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So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.
It’s no secret that the Trump administration has been pouring money into ICE. Its annual budget – $6bn a decade ago – is now $85bn; ICE is now the highest -funded law enforcement agency in the US. Since last August, new recruits can expect to receive a signing-on bonus of up to $50,000. Karen’s experience has left her convinced that ICE agents are being given even more incentives – to arrest and detain anyone they possibly can, even blameless tourists who have all the paperwork they need to be in the US.
Knew they had sign-up bonuses, but had no idea that ICE agents were also given a bonus for locking people up - that's an absolutely perverse incentive for a job that should be as objective as possible.
No wonder innocent people are getting dragged off to detention centres (or worse), it literally pays for them to shoot now and ask questions later.
Also, the US government has $80 billion to throw at bloodthirsty hounds, but had to send DOGE to scrounge through various agencies to find a few billion? Something doesn't quite add up there, almost like the incentive wasn't finding money.
Excluding first setup, if it takes me longer to prep the big screen than the time I'd spend watching on it, then the phone wins. Otherwise, I'll find a bigger screen.
Renting itself isn't a bad concept, but as @craipz@feddit.org it represents a tax on the poor.
Homes are becoming increasingly expensive and harder to buy in the first place, and it is no help when landlords are buying them to rent, or buying the land to build apartments on.
Its worth noting in some cities even renting is getting more difficult, as landlords pivot towards student accommodations - which they can charge a pretty penny per room for.
The modern landlord represents the rich very directly using their money to screw over the poor.
Yup. Cause if policy born of nationalism and bigotry couldn't solve our problems the first time around, surely we just weren't using enough of it. /s
It's easier to blame immigrants and people on benefits for the problems in the economy, than realise the real problem is the leaches at the top sucking away every spare penny the working class makes.
The landlords, the executives, the millionaires, the billionaires - where do people think their money comes from?
Everything costs more, but not because it actually costs more to make - but because the profits must always go up to fuel the hoards of the wealthy.
Man, not a good look for a company who boasts about the repairability of their phones to hide key software repair tools behind an arbitrary paywall - especially when required because of their own faulty update via their official channels.
This is why I never recommend updating devices straight away. Give time for the dust to settle and major faults/vulnerabilities to be ironed out first.
Entirely this. Using "protecting the children" as a platform to gain more surveillance powers comes off real fucking deadpan when there's the whole exposed rich cabal of paedophiles operating basically in the open that nobody's doing anything more than symbolic gestures about...
Even if their names aren't public due to all the redactions, the Governments of the world most certainly know who these people are and could absolutely pursue their arrest, but simply just won't.
Honestly I agree with this take more than @TrickDacy@lemmy.world.
Some people get far too easily caught up in the issue of the day and lose sight of the bigger picture, and by the time they see the consequences of that it's far too late.
Like I was saying with the whole Israel thing. People got so worked up in refusing every DNC candidate who wasn't anti-Israel, that they seemingly entirely forgot about everything else on the board.
Ukraine? LGBTQ rights? Women's rights? Ethnic Minority rights? Climate Change reforms? Apparently the US' whole democratic system?
Was losing all that really all worth fighting up a losing battle over Israel?... Which arguably had an even worse outcome than it would've, entirely because of their fighting over it let the genocidal dictator wannbe win?
Its ironically not too disimilar to how the far right screws over their voterbase...
Get them riled up over some racist bigoted stance, then stab them in the back and tell them it was somebody else's fault while still holding the knife.
Ironic Google thinks that, considering most of "best technologies in the world" are built thanklessly off the back of open source projects
Yeah, it's very ironic isn't it. It's like paying Google a massive exit fee.
Yeah...
To the people "wanting to teach the DNC a lesson", in the nicest way possible, you're fucking idiots.
They threw literally ever other minority group under the bus, and got absolutely nothing for it - if anything they actually got less than nothing, because Trump wasn't just going soft on Israel, he was actively cheering them on!
I will never understand the mentality of choosing that hill to die on... Like couldn't you guys have waited until Trump was at least off the board first.
Man was literally on his way to a lifetime in jail and bankruptcy, that he got out of scot-free because you guys decided 2024 was the time for a protest vote.
It's almost tragic how desperate these people are to try to move on from Epstein, despite it being one of the few things their voter-base is rabid over...
They didn't seem to notice their voter-base actually bought into the whole "protect the children" rhetoric they were using to justify increased surveillance powers and the regression of women's rights over recent years.
I sincerely hope Trunp's intentional ineptitude over the Epstein files will be the thing that fractures his voter-base, since it clearly wasn't everything to do with the utterly disgusting use of ICE
As @boonhet@sopuli.xyz said, it isn't really the same scenario.
There were EVs as early as the 19th century (wikipedia I know, but I'm not doing a deep dive for a forum comment) and they were used for various applications.
So while there definitely was, and still is very much an anti-green economy conspiracy going on... that wasn't the only factor supressing EVs from mass production and usage back then.
Battery chemistry was inefficient - so a battery big enough to compete with IC engines even back then would've needed to be HUGE, making it both too unwieldy and expensive to justify putting into a car.
Any battery you could actually fit into a reasonably sized car was still prohibitively expensive, and had nowhere near the mileage to compete with the day's IC engines. So they just weren't viable for the masses.
And as Boon said, if nobody can make a profit making EVs for consuners, they simply won't make them for consumers.
It's only with cheaper and more efficient battery chemistry, and a booming green economy thanks to consumer pressure, that they're now starting to be able to make EVs that can compete with IC engines on both price and mileage - which is what consumers really care about.
Which is to say, if there truly was a competition destroying profit to be made, somebody would've done it... Which is why so many car companies were even researching EVs to begin with.
The problem with your regular conspiracy theorist is that the conspiracies they usually believe in are born of ignorance, and can be utterly dismantled with relatively little research.
Why would a corrupt, tax-dodging billionaire who literally embezzeled from a children's charity be willing to help anyone but himself?
How could there be a pedo-ring hosted in the basement of a random pizza restaurant with no basement?
From my experience at least, the conspiracies that turn out to be true are usually those where there is a concrete benefit to those involved, especially when it involves depravity.
Who stands to benefit from suppression of the Earth being flat, and how do they benefit?
Even to more "credible" conspiracies. If vaccines did cause Autism, and it was provable - why wouldn't one of the big pharmaceuticals have ripped their competition to shreds by showing that and releasing their own that doesn't? Do pharmaceutical giants not like kicking their competition out the market and securing more profit for themselves?
Yeah, was probably worth noting the question was rhetorical.
Gaslight, Obstruct, Project. That's the doctrine after all.
The FBI’s quick move to investigate activists based on a far-right provocateur’s media posts comes at the same time the bureau has insisted it is not investigating the killing of Alex Pretti, the veterans affairs nurse shot repeatedly by border patrol agents on Saturday in Minneapolis.
Remember kids - ICE agents can gun a man down in cold blood and the FBI won't do shit all about it...
But God forbid you warn people that these downright feral agents are coming to a city near you, the FBI will be on you like a rabid dog.
Trump’s rhetoric was similar to that of Los Angeles-based federal prosecutor Bill Essayli, who tweeted over the weekend that, “If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you.”
Have they seen the multiple angles of footage of this?
Man had a phone in one hand and the person he was helping up in the other.
Unless he had a third hand somewhere, I struggle to see where the fucking gun was.
They really be taking the old GOP doctrine to psychopathic levels just to own the Libs.
You have to remember we're the minority.
There's already enough effort put into sabotaging AD blockers. If everyone used AD blockers, there wouldn't be enough effort on Earth to keep corporations from destroying them left and right.
Our safe-haven of an AD-free internet only exists precisely because most people just put up with it.
Having said that, I don't like things like Sponsor-block. I'm perfectly fine with the mega-corporation not getting my money, but I absolutely do want to make sure the creators who are putting cool things out there are getting paid.
That take is beyond messed up.
Guy was shot dead by ICE officers for the crime of helping a fellow protestor that had been knocked-down by an ICE officer.
There shouldn't be enough money in the world to pay someone to spout this sub-human take comparing him to a horrifically vile serial killer, yet here we are.
Anyone who can agree with this unironically is indoctrinated beyond repair, or also being paid off. I refuse to believe otherwise.
I would say that salary and responsibilities are a fairly basic and fundamental part of a job. If they won't tell you that until you take the position, it usually means the job isn't worth it.
That's gotta be a joke right?
The US Government is quite literally sending bloodthirsty hounds against their own people, and dragging innocent tourists off to detention centres for no reason, yet the UK is rated worse due to the couple of terror attacks we've had over the last year??
I think I know where I'd rather take my chances as a tourist. Yikes.