grasshopper_mouse
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Gross
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 2 days ago:
I think the supply-chain issue is often forgotten about. Sure, we can open manufacturing businesses here to make whatever, but where do people think the materials will come from? Do they think we’ve had all the materials we need to manufacture goods here in America all along and we just haven’t been because everything is cheaper to make overseas? Just look at this list of major exports by country. Does the US have SOME of this stuff? Sure, but enough to make enough goods for US consumers on a regular, as-needed basis? No way. We will need raw materials, and there won’t be enough to go around.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Take this with a grain of salt, but this is ICE’s (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) definition of human trafficking and is of course open to interpretation:
“Human trafficking is a global crime that trades in people of all genders, ages and backgrounds and exploits them for profit. Human trafficking generally takes two forms: sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery.”
https://www.ice.gov/features/human-trafficking
Interpol’s definition: “While there is a clear distinction between human trafficking and migrant smuggling, they can also be linked. Human trafficking occurs for specific purposes, such as sexual exploitation, labour exploitation, forced criminality, and organ removal, among other forms of exploitation. Migrant smugglers take advantage of people who want to leave their home countries to escape poverty, conflict, and crises, or simply want to seek a better life. Even if irregular migrants generally enter into the journey voluntarily, they are often exposed to significant risks, including that of being trafficked, kidnapped or dying in transit to their destinations.”
https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Human-trafficking-and-migrant-smuggling
- Comment on Is it normal for high sugar contents like in cake icing to make my uvula tickle? 1 month ago:
Ugh, it would be awful lol
- Comment on Is it normal for high sugar contents like in cake icing to make my uvula tickle? 1 month ago:
Me too and then I was like, have I been missing out on some sugar-related sexual experience this whole time!?
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 3 months ago:
This is awesome! Thanks for the link!
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 3 months ago:
Even when I have extra income, I just cannot bring myself to spend several hundred dollars on Lego. They had this Batman shadowbox set that was fucking DOPE and yeah, I could have saved up to buy it, but if I did I know it wouldn’t make me happy knowing how much I’d spent on it, I’d just always think omg, I dropped hundreds of dollars on this, am I an idiot?
- Comment on DING DONG 5 months ago:
Ding fries are done
- Comment on Will COVID death rates of Republicans have a significant impact on the outcome of the presidential election? 5 months ago:
Interesting! Thanks for the link!
- Submitted 5 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 6 months ago:
So I looked into the USSS, and here from their FAQ: “Under Title 18, Section 3056, of the United States Code, agents and officers of the United States Secret Service can:
Carry firearms Execute warrants issued under the laws of the United States Make arrests without warrants for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony recognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed such felony Offer and pay rewards for services and information leading to the apprehension of persons involved in the violation of the law that the Secret Service is authorized to enforce Investigate fraud in connection with identification documents, fraudulent commerce, fictitious instruments and foreign securities and Perform other functions and duties authorized by law”
This leads me to wonder just how many times a SS Agent witnessed Trump committing a felony in their presence but didn’t arrest him.
- Submitted 6 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 74 comments