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Hearing Trump talk about how the car has ‘computer’ (during the news conference) made me think back to a news event with George H.W. Bush in a supermarket, seeing a grocery barcode scanner for the first time.
Same kind of inquisitive and excited response from both of them.
Depends if there were dumb lumbering giants outside that would eat me, ‘Attack on Titan’ style.
From the article …
The legal mechanism behind Ananias’ harrowing experience is known as “expedited removal.” Created in 1996, the statute grants broad powers to low-level border officials to unilaterally remove non-citizens from the United States without a hearing in front of an immigration judge
Personally I really wish she would contest it. If not just for her, but to set a precedent that would protect those who came after her.
Plus she’s due compensation for what she was put through.
Sounds like good times, indeed.
From the article …
Documents viewed by The Trek indicate that Ananias was deported and banned from entering the US for five years on February 25, despite having a valid visa. US Customs and Border Patrol declined a request to comment for this story, citing privacy concerns.
The officer asked how she had financed her previous stays in the United States; Ananias explained about her freelance work in Germany and additional financial support from her father and offered to show bank statements. “She refused to look at them and accused me of either being a millionaire or having worked illegally. She spoke in an aggressive tone, frequently interrupted me, and repeatedly raised her voice,” said Ananias.
The legal mechanism behind Ananias’ harrowing experience is known as “expedited removal.” Created in 1996, the statute grants broad powers to low-level border officials to unilaterally remove non-citizens from the United States without a hearing in front of an immigration judge
Expedited removal cannot be appealed under the independent judiciary, but can be contested within the department by an individual or their lawyer through the DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Program. As Ananias’ evidence was not properly reviewed in interrogation and her medical needs were ignored in holding, in theory she has strong grounds for review of the decision. However, it is a lengthy, complicated process, with the burden of proof on the individual.
In light of her traumatizing experience, Ananias said she would likely not attempt to contest the ban and would steer clear of the US as long as the current climate on border security holds, for fear of going through the same thing again. “I had entered the United States multiple times without issue in the past, yet this time I was treated as a criminal,” she emphasized.
No. It was for a Star Wars roleplay but not a video game. It started life in the newsgroup de.rec.sf.starwars
Ah, ok, nice! Was that the old D6 version, or the newer D20 one?
and I played the role of Emperor.
You dark person you! 😜
This is a great idea, and I don’t want to discourage anyone from doing this, but FYI, be very careful on filling out the second link (‘HERE’) with your contact information.
Be sure to check out that ‘Privacy Policy’ link at the bottom of the page. Your contact info is available to the government, and that’s usually public information that others can see/use.
From the article …
And, though newly retired, he knew that he had to do something. He showed up at EFF’s front door in early 2006 with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?” We did. And what Mark told us changed everything.
The article is a good read, short. Worth your time.
And Mr. Klein, if you’re out there, thank you for your service. /heart-to-chest-salute
I don’t want to defend trump, but does the article author he linked to, know what that is?
It doesn’t seem the author or trump knew the meaning of the symbol.
You may be totally right, sincerely, but also, its funny how each and every time the ‘Nazi accusation’ comes up that it can be potentially hand-waved away/excused as a simple mistake/misunderstanding, almost like if someone is doing that on purpose so that they can still signal but have an ‘out’ for the signaling. The President of the United States of America should be the LAST person to make those kind of mistakes.
Also drives up conflict so that people are not looking at “what the other hand is doing”.
My head canon has the ‘Greatest Generation’ rising up from their graves ghost-like to attack the White House like a scene out of Peter Jackson’s 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ movie.
(Assuming the Nazi claim is true and Trump wasn’t just being his normal clueless self.)
Apologies for being off-topic, but the domain name, “swg-empire.de”, does the ‘swg’ part ‘Star Wars Galaxies’ by chance?
I always felt it was because of ‘social norms’ (the unwritten non-laws we all conduct ourselves by) have eroded away in the age of Trump, enhancing the normal angst the two ‘culture war’ sides have for each other, releasing people from acting civilly with each other. Throw in the new age of corporate ‘conflict bots’ on social media, and things get amped up even more.
what’s the particular license about?
These links can explain it better than I could …
By default, everything you write, from a novel to an Internet forum shitpost, is not only copyrighted by you but also “all rights reserved.”
What that guy is doing is (a) making his writings more available for reuse than they would be otherwise, and (b) making a point about how fucked-up it is that corporations treat stuff posted to social media as if it were a free-for-all they could use however they want.
the license is actually a Creative Commons license for Non-Commercial uses. Creative Commons is a copyleft license that’s “free to use with some restrictions”. Mostly used in art, literature, audio, and film, for my part I’m using it to license my comments. Anybody can cite with attribution, but commercial use is forbidden by the license.
The why: I just don’t like non-opensource commercial ventures. Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Facebook, Apple, and so on are harmful in many ways.
Enforcement and legality: Microsoft’s Github CoPilot (a large language model / “AI”) was trained on copyrighted text source code. A few licenses clearly state that derivatives should also be opensource, which CoPilot is not. So there is a big lawsuit against it. Many artists, non-programmer authors, musicians, and others are also unhappy that AI was trained on their copyrighted works and have sued for damages. Until these cases make it out of court, it will not be clear if adding a license to comments could even jeopardize commercial AI vendors.
This link shows that ProPublica also licenses their content here on Lemmy.
I want to license my content to be available to non-profit open-source, and restricted for for-profit.
I understand that its not my responsibility to enforce laws, and that just because laws are not enforced currently that I should still be able to avail myself to them, as well as that enforcement of the laws may not be happen currently, but that enforcement will catch up to the reality on the ground.
Also, that laws trump ToS’s. And “Safe Harbor” laws that corporate social media companies/sites protects themselves with state that we own our content, and not them. And that they can’t use a ToS to strip away our ownership, and hence, our content licensing.
Finally, if the license link looks weird, it may be that your app/client does not support Lemmy.World’s formatting text. You would have to speak with the devs of the product you use to view Lemmy to get that corrected.
A mods response to the usage of a license to a third-party.
It’s also just temporary, until a biological donor heart can be found for them.
From the article…
It is powered by an external rechargeable battery that connects to the heart via a wire in the patient’s chest.
The battery lasts four hours and then alerts the patient that a new battery is needed.
Now these companies can exploit this data fully. But the next step, it leading to lemmy results being featured on their website is no guarantee. They can just keep it low.
But why would they do that? To them it would just be another source of data to walk through as part of building a search result.
And even if you were right, having it low is better than not having it there at all whatsoever.
Plus people can specify specific sites when they’re doing a search, so they can ask for a specific Lemmy search and not have it be bypassed or be at low on the search results.
Finally, reddit is destroying itself. Why should we compromise ourselves, when we can just watch reddit burning itself down, while more and more people join us?
First, even if Reddit completely self-destructs and dies, it doesn’t mean Lemmy will take over, because none of the search engines have Lemmy data, they’ll just be a void that someone else will fill in.
Second, why is having our data available to search engines considered compromising ourselves?
I don’t really give a flying F about hurting Google, as there’s always going to be a number one search engine, and most likely that’s always going to be owned by a corporation. That’s a red herring anyways, its not something we should be worrying about (in relation to the Reddit versus Lemmy battle, and not just morally in general).
This isn’t a destroy a corporation thing, it’s a make Lemmy win over Reddit thing.
I care about the users searching via Google, I want them to think the best data set for searches is on Lemmy, and not Reddit.
I also care about the users here on Lemmy who won’t bother typing out comprehensive guides for things like installing computer hardware and home improvement, if they know the results can’t be searched/found on the Internet by people. At the end of the day they won’t bother, instead they’ll just point people here to a post on Reddit (or elsewhere like Medium) that has that information, and Lemmy will end up just being a also ran to Reddit as the go-to for comprehensive how to know things or do things.
Lemmy HAS to be searchable by the search engines on the Internet, if it would wants to win against Reddit. And ignoring Reddit and just expecting them to kill themselves, that’s just not going to happen.
(By the way, enjoying the civil conversation we’re having on this. Thanks for keeping it classy (in a good way).)
than to have google make money off of it, who is actively engaged in destroying open spaces and enshittify them.
Google doesnt care for traffic to Lemmy. Google cares for making money off the data they can grab. Not giving them the data directly is the only way to oppose them.
It’s not about Google, it’s about Reddit. Its about the users on the Internet doing searches.
I would say what I said if Google and DuckDuckGo had swapped dominate places, market-wise.
We need to have Lemmy be the best place to get search results from, and not Reddit.
And to do that, Lemmy has to be visible to Google, as it’s the number one search results engine used by the most people on the Internet.
Having said that, we should actually make Lemmy available to all search engines on the Internet. We shouldn’t be here to destroy Google, but to make Lemmy number one, over Reddit. Google is just a means to an end.
Because growth through opening up for capital interests is going to end badly. See Internet since 20 years
Hot take incoming (I’m going to hate hitting the [ENTER] key right now)…
Seceding the search results of the Internet to Reddit doesn’t seem like a smart way of making Lemmy popular and used to the point of where it replaces Reddit.
All these posts and comments we all put here on Lemmy, that would benefit people from Internet search results, aren’t being used.
You need to be smart about how you do battle, and not just pay attention to politics and nothing else.
If you don’t join the fight, you won’t win the War.
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FYI, I was talking about Allied citizens who fought in World War II, not Nazis.
I do understand that you were talking about Nazi citizens, in relation to your LGBTQ comment.
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