I'm lucky in that my current dentist owns the practice so he doesn't push unnecessary work. But if it were ever sold to PE, I'd have to start searching for a new practice.

They'll spend big money on offices and they try to buy out a region and then jack up the prices as much as possible. The same thing is happening with vets (unfortunately).

See how you've moved the goalpost. Now it's not "these aren't happening" it's "Well, a lot of mexicans work that job and a good number of them are probably illegal".

It's not reasonable to believe every mexican walking in or around home depot is illegal. That's just racist.

This is a prime example of lazy thinking and ICE not spending their vast resources just doing minimal investigatory work. If they weren't so hell bent on dressing up like fat narcos, they could do some actual police work before hand and figure out who actually is illegal and who isn't instead of just arresting everyone based on racist prejudices.

As stated before, that's 36 cases found by propublica last year. We don't know how many US citizens ICE has arrested because they aren't tracking that number.

As for "that's not happening". You literally just need to google it, there's hundreds of videos and articles of ICE arresting people for looking mexican [1] [2] [3]. In fact, that resulted in a supreme court shadow docket ruling allowing the practice to continue [4].

> Again, you arent even engaging with the reality of the situation.

Yeah, I am. The reality of the situation is we have federal thugs arresting people based on looks, sometimes multiple times. [5] The argument that this is simply normal immigration enforcement is laughable. None of this is normal or desirable.

[1] https://ktla.com/video/video-captures-ice-agents-tackling-da...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-15/home-dep...

[3] https://hoodline.com/2026/09/ice-detains-10-day-laborers-at-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavanaugh_stop

[5] https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-leo-garcia-ve...

Incorrect. Immigration enforcement at the border is exactly where I'd expect immigration enforcement to temporarily detain US citizens while they check documents. We aren't talking about simple detaining, which doesn't involve putting people in cuffs and transporting them to immigration facilities, that's an arrest.

Outside of border enforcement, no, there should never be a reason why immigration detains a US citizen. About the only time for that is when they are checking to see if they are the person they are searching for. There is no way you can determine the citizenship status of someone simply by looking at them or listening to them. People that get citizenship status keep their looks and their accents. That means that ICE must do the legwork that they aren't doing and investigate before arresting. And by investigate, I mean more than just "A lot of mexicans are working on that house over there, let's arrest them and see whose a citizen".

> for any effective enforcement procedure.

You mean for mass deportations, which I agree, it's not feasible to do a home depot or farm raid. But they shouldn't be doing that anyways. The assumption that everyone in an area has no residency status is a bad one that arrests innocent citizens.

> A) "the only permissible enforcement procedure is one which is error free" and B) "such an enforcement procedure is possible"

This is a false dichotomy. There's a huge sea between "we make as few mistakes as possible" and what this administration is doing which is arresting everyone that looks a little mexican. My position is that the administration should be putting in a lot more effort to limit false arrests, including checking immigration status BEFORE detaining or arresting someone. They clearly are not doing that. The burden should not be on the person being arrested to prove they are a citizen, that's exactly backwards.

You have made a bad faith "all or nothing" argument while also misrepresenting my stated position. And again, you've not addressed a single one of my points.

If you think this is bad faith, fine. I think you just don't have a strong retort other than "I don't like that idea".

Yes it absolutely does. Cops need more than just a hunch before they can arrest someone. They need clear articulable evidence that the person they are arresting more than likely committed a crime. That's what the 4th amendment protects.

For obvious reasons, we don't just allow cops to go out and arrest people on no grounds. Only ICE seems to get that benefit.

> There were certainly done in the case of these 36.

No it wasn't, they wouldn't be arrested if it was done before.

> who associate with non-US citizens illegally in the country

We have the freedom of association (1st amendment and NAACP v. Alabama). There's no such thing as "illegal association".

> This indicates you aren't aware of the issues involved.

Oh I'm aware that there are a number of racist people who want mass deportation and don't care who gets swept up in it. The problem they have is you can't do mass deportation and due process, which is why ICE has abandoned due process. So, people like yourself defend that abrogation because you like the thought of a few more mexicans being thrown into CECOT.

We can stop pretending that's not the "issues involved".

In the US, we believe people are innocent until proven guilty. The way this number can be 0 is by ICE and CBP doing the bare minimum investigation "Is this person here legally" before arresting, not after.

There are, of course, situations that make that particularly difficult to determine, for example at home birth and homeschooling. But that's a burden for the state to resolve, not the individual.

> supposing a person is likely to be present without authorisation in the country, and is unable to offer any evidence of citizenship, then what?

It's not their burden to show citizenship or authorization. Before being arrested the state should have gone through a process "Is this person a citizen? where do they work? Do they have an SSN? Do they have school records or is there a birth certificate?" These are all tasks for the state to do before arresting someone.

> It seems this is an incredibly small number for such a large operation,

1. It's entirely too large, particularly because citizenship can be determined before arresting.

2. This is only what has been found by journalists, not the sum total of illegal arrests. Like I said, ICE is specifically trying to obfuscate their operations (the article mentions it) specifically to get around thing like FOIA requests to see how often these false arrests happen.

> Could this be improved?

There's almost no way it couldn't be improved.

But for just a taste, here's a propublica article on the matter.

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...

They will have the power to at very least lay off every person involved. But will they? Probably not (your point). Trump (illegally) shut down the DOE and USAID by simply firing everyone employed there.

But further, once pasteurization has occurred (which takes 2 minutes at 60C), Abiogenesis doesn't happen. A water heater can safely go down to 36C after it's hit that 60C temperature. Not that it would.

So long as your water heater is hitting 60C once a day and stays above 42C, you have very little risk of developing dangerous levels of Legionella in the tank.

The same is true about climate control. 1 or 2C from the desired temperature is still pretty comfortable but can make a huge difference in power savings, particularly if it's coordinated.

That said, I suspect that the even better route for power companies to go down is installing more grid batteries. Those can directly address and smooth out high demand. Put them at the various substations and you can shut off the main grid to the substation temporarily under high load.

Regardless, due to the way most CPUs work, you almost certainly aren't saving anything by using a bit instead of a byte. When a CPU goes to load a memory address it'll not just get that address, but also the addresses around that address and shove them into cache. With the thought that "If you are loading 1 byte, you are likely loading 128 bytes". The cost savings really only comes into effect when you have more boolean values than bytes that fit in a cache line.

CPUs don't have types, everything is integers or floats. You do your work on registers which have fixed sizes. CPUs have built in instructions for "is this register not zero" which leaks into C. 1 is true in C, but so is 2.

Also, single bits are rarely used for booleans because it requires more CPU power to extract a single bit. Everything is byte aligned at a minimum.

When doing something like network code, if you want to store a bunch of booleans you are typically going to either pack them into a byte, or you'll burn the extra bits and send a single byte for the boolean value. Typically this was flags and masks.

Data brokers are buying from multiple sources because maybe a home has a keurig but not an LG tv. Or an LG tv and not a keurig.

The plan for the likes of Keurig is "These data brokers will give us free money for data from our coffee machines? Where can we sign up!". It doesn't even matter if the money translates to $0.01 per unit sold. That's probably the most disgusting part.

With just a little bit of interaction with the modern internet, the profiles created are stunningly accurate. Age, gender, political ideology, favorite food, relationship status, how many kids you have.

All this stuff gets slowly collected, aggregated and shared amongst data brokers.

People would care so much more if they knew just how invasive advertising actually is. All to try and convince you to drink one more coke or grab one more cheeseburger.

Some of my family is pretty happy, though, with the job security as they are pretty convinced these projects are all going to take much longer than what's being stated publicly. Micron is saying the first chip from the new fab will be in 2027... though they also predicted it'd be 2026. The date seems pretty slippy.

[1] https://quincyinst.org/research/the-eighth-front-inside-isra...