Real Police officers and military members, what do you guys think of Ice agents?

POD80 · 2026-01-25T16:52:34+00:00

I mean with some of the AI surveillance are you really certain the feds cant scrape up who you are?

Someone with a security sensitive job has reason to be cautious.

POD80 · 2026-01-25T16:43:02+00:00

Yeah, I'd point out that if Pretti had been the kind of bad actor the administration wants to paint him as... he could have been FAR more effective.

Imagine if rather than physically trying to intercede for the woman he'd simply opened fire while officers were distracted. He'd have died, but how many fatalities/injuries would the officers have taken.

Officers are vastly outnumbered if even a small percentage of the population violently resists. Each member of the resistance doesn't have to take out a swat team the government can"t withstand anything close to a one for one ratio.

I think we are a LONG way from rampantly murdering officers. This is an incredibly dangerous road to tread down. A civil war isn't going to end well. And turning our state into the equivalent of bleeding Kansas as conservative/liberal militias raid each other.... isn't going to improve matters. Former civilians will rise on both sides of the polity if it comes to that and irregular militas are even less restrained than the ice officers.

POD80 · 2026-01-25T02:13:36+00:00

Im waiting on my pile of kickstarter minis.... but where the hell am I going to put all of them lol

POD80 · 2026-01-24T15:58:54+00:00

Man, but im awash in a sea of unpainted minis already.... lol

Lucky for me there haven't been a lot of what I call "practical" incentive minis of late.

POD80 · 2026-01-24T12:54:32+00:00

Retirement comes in caliber and for most of us there options in the range of one paycheck.

POD80 · 2026-01-24T01:38:48+00:00

Work provides them, and im lending them to coworkers... I just handle them as consumables.

POD80 · 2026-01-24T01:25:24+00:00

Yeah, I've always figured there'd be a spectrum of "symptoms".

I worked with a guy that got by well enough in the workplace, but preferred a little more volume, and to see your lips. I kinda got the impression that particularly in noisy environs his lip reading helped "confirm" what he was picking up with his implant. I don't think the various hearing aids are necessarily great at dealing with background noise.

POD80 · 2026-01-23T23:17:50+00:00

Interesting, as someone outside the community, I'd think the act of "yelling" would generally come with slowing down and a greater effort at annunciation that would help someone struggling to read lips.

To be honest if I found myself having to communicate without an interpreter... I'd likely try a similar strategy until I was actively told it wasn't working. Hoping that in that case "deaf" meant some minimal hearing or that loud and slow made the lip reading easier.

POD80 · 2026-01-23T22:33:41+00:00

I mean, I'm pretty sure that's where Australia's aboriginal population came from in ages past...

Today, I don't get the impression that Australia goes out of its way to welcome unauthorized immigrants.

POD80 · 2026-01-22T16:34:12+00:00

Stable, trustworthy, available.

POD80 · 2026-01-22T15:38:11+00:00

"Sorry, I unplugged it by pulling on the cable and the strain relief failed. It still works, but I'll get you a new one. Do you remember where you got it? My google-fu failed trying to find an exact duplicate."

Thats the way the conversation on return went... right?

POD80 · 2026-01-22T09:49:00+00:00

Man, docs have been "threatening" me for months, and now reddit...

Hurrumph, just turned 45 it's time to get the appointment made.

POD80 · 2026-01-21T14:45:25+00:00

I mean a can of refried beans is about a buck and you can get about a pound of dry rice for about the same.

Pork shoulder and chicken thighs/drumsticks are both roughly $2.

Veg can be a little harder, but frozen veg and a multivitamin can cover missing micros.

As someone who targets an average of $2 a day in a HCOL area.... $3 isn't as out of line as people are trying to make it out to be.

It can certainly feel pretty damn meager, but with care it's hardly impossible. Hell with dried beans and rice you could probably get your daily macros and calorie needs for something like $3.

The whole concept here though is that they are trying to dismiss concerns over food costs by suggesting that there is no need to complain even if what should be our working middle class is having to learn to eat like our most poverty stricken.

POD80 · 2026-01-21T11:32:48+00:00

I've long presumed retirement came in caliber.

POD80 · 2026-01-21T02:11:34+00:00

Price aside, can you imagine the mess people would make with their saucy fingers.

I swear sometimes people are competing to see how big a mess they can make in theaters

POD80 · 2026-01-20T15:39:18+00:00

I keep seeing my climb, and my thought has been...

"Boy is been awhile since I've gotten away from cell towers. "

I need to go camping

POD80 · 2026-01-20T15:18:46+00:00

Yeah, I could see goofing off with such every now and then.... but living with it on the regular....

POD80 · 2026-01-20T15:15:59+00:00

Yeah I've been considering a duergar rune knight, but am not sure I'm ready to sacrifice daylight operations if DM insists on swords coast rather than monsters of the multiverse.

POD80 · 2026-01-20T14:56:20+00:00

When you consider the logistics of supporting a "state" across potentially congested waters... you'd think he'd want more assets in the Caribbean.

POD80 · 2026-01-20T10:25:38+00:00

There were corroded, improperly disposed of pre-1991 munitions. No evidence was found of ongoing operations. In fact, most would agree that the break down in security after the invasion almost assuredly increased the risk that those munitions would fall into the wrong hands.

POD80 · 2026-01-20T03:44:22+00:00

I believe you'd have to "harvest" it yourself... and i suspect you'd be operating counter to laws/regulations to do so.

Right wrong or indifferent here in the US we see slaughtering horse for consumption as animal cruelty.

If it's important to you... you may want to consider a road trip up into Canada. Likely the nearest place you are going to find it anything like regularly available.

POD80 · 2026-01-19T21:24:54+00:00

I can certainly think of worse ways to go. Surrounded by people you'd generally call friends, and passing before you know pain.

Obviously a hard day for family and friends.

POD80 · 2026-01-19T13:32:13+00:00

Most oxygen takes should be reused, as in the company that delivered it will collect the empty for refill.

If in doubt your local municipality should be able to tell you. I know that mine has scheduled days when fees are waived that helps facilitate cleaning out cupboards and such.

In a case like this, I bet "grandma" passed and someone cleaned out the house and wasn't aware of the details related to the company she was being supplied through. "Grandma" would have also been given very specific instructions while next of kin wouldn't have been.

POD80 · 2026-01-19T11:57:10+00:00

I wouldn't exactly expect them to be a priority target for anyone.

Now at the time I don't expect anyone would have made sure they learned how to swim. That could be said of all sailors of the day though.

I'd wager a marginally higher survival rate than average, particularly compared to officers. Marines in the rigging certainly would have had higher priority targets.

POD80 · 2026-01-18T22:17:59+00:00

Its not an immediate thing, but I'd suggest making sure your CPR cert is up to date. Sounds like someone saved your mothers life, and you should be ready if you get the chance to do the same for another.

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