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7 days agoEspecially when most police ‘leave’ is paid admin leave. Ie vacation.
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161·8 days agoYour ISP could snitch on you for tons of ‘illegal’ traffic, but they don’t because that would require deep packet inspection on an absurd amount of traffic and they gain nothing for it. Instead they pass on notices when they receive them from third parties, and take enforcement actions (like cutting off their service to you) only when they’re directed to. They want your money after all.
Torrenting for example; only gets flagged when copyright holders join torrent trackers, then send letters to ISPs that control the IPs found in those groups. That’s not the ISP hunting you down, they’re just passing on a legal notice they’ve been given and thus are obligated to pass it to you.
From and ISPs perspective; a VPN connection doesn’t look any different than any other TLS connection, ie https. There’s nothing for them to snitch because a) they can’t tell the difference without significant investment to capture and perform deep analysis on traffic at an absurd scale and b) they have no desire to even look and then snitch on customers, that just costs them paying customers.
The ONLY reason this can be enforced at all, is because comercial VPN companies want to advertise and sell their services to customers; so lawmakers can directly view and monitor those services.
Lawmakers have no way of even knowing about, let alone inspecting an individuals private VPN that’s either running from private systems or from a foreign VPS.
All that’s not even touching things like SSH tunneling - in a sense, creating a VPN from an SSH connection; one of the most ubiquitous protocols for controlling server infrastructure around the globe. Even if traffic was inspected to find SSH connections, you CAN’T block this or you disrupt IT infrastructure at such an alarming scale there’d be riots.
So rent a VPS abroad and run your own VPN from it. Comercial VPNs have a business to maintain so they’ve got to comply to keep operating and public advertising, but a privately run VPN just for yourself is just another TLS connection in a sea of other traffic.
It’s small; but my grandfather, who regularly takes trips across the border (Can>USA) to buy groceries, gas, and visit casinos, exchanged his perpetual collection of USD.
He’s never going back to the US.
‘investors’ large and small are abandoning the US. Rightfully so.
I genuinely do not understand how america hasn’t decended into civil war already.
Everyday I tell my family I’m unbelievably grateful that we don’t live In America (🇨🇦), because I would have used my right to bear arms long ago and gotten myself killed with a total lack of support by my neighbours. I’ve spent the last two weeks thinking about different ways I could douse these fuckers in gasoline to burn them alive; or ways I could trap my property to inflict maximum damage to invaders.
I don’t even live there and I’m absolutely outraged over what America is experiencing/doing to itself.
I just don’t understand. How can you watch your friends, family, and neighbours being executed in the streets only to buy a whistle and yell at them a bit. I get that you’re afraid; but at this point your desire to survive should overcome that fear… Yes, there’s the threat of Marshal law, but it’s being imposed on you whether they officially announce it or not. There are federal agents patrolling your streets arresting EVERYONE that’s not visibly white AND carrying papers, including 3yo children, and shipping them out of state faster than the courts can issue injunctions (even when moving as fast as possible with emergency hearings).
YOU ARE ALREADY UNDER MARSHAL LAW. You’re being kidnapped and summarily executed. This will not end until you fight it off.
I don’t expect this to be a popular opinion; but I had to get it off my chest. Perhaps this should have been in the OffMyChest comm… I’m just so fucking angry and have no real outlet for it. There’s not much I can do from across the border; and I’m sure as hell not visiting anytime soon.
SO FUCKING DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT YOU COWARDS
Arrest those obstructing and toss their ass in a cell until you’ve processed your crime scene.
Standing back and crying ‘they won’t let us’ makes you complicit in this blatant criminal cover-up. The federal government WILL NOT do anything about this. States must take action or you WILL be destroyed.
71·10 days agoI don’t really see this as surprising. Drones have been used in mass coordinated swarms for things like new years light displays for years.
It was only a matter of time that gets used as a weapon system/platform.
A swarm doesn’t give you much advantage over a single drone though. There’s more targets to shoot down, so perhaps there’s a better chance of getting one through drone defenses; but they also lose the stealth factor a single drone brings… Maybe a really wide surveillance view if you combine their camera feeds?
IDK, doesn’t really seem all that beneficial.
Yup. They attacked him for interfering with their assault of another woman, disarmed him (of a weapon he was legally carrying, never presented, and never reached for), then murdered him while he was being held down/restrained.
Now they’re trying to claim, without evidence, that he brandished and/or intended to use that weapon on agents, justifying his murder.
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There is. Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37.
No criminal history. A lawful gun owner with a valid conceal carry permit.Six agents were on top of him; one pistol-whipping him in the head. Another retrieves Prettis gun from his waistband at the small of his back and exits before a third agent fires the first shot. The others jump up and back off while drawing their guns. Several agents then fire at least five more rounds into Pretti while he’s unmoving, unrestrained, and unarmed.
All shots were fired by agents, at a now unarmed man, who was previously lawfully carrying and had made no attempt to draw his weapon.
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Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37.
No criminal history. A lawful gun owner with a valid conceal carry permit.
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37.
No criminal history. A lawful gun owner with a valid conceal carry permit.
January 24, 2026 at 11:49 AM Sarah Nelson
Homeland Security shares account of fatal shooting The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents were conducting a “targeted operation” in Minneapolis at 9:05 a.m. Saturday looking for “an illegal alien wanted for violent assault.”
“An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun,” the agency said in a statement. “The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted.”
“Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots,” the department’s statement continued. “Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene.”
DHS said the man had two magazines and “no ID” and that more information would be coming.
January 24, 2026 at 11:49 AM Sarah Nelson
Homeland Security shares account of fatal shooting The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents were conducting a “targeted operation” in Minneapolis at 9:05 a.m. Saturday looking for “an illegal alien wanted for violent assault.”
“An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun,” the agency said in a statement. “The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted.”
“Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots,” the department’s statement continued. “Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene.”
DHS said the man had two magazines and “no ID” and that more information would be coming.
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Fuck off TACO; we’re taking our business elsewhere
It’s been interesting to see the debate back and fourth over whether this was the right move. The moral ‘you should help another human being in need’ vs the logical ‘don’t aid the ‘enemy’, one less person against you+family’…
It’s such a difficult decision; knowing they wouldn’t help you if roles were reversed, and may even blame you if he doesn’t pull through. With 12h to think sbout it; I still don’t know which direction I’d go.
I do have to wonder what story the Administration is going to spin to vilify them anyway…
Stuff like this is an interesting issue;
On the one side: if Youtube is ‘defiant’, refusing to block streams the Israelis have ordered them to block; Israel will just remove/block Youtube from the country entirely, so no one has access, worsening news outreach overall.
But on the other hand: when Youtube complies like this, they’re seen as stifling free speach/news and submissive to Israel.
Neither is a good choice, but there’s no winning options here.