The image shows "Squidward" on the left looking down on his neighbours, SpongeBob and Patrick.
Squidward is an older grumpy character who takes things seriously.
SpongeBob and Patrick are two idiots that run around having fun in whatever they do.
Squidward is constantly annoyed with their carefree attitude and their antics.
Adding onto this, the reason they press charges against the money instead of you is that, in the US, you would be innocent until proven guilty. They get around this by "charging the money" instead in which case it can be considered "guilty" until proven innocent.
What happens next is that you would have to sue them to prove the money/property innocent in court to get it back. Additionally you can't sue and recover legal fees. So, if they only confiscated a few thousand dollars, you would likely spend more money trying to win in court than you would get awarded in the end.
It's also worth noting, there's an incentive for the TSA to tip off DEA agents to sieze the cash because the DEA will then share some of the money back to the TSA. Likewise for local/state police, even if they can't sieze it under local laws, they can sieze it for some federal law and then the cash will be split between the law enforcement agency that siezed it and some federal agency.
More information here from a group that's been fighting this in court (and winning some cases with the Supreme Court) here: https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/
This can also have the opposite effect. There are a number of cases where the wrong person has been arrested simply for sharing a name with someone else that has a warrant for their arrest.
Downvoting means something different to everyone. It could just be that they felt you didn't add to the conversation well with a simple LOL and some emojis.
Some people downvote whenever they see an emoji.
I doubt anyone is downvoting because they "disagree" with you on this case, since the one user that actually downvoted the post didn't even downvote you.
I would just ignore these downvotes and move on.
Most people actually agree on the same thing once you get down into the details of abortion. For some reason everyone likes to lump themselves into "pro-life" or "pro-choice" camps and then argue about the extreme takes from either side.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx
There was a former employee for MrBeast (Donaldson) who posted 2 very long videos about his time working for him:
Allegations from DogPack404 On July 24, 2024, former employee DogPack404 posted a YouTube video accusing Donaldson of staging contests, running illegal lotteries, falsifying signatures, and misleading viewers.[172][173][174] He followed with an interview of former staffer Jake Weddle, who described being denied sleep during productions, said the team employed Jake Franklin's brother-in-law despite his status as a registered sex offender, and alleged that a cameraman tried to intoxicate female participants with paint fumes.[174] Weddle identified the cameraman as "Delaware", claiming Donaldson knew about his conviction, which stemmed from an incident when Delaware was 16 and the victim was 11.[175]
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DogPack404#cite_ref-173
The videos he posted are long (~51 and 54 min), but he does comment a lot on MrBeast's character while making his case against him. His second video focuses a lot more on this and he brings in another former employee while showing off some screenshots of others who wanted to remain more anonymous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHFvR0ArXPs
He mentioned a part 3 video, but never posted it.
On the other side, Legal Eagle offers a shorter video, focused only on the legal aspects of the DogPack's allegations in the first video. Basically, MrBeast is likely protected by whatever waivers he has his employees/contestants sign.
I've never heard of Falun Gong until now, but looking into it, the 2 groups don't seem to be related.
No, I've actually never had phrases get stuck in my head. Nowhere near the way songs do at least.
If you're concerned about privacy, you should probably know that a lot in the fediverse is very open by design so that other instances can communicate effectively.
That's why everyone can see what you upvote/downvote, even if Lemmy itself doesn't show this to you in its UI.
Video posted here:
https://lemmy.world/post/42277358
It looks like someone with a backpack was trying to get away from them in the very first second of the video.
Link to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0IM1mW4Y8Y
Link to video when he made the same statement almost a year ago:
https://tube.sbcloud.cc/videos/watch/2702af4d-64c4-41d0-972e-5433d9de7764?isPeertubeContent=1
The Avatar movie depicts what could happen in a scenario where we find intelligent life, but we're the more advanced civilization.