Many immigrants think they can get on the good side of the xenophobes by becoming the “good” immigrants while putting the “bad” immigrants down.

The problem with that tactic is that xenophobes and especially xenophobic laws don’t distinguish between “good” or “bad”.

If immigrants badmouth other immigrants, the only thing that xenophobes take from that is “even the immigrants think immigrants are bad”.

You see a lot of that happening in the USA, where frequently family members of MAGA voters are taken by ICE, because they aren’t going after the “bad” immigrants, but after immigrants, period. Even if their family voted for the people who are now taking them.

And that’s the real take-away. When it comes to lawmaking, you can either be for immigrants or against them. There’s no nuance. Because lawmakers don’t put any in.

Being white certainly helps, but they are also detaining white people now:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jasmine-mooney-canadian-detained-ice-us-mexico/

Don’t smoke dandelions.

My definition: aggressive spread and resilience to removal.

That fits to a lot of useful plants too. Strawberries, Brambles, Mint, just to name a few.

“Unser Jud’ ist eh gut.”

That’s a sentence that was often used in Nazi Germany/Nazi Austria. It means “Our Jew is good anyway, [but the others are evil]”. It basically means that you keep believing the propaganda, even if the people you know don’t fit to the propaganda at all.

Nowadays this sentence is used to satirize the statement you posted.

It’s a bit long but it does check out.

I used to pirate a lot when I was younger and didn’t have the money.

Now Epic Games and Amazon Games take care that I never have to buy games any more because they give them away for free. I only buy games if there’s a specific one I really want to play.

For the same reason I don’t need to pirate any more either, it’s just not worth the risk of catching malware or something, and there’s more than enough free games around.

But what I wanted to say is the alternative to piracy is playing free games, not paying for a game.

Again, it’s about shrinking chips, not shrinking phones. With smaller chips there is more space for other things like slightly larger batteries. Phone size is not dictated by chip size.

This. Running a country like a business is not good.

You aren’t wrong that the US is losing its appeal in general. But Trump is putting the breaks on hard right now.

It’s one thing to say “Well, US is kinda boring, nothing worth seeing there”, and it’s another thing fearing whether you will make it back home if you go there.

Even if the US was still the coolest place to be in 2025 (which it is certainly not), I would not consider booking a ticket. The fear of losing the money I invested in the trip in case they don’t let me in at the border would be enough to not go to the US, but being afraid that I might be detained or shipped to some random 3rd country because they don’t like my social media posts is certainly enough to make sure I’d never go there.

I heard North Korea is a pretty nice place to visit. Still not going there even if the trip was for free.

The analogy is that on the one hand you have a corporation where you know who they are, where you know which laws they are governed by, where you know how to file a privacy complaint, where you know who to sue in case something goes wrong. And you don’t trust them.

Instead you choose to trust some rando from the internet. Where anyone with a sane mind knows they will get screwed over.

I’'d argue changing who can see your data from either a large group to a smaller one or one you do trust vs one you do not trust precisely is protecting your privacy.

It’s always astounding to me that people put more trust in an intangible rando from the internet than into organizations governed by law. Like those people who don’t accept mainstream medicine but eat random supplements they imported from India by the kilogram.

Also FWIW you can host your VPN, you do not have to rely on a commercial VPN provider.

Sure you can. And where does that traffic go?

If you e.g. host a VPN in your home network and you connect to it from your phone, and then you use this connection to access the internet, then your traffic will just be visible to your home network’s ISP instead of your phone’s ISP.

Apart from maybe you, everyone knows that it’s currently legal. Why do you so urgently want to discuss it?

But ok, let’s catch you up to speed. It is currently legal. Everyone knows that. Do you want me to repeat it?

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With that out of the way, answer the question or go away.

It has nothing to do with hypotheticals but with goals. Do you do the same when you negotiate for your salary?

“Do you want a raise?” - “No, I don’t deal in hypotheticals. Understand how much I earn.” - “Ok, no raise for you.”

This can only be sarcasm.

I’ve seen it often enough that people are too dumb to read articles they post to understand that the article disproves their point.

But you are too dumb to even read the headline which already disproves your point.

The article is utter garbage and misunderstands dimensions.

The new strategy allows for pads to be closer together not for the whole thing to be flatter. It allows to shrink sideways, not in height.

It took me quite some time to figure it out!

Sure, the car is red, so it must sell for $100k.

It’s on the same level as the rest of your post. Pure lies, nothing else.

Username does check out.

You know what’s better than guesstimates and gut feelings?

Actual statistics: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10575677211036498

In adjusted 2020 USD, the economic yield from panhandling is most often  $2–$16 per hour, $20–$60 per day, and $200–$500 per month

Slightly less than your projected $45 for 8 hours a day.

Yes, he’s heard that from a reliable source on facebook and/or his drunk buddy.

His buddy is also able to make up any statistic he could need right on the spot.

Sure, starving is a much better way to go.

Now we only need someone to make a Linux handheld with an Nvidia GPU and then we’ll finally get some decent drivers for gaming laptops (which, sadly, are pretty much Nvidia-only).