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I feel less and less willing to go outside. I wasn't born here, I naturalized. According the the current law, people who are born outisde the US are presumed to be non-citizens unless they have proof of citizenship. Don't feel too good about that.

Every time I hear police sirens, I feel like shits about to go down and I anticipate the worst. I imagine soldiers breaking down my door and dragging me to some camp. I can't fucking sleep well, especially because I also have trust issues with family members, who I live with.

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Like, I feel like, books, its just a bunch of description that never truely paint a scene.

In a movie or TV show, you see exactly what the scene is, exactly what is happening. I mean, of course, sometime they cut corners and cut of parts of a book, but otherwise, its more easily conveyed.

Like the popular saying, a picture is worth a thousands words. But I'd say: a video is worth a million pictures.

Just morbid curiosity. I've had neighbors whose cat escaped before. And now I hear stray cats meowing in the middle of the night, screaming and fighting with other cats, and I just got curious... what if one of them is my neighbor's cat? 🤔 (hopefully not)

I mean, I would think that cats who get regulary fed should have a better chance? But then, they never had a fight before so they would never have experience...

Like, I imagine this scenario is equvalent of a human getting lost and then there is a homeless person who wants to fight you (not that they would, just an example). I think a person who've had proper food is gonna win against a homeless person. So with this logic, the indoor cat should win against the stray/feral cat? Am I right?

RCV trends: Four states ban RCV in 2025, bringing the number of states with bans to 15.

(Okay idk why it says 15 up here then later says 16, somebody on that site probably didn't update the title text)

As of April 30, five states had banned RCV in 2025, which brought the total number of states that prohibit RCV to 16.

• Gov. Mark Gordon (Republican) signed HB 165 on March 18.
• West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey (Republican) signed SB 490 the March 19.
• Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (Democrat) signed SB 6 into law on April 1.
• North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong (Republican) signed HB 1297 on April 15.
• Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Republican) signed HB 1706 which became law on April 17.

Six states banned RCV in 2024.

Why YSK: If you're a US-American, its time to pay attention to State and Local politics instead of solely on the Federal. There is a trend in conservative jurisdictions to stop progress in making elecoral systems more fair. Use this opportunity as a rallying-cry to pass Ranked-Choice Voting in progressive jurisdictions, and hopefully everyone else takes notes. Sometimes, all you need is a few states adopting a law to become the catalyst for it to become the model for the entire country, for better or for worse. Don't allow anti-RCV legislations to dominate, counter the propaganda with pro-RCV arguments. Time to turn the tide.

Edit: fixed formatting

Edit 2: Added in the map so you don't have to click the link:

See the pattern? 🤔

The 10% stacks additively, each time you do the deal, this status is applied to a different 10%. If you sacrifice 10 fingers, the entire world is guaranteed basic human needs (food, water, shelter, clothing, healthcate, etc...)

Nobody knows you saved them. Would you do it?

If everyone knows about the fact that you can do this deal, would that change your mind?

I'll start by making making changes so that any of the "Mandela Effect" are changed so that the "misremembered" stuff now becomes reality, and then its gonna be funny when people eventually start talking about the new Mandela Effect 2: Electric Boogaloo, then maybe I'll switch it back after a few years, just to make the timeline more interesting. 🤭

Was gonna make a poll "What do you think about the fediverse" 😏

Why is life so much suffering?

I usually use use ThePirateBay for video media (Movies / TV shows).

EBook: Library Genisys

Audiobooks: Audiobook Bay

Android APK: Sometimes I just google the .apks (and .obb files), but if find it on the ones listed in the megathread, I use those first.

Not sure if I'm doing piracy correctly

Edit: And also, what file formats is best?

Like, video media is 99% of the time a .mkv, so I'm assuming thats the most popular. But is x264 or x265 better. Like, I don't want to waste storage or wait too long before I can watch something, so what is the best storage to quality size?

And eBooks, .pdf .mobi .epub .azw3 wtf I'm confused

Audiobooks, there are m4b, and mp3

There is one series of books that I can only find .azw3 on Libgen, and nothing on F-Droid even opens that file format.

Yea I think I don't know what I'm doing.

Everything is the same, but the only difference being you don't exist.

One day, you just randonly go poof, gone from this world, into the parallel universe. You arrive at the same location (relative to Earth), same time, different world.

1. How do you even deal with not having legal documents. I mean, you are legally a ghost.
2. And... Money... how would you acquire some?

But the advantage is that Lemmy allows Tor. 😅