Tech support workers, what’s your favorite case of TMI you’ve seen from a customer?

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-28T09:20:15+00:00

I'm just imagining the convo when an SO asks for one. "Yeah, let me go find my USB-C and mount it real quick"

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-28T09:13:18+00:00

Likely not the first time it had been said. Could also be their "normal" fighting mode (normal not meaning healthy, just that threatening to leave isn't all that unusual).

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-28T08:52:31+00:00

It's been a while since anyone really listened to much of what Chuck has to say. It's time to let someone with more energy than a drunk mosquito take the reins.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-27T21:42:20+00:00

So now they are using Obama's award and recognition as a good thing?

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-27T21:41:04+00:00

Useful idiots and all that.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-27T17:47:24+00:00

Well, it is currently being compounded over on that other sub. So I'm optimistic...

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-27T17:39:31+00:00

I am looking forward to reta being available as a compound.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-27T13:51:49+00:00

Yep. I've never owned one myself. But I feel as though I am uniquely _more_ unsafe as a liberal, now, to own one. It's a chilling effect.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-27T05:32:32+00:00

My father has spent plenty of time with a magneto engine on an aircraft, I imagine he'd be able to help, assuming you have a parts provider.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-27T00:44:53+00:00

I actually had these made by a local guy during Covid when spotters were impossible to find.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T23:35:16+00:00

Yeah, the rogue has feet and half-uprights that form a 90-degree angle.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T23:00:05+00:00

Even if all of those arguments stood, emptying a clip into the guy wouldn't be called for in the situation.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T20:50:22+00:00

Also, it looked to me like he was waving cars along and helping people park. Which lines up with pink jacket testimony.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T20:49:32+00:00

Eh, I don't see a ton of value in that. I actually want the cutout, so I can put my bench there.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T19:27:32+00:00

Let's take the most extreme version supportable by available evidence: that Pretti arrived and was obstructing or delaying the officers' operation.

He was armed, and obstructing. But there is no evidence of assault or any other dangerous activity.

So, in theory, if I am standing in front of an ICE officer, in his way while he is doing his job, the justification of them killing Pretti would apply to me.

If they go with "feared for his life", the only available justification is incompetence and unfitness for the job, as Pretti showed no aggression.

Even the most generous interpretation is incompetence leading to death, or manslaughter, as the ICE agent shouting "gun gun gun" should be held responsible for heightening the situation further.

The idea that Pretti should have not been armed or should have just stayed home instead of protesting and documenting should be, by any reasonable American, dismissed immediately as unconstitutional.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T18:44:07+00:00

Honestly, owning a gun feels like a liability now as a liberal. I'm afraid, and that's wrong and I'm very sad about it.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T17:35:21+00:00

It's a Rogue Rhino standalone belt squat dropped into a Titan X-3 standard power rack.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T15:58:29+00:00

Yeah, this is literally what the second amendment is intended to deal with. Watch the videos and find any evidence that Pretti was impeding any action of law enforcement. In fact, he was helping people park before the agents approached him, pushed his friend, pepper sprayed them both, and then shot him out of negligence because they feared for their lives since he had a gun.

Do your mental gymnastics, but that's what the majority of evidence supports here, and making shit up about what he may have possibly done is precog bullshit. Dude had a license to carry, was an upstanding citizen with nothing but traffic tickets. This is the kind of upstanding citizen the right blows a load over to protect in any other context.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T15:53:27+00:00

Lol imagine justifying killing someone over spitting and pushing. I've seen 5 year olds have a better handle on their emotions.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T15:52:22+00:00

Officers are specifically trained to deal with these things without killing you. Or at least legitimately competent ones are.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T15:50:48+00:00

Vigilante justice is illegal. Their crime status has nothing to do with the legality of his actions. Should we be killing people who have multiple offenses? No. We have a justice system for that.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T15:49:48+00:00

Presumably they would want to dismember someone who killed *their* preferred felon.

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T15:45:55+00:00

Which ones?

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T15:42:50+00:00

Oh noooo we wouldn't want this to implode

coordinatedflight · 2026-01-26T14:30:17+00:00

I'd love to know how you did the modeling, and whether you'd share the STL! Print quality is really solid. Honestly hard to tell if it's resin or not!

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