That is a very good point. This doesn’t just require a license to kill, but the desire/mindset to use it.

Unfortunately a position like ICE employee/agent is a magnet for these types of people.

If you need the threat of punishment to prevent you from murdering someone: you’re not a good person.

Even if a shooting is justified you still have to go through the courts, spend soooo much money, and hope you get a favorable outcome.

That’s the difference between you and them.

For the last two years, ICE and the rest of the federal government have made it pretty clear ICE employees are untouchable, legally speaking. Why wouldn’t he use the force he’s been granted free license to use at will. Justified or not, he genuinely believed there would be no consequences; because until now, there hasn’t been.

Shouldn’t stand down range…

It’s a tunnel that gets fish to the other side of the dam if I remember right.

https://boingboing.net/2025/05/20/scientists-built-this-salmon-cannon-to-shoot-fish-over-dams-video.html

What kind of a question is that; obviously they’re picked fresh off of jelly bean stalks. Which you get by covering a bean stalk in jelly of course - jelly flavor determines bean flavor. (I really don’t recommend KY jelly…)

I don’t wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper!

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

I fart in your general direction!

Those poles snap off surprisingly cleanly, cable and all 😂

You’ll have to break in, then convince whoever shows up ‘it was like that when I got here’.

Hopefully there’s no cameras.

There’s an episode of ‘Call The Bailifs’(youtube link), a UK debt collectors show; where they walk into an airport and tell the gate crew they are shutting down the terminal and repossessing the plane that’s currently on the tarmac, unless they get corporate on the phone to immediately effect a wire transfer to settle the debt owed to a customer who’s flight was cancelled, no refund, all backed by a court order to pay up.

They did actually shut down passenger checkins for several hours while they went back and fourth over the phone with corporate. Eventually they left with a fresh bank balance and the plane was allowed to start boarding.

/edit: I forgot, trying to get back to processing customers asap; a manager for the airline at the terminal, decided to hand over her own money, expecting to get reimbursed by corporate… Wonder how well that worked out for her…

If the money’s in a legal trust controlled by the court; why hasn’t it already been handed over by the court?

Fair points.

I’ve been lucky enough to have never been behind cgnat, so I keep forgetting about it.

My bigger concern with tailscale is being required to install software on the client. Not every device I use, I have permission to install a vpn client, nor would I want to.

For example, I have a fileshare using Filebrowser where I store work related files that I don’t want to loose access to or need access to from multiple machines (non proprietary info, stuff IT/MGT wouldnt get mad at me for ofc. I’ve actually cleared it with my managers, so no worries). That’s also a handy way to (temporarily) share large files with people or provide a way for friends to upload large files to me.

I also like to access my emby server (using sufficiently limited accounts), from things like the TV in the work break room, or a friends PC while I’m visiting.

Tailscale is a hurdle that I just don’t need/want.

Glad I could help. I’m not always immediately available, but I don’t mind answering questions if you run into troubles. Just send me a DM and I’ll do what I can. :)

You don’t need a static IP, you just have to keep track of what your current dynamic IP is.

You can do this with either a free or a paid DNS service.

There are a few different ‘free dns’ services that will delegate a subdomain of theirs to you at no cost. Admittedly, I’ve never actually used one of these so their names escape me. Hopefully someone else can point one of those out if that’s what you really want.

I purchased a domain via google domains, when they existed. It’s now transferred to squarespace, because they bought out google domains a few years ago.

It was around $13/year when I first got it a decade ago. It’s now around $28/year.

This allows me full control over the domain: I can use as many subdomains as I want to give each service I use it’s own unique name. (Instead of using their own separate ports that you’ve gotta remember) My domain will also forward all inbound email to my gmail account; this lets me use email addresses like <servicename>@mydomain.example. This way, I don’t share my real email and can immediately tell who sold my info to the highest bidder when I get spam. (I could also host my own email service if I really wanted, but I haven’t bothered)

Add Cloudflare ontop (for free); and it can filter out known attacks, ddos attempts, geofence your services to regions you’ll actually be in, provide/autorenew ssl certs for https, show you usage analytics, cache static data reducing server/network load, etc.

Ultimately, the paid option is well worth it IMO. $2/month (which I typically pay in 3-10 year blocks) is hardly anything.

/edit; vpns are good and all, but they require you to setup software on the remote device to connect to it, and that typically routes most if not all your traffic back to the vpn server then out to the internet. That can create speed/bandwidth issues.

A domain allows you to access your services from any Internet connection with 0 configuration on the client side. Just accessing it like any other website.

I also host a vpn directly from my network, that I access/find via my domain. This means I’m not dependent on a public service like tailscale, but can still add additional security to access private only services (stuff I don’t expose to the open internet)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation#NAT_hairpinning

TL;DR Your router sees you trying to reach your external address and routes the connection back to your LAN without leaving the network.

This does still depend on a functional internet connection however, as your client gets your public IP from a public DNS server over the Internet.

If you were to run a DNS server locally (I use pihole for this), you could have that DNS respond with your local IP, allowing clients within your LAN to resolve the name without needing to reach out to public DNS. This means your local connections will still work when your internet is down; it also provides more privacy by keeping those requests local and can let you make local-only names that aren’t publicly listed.

Of the ~28 FQDNs in my setup, only 4 are public. The rest is local/vpn only and not publicly listed due the above. The reverse proxy then drops all connections that don’t use one of those recognised names, before even completing the TLS handshake. (So direct connections from someone port scanning my IP or using a domain name someone else has pointed at my IP are completely ignored/dropped without response. The server doesn’t even send the TLS cert so as to not expose the names defined in it.)

proof of the kid and parents thing

Spend some time around todays parents and their young kids. It’s so incredibly common to see small kids (I’m talking 2-8y/o) just completely enticed by a screen, ignoring everything else around them, and screaming their heads off whenever it’s taken away. It’s become a bit of an epidemic, with many many article’s and videos discussing the topic.

Here’s the first result I got on YouTube: (having just now listened to it while typing this comment, it actually does a descent job explaining the problem) https://youtu.be/QE_E9Q9jVzU Feel free to do further searching yourself…

It’s not limited to just children either, they’re just the most susceptible.

It’s a shame it was being flown by a crew likely preforming testing, and not an active duty squadron intent on lethal weapons use.

The only detail that makes me feel bad it crashed.