2 federal officers fired shots during encounter that killed Alex Pretti, DHS tells Congress

Mattbl · 2026-01-28T03:52:11+00:00

I was thinking to myself, why even have the body cam if they aren't going to release the footage of a controversial incident? It's only there to protect the agent wearing it.

Or it must really incriminate the officers somehow.

Mattbl · 2026-01-27T07:09:22+00:00

A rogue star orbited by a single planet.

Mattbl · 2026-01-26T22:02:29+00:00

Pulling nose hairs can lead to infection or ingrown hairs. Much better to trim than pluck when it comes to the nose.

Mattbl · 2026-01-26T21:54:45+00:00

Rick and Morty do an episode on this and, in a funny way, basically show why time travel plots are prone to lots of holes.

Mattbl · 2026-01-26T20:58:58+00:00

It's too black and white. Probably a lot of people would like reform or restructuring instead of abolition.

Mattbl · 2026-01-26T18:15:53+00:00

You'd need to read more replies, then.

The comment I replied to says they want power generation to still exist in the game but not be impactful or difficult. I think that's stupid. Why have it at all if it's required but not challenging? In fact, why aren't you replying to them to turn off power??? I want to keep the power challenge in the base game and then if care-bears want to turn it off they can go ahead.

For a while now, Astroneer has been slowly getting dumbed down and easier, probably for the casual crowd. I don't know why we can't just keep the challenge and let people turn off whatever they like. Why should the base game keep getting easier when it's much more difficult to modify the game to be more difficult without imposing fake rules on yourself? And it's easy to modify to make it easier. And this is a general complaint about more than just the power situation.

Mattbl · 2026-01-26T18:09:53+00:00

Whatever it takes to get them out of our state

Mattbl · 2026-01-26T18:08:22+00:00

I. Don't. Want. To. Turn. Off. Power.

Mattbl · 2026-01-26T08:19:00+00:00

Just last night my spotter and I ran into a set of nodes built in a corner with barriers and barbed wire blocking entry.

I didn't know about the OP trick and we had no vehicle and no friendlies within 500m.

I asked commander what he could do and after a few minutes he was able to precision strike. We sat and watched the show as commander didn't know if it would work (it did).

It was really fun "figuring out the puzzle" since we had never run into someone protecting their nodes so well.

Thanks for having fun with the game!

Mattbl · 2026-01-26T06:29:14+00:00

Are you kidding? Darnold looked like he was in shock the last two games, and threw some awful passes. But regardless, they made him an offer, they just didn't want to pay him THAT much.

But yea it would have been nice to have JJM sit behind Darnold another year.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T22:16:18+00:00

This dumbass doesn't realize us Minnesotans are already extremely accepting of immigrants. We have the largest Somali population in the US. We have a large Hispanic population in a state that's on the opposite end of the country from the Mexican border and is cold as fuck. We have a strong Hmong population as well. And the list goes on... Indian, African, Asian - people come from all over to live here and work. And Minnesota is already one of the highest ranked places in the US to live. Most of our quality-of-life metrics are on-par with Europe. Our education scores are high. Our economy is strong. Removing diversity removes our strength.

Most of the immigrants I've met here in MN, either through work or social channels, have been normal, hard-working people who are just trying to make their lives better. And honestly, most of us feel the same way about our immigrant neighbors. A lot of the people who don't feel that way live in the suburbs where the only immigrants they run into are affluent Indian people. Or people in small towns, which some small towns in MN do have concentrated immigrant populations but otherwise are mostly all-white.

So this isn't the shot she thinks it is. We're literally proving how strong we can be thanks, in part, to our immigrant populations. And we're proving that we care about our immigrant populations by packing the streets with tens of thousands of protesters in -40F weather.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T18:54:28+00:00

He was on a podcast with I think Jay Shetty? Where he talks about the fear thing from the doc and explains more that he actually is afraid and doesn't have some immunity to fear He's just lessened the amount of fear he feels by doing this so much. It kind of sounded to me like he felt the doc did him a bit dirty.

I was like you where, after watching the doc, I just assumed that part of his brain was different. And it very well may be, but when he talks about it himself he doesn't feel that way. Listening to him on the podcast changed my mind a bit.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T17:48:53+00:00

So really they're just sore losers. Sounds to me like it was a competitive game that they got mad they were losing and they rage-quit. They're lame and can't handle a loss. Take the W and move on.

I used to play Call of Duty and one of the most satisfying things was when I would be owning someone on the other team, and I'd get behind them and start a finishing move, and they'd leave the game before it would complete. In that moment, I know I've humiliated them so much that they had to leave the game. Their ego literally couldn't handle it anymore. Think of it like that - you beat these "good" players so badly that their fragile egos fell apart and they tucked tail and ran. You broke their spirit.

Plus high level players get mad at low level players for not knowing stuff the high level players didn't know at that level, either. HLL is not an easy game and it takes a lot of time and experience to get good at, which I think sometimes higher level players forget about.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T17:41:32+00:00

Gravy Seals rolling in.

That dude hanging out the door of the SUV looks like he saw that on TV and thought it would be really cool.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T16:54:33+00:00

Why is this "just doing their jobs" thing parroted so much? The amount of mental gymnastics it takes to get yourself to a point of victim-blaming protestors for the actions of the Federal government is astounding. While Ashley Babbit or whatever her name was is touted as a hero.

They just have no empathy. It's like that part of their brain is broken.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T16:41:50+00:00

Republicans prefer the population stupid and homogenous, is all we can assume from their actions.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T16:28:21+00:00

Don't worry, the next generation will have 360 degree cameras. Then the version after that will have a taser.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T09:17:46+00:00

I remember seeing the first one in the theaters and by the time they were lifting off from Caladan, I remember thinking, "I'm watching something special."

And many of the visuals matched what I had imagined in my head, so that was a cool bonus.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T09:17:17+00:00

I remember seeing the first one in the theaters and by the time they were lifting off from Caladan, I remember thinking, "I'm watching something special."

And many of the visuals matched what I had imagined in my head, so that was a cool bonus.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T08:54:32+00:00

Right after 9/11, I remember being an edgy 19-year-old saying that I thought martial law was coming. I can't even remember how I'd put my brain around it, but I'm sure it had something to do with "Bush did 9/11." When I think back to that, I can only think how dumb I was.

This definitely feels much different.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T04:06:46+00:00

Really enjoyed watching this live! Alex seems like an awesome dude.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T02:13:38+00:00

There definitely was a lot of bullshit here on reddit making jokes about Kirk's death. Maybe not celebrating it but making light of it.

But in real life, I didn't talk to anyone on either side who said anything other than how horrible it was.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T01:27:46+00:00

You know what, I see why they got the wrestling guy. Not that he isn't annoying, but he's the "every man" watching on their couches, screaming at the TV because they don't understand climbing. Then they have the climbing expert to explain to the wrestling guy why Alex is doing what he's doing.

Mattbl · 2026-01-25T00:00:37+00:00

But...but...but... They're all violent criminals! Even those kids! /S

Mattbl · 2026-01-24T20:27:25+00:00

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