If a civil war happens, you want your neighbors to be less… fascist.

Go to big cities. I’m Chinese-American and I personallt wouldn’t step foot in a red state, and I’d think twice before travelling through red areas even within blue/purple states. Make sure your vehicles are good, and travel early in the day, don’t get stuck in some rural town on the side of the highway because your method of transportation break down.

I always had this self-imposed rule even before 2025, but especially now.

Its not paranoid, it’s being realistic.

I’m in Philly and it’s quite blue here. Never seen any nazi flags, swastica armbands, whitehoods, or any crazy shit like that around here. It’s like at least 40% Black, 35% Whites and there’s like 15% Asian in my neighborhood. Not the best place ever, feels kinda like a “slum” here tbh, but I feel safer here than those white neighborhoods with all the crazy kkk/nazis.

Honestly, when you look at the election stats, its more blue than even NYC, that’s known for being a Democraric stronghold. Philly is in a swing state, so your votes matter more here (hopefully elections will continue to exist).

NYC housing is unaffordable, which is why my parents moved here (and since I was a kid, I had no choice anyways). Philly housing is much cheaper, but be warned, there are a lot of lead issues here. Inspect for lead before you move in. (My parents didn’t even do the inspections and just YOLO’d it 🤦‍♂️)

Sometimes I’ve had to pay import tarrifs many times when crossing back and forth (for the same thing over-and-over). Its best not to cross the border with expensive stuff.

Bruh, that’s is so scummy.

Um…

Not sure

I dream in some monster-land because most of them are nightmares.

Monster language? 🤷‍♂️

Well you see, the problem is, you can just say “I want to leave” and go wherever you want. You need visas.

A work visa is only temporary and you get kicked out as soon as you get fired.

So only immigration visas are viable for long term emmigration. Those are very hard to get.

If you go without permission, you will get deported back to the US.

Don’t mind me, I’m just carrying my um…

glances at my stuff

Personal Portable Gaming Desktop PC, 4K 144hz Monitor, Mechanical Keyboard, Gaming mouse, etc…

👀

whispers to border agent Btw, I’m a real gamer 😉

Yea, I read about Schengen and I love the concept.

Unfortunately the rest of the world has not been enlightened and still have border control.

I hope one day, there will be a world-wide Schengen area.

For residents of the United States the duty free limit when returning is 800 dollars worth of stuff

Well, they just removed the de mininis rule…

Stuff that you exported and reimported for personal or business use, but not for resale, is exempt from duty with no dollar limits. If you want documented proof that you are reimporting, you can register the stuff at a customs office in the United States before you leave.

I’m pretty sure nobody registers their personal smartphone and laptop every time they leave the US for a vacation.

_breX_it v2: Economic Crash Boogaloo

I’m not sure and I don’t really care. But I’m assuming its just the admin’s personal dislike of lemmy.ml. Regardless, I chose this instance because of it. I’m sure there are still small number of users acting in good faith on lemmy.ml, but I just don’t wanna deal with their admins’ tankie influence and the higher ratio of trolls on that instance.

I mean, I don’t care if people accidentally waste their time making mean comments that I can’t see, but the problem is if .ml can still the see posts, they can downvote and I wouldn’t be see those downvotes to be able to know if there’s brigading.

Um… no, this is a new account. The defederation happened a while ago, which is the reason why I chose infosec.pub

https://lemmy.ml/u/[email protected]

I just check https://infosec.pub/instances it says lemmy.ml is defeded

Bug? 🤔

I was in highschool at the time. I just got suspended like a week before school officially closed for covid. It was for a fight, and I was in self-defence, and the bully probably picked me to harass probably because I’m Chinese-American and probably blamed me for Covid. I got arrested, but charges were eventually dropped, after like 10 months and multiple virtual court hearings or some bullshit.

I was glad to suspended from school, I fucking hate it. I always wanted to just skip it and get a GED (its a test you take to get the equivalent of a High School Diploma). So yea, eventually, I just quit and took the GED, passed on first try, zero studying (I mean, cmon, that shits easy), the scores when converted to GPA are better than my actual GPA anyways 🤷‍♂️

At that time I researched a lot about immigration laws, and learned that the USCIS could see juvenile arrests and “convictions” (its technically called “adjundicated delinquent”) within the past 5 years, and also any adult arrests and convictions. Including overturned, sealed, or even pardoned ones. Laws are so bullshit, I’m glad my mother’s naturalization gave me citizenship, it’d be so bullshit to potentially get deported for a school fight.

I was always a loner, I just chilled and watched a lot of pirated Movies and TV Shows, I remember watching a lot of Youtube, particularly Jacksepticeye (very wholesome btw).

(Btw, why does this world suck so much? 😓)

Tbf, I hate the maximum password character limit even more.

Like WTF even is that.

Minumum, I get it.

Maximum?!? 🤣 WTF LOL

I have a fucking password manager, let me use a 128 character password for fucks sake

Unless they manage to make those bending screens have Gorilla Glass 5, I think those are still gonna be rich people toys.

Way too fragile.

2FA is too inconvienient* and I think using a password manager to generate a very long password is good enough.

Software 2FA is not even that much more secure to be worth the inconvienience.

And for hardware 2FA keys, there is a higher chance for me to misplace those keys than getting hacked. (I don’t have friends to put a backup key in and I don’t wanna pay for a safe deposit box)

[*For me personally, your security needs might be different. I don’t work with any sensitive classified info or anything like that.]

Its a conspiracy to sell more flippable smartphones

I accidentally created a few sparks and some trecherous soldiers are trying to kill me.

It was barely any power…