Since you have been deeply involved in immigration activism

Also fair. I’m an activist that helps immigrants find working class power, not an immigration activist.

I didn’t know that was a requirement for getting a visa. When it comes to heads of government, I think about what my CEO would do and work off that. It works most of the time, but clearly not every time. It does recontextualize things for me a bit, but not enough to stop me from being absolutely pissed at the current administration or the ruling. I think we can both reach the agreement that the way immigration is about to change is total bullshit and needs a complete overhaul.

I’m not going to keep the numbered thing up, because a few of those answers are good enough for me.

I don’t think the headline is wrong, I think this headline is indicative of the problem with headlines in general: they fundamentally can’t provide appropriate context. The state department does have the unrestricted power to separate spouses now, in a very narrow context where the non-citizen is not in the US (for now - we know where SCOTUS and Trump want this to go). Yes, it could have been better, they always can be. I’ve only seen maybe a handful of perfect headlines in my entire life, and most have come from the Rolling Stone. I don’t think this slant is any worse than mainstream headlines, and miles better than anything that would come from conservative media. I think the reaction is that as a country, we’re used to these angles coming from the right so it feels wrong for there to be leftist critique in news.

Why would it matter either way if the lawyers report directly to him or to the DOJ? The DOJ is still administered by Biden’s handpicked appointee. This decision is inextricably linked to Biden’s administration. We don’t need to know if this is what he wanted in his heart-of-hearts, we just need to know that his administration is why we now have this majority ruling in the first place. The lawsuit would not have existed if the State Department didn’t try to fuck with people’s lives.

Do you intentionally try to start arguments with your comments? We’re not on reddit anymore, I don’t engage with bait. Consider it a warning, because I do want to have this conversation.

Biden issued an executive order days before this decision. You even referenced it in your own comment. I called it a campaign because I’m a lead mobilizer and steward in my union, so some wires got crossed trying to describe the EO. However, I don’t think the comparison of an EO to a mobilizing campaign is far off. The taskforce trying to reconnect families is good. This article does take a passing swing at that taskforce, mostly to say that it’s far too little and way too late, but the headline and article is specifically about the court case and the majority opinion. That’s really all I have to say about this for the time being unless we get into border policies.

I said that the administration pushed the issue, because they did. They intentionally baited the spouse of a US citizen to leave the country to strip the person of due process, and then denied the visa without a legitimate cause. When the appellate court reversed the trial decision, the Biden administration could have let the issue rest, gave an apology, and issued the visa. Instead they appealed it to the most fascist SCOTUS in the country’s history. Biden, or at least the lawyers representing the state, wanted the government to have this power.

This is how things will work now. If a non-citizen gets married in the US and has to leave the country for any reason, their visa can get denied, the spouse cannot sue in the US on their behalf, and the person trying to immigrate cannot complete the paperwork based on the state department’s current process for immigrating as a spouse. That sounds like unrestricted power to separate families if you ask me. This isn’t cherry-picking statements from lawyers, this is the court’s majority opinion.

Well this is a firehose of bullshit.

1. What part of the article is factually wrong?
2. What specifically gives you the feeling that the article is unreliable?
3. Why does it matter whether or not the lawyers representing the state department work at the state department?
4. Why should tattoos of any kind be an indication of whether a non-citizen spouse can get a visa?
5. How exactly does the headline mischaracterize the ruling or the majority opinion?

This decision deeply undermines precedent and established law. Sure, he might have announced a “keep families together” campaign, but his administration pushed the issue and has granted the state department the ability to deny visas to people legally married to US citizens.

do you know why they protested at stonehenge? the comic actually illustrates it well. If you’re this pissed off about cornflour being thrown on a UNESCO World Heritage site, you should look up how many world heritage sites are at risk of being submerged.

Don’t forget to toss in some finely chopped onions

Based.

Edit: What paper is this from? Preferably a sci-hub link

Development is very much a “use what you know” type of field, especially at big game companies. Learning a new game engine is like learning a completely new programming language, often because you’re doing both. Every game engine has a scripting language, and very few use the same scripting language.

It’s an open source game engine comparable to unity. It’s governed by a foundation dedicated to maintaining it, so it has no risk of pulling a unity

Still accurate, the amount of joy from a handful of upvotes beats thousands of updoots from the other place

We’re reaching a point of having multiple “everything” problems. Housing is one of them. An everything problem is when several different socioeconomic crises result in it’s own specific crisis, and can likely only be solved if the solution also addresses the other issues too. Capitalism plays a huge part in the housing crisis, but so does climate change, wealth inequality, systemic discrimination, the opioid crisis, and so much more. All that to say, shit’s complex and addressing any of these other problems will give some amount of relief for the housing crisis, and vice versa.

No, it’s definitely atmospheric scattering. Blue and red shifting occurs when interstellar objects accelerate towards or away from us near the speed of light

Frolick whimsically to the edge of the enchanted forest

Why does your version of climate change mitigation include intractable suffering from the poor and minorities?

Modern isometrics with updated controls are really fucking good though. I’d rather games that are 20 years or older get remasters vs games that launched 5 years ago

I’ve lived with dogs this big. The trick is to train them when they’re too small to see over the tables. When it comes to prepping food, you get used to setting meat further back on the counter or putting them outside

Turns out they’re legit, and partner with lgbt+ organizations. Unfortunately a lot of the lists I saw for other queer friendly companies are pretty localized to microbreweries. So as usual if you want to support lgbt+ companies, look local

Thermonuclear annihilation

Wild, they must have forgotten to apply it at the factory. They might issue a recall for that