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   paul (amiserabilist@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 18:33:18 JST paul

   not my story from reddit:

   Please be careful - we were deported from the U.S. for just wanting to backpack

   I want to share what happened to me and my best friend last month when we tried to begin our backpacking trip in the U.S. Maybe it helps someone avoid the same nightmare.

   We are 19 and 18 years old, from Europe, and we arrived in Honolulu from New Zealand, with the plan to explore the islands first, and then fly to the mainland after to explore California. We had booked only the first 2 nights in an Airbnb, just to be flexible with our plans - like we did in New Zealand, and like many backpackers do. We had the onward ticket to the next destination in Asia but didn't book domestic flights in the U.S. for the same reason.

   At passport control they took us aside for “additional questions.” At first we didn’t think it was such a big thing, but then it became very intense. They were asking us why we didn’t book more nights or domestic flights, what our plans were, how we can afford to travel, and especially about work. We do sometimes small freelance jobs online (like translating or design stuff, for customers back in Germany and sometimes also Asia, not the U.S.), and we mentioned that - which was maybe the biggest mistake. It was also in the e-mails that they accessed.

   After a while they told us we are not allowed to enter the U.S., that we are “inadmissible.” They said we were trying to work illegally, which we didn’t. We had onwards tickets and just wanted to travel.

   But they didn’t care. They took our phones, our passports, and put us in handcuffs - that moment was surreal. Like, you’re a tourist and now you’re treated like criminal. They wanted to send us back to Auckland on the next flight, but we asked to rebook our onwards tickets for the day after, so we could continue with our travels. They agreed but said that we will be detained for the night. We agreed, having no idea what to expect, thinking that we would maybe wait in the same room that they interviewed us. But no.

   They drove us to the detention center in Honolulu. I think it was called FDC prison, close to the airport. It was a real jail. Metal doors, locked cells, cold air. And they made us do a full strip search. It was really cold. We had to undress completely, including bra and underwear, and even had to squat and spread… I don’t want to describe it in too much detail, but it was humiliating and scary. We were alone with a female officer, but still… you don’t expect that as a tourist.

   After that they gave us green prison clothes and put us in a cell overnight with two other women - who were actually bragging to us about their cartel connections and implying that they were serious criminals. It felt like a movie, but not a nice one. Of course we didn't not sleep even for a minute. I'm not picky, but the food was another horror story.

   The next day they stripped us down again, we changed back into our clothes, and they took us straight to our plane - two officers returned our passports and escorted us to our seats as the door was about to close. Just like that. They also told us that if we want to come to the U.S. again, we cannot use a visa free system anymore.

   So yeah… please be very careful if you plan to backpack in the U.S. Book all your accommodation in advance (even if you plan to change later). There are many fully refundable options - and we thought about it, but decided that it wouldn't be necessary. And don’t mention any remote work or freelancing and make sure to log out of any e-mails that could be used as evidence of it. And know that if something goes wrong, it’s not just “denied entry” - it’s jail, strip search, and total loss of control.

   We are still totally shaken from it and feel like we did something wrong, even if we didn’t mean to. Just wanted to share, because I would have never imagined this could happen. My feeling is that backpacking culture isn’t understood or accepted at U.S. borders right now. Be careful!

   https://www.reddit.com/r/backpacking/comments/1k2obaf/please_be_careful_we_were_deported_from_the_us/

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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 07:34:38 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   in reply to

   You do what you have to do, what you think is best, what helps you sleep at night. Nobody has a right to ask you to do anything more than that, and lord knowns I have been you, I have lived in your mindset for decades of my life.

   I just can't anymore. I can't pretend, anymore.

   So don't expect me to. Because I no longer have the capacity to participate in the slaughter of billions and my own eventual murder. I just can't. I won't. You've been warned.

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   LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 21:14:35 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

   in reply to

   @WashedOutGundamPilot @LouisConde @boburtle @yockeypuck @Morghur
   I was thinking about this post, and realized one thing.

   I have knows several Tomboys, and there is one thing, they have in common, that might not seem obvious, that with enough context, it might just make sense.

   I have heard several times that women are just "too scared to be kind" these days. I am still not sure, if I believe this, but I have noticed, that muscular girls are in fact always able to relax much more around "creeps like me" then normal girls. And when they relax, they can even show the kindness, that I almost didn't believe it existed in this society anymore.

   So, there come many benefits with this kind of extreme health. And this one is anything but surface level.

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   carl marks (tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 04:01:19 JST carl marks

   https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-many-americans-feel-unhappy-about-the-economy-despite-indicators-of-improvement

   Articles like this one really irritate me. This is PBS, supposedly one of the news outlets least susceptible to propaganda and one of the most likely to do accurate reporting.

   And yet, the way this article is written is designed to leave you with an incorrect impression of our economic situation in the US.

   While they quote people with a number of opinions on the subject and don't outright say who is right or wrong, they repeatedly refer to our current situation in the economy as a "vibecession" and also keep talking about how people's feelings are at odds with the data on economic trends.

   But the article itself also mentions how prices for things like housing and food are still sky high compared to where they were just a few years ago and how people just can't afford basic necessities anymore.

   So how is that based in "feelings"?! That's economic data!! Why is the framing of this article premised on a lie? Why are we listening to the economists who are quoted saying things that are technically true according to their models but have no bearing on basic and fundamentally important things like buying power and affordability?

   Why does PBS parrot those economists' framing in the very fabric of the article while also mentioning data that proves that that framing is useless? If their goal is accuracy, it doesn't make any kind of sense.

   And of course, there is no mention of any kind of wages vs inflation growth. No mention of where young people are in terms of wealth, debt, affordability etc vs where their parents were at their age. No mention of the massive wealth transfer upwards that has been happening in our economy for decades now. A bare mention of the sky high profits companies have been reporting, but no mention of the huge increase in wealth of a handful of billionaires contrasted against the same decrease in the wealth of the vast majority of ordinary people.

   No, Americans are just sad about the economy because vibes. They don't understand economics, poor things. Obviously.

   Feel free to draw your own conclusions.

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   LibertyForward1 (libertyforward1@misfittoys.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:06:29 JST LibertyForward1

   I know this is a long-shot, but it occurred to me as I prepare for yet another shift at a retail store giving it literally everything I've got and then some (and ending up with a sleep deficit and feeling so exhausted I can barely crawl to bed) for a whopping $15/hr, I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask if anyone has any leads for a #DataAnalyst position.

   It turns out a great deal of my prior experience was of similar activities. I'm working on my "google certificate" as a data analyst but tbh progress has been incredibly slow as I deal with one life issue after another. This is also costly for me since there's a monthly fee through the 3rd-party provider hosting the google courses.

   Yes.. I'm asking to skip ahead to the part where I'm no longer earning starvation wages anymore.

   So.. if anyone knows of any sort of apprenticeships for a #DataAnalysis -related job, please DM me. #FediHired #FediJobs #IAmBrokePleaseHireMe

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   futon penguin ? (preeya@bigleaf.city)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 08:38:29 JST futon penguin ?

   RT @catvalente@twitter.com

   The slow destruction of Twitter means I don’t have to limit myself to 280 characters anymore.

   So this is a LONG-ASS post about having been online for decades & lost so many spaces to malfeasance and malice & what to do now.

   Because I need to scream.

   https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

   ??: https://twitter.com/catvalente/status/1605862595193290752