I don’t even have to dress nicely or business casual. I work in construction. All my t shirts are bright orange, jackets are high vis and ball cap is hi vis orange. I also carry cones in my run of the mill Tundra with a ladder rack. I can go anywhere!

I think Venezuelans have even more reason to claim asylum now. Their home country is under attack from pirates and a foreign terrorist organization.

Heroyam Slava!

Sounds like Taiwan should sign a contract building Sea babies and Sub Baby for Ukraine, just make sure to build a few thousand extra for “future supplies”.

Oddly enough, I would watch the hell outta puppy astronauts.

It was found near Izmit, which is near Istanbul, quite a long way out of any off coarse accident or combat zone. This looks more like Russian provocation or just plain spying. The Russians did strike a Turkish ferry in Odessa recently, I would not doubt they are spying and looking for more potential targets. Putin is really off his rocker if he is trying to provoke Turkey into the war.

Well, the plane obviously contained narco-terrorists, so,Mission accomplished!

I grew up with that nonsense. Many evangelical and charismatic Christians think that Catholics aren’t true Christians. My “non denominational” high school encouraged students to visit other churches, as long as it wasn’t Catholic, Anglican, Mormon or Jehovah’s witnesses. I guess they had a direct line to God Almighty in the principles office.

Hey Europeans, spread the word. Not only do they want all that info, but if you manage to pass the Esta check and make it to the US, the boarder patrol can reject you for any reason they feel like. They don’t just send you back home either, you get detained by a government that has shown flagrant disregarding of human rights. Good luck in one of the gulags we have here that people are dying in on a daily basis. Oh, ya, they are also using torture techniques from Gitmo. You might be better off taking a holiday to North Korea. Maybe the destruction of the tourism industry will cause an introspection of the “both sides” people to wake up and fight against this destruction of America. Who am I kidding, I still see idiots supporting Trump, even after their lives are ruined by his insane policies.

They are revamping ESTA. Currently, many countries citizens do not need a visa, but must get the electronic ESTA, to travel to the US. You can’t just walk off a plane and gain entry, you must have prior approval. They are going to try to check everyone through some AI bullshit and make it hard or scary to even come to the states, denying you entry before you even get on the plane. This just fits right in with making America a bigger shithole and destroying it.

Not required to use, just access to all your social media. In addition, the rules want your phone history, including texts and 10 years of emails. Also remember, this (Lemmy) is considered social media. So, good luck if you have ever posted anything on a forum that a bunch of Nationalist Christians, or Nat-c’s for short, don’t like.

You might be right. I was pretty sure that the ejection system was changed when they added the new zero/zero Zvezda 36 seats later on. I seem to remember that the Russians tested sequential ejection and the rockets burned the other pilot when done that way, so they switched to simultaneous ejection on both th SU24 and the 34. The 34, as far as I know, does not need the helpers to keep the elevators up keeping it from interfering with the stick and catch the ejection handle. The airframe on a SU34 is based on the SU 27 and had an all new and larger cockpit section installed.

This is the correct answer. When I read the article, they make it seem like a su34, but later on write that it was a su24/or 34. Many Russian pilots have been injured from this specific design defect in the SU 24.

Also the https://stdgun.com/dp-12-2/ DP 12 from Standard Manufacturing. It alternates both shells from each magazine and is even more unreliable than a Kel-tec KSG

It’s a great idea, KelTec just needs to iron out the bugs.

Congratulations! You just described the entire premise of Kel-Tec firearms corp.

Did I just find Bret Michaels Lemmy account?

Killing anyone sucks, and in some sort of fairy tale land, we wouldn’t need to. Captain Kelly was a pilot of an A6 Intruder (low and slow old jet from the 60’s) during the first Gulf war. That war started when an autocratic leader decided to invade his smaller neighbor that he owned money to, after a seven year slog trying to kill his other neighbor (Iran). Saddam used mustard gas on Iran, his own people and was trying to murder any Kuwaiti he could get his hands on. Kuwait had a defense treaty with the US, and that was back when we didn’t bail on treaties like with the Orange Cheeto. Then President Bush (the father) did not invade Iraq, attempt regime change, or wholesale bomb civilian areas. Don’t get me wrong, Bush Sr. Was a shitheel and the weasel son of another rich asshole, but removing Iraq from Kuwait was justified and did not toss out international law through lying and manipulation like the second Iraq war.

Not just a Captain, but a god-damned American hero. He flew dozens of combat missions in Iraq, has the distinguished flying cross and more medals and awards than “punch bowl” Pete can even imagine. He went on to be a Navy test pilot and then to NASA as an astronaut and eventually mission commander of a space shuttle mission. Mark and his twin brother Scott,(also an astronaut) have performed important science in space and on earth, benefiting all man kind.

It almost never happens. Grand jury materials and transcripts are secret. A defense attorney has to climb a very large hill to get access to any of these materials.

The US immigration system is a complete joke. You can not get legal status or have a path to citizenship if you entered illegally. People who had Visa’s revoked or stayed past expiration have to leave the country voluntarily, then re apply after a set amount of time, typically 10 years. If you re enter illegally after deportation, it is 20 years.

Edit: I forgot to answer your first question. There is no argument against deportation. Most reasonable people would, and have, argued that the immigration system needs overhauled to allow people to work towards citizenship or legal status. It is and has always been a clusterfuck of paperwork and arcane rules. The main argument is how you deport people. Here are several examples: ICE raids a Georgia/ South Korea venture billion dollar solar panel factory. They show up with dressed as para military, full swat gear and arrest 300 South Koreans at the plant. Handcuff and parade the workers out to detention, then deported. The workers legally entered the country with B1 business Visas. They are not here to take an American job, but to set up equipment and train the US workers in the new venture that is slated to open next year. The Trump administration argues that they should have had H1b Visa’s instead and made a big show of a raid. The detention conditions are also terrible. Not one of these workers will ever come back to the US, and we may have stifled foreign investment in the future. The simple solution is to contact the Korean corporate office and convert everyone to a different Visa. Many other companies have used B1 in the past, and if they want to change interpretation, so be it, but to go about it like a raid on a terrorist cell is ridiculous.

Example 2: ICE raids a South Chicago apartment building in the middle of the night. They repelled from Blackhawks, had drones and used 300 federal agents dressed as paramilitary soldiers. They kicked in doors and used flashbangs and tear gas. All residents of the 130 unit building were detained, including children, outdoors and with little to no clothes. In the end, they arrested 37 illegals, of which no one has found a criminal record for. No one has been charged for any crime. Multiple Venezuelans were deported out of the 37, for a civil offense (not criminal).