For the other way around:
Wedding cake looks great but usually tastes awful (compared to other cake). These cakes are usually drier, or are starting to get old by the time they get eaten.

The Avatar movie depicts what could happen in a scenario where we find intelligent life, but we’re the more advanced civilization.

The image shows “Squidward” on the left looking down on his neighbours, SpongeBob and Patrick.

Squidward is an older grumpy character who takes things seriously.

SpongeBob and Patrick are two idiots that run around having fun in whatever they do.

Squidward is constantly annoyed with their carefree attitude and their antics.

Adding onto this, the reason they press charges against the money instead of you is that, in the US, you would be innocent until proven guilty. They get around this by “charging the money” instead in which case it can be considered “guilty” until proven innocent.

What happens next is that you would have to sue them to prove the money/property innocent in court to get it back. Additionally you can’t sue and recover legal fees. So, if they only confiscated a few thousand dollars, you would likely spend more money trying to win in court than you would get awarded in the end.

It’s also worth noting, there’s an incentive for the TSA to tip off DEA agents to sieze the cash because the DEA will then share some of the money back to the TSA. Likewise for local/state police, even if they can’t sieze it under local laws, they can sieze it for some federal law and then the cash will be split between the law enforcement agency that siezed it and some federal agency.

More information here from a group that’s been fighting this in court (and winning some cases with the Supreme Court) here: https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/

Yeah, the actual puppet ones were definitely easier to find. I spent a little more time trying to find the flash version on YouTube.

Well, at least I didn’t have any Charlie bite my finger.

This can also have the opposite effect. There are a number of cases where the wrong person has been arrested simply for sharing a name with someone else that has a warrant for their arrest.

Downvoting means something different to everyone. It could just be that they felt you didn’t add to the conversation well with a simple LOL and some emojis.
Some people downvote whenever they see an emoji.
I doubt anyone is downvoting because they “disagree” with you on this case, since the one user that actually downvoted the post didn’t even downvote you.

I would just ignore these downvotes and move on.

Most people actually agree on the same thing once you get down into the details of abortion. For some reason everyone likes to lump themselves into “pro-life” or “pro-choice” camps and then argue about the extreme takes from either side.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx

There was a former employee for MrBeast (Donaldson) who posted 2 very long videos about his time working for him:

Allegations from DogPack404 On July 24, 2024, former employee DogPack404 posted a YouTube video accusing Donaldson of staging contests, running illegal lotteries, falsifying signatures, and misleading viewers.[172][173][174] He followed with an interview of former staffer Jake Weddle, who described being denied sleep during productions, said the team employed Jake Franklin’s brother-in-law despite his status as a registered sex offender, and alleged that a cameraman tried to intoxicate female participants with paint fumes.[174] Weddle identified the cameraman as “Delaware”, claiming Donaldson knew about his conviction, which stemmed from an incident when Delaware was 16 and the victim was 11.[175]

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DogPack404#cite_ref-173

The videos he posted are long (~51 and 54 min), but he does comment a lot on MrBeast’s character while making his case against him. His second video focuses a lot more on this and he brings in another former employee while showing off some screenshots of others who wanted to remain more anonymous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHFvR0ArXPs

He mentioned a part 3 video, but never posted it.

On the other side, Legal Eagle offers a shorter video, focused only on the legal aspects of the DogPack’s allegations in the first video. Basically, MrBeast is likely protected by whatever waivers he has his employees/contestants sign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4CePWWN1Xs

I’ve never heard of Falun Gong until now, but looking into it, the 2 groups don’t seem to be related.

No, I’ve actually never had phrases get stuck in my head. Nowhere near the way songs do at least.

If you’re concerned about privacy, you should probably know that a lot in the fediverse is very open by design so that other instances can communicate effectively.

That’s why everyone can see what you upvote/downvote, even if Lemmy itself doesn’t show this to you in its UI.

Video posted here:
https://lemmy.world/post/42277358

It looks like someone with a backpack was trying to get away from them in the very first second of the video.

Link to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0IM1mW4Y8Y

Link to video when he made the same statement almost a year ago:
https://tube.sbcloud.cc/videos/watch/2702af4d-64c4-41d0-972e-5433d9de7764?isPeertubeContent=1

Not just mods, but sometimes even instance Admins. This is one of the main reasons why so many left .ml

Nothing wrong with citing the source.

Definitely watch this statement from him as well:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTeICbujUKa/

The video featured in this post (not the fault of @slothrop@lemmy.ca) was edited in a way to make it look like he was making direct threats to ICE.

From the article, this doesn’t sound like a scam specific to Uber/Ride shares.

What we know:

• “an Uber driver who he wrongly thought was trying to rob him after scam phone calls deceived them both”
• “wrongly assuming she was in on a plot to get $12,000 in supposed bond money for a relative, authorities said.”
• “The driver fell victim to the same scammer, driving to Brock’s home between Dayton and Columbus to pick up a package for delivery, according to investigators.”

There are a lot of ways to scam people over the phone: tech-support/refund scams, Scams where legal action is threatened unless you pay (ex: IRS scams), emergency money requests from friends in trouble (ransom scams, bond scams, etc), pig butchering scams (a.k.a romance scams or when you get that random text from someone pretending to reach out to the wrong number), employment scams.

Since we know that the man fell for a bond scam, it’s likely that the Uber driver was scammed into working as a money laundering mule for the real scammers. It’s very likely that the Uber driver had fallen for one of the other scams and then she was told to pick up packages where she could earn some of “her” money back. She would get more as long as she only took a certain amount and forwarded on the rest. Either that, or she was scammed into working for a “company” where “clients” send in packages of money, and she transfers it to different accounts as well as a little to her own.

Edit: formatting

Closest thing to that is the Consumer Rights Wiki: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page