dogs-are-perfect@reddit

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

No there aren't instances and circumstances where the cost of replacing your birth certificate and marriage license are prohibitively expensive. It costs at most a few dollars for each, and it takes a little bit of effort.

Getting a photo ID is required for a whole bunch of things. Drive a car? Need ID. Open a bank account? Need ID. Buy alcohol? Need ID. Buy a a gun from an FFL? Need ID. Buy a house? Need ID. Get public benefits (Welfare, Food Stamps, WIC, Medicaire/Medicaid, etc.)? Need ID.

You pretty much can't function in modern society without a valid photo ID.

How would your father get vital documents if you weren't around?

There are services to help the elderly do these kinds of things, even in bumfark rural upstate NY. His local county office for the aging, for example, or he could go through the county veterans affairs office.

I don't know why you find the need to make stuff up, basically prevaricating on this.

I can only think of two reasons why you're opposed to something like the SAVE Act:

Bad Orange Man likes this, so you have to reflexively oppose it no matter what it is, or
You actually want illegal aliens to vote in US elections, because they tend to favor a particular candidate, and you also want to preserve the ability, to the extent possible, to stuff the ballot box through mail-in votes.

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MightyLabooshe@reddit

Funny that you say

>I don't know why you find the need to make stuff up, basically prevaricating on this.

And then follow it up with

I can only think of two reasons why you're opposed to something like the SAVE Act:

Bad Orange Man likes this, so you have to reflexively oppose it no matter what it is, or

You actually want illegal aliens to vote in US elections, because they tend to favor a particular candidate, and you also want to preserve the ability, to the extent possible, to stuff the ballot box through mail-in votes.

I am not going to continue to argue with you why disenfranchising legal voters is bad. Good luck in your future endeavors.

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

And I'm arguing that something like the SAVE Act is going to be at the very most a very minor imposition for everyone legally entitled to vote in the US.

The majority of states (35) require ID for in-person voting. Most of the ones that don't require it (including my own state of New York) are heavily Democratic.

Gee, that's a coincidence....

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AromaticCod9430@reddit

Not every county in the US allows for online orders. I moved to a different state and tried to request a copy of my marriage license. I have to go in person, they won’t even take an order over the phone. How about you shut up and listen to women…

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

Did you try to get it by mail?

Did you check your state vital records department? Often counties are too small to do it online, but I believe you can get those records online from every state in the Union.

Even small states like Vermont and Rhode Island allow you to do it online:

https://health.ri.gov/vital-records

https://www.healthvermont.gov/stats/vital-records/order-vital-records

And also states like Mississippi and Kentucky:

https://msdh.ms.gov/page/31,0,109,811.html

https://www.chfs.ky.gov/agencies/dph/dehp/vsb/Pages/purchase.aspx

But hey, it would take like 5 seconds of Googling to figure that out, so it's impossible I guess.

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AromaticCod9430@reddit

Yes I tried to get it by mail. It’s not Vermont or Rhode Island. Stop talking to me like I’m dumb when I tried to correct you.

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jednaz@reddit

Same here. Both my husband and I have to go in person. I did not change my name but we never got a certified copy, because our County doesn't do that unless you request and pay for it. Everything is held electronically in a database.

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YellowCabbageCollard@reddit

You sound so stupid calling your child distaffbopper. But I can't get a copy of my birth certificate by ordering it online. Last time I had to get one it was in person and it took many hours of waiting.

Also comparing men to women here when men literally don't have to do a damn thing extra to potentially vote is pathetic. Men are smart enough to get their affairs in order by doing nothing when they have same name on their ID as their birth certificate? You are seriously pretending having to jump through an extra hoop is the same thing? I did change my name when I got married so I should have to bring my birth certificate and marriage certificate in now to vote?

I seem to recall people decried giving bottled water to others waiting hours in line to vote as being actual voter interference. But providing real extra legal hoops for voting to citizens is no big deal? Whatever. You will just change your mind about everything with whatever the party tells you. It's not about honesty or consistency.

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

You sound so stupid calling your child distaffbopper.

Pro tip: If you're going to call someone stupid, look up the words they are using first so you understand them first.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/distaff

(also collective) A woman, or women considered as a group.

The distaffbopper is my wife. I chose that neologism to reference her because it's similar in construction to "dittybopper", and I picked dittybopper_05H because in my youth I was one: A 05H Electronic Warfare Signals Intelligence Morse Interceptor. Colloquially known as a "ditty bopper".

Your confident lack of vocabulary is *ASTOUNDING*, but it fits.

So let's take your points:

Last time I had to get one it was in person and it took many hours of waiting.

I just checked for me. It's available online:

https://www.pa.gov/agencies/health/programs/vital-records

And for the distaffbopper and the littlebopper:

https://www.health.ny.gov/vital_records/birth.htm

I mean, how long ago did you apply? Was it in the 1990's? Because even back then you could get them by mail. It took longer, of course: You either had to show up (like you did) or you had to snail mail them a request (usually with your signature notarized so they knew it was you) and they'd snail mail a certified copy back to you.

The second case was because you might have been born in a different state than where you currently reside, which is the case for me.

It was still possible, and not particularly difficult, and if you stood there and waited in line that was on you, because you almost certainly could have done it online or by mail, if it was within the last decade or so.

I did change my name when I got married so I should have to bring my birth certificate and marriage certificate in now to vote?

You would need those in order to *REGISTER* to vote. But you only have to do that when you do things like move, or change your name. YOU HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR DRIVERS LICENSE/ID ANYWAY WHEN YOU DO THAT.

I've had to update my drivers license a couple times in my life when I changed addresses (but not for nearly 30 years now). It's not a big deal, especially these days. I recently had to renew my drivers license (no change). The process was quick and easy, and if I had changed addresses, I'd have to bring some kind of proof like a mortgage statement, lease, utility bill, etc.

In order to vote you would only have to bring your ID card.

But so what? Don't you have your birth certificate and marriage license?

I mean, I can understand losing them in a fire or something, maybe: the distaffbopper and I have all of our important documents in a fire safe, just in case. But we could certainly replace them fairly quickly if we needed to.

If you don't have them because you simply didn't keep track of them, or didn't bother to retain them, should we really be trusting your judgement on who is a good candidate for public office?

I mean, go back and re-read what you wrote. You sound like someone in their late teens or early twenties objecting to the things they have to do now that they are an adult.

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zappy_snapps@reddit

It's it one of the things that works if the SAVE act goes through?

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georgekn3mp@reddit

Sounds like they are prepping to vote no matter what dump says....

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hera-fawcett@reddit

they literally do not have the time to get the passports in order to vote for the next election (april 7th).

i get ppl are all about november voting only but damn yall, most of the local issues happen bc of who is voted in locally. only voting in nov elections really cripples u.

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

YOU WOULDN'T NEED A PASSPORT TO VOTE. THIS IS A LIE.

A RealID compliant drivers license would be good enough. So would a state issued ID or driver's license in addition to a certified birth certificate showing you were born in the US.

Interesting personal trivia: The littlebopper, the adopted son of the distaffbopper and I, would have to show his finalized adoption papers (which we have), and his foundling birth certificate (which we have). Because he was left at the local hospital anonymously. But even there, it's no big deal.

Read the relevant text of the SAVE Act for yourself:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22/text

(b) Documentary proof of United States citizenship.—As used in this Act, the term ‘documentary proof of United States citizenship’ means, with respect to an applicant for voter registration, any of the following:

“(1) A form of identification issued consistent with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States.

“(2) A valid United States passport.

“(3) The applicant's official United States military identification card, together with a United States military record of service showing that the applicant's place of birth was in the United States.

“(4) A valid government-issued photo identification card issued by a Federal, State or Tribal government showing that the applicant’s place of birth was in the United States.

“(5) A valid government-issued photo identification card issued by a Federal, State or Tribal government other than an identification described in paragraphs (1) through (4), but only if presented together with one or more of the following:

“(A) A certified birth certificate issued by a State, a unit of local government in a State, or a Tribal government which—

“(i) was issued by the State, unit of local government, or Tribal government in which the applicant was born;

“(ii) was filed with the office responsible for keeping vital records in the State;

“(iii) includes the full name, date of birth, and place of birth of the applicant;

“(iv) lists the full names of one or both of the parents of the applicant;

“(v) has the signature of an individual who is authorized to sign birth certificates on behalf of the State, unit of local government, or Tribal government in which the applicant was born;

Secondly, read the text: A RealID compliant document that shows citizenship status is considered as good as a passport.

to vote with. not to register to vote. using a realid to register will not fly.

I mean, you're saying, essentially, that women, rural people, young people, low income people, minorities, military personnel, Americans abroad (they mostly have passports, *DUH*) and trans people are too stupid to get certified copies of their birth certificates if they don't already have them, and any documentation they might need.

All you need is your government issued ID, and your birth certificate. For people who have changed their names, documentation showing that like a marriage license

i am saying that it is an added burden to have to present additional certified legal documents, such as a certified marriage license, certified birth certificate, etc. when registering to vote or updating your voting status.

low income ppl--- like myself--- are less likely to have original copies of their certs and will have to fight the system to figure out how to order new ones. then pay for it. women will have to make sure they have their legal marriage license in hand when they go to update their place of residence. military personnel will have to constantly take their certified personal documents w them to update their voting status, due to living abroad or at differing bases. trans ppl will have to have their legal birth certs and certified name changes on them as they go to register or update--- this often puts them in a place of discrimination as their assigned sex at birth may be different than their current sex. should someone pitch a fit about that, what document would they show them? how could they legally prove that they, as a ftm or mtf, are who they say they are if someone accuses them of fraud (bc, lmao, out here in the red states, we got some real pills who work the voting registries. and if they dont want to work w u and understand that u have transitioned, theyre going to put up a whole ass fit about it).

its not that ppl wont be able to. its that itll be much harder to register or update ur voting status. its just another frictional thing, done to make it harder for ppl

What you're really afraid of, though, is that people who aren't eligible to vote by law because they aren't citizens will be prevented from doing so.

idgaf if those who arent citizens dont vote-- or if they do vote. personally, i think if you reside somewhere for over 18months, u should have a voice in how it runs and operates. i think that about legal things, residential laws, how jobs are run, etc. bc if u live there, u should be helping to shape the experience that u engage in. but thats just my personal feelz on things.

im not afraid of noncitizens voting or not voting. i am afraid bc, even at my local level, my politicians have been bought and sold. im afraid bc theyre actively ignoring their constituents and making the community a worse place to live. i am afraid at te fact that corruption is at a county specific level in a random ass not-city area in a red state.

the save act is not something im afraid of, its something that irritates me.

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Mochigood@reddit

It took me three days of driving my homeless sister around to get her a drivers licence because she had to get another social security card, a new copy of her birth certificate, a marriage certificate and then proof of divorce and each stop needed some other bit of paper that we needed to go here and there to get. One of the trips was into the largest city in my state, which is two hours away on a good day, because otherwise it would be a long wait for her document to be processed and mailed. It was a slog and a tank of gas or two for sure.

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justasque@reddit

…A RealID compliant document that shows citizenship status is considered as good as a passport.

I have read that, with the exception of a few states, the vast majority of RealIDs cannot be used as proof of citizenship. As far as I can tell, my RealID does not indicate my citizenship status.

What are your thoughts on this?

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kezfertotlenito@reddit

I've been de-registered twice in the last 10 years. No notice, no explanation. My parents (who are registered differently than I) have never been. Funny how that works...

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LucyJordan614@reddit

Same. De-registered, and had to go to the polls and re-register in order to vote.

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2quickdraw@reddit

YES, THIS.

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iwannaddr2afi@reddit

Anecdotal (per the thread): we're seeing empty tinned fish shelves this last several weeks. Our dog usually gets a can of sardines over a couple of days once a week and we haven't been able to find them for close to a month. Could be people stocking up, but usually this long of a gap is supply chain related.

A job position that the Navy deems is absolutely important, guaranteed is Nukes and Special Warfare, but can be other positions based on demand.

The quality of Chicken of the Sea Chunk Light Tuna in Water has gone down so much. It used to be one of the few things my kid would happily snack on, and he doesn't like it anymore. The textured changed and its much more watery.

Th3_Admiral_@reddit

I assume the same group is behind this as the Michigan Ax The Tax?

Germany - Still stocking up on shelf stable food for me and dog. Not so much because I feel like I need to prepare for emergencies, more like because I see prices for any kind of food and stuff rising and hope that if I don't need to buy the basics for a very long time life will become a bit cheaper for the rest of the year. Luckily I have everything else dog could want or need and don't need to buy new. Prices for good quality dog clothes and toys are going through the roof.

First tourists are coming back to town, it will be interesting to see if in summer the town is overrun by tourists like in the past, also in fall we have elections in Mecklenburg-Westpomerania and it doesn't look too good, AfD (far right) and CDU (trash, right wing, corrupt, party of our current chancellor) will probably make the race. My country lives from tourists visiting and spending money in our towns. If AfD becomes a leading party of our federal state parliament chances are good that tourists will not return next year.

People are boycotting some of the bigger chocolate companies. Chocolates, sweets and chocolate bunnies for easter aren't selling, the companies keep the prices up when everyone knows that prices for chocolate went down a few month ago. Same happened with cookies, cakes, stollen and gingerbread last christmas.

Weatherwise we finally see some warmer spring days.

Stupid farmers (not all of them!) and rangers are once again lobbying to shoot wolves on sight. I don't deny that some farmers had issues with wolves killing some of their sheep but the only solution they have is being allowed to kill wolves. They could work with guarding dogs for live stock like the farmers in our neighbour countries. Or try to use electrical fences and other technics. But no. Just kill everything that isn't cute, fluffy and harmless and everything will be fine again.

Seriously, the one and only thing I hate about my country is the unwillingness to try new paths and solutions, even if they aren't easy and cheap to implement and a 100% success. Sometimes a success rate of 90% is better than not trying at all.

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Head_Leadership_2108@reddit

Hey friend, how much did you stock up on pet food? How long would it last?

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Queasy_Professor_484@reddit

I like to have a minimum of 1 month of food, on site. Like any stock, storage and rotation are key. For a longer periods or transport, I have freeze dry dog food which is light weight.

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xhxusj1234@reddit

As an Australian I had never considered the impact of wolves on farming. Crazy.

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hopefulleo2112@reddit

Executive Chef in the American Southwest for a private religious school. Costs are up 25-40% regarding certain food items or dry goods, like molded compartmentalized paper plates or 8 ounce clear plastic tumblers.

Produce costs are steadily on the rise. A case of 48 heads of Romaine Lettuce, which I could reliably and steadily get, is now 30-40$ instead of the usual 18-24$. Tomatoes, Cucumbers, everything is starting to go downhill regarding quality.

Certain goods like sunflower seeds, canned Dolmas, Sunflower butter, Olive oil, quinoa, canned baby corn, canned beets, certain types of pasta (farfalle, lumache, penne) are in low/no supply.

My food service rep is retiring as she's never seen it so bad, it's worse now than 2008 in terms of order volume for her restauraunts and she's lost 4 customers this year so far to restauraunt depot/alternate suppliers.

I'm being restricted on tomatoes, carrots, onions, I cannot order large amounts of these right now. And if I do order them sight unseen they'll send me a case of old, unsightly produce and give me hell for refusing it at delivery.

It's to the point where the salad bar I do for the kids every day is becoming untouched. I've had to limit the fun toppings like artichokes, sunflower seeds, baby corn, the things these kids actually enjoyed eating. Now with a basic salad bar (Romaine, black olives, cucumber slices, baby carrots, corn nibs, and a rotating crouton or tortilla strip) its like wasting money. The kids won't touch it, I've NEVER had this problem in my 1q years at this job.

Across the board for roughly 100 students it's cost over 54,000$ this year including paper goods, sauce packs, salad bar. It's never cost more than 44k. God forbid I have an equipment failure or something of the sort, we quite literally couldn't afford to fix it.

Something needs to change soon, because with impending gas prices I am terrified of the ramifications it'll have on our supply chains.

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Any_Needleworker_273@reddit

I posted this last week, but I think we're seeing compounding factors at this point, the war driving fuel costs up AND the impacts of advers weather events causing crop failures and shortage this year:

"Husband went to the grocery store yesterday and came home commenting on there being a feeling of sparceness at the store. Especially in produce, pasta, and other staples. (For him to really notice, I think it might be more than usual rather than him dialing into my observations.) He said there was plenty of meat, but I think the prices are so high, people aren't buying it. I've noticed better quality meat coming in as donations to our food pantry, which I think is because people aren't buying it in the store.

Also, I'm not sure about where everyone is, but the weather has led to produce shortages, in particular, carrots. Fresh carrots are always a staple in our house, and while I'd noticed shortages a couple of weeks ago, the husband texted me a sign at our local chain last week indicating it's a larger issue.

Said sign, and related details can be found in this news story: Here's why there is a carrot shortage in Maine, across the US https://share.google/EdK4dS5djPIusuQgZ

Location: Northeast U.S."

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agent_mick@reddit

Don't forget also that I'm sure migrant populations that typical work with produce are scared to go to work, or are being detained in droves.

Regardless of whether or not you view their work as immoral due to "basically slavery", that doesn't change the fact that there's a lot of bodies that would usually be harvesting crops that are not harvesting crops

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Any_Needleworker_273@reddit

100% - migrant labor is integral to how our food systems are currently structured, and I don't blame them one bit for staying away. It is backbreaking work paid peanuts, but then people complain at farmers markets because they want to see Walmart produce prices from small independent farmers working for a livable wage.

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agent_mick@reddit

I certainly wouldn't do that work. Our whole system needs a revamp.

The cognitive dissonance surrounding labor in this country astounds me.

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Any_Needleworker_273@reddit

And it's all balanced on a three-legged stool that is having the legs kicked out from under it.

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SpiritTrailWalker@reddit

You mean maga was never gonna line up to take those jobs?

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mystery_biscotti@reddit

Someone (here?) mentioned carrots being in shortage the other day. I think. Either way, I bought 10# from the restaurant supply store and am processing them for the freezer.

Cheese, too. I bought 5# packs and I'm freezing it in 8oz servings.

The heavy duty reusable gloves I bought? Two left hand gloves. I still have the receipt but "all sales are final". 😅

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carlitospig@reddit

What’s strange about that article is we’ve been having the hottest early spring on record (it was literally 90F before this recent storm that came in four days ago).

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My son found out last night an older coworker has been detained by ICE and is being deported. They have worked at the same company for 19 years and been in the US about 30. Their children are citizens here and mostly adults so adult parent will now be deported to Mexico leaving the children behind.

I find this so incredibly sad. I think we need real immigration laws but I hate what is going on here. I don't foresee there being any work arounds here either. They are building two massive ICE facilities near me. One in a county that's about 25% illegal hispanic immigrants. I'm really not sure how that is supposed to play out or how it's supposed to improve the circumstances for locals.

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Sharp_Pangolin_1525@reddit

That is sad, but here's the problem I have with these types of situations. He had 30 years to become a US citizen. Why is he not one?

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Th3_Admiral_@reddit

For the person I know, he tried. He and his family spent tens of thousands of dollars hiring lawyers and going through the process. He had a social security number and work permit but was still a temporary resident through the years long process to become a citizen. And then near the very end of the process they rejected him because of a crime he committed at 17 years old, almost 30 years ago. He did everything by the books and was still rejected, but not until long after he had a family, a home, a steady job, and had lived his entire life here.

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Altruistic-Soil-810@reddit

My question to you is do you really believe that the United States is the end all be all regarding who is "legal" and who isn't? Because as an Indigenous person, our borders were always open towards migration, both North and South. We always had trade routes going down into modern day Mexico, and extended all the way up into present day Canada. It was only when people came from across the ocean and decided they wanted to land grab everything, did they decide that Indigenous peoples from the Americas were undesirable, and therefore illegal. Since they couldn't kill us off, they opted to corral us onto reservations. We weren't even legally citizens of the US until 1924, and we couldn't practice our own religion on our own lands until 1978. So illegality of the US legal system is a crock for more land grabs and exploitation of Indigenous people. We have tribes like the Kumeyaay which is literally split in half, so one half is on the US side in the San Diego area, and the other half is on the Mexican side...yet they're the same people, now divided in language by colonizers. Are the ones on the Mexican side illegal aliens? Or was their actual homeland divided by people who aren't from here originally, who are now calling the shots against Indigenous people. By accepting these terms of who is illegal or not, you are perpetuating colonial violence against Indigenous peoples on the land you now currently consider home.

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Separate_Fold5168@reddit

Let me ask you this... do you think his kids should be deported with him? They are citizens, but Trump's EO to ignore the 14th amendment would see them stripped of that because of a choice made before they were even born.

I'll answer yours now: Yes he should have followed up in that time. But if he hasn't commited any other violent crimes or felonies, we should be helping him on a path to citizenship and not treating him like Al Qaeda.

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YellowCabbageCollard@reddit

Probably that it's very expensive and he was a line chef for 20 years. Not exactly making a bunch of extra money. Most people here illegally were filling jobs that the government knew darn well they were filling. One of my kids works for people who are technically die hard MAGA but they hire loads of illegal workers in their businesses. And they know this.

I looked it up years ago and the actual govt statistics for farm workers made it very clear the govt has known and documented for decades that's where a huge percentage of farm workers were coming from. But we clearly depended on them and the govt didn't do anything about it. Why didn't they crack down on it decades ago instead of tacitly allowing it to fill needed roles? Or why didn't they offer more affordable and easier transitioning for people they were happy to allow to live and work here for decades?

This county by me with a 25% illegal hispanic population all knows this. Everyone in government knows this. Don't you think the govt just looking the other way for decades lead people to believe it wasn't a problem and if they didn't make enough money working in the poultry processing plant or the local restaurant there was not an urgency to spend years and a ton of money to do it? Everyone from the restaurant owner, the poultry plant owners, the sheriffs, the governor etc was complicit. You can't just blame it on Biden allowing people over the border.

dittybopper_05H@reddit

We're getting ready to lose a huge number of customers very soon. My employer is expecting that we could lose about 1/5th to 1/4th of our current customers this month.

In fact, we're already making extensive preparations for that pretty much inevitable loss.

Still a fuckton of people taking passport photos and bringing the entire family in for one, but that’s been going on since like, November 2024. But there’s been a huge uptick in people wanting to gtfo I guess. We went from maybe 6 or 7 a day back in November ‘24 to I don’t even know how many now. Because they just keep coming in every 5 minutes

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ZenorsMom@reddit

When you say Easter Europe are we talking Frence\Netherlands\Germany\Austria or Hungary\Czechia\Poland?

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NickMeAnotherTime@reddit

Eastern Europe - Romania. But we are highly connected with Poland etc.

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Iwentthatway@reddit

I was in a Kroger owned grocery store the other night, and the produce clerk noticed I was looking under the lettuce. She mentioned that they were not getting their shipments on time or at all for some things. The quality of what they were getting has been noticeably worse.

This is in the PNW

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Mochigood@reddit

I went and bought the stuff to grow lettuce because of this. In Oregon.

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missbwith2boys@reddit

I’m thinking maybe deportation of farm workers has finally had a serious effect?

I’ve been seeing complaints here and there for a few months. I’m definitely seeing issues with some produce but not all.

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NickMeAnotherTime@reddit

I have work colleagues that travel 40 miles daily on the highway. He noticed 3/6 gas stations were not selling fuel, only cigarettes.

Now I don't think they are correct to be so pessimistic, but if you consider this younger generation has grown up with social media, youtube, insta, etc shoving (overnight) success stories in their faces, along with all the economic bad news and destruction of entry level jobs, I'm betting a lot of them see the world as more divided and 'Winner take All' than it used to be, and feel a lot more pressure to "hit a (economic) home run" as the 'only way they will make it'. This is something not limited to youth - most of my gen X peers are feeling that way about having any sort of retirement.

State Farm. I have been with them for decades, though. They just sent a notice that they also look at credit reports now. For years I would shop around but an independent sales guy said they could not beat them, best to stay there. It has proven true. I live in a rural area, as well, so that may lower the cost. I have few riders, just an outbuilding thing. No need for flood insurance where I am.

I haven’t even heard of that war, and I watch some news and read tons of Reddit

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UND_mtnman@reddit

War Fronts on YouTube does a good job of covering lesser talked about wars. https://youtu.be/lsPx6BaiPY0

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kitty60s@reddit

I only know about that war from twitter and there really hasn’t been much coverage of it on there either.

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slaveleiagirl78@reddit

I only know because my boyfriend's paternal side are in Pakistan. So, we get all the news between this and what they can see going on in Iran. The Pakistanis don't want Taliban in Pakistan, and feel that the Afghanis need to do more to keep them out. It's been a long standing thing that pops up. I guess they're in talks again to create a ceasefire.

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FattierBrisket@reddit

Girlfriend (travel nurse) and I are looking to move on to another assignment for the first time in a year and a half. From what I can see so far, housing is still ungodly expensive everywhere and hospitals are trying the usual lowball nonsense.

That being said, the basic ratio we've been maintaining since 2019 (minus a brief surge in 2020) of wanting to pay per month no more than she makes in a week, so as to offset the expenses of being mobile and still build our savings, that remains possible most places as long as we don't take the shittiest jobs/nicest housing. This is all East coast; not sure about anywhere else.

Will continue to monitor.

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Lady-Blood-Raven@reddit

Same on the West Coast.

MD aware. Will continue to monitor.

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Perfect-Gap8377@reddit

Europe. Biomedical field. Upper management looks to cuts production and outsource many devices production due to low margins. Has done it for years and keeps doing it.

Chinese manufacturing has lower price, as they integrate vertically and use machines and not people in clean rooms. India has cheaper software/hardware development.

Florida. Gas prices went up significantly yesterday.

Working in a university food service setting as an artisan baker, I can tell you the powers that be are ON IT with the cost of things. We have a huge budget thanks to the way we are structured, (allows for experimentation and mistakes of very large batches) and yet the food cost has been hammered at us lately. This is a new thing.