WoodScientist @ WoodScientist @sh.itjust.works

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I need someone to cross-stitch me this.

Arrest them on state charges for kidnapping.

Carr is a traitor to the Republic.

Are you a Russian agent? At this point, I assume anyone still trying to stir that part is a Russian operative trying to sew division and discord.

Fair enough. But at least if you aren't a legal citizen, what they're doing might technically be legal. And you're probably "just" going to be deported to your home country. If you are a citizen, there may be no ambiguity. There often may simply be nowhere to deport you to except an offshore gulag.

I'm a US citizen by birth. My ancestry in the country goes back to before the revolution. I have citizenship nowhere else. There is nowhere on Earth that I could emigrate and qualify for citizenship by ancestry. Believe me, I've checked. There is no country on Earth that they could deport me to that would accept that deportation. If I'm getting rounded up by ICE, it is guaranteed that I'm going that hellhole in El Salvador.

This doesn't mean that me being sent there is somehow worse than an immigrant being sent there. No one deserves to be sent there. But the fact remains that the vast majority of people being rounded up by ICE are not being sent there. But if ICE comes for me, there is no ambiguity. I have nothing left to lose.

Sure. But if civilization collapses in the meantime, then there won't be anyone enforcing copyright laws. Or copyright could be abolished entirely. IDK what the future holds. Obviously things can radically change between now and then. The best predictions we can make of the future are just extrapolating the present forward.

There is a disconnect between what people want to be and what people are. And for some reason when this aspect is brought up people become offended.

Because you're demanding I submit myself to a lifetime of harassment, abuse, and violence simply to appease your epistemological pedantry.

Bert and Ernie appeared in the pilot episode of Sesame Street in July of 1969. They will enter the public domain on January 1, 2065. In approximately 40 years, it will then be legal for anyone to create and publish hardcore gay pornos featuring the Bert and Ernie characters.

Today's Headline: US government investigating ways to send US citizens without trial to El Salvadoran concentration camp.

Tomorrows Headline: Birth rates plummet in unprecedented and unexpected collapse.

If you are a US citizen being picked up by ICE, you are entirely within your moral rights to resist your detention with lethal force.

An overt civil war. The leader getting caught outright stealing an election is the kind of thing that causes people to start picking up guns.

Well, in The Sims it more involved a swimming pool and a disappearing ladder.

As they're going on a grand adventure about many star systems, I think "Galaxy Quest" is a more apt name.

Make your own rose water from locally obtained rose petals. All rose petals are eventually going to fall on the ground and decay. Any toxic compounds in the rose petals are going to end up released into the environment and washed into the watershed eventually. If you use them for bath soap, you're just temporarily using them in the path they would already take if left to their own devices. If anything, you're decreasing the contamination to the environment, as anything that goes down your shower drain will be filtered by the municipal water treatment plant before being released into the watershed.

Even a large volume of water can be toxic to humans. I learned this by playing The Sims.

Yup. One of the main reasons people oppose the death penalty is because of the proven record of innocent people receiving death sentences. Approximately 4% of people who receive death sentences are actually innocent. We execute many innocent people in this country. The system absolutely does not operate on the principle of "it is better for 1000 guilty to go free than for one innocent to be unjustly punished."

Many oppose the death penalty because they realize just how poor our justice system is at actually determining guilt and innocence. Those who assume it is near-infallible will be much more likely to support the death penalty. So if you screen out those opposed to death sentences, you also screen out people who are more skeptical of the criminal justice system overall.

Oh, there's a hell of a lot more these judges could do. They're just too chicken shit to actually do it.

Well, don't be surprised when people start normalizing using ethnic slurs against Hispanic people. If you don't have the common decency to refer to people respectfully, why would you expect others to protect you from the same treatment?