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This is a better article but basically she was 'working' in the US by exchanging help around the house for a place to stay. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80y3yx1jdyo

Apparently the Canadians were concerned she'd work while in Canada? This kind of housework for accommodation is super common in the backpacking, hostel, hitchhiking kind of space. It's ridiculous to treat tourists like this because of simply doing a little house work.

Another example with hikers going along the AT or PCT will frequently do housework like activities to payback hostels or shuttle drivers.

Why? End to end encryption is a real thing, look at all the planning for 9/11 that was done on AOL chat rooms or instant messenger using burner accounts, way back in the day. Nowadays there are so many ways to be anonymous online, e2e encryption apps, vpns, the mass of forums and ways to temporarily setup email, it's insanity to think the primary way a foreign nation would spy is to go through the trouble of having individuals apply for refuge or asylum status just to try and recruit American officials to spy

I was thinking of Robert Hanssen. Most of the spies just end up being double agents.

People on the Internet, it's ridiculously easy to do it compared to spy movie meetings in person, leaving a newspaper on certain park benches with certain letters highlighted or things like that.

It's crazy this article mentions these Russian refugees as potential spies when it tends to be Americans being paid by Russia that do the most damage. I'm not even thinking of Trump!

There is just so much time in a day and I think nostalgia does come to play with this as well. Gaming tends to correlate to being younger and having more free time, so by playing the same games you did back then you're reliving those days.

Just a thought anyway, I tend to play older games as well, but also newer games like Baldur's gate 3 or Path of Exile 2.

Correct me if I'm wrong but what could the judge even do to these DoJ staff? Throw them in jail for a few days? Trump would just pardon them, wouldn't he?

It's messed up how low my federal student loan interest rates were. I was paying my loans off in the early 2000s and I swear my interest was only like 2%!

I don't think anything that they did to this lady was legal but for her to attend the funeral and then admit that to the agents seems like a exceedingly bad decision.

I'm kinda mystified why you'd attend a funeral of such a figure, take a bunch of pictures of you there(?), and fly back to the USA with the administration currently in place and not expect a shitshow. Is this an extreme version of 'don't talk to the cops' or was this lady just very naive? Even as a US citizen I'd probably wipe my phone before flying back to the US just to avoid anything weird popping up if it was searched.

Chickens die from it, I think it's like 85%+ fatal to them so the factory farms will just mass kill all of them.

Is this your first time? American politicians don't give up power just because they are old. Feinstein, McConnell, Biden, Thurmond are just a few examples.

This is Pinterest basically.