Honestly, what’s the difference between logging in one make-believe-border geographic area vs another? Isn’t it doing the same damage to this planet in the long run?

Ok this makes complete sense now, thank you!

Trump: We are not touching Medicaid or Social Security

Goes on to destroy whole sections of said agencies rendering them mostly useless for those of us that need them (like me).

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Transgender people have that exact problem right now, even with passports. They effectively cannot prove they are a citizen even with a birth certificate because of Trump’s executive orders.

I only have an enhanced NY state driver’s license. I don’t have Real ID or even a passport. While I’m male and identify as male, I don’t have my birth certificate. If they require something like Real ID, passport, or birth certificate the likelihood of me voting pretty much becomes nil. I don’t drive, rely on public transportation, and would have to go to a county office and hope I can give them the right information to get a copy of my birth certificate.

That’s good to hear, because back then that wasn’t the case. I know no matter what model iPhone I get, if it’s new then support is the same for every model from that year.

Have you seen how old most bikers in the US are? The stigma that most bikers are in a gang is stupid but there are SOME bikers who are seniors and who are in something like Hell’s Angels.

Also, I’ve seen TV shows where they depict the grandmother as a sweet innocent lady who was actually the drug runner for the gang. It’s plausible.

That being said, there needs to be…I don’t know…actual evidence that she’s a part of said gang to justify this insanity.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/05/06/global-top-10-best-selling-smartphones-all-from-apple-samsung/

The only good thing about most Android phones is that you can install a different version of Android devoid of all things Google and get an interface that isn’t Samsung. That’s my plan when this subscription crap comes around or the phones are too expensive that I can’t afford them anymore. I’m too tied into Apple’s ecosystem with mail, iCloud, and Music.

Also, buy some other brand that’s cheaper because Samsung makes garbage and don’t support their hardware unless they’re flagship. Admittedly, it’s been almost a decade since I’ve had anything but an iPhone, but I had a couple Samsung Android phones were an update broke the phone and Samsung wouldn’t release a fix because it was an update from Google. One in particular was a Samsung Moment on Sprint where it would enter into airplane mode silently and still look like it was connected to services until you went to use said services. They refused to provide an update to resolve the issue.

Any country willing to take a disabled parasite in? Because once they are done with “illegal immigrants” the “parasites” are next.

On the bright side, at least I won’t have to deal with snow anymore.

We’re coming in close to the 60-90 days that experts were predicting would be the collapse of SSA last month. Unless something drastic happens, I don’t have any hope this will get turned around any time soon. I’m on disability and I’m terrified.

Rule of law? What rule of law?

Scaremongering you say?

11-year-old boy driving stolen car hits woman in Rochester

Teen accused of shooting and killing another teen during robbery on Flint Street

Four juveniles charged in Greece stolen vehicle crash

Teenager arrested for carjacking involving loaded ‘ghost gun’

And while not strictly teenager related, I get to hear these idiots ride in a pack and go up and down the city streets during the summer.

I’m not saying all teenagers are bad but when schools are the worse in the country, there’s not really any other options for kids.

I will admit I should have put these links in my origami comment, but I assumed this was an issue in many urban areas. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m torn on this because I love that blue states are standing up for DEI. But, like, kids are already suffering enough especially in Rochester which already is ranked one of the worst school districts in the country based on test scores and graduation rates. The teens are already out of control on crime sprees ands joy rides (some young as 11 and 12)here thanks to these kids having nothing better to do than get into gangs due to peer pressure.

If NY state has a backup plan to at least maintain funding levels for schools once federal funding gets cut I’d feel better about this. Spoiler alert: they don’t. They’re also forcing all school districts in the state to switch to electric buses amidst all this new crap going on.

The only people who will suffer from this decision are the students and the communities that will have to put up with even more crime sprees and joy rides. But I guess in war, causalities will happen whether we like it or not.

Ahhh so this is even worse than I thought because we haven’t even seen the effects of the tariffs yet and probably won’t for a while.

Too. Much. Winning.

In my experience I was in the middle of a transition at work. A company was buying the contract of all the other contract companies and the way they did it was shady as hell. We had to sign new contract agreements and had I not signed the agreement I most likely wouldn’t have been able to file unemployment and finding a job would have been impossible.

I stayed in that job way too long because of fear and the devil you know vs the devil you don’t. I worked at that job and company for almost 10 more years because I liked my immediate boss but despised the bullshit the company was doing. It was not good for my mental health.

Had 2008 not happened, there was no way I was signing that new contract. Many people didn’t and struggled for a bit finding new jobs. My mental health most likely would have been better. But hindsight is 20/20

Ok, so 2008 was a 52% loss in almost a year and a half.

Right now it’s only a 16% loss in a little over 2 months.

Someone far smarter than I am could maybe figure out the monthly decline percentage and compare 2008 losses vs now. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a shitload of money, but it doesn’t look like the stock market is anywhere close to reaching 2008 levels of loss…yet.

This is going to be an even more interesting time in the coming weeks. When animals are cornered, things get very ugly. And we’re beyond ugly already with almost half of Project 2025 implemented already.

“It’s extremely troubling, and really a moral failing, in my opinion, of our society, that we are detaining children,” she said.

Morals got thrown out on January 20th, 2025

> Fuck

That’s an understatement, more like

Forget about a recession, the U.S. is headed directly towards a possible depression and bringing Canada down with it if those numbers are even remotely true. That’s almost 1-2 months salary wiped out for 1/3 of households in the US when most of those people are living paycheck to paycheck.

Sorry, it was me. I’ve been F5ing the hell out of their website because my payment date keeps changing. I technically should have seen my monthly disability check deposited today…surprise, it’s not there yet 🤨🫠🤬