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  • YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.

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  • Yeah, and if you have a green card or passport with a visa it's "probably" fine, unless they're having a bad day or whatever.

    I'm not sure about a passport from a visa waiver country though, because no shot ICE agents know that Lithuanians and Singaporeans can be in the US without a visa.

  • YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.

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  • That's from the videos that get widely shared.

    95% of interactions are gonna be them being dicks but backing off when they realize you're there legally. The other 5% are gonna be the ones you see.

  • Learning Japanese

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    Farmers

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  • Good (ish) though, obviously that 1000 isn't coming linearly, it's with progressive taxes, so it's going towards subsidising food for everyone, so the baseline cost is lower.

    Personally I think that only staples (grains, legumes, root vegetables, maybe squash) should be eligible for subsidies, but even then it's good.

  • it's just the worst

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  • that's what bass is for

  • Having a building named after you is an honour. Naming a building after yourself is cringe.

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  • There's even a difference between someone paying to have their name on a new building and someone renaming something that already exists though.

    Same in sports where a stadium has always been known by a name then it changes for sponsorship reason, it just doesn't feel right. If the sponsor's name was attached from opening then it's fine.

  • Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models

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  • The correct way, really

  • All countries starting in letter "I" are in a straight line

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  • The problem with saying "X language is not indigenous to Y place" is that it just depends how far back you go. France, Spain, Portugal and Romania had Latin enforced upon them, and what about Patois and Nigerian Pidgin where they've developed to the point of being different languages, spoken only in the place they developed, or Singlish where nobody forced English due to the circumstances surrounding Singapore's colonisation, but it was a common language spoken by all of the various ethnic groups there and picked up features from some of the other languages spoken there?

    If Indian people don't refer to themselves as Indian when speaking English, then that's just a characteristic of Indian dialects of English.

  • Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud

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  • In the UK we're super lucky to have Scan, in-store if you're in the North West or online otherwise, but for the US I guess it's too big for a single good store to cover nationwide, then when you get too big you inevitably lose the quality that helped you grow

  • If you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?

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  • HDD or a folder is open, floppy is save, surely?

  • Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not)

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  • Yeah, I agree with that, but if you're really desperate to move and worked in a way where it's you're only goal, it should be possible for around half of people. That may mean living in a shared room in the cheapest part of the bad area of town, getting around on a shitty bike, eating rice and beans while you save up level of frugality, but at that point it's probably worth evaluating if it's worth living like that to be able to leave the country down the line, and in most cases, it's probably not.

    Essentially, not "git good," just "it is possible, just probably not worth it."

    Also the post was about immigration controls anyway, not having the means to actually move.

  • Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not)

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  • Yes, I was referring to someone in the top 50% of earners, still half of all people in the US.

    To get to most countries if you're on that demographic, you just need to have a job.

    To get to the US historically, you needed to either get a H1B visa, which last I heard had a 9% chance per year, enter the green card lottery, which has a 0.3% chance per year, or transfer within your company after getting promoted to a managerial role via an L1A visa, which is a slow process and very dependant on who you work for, and on your origin country for acceptance rates.

    For people in the bottom 50%, I agree it's historically been easier to go the US with the green card lottery, fairly accessible visas if you have immediate family living in the US, and even for illegal immigration with birthright citizenship, as then you can get a green card through your children.

    I was basing my comment on the fact most people on Lemmy are going to be nerds working in IT/Sciences/Engineering, but even then, if you take a mean "ease for a random sample to move" then it's still harder to move to the US than out of it.

  • Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not)

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  • Immigration is very possible to a lot of countries via employer sponsored routes, generally for highly developed countries the requirement is "you have to be earning above average for your industry," so essentially if you're in the top 50% by skill/experience you should be allowed in. Others require certain levels of education, etc. but for US citizens those levels should generally be achievable.

    Relatively, moving to the US has been so much harder than moving out for a long time now, which is why people are saying "just move out."

  • How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all?

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  • The thing with PE is they only invest what they're willing to lose, which the vast majority of their investments do, but the tiny fraction that don't make enough money to fund profits and cover losses.

    If 95% of companies in the stock market lost money, that'd be the end of days, but that's because generally once you graduate to an IPO you have to be pretty profitable.

  • Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons?

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  • The whole point of a pardon is "we know you did the crime, but don't think you should be punished." It can only come about if there's an ulterior motive, like corruption or if you agree to work with the government towards their goals, initially working on dangerous projects etc. Allowing it to be overturned later would undermine that as it wouldn't make the danger worth it.

  • Upwards mobility

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  • Fuck no.

    I wish everyone used C#, Scala, Rust or Python (DSLs like VHDL, SQLs and CUDA and super specific languages like C, Erlang, Haskell and Bash notwithstanding).

    You can hate on them, sure, each for their own reason, but they're all very well supported and good for what they're intended for.

  • average UN vote

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  • Russia sponsored it, despite being huge and present colonisers, but the text of the motion was pretty lacking.

    France, China and the US are the other big two these days (excluding the more minor offenders and the ones that are more imperialist or genocidal than colonialist like Israel, Armenia and Azerbaijan), the US voting against is unsurprising, China like to reframe their colonialism as "Not Colonialism™" and France probably didn't want to get the bad rep of voting against it.

  • Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?

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  • Essentially: it's not designed as a change from North/East/South/West, it's designed as a from-scratch way to refer to those directions.

    The sun rises in the East and sets in the West, so let's say East is "Sun" and West is "Setting-Sun."

    Polaris/The North Star is in the North, so let's call that direction "Star" and the other direction "No-Star."

    When you say "Setting-Sun-Sun-Star," you're saying the direction is more similar to the path the sun takes through the sky than it is to the North Star, and in the direction the sun sets.

    16 directions is pretty arbitrary anyway though, usually 8 is enough and then you don't have the confusion of repeated words.

  • Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?

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  • I was assuming a conlang situation where "north" referred more to the axis, rather than the direction.

    Anti-north-north would be more "reversed-vertical-vertical" meaning it's reversed vertical (south), and closer to the vertical axis than the horizontal axis. North would just be "vertical" without being reversed.