It can happen to anyone, even an Australian police officer who married a man in the army.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/terrified-excop-jailed-and-deported-during-holiday-to-us/news-story/f48a5e5f7337df29dcd3679336bf6031

What we need to do is to stop emitting so much greenhouse gas and planet more trees and do things like that.

Contact your politicians and demand a faster transition to renewable energy.

We got to start calling the people who were responsible for rolling back the regulations corrupt. Make sure everyone knows that those politicians are corrupt and that we will note vote for them.

How about we not generate carbon in the first place? I’m calling for a switch from fossil fuels to electricity generated by renewable sources of energy such as solar and wind. Fossil fuels are not only directly hurting the planet via means of greenhouse gases but also profits are being spent to buy politicians and cause democratic backsliding and they were instrumental to Trump being elected and not to mention they do lots of lobbying and political interference on a global scale including in Canada. So when you import fossil fuels from U.S. companies they are paying for your own demise.

The good news is you have the power to fight back. I urge you to contact your MPs and demand a faster transition to renewable energy, no more buying fossil fuels from the U.S. and also divest from other major Republican and Trump donors. Also consider getting solar or wind for your home if that option is right for you. No fossil fuels means less fuel for Republican’s campaigns.

Don’t come even if it’s free. You don’t want to be like one of these unlucky people:

“Three deaths in ICE custody in just over a month of Trump’s presidency marks the most deaths to occur in this fiscal year time period in five years”

https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/releases/2025/three-deaths-ice-custody-just-over-month-trump-s-presidency-marks-most

I think it depends on the person how they react.

These are some interesting articles: https://mhanational.org/resources/negative-news-coverage-and-mental-health/

https://hearyourselfthink.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Breaking-Through-with-a-Loved-One-Hooked-on-Fox.pdf

I sometimes (jokingly) wonder if Hospitals show Fox News to try to get repeat business, and I don’t mean repeat business due to people who enjoy Fox coming back, I mean due to health complications caused by the stress of watching it.

“This is what was done in the United States as soon as the scandal broke, to save thousands of lives. We’re talking about thousands of asthma cases, hundreds of thousands of days not worked for the economy. It’s worth it. We must act.”

Finally we did something right.

That’s a very good point you bring up! I totally see what you mean and agree!

I read about the Flipper Zero and it seems really awesome! I even saw some high power LEDs for it that could in theory change the channel from a long distance.

That’s right but it doesn’t necessarily mean that access is impossible, just need the codes for the box instead of the TV assuming it has an infrared sensor on the box.

GSMarena has specs for most smartphones including infrared (listed under connectivity).

Here’s a link to a search showing all phones in their database with IR: https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?chkInfrared=selected note I haven’t checked accuracy or completeness, it might be best to check the specs for your phone or search if your phone supports it.

If you got an old phone or an old PDA it might have IR if your current one doesn’t.

The TV-B-Gone is really cool especially because it’s so small but of course it just shuts off the TV. I’ve seen a few keychain sized universal remotes that have buttons.

I just wrote a comment in reply to someone suggesting unplugging the TV: https://lemm.ee/post/65246982/20771041

Basically it’s nice that you get peace and quiet but turning it off is more noticeable.

That’s really annoying. Do you think they’d notice you using your phone to change the station and possible remove Fox from the channel list? Is there windows in the building with the TVs? There are some high power IR blasters that might let you change it from outside.

There are pros and cons to that.

Advantage is of course you get peace and quiet like that. No TV might feel more relaxing.

Downside is someone might plug the TV in again which will turn it back on to Fox. Changing the channel means you can show unbiased news and maybe if for example you change the station to PBS, people will get educated. People might leave it on the channel you changed it to due to apathy. A TV that’s off is more noticeable.

I’d recommend if it’s possible especially if you’re the only one in the room at the time consider going into the channel editor and removing Fox News and other propaganda stations from the channel list.

And what’s the deal with airplane food?

I think it could be called urine (only one letter different from uline).

On the post on Bluesky that I linked to he shows the numbers with screenshots. OK it’s not literally half when I checked the math but it’s super close.

238.38 (cost of buying the materials from Uline) / 120.32 (cost of buying the same/similar materials from EcoEnclose) = ~1.9812