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  • brunchyvirus@fedia.iotoNews@lemmy.world•DHS expected to shut down as immigration talks falter
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    2 months ago

    The shutdown is likely to have minimal impact on pay for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and funding for their enforcement operations, since both agencies received an infusion of cash from Congress last summer. During the government shutdown last fall, officers and agents conducting arrests continued to do so and also continued to be paid.

    According to DHS’ contingency plan, last updated in September, 22,862 agency workers not in ICE or CBP could be furloughed, meaning they would not work and would not be paid until the end of the shutdown. Other workers may be instructed to continue working but without pay, and there could be pauses to other programs.

    I was wondering what happens to people that are currently being held, during a shutdown. The conditions are beyond inhumane while they’re staffid, and then a shutdown happens and they get neglected even more.

    It doesn’t sound like the shutdown will affect ICE/CPB’s ongoing assault, probably just going to make them far more aggressive toward innocent people during the shutdown.

  • brunchyvirus@fedia.iotoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Church Called
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    3 months ago

    Tax exempt status for religions applies to federal income tax. Sales tax is per state and state taxes vary between states.

    I’m not a tax account or attorney, but maybe if they keep the receipts they can file there taxes and report it and maybe get the money back.

    Since taxes are filed every year is this the first year they’ve been a pastor or whatever and doesn’t know? If it is their first year and they’re complaining about taxes on apps and phones or whatever, then it sounds like theyre kind of trashy to be honest.

  • brunchyvirus@fedia.iotoTechnology@lemmy.world•AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
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    6 months ago

    I think right now companies are competing until they’re only 1 or 2 that clearly own the majority of the market.

    Afterwards they will devolve back into the same thing search engines are now. A cesspool of sponsored ads and links to useless SEO blogs.

    They’ll just become gate keepers of information again and the only ones that will be heard are the ones who pay a fee or game the system.

    Maybe not though, I’m usually pretty cynical when it comes to what the incentives of businesses are.

  • brunchyvirus@fedia.iotoNews@lemmy.world•Mother of boy, 15, held at gunpoint by US immigration agents files $1m claim
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    7 months ago

    I agree with everything you said, I remember seeing this graph that shows how likely House Democrats and Republicans where likely to vote with their party between 1949 -2011, which already showed a pretty bleak outlook, here’s the full paper.

    The second thing that I noticed about ten years ago maybe before that was the sudden increase in misinformation on Facebook and YouTube that people will believe as truth, and since they see it engages you they will constantly bombard them with more and of it. I remember as a kid adults saying don’t believe everything you read, and if so and so would jump off a bridge would you? A lot of them should have taken there own advice.

    It’s not just older generations, younger ones are obviously affected by it but in different ways cyber bullying, that weird Andrew Tate following and other.

    I heard someone explain like this, let’s say a person walks up to on the street and asks you to buy something, obviously it’s easy to say no and walk away. Now instead of a person imagine it’s a machine with 10 billion times more intelligent than all of humanity combined is constantly trying to get you to click a link.