They likely used the “you’re planning on making videos while you’re here. Since you make videos for work, that means you’re illegally working here without a work visa” excuse. Same reason photographers, musicians, (and freelancers in general) need to be careful about how they talk to customs; If customs discovers that they’re a professional and are going to make music/take photos/etc while in the country, they’ll start rumbling about illegal work without a visa, and even threaten to confiscate work equipment like personal instruments, cameras, etc…

Even if it would otherwise be totally normal for people to take photos while on vacation, the fact that it’s a professional photographer on vacation suddenly makes it work related. And the same likely happened here. He probably posted a video that he made while in the country, so ICE swooped in while screeching about work visas.

Yeah, this isn’t really about that one specific district. It’s about all the other districts that were also likely tampered with.

Putin took decades, but Hitler only took a few months. By the time German lawmakers realized what was happening, the reichstag fire was already done, and the night of the long knives was happening. They’re not playing by Putin’s example. A lot of what Trump and Musk were doing was pulled straight out of Hitler’s playbook.

Something something suitcases of cash

It’s not even less than lethal, because they’re still lethal. They’re “less lethal”, meaning they’re not designed to kill you when used correctly, but are still fully capable of doing so. “Less than lethal” implies that they’re not capable of killing, the same way any positive number is greater than 0; The positive number will never be equal to zero, because it is greater than zero.

I was going to make a “DEIsm is woke, DEIsm is getting abolished, etc” joke… But it’s impossible to create a parody so extreme that some users won’t mistake it for the genuine thing. Poe’s Law is in full effect here.

Was gonna say… Every local store near me has literal pallets of rice available.

The same rapist Brock Turner who changed his name to rapist Allen Turner, to escape the bad press after he raped someone.

Something something “when you’re used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

The “why” doesn’t even matter at this point. Whether or not he’s actually a Russian asset is inconsequential. All that matters is the fact that he does everything a Russian asset would do.

I’ve found that my players tend to prefer Fight Club instead. The mobile interface and easy editing means they can easily track whatever the hell they want. Hell, I used to track 3 separate characters on my iPad, and just swap between them depending on whose turn it was.

But that’s for in person gaming. Remote is more difficult, because Fight Club doesn’t publish rolls to anything. If you’re looking for online play, maybe Foundry or Fantasy Grounds for a VTT?

I’m struggling to think of how that would work. Have a Ukrainian agent pretend to be his Russian handler?

In reality, Trump’s biggest use to Zelensky is for strategic disinformation. Occasionally “leak” info to Trump, knowing it will get passed directly to Russia.

My first thought was that it was a group of women who had it out for dudes with fishing profile photos on Tinder. Cuz many guys never take selfies, so in many cases their only decent photos are when they’re holding up a fish.

There are many studies that compare cis men to cis women and based on that claim trans women have an advantage.

They also selectively exclude all of the sports where women have distinct advantages, like cross-country. Cis men are statistically better at quick bursts of energy, like weightlifting or sprinting… But cis women are statistically better at endurance sports like cross country. Basically, cis men have an higher concentration of fast-twitch muscle fibers, which use a lot of energy but are more powerful. While women have more slow-twitch muscle, which allows them to last longer while exerting less energy or using less oxygen.

Sports were originally segregated by sex because men couldn’t stand the thought of losing endurance sports to women. It would be wholly undignified for a dainty woman to beat a bunch of big strong men, after all. They broke women off into a separate category, so they didn’t have to worry about it. And all of those endurance sports conveniently get left out of the conversation whenever discussing the advantages that conservatives claim trans women have.

They actually barter, using a complex system of Turkish delight cubes.

My guess is that it also included things like the 12 year old hosting a Minecraft server for their friends. Which, to be clear, is a totally valid self-hosting use case.

My point was that his public flip-flopping is intentional, to provide plausible deniability. He can constantly flip-flop back and forth, while occasionally dropping real hints. But because they’re buried, nobody believes the hints. Then when it actually happens and the market tanks, he points to the buried hints and goes “but it was public info! It’s not market manipulation because I announced it!”

The only investors who matter are the ones who are in his inner circle, and are insider trading. The last wave of tariffs was blatant market manipulation, and this next round will be more of the same. He publicly waffles back and forth, then only tells his buddies what and when the real impacts will be. So then his buddies can sell or short before dips, and buy back right before things start to recover.