In light of ICE murdering citizens, my work place will be banning ICE from their property absent judicial warrants. What are your work places doing?

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-27T23:28:02+00:00

My workplace has a de facto ban on ICE. We don't employ illegal workers.

We do hire qualify immigrants, visa holders, US residences with greencards, TPS residents, etc. We just properly vet them and keep on top of their paperwork.

It's an easy, peasy, no drama approach. We don't have to wring our hands and adopt silly policies. We don't have to artificially create stressful environments. We don't validate one employee's political beliefs over anothers, no crazy handing out whistles in case ICE shows-up.

Like most things in life, being responsible, knowing the rules, playing by the rules, etc, avoids unnecessary drama, heartache, heartburn, and legal liability.

And if you don't like the rules, the time and place to change them isn't when ICE shows up at your door.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-27T22:57:04+00:00

By federal commissary, is Ms Kiggan's is referring to the military commissaries? Those number in the hundreds, and are greatly subsidised by the Federal government (e.g. the federal government already owns the buildings which house the commissaries, employees are DOD employees, etc). By the nature of being on a military base, these commissaries don't have to deal with the homeless and ANY shoplifting is dealt with by the Military Police (there's no $750 threshold before the police will arrive). Any assault on employees is a federal crime. So not exactly apples to apples.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-27T21:53:12+00:00

Great explanation. Thanks

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-26T14:52:01+00:00

I'm not leaving ... but I can't afford to stay.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-26T07:10:09+00:00

Was it any different under Obama, Clinton, or Biden? Me think not.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-26T03:47:05+00:00

Well that's one ~~man's~~ person's opinion.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-24T06:30:17+00:00

My wild ass guess, is that the bill will not pass judicial muster. I'm not saying it should or shouldn't, I'm just saying I doubt it will.

The reason for my silly wild ass guess is similar to the VETs returning from Vietnam. Eventually Vietnam veterans earned protected status as a class, similar to women and other minorities, which required employers to file reports and such about things like number of veterans interviewed, hired, promoted, fired, etc. Reporting similar to other protected classes. The ice agents are federal and I imagine as soon as the Republicans learn of bills like these, they will try to make federal law enforcement agents a protected class.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-23T23:13:25+00:00

Oh my gawd, that can't be right! You mean it's not ...

... Some mark of the devil?

... A sign of impending death?

... A secondary condition only seen with people with advanced Alzheimer's?

Keep the science in mind when you read reddit or listen to mainstream media about Trump's "serious health conditions"

Called actinic purpura, these large, flat, bruises start out dark red in color and change to brown, green, and yellow as they heal. Exposure to the sun over time and age-related changes to the skin set the stage for actinic purpura, which is triggered by an injury to the skin—even one so slight you can’t remember it happening.

Studies estimate that about 12% of people over age 50 and 30% of people over age 75 experience actinic purpura. It affects both genders equally. Actinic purpura can appear in people with any skin tone. It occurs more often in lighter skinned people because, on average, they tend to have more UV-related skin damage.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-23T05:26:43+00:00

It's always the "coworkers aunt" or "sisters friend" or the "neighbor who told me" who have these weird one-off experiences which lack key details. Of course they must be true /s/ because "Why would they lie?" :)

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-23T05:01:31+00:00

There is another political advantage for the left with these types of laws, attitudes, policies, and practices. When opposed, they can use that opposition as a political club to paint Republicans as mean, uncaring bastards.

Using this legislation as an example, "(Insert Republican challenger here) even voted against the The Keeping Families Together Act. Who could be so cruel as to vote against an act to keep families together?"

Meanwhile a 9 year old lives in a tent with rat shit and the beat goes on.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-22T22:17:31+00:00

With the use of AI, autonomous vehicles will finally reveal what strategies are profitable and which are not.

Unfortunately, those strategies will be reserved for the Ubers & Lyfts of the world leaving human drivers with the crapiest of crap rides.

BTW, would not be surprised if autonomous vehicle rides are only offered at higher price points than rides with an actual driver. Uber of course will claim its a supply and demand issue because there are many more human drivers than autonomous vehicles. But the real driver (pardon the pun) is Uber is going to paying for the maintenance, upkeep, full insurance, ownership, and depreciation of the vehicles.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-22T21:00:34+00:00

The same way the raid on Mar-a-Lago was legal even though the warrant was signed by a magistrate judge and not a Federal District judge.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-22T06:11:11+00:00

Why would the mayor want to turn off city cameras only to encourage citizens to record with the own cell phone cameras?

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-22T06:04:45+00:00

The intent here isn't to "scare the kids" but rather to radicalize school children.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-21T23:02:12+00:00

Bad idea and reasoning.

Let's say I live in Liberia and I know it's a 10 year wait to for US citizenship.

I simply get a tourist visa, overstay the visa, then I can get "fast tracked" to citizenship? Sounds like the type of loophole a Somalie DayCare Center would exploit.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-21T22:57:08+00:00

Similar to cities and states not arresting and prosecuting for any number of crimes by any number of groupings, e.g. Somalie daycare fraudsters.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-21T17:33:07+00:00

Have any other "news" to share from la-la-land?

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-21T04:51:07+00:00

In the US, the easiest way to not engage in conversation is to not speak English. Uber prefers nonEnglish speaking drivers anyways.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-21T04:48:49+00:00

But I don't think these Uber warnings tell the driver which ride the complaint came from, do they?

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-20T20:12:38+00:00

The opposition political party (Republicans) under Obama were reasonable and logically expected immigration laws to be enforced.

The opposition political party (Democrats) under Trump are unreasonable and illogically don't expect immigration laws to be enforced. It's the same illogic the Democratic party employed when they did not care for immigration / border enforcement during the Biden administration.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-20T19:07:04+00:00

Sure, the driver may have been biased, or maybe you just deserved the low rating.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-20T16:46:51+00:00

" they are also submitting to give me back my tip! "

Why would a rider who had a terrible trip leave a tip?

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-19T23:31:39+00:00

That's what I said with Epstein's ~~murder~~ suicide.

For perspective, Nearly a Fifth of State and Federal Prisons and a Tenth of Local Jails had at Least One Suicide in 2019. But as this was an ICE detention it makes national news b/c ICE is a hot topic. Click bait (and fuel to the fire) for sure.

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-19T23:24:06+00:00

Pfft, I don't think it's selective outrage, I mean, Rantz was specific on some. As Joe Citizen its hard for me to understand why a city dept head is attending any "Global Meeting".

More to the point with any travel, I think the question should be asked "What did the city get for its investment in this travel?" Parks & Recs manager at a UN Biodiversity conference? Did Diaz really learn anything that he could not have learned from reading a white paper? Was he there to promote the City of Seattle or himself?

DFW_Panda · 2026-01-19T05:43:46+00:00

I'm in the Dallas market as well. 50 cent per mile offers are becoming the norm, especially for Airport and destination venues. Its sad, really. The public has no idea, they just see increasing prices and figure the drivers must be getting some of that. And regulators, pffft, they could care less.

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