Prove it.

I like the way you think

Yes, it's censorship. But censorship isn't inherently bad or wrong. Go join an LGBTQ community, and start saying trans slurs. Go to a group for renewable energy discussion, and start talking about how great diesel trucks are. You would be banned, and rightly so, because censorship (aka. moderation) is necessary to protect the group from bad actors.

What becomes problematic is when those with vast amounts of power get to decide what everyone is allowed to say for considerations other than group safety or topical relevance. What people usually mean when they say "censorship" is "moderation without reasonable justification." Folks like Musk routinely censor anyone who's critical of his ideals, his friends, or holds beliefs counter to his own.

So as you consider censorship, you need to keep in mind that there's reasonable and unreasonable censorship, and it's up to you to decide where that line is and recognize the potential baggage that line (or lack) comes with.

Lack of censorship ≠ less harm.

the FBI is able to de-anonymize Tor users and discover their real IP address remains classified information. In a 2017 court case, the FBI refused to divulge how it was able to do this,

I can fly. No, I don't have to prove it.

And did you know that Medbeds exist, and "they" are keeping them from people, because they're actually in league with Satan?

/s

Trump is detaining European tourists in ICE camps for weeks for the "crime" of holding an incorrect visa (as determined by ICE for volunteering to do chores while staying with a host family).

I don't think he cares too much about committing war crimes. He hired Hegseth specifically because he's a loyalist who's happy to commit war crimes. The fascists are in charge, and cruelty is the point.

When I was a teenager it was ~$12 to get a normal (non-VIP ticket) at the big multiplex and minimum wage was $9.50 / hr.

You young'n. 😉 I'm talking about when minimum wage was, like, $5 and movie prices were $2.50 or less.

But let's take your example. I'm willing to accept the premise that movie prices have kept pace with wages (they haven't, due to the varying pay standards you pointed out, but I'll assume for the sake of argument). What stays relatively consistent are costs like food. Excepting the turmoil of the current US economy, those $20 would go further towards food and other necessities.

So theaters are no longer vying for discretionary income at a few dollars here or there, they're directly competing against necessary expenses. They've priced themselves into a different market, and the idea that they've kept pace with wages is too simplified, the way I see it.

As a side note, I would love to see an economist study this. It seems really interesting.

Let's not forget cost, either. Most movies back then, even in a theater, were dirt cheap. A summer job or allowance would be enough to pay for a movie, popcorn, drink, and you'd still have plenty leftover for arcades or the mall. Some tiny theaters in small towns would be a dollar or less for admission.

Now? You're talking $20+ per person for the same experience. Why would anyone spend that kind of money, when that's three or more hours of work at minimum wage?

I'm not even convinced that the Trump admin wouldn't try to use denaturalization upon natural-born citizens and/or deport them for specious reasons.

They do not respect the rule or even the spirit of the law. Finding new and creative ways to interpret statutes is practically a sport to them.

FFS, stop trying to make the Metaverse happen. Nobody wants it.

I see no technical reason why a VPN would need to store outgoing connections. I would be surprised if they didn't store incoming connections, but I don't actually know.

I do. Which is why I used that example. If you want to get really technical, they do store that information, but only for a very short time and only in RAM. That means that when the server power cycles or the system does garbage collection, those temporary logs are gone. Your personal incredulity or ignorance is not my problem.

Anyway, just don't make stuff up. You're not making the world a better place. You ever heard of these Qanon guys? They made up a lot of shit and they didn't make the world a better place.

How dare you accuse me of being of the same caliber as Qanon. You don't know me. Fuck off with your Reddit apologetics.

I think you're putting the cart before the horse. I'm not suggesting they destroy information after a court order.

They do have to comply with various laws, but they are not required to store user information at times when there's not pending legal filings, and they are not required to store that information for every single user even if there were filings. Courts have to make very concise requests for information. They can't just say, "Give me your entire database," unless there was a prescient reason why the entire database was required to make the case (and a judge would have to weigh whether collecting the information of unrelated parties was too invasive).

Any Lemmy instance stores identifying information for technical reasons

Yes, but they do not have to. They do, in order to service their instances, but unless there is a law that compels storing identifying information, they do not have to do it.

If identifying-information-storage was so vital, logless VPNs wouldn't exist.

Anyway, all of that is beside the point. No business will break the law for you. They're "refusing" to comply, because they don't have to (jurisdiction), they have had a torrent of bad press lately, and they're trying to put on an air of being user-centric to entice people to stay.

No guarantees you wouldn't get deported anyway, citizen or not. But always good to have a backup plan!

Yes, unfortunately. I dunno if it's a global thing or just in the US, but several years ago, they started sending your car's computer data to insurance companies, who then use it to determine how well you drive and what insurance rates they want to give you.

It's really scummy.