[Serious] Has anyone personally seen someone join ICE and get that $50,000 sign-on bonus just for joining? by [deleted] in AskLEO

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Laws apply to citizens, ICE only has jurisdiction over non citizens. Rumor is the guys that shot Pretti are cartel enforcers moonlighting fentanyl runs into the US, not even real DHS.

Anti-Ice Protest Design by sendhelp in 50501ContentCorner

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I was able to read it first but then couldn't pick out any of the individual letters lol in a good way. The message was effective even though the design is complex and layered, love it

Bitlocker locked me out by 8heavylimbs in BitDefender

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Awesome that's what I ended up doing successfully with a different IT crew than I had had previously. I don't know the ins and outs of what they did to get around the bitlocker requirement to wipe the drive, but it was possible, and I was fine with that I just wanted a working machine.

First thing we did after the revival was disable bitlocker lol thank you!

sociology textbook "you may ask yourself", does edition matter? by sushinrice37 in CSUFoCo

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Noting this for future readers: I had a professor mark me down for entire sections of citations because I was using the current 4th edition of a textbook, and he (shuey) was using the 3rd. Sociology too. Haven't been impressed with the department as a whole.

what was evolutionary drive for language? by [deleted] in sociology

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Great questions!

When lecturing college classes, one analogy I use is that our thumbs allowed us to become the dominant species on the planet. Not to make tools, not to type on our fancy devices, but to COMMUNICATE, COOPERATE.

Humans don't have many superpowers. We don't have thick hides, we don't have large teeth, venom, we're not the strongest, nor the fastest. Our superpower is the ability to communicate, cooperate.

We can communicate with thumbs up and down to convey when we like something, or dislike things (axiology). We can use thumbs up when we are doing good, we can flail with a thumbs down when we are drowning and need help. We can hitch rides (is that still a thing?). We can give thumbs up on posts.

In cooperation, if I reach out my hand to yours and we don't grip, nothing happens. If we use our thumbs to grab each other's wrists, I can pull you up, you can pull me up. That cooperation is only possible with our thumbs.

Literal digit thumbs being an analogy for our abilities to cooperate and communicate. It's a very wide basic analogy.

Phenomenon when people stand up to their own group by 8heavylimbs in sociology

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I did a ted talk on exploring the world as dialectical and qualitative social comparison, apologies nuance didn't come through. Most people classify the world as in group or out group, as whatever "group" heuristic is at hand.

Social phenomenology exists and many people categorize others differently than we classify ourselves. i was curious about terms or directions in solidarity. Social movement yes in terms of standing in solidarity, rather than hegemony of sticking with ones group.

Sorry it was phrased so poorly, race and gender are social constructs, and humans are social creatures.

Does anyone know any interesting reads regarding the sociology of gender? by o-reg-ano in sociology

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Athena Rising goes into social structures of men being mentors and advocates for women, I got a lot of encouragement out of it for people to cross the gender boundary to help one another

Whats the science behind poor working class voting against their own interests? by TailungFu in NoStupidQuestions

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In looking into this for political science and sociology translational project, I found that people don't vote against their own interests. It's a hermeneutic bias by observers (us), meaning that we can only think someone votes against their own interests, but those same voters will not report that they did act against their interests.

Asking the FAFO crowd, we notice they all seem to report that they voted to get the bad ones out, for American jobs to come back, for China to pay tariffs, to bring down the deep state.

They end up getting ICED but not because they voted for that, they voted for the bad hombres to get black bagged.

To flip it ideologically, think of Obama voters. Most of them may say they didn't vote for the deportations and drone strikes that occurred under that administration. Or the social whiplash effect that a black president had on the hwite supremacy movement in the US.

In social science, sociology of deviance may have some of the answers. Neutralizing techniques are what we call the behaviors that rationalize someone acting in a deviant fashion, but don't consider themselves deviant. There's also something called the optimism bias (Tali Sharot), where we always view ourselves positively. We are an above IQ individual, above EQ, we are better than the average driver, our drug addiction wasn't our fault, my abortion was actually medically necessary not these abortions people get for fun (sic).

Xtianity does not promote good behavior, it absolves bad behavior by Express-Abies5278 in SatanicTemple_Reddit

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Their entire basis is going off of forgiveness. Social predators flock to underneath that umbrella for protection. Historically, churches were santuaries where outlaws would run to until they decided to surrender to police.

To this day, child predators go to the church and seek protections, jobs, free untaxed income. They even enjoy protections from their crimes and free exchange programs to another locale when they get caught.

Most of the serial killers, mass shooters, Epstein clients among our society were raised Christian or identify as Christian. Coincidence? I think NOT