Yep.
There's a quote from her in the article pointing out the wording is scary for someone it's "actually" meant for.
I think she doesn't quite get yet that it was indeed "meant" for her, and that her citizenship doesn't matter like she expects it to.
They should pair up with the Japanese team doing something similar.
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Is there a Kim action figure too?
It also makes it harder for people who have lost some of these documents.
I went through foster care and in that transition my original birth certificate was lost--I was a minor and had no idea I should look for it, or where it even was, to take it with me. It was hard to bootstrap myself after. Anyone who's lived through a domestic violence situation might have had to leave home suddenly with very little.
And that's not considering natural disasters like floods and fires and tornados that might have destroyed paperwork for people too.
Are a bunch of millennials and gen-x deemed gang members because they followed a trend?
Yes. That's the point. They decide they don't like someone because of something they posted on social media, or texted, or whatever, then they look for a tattoo that they can pretend means gang membership, and boom, the person who dared to say something against them is sent to the new gulag.
They're using tattoos because there's a segment of America all pearl-clutchy about them, who subconsciously think anyone with a tat must be trash and involved in gang stuff. And because some people assume those with tats are trash, it's easier to vanish them without as much widespread protest. The presence of tats will be used to victim-blame.
It's similar to how various drugs were targeted to get rid of white liberal hippies who smoked weed and black people by throwing them in jail. Find some trait that a portion of the population you want to lock up shares, make it illegal or, in this case, a "symbol" of "gang membership", then whisk away the people you intended to target all along.
Eeeeee!
I wasn't expecting it to lean so hard into comedy...but I think I'm ok with it.
I've also heard that kids have difficulties with reading analog clocks.
I'm not surprised.
The name of the game here is to destroy America, not build it up. (Russia wants a USSR-style fall of America. The Cold War never ended for them.) And Trump wants to stay out of jail. Everything you see Trump or his admin doing can be attributed to those two things. Destroying America, or keeping himself out of Jail.
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What the fuck is so urgent about cutting down forests that you need a emergency order to green-light it?
Replacing timber we previously got from Canada before the screaming from the industries that use lumber that is now tariffed gets too loud.
I don't know enough about those industries to know if it'll work, though.
...I read that as skank.
I need to be caffeinated.
They might be tracking the homeless who are living in their vehicles. As well as poor laborers who might be hiring out to do work for cash.
Bogs are also where you bury the bodies so they're nice and fresh next time you get the urge to do a little necromancy.
I finally understood the sovcit guys when I realized they're basically trying to cast magic spells. If you speak the right magic words at the right time, your miracle happens. Or curse or blessing or whatever.
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Thanks for the heads up.
Yep, a preview for what's being done to the US now
Maybe the ghost of Robert A. Heinlein is haunting it.
(I will never not be angry that Musk stole the word from one of the classic sci-fi writer greats.)
I don't know about orphaned, but my guardians got $300/month in the 90s because my mom was on social security disability. And when I was still with my mom, I think she got $700/month on social security disability. That's with me included?
Obviously this is different from what orphans would get, and 25+ years ago. But if Musk had stolen it from us then, our situation would've been even worse...and it wasn't great to begin with. Even back then, with my mom having an incurable disability, she had to be careful of how much money extra she made from odd jobs lest they take it all away (people on disability aren't allowed to save or have above X amount in income or the benefits will be revoked). And apartments in the area were $700/month, and we weren't in section 8 housing so all of her benefits went to rent--and that was before utilities, food, etc.
From what I've heard, similar restrictions are in place now. Nobody's getting a plush ride on benefits, ever, and it's a struggle to even get on them to begin with. Even with things that are 100% disabling and incurable.
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What's your favorite crock pot recipe?
I got a little single-serving crock pot on Black Friday, so I'm curious what your favorite things to make in one are.
How cheap/expensive is your cost of living in a low-cost area and a small paid off home?
So, I ABSOLUTELY know there's massive variation in this. Just want to get ahead of that.
What I'm looking for is...what do finances look like, casually, when you have a 100% paid off small (SMALL!) home. When a mortgage is out of the way, what's left to eat up your paycheck?
I suppose I'm looking for the sort of casual knowledge of expenses for this sort of life that your kids might pick up if they lived in your area with you in your home. En mass, pulled from multiple lemmy folks, so I can get an idea of general trends. I'm partial for info from the USA, but others reading this might appreciate statistics from other areas. :)
(People mistake how valuable this sort of "general idea" info is, I always see people going into the weeds on how every situation is different without bothering even giving a crappy signpost so I can see if I'm looking at a $5 expense or $500 or $5000. Knowing if something is going to be $5 or $5000 is very valuable, even if it's not some exact precise nu
What's your favorite frugal find this week?
Mine--don't laugh--is random fruit from fruit trees hanging over walls and over the sidewalk.
Although, I once tried to take a plum from a wasp who was sitting on the fruit, and she turned and looked at me, and I quickly let go and let her have it.
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People who go into back yards for a living - what's the coolest or most beautiful thing you've seen?
(Reeaaally not looking for terrible or horrifying things here. Want happy or cool stories! And I'll start.)
My job currently has me going into random people's back yards. I see immaculately groomed lawns, overgrown lawns, perfect shrubs, imperfect shrubs. I see weeds up to my hips, I see junk, kid toys, dog toys, real grass, astroturf, basically everything.
But today, I think I accidentally kind of walked into a modern fairy tale setting. Not a beautiful Disney type of fairy tale. More of an urban fantasy sort of thing--like if Abandoned Porn did gardens.
So, the place was a small suburban yard. House was probably built in the 70s, and has been neglected as of late. I had an impression of faded yellow siding, discolored, peeling.
The front yard had an old chain link fence, and was kind of overgrown with some gnomes and such, but that part didn't really register on me too much as I'd seen places similar to it from the front with overgrown plants and junk, and it usually just
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Are there any household gadgets you found unexpectedly useful after you'd gotten them?
I was thinking about how I missed having an indoor thermometer that measures humidity. It's such a small specific thing, one I'd never think of getting unless pushed to it (which I was by one particularly dry winter). But I like having one now.
What are your small, "random" or "junk drawer" type of gadgets that you actually use or like having around?
What's your favorite frugal find of this week?
It's been a week since I posted the last one...right?
I'm afraid I haven't been very frugal this week. Got some things mildly on sale, but still too much, so I don't think they count and won't post them.
What are your favorite (non water) frugal drinks? (Mine is tea.)
I know someone would immediately jump in with water if I didn't caveat that, haha. Tap water is the most frugal drink, yes I know, but for me plain ol' water more of a basic survival thing. And I like to be happy too, not stuck permanently in survival mode, even if I'm also being frugal.
So.
One of my "vices", if you can call it that, is fancy tea.
I'm American and we're not really a tea-drinking culture, so I was taken by surprise when I got into drinking tea and learned you can get surprisingly nice quality loose leaf tea online that blows grocery store tea bags out of the water, and it's not a terribly expensive habit. Grocery store tea in tea bags is basically 'tea dust' left over from processing better teas, and basically almost any loose leaf tea is a better quality than bagged tea dust, so you don't have to break the bank to see immediate improvement in your tea quality.
And that surprised the heck out of me!
I eventually realized that's because tea is a dry good and c
What are some things that used to be expensive, but which no longer are?
I was just thinking in the back of my head about how cheap LEDs have made types of lighting that would've cost way too much (both to install, and in electricity usage) no longer stupidly expensive.
For example, I noticed on Amazon some cheap furniture that has LEDs/power outlets sort of integrated right into them. Looks pretty cyberpunk-ish to my eyes. And I know years ago that sort of thing would've been marked up to high heavens.
Fancy lighting in general has changed drastically in price/design.
So...what are some things, due to changes in demand or changes in tech or changes in anything...that would've been really expensive back in the day, but which no longer seem to be, making them more frugal than they used to be?
What's your favorite frugal find this week?
Just curious what you guys have been able to score recently.
I don't have anything really good to share, been spending too much. Let me live vicariously (and frugally!) through you!