GreenShimada

@GreenShimada@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I suck at reading comprehension... what the heck does this law even mean? [8 U.S. Code § 1451 - Revocation of naturalization]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t suck at reading comprehension, this is difficult to understand.

  I’m not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. This depends a lot on your mother. If she’s a Naturalized citizen, then if she’s de-naturalized for fraud or anything that invalidates the naturalization application, then you would lose your citizenship as well. It’s basically just Uno Reverse. However, it seems like if she’s simply the target of some current administration retribution and is a one-off, targeted de-naturalization, or she rescinds her citizenship, as long as you’re in the United States, you should be able to keep your citizenship.

  The degree to which “skeletons in the closet” are bad is relative to how it affects her naturalization application, and if that would constitute fraud on that application. If she simply spent 5 years running turtle races at a beach resort and feels bad about it, probably not a big deal. If she spent 5 years in prison and escaped, then said on her naturalization application she was working at a beach resort all that time, that would be bad.

  If you are concerned that your mother might be de-naturalized, then it’s worth talking to her about it using secure methods, such as Signal.

  This IS legal advice: DO NOT post anywhere online the specific reasons why you are concerned about her citizenship. Anywhere. Do not send it in an email; do not send it in a SMS or Whatsapp message. Unless you are contact with a lawyer, DO NOT put the specific concerns in text anywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I suck at reading comprehension... what the heck does this law even mean? [8 U.S. Code § 1451 - Revocation of naturalization]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly, the number of stateless people on this planet is around 4.4 million.

  Countries can and do prevent people from holding a nationality all the time. You’re just not used to seeing it is all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this the plot of C-SPAN?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And of those that do, I’m sure there’s large corporate contracts, negotiated with OpenAI and not going anywhere. Which is why they tell you how many paid subscribers they have, not how many contracts and then individuals.

  The US government subscriptions would account for maybe 1 or 2 million paid users alone, and that might not include Palantir’s use of OpenAI models in their systems which then get contracted out.

  This random website claims 44,780 companies reporting using ChatGPT. So entire small companies of 5-10 people might be using it, and then a thousand people at larger companies, that might get you to 10 million users right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An alien describes human anatomy to his people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Luke, at that speed will we be able to pull out in time?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨long live my iud🫶⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, though. It’s a baby scarecrow. A…scarefetus? That’s literally its one job, scare away fetuses from implanting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ard⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That you have an excess of Ret, not Wet.

  C’mon, retard, figure it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence seems to indicate that research causes cancer in mice.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  100% of people that drink water and eat food die over the long term.

  Would you be willing to let your children risk dying from this spurious correlation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Remain perfectly still, their vision is based on movement.”

  “Nah, fuck this bird.” Kicks swan to the moon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope what you’re implying is that swan feathers are a suit made to deceive humans from their obvious lizard people pet agenda, and that Big Feather needs to be held accountable. I’ve already booked guests for the podcast and have 17 articles in my substack,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨many have been saying this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Many people think tribes are primitive and warlike, and that’s where the definition of tribalism you’re using comes from.

  Maybe for you as an individual.

  Meanwhile, on Earth:

  I’ve spent most of my career in Sub-Saharan Africa, and use of the term “tribe” and related descriptors is commonly used in regular news headlines for things like tribal leaders (also called traditional leaders when they’re less tied to a specific ethnic group) and tribal conflicts - what academics would call “inter-ethnic conflicts” as well. Tribe literally means a distinct ethnic group with distinct cultural components. Example 1, example 2, example 3. It’s in common use today meaning the thing it always meant. It’s not archaic or disused or so loaded with racist baggage that is’ unusable any more than other alt-right abused terms like how “Globalist” actually means “Jews” to them, or “Traditional” meaning anti-LGBTQI+.

  Another term, “tribal lands,” is more common term in the US to describe Native American lands (typically reservations, which are jails without walls for individual ethnic groups IMO). Not only perfectly valid, but it’s a term Native Americans use to describe themselves, as they are isolated and organized in their forced apartheid system by ethnic groups.

  I had a colleague object to the word “indigenous” for similar reasons as you’re objecting to “tribe.” But for her it was personal. She felt it was pejorative as it was used as such by colonial oppressors, as opposed to “local.” I get that, but that’s also a widely used term. That was personal preference and how she thought everyone should speak more positively about themselves, as she had noticed little use of the term in the UK to describe, for example, locally made cheddar. But she was also conservative AF, so who knows how that will hit for you.

  So, I will say sorry that a word you don’t understand or use correctly gives you feels that may have nothing to do with you. But also, the word “tribalism” is a valid, modern word that is perfectly acceptable even in academia. Tribalism isn’t even fully negative, but simply describes a loyalty to ethnic or ethno-cultural ties. Which is exactly how I used it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨many have been saying this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but “civilizationist” is a form of tribalism, isn’t it? It’s about ethnically similar people promoting or only tolerating their narrow definition of culture. Sure, once you add the cultural history of slavery and Jim Crow, then you get historical context they lean on to say “see? it worked, didn’t it?!” My racist family member would fall into this category, and while he thinks he knows what “Western Civilization” means, it’s his delusional imagined version.

  Honest question, is this a subjective dividing line between us that is opinion? Or is there research or something that defines the two in a way where it’s a clear differentiation? If there is, I’m happy to be educated on the nuance and not keep being wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily. It’s not about the boom factor alone - hydrogen is a small atom, and so under pressure, most commonly used materials are permeable to it. It leaks through every material. It really takes something as solid as steel pipes for hydrogen atoms to not work their way through and escape. So while hydrogen would be cheaper to produce at scale, it’s also constantly leaking out of any container.

  For wind turbines, static electricity and storms would be huge risks as well, so the application of a floating wind turbine would not be ideal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨many have been saying this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It can be in pockets, and the problem is when they get organized, they get emboldened enough to make their thoughts known. Especially in rural areas, people will have latent racists tendencies and go their whole lives without acting on it or mentioning it other than with other racist assholes. Then one day you find out Uncle Ricky has stored every racist idea ever put online in his head as “facts,” and is 100% in agreement with it all. But he would likely never go the extra step and join a KKK rally or get a swastika tattoo unless a small group of peers really pushed him to do that. White supremacist ideology doesn’t require you to have joined your local KKK chapter or biker gang unless you’re already predisposed to being an active asshole in life already, and that’s the specific way you decide to spend your time. Some people simply do crossfit.

  A lot of it is simply tribalism in action, prodded along by fear and polarizing stuff online, and a lack of exposure to external ideas during formative years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For everyone trying to figure out how this would be enforced, it’s not about being proactively enforced. (and data collection is 99% of it)

  It’s about adding a double-tap “Well, these people also violated our age verification law, so they have to pay a fine,” added to any incident where it’s convenient to add this in. If a minor sends another minor a snap that would trigger CP laws, and one of the phones isn’t age verified correctly, fine to the parents and hands up in the air “We tried!” A minor is involved in torrenting movies? “Look, kids using illegal OS! Fine to the parents!”

  This is how laws work across a lot of corrupt developing countries. There’s laws for everything, but they only get applied selectively as authorities find they fit the situation. It’s hard to actually be 100% above board and do everything legally because of a few little things meant to be impossible to actually do bureaucratically. So in every situation, any set of authorities start in with the endemic leverage of “Well, we have suspicion of you selling ketamine out of your apartment. Did you do age verification on your laptop? No? Then we can seize that as a crime and see what’s on there. OR you can give up your supplier.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The irony of finding two other woo-tolerant Lemmites in this comm.

  Once I learned that astrology points to themes of influence on a time frame, it made a lot more sense. Taking it literally and thinking everything is confirmation bias is how people dismiss it. There’s more than a few people that have correctly nailed a lot of big events, it’s more about technique it seems. Nick Dagen Best published a book I think in 2013 or 2016 that is hitting hard right now - totally called Trump 2 and stuck to his guns on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of the more storied and out there reports of what happened with the remote viewing program in the 80s and 90s pretty much get close to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨women⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really not that strategic. It’s that ignorant people don’t see the value in education. So school boards get filled with loud asshole people who barely made it out of high school, shouting at each other “muh kids don’t need tuh know how anything works, cuz I don no how nutn works an I’m OK!”

  Undereducated people rarely act in their best interests, but they act all the time because they’re filled with fear and unable to rationalize or plan their way out of it. It’s a spiral, not a strategy.

  All this does is return to the old ways of private schools operating as class-based-Jim Crow. Sort of sad, we had 2 or 3 generations at most that really benefited from American public schooling before it all wobbled apart from second and third-order effects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when the whole family had to share it because you only had one⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  priced at around half a year’s salary

  So the current price of a MacBook adjusted for inflation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sales =/= quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “The drives! They’re making the CDs gay!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sales =/= quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This was easier to figure out with CDs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Employee Deleted 9TB of Torrented Files, Adult Film Producers Claim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  9 TB of work porn.

  Considering it was Meta, it’s probably 90% CSAM anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That acronym tho⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope Congress discovers their inner charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Being vegan is unnatural"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we (vegetarian/vegan or NOT) all agree

  So…find a position in the middle - one might say, the center - of two opposing positions on a spectrum of subjective opinion where both sides can agree?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It makes me shudder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not kink-shaming, but I think this transcends anything short of genuine torture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's "email"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To the disease part? Or the waking up when the rooster crows an hour before the sun rises to start your day? or still paying taxes by feeding a landowner with all you make?

  But don’t worry, you can’t read, so you won’t know what the meme says.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's "email"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Work in the morning? We are not Lords, our work starts long before the sun rises!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When looking at the process, it’s actually bonkers in a totally differet direction.

  Any laser shot from Earth ends up spread out an area of about 26km diameter on the lunar surface. So you need a high-power laser pulse to get any sort of concentration of photons to hit the lunar surface that are detectable there. Then the reflection gets spread out over a similar large area on reflection to Earth, so you’re trying to detect a few photons from the original laser pulse of 10^17^ photons (or whatever the actual number is).

  So to your question about sighting - actually not necessary. But you’ve turned the laser pulse into a photon shotgun, which is equally bonkers. You’re shooting a pinpoint laser that still spreads out to the size of a large city just to hit a meter or two-sized target. Then the same thing again just to get the reflection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  extremely interesting

  Just say “distracting” we all know that’s what you mean

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just tell him small-minded people can’t comprehend big things and see if he even gets it. Which is true, but also a dick thing to say like that if he is smart enough to understand the slight.

  Sadly, apparently bouncing a laser off the moon via the reflectors left up there by Apollo missions isn’t hard exactly, just expensive to get the right equipment to do it right.