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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • There is lies by omission. I’ve never found an extraterrestrial child and made a declaration to get them citizenship and adopt them, but I’d imagine the process isn’t just based on trust. Otherwise, there would be no kids needing to normalise their status. All would just get ‘adopted’ by a citizen at a young age.

    It’s not meant to be an issue due to birthright citizenship and natural born etc, however. My recollection of the original movie is they found him in his spaceship. In Smallville, the spaceship was hidden in their barn. I think they told people in town he was from Martha’s family elsewhere and they adopted him. I don’t fully recall, but there was definitely subterfuge. I don’t know what the comic said. I don’t think they would go into the beurocracy of the adoption process, either way, but having gone through it in real life, I can tell you that it’s long and slow with lots of checks and paperwork.

    My point is that not only is he an immigrant, he’s likely an illegal immigrant under false pretense.




  • On Lemmy, you might find it overwhelming by looking at the all communities feed and then blocking those you don’t like. Instead subscribe to the ones you want and then just view the subscribe feed.

    Personally, I use all to find more content and block communities I don’t want. I then just jumpnjnto subscribed occasionally of there is too much junk.

    It’s a shame that there aren’t finer controls, like to ramp up and down communities rather than just block or subscribe. Some communities, I wouldn’t mind seeing their popular posts but I don’t want to say the hordes of junk posts. Only option is to block.


  • The reason we have a justice system is to prevent mob justice, and revenge. Prisons in many countries are supposed to rehabilitate not punish. The USA justice system seems more about dealing punishment, than preventing crime or keeping society safe. The death penalty is one aspect of that. If it was really about protecting people, those that cut the jobs of the people that could have prevented 100+ deaths in Texas would be in jail. It’s about keeping the poor in place. The Epstein files will be interesting if released, as they will all be wealthy people, hurting children and the vulnerable. There won’t be any motive apart from desires and power. Should they not be punished?