While this is clearly Orwellian and incompatible with a free society, I’ve never quite understood how this kind of thing is implemented. Lemmy is the only ‘social media’ I use, and I don’t use it under my real name. They wouldn’t find anything on any social media platform for me, no matter how hard they looked, because it doesn’t exist. So, would they believe me that I don’t use social media? Law enforcement don’t typically just believe what people say, so I’m genuinely curious how they would go about ‘inspecting’ someone’s social media presence.

Apparently, he does smell. Really bad. One of the least surprising things I’ve read recently.

Next headline, probably: Trump orders ban on ozone-depleting substances to be lifted.

Because he’ll fuck any hole he can, even if it hastens our apocalyptic future.