ICE/DHS was contracting people to do that at one point, and there are fusion centers full of people doing that

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-new-orleans-online-monitoring-b2c300245ea4ffbef335502245760a1d

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/new-orleans-immigration-online-criticism-tracking

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

1-7 would be ideal banana. 8 is ok ish. 9 and 10 would have to be really pushing it. Anything beyond 10 is only useful for getting mashed up to cook banana bread or pancakes with.

still be a bit green, and starting to yellow.

Same. Bananas, avocados, and artichokes all get this weird but similar taste when they get ripe beyond the point I can enjoy them. Idk what it is exactly or even how to describe the taste, but some people seem to either not notice a difference or actively be seeking it out.

Most ready made guacamole always seems to have that same flavor. Honestly not sure if there’s even a name for it, but it almost makes me gag.

I think that incarceration isn’t necessarily problem. It’s who gets incarcerated for what, and how many innocent people mistakenly end up railroaded. Alternatively, cases of affluenza and individuals who help keep the broken system going, are often considered above the law.

Violent offenders should be locked up. All of them, regardless of wealth or connections. But they still deserve to participate in a fair and just legal system.

Nonviolent offenders should be fined, and the amount they’re fined should be equivalent to the crime they’ve committed while taking their own wealth and ability to pay into consideration. If people commit a very serious nonviolent crime, but either can’t or won’t pay off the debt they’re fined, they should have the option of volunteering in their community to pay off their debt. If they fail to pay fines or repay their community via volunteer time, then potentially they should have their wages garnished.

Most importantly though, nobody should be getting insanely wealthy via investments in private prisons. There should be no incentive to simply pack as many people as possible into a prison while pretending that you’ve done something positive for society that also just happens to greatly increase your profits.

Durian looks like it would be good, but it’s awful. The garlic aftertaste is the worst.

Or working exactly as it was intended

No$hu - Fuck I.C.E. I.C.E. Baby

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I went into a clothing store in the 90s and heard this song playing. I never heard it on the radio before or after that one day (I think it was in a fashion bug?), but it was memorable enough to stick in my head for the rest of that day and I seem to randomly remember it approximately once every decade.

Your post did it this decade.

I mean, I 100% support calling out the Dems when they do obviously morally questionable things. They also just did something good (blocking arms sales to Israel), and even though it didn’t pass (bc they’re the minority), they deserve to be acknowledged when they do the right thing. It certainly took them long enough, and honestly, I doubt they would have united if not for public pressure, and journalists pointing out the hypocrisy/questioning why wealthy donors often seem to have more sway over Dems than their own voters do.

Domestic surveillance is an issue even Republicans are divided on, and most Americans, regardless of party, are opposed to the government trampling on civil liberty in the name of “safety” and “patriotic duty.” Especially during an unjust forever war. We’ve seen this one before. We know how it ends.

The Patriot Act marked a very clear turning point for America. If you value democracy and civil liberty, expanding domestic surveillance power is a terrible idea. Even Trump opposed this when it was just a campaign issue, but now he’s suddenly in favor of it. Why?

This really should have been a no brainer issue for Dems to rally behind and support. Like this should be a major part of any 2028 presidential campaign. Given how many AI investors and other evil billionaires are now raining donations on to politicians in hopes of accessing the data the government collects or being contracted by the government to collect it, we should all be asking why the Dems didn’t take the ball and run with this one.

Somebody asked me this question before I saw Blade Runner, and I just got really angry and confused and said something like “of course I would turn it over! Why wouldn’t I?”

We always used to joke about me being a replicant. Then the same person tried telling this story to my dad and he also got angry and confused and was like “Well why wouldn’t she turn it over?!?”

That was how I learned I’m probably a replicant but also descended from a long line of replicants.

You’re in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down…

NVM somebody beat me to it. Fuck. I guess I’ll just have to accept my new cyborg companions. Or just continue cutting toxic people out of my life regardless of if they’re cyborg or human. If that’s an option I would probably just do that until I’m also replaced by a cyborg.

I always avoid killing bees but I am terrified of wasps. I grew up getting stung by these fuckers constantly. That’s how I found out I’m allergic.

They’re extremely aggressive and live in giant nests together. If you kill one, it releases pheromones or something that signals to the others and they swarm. I would beg my parents to do something about them because they made life absolutely miserable, but they had this weird fatalist attitude about them like “the wasps were here long before we were. They’ll be here long after.”

Realized as an adult that decoy paper wasps nests are very cheap and work surprisingly well as a repellent. You can also just use a brown paper sack. Could have saved myself from some very traumatic encounters if I had known that sooner.

Paper wasps have a unique perspective of “provoked.”

I was tired so I just decided to land and rest on your head. Why are you provoking me?

I was building a nest in the only door you use to come in and out of your house. When you tried to leave, I flew directly into your path and basically body checked you. Why are you provoking me?

“My life is falling apart, and things somehow seem to keep getting worse with each day that passes. So, you know, just living the dream.”

Or if you want to keep it brief, “Pretty sure I must have pissed somebody off in another lifetime.”

Had a c-section on a Thursday afternoon. For some reason, late Friday afternoon my doctor said I had to confirm if I wanted her to order any pain medication because no doctor would be on the floor overnight.

Still don’t understand why I had to confirm ordering the meds, instead of her just leaving an order in case it was needed. Anyway, I asked if the epidural had fully worn off and if I was already in as much pain as I would be in. She said “yeah pretty much,” so I declined. Turns out that wasn’t true.

A few hours later, a nurse came in to my room to check on why I was just letting my newborn keep screaming. She found me squirming around like a turtle on its back and sobbing while my husband was snoring and sleeping through all of it.

I remember telling her I could feel my stitches tearing every time I tried to move (they weren’t, it just felt like it). I was begging for anything to help with the pain, but since the doctor left without putting in an order for any medication, she couldn’t even give me Tylenol.

So far in my life, that has definitely been my most physically painful experience.

Daaawww!! Blocky headed boi!! 😍