okay nevermind it IS a word now and this is exactly what it means.

As someone on the front lines of the court system, I’m confirming this. It’s easy to assume that people are being hyperbolic. They’re not. People in the courthouse for speeding tickets and child support are being strongarmed into locked rooms and arrested, loaded into vans under tents behind the courthouse, and they built a fence with netting over it to prevent reporters and court watchers from photographing faces.

One local jail contracted with ICE voluntarily. We were getting close to forcing them to actually follow the rules of ICE detainers and release people if ICE hadn’t come for them. That’s over now. If anyone gets bond on a pending criminal charge, they are arrested and deported without the chance to prove innocence or guilt.

Two of my clients were victims of severe domestic violence. Nearly all have dependent children. Some of the children are US citizens. There are no questions. No support. Give your kids to CPS — this is the only option.

You know undocumented people can get a driver’s license? They can file taxes and get a tax ID? Those, the ones who tried to obey the law, are being taken out one by one, because their names are in a database that they voluntarily joined. Because they want to be here. They want to be Americans.

The judge in a case of mine gave someone a two-day jail sentence. Gone. Case deferrals for dismissal are available for all Americans; if an undocumented person tries to take the same deal, they’re gone. A child client of mine had his father disappear to ICE. A woman had her husband disappear.

It’s now. Detainees kept in horrible conditions, unfed, unwashed, no lawyers, no doctors. It’s now. Shipped to countries where they’ve never been and left without papers. It’s now. It’s now. It’s happening now. It’s happening now.

Hey so in case you're like me and wondered: Can you ban members without them being in the server?

The answer is yes, you absolutely can! It'll look like this - the numbers you paste will be what's "banned"

However my sibling tried this in her servers and found that One of them was NOT a string of numbers, like so:

And for clarity it isn't a difference in user or device, this is what she got elsewhere:

So if you ban these numbers and the message shows the actual username? Pretty sure that means they were in there.

Very unpleasant way to check the veracity of this post but hopefully this is a helpful tip for anyone who was concerned - my sib would have No Reason to add these in herself and didn't have any clue it was in there.

Personally, I'd say even if you are still worried about misinfo/fearmongering/etc from this post, think of it this way - worst case scenario is you're banning a bot you'll never use or need. Not a person, a bot. There's no real damage done playing it safe and running the ban commands through, aside from maybe losing some time doing so.

Best of luck everyone.

Wishing I'd seen this more quickly - Had to take these things out of a lot of creative spaces just now. I'm not convinced that the username only shows up if they were in there, but I do think it's better safe than sorry, especially when peoples' art is involved.

@quidnunc-life @inkvoices @alistrawrites

@returnsnull7404 hey this is VERY much real I just took all of them off my discord

This worked on my end too (two servers, one of which only has ME ALONE as a member! Also worked for a friend who had a similar experience)

Uhm ☝️ what did celiacs do before. Just suffer?

We died.

The same as diabetics! We died!

There are so many things newer and more experimental than HRT. And mostly the answer to “what happened before” is simply “they fucking died”

We died, and it really fucking hurt the whole time we were dying.

When insulin was first developed, the first kids they gave it to were in the end stages of diabetic failure. People described it as like watching these children rise from the dead. Their blood was literally burning them. They were so weak they could barely raise their heads. Then, one shot of insulin, and they sat up, and their color came back.

Before the medical treatment, we simply died.

In the same vein:

"The simultaneous borrowing of French and Latin words led to a highly distinctive feature of modern English vocabulary: sets of three items, all expressing the same fundamental notion but differing slightly in meaning or style, e.g., kingly, royal, regal; rise, mount, ascend; ask, question, interrogate; fast, firm, secure; holy, sacred, consecrated. The Old English word (the first in each triplet) is the most colloquial, the French (the second) is more literary, and the Latin word (the last) more learned." (Howard Jackson and Etienne Zé Amvela, "Words, Meaning and Vocabulary: An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology." Continuum, 2000)

via ThoughtCo

Though I like how John McWhorter phrases it better:

But language tends not to do what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.

from "English is not normal"

When I was in college, I was studying for a classics minor and took a course on Greek & Latin etymology in English, and I remember we had a guest lecture from a professor in Medieval Studies--I want to say it was Craig Davis--who came to talk to us from the Anglo-Saxon side of things. I remember being particularly fascinated by when he talked about Norman social structure and how that affected language. He gave us the cow/beef and pig/pork example from that second article, and also pointed out in general that a lot of our "at home" words (including... home, hearth etc) have Anglo-Saxon origins, and a lot of our higher-formality "professional" words (profession, office) have Latin origins, which can partly be traced back to the popular phenomena of Norman soldiers having English wives who preserved their own language when speaking to their children.

That's not the only factor, of course, and these articles go into a bunch, but it's something that always stuck with me. There are so many features of our modern world that may seem nonsensical but can be traced back to logical sources. History is cool, dudes.