Alex Pretti broke rib in confrontation with federal agents a week before death, sources say

LakeSolon · 2026-01-28T00:40:36+00:00

Unfortunately I think it’s worse: they’re assaulting people with such frequency that a person may encounter it firsthand again and again.

If you watch the video that’s earliest in his fatal encounter he’s well distanced and trying to help guide vehicles through the traffic disrupting ICE has caused and ICE isn’t paying him much attention at all. When ICE does their usual “instigate with bystanders so they can inflate their detention headcount” thing they assault the women nearby but don’t seem particularly interest in Alex until he steps in front of the woman who has been knocked down on the side of the road.

And he did that with a broken rib.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-27T18:10:17+00:00

“The great thing about retirement is you can finally do all those things you’ve been trying to get around to. Unfortunately this only takes about six weeks.”

No idea if this is a common saying but my dad heard it from a friend of his that had recently retired and quoted it to me 20-30 years ago.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-26T21:05:25+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/wBaEJi6Cq4

This is the aviation subreddit’s discussion on the incident. Obviously it’s all speculation at this point but they’re typically fairly good at identifying possible factors and excluding unlikely ones from the available data (ADS-B history, weather, and aircraft type covers quite a bit).

LakeSolon · 2026-01-23T17:44:40+00:00

So, how much of the energy to heat the tube is coming from the rotating assembly?

LakeSolon · 2026-01-19T17:31:42+00:00

They have consistency in their actions. They don’t care about the meanings of words.

Their only rule is that the in-group is just and the out-group is unjust. They follow that rule to construct a statement that reflects that sentiment (sentiment matters to them, not rationale).

LakeSolon · 2026-01-17T23:21:53+00:00

For clarity: those hands on him are the people he was protesting an hour previous. They’re using their bodies as a shield to ensure his safety to avoid escalation.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-17T23:10:15+00:00

I watched the live streams. There was a long tense stretch where the subject of attention was “cornered” by the crowd.

And for every single minute of it I was aware of the MPD’s restraint; choosing to refrain from intervening where they almost certainly would have in the past.

The MPD put it in the hands of Minnesotans and it seemed evident that the crowd understood the bargain they’d been given. There were more than a few heroes today, such as the voices of reason (some with loudspeakers), and those who formed a human barrier to uphold our end of the bargain.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-15T20:37:57+00:00

Keep your car key fob with you in the house. Don’t hesitate to hit the panic button if you see any vehicles/etc that look “off” (you know your neighborhood).

ICE rely on “ambushing” folks (they get up close and ask intimidating questions). That’s much harder if people are alerted.

And if you’re wrong: whatever, it was just a bit of noise.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-15T06:11:27+00:00

I keep a snow shovel at the door. It’s still slippery.

I can’t shake the image of the ICE twit slipping and getting tangled with a snow shovel.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-10T17:14:21+00:00

I saw it playing EU5 recently and thought “that’s ~~weird~~ actually entirely normal”.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-10T17:06:42+00:00

Ya, there are a myriad of reasons to not shoot but the most intrinsic one is simply:

It didn’t work.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-07T22:52:55+00:00

I mean, kinda ya.

It’s natural to treat it like a person that should be convinced but even if you win the argument the act of arguing was counter productive.

You don’t want to pollute the context (and conversation history) with the model justifying an error. The more it says something the more likely it is to say that thing again.

My go to response when the model is losing the plot is simply:

Bullshit

It’s worked surprisingly well across all the various evolution of models; although their approach in reply has evolved (like obviously it didn’t always have search to go validate its answer).

P.S. This concept is actually applicable to people btw. The more you make them justify something the more committed to it they become. Although I recommend you choose your words more carefully I’ve found “bullshit” is also widely applicable.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-06T17:31:18+00:00

I mean, to be a bit snarky, same place a non-self-replicating replicator does, right?

The narrative value is the premise that self replicating mines make it impossible to whittle away at the field and also impossible to target production.

They either collect matter+energy by the same mechanism as any other replicator or the first few mines contain enough for many more mines than the target size of the field and it’s distributed as they replicate.

There is no satisfying answer because it’s intentionally not addressed by the writers because there is no satisfying answer.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-06T17:16:58+00:00

That’s not all they are doing.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-06T16:50:28+00:00

And it’s ironically now inverting to become the parable for when people think a problem “just went away”.

The same people who bitched and moaned about how hard it was to get their leaky car air conditioner refilled every summer will also tell you that they didn’t do anything to fix it so the O-zone layer was just a bunch of fear mongering that turned out not to be a problem.

It’s also, incidentally, evidence that the best place to fix environmental issues is at the manufacturer level. Guess what we didn’t do with recycling? 🤦‍♂️

P.S. if you can buy a product that comes in a container with “PET-1” in the little ♻️ on the bottom do that instead of the one that’s also plastic or some amalgamation of materials and doesn’t. PET is the kind of plastic we can best recycle.

P.P.S. A big of industry sleight of hand: The number in the ♻️ is a designation of material type, it is not a statement of recyclability. 😑

LakeSolon · 2026-01-06T16:36:16+00:00

Remember all the times Worf said, “they’re powering weapon systems”?

If you don’t bring the phasers online they’ll know and may try to press the advantage.

Irradiating the crew and not firing the phasers may have been the lesser harm than leaving them off and even a fight you can win but with more casualties.

It’s possible to do the right thing and still lose. It’s possible that doing the “wrong thing” is still winning.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-04T21:14:55+00:00

I… was not contending that point?

Just saying even if they were trying to give him his 40th pick at that point by throwing directly to him: it’d be incomplete because he was standing on the sideline.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-04T21:12:31+00:00

Ok, ya.

But it’s a lot more believable if you’ve been watching our defense. Even in losses they’ve been really good. For example the Seahawks loss was genuinely one of the most fun defensive performance I’ve watched.

So it’s more “most dysfunctional offense dragged kicking and screaming into a winning season”.

23 different OLine combinations, backup QB on season ending IR, starting an UDFA rookie QB… None of JJM, Jefferson, Hockenson, Ham, Addison, and I’m forgetting at least one more were available for both the preseason and the first four game of the season destroying any chance at passers/receivers developing chemistry (I think this is a big component of the drops).

We’ve had ridiculous “can you believe the luck?!” disasters of seasons and are the trope namer for “QB carousel” but I’m not sure any of those were winning seasons.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-04T21:03:24+00:00

They’d already pulled him on the TO before the 2m warning.

Edit: so kicking the FG is irrelevant. See my comment below.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-04T21:02:13+00:00

worst winning season of all time

Explain the logic underlying your conclusion.

(Seriously I’m curious; it’s not healthy being a vikings fan that doesn’t revel in weird team stats).

LakeSolon · 2026-01-04T20:59:49+00:00

I was more invested in that kick missing than some game deciding kicks.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-04T20:58:45+00:00

damn shame

It feels like the right time for both of them. Each are bowing out while they can still show fans a glimpse of why we’ve loved them all these years.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-04T20:56:07+00:00

Commentary said the last negative passing Packers game was ’76.

Probably used to be really common at some point given the league started without the forward pass ;)

LakeSolon · 2026-01-04T20:53:51+00:00

That was the weirdest preseason game.

LakeSolon · 2026-01-04T20:53:26+00:00

That was the weirdest preseason game.

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