They may confiscate your phone and record all data on it.

If it’s a fresh wipe with a good passcode, and you keep it on airplane mode, you’re probably fine.

Why do you need an ID? Leave it in your car if you’re driving.

I don’t think there’s a single state that requires you to actually carry documentation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_identify_statutes

These are the states that require you to at least verbally state your name, and only if the officer has reasonable suspicion that you have or will commit a crime.

They can ask your name. You may not have to answer.

Research your state’s law on this before you go. It’s in the link.

Really though, about a quarter of my work related coding queries come back with “redacted to meet responsible AI guidelines”.

It’s an AI specifically for code. Apparently it thinks half the stuff I do is hacking.

Maybe, maybe not. Politicians have always had a finger in the wind on some issues. I think if you gave a decent historical account including things like current crime rates by race and the bombing of Tulsa, and just mention “generational wealth” like they’re already familiar with it, and then gave them 24 hours to sit on it, I think they’d all be good with it.

Consider if someone took you, shoved you 200 years into the future and said, “Eating animals was some fucked up shit. Do you know what happened in Factory Farms? Really? Of course we’re all vegetarian.”.

And if we’re still non-violent, someone will join who isn’t and ensure some violence exists. It’s Plan 1A in the dictator playbook.

Yes, but that’s semantics. Clearly the observation has some effect, but it’s not from any force we recognize.

My friend thinks the jobs don’t exist, and they’re just posted so the company looks good.

They definitely did that at college job fairs. They wanted to keep their spot, but weren’t hiring that year.

Is it being a class traitor though? Maybe she just realizes that her dollars are worth more than rubles for a reason, a reason that is very much now in question.

If anyone should support the rule of law, it’s the billionaires. We should all be on the same side against fascism.

So I’ve been going on and on about how “democrats bad” is a huge narrative being pushed hard on Lemmy. Always with the caveat that criticism is warranted, when it’s specific and targeted.

This is specific and targeted. This is how you properly criticize Dems. But that wouldn’t jive with the people seeding that other narrative. They don’t want to be helpful. They’re not interested in how to get other people to vote. Their objective is the opposite.

Maybe the Dems should switch their incremental improvement to the fact that they need billionaires to buy them votes before their dollars turn into rubles. Yeah, the number is bigger. Look how much good that does the Russians.

They should be supporting both Elon-style directly, and indirectly through accepting tax policy to allow us to do big things. Find smart policies to support medical school so that we can push for more doctors/nurses the way we did for Software Devs from 1995-2015. Create actual medicare for all to finally get rid of the odd tie between your employer and your healthcare. Support real freight so we can have fewer semis destroying our roads and creating traffic. Support mass transit so we need fewer roads and can have more walkable spaces with more available housing. (Mass transit enables realistic high density housing.) Change Trump’s stupid ass tariffs to be a response to climate change, now that we’ve developed better tech to see where the CO2 is coming from.

Raise the federal minimum wage. Reduce the work week to 36 hours, with real teeth in overtime requirements and salary exemptions. Recreate the Civilian Conservation Corps to make sure everyone who’s willing to put in real work can find a job, even if AI doesn’t like their resume.

Healthcare, traffic, and work are the biggest things everyone in the country has to deal with. Address the things that actually affect people’s lives. This is how your dollars stay dollars instead of turning into rubles. The billionaires might have less of them, but they’re worth more. When people are less desperate, everyone’s lives are better.

She of course has to say it anyway, even if she knows it’s obvious.

Exactly. And it’s going to work despite the few comments we leave here pointing it out.

Hopefully these comments are the ones that will make it clear just how hard the “Democrats bad” narrative is being pushed on Lemmy.

They want us to focus more on the Dems than the people actually implementing fascism. They want to manipulate the next election, and they’re starting early. It will get worse.

Less lethal. That terminology is important.

We lost abortion under Trump. Trying to blame Biden for that is ridiculous.

It was based on supreme court nominations.

No, we prevented the genocide by not voting for Kamala. Problem is clearly solved.