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Need faster e-scooter!
45 MPH is not the slowest ever, and actually the issue is that I was in the bike lane attempting to pass a truck and then they suddenly turned without using their signal or checking their mirror. So actually the lesson apparently was don't attempt to pass vehicles on a scooter, more speed is bad.
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Would you elaborate why? (without being vague) I assume it's not common sense just because you did it? Issues with border patrol can happen in any country. If they have bad mood, or you suddenly decided to piss them off, they will do their best to make your life harder. The US is not the best or worst to that matter. People who chose working as border patrol are not the smartest people out there (otherwise it is unli…
The news is full of stories where random travelers are detained for multiple weeks on the US border. I don't want that in my life. As simple as that.
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The news is full of stories where random travelers are detained for multiple weeks on the US border. I don't want that in my life. As simple as that.
Would you share a link or two? Even what you say is true, I doubt those travelers were random ones
https://www.dw.com/en/german-nationals-us-immigration-detain...
https://lamag.com/latravel/detained-at-the-border-what-forei...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tufts-student-grabbed-off-...
I really don't want this kind of nonsense in my life. Why would I visit a country that thinks this kind of treatment is okay?
> Before traveling, back up your devices so you don’t lose anything permanently. Then delete anything you’re worried about being misinterpreted or saved by the government. That can include conversations that compromise the privacy of the people on the other end. You might delete messages about politics, contact information for political dissidents, apps that save offline copies of sensitive documents like Google Docs…
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What kind of business is this, if US border is danger but Chinese is not?
I've been to Shanghai multiple times. Every time the border check was quick, efficient and uneventful. Unlike JFK where it's a 2h wait almost every time wiht 'random' extra security.
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Exceptions, such as the entirety of Europe? This level of privacy violation is truly incomprehensible to most citizens of European countries.
I gave the example of the U.K., a dystopian privacy violator. The U.K. is in Europe. The entirety of Europe would not come close to making a majority of countries. Even if I grant you the "entirety of Europe", I bet I'm still right that most (i.e., more than half) of countries reserve the right to search your device at the border, and will compel you to give the password. For instances where the authorities wish to s…
> Before traveling, back up your devices so you don’t lose anything permanently. Then delete anything you’re worried about being misinterpreted or saved by the government. That can include conversations that compromise the privacy of the people on the other end. You might delete messages about politics, contact information for political dissidents, apps that save offline copies of sensitive documents like Google Docs…
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My Lenovo from last year still has non-soldered NVMe drives. I would probably just install Windows on a separate partition and set it to boot to that, then install a few games and set my Chrome homepage. I bet CBP won't be mucking around with bootloader settings looking for Linux, and even so it would be pretty trivial to just remove GRUB from the EFI partition for the travel days.
This is something no on discusses but I've wondered heavily- GRUB can be made to not show a menu and then boot up Windows automatically, in like a second or two with no one the wiser. [There is an obnoxious welcome to grub message that pops up now but I see a public project out there that solves this very easily called GRUB shusher] I don't know if other bootloaders outside GRUB have a silent/hidden start option, as…
I am a US citizen though. The only real goal for me at CBP is to avoid secondary at all. I'm not worried at all about them coming for me after I leave the airport. If that sort of stuff starts to happen... I am screwed anyway. They can find records of everything I've said by just compelling US companies to disclose it to them.
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Would you share a link or two? Even what you say is true, I doubt those travelers were random ones
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/canadian-detained-us-bo... https://www.dw.com/en/german-nationals-us-immigration-detain... https://lamag.com/latravel/detained-at-the-border-what-forei... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tufts-student-grabbed-off-... I really don't want this kind of nonsense in my life. Why would I visit a country that thinks this kind of treatment is okay?
Rest of articles state vague cases of travelers being sent back home at US border. Again nothing new here, at every country it up to border enforcement to make final decision regarding entry. Its nothing but regular "treatment".
If you don't want this - that's certainly your choice, but I really would like to hear about cases where legitimate travelers are thrown into detention centers and kept there for weeks. Something tells me there is no such stories, but I would still like to see the evidence.