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Where'd you get a picture off all my elder family members in one place!? (j/k)

That is one possible destination for deportation, yes.

Administration "mistakenly" flags you as dead. FBI does a "stop and frisk": you present your ID. That person is dead, claiming to be them is fraud. You have no citizenship papers, so you can be deported on the accusation of fraud, sans due process. At the destination, you can call for habeas corpus, if relevant in that jurisdiction.

Don't expect the administration to "facilitate" your return in any meaningful way.

I never proposed $25/hr. I proposed a living wage based on the poorest/cheapest state of the union.

You did the math, introducing my state, and illustrating that 17 $/hr is still a bit low, but in the right region. That might be why Sanders chose his 17 $/hr number, but I have no special insight to his process.

@WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com said it should be 25 $/hr. I agree that would, at this moment, be too high for Arkansas.

While I'm sure I don't live up to it, I am trying to be convinced by data, and the data I've seen (including the data you cited) shows that increasing the minimum wage to a living wage is good for everybody, even tho it does have trade-offs. I've never seen any economic change that didn't have some negative metric associated with the change in some implementation.

Yeah, we'd have to shift tactics. But, without IP law protections, the hacker community would double down on reverse engineering and binary patching. Debian etc. would still be available, but you'd also see spins on Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, and Google software based on decompiling, patching, and rebuilding, or just game genie / PC game cracks binary patching based on offset and signature.

The DMCA would dissolve and encrypted data that was expected to be decrypted on the fly ("streaming only") would just be published fully decrypted.

It would be a revolutionary shift, but I'm not convinced it would be worse.

What would be worse is keeping IP law, but only having it enforced by million dollar yearly budget teams of lawyers and not protecting creators from having their works fed to "AI" and regurgitated as slop.

The data given there doesn't support your assertions. Rent and other prices went up, but not as much as incomes. Hours were lost, but fewer people were in poverty. If 40 hours was a living wage, plenty of people in our community would be comfortable working fewer hours. They might only need 40 to survive.

Raising the federal minimum wage immediately would be shocking, but we'd be better off for it, especially in Arkansas.

Do you have data to back up your assertions or are you idly speculating?

Ah, yeah, my father only threatened to fight me once, and he never did. (I think he felt I was directly questioning his authority when non-family members were present, but the memory is hazy at best now.)

It does sound like your experience is abnormal. (But, I'm not really informed; just working from my experience, and hearsay.)

I don't think we were drunk, but I did eventually ask a friend which they were... and it caused the same conversion for me.

I don't think my father would consider spankings, with wooden paddle or leather belt, child abuse. It was a threat that I fell afoul of a few times at school or home.

Depending on your age, that level of "child abuse" might be normal. (Not that it should be.)

I tend to agree, but maybe fresh produce is just considered a luxury. You can certainly survive without it, canned or frozen goods are available in some amount at the dollar stores, and I can walk to/from them.