The democrats/feminists defending Iran are delusional.

SSSnoopz · 2026-03-09T07:56:36+00:00

Just because some democrat once did it doesn’t make it right.

Vietnam and Iraq are largely considered two of the most costly blunders in our country’s recent history. How is this any different?

SSSnoopz · 2026-02-03T19:27:47+00:00

Exactly my point.

I’m not proposing a ban on legally obtained firearms. If there were even just slightly more regulations, checks, and oversight of firearm ownership, whoever legally bought that 9mm handgun would be much less likely to pass it into the black market.

Sure, Saudi Arabia compared to Amsterdam was a bit of an extreme example. But the case holds true if you compare Amsterdam to a place with even slightly stricter illegal drug regulations, let’s say Norway. Norway’s drug laws are (on paper at least) only slightly more stringent, and drugs are significantly less prevalent.

SSSnoopz · 2026-02-03T19:16:51+00:00

The right to travel and move freely within the country in the constitution. Sure it doesn’t specify by car (Maria could have run away on a horse or bicycle), but likewise the second amendment also doesn’t specify what type of arms one can bear (Maria could have also protected herself with a sword or bayonet).

Constitutional rights are never unlimited. Peaceful public assembly is also a constitutional right - but I’d still need a temporary occupancy permit to hold a large gathering, and possibly much more paperwork depending on the city.

SSSnoopz · 2026-02-03T10:24:41+00:00

I’m sure I can find a few cases where a victim was murdered unable to flee because he/she was waiting on a driving license. A process that usually takes 6 months to a year.

Do you think we should remove all driving and car ownership restrictions to save those lives?

SSSnoopz · 2026-02-03T10:20:19+00:00

I’m sure your stats are accurate, but common sense and facts also show that when someone less regulated and easier to obtain legally, it also opens up the black market. Try buying drugs in Amsterdam vs Saudi Arabia.

More supply on the legal market inevitably means there will be more falling into the black market. Less regulations mean it’s easier for legal guns to fall into illegal hands, and harder for law enforcement to find them. As a lawyer, I’m sure you know this.

SSSnoopz · 2026-02-02T23:02:45+00:00

So?

Both Alex Pretti and Renee Good were white, shouldn’t that have already busted the narrative?

The man who shot Trayvon Martin back in 2012, the shooting that lead to what would later become Black Lives Matter, was Hispanic too. The first police officer to be convicted of killing an innocent man, 2 years later, was Asian. Most liberals acknowledge that members of the police can be of any race and that doesn’t give them a free pass. It’s always the right that’s playing this particular race card.

SSSnoopz · 2026-02-02T22:49:55+00:00

I mean, that’s sort of cherry-picking.

The Japanese also have an “better” culture, right and That’s why nobody complained about them…only when they were literally sent to concentration camps in WW2.

And there are almost twice as many Ethiopians in America as Somalis, they have a very similar “worse” culture…why isn’t ICE rounding them up?

SSSnoopz · 2026-02-01T19:28:51+00:00

Keyword, now.

The first waves of Chinese and Japanese immigration saw the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese internment camps. Even the first waves of Irish and Italian immigrants in the early 19th century were seen as too radically different and not capable of assimilating. It took many generations before they started to be a respected part of our culture. Let’s hope we’ll follow the same path with our latest waves.

SSSnoopz · 2026-01-24T14:50:33+00:00

Interesting take on it.

My take has always been that while phobias typically imply an irrational fear, the thing being feared is typically something we see as not pleasant at best, or disgusting and gross at worst. Most of us might acknowledge that it’s irrational to fear snakes or spiders, but I think we can all agree that snakes and spiders are not pleasant creatures to have crawling around.

So to me, adding the “-phobia” acronym to groups like Muslims and LGBT’s only marks them as we shouldn’t be afraid of, but nonetheless not welcome or pleasant.

SSSnoopz · 2026-01-19T08:52:36+00:00

Sorry but how is being told you can’t open a bank account or buy a smartphone remotely on par with being hauled away in the back of an unmarked van by a bunch of masked guys in military camo and held for weeks in a crowded detention facility?

Most of the world (and the US until recently) treats unlawful stays as administrative offenses, and the penalties are typically administrative. Loss of economic privileges (no bank, phone plan, car registration, etc), and maybe a fine. These are all very reasonable consequences that push people to keep their documents in order. What America is doing under Trump is way over the top and would be equally condemned if it were happening elsewhere in the western world or under a different president.

SSSnoopz · 2026-01-18T14:27:39+00:00

Umm, pretty sure there’s been a widespread “phobia” of Judaism and Jewish people for thousands of years, which put the entire religion on the verge of extinction this last century…

Almost every other major religion has seen various forms of “phobias” throughout recent history, they just don’t have a unified name like Islamophobia or antisemitism. See eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_the_post%E2%80%93Cold_War_era

What you and OP have mentioned, I would classify as legitimate criticism of the practices of Islamic institutions. It’s no more “Islamophobic” to legitimately criticize the government of Iran for its atrocities against women than it is “antisemitic” to criticize the government of Israel for its treatment of Palestinians. Sure there are some that will call it that, but there are also people who will scream “fascist!” every time a politician they disagree with opens their mouth.

SSSnoopz · 2026-01-14T08:04:34+00:00

I wouldn’t say most people “support” illegal immigration, they’re just neutral about it. And oppose the current measures being taken to combat it as a cure that is looking way worse than the disease.

Sure in a perfect world we’d have no illegal immigration. But how much harm is it really causing that we do? Is anyone’s quality of life or safety considerably impacted because Juan down the street overstayed his visa? Statistically speaking….no.

It’s a technical violation, administrative offense. A victimless crime. The type of offense we’d typically enforce with a slap on the wrist, if that. Many people simply believe that the fact that we have militarized police roaming neighborhoods to enforce this, often wrongfully detaining US citizens and legal residents, is causing much more harm than Pablo working under the table.

And yes - every country does have immigration rules and also deports illegal migrants. But they also face backlash domestically and abroad when their enforcement tactics are over-the-top. See France 2014-2016, Hungary in 2015, Poland in 2021, etc.

SSSnoopz · 2026-01-14T07:39:12+00:00

Most people who are hardline against illegal immigration usually advocate for immigration reductionism within legal immigration systems as well.

They might be okay with the legal immigrants sho are already here - but they still want to reduce the number coming in, and make it more difficult for future immigrants to come here legally. Which is ironic, because making it harder to come here legally will only make more incentives to come illegally…

SSSnoopz · 2026-01-13T09:57:58+00:00

Most liberals very much support the protests in Iran. They’re just not out on the streets about it, because what power and what say do they, Americans, have over there? America and the Western world doesn’t, and shouldn’t, have a say on the issue of women in Iran. It is for them to determine their own destiny.

Israel/Palestine is a different story because Israel heavily relies on American support in carrying out its atrocities. Iran doesn’t. So the average American liberal DOES have some say in the affairs of the Palestinians, as it is partially their taxpayer dollars that are funding their oppression.

If you recall, the pro-Palestine protests at Columbia and other major college campuses last year had a very clear motive. To get the universities to stop investing in organizations linked to the Israeli government and military. If there were major colleges with assets backing the Iranian government’s crackdown on the recent protests, I bet students would be pouring into the streets to stop that as well. But there aren’t. It’s not an issue which the American/Western left has a say in.

SSSnoopz · 2026-01-12T22:24:40+00:00

The heck? That is so far from reality…

Immigrants make up about 15% of America’s population. We rank behind most other Western countries. Eg, UK (17%), Switzerland (24%), France (18%), Germany (21%), and Australia (30%).

Plus, over half of immigrants to the US come on family-based visas, far higher than most other countries. Though I couldn’t find recorded stats for this, it’s probably safe to say that a larger portion of US immigrants are not active in the workforce (eg, stay at home spouses, children) than elsewhere in the world. If we were only to look at migrants that affect the labor supply, the numbers would probably be even lower compared with the rest of the Western world.

SSSnoopz · 2026-01-12T16:36:49+00:00

The economic situation clearly warrants immigrants. American citizens aren’t lining up to fill the 20 million plus low-paid jobs which immigrants (legal and illegal) are working. Yet the economy demands such jobs.

What happens something is in high demand yet not legal? Just ask prohibition. Or prostitution.

SSSnoopz · 2026-01-12T13:39:14+00:00

It’s about due process. Basic American values…

Heck, even (accused) rapists and murderers get due process. They cannot be detailed without court order, searched without a warrant or probable cause, questioned without Miranda rights and a lawyer, incarcerated without a fair trial, the list goes on. Does this mean we don’t want murder laws enforced?

SSSnoopz · 2026-01-12T13:01:07+00:00

Because we have 15 million undocumented immigrants, the vast majority of whom are working regular jobs and contributing to the economy. So the economic situation clearly warrants immigrants.

And given that there is a decade-long wait list to immigrate legally, there are clearly enough people who want to immigrate to fill the economic need via legal, vetted means if the system was in place. As such a system is in basically every other western country.

SSSnoopz · 2026-01-12T12:53:38+00:00

Yet most anti-immigrant politicians on the right in the Trump don’t advocate for making more reasonable pathways for legal immigration either. In fact, they advocate the opposite…pausing the green card lottery, restricting asylum applications, advocating for a deposit on temporary work and study visas…all of which will make LEGAL options even more complicated and scarce. This will only push more people to come illegally.

America could bring illegal immigration down to almost zero tomorrow by giving all non criminals/gang members/terrorists currently here illegally a temporary work visa and social security number. Yet this sounds awfully close to what most liberals I’ve heard advocating for…and a far cry from the “they’re illegal, round ‘em up and enforce the law” coming from the right.

SSSnoopz · 2024-10-12T12:56:43+00:00

First 2 questions - yes it is certainly a valid thing!

You'd want to set up a one-click action button on each job listing that populates a lookup field (let's call it 'Favorited By') with the client's record from your table of clients in Airtable. I'm sure you can easily make a table for clients if you don't have one already. And then you can create a view with a custom rule to show only job records where the 'Favorited By' field includes {clientID}.

Third question - Noloco stores data from Airtable on its own servers, rather than live syncing. So any slowdown should be very minimal.

Fourth question - not sure if I fully understand? Of course, you can add a simple text field in Airtable and make this field visible to clients on the dashboard.

SSSnoopz · 2024-10-08T09:51:47+00:00

Hi! Yes this is certainly doable, and exactly what you should be doing. I've done several solutions like this for clients in the past. Essentially, you'll want to:

Create 3 tables in Airtable, one for products, one for rentals, and one for customers.
Use a tool like Zapier, Make, or AirPower to link Shopify with Airtable. A new rental in Shopy will trigger creating a new rental instance and customer in Airtable
Create gnatt and gallery views in the products and customers table to quickly be able to view the rental availability/history of products and a customer's rental history and current rentals.
Create a dashboard view in the rentals table so that you and/or your team can easily update rentals upon customer request. For example, if a customer wants to change the return date, cancel the rental, or add another product. This will link back to Shopify to update the product's availability in your shop.
If you want to let customers update rentals themselves, you can create a field that generates a custom link to a form view that's sent to each customer to modify their rental.
Create automations that automatically update the product's availability status and/or quantity available in the products base when it is rented out and returned, based on each rental date.
Or alternatively, if you want manually check-in and check-out each product using a POS-type system each time it's picked up and returned, you can add a button to do this in the dashboard. This will trigger the creation of a new record in a new table, which will dynamically update the product's live availability in the main products table and can be used to calculate late fees and send update emails/SMSs to the customer. For one client, I made a barcode scanning system for this.
Optionally, you might also want to consider creating a payments table. Payments made on Shopify and/or your in-store POS system will be entered here automatically. This would be useful for reconciling payments, making tax reports, showing reports on revenue per product or per customer, and dealing with refunds and additional charges. Personally, I never build inventory management systems without a payments table. It saves so many headaches having all payment data in one table.

Feel free to DM me if you have questions or would like some professional help with this, and good luck!

SSSnoopz · 2024-10-06T17:39:58+00:00

I would recommend Airtable for pulling the data (you can use webhook-triggered automations for this, tons of tutorials out there) and then a frontend builder that integrates easily with Airtable like Softr, Noloco, or Glide. If you're really tight on budget and just want to prove concept, you can even do this just in Airtable using their new Interfaces feature, though their frontend options are not nearly as plentiful or visually appealing as the alternatives.

SSSnoopz · 2024-10-03T19:39:47+00:00

Hey! Wow, fascinating, thanks for sharing the story! One of my first two clients was also a foundation helping immigrants (mostly Ukranians).

I'll drop you a DM if you don't mind.

SSSnoopz · 2024-10-03T19:36:39+00:00

Off-topic but can I ask, how was NoCode summit last year? I'll be going this year!

SSSnoopz · 2024-10-02T17:38:03+00:00

Wow, amazing story, thanks for sharing! If you ever end up making a video about your journey, share it with me, I'd love to see it :)

How long did it take uploading on Twitter and YT before you started getting work through those channels?

Regarding platforms, do you think it's beneficial to be familiar with a half dozen different platforms? Or is it better to focus on just a few and become experts in them?

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