The world is also filled with governments that ordered the military to shoot civilians and are still comfortably in power. No country is immune to authoritarianism, the US is not exceptional.

Hey, what’s up. Are you (or anyone in thes thread) feeling suicidal?

Talking openly helps to deal and cope with the feelings. But some people feel shame of mentioning these topics. You can find out if there’s a help line local to you and call. You’re reaching out, which is good. Find someone who is open to talk and unload that burden. Trust is hard to earn but it goes a long way to talk about feelings, even if they’re uncomfortable.

Not op, but most countries provide an ID that is not a passport. It needs a birth certificate. In my country that ID is far more authoritative than a passport and it even allows ingress to the country in case the passport is lost.

This ID issue is a very US thing. Most governments keep a tight registry of citizens and wouldn’t have any doubt about who is and isn’t a citizen.

The pride flag was envisioned and flown for the first time in San Francisco. For better or worse, most of global queer culture is us centric.

Most of the flags are also copyrighted or copylefted, to some degree or another. It’s a jumbled mess. But in general no one is profiting unless you are literally buying a physical flag, as all of them fall into fair use or can be freely licensed for use in commercial products.

A competent pilot would’ve flown in throw the garage door, or down a chimney, or through a window. That’s the terrifying thing about drones, they are extremely maneuverable. They can be positioned in the precise point to make the most damage to the target.

Whenever any of this comes up I remember that physics professor’s speech on first day of quantum mechanics that got viral:

“Nobody understands quantum mechanics. The people who came up with it don’t understand it. I will do my best so that by the end of this course you don’t understand it either, and so you can got out to the world and spread our ignorance.”

Or something to that effect.

It was also a soft power tool used to assist and feed allied countries and keep diplomatic support from the good it did with starving and otherwise vulnerable populations. It’s not a net loss, but it is not a gain either. Its disappearance hurts millions of people who depended on the aid to feed their families or support basic economic production.

She has already done this in the past, and she got drone bombed then too.

People would read the second message, type the yes prompt, break their system. But still claim that it was linux’s fault, and that the OS doesn’t work.