Really depends on what data it is and whether you want to search it regularly or just as a one time thing.

You could load them into an rdbms (MySQL/Postgres) and have it handle the indexing, or use python tools to process the files. Something like elasticsearch could work too.

If it’s just a one time thing grep is probably fine tho.

Aleph could work as well but I have no experience with it.

I guess it depends on how much time you want to invest in setting something up versus how much time you’d lose waiting for grep to finish (if you only need to search a certain column, you can create an index with just that column using awk, search that index file, then extract the full line from the source file based on that result, but at that point you’re basically creating a new database engine).

I mean, they ran through a bunch of terror laws based on the explosive caravan hoax, and nobody’s talking about repealing those despite that.

For the child care stuff, the only things that I’ve heard that make sense are exchanging information between states so someone can’t just hop over the border to continue working with children (something proposed a decade ago after a previous royal commission), and having 2 pairs of eyes on the kids at any time. Everything else seems counterproductive.

As for improving the working with children checks themselves, I guess we need to wait and see how this guy managed to get one, if there were previous complaints, etc.

I mean, a normal Supreme Court would probably baulk at the bit about ‘punishment for a crime’ not applying to illegal immigration, bit this one would definitely rubber stamp this.

Yeah, I bet they’ll start using the people in ICE detention for free labour. It’s even technically legal according to the 13th amendment.

And everyone knows B-2s and F-35s are invisible, so there’s no point in flying them as a display.

Yeah, I bet they’ll end up using them on a hospital in Gaza instead.

You would think they would’ve have let him come into the country knowing all that? It’s not like he crossed the Rio Grande to fight Jake Paul.

Even if everyone left, he’s still got a bunch of nukes and other powers that could affect the rest of us.

I mean, their stated goal is actually to devalue the dollar so exports are more attractive. Of course, that also means importing becomes more expensive, and China makes everything, so there’s no way people are going to be happy about that.

The government can just print money, they don’t actually strictly need your taxes (see MMT). The only actual path is withholding labour and mass protests (with at least a credible threat of violent escalations).

I mean, on a Linux system that’s not riddled with flatpak / snap / … You’d basically only need to update libpng and you’d be good.

Yes, it invariably devolves into oligarchy.

Because it’s all government subsidies/contracts.

Nah, you basically have no rights at the border crossings. None of the constitutional amendments apply.

Olympics and World Cup. I bet you’ll see stories of athletes being denied entry when those events are on.

Oof, I hope he doesn’t break the norm of Presidents doing press conferences clothed, I don’t think I’d recover if he did a nude one.

It’s like taxes, they probably already know, but they make you fill out the form so they can either catch you out if you forget one, or add it to the list if you give one they didn’t know about.

Yeah, that’s definitely true for imperialist countries like Israel, the US and Russia.

I mean, that’s not really surprising. Every military makes plans for any contingency, and Israel especially has always been paranoid about Iran’s nuclear programme, so of course they would make sure they’re tracking the scientists in case they needed to make a move.

The disgusting part is them just pulling the trigger for political reasons instead of actual intelligence that indicates a breakout. And obviously killing civilians, which the scientists and their families are, but obviously Israel has shown in the past they don’t care about that.

Geneticists in a thousand years are going to have questions about a sudden boom in certain gene markers around this time if they don’t have the added context of billionaires deciding they’re the master race by virtue of being billionaires.