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Cake day: February 10th, 2025

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  • The memo, published on 11 June, calls on attorneys in the department to institute civil proceedings to revoke a person’s United States citizenship if an individual either “illegally procured” naturalization or procured naturalization by “concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation”.

    Ironically, this exactly describes Elon Musk’s situation where he was misrepresenting that he was on a student visa while he was working on a startup. Which would be a willful misrepresentation and grounds to have his citizenship revoked.

    It’s also a blank check to selective enforcement when any material fact discrepancy can be investigated and used to target any recent immigrants.







  • They’re not paying the government $5 million.

    In order to be eligible for this (and the EB-5) you have to make an investment in the US.

    The EB-5 program requires you create jobs, so typically you’ll see a wealthy foreign family buy and operate a small established business with a staff. However, this requires that the visa holder is capable of actually operating a business.

    The “Trump Card” raises the investment amount to $5 million but drops the employee requirement. That way, if you’re really rich, you can just deposit $5 million into some Wall Street fund and get a US Visa. This isn’t about Trump trying to earn money, it’s him “fixing” a program that bothers his class of people around the world.

    The EB-5 program was created to stimulate local jobs and create jobs around the country. Trump’s program doesn’t care about creating jobs or investments in local communities, its just a Fast Pass for the US theme park.




  • It’s safest to assume that, if you’re posting on public social media, that your words will eventually be linked to your physical person.

    When you’re talking about an entity like the US Government, it will have a lot of tools to de-anonymize you (See: Snowden).

    It is safest for the average person to just assume that everything you’re posting on social media has your real-life name attached to it and that a federal law enforcement agent is reading what you post.

    VPNs don’t help you from being browser fingerprinted or from zero-day exploits or any number of other attack types that can de-anonymize you. The Internet isn’t anonymous and hasn’t been for over a decade.




  • Eventually people will become media savvy enough to recognize weasel words. In case you’re not:

    ‘Canada is considering joining the US’ is not wrong, it’s just misleading.

    The reading that most people will take from it is “Cananda is considering joining the US and that consideration is leading them to join the US” as this is generally how ‘considering’ is used in English.

    But, it isn’t technically untrue. The ‘Canada should join the US’ topic has been a pretty hot topic in Canada. Overwhelmingly people are against it, but you can’t be against something without considering it.

    ‘Considering’ is a weasel word that allows for people to imply one thing without technically lying.


    You’ll also see ‘after’ used a lot as a weasel word.

    “Stock prices fall after oil futures increase” implies a causal link (i.e. that oil futures rising caused stock prices to fall) when, technically, it only states a temporal link: Oil Futures rose and then 24 hours later Stock prices fell. So stock prices fell after oil futures increased.

    It’s just as technically correct to write “Stock prices rise after local farmer’s prized cow gives birth”. Sure, those are two things that happened and the sentence is describing the correct order of things but it implies that these two events are linked in some way.

    Hopefully this makes you one of today’s lucky 10,000