Terabytes is a subset of Petabytes, so it’s not a complete lie.

Thr USA has a huge problem with mass shootings

And every time you point it out there will always be Americans comment that it’s not that bad.

Even though the USA far exceeds every other country that isn’t currently an active war zone.

misconceptions held by the American people that he and his colleagues are “political actors” who are making decisions based on policy, not law.

Maybe if they stopped acting like they were making decisions based in political ideology instead of law, the American people might have those opinions…

A fairly relaxed and respectful argument.

Between 2 former co-workers who have known each other for 20+ years.

They know they can have a strong debate without losing respect for each other.

they are small vocal minority

The problem people often are.

But their disproportionately noisy message also manages to get itself heard far more than it deserves, which allows it to be more influential than it deserves to be.

Depends how “trumped up” those charges are.

If it’s clearly and easily provable that it’s bogus, they might fight back.

Normally all people on a ship have to go through immigration at the first port the ship stops at in a country. Everyone has to go through the immigration process, whether they say they plan to go ashore or not.

That include passengers, crew and ship’s officers.

That’s not how it works.

Any ship in any country 's territorial waters is subject to that country’s laws.

One thing we know for sure is that they want to be left alone.

That’s the most important thing.

And one that far too many people seem interested in ignoring for their own selfish reasons.

Iirc Frank clarified this

Not surprised that he would update it as things changed.

The “stay” petition significantly outperformed the “leave” petition.

And there is no indication that the stay petition cheated, while there is strong evidence that the leave petition broke a few laws to get their number.

oh yeah do it on the back end of the cruise. That’ll show you care about catching ““the bad ones””

The last day of a cruise is also the first day of the next cruise. The ships will only be docked long enough to get the old passengers off and a new set of passengers on.

Regardless, this should put a chill on the entire shipping industry. All ships, both passenger and cargo, have the majority of their crews come from outside the USA.

So if you are just working on one of these cruise liners and you aren’t American

Over 90% of the crew on almost every ship (both passenger and cargo ships) is not a white American.

ICE has opened a massive can of worms if this is going to be their new way of meeting their arbitrarily quotas.

As a gen-x person who grew up in a much more free-range parenting environment, I agree.

Helicopter parenting does no favors to the kids.

Maybe one day someone will get me to understand the difference between religion and cult.

Cult: a small unpopular religion.

Religion: a large popular cult.

Or, if you prefer:

“the only difference between a religion and a cult is the amount of real estate they own”

-Frank Zappa

Though that kinda falls apart in the Scientologist’s case. They have acquired a lot of real estate since Zappa first made that statement.

I’m sure Theil also supports that plan. He wants his puppet to have maximum power for as long as possible.

Can we not victim blame.

He is actively fighting Trump’s bullshit from our side of the border. That is to be supported.

Except those dead ones had families that cared for them.

And who will spend the rest of their lives angry at those who killed their families.

That is how you create future terrorists.

I’m retired. I don’t have to know what day it is any more!

To justify and further enrich the American military industrial complex