Goodness, I had to write something referencing the Taklimakan desert just a few days ago so it’s bizarre to see it mentioned.

Thanks for reminding me to look up how to block someone.

100%, it’s like it’s an archetype, I guess it is.

I imagine they trash them, and bully the workers when they return them.

It looked to me like ICE was also using random vehicles, maybe even personal ones

You’re not wrong, on the ice list sure they’re harping hard for donations and coffee money. Just release the files ffs. Ha now that sounds familiar.

Thanks Joe Rogan!

Currently using Orion, it works well though I haven’t thoroughly paid attention to scrutinize it thoroughly.

If we stop acting shocked and like these things are wrong then they become normalized.

Oh great insight, I hadn’t connected the dots to that possibility yet. In the short term just general protests, too.

I believe China can stop any kind of access at any time, they just choose to allow a certain percentage of folks to get through above a certain bar of sophistication and need.

Blindness?

But he didn’t happen by accident, he’s the result of mind-numbing, stubborn, continuous anti-intellectualism people have reveled in in their idiotic decadence for years now.

Wow that was notable to them in Austin? That sucks.

There are a ton who are not. Hegseth fired the black General and woman leaders. Many service members are black or female and saw this. They see brown people getting rounded up, many in the military are Latino. And apart from that, people are 50% non-MAGA anyway.

Skills mate, you got them. Nice one.

Absolutely , $100 million is a whole ton of money. It’s not a good excuse, but maybe it is spent in the state’s economy?… don’t make it ok but at least I hope it helped keep some newspapers alive or something.

Oh my god the flood of beans and denim jeans content was ridiculous, I used Lemmy less for a while.

It might be an error on my part actually or of their payment system. My attempt to purchase actually didn’t work (connection dropped while attempting to buy) so that might have been why, I was trying to connect while not having an active account. (My guess, no error info was given) FYI the reason I want to try and this vpn looks interesting, is they have an obfuscation layer added to wireguard, which I find think I’ve seen before. I’ll try it again when have time in a couple days, their support got back to me to fix the payment.

When that happens I use the summarize with AI feature from Kagi and it does a good job describing the page.