taco

This is exactly why so many of them are masked.

Paintballs + slingshot

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I think it’s all some level of FUD until there’s an example of it being called out as a reason for denial. The fields have been on the application for a while, but I know someone who recently came in with a private ig profile and a vk profile that hadn’t been used for anything but chat. Wasn’t mentioned at all along the process beyond being on the application.

That may change soon, but it also might just be rhetoric from dipshits playing to their dipshit base.

Fair enough, though that’s an ask from the State Dept., not a demand from the embassy, as indicated in the OP. It’s an important distinction because the embassy holds the authority at that point in the process. They can ignore the guidance altogether or demand everyone open their profiles. They’re probably more likely to do the latter now, but they could’ve done this two years ago too.

Demanding the usernames for the past 5 years and being suspect of anyone not on social media isn’t a new, that was my main point. I don’t think many people appreciated how shitfucked our visa processes are, even before the current “administration” helping.

The username requirement isn’t anything new; that requirement was on our DS-160 years ago.

The “wants people to set their social media profiles to public” isn’t quoted, so seems less like an official policy anywhere and more like one embassy worker being a prick. Unfortunately, each individual embassy operates independently totally devoid of any accountability.

This process is dehumanizing, inefficient, and totally fucked…but this particular part of it has been this was for a long-ass time.

And “anti-law enforcement agitators” = non-whites who don’t want their children kidnapped.

Total non-issue. I’d be surprised if anyone can provide a single credible instance of this biting someone in the ass.

Seems that if you tank education enough, the lack of subtlety becomes more of a feature. Lots of people who only pick up on loud, repeated, simple messages are still able to vote.

Given how they ran things, I think it’d be most fair to allow grok to interview each of them an assign the method it sees fit on a case by case basis.

Not to mention the cost savings difference. Developer salaries make a ChatGPT subscription look like a bargain. C-level salaries make racks of dedicated hardware to run local models look like one.