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@Leo Gura like honestly, I think that the biggest problem is just that nobody cares enough to do anything. There is no other explanation for how a person can live 20+ years in a country illegally, while having a family, a full time job, a car, a bank account, etc. It's not like they are secretly living in some underground, hiding from the police. Nobody just did anything about them, even if police would stop them, they probably didn't do anything to deport them. I think this is a much bigger factor than just illegal border crossing.

this sounds like an excuse to me, to be honest. The same can be said about taxes. If the government is able to check if your business is paying taxes or if you are paying taxes from renting an apartment, it can't be much harder to do it with checking who you hire for work. How many people will be willing to hire someone though a "black market" if there are serious repercussions for it? Maybe if you are sending people off to pick strawberries in a field. Not so much if you are running a restaurant in the middle of the city. Similarly, having no bank account and having to rely on cash alone would make living really hard. Sure some people will still try to stay and survive no matter what, but I think it will be a much smaller portion of people. If you think about it, ICE raids won't prevent thugs and criminals from entering the country, cause what do they have to lose anyway? At worst they will just get deported and get back to the same life they are currently living. ICE raids will discourage people who want to build a serious, stable life in the US, possibly settling legally. All of the above things will do the same thing, just without all the cruelty.

@Leo Gura to me, the proper solution to the illegal immigration should be: - make people not able rent or buy an apartment unless they are able to show that they are in the country legally - make people not able to get a job, introduce serious consequences for the employers who break the law - make people not able to get a bank account and other basic things like that How is it such a problem in the 21st century?

@Leo Gura correct me if I am wrong, but the issue people are protesting is that those ice raid are just completely random and even people who live here legally are being detained, or even actually deported in some cases. Wouldn't a much better solution be to have police or even ICE (without masks and ARs) stopping people on the streets and asking them to show their documents (residence permit or visa or passport) and then detaining people if they fail to do so and then doing further checks? A bunch of masked men with guns doing blind raids seems really fucked up. The point about protests being violent and people burning waymo cars sounds really weak to me, because out of thousands of people that are protesting there will always be a few that will take advantage of the situation to start stealing and vandalizing things. They don't even have to be protesters, just literally random thugs taking this opportunity. Or you could even do it intentionally to create a bad image for protestors. It's super easy to sabotage any big enough protest like that. By that logic people shouldn't protest at all.

Technically, nothing worse than what had already happened to humans can't happen. We've already had famines, wars, pandemics, torture. People are dying and suffering as is, without AI. So the only difference is that this particular issue might affect me/us personally. Which is kind of fair, why should we be the lucky ones.

@Leo Gura how is what israel is doing / has been doing different from terrorism?

I understand what you mean. I am saying that I am not sure if this is true but regardless, my question is specifucally about anions reasoning. In your case, your theory might be factually incorrect (as in this is not how emphathy actually developed) but at least it seems logically sound at first glance. His logic is just not logicking, lol.

@Schizophonia I am not sure if I agree with you or not but this is not what my question is about though.

@AIONwhy are you avoiding the question again? Does it hurt to admit that your logic is broken?

@AION okay your logic is that there is no difference between plants and animals hence there is no reason for you to feel bad about killing them. But humans are something entirely different. Makes sense /s Totally not biased, lol. So what is the significant difference between humans and plants that doesn't exist between animals and plants?

Why are you avoiding the question? Whether you would eat it is irrelevant. He is asking you if you see chopping off human head the same as chopping a carrot, since "plants are also alive" abd there is no difference between killing a plant or killing an animal.

if you are privileged enough to have nuclear weapons, you are privileged enough to educate yourself to a point where you don't have retarded conflicts over nothing with your neighbors.

why are people so retarded

I've had a cool little win today. I am selling my old bed on an online marketplace, and I've found the buyer. After talking to them for a while and showing them pictures they've tried to negotiate the price down (just by like 10-15 dollars). I was really tempted to agree and be done with it, and really dreaded to say no, but I did. I said no even though it was super scary. Not because of the money but just to push myself out of the comfort zone and stop being such a people pleaser all the time. And they've agreed to the original price, lol.

21.04.25 Care tasks: - washed the dishes - did some laundry - took out the garbage - washed two pairs of shoes Movement: - Got back to working out. Went to a park a did a small calisthenics circuit. Other nice things: - Almost finished reading "how to keep the house while drowning" - Drank coffee in the morning and read a book - Went outside - Played dota, but managed to not get stuck playing games all day. Review and thoughts A first nice day after a few tough ones. I woke up relatively early and was in a good enough mood to start doing things. I made myself some coffee and instead of staring at a laptop decided to read a book. It felt nice. I would take breaks from reading and wash dishes / load them into the washing machine. Plus doing laundry. Then I went outside and worked out. I decided to start really slow and focus on just doing something to get started. ! I think coffee can be really helpful, although I am not 100% sure how much of my good mood was due to other stuff.

More like a female opposite of Leo. A tik toker vs a guy who makes 3 hour long youtube videos.

https://www.boredpanda.com/human-vs-bird-vision/ I've read the article about bird vision that Leo has shared and I think it's wrong about birds not being able to see reflections in the mirror. I am pretty sure that at the very least parrots can see reflections in the mirror, which is why they might sometime attack it or try to socialize with the reflection. Other sources on the internet seem to agree with me.

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@Leo Gura what about soviet movies?

It's interesting that he isn't siding with Trump on this issue. At least in this video, he appears much more sane and honest than most conservatives.

The last few days were okay. Not amazingly productive, but I wasn't completely checked out either. I was able to maintain a clean and functioning kitchen, at least as far as dishes are concerned. I was making myself coffee everyday in the morning since Monday and it feels like a nice cool ritual. One of those classic fancy things that adults do, haha. I wasn't able to exercise, aside from riding a bike to work. I've finished reading the book and started reading a new one, a novel this time. But I feel like I will need to keep coming back to it, to fully integrate everything. A few important insights: 1. The bike I am currently using is in dire need of maintenance. I have a second one which has a flat tire and which I've been meaning to fix up for the last six months at least. I kept procrastinating on it, and feeling anxious about it until today I've finally fiven myself permission to just go to the service once I get a paycheck in may and get it done there. This is actually something I got from the book. I am not currently at the stage where I am able to do it all by myself and it's okay to get help, and I should be able to afford it. 2. I got inspired and started watching crash course world history a few weeks ago. I actually finished it but then decided to start watching season 2, which is just talking about different concepts like war and disease in the abstract instead of linear history. And I've started feeling a lot of resistance towards it and haven't gotten back to it for at least a week. I was feeling bad about it this entire time, until today at night I've realised that this is just not something I am interested in right now and that's okay, lol Now I actually feel motivated again to start watching something else.

Why should anyone bother investing their time to respond to you if you are too lazy to even write your own argument? What's even the point of threads like this? Do you want us to copy paste your copy pasted wall of text to chat gpt and then copy paste its response back to you? This is so dumb.

Lets post here all the policies, decisions, and actions taken over the next 4 years by Trump and his office. I think this could be really interesting to look back at in the future. Please do not just post Trump blabbing about things, this thread is for things that are actually being acted on / implemented.

What's the point of having AI shit this out? Esoecially since it sound like youbare using chat got. Do you feel the need for a "Yes" man to tell you how right you are and how much of a deep thinker you are? Lmao

I think more people should talk about this. Everybody is freaking out about tariffs but this is actually insane if you think about it. They are just grabbing people with little to no research, no trial, and deporting them to a foreign country to be imprisoned for life, probably (or die much sooner).And its not even doing it to people who migrated from Salvador. I've just read a news story about a guy from VENEZUELA who was waiting for the court to clear his asylum claim, but was sent to El Salvador, without any trial: How does this make any sense? Imagine committing no crime and then being sent to a prison in a foreign country that you have nothing to do with, for life, basically. This is so messed up. This is just a complete disregard for the rule of law and any idea of human rights. This is something that some 3rd world African country would do. How is it possible that the US just plunged to that kind of level of development just because of the change in president? Shouldn't there be more checks and balances to prevent this kind of stuff no matter how retarded the president is?