Reddit has been on this trend for a long while. It might be because you posted in a sub that’s gotten scoured. It might be because you said a word or set of words that tripped their algorithm. You might have been reported by someone for some reason.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that Reddit actively does not want real users anymore. They just want lurkers and bots. You might have genuinely been banned for no reason whatsoever.

Basically nobody opposes deporting actual criminals

Deportation as a mechanism of punishment for state and federal crimes is generally bad policy. It is excessively draconian (it effectively renders them homeless, unemployed, and indefinitely denied their family and friends for… what? Too many parking tickets? Working construction without a license? Illegally camping?) for some. And entirely too lenient (deporting hardened criminals and cartel leaders like serial rapists or murderers effectively guarantees their release in states that can’t afford to jail them) for others.

That’s why we’ll often extradite gang leaders into the US from overseas, when the crimes are severe enough. Its also why “sanctuary cities” regularly look the other way for petty offenses in order to avoid the mass economic disruption of ICE interference in municipal matters.

Injecting immigration penalties into the civil justice system fucks with all the basic functions of local courts and prosecutors. It raises the stakes on minor offenses and gives the worst offenders a get-out-of-jail-free card.

All that is assuming you even have somewhere to send undocumented criminals. For people who are functionally stateless - migrants who came over as children without papers, refugees from countries that cannot repatriate them or effectively no longer exist, Native Americans who the Feds don’t want to recognize as legal US residents - the ability to deport is little more than Penal Transportation. Nevermind how it routinely violates the 5th and 8th amendment, it mostly just means bribing a small, bankrupt satrap of the US to accept planeloads of random people, often without so much as a proper conviction.

The best middle-men in this situation are the ones sidestepping the tariffs entirely.

Not like Colombia doesn’t already have a rich history of smuggling high-demand US contraband over the border, but it will be weird to start getting all my coffee shipped by way of Langley.

As in don’t shit where you eat.

The Moss Landing Lithium Plant fire is right in the middle of California’s largest vegetable producing county.

That’s food going straight onto the plates of any number of Silicon Valley executives.

Billionaires aren’t going to NZ to sell subscriptions or strip mine the wilderness.

They’re going to demolish nature preserves to build mega-mansions and juice up the police force to press gang local indigenous people.

Just like they’ve done everywhere else.

It won’t be like last time

The world’s billionaires are heading back to NZ

BusinessDesk talked to real-estate agent Caleb Paterson, who works with a number of offshore agents and high net-worth individuals mainly out of the US and UK markets. He said interest had “definitely perked up” since National said it would repeal its ban on foreign buyers.

Foreign buyers, with the exception of Singaporean and Australian citizens, have been barred from owning NZ properties since 2018.

Assuming it makes up the next government, National’s plan would open the door to all foreign buyers to purchase NZ homes valued at more than $2 million, with a 15 per cent foreign buyer stamp surcharge clipped on, from the 2025 fiscal year.

Enjoy paradise while it lasts.

No, of course not. We have the ethical juggernauts of an ancient Sears and a Target drive away. Plus I can always shop Temu, because their record is spotless.

Stop using Twitter, FB

piece of cake

and Amazon

:-/

“Don’t like fascism? Just stop doing business with America’s largest retailer.”

I guess I’ll go back to a company that respects Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Uh… Walmart?

Trusting X to police itself of content its owners agree with is a mistake.

Staring at some open source code in horror, like you just flipped to a random page of the Necronomicon.

Still stuck on FF15. So much time and energy invested in reinventing Unreal Engine… badly. Then they have to attack the corners of the actual story with a hacksaw to push a title seven years in development out the door half baked.

tickets (while important) take a back seat to a rich commit history

I’ve found people who do one will manage the other with ease. But “oops! No ticket” is a canary telling me their commit log is going to be shit.

But honestly, has anyone ever been able to just reach the ticket history and know everything about a project without asking someone?

I’ve been able to find out the status of individual half-finished bugs off a ticket log and work/reassign it quickly. Without a ticket in queue, I’ll either discover the issue has been completely ignored or that multiple people pioneered their own boutique fix without talking to one another.

A big project with lots of people and moving parts that doesn’t need each individual tracking their own status and needs because the Project Manager is keeping everything up to date and keeping the Senior Managers off your back is invaluable.

Go Live was buttery smooth. We were all in and out by lunch, even after having to address a hang up on the fly.

Good project managers are worth their weight in gold

only to have an underling whisper in his ear that Godzilla just made landfall.

Do I really need to open a ticket for this

Yes

UNIRONICALLY, ASSHOLE! IT’S THE FIRST THING YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE!!!

Fucking “hey guys, we are bringing in someone from another department and they need to catch up. What’s the project looking like?”

“I don’t know. Nobody wrote anything down and now it’s scattered across six didn’t PCs in various states of dysfunction.”

IT guys think they’re all Michael Jordan right until they get the ball.

Not enough employers offering high wages

Oh boy! Excited to see the GOP test drive their new election-stealing machine.

There’s a shortage of high paying jobs, for starters.

women will discard them for an even higher earning husbands

Isn’t half the problem that “higher earning husbands” are in increasingly short supply?

Are we predicting a future of patriarchal mega-earners cultivating harems of middle-income working professionals? Or will the skyrocketing cost of living just going to turn the Surplus Males into fodder for our next generation of foreign wars, while an increasing population of lesbians fills in all the office jobs at depressed professional wages?