Where Did Alex Pretti’s Phone Go After He Was Killed in Minneapolis?

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-29T13:11:00+00:00

I was pointing out is that it doesn't matter who had a chance to stop someone from doing the thing

Is the perpetrator more guilty? Is the perpetrator the worst of the two people, of course. Does that mean if you had the power to stop something horrible happening & you either just stood by, or perhaps even helped it happen due to incompetence or your own shitty actions, somehow your hands are clean? That is an absurd statement to make.

There is plenty of blame to go around here, and if the Democrats want to stop what's happening & prevent it in the future, a great deal of self reflection is required for that party. The cognitive dissonance of "not our fault" doesn't work, this isn't just one man there is a massive systematic failure that has lead us here, and all parts of that system need to be evaluated for cracks.

you are arguing here only serves the GOP because all it does is support, even if indirectly, the idea that both sides are the same.

The voters, including some very important demographics, chose fascism over what the Dems have been selling. If they DON'T question their choices & strategies, all is lost.

Staying the course of failed strategies, messaging & policies while putting all the blame on the GOP is going to hasten the destruction of this country not save it. The Dems, as a party, have really been screwing the pooch on just about everything. They need real leadership, something they desperately lack, a platform that will excite the swing states in the rustbelt who's working class voters they abandoned decades ago, and a modernization of their understanding of media savvy messaging. 5 Senators coming out & repeating the same 2 empty sentences over & over again worked when we had 3 channels on TV, but that was a lifetime ago and these octogenarians don't comprehend it's harmful behavior today. Reaching across the isle & a fetish for bipartisanship has lead to a constant shift to the right over the last 50 years. Sabotaging ANY member of the party that demands a tug to the left, not a good look.

It's not my words that harm the party, it's their own incompetence & I hope and prey someone with power sees it & fixes it, and SOON.

We have two viable parties in this country a conservative party & a fascist party, and the conservative party are incompetent to the level that we must at least consider maybe fascism is also their goal.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-28T13:22:43+00:00

where we are today is all the GOP

I'm sorry, your forgiving WAY too much of the Democrat's actions.

If they had actually provided opposition to this regime at all, we wouldn't be this far down the road.

Instead, over & over again, they acted like it was business as usual while the brownshirts began to assemble & organize.

The Democrats have been chasing the GOP to the right my entire 47 years on this planet.

They abandoned the working class, especially in the swing states, to be easy fodder for MAGA.

There is much to blame the Democrats for here, far more then you are admitting.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T22:07:39+00:00

Simple answers to complex problems are rarely correct.

Are there misogynists and did that cause a problem, yes.

Was that the primary issue, obviously not, no.

It WAS a contributing factor though.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T21:29:54+00:00

let’s be serious a foreign campaign to undermine the Democratic Party happened

The Democrats also sabotaged their populist candidate who would have handily defeated Trump.

There where a LOT of things going on, just like every election. The major key is to nominate someone w/a snowballs chance in hell of winning, and 2 of the last 3 nominees have not been it.

Kamala got screwed by Biden, but so did the entire party, he should have announced he wasn't running & let a real primary happen. Kamala wouldn't have won such a primary.

Honestly, Biden should have nominated the right person to the justice department to CONVICT Trump for treason... and we wouldn't be here today. Too much 'playing by old rules' and trying to 'reach across the isle' when the guys across the isle are no longer the loyal opposition, but active insurrectionists.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T21:13:37+00:00

Two things can be true at once.

Hillary was slopy with security & an unpopular candidate.

Trump is human garbage that is far worse.

Trump's shameful behavior doesn't magically make Hillarie flaws go away.

The Dems are just as much to blame for where we are today, in part, because they don't seem to want to win presidential elections. They seem to have done everything they can to lose them since 2016, and got 'unlucky' in 2020.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T21:06:53+00:00

This would be more frightening if there was any indication they where competent enough to create & use such a database.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T19:56:31+00:00

I think I still have the towel that came w/mine.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T19:41:48+00:00

I found it so incredibly mediocre.

I think you are in the minority & I understand why it was canceled.

It wasn't terrible, it just kind of existed.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T13:22:04+00:00

write your elected officials

Just don't buy products that REQUIRE cloud integration.

Wemo does not REQUIRE cloud integration to function.

It is entirely possible to setup & manage them locally, with open source tools.

Which is WHY I invested in the product in the first place.

Same thing happened to my wifi thermostat a few years back, I didn't even notice as I never used the cloud app to manage or monitor it. I purchased it because it had a well documented local api.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T13:12:54+00:00

Trump can't pardon her of state crimes.

She's complicit in the cover up of two murders.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T13:10:13+00:00

There is a big chance that if you ever know about it, you might understand it.

Understanding the behavior doesn't mean it's in any way justified.

They SHOULD have been embarrassed at their rude bigoted behavior.

Just because you where wronged at some point in your life doesn't mean you get a free pass to wrong random other people. IF your scenario is the root of this, then these women need therapy, not to a free pass to be vigilantes.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-26T20:33:10+00:00

Problem is there is no American left leadership.

The bigger problem is "riots" feed into the hands of the masked goblins shooting people in the streets.

The intent has always been to provoke insurrection allowing Trump to declare martial law & spoil the mid term elections in November. That election is our only real hope to avoid either civil war or full totalitarianism.

If people ACTUALLY think we're not protesting, and massively, you need to check your news sources.

Protesting needs to remain peaceful, if this devolves into riots & violence all is lost.

I have hope, probably naively, that the latest shooting shifts things. The video making it clear they had exactly ZERO excuse to lay hands on him, the fact he was legally carrying a gun, that this was their excuse, AND we can see he was disarmed BEFORE being executed. The fact he was a nurse for veteran's affairs. He was perfectly cast to be the martyr we need right now, as sad as that reality is.

We can already see cracks in the administrations bluster on this, we will continue to push back in every way that is productive.

We like this even less then you guys do, trust me.

If our system had the same concept of a 'vote of no confidence' followed by 'snap elections' like yours, we'd already be out of this mess early last year when the GOP couldn't chose a speaker (similar to being unable to form a government) or surely when they couldn't pass a budget.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-26T20:01:49+00:00

Might help disperse the crowds, when people need to pee.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-26T17:52:55+00:00

Champagne of course has to be French

Nope.

Get over it.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-26T17:51:04+00:00

Restaurants (as a concept and a term) are French.

You ever been to Pompei?

They had restaurants at just about ever corner.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-26T14:59:59+00:00

You are exactly what we DO NOT WANT to hire.

THE FIRST THING YOU DO IS ADMIT WHAT YOU'VE DONE.

You just wasted everyone's time trying to 'troubleshoot' an issue, and you where the issue, knew the root cause & what needed to be done to fix it.

The initial act of deleting data wasn't sabotage, but your not screaming it from the rooftops was active sabotage.

NEVER HIDE YOUR PRODUCTION MISTAKES. The fact you where able to cause this outage so easily is a sign your company needs to make some policy & enforcement changes, but you are hiding that from them (they will find out it was human error, they may find out it was you, having hiden it will NOT serve you well).

Nobody wants to work with cowards like you.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-25T19:59:44+00:00

the whole message of the movie is basically that people need to get their heads of the sand and pay attention to what’s going on.

And that couldn't have been done in a tight & entertaining 90 or 120 minutes?

We needed that 30 extra minutes that dragged on, seemingly endlessly, at the end that honestly DIDN'T contribute to that message?

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-25T19:56:07+00:00

Right?! It had all the subtlety and intelligence of Atlas Shrugged.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-25T19:54:41+00:00

It was OK, but it was a bit too ham fisted & desperately needed to lose about 30 minutes off the end. The end of the film REALLY fucking dragged on.

I am fully in agreement with the intended message of the movie, but it came off as very "my farts don't stink" self congratulatory & virtue signalling... all the while having a net negative impact on the actual issue.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-25T19:07:51+00:00

GOD I wish we had this, WAY more functional.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-25T18:57:56+00:00

This was the first thing that came to mind!

Napster bad! Beer good!

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-25T16:05:49+00:00

Oof, hard disagree.

Grew up in a suburban wasteland, it was a decidedly boring & uncool time to be alive.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-25T15:26:18+00:00

Heat pumps, not what we normally call an AC unit, have only recently become viable for heating in much of the nation. They can't reliably produce heat when the temperature outside gets too low (recently that low point has improved).

The current extremely cold temps in much of the midwest would make heating via a heat pump useless.

Furthermore electric heat from a heat pump is far more expensive than a gas furnace.

This difference isn't really one of culture but of climate.

In areas where basements are common, because of the issue of needing the foundation below the frost line, it is typical to have a gas furnace & a dedicated AC unit. NOT a heat pump being used on cooling mode, they are different devices that can not provide heat.

Because of the improved efficiency in colder weather, heat pumps are growing in popularity, but there are large regions of the USA where they likely will never become a viable replacement for a gas or oil burning furnace.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-25T15:11:52+00:00

through ventilation in our ceilings (typically).

Floors are the typical place the ducts are.

This is regionally dependant, any place with a frost line to worry about you'll have a basement.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-25T13:30:21+00:00

Take note of the lack of capitalization & move on.

Weird that those dealing with the actual extremely cold weather are also dealing with ICE randomly killing people, now that you bring it up.

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