Upstairs

Much of the world has had the choice of putting your eggs in their basket, or having all your and your descendants eggs broken forever/taken away. Same thing with Europe.

A quick water rinse is usually sufficient, if even that. They get shredded and smelted so it’ll burn off drink residues.

I think just a card and cash is appropriate for someone you don’t really know, and probably less than $100 unless you’re both rich.

In the first place I think a better way to establish “is life in this given place good”, would be to address to good vs bad in that place, as opposed to the good in that place vs the bad everywhere else.

If you must make the point through comparisons, using the weakest possible arguments while standing in for the opposing side makes it seem you’ve either want to misrepresent it, or don’t feel secure enough in your position.

I could get into the factual claims that could be challenged but maybe that was the AI. There’s absolutely an argument that Western media and cultures create intense, xenophobic biases, but there are more compelling ways to make it.

Using a one-sided narrative to counter a one-sided narrative comes off as disingenuous to me. Despite Marx’s urging, the US turns out to be the place where a worker can strike with his union and own a gun.

https://youtu.be/ygr5AHufBN4

Yes

Depends on the extent of how much you’d do and if you’d get noticed, really. Leverage being applied against you or your parents could occur, particularly to or via relatives in China, but only if you’re deemed worth the effort. I wouldn’t take that risk, personally, but that’s a very specific, individual decision.

The US is another matter. Sure you’ll go on a list but everyone’s on a list of one kind or another, we’re both on one for using Lemmy most likely.

Would there be any validity in your parents thinking your concerns about this are getting in the way of improving your own life?

I’m not sure the answers so far get to the gist of the problem- how to create these institutions in balance of power, where they can’t just co-opt or capture one another.

I don’t think it’s possible to prevent one institution from actively deciding to give up and relinquish its responsibilities, without constraining or bolstering them to where they can’t act as balances.

If they want power they find a way.

I don’t suppose this really applies anywhere outside of certain countries

I hope he enjoyed the game

Abrego Garcia was a permanent resident though, so it becomes more confusing.

I wonder if they know what the hell they’re doing. Or maybe they don’t care or keep track, it’s just “how much can we get away with this time”.

This week will be telling, unless dates get pushed back again in both cases. I guess we see if rule of law is just openly gone now, without even the usual pretenses.

People do all kinds of strange things on the internet.

Would it help if you told them you think Zuck is creepy? People often have a vague creeped out feeling about Facebook, Meta, and tracking. “I was messaging about (insert) here and started seeing ads for it on all my devices” might sell it and get them on your side.

Beyond that it’s the pain point of them installing another app to communicate with likely only you, so leaning on things they already have might work. SMS/MMS may be a viable alternative, or maybe Delta Chat if they’d be willing to share an email address.

It’s hard to deal with the saturation levels the big chat apps have so I wouldn’t rule out having to keep WhatsApp, unfortunately.

Big Pharma lobbies too hard for that to happen, it’ll be ok. I hope medication will help your situation.

I mean I guess it’s uplifting, but also not :/

It looks like a vigorous potato, I hope you can find a place to put him outside

They’d have to connect to it, and possibly reconnect. That aspect is the issue.