Verdant Banana
Still a very green banana.
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Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused their demands to show ID without explanation or cause.English3·8 days agoThat is why cops have Terry Stops that allow them to fill in the reason as whatever and the judge always sides with the cops
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Thumbs up to people dying.English1·10 days agoclinton? biden was last president
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Thumbs up to people dying.English362·10 days agoour last president supported segregation, Trump, Obama who had one who supported segregation as vp, bush, clinton, bush, reagan, carter, ford, nixon, johnson
been here for long time
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•‘I Don’t Want Any Light Shining on Our District:’ Schools Serving Undocumented Kids Go UndergroundEnglish14·12 days agoInternment of Japanese Americans
United States heard change and shot Malcom X and MLK
United States just got done having a president that supported segregation
Dakota Access Pipeline protests
Terry stops have allowed police to stop anyone at any time for any reason and arrest them for whatever the officer makes up
not a complete list and again this is not unprecedented but just ramping up more of what was definitely already here
only people not seeing are the sheltered ones in HOAs
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•‘I Don’t Want Any Light Shining on Our District:’ Schools Serving Undocumented Kids Go UndergroundEnglish42·13 days agowhen was it a free country?
to my family this is just business as usual with extra manpower
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto Art Share🎨@lemmy.world•Art for japanese model Marina Shiraishi, by MeEnglish4·13 days agonice tits!
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto Computer RPGs@lemmy.world•'They told me to destroy' my backups, Fallout creator Tim Cain says: 'People high up at companies take authority but no responsibility' for game preservationEnglish39·14 days agoIf you’re wondering why he didn’t just go rogue and save everything anyway, Cain noted ownership disputes are not to be taken lightly: “They told me to destroy it. I did … When you’re being threatened with a lawsuit, you delete it all.”
democracy fails when people fail to stand up
Cain bent over as soon as they whipped it out
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying UpEnglish21·16 days agoThe picture seeing above is still like this
Reconstruction is at a sloth’s pace with i40 down to one lane in each direction despite it being a major artery connecting east to west
Took forever for people to get water and power but not sure if everyones service got restored
News is kept tamped down to the point unless there in person no way to know how bad
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Has anyone else always been the "crazy one" for their whole life? How have you been able to deal with this? Both mentally and your actions in the real world.English62·16 days agoLots of THC, dash of denial, plenty of movies/TV, shopping, and tasty food
Growing up never knew about the issues adults were facing and now as an adult get to take those same adults from childhood for their monthly shot at the low income mental health facility becoming a huge circle that will have to broke eventually
Buckle up because this ride is only getting bumpier
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto pics@lemmy.world•Jeff Bezos spotted in Venice swimming in the Grand CanalEnglish2·19 days agoOur hearts will move on
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profitsEnglish24·20 days agoAnd absolutely nothing will be done about it and it didn’t require a study to know these people/goods delivery apps are not on the up and up
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•A powerful tool in Trump’s immigration crackdown: The routine traffic stopEnglish41·20 days agoyes they are VERY well defined by the arresting officer and always held up by the judges
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•A powerful tool in Trump’s immigration crackdown: The routine traffic stopEnglish192·21 days agoTerry Stops means the officer gets to make up something that amounts to reasonable cause
No 4th amendment needed and has been an issue for a long time
Alarms should been raised long before Trump
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•‘RFK Jr is a disaster’: Staff describe chaos in ‘anti-science’ regimeEnglish429·24 days agoWe did get beef tallow fries back in the United States again available at Steak 'n Shakes because of RFK Jr
Guess we gotta take the wins we are given
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered.English3·25 days agothere is no penalty for rejecting an offer
acceptance rate will get lowered and lower acceptance rate leads to less offers meaning less pay
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Kamala Harris Didn’t Lose Because of RacismEnglish5726·26 days agoA black woman was not the issue
Both parties and their presidental candidates are just puppets like the rest of their parties and do not have the public interests at heart
Kamala held a celebrity filled gala and invited Republicans while the citizens were outside the gathering protesting about inequality, wars, healthcare, wages/employee rights and were not allowed in
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Senate Democrats Are Letting Trump’s Judicial Nominees Off the HookEnglish245·26 days agoBecause both puppet parties are bought off by the elites
his order does no good since the cop can claim terry stop which gives the officer the ability to make up a reasonable suspicion which includes anything