• freely1333@reddthat.comEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Ngl China didn’t touch my phone upon entry. Think my iris got scanned though and certainly got full palm printed.

      • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        One of the two people I know who have been to china had their phone taken for hours when they arrived. The other person reported much the same experience as you. The friend who had her phone taken was a US citizen but born of Chinese immigrants. The other who didn’t get their phone taken was not. I can’t help but think that her parents status there had something to do with.

  • Jamablaya@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Don’t keep anything incriminating on your phone, yeah american border guards but also the fucking RCMP likes to grab phones.

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      They’re a scientist. Science is pretty international and often involves travelling to all sorts of countries for conferences with other researchers in your field.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 days ago

        not to US now, that is became pretty anti-science. stems is already suffering in many areas before trump was elected, he just made things worst.

    • SaturdayMorning@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 days ago

      This. I personally have no plan going to usa now and in the future. Unfortunately some Canadians may still have to go for work related trips. Just be aware that you may or may not need to register in the new “Alien Registration Requirement”.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Just be aware that you may or may not need to register in the new “Alien Registration Requirement”.

        And if you choose wrong, they might lock you up in a detention center concentration camp.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        Soon, you’ll need it to fly domestically.

        They actually set this up pretty far in advance though. For instance, I’m from Texas, where any IDs issued since October 2016 are complaint. It’s impossible for me to have a current ID that’s non-compliant.

        So from my perspective there won’t really have been any changes since 2001 in my flying experience.

      • LordCrom@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        Afaik, your state Id or driver license is your legal identification. And states honor the IDs of other states.

        I refused to use id.me to get unemployment insurance because I don’t want a private 3rd party having that info plus a face scan.

        • SaturdayMorning@lemmy.caEnglish
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          9 days ago

          I worry about this: https://www.dhs.gov/real-id but from the website, it seems that many states id/driver licenses are “REAL ID compliant” and you only need it if you fly domestically or wanting to access “certain federal facilities”.

          Stay safe, friend.

  • Maple Engineer@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 days ago

    Yup. That’s a possibility. I work in security and would tell them it’s just how we do things. If they send me home I will spend the week with my family instead of sitting in stupid training all week.

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    What the actual fuck is going on with my country?!? For fuck sake, not all of us are fascist bellends.

        • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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          9 days ago

          I did everything I could…

          Did you? Are you?

          How often are you holding your elected officials to account?

          how often are you hitting the streets protesting?

          How much local and community organizing are you doing?

          How much “voting with you wallet” are you doing?

    • jmantothe64@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Things are still gonna get worse, we’re not gonna get through this until their actions hurt so many people that enough of them get fed up and it leads to one of those belgrade or hungary sized protests

      • zephorah@lemm.ee
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        10 days ago

        You’re talking about a country that largely lives with its head in the sand. America is notorious for avoiding the news, especially world news. The fact that any is ingested as all is likely thanks to social media. (Im talking large strokes, middle of the bell curve behaviors). As long as the family unit is ok, people generally think they’re ok, and live with blinders for anything outside of that. This life approach has existed long before Trump was even a blip in politics.

        Remember, inertia is a seismic, global driving force of action for much of humanity.

        I think it would likely take everyone’s personal house burning down in tandem to inspire mass action and those who still had houses would still function via the force of inertia propelling them through their daily habits, ignoring everyone else.

        I say that as an American. I don’t like it, but it’s true. That and liberals a very un unified and tend not to like each other. A lot of gatekeeping takes place there rather than uniting and doing, always has. It’s a scattered, messy, un unified party.

        In addition, there was another post made in response to a “do something” rant that I think sums up the other piece in play.

        “I don’t know how to start a riot.”

        Which is a fair point. How? Seriously. And where do you find people when your full personal circle is 2-7 individuals (if you have friends at all, it’s a major problem people seek therapy for these days). and half of the people who are friends with are either MAGA or a dissociated young man who spends all their free time behind a screen engaged in escapism.

        We’re kinda screwed on the psychology side over here.

        • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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          10 days ago

          Generally I agree, but also I feel like we get held to a higher standard for some reason? I don’t believe the average person in China or India or wherever is significantly more informed about the news and world than we are in America. It’s just that when you have no time and energy outside of work it’s difficult to remain informed (and cross checked) about everything going on. Our orange Hitler has done like 4 things a day since being elected that could probably warrant a documentary each just to explain all the bullshit, and that’s just what’s going on here.

          • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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            9 days ago

            I feel like we get held to a higher standard for some reason?

            Not really. My expectations about Americand are pretty low, and even then I’m regularly being disappointed by what I see them doing.

            At minimum you guys should be held to the standards that you claim for yourselves, but that’s so much higher than I have ever seen your country achieve.

            .

            If Americans want the respect from the rest of the world that your country claims it deserves, you guys need to fix a helluva lot of things.

            • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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              9 days ago

              In your world where every group is a monolith, I guess that might make sense. 🙄 What country are you from?

          • zephorah@lemm.ee
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            10 days ago

            but also I feel like we get held to a higher standard for some reason?

            I realize I discuss inertia as a driving human force a lot, but inertial force doesn’t just rule over behaviors but thinking and expectation as well.

            This one is derived from that American ethos born of not just 1776 but WW2 and the post WW2 remapping of world politics, centered in the West. That’s it. We’ve been riding and reinforcing that inertial force ever since. That is simply how long and powerful inertial force can be within the context of psychology.

            We The People hit a brick wall in November, but so did the rest of the world.

            How that brick wall happens for individual Americans, wakes them up and energizes them instead of just making them feel tired and broken, I don’t know.

            Aside regarding headlines. Germany is the classic comparison in studies. Brutal headlines and imagery are typical, even pre social media.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 days ago

      A third of you are fascist bellends, a third are fighting against the fascist bellends … and a third are just standing there doing nothing.

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    10 days ago

    I thought that was basic opsec. Burner phone with a week of use, paid in cash on you. Real phone (if you need it) in a bag, battery removed and separate by any means. That’s not just crossing borders, that’s anything longer than a city bus.

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    My company isn’t organizing any off-sites to the US for my remote first company anymore because of this shit lol. I think partially because nobody outside of the US would even go

  • nick@midwest.social
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    10 days ago

    Turn off your phone before going through customs or tsa. They can’t compel you to give your password out, but biometrics don’t fall under that category.