What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

. You can never be too careful, these ICE guys have been targeting any hispanics to meet their "quota."

I know you think you're joking but that's exactly it, hence my concern despite being a born citizen.

[IndigoErth]

Yikes, hope you stay safe and under the radar. It's insane the people we hear about that are wrongly nabbed by them and they just don't care.

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Those people don't get deported, they just never get heard from again.

Possible it's human traffickers taking advantage...? Too scary.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

As a white guy I have nothing to fear

If they get their way with axing birthright citizenship, doesn't that create a loophole allowing them to potentially just toss any of us? Even if not now, still leaves an opening for future leadership.

Edit: At the rate the world is going, world leaders someday reaching for real world equivalents of "cartoon villainy" nearly feels slightly less like just a joke... If things are just increasingly a mess, well... good luck, future generations, sorry your parents (or authorities) will force you into the world.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Possible it's human traffickers taking advantage...? Too scary.

Yep. Those guys and some white supremacist groups doing white supremist things. Main reason they all wears masks. The irony is with the real ICE wearing masks you can't tell em apart. No badge number or anything. I laugh at the people posting stuff like 'they should unmask and identify themselves' as if they're gonna actually listen and not flat out grab you and take you in. That's pretty much like asking a burglar to kindly take their shoes off and wipe their feet as if they're not gonna bust in and attack you regardless.

Luckily I'm a homebody and barely travel alone but I shouldn't want to head out someplace with the fear of never making it back home. Also luckily I currently live in a mostly black area. It's the heavily Hispanic areas that are reporting ICE sightings today.

Still knocked the wind out of my sails today. So yes, this does pretty much grind my gears.

[Andrew NDB]

Utter bullsh**.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Utter bullsh**.

Until it happens to you. Your MAGA hat won't save you, dude. Don't act like you're exempt from this cause you're not. You're not that 'white-presenting'.

[IndigoErth]

Most in my state getting their property tax info this week and getting slapped with a much higher increase than expected.

State did property reassessments last year and hadn't done it since the 80s. (Well weren't my parents lucky all that time, despite the whining they did about money when I was a kid!) So everyone expected an increase, but despite the supposed way to calculate it to estimate what it would be after everyone got their reassessment info in the mail last Nov... this turned out to be way higher. Added in are school districts that were able to pass increases that contribute to it as well.

Seen some saying theirs went up 46%, 81%, $1200, $1700, one said it basically doubled theirs. And this bill is gonna be due in Sept., so people have a pretty limited time to find that extra cash if finances are already tight.

[CyberCubed]

I hope Coola doesn't get picked up by the ICE officers.

I hear they have to fill their "quotas" each month, so they're looking to deport as many minorities as possible. Even legally born hispanics in the U.S. are at risk. And the ones without identification get shipped off to Alcatraz prison and then to Southern Sudan to work on the slave farms for the rest of their days.

Coola, stay safe and indoors as much as possible.

[IndigoErth]

Get working on the new underground railroad.

[Autbot_Benz]

Figures that have never fallen down on the shelf that fall down.

One of my Marvel figures who has never fallen since I’ve had him fell last night and took out two other figures at 11:55 pm last night when I was asleep.

[IndigoErth]

Netflix split seasons.

I get that they probably do it to try to keep people subscribed for longer, but it's off putting waiting nearly 3 years for a second season and then only getting 4 episodes before its back to waiting for a month to probably get just a very few more. Wednesday took so long I had started assuming it wasn't even getting another.

Bad enough streaming shows can go YEARS between seasons and it may then return with only 8 or 10 eps, yet back in the purely cable days they were still busy filming while completed episodes were airing and they might have 25 episodes in total for the season.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I hear they have to fill their "quotas" each month, so they're looking to deport as many minorities as possible. Even legally born hispanics in the U.S. are at risk. And the ones without identification get shipped off to Alcatraz prison and then to Southern Sudan to work on the slave farms for the rest of their days.

I know youre joking Cubed, but a lot of that is actually happening.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

I know youre joking Cubed, but a lot of that is actually happening.

I'm surprised Andrew doesn't believe it. I fear for you hispanics. It's strange even hispanics who were born here and even their parents were born in America may have a risk of being deported if they find out the grandparents weren't legal citizens or immigrated here.

I don't want to see Coola taken away by the ICE agents.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I'm surprised Andrew doesn't believe it.

Blind denial like all Hispanics that voted for Trump. I bet you most if not all the legal citizens that were taken or at the very least hassled over this were the same people that voted for the same man that was calling them all rapists and criminals during his first term and claimed their home country was going to pay for that wall.

[Barkworm]

My older daughter sings in a church choir and they had a summer concert today with lunch and a cake buffet in the beautiful garden outside of our local cathedral. My daughter was already there and it was pretty crowded when the rest of us arrived so most benches were taken. When we finally found two empty ones, as soon as we sat down, some witch appeared and claimed that she and her family had already occupied those. Errr... okay? This is Germany where people infamously just put their **** on seats and tables in public places to make sure no one else sits there (which is something everyone rightfully mocks us for) but those benches were EMPTY.

We're not the types to start an argument and the mood was overall great so we just squeezed ourselves next to some friends of ours but I hope that hag gets explosive diarrhea tonight.

[Andrew NDB]

Whenever somebody online (usually an older person) says or posts, "My account has been HACKED!"

As if to imply and we're to believe they were victimized and targeted by some hardened hacker somewhere with a devious smile and a $10,000 laptop running brute force algorithms against -- specifically -- their software, for some reason, until they break through and take control of their Facebook, or Instagram, or whatever.

99.9% of the time, NO, you haven't been hacked, you idiot. You clicked on something a 16 year-old these days would know better than to click on or you downloaded and executed something obviously malicious.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by Barkworm

This is Germany where people infamously just put their **** on seats and tables in public places to make sure no one else sits there (which is something everyone rightfully mocks us for) but those benches were EMPTY.

That was my immediate thought, "Was their stuff not there?" People do it here, too.

But if their stuff is NOT there, then yeah, no, how can they even try to argue it. Invisible claims do not count, lady.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Whenever somebody online (usually an older person) says or posts, "My account has been HACKED!"

I suppose it depends on what is going on with the account, but in most cases I'd think they wouldn't have access to it to even post that.

[Stu_Padasso]

Tonight was a bit crazy.

Came back into town after Hapkido and rode my bike to my favorite pub and found myself sitting next to a guy named Mark from Seattle. He went to the bathroom a lot. I think that he saw the
t-shirt I was wearing and thought I was some sort of “kindred spirit.”

I sat next to him as this was the only space available. Seahawks game. He was loud. I don’t care. Not a football fan. Rather watch some college girls volleyball game than watch a bunch of dude’s manhandling each other on the field.

We struck up a conversation about martial arts (apparently he was a Navy instructor, or so he claimed ), and he would go on about how's jujutsu is the greatest thing on earth. Okay, whatever.

But things got dark. Really dark. He started spouting off about the Jews and f@ggots. I have a pretty politically incorrect sense of humor but nothing of this was funny. The waitress was visibly uncomfortable.

It was time to finish my last beer and remove myself from the situation. I paid my bill and tipped the waitress (I feel bad because I only had a single.)

Went to the restroom to take a leak and he followed me in. Red flag. He’s looking for a fight. He had bragged about other fights he had been in.

We took a p!$$ together and he said something about the “queers and f@ggots.”

I said, “It’s a college town, it’s to be expected.”

I’m trying to be diplomatic. Trying to avoid a fight.

He said, “I don’t care!”

I left. Not worth it.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by Stu_Padasso

We took a p!$$ together and he said something about the “queers and f@ggots.”

Yeaaaah... you know how it not uncommonly tends to turn out with those who are spouting off the loudest about such things.

*cough* Maybe he's desperately trying to deny opposite feelings and quiet enjoys "watch[ing] a bunch of dude’s manhandling each other on the field." Just saying...

[Stu_Padasso]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Yeaaaah... you know how it not uncommonly tends to turn out with those who are spouting off the loudest about such things.

*cough* Maybe he's desperately trying to deny opposite feelings and quiet enjoys "watch[ing] a bunch of dude’s manhandling each other on the field." Just saying...

The irony is not lost on me.

Fortunately, he’s only in town for work so I’ll probably never bump into him again.

[Autbot_Benz]

Getting really sick and tired of seeing these ICE recruitment commercials every commercial break when watching wrestling on TNT and TBS. Just started recently. I change the channel everytime it shows up.