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Or alternatively (historically), expendable peasants that you don’t want to finance painstaking archery training on.

It’s not exactly hard to operate a firearm. They are designed to be used by the lowest common denominator of person - total morons.

Anti-immigrant sentiment in the US has been a thing for hundreds of years. It was commonly called “nativism”. Consider watching Scorcese’s “Gangs of New York” for a (fictionally dramatized) depiction of it in times past.

As for why mass deportations are possible today - - until the late 1800s, immigration to the US was essentially unregulated. The Chinese Exclusion Act and later systems of quotas and literacy tests introduced around the turn of the 20th century instituted the first national immigration policies.

I frankly don’t find it unfair or unreasonable that the US government’s executive branch has chosen to enforce existing immigration laws for political gain. Americans should change their immigration laws if they get upset when they’re actually enforced. If anything, the executive branch was utterly failing to enforce laws that representatives had placed and kept on the books for a long time. If you want more immigrants, make it easy and legal to receive more immigrants without tests, long wait periods, or country of origin quotas.

Ten years from now, when you’re ready, you pull a Luigi. Go out a hero.

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Crunch uses scammy tactics to stop you from canceling. They lied to me twice to my face. Tried to charge me a fee too on cancel. Can also only cancel in person at the original signup gym. Pick a better business to deserve your money.

Neither of these topics should even be drawing media attention, considering how frequent and non-notable they are. They just report on this stuff every day because it’s cheaper and easier than exclusively finding and reporting on real notable local news, and television news needs filler content for selling ad spots. Ever had a day where there was no news, and they ended early?

Praying is just talking to your imaginary friend, and having it tell back to you what you want to hear.

These elected representatives are no more mentally developed than elementary school children. Must be from a state full of lead pipes.

Try looking for crops to grow that are nutritious but relatively low maintenance. Sweet potatoes, sunchokes, groundcover strawberries, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, etc. Bonus if you can grow excess to sell at local farmers markets for some extra income, though the easiest the grow ones probably won’t fetch a great price and on one acre I doubt you’ll have extra of anything. Also, look for native options. Less maintenance, and local pollinators are more likely to help out.

If you’re not squeamish and can get enough extra space with an enclosure, rabbits breed very quickly and just eat grass. Chickens are good for eggs and meat.

It’s a bit strange to think about, but our brains seem to have adapted to information accessibility today by more readily remembering how to find the information instead of the information itself. (See Betsy Sparrow et al)

If you lived back then, chances are you’d just straight up remember more things without needing to go look them up again. But, you might also just remember what book you found it in.

I have wondered if this is part of the reason why ancient orators were apparently capable of reciting hours of dialog from memory. They simply had to. Libraries and books weren’t generally accessible. They had to rely on memory, and thus became very trained on it.

When you’re involved in drugs, you are pretty likely to regularly interact with sketchy people who make you feel unsafe for one reason or another. That goes for both dealers and consumers, though moreso on the dealer side.

Idk, but I use Boost and added some keyword filters. Stuff like “trump”, “musk”, “israel”, “slam”, etc. And any time I still run across political crap, I either block the community or the user. Lemmy has been great now afterwards, no politics.

I quit using Spotify entirely after https://swedenherald.com/article/this-is-how-much-spotify-donated-to-trumps-inauguration

Why is the village depopulated, if there’s a huge industrial zone nearby presumably with lots of employees? I was thinking workers might want to buy or rent low cost housing near their workplace if the land is zoned for it and you could get electric and a well, then build some simple small housing. But if they’re not buying in the village, might not be a great idea unless there’s something wrong or lacking with available properties in the village.

If you plan to return

Maybe. But the biggest employers are national if not international. They’re gonna withhold federal tax.

No, businesses directly pay the federal government. More insidiously, it’s impossible to opt out if you’re employed full time; you have to be self employed to get to decide when/if/how much tax you send the federal government.

Apparently before 1943, people paid taxes individually once a year. Then a law was passed requiring their employers to do it regularly instead without their consent.