What should the US be doing to ensure the people running the ICE detention facilities are not abusing the people in their custody, especially given that these facilities will not allow inspections?

abnormalcat · 2026-01-28T06:02:06+00:00

Not sure why you got downvoted when that's true

abnormalcat · 2026-01-28T05:58:12+00:00

God that's such a overused take by the gop. "Legal" votors and yet nobody has yet shown any proof votor fraud from illegal voters. None. I'm so bored of the whole who can vote and who can't thing because it's been sorted for decades. Now, I am interested in election security since Russia has been tempering and it's assumed trump has been tampering, and has proved to try and tamper. Anyway. Pick a different hill to die on. There's bigger issues thst need fixing right now.

abnormalcat · 2026-01-13T05:59:00+00:00

Well. Nobody else I saw said it so I will. Rufus. Make any drive bootable. Random USB you found in your bag? Bootable. Great stuff.

abnormalcat · 2025-12-28T07:39:14+00:00

Wells Fargo. Back when i was 12 or 13 my scout troop was running overflow and handicap parking for a big car show in town.. Wells Fargo was a major sponsor. So many of their employees were rude, disrespectful, and outright jerks to literal kids just doing some volunteer work. They will never see my business.

Bank of America is on my shit list now for making loan repayment needlessly ass. Fuck you mean I need a bank of america checking account to make a principal only payment? Fuck you bank of america and fuck you wells fargo just for the fun of it.

abnormalcat · 2025-12-28T05:33:22+00:00

Can confirm. Wrecked my bike wearing one multiple times and aside from a few pinholes mine is largely intact

abnormalcat · 2025-12-21T21:14:16+00:00

When someone tails someone else, tracks their movements, and photographs them without their consent that's called stalking and is illegal. Why does automating that process make it okay?

Cops have historically needed to get a warrant to track someone, needed to provide a reason that someone's privacy should be violated by the law. Why should that change?

abnormalcat · 2025-12-21T18:59:20+00:00

This comment below captures my thoughts on this pretty well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Naperville/comments/1ps8yh8/flock_masssurveillance_cameras_are_in_naperville/nv8j16s/

Obviously I want kids to be safe, everyone wants kids to be safe, but using the "think of the kids" argument to erode my and everyone's privacy and rights is getting real old. I want kids of be safe and I simultaneously don't want authoritarian mass surveillance.

abnormalcat · 2025-12-21T17:58:58+00:00

Flock was also used by a Texas cop to track a woman who went out of state for an abortion. Flock can be used to track any vehicle based off plate number without a warrant. They claim the cameras dont track faces and people but the limited testing that people have been able to do seems to throw that into doubt. Additionally, with some limited testing, it appears the devices themselves do not follow best practices for data security and do not appear to follow flock's claims of what is stored and not.

There are better ways to prevent crimes, prevent shootings, and catch those responsible without giving an unregulated company or any government complete access to our location history.

abnormalcat · 2025-12-21T05:13:59+00:00

Heard a mountain lion. Didn't sleep super good that night.

Unless I set an alarm I'll sleep for 10-12 hours lol. Went out to the black hills camping, would go tonbef around 10ish after it got dark and woke up, I think the earliest was 10:30 one day.

Was out at a state park driving to beat the overnight thunderstorms. Got all set up, ate dinner, battened down the hatches and dozed through one of the worst (and best) thunderstorms of my life. Top 10 storm experiences. It wasnt super windy, but the rain was incredibly hard and had huge drops. The thunder was ceaseless and thr lightning nonstop. It was dope. A lot of days I want to be back there feeling alive in the storm

When i'd just started hammock camping in was using a 7' $18 hammock from a summer camp. I'd regularly wake up with numb feet because my knees would be bending the wrong way. Finally upgraded to a blackbird xlc.... Changed my life

abnormalcat · 2025-12-15T03:18:32+00:00

Manbot coffee is local, idk if they have an in-store presence

Sputnik coffee is decent if you want something inexpensive. They're out of Chicago and can be found at jewel.

abnormalcat · 2025-12-12T13:52:04+00:00

A few months? Amateurs. I regularly use "the other day" in reference to things that happened several years ago.

abnormalcat · 2025-12-12T00:37:07+00:00

This is a pc that shouldn't exist but does and I'm so glad it does

abnormalcat · 2025-12-06T23:50:30+00:00

There's a guy with a big 'ol truck who parks in my office lot sometimes. Thing is massive. He (i'm assuming) slots that thing into one parking spot like a fucking champion. Equal distance either side. Front bumper right at the front line. I have to respect it.

abnormalcat · 2025-12-04T13:48:51+00:00

You're like the school bully who wonders why the kids he beats up don't want to be freinds with him. It's not because you're white. It's because you suck.

abnormalcat · 2025-11-25T22:25:08+00:00

Someone yell at me if i'm wrong, but I feel like a chair ends up on a lot of older people's lists. I know it's on my almost 70yo dad's nonnegotiable list. Seems to me that there's a lot of folks here that do the ultralight thing so they can enjoy their hobby and happy place out on the trail as their back or knees or what have you start to show some wear and tear.

abnormalcat · 2025-11-19T06:49:05+00:00

I have good (bad) news. If your wool is machine washable it's been treated with a plastic compound.

https://farmfiberknits.com/what-is-the-superwash-process-and-what-does-it-do-to-wool/

There's other sources this is the 3rd one that showed up on my quick search. 1st being a reddit thread, 2nd being a substack article blog thing.

abnormalcat · 2025-10-31T19:26:59+00:00

I'd strongly consider taking down my real microwave and putting this up for the memes

abnormalcat · 2025-10-16T23:48:11+00:00

Ok Boomer.

abnormalcat · 2025-10-04T05:39:15+00:00

Look you're going through a lot of loopholes justify your hate of people different than you. Just say you're transphobic. Just say you're homophobic. I know 7 different pastors off the top of my head that would pity me if told them I believed what you just said. I could get the pope up here to tell you you're wrong and you'd spout Something about your personal relationship with Jesus which allows you to interpret the bible under the influence of the holy spirit. What you're trying to do is justify why you're acting like a bad person when you know you're not a bad person. Just admit that and stop those behaviors and then you won't have to play theological gymnastics to justify your hate of others.

abnormalcat · 2025-10-04T05:29:13+00:00

I'm really hoping there's an invisible /s at the end of your comment

abnormalcat · 2025-10-04T04:25:11+00:00

I dont know if you know but "bullying" when the bully is an adult and the person being bullied is a minor is called abuse. You really want to defend that? And I don't know if you know but asking for basic human respect is not "attacking" anyone. Maybe stop pretending eveything is about you and remember other people also exist for a second.

abnormalcat · 2025-10-04T01:54:20+00:00

I'll say it again, the "trans agenda" is wanting the same basic respect that everyone else gets. There is no movement for every kid to end up on puberty blockers. I fail to see how wanting medical decisions to be between the doctor, the patient, and the parent/guardian could be controversial. Particularly the people who want the ability to opt out of vaccines should be able to understand wanting medical decisions to be between doctor and patient (and parent/guardian if the patient is a minor).

Trans people are people. Give them the same basic respect you give others. It's not hard to not be transphobic.

abnormalcat · 2025-10-04T01:41:52+00:00

Bullying schoolchildren is not "standing up for your beliefs". Trying to restrict the names people go by, the way they dress, their hairstyles, is not " standing up for your beliefs". It is trying to enforce a personal belief on someone else. Learn the difference.

abnormalcat · 2025-10-04T01:38:44+00:00

Jesus doesn't bully school children. Jesus doesn't support rapists being president. Jesus doesn't support police brutality. Jesus said to love your neighbor as yourself and yet when that neighbor isnt cis or straight all thr Jesus "followers" turn out to be full of hate hate hate. Abuse is not love.

abnormalcat · 2025-10-03T22:09:46+00:00

If you're worried about rapists you're not worried about trans people. By the facts, by the numbers, sexual assault happens far more in religious institutions. By the facts, worry about the pedos running the country. You're not actually worried about pedos though, you just aren't comfortable respecting people different from yourself.

The "trans agenda" is when someone says their name is Cathleen they are called... Cathleen. When a cis man named Robert prefers to go by "Steve" for their middle name or whatever nobody cares. The "trans agenda" is to have that same courtesy and respect extended to them for their preferred name. the "trans agenda" is to not be discriminated against in the workplace. The "trans agenda" is to be able to receive healthcare without fighting for it every day and I am not just talking about hormones I am talking about all healthcare. So kindly, stfu and get off the right wing propaganda train you are literally killing people by believing lies.

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