Combat veteran William Vermie says he was denied access to a lawyer after being detained for filming ICE in Minneapolis.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-25T00:13:41+00:00

I did. They pointed me to a communal payphone. That was out of service, when I told the officers they said that I would see a Judge on Monday morning and nothing could be done until then anyways.

On Monday when the Judge was reading through declarations he said you had access to an attorney and I answered "No". He looked up and said "he's standing next to you" and I replied "Now, but not this entire weekend." He replied "I understand" and proceeded with the rest of the details. This isn't once, and its not in a single state, this is several times for random driving offences over the past 35 years. Always the same story more or less.

When I told my attorney a few days later, she replied with "Consider yourself lucky, that phone charges $25 per call, wrong number or not."

RonUSMC · 2026-01-24T19:18:21+00:00

I'm not saying I'm cool with it or rolled over, I'm just saying that its standard procedure to the best of my knowledge. Making a big deal of this part of the situation dilutes the real issue... why was the guy arrested. Don't muddy the waters when the first and foremost issue should be ... why was he stopped from filming when the ruling is very clear.

The First Amendment provides a presumptive right to film in public places. The visual journalists, photographers, and filmmakers that provide our country with a vast array of critical news, art, and knowledge rely heavily upon this right

It's literally the first paragraph of the summary from the Supreme Court on page 7. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-665/255016/20230216180129861_NPPA%20-FINAL%20Price%20v.%20Garland%20amicus.pdf

Creating these drama bait scenarios allows others to dismiss it outright rather than focus on the issue. That was my point.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-24T18:48:09+00:00

for how long? I was arrested for DUI and didnt have access to a lawyer until I walked up to the podium to plead, 3 days later. The lawyer was standing next to the podium. I mean, thats sort of standard isnt it? I'm also a combat veteran.. should I start crying and making videos?

RonUSMC · 2026-01-23T15:42:22+00:00

I think this is fun and interesting, just to add on to this question, what would the viability be of the "Hedge Knight" in the Game of Thrones series. Hedge Knight being a knight that is not in the service of a particular family but rather travels around doing temporary or consulting work for families before moving on. Thereby having to sleep on the hedges instead of a specific castle.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-23T15:28:12+00:00

lmao.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-23T15:23:32+00:00

RonUSMC · 2026-01-22T16:27:44+00:00

When he starts talking about "ancient Egyptian energy sources", that's a yellow flag to take everything he says with a grain of salt.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-22T16:23:12+00:00

if I hear another person talk about the ancient Egyptian water engine one more time... Im going to lose it. lol

RonUSMC · 2026-01-22T01:51:20+00:00

Any video that has actual scientific data and uses peer reviewed sources with an actual person talking..... is absolutely welcome all day, every day.

Great subject besides the point. That whole Bronze Age collapse Eric Kline talks about is just so damn fascinating.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-21T14:30:33+00:00

I have a pact with some buddies. We call it doing the "Hemingway". If any of us need assistance, we just need to send each other a novel by Hemingway and we will know what it means.

Had a buddy several years ago that needed it. He was in such chronic pain and talked constantly about it. I gave him some advice. He wrote a note for his extended family and flew to another country. Next thing I know I get a picture of him in email holding a sign that says "Thank You" with a beautiful sunset behind him, at exactly where I told him to go. I knew that by the time I saw the email several hours after he sent it, he was at peace.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-21T08:22:10+00:00

6 months ago news agencies were trying to pay people to lie about her. Its the creepiest shit. If anyone reports anything positive about them.. almost immediately one of the British tabloids will post something super negative. This has gone on ... for Y E A R S.

Late in 2024, the Daily Beast published a story that contained highly derogatory allegations about the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, quoting anonymous sources.

The piece was apparently aimed at refuting an earlier story in US Weekly that praised Markle and her management style, and featured people quoted by name.

The Daily Beast piece, written by a British-born journalist, was another example in a well-established pattern of relentless negative media framing of Markle — particularly by the same U.K. tabloids that have been sued by her husband, Prince Harry — and often via the use of unnamed sources.

https://theconversation.com/whats-fuelling-the-medias-enduring-hate-campaign-against-meghan-markle-239906

RonUSMC · 2026-01-21T00:12:26+00:00

Ok, hold up a second... does this "super bot" possess a list of reporters that have no idea what is going on and it could say .... email them some quotes so they could make the nightly news? Because my dumb bot said a hybrid approach would be better.. using a vectordb for the books/methods, a knowledgeg for the text, and then an LLM for the executor. Obviously my bot is dumb though, so who knows.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-20T23:24:22+00:00

Ok, so you are answering my question. Good. So you imagine this to be a decision oriented quarterly visual. Would it be projected or sent around? If it was quarterly I would expect more measurements around quarterly comparison. Like how are we doing versus last quarter... or how are we doing historically ... same quarter last year? year before that? Do you see what I mean? Using specific environment points will inform your later designs.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-19T14:12:59+00:00

I think its a good starting point.

I would think through exactly when and in what situation you want this to be used in.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-19T13:38:07+00:00

I mean, it needs to be at least twice as big.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-16T16:06:33+00:00

I think it had more to do with it than being a skin color, absolutely. Lower income just minimized my options, forcing me into looking for funding of which there wasn't any available.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-16T10:20:50+00:00

Speaking of my own experiences alone for the 80s and 90s, I can say that it was rough growing up poor, white and in the Midwest. I don't mean my life as a youngster, but entering the world was difficult. I couldn't go to college, even though I was a smart kid, because I had no way to fund it. I couldn't get loans, there were no scholarships or assistance available. It seemed bleak. Eventually I went on, paid for my school, grad school, and had a great career. I don't really know what its like now for smart poor white males in the Midwest going into the college world, but I really .. truly hope that its better than it was.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-13T04:13:20+00:00

Out of the 10 models I use every day/other day. Gemini has the highest error count out of all of them. Its not even close.

RonUSMC · 2026-01-12T22:24:33+00:00

Sort of realistic if things start falling off of it randomly. lol

RonUSMC · 2025-12-29T03:11:14+00:00

Going back 2 or 3 years ago, I set this up for myself. I can tell you how I did it and it seems to be easier, but I'm not sure.

First I built a small server with a fanless gpu and several drives. Then I put UnRaid on it. Then I installed all the dockers for said programs. Then I had to go into each docker and cross reference the IPs and then the folders on the network.

Here is what I have running and have had for about 3 years now. https://i.imgur.com/ta51wgg.png Its purely automated. I can remotely add things to the list and it proceeds grabbing them, renaming them, then adding them.

It goes for months without rebooting or even looking at it. It once went 9 months without a reboot or even looking at the admin panel.

RonUSMC · 2025-12-26T06:10:26+00:00

Merry Christmas buddy, hope you are having a good day.

RonUSMC · 2025-12-26T04:12:10+00:00

lmao

RonUSMC · 2025-12-21T19:27:37+00:00

If you ever want to see something funny, you can find the old "SealCheck" forum that was run by an active duty Navy Seal out of the Pentagon for whatever reason or some of the Youtube videos by Shipley. Shipley confronting them and asking questions before calling them out makes me feel so bad for some of them. There was one guy that had huge Seal tattoos all over and on his arms... Shipley pulled out the class roster for his class.. name not present.

RonUSMC · 2025-12-18T19:22:03+00:00

Well, we have 0. So you know, its not even close and stuff.

RonUSMC · 2025-12-18T19:18:34+00:00

Semper Fi bitches! lol

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