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Naturalized citizens and trans people are definitely at the point of concern about passports being revoked

I wouldn't mind the contact, in case this bill is not passed in Italian parliament!

So just for the record, a trans woman is too strong for "women's" sports teams, but if she exceeds the new physical standards she still can't enlist? Sounds like DEI for cis people to me.

No, this process takes 10-15 years for an applicant to get permission to enter the US, and once the applicant is in the country, the residency application takes as much as a year, well past the expiration of the initial travel authorization.

During this limbo period, it is best to hide from law enforcement to avoid ending up in a deportation camp in el Salvador or Guantanamo.

Because that is how you get them to leave.

Actually the only time I've ever needed one is outside of the country. You need a police report from anywhere you lived for more than six months to apply for residencies, get teaching jobs, etc etc. the only authority in the US that can do this and provide a report acceptable outside the country is the FBI.

Get an FBI background check, and get it apostilled. Easy to do from your local post office in the US, difficult and expensive to do outside the us, and you will need it for many things you might want to do in other countries

If it's the police that keep breaking in and shitting on your pillow it would be best to move to a different town.

They seem to be using Molotov cocktails - that is, about a liter of gasoline ignited and spread when the bottle breaks. Since the car body itself is metal and glass, I would guess that until the battery ignites, it's much the same mechanism of any other car burning.

Plastics in the wheel wells, mirrors, tires are ignited, which burn hot enough to ignite more protected plastics. Eventually, the battery is heated to the point of thermal runaway (analogous to the fuel tank in an internal combustion car), and then it burns to the ground.

I don't think it was the destruction of the building, but rather the implications of the inevitable maybe century to follow which would bring reduction in human rights, war, chaos, political upheaval.

One could argue that the political chaos were in right now could be traced back to 9/11. I was relatively young on the day, but still an adult who fully grasped the fork in the road this would take us down, and I was not wrong or overreacting.

It was our Franz Ferdinand.

For me too. Watching that footage where it's live and the second plane hits and everyone is speechless trying to process. Longest 5 seconds we will ever witness, it's 5 seconds that went from "oh my an accident how could this happen" to "the world is not going to be the same after this, there's no going back"

Your payments are not terrible for today's car market, and you have a practical, late model car. It doesn't seem like you will come out ahead on getting a different car because of the transaction costs associated (registration, etc).

If you don't drive it, it will depreciate slower and when and if it no longer meets your needs you will get more for it. You could probably get an older model for cheaper, but it will inevitably need work and you roll the dice with being stuck with an expensive repair.

You could also lease an electric car with the stupid low lease prices they are offering, but then you are still on the hook for expensive insurance and are in a worse position in three years.

Dump any extra you have into extra payments on the car for an easy 7% ROI, and use it to get groceries once a week.