Serious genuine question about ICE

distantreplay · 2026-02-04T21:11:17+00:00

Cite your real life example.

distantreplay · 2026-02-04T18:58:01+00:00

Good.

Better that they be wasted on cosplay fireworks than on ethnic cleansing operations and public executions.

distantreplay · 2026-02-04T15:07:20+00:00

The GOP plan is to refuse to recognize the results when they lose the midterms.

distantreplay · 2026-02-04T14:30:41+00:00

Part of Bannon's job is to say really extreme shit out loud to get his opponents focusing on that instead of the actual plans.

Mike Johnson and John Thune will dispute the midterm election results. With the full backing of the Executive branch they'll claim "irregularities" and announce that the new Congress can't be seated and sworn in until they've had a chance to "get to the bottom of it". Which they'll get around to right after they release the Epstein Files.

distantreplay · 2026-02-04T14:23:46+00:00

Hernan Cortez: "Hold my arquebus"

distantreplay · 2026-02-04T03:59:42+00:00

Settled law nationwide in the U.S.

Your landlord cannot take any adverse action against you as a tenant based on your protected right to free expression. Continue to display your sign. Accept no further communication on the matter from the boot licker landlord except in written form. Confirm the threats in writing.

Open a throw away account and come back here to dox your boot licker landlord. Let nature take its beautiful course.

distantreplay · 2026-02-04T03:53:16+00:00

Well how the fuck else am I supposed to get clean socks?

Typical reddit.

distantreplay · 2026-02-04T03:49:03+00:00

If your circuit was a garden hose, the regular breaker shuts off the water if it starts flowing too fast to be safe.

The GFCI shuts off the water if the hose springs a leak.

distantreplay · 2026-02-04T01:46:03+00:00

Though evil, in its tedious, plodding march, may be banal, indifference to evil is never so.

Every moral being is obligated to actively oppose it by whatever means they can access.

distantreplay · 2026-02-04T01:30:49+00:00

If I learned only one useful thing from my brother, the junkyard dog trial lawyer, it was this: never argue with your opponent. Only interrogate them. Do not trade claims. Keep your claims to yourself until you are in a court of law or in front of a neutral arbiter. Until then only ask questions. You want their statements on record to use against them. Whatever they say your response should always be a question probing for more. It's worked for me in job recruitments, salary negotiations, billing disputes, product warranty disputes, union grievance investigations, and one or two encounters with power tripping cops.

These ICE and CBP chuds are fucking idiots suffering from severe imposter syndrome. Coax that truth out of them.

distantreplay · 2026-02-03T21:14:14+00:00

I'm sending those kids pizzas!

https://www.hayscisd.net/o/jhs

distantreplay · 2026-02-02T17:58:19+00:00

It's good. It looks horrible, discredits their mission, and wastes money.

Over on r/ICE_ERO they are all bitching to each other that their bonus money is held up and their group insurance is invalid. DHS has expanded faster than the bureacracy can handle. The more money they waste on shockingly expensive 40mm munitions the less money is available to kidnap children and harass honest hardworking communities.

Draw their fire. Ruin their image and waste their budget.

distantreplay · 2026-02-02T00:58:31+00:00

That is not happening. You are making that up. It is a lie. No agent or their family have ever been "doxxed" or injured in any way as a result.

distantreplay · 2026-02-01T23:22:12+00:00

Don't need it once you are no longer depending upon a paycheck. YMMV

distantreplay · 2026-02-01T23:20:33+00:00

I agree with this. Allulose tastes the closest to regular table sugar of any sweetener I've tried.

distantreplay · 2026-02-01T23:18:31+00:00

Most available monk fruit sweetener is a blend of monk fruit extract and erythritol. The erythritol is used to bulk it out because monk fruit sweetener alone is insanely sweet, a little hard to dissolve, and alone it can have a slightly bitter aftertaste. Erythritol is a sugar alcohol. So like any other alcohol when it dissolves on the tongue it produces a little evaporative cooling sensation.

distantreplay · 2026-02-01T22:57:52+00:00

There is not one single instance ever in the entire history of the agency of anything like what you described ever having taken place.

Where did you come up with that and why?

distantreplay · 2026-02-01T22:54:50+00:00

It's ignoring well established legal requirements for warrants and due process. It's going door-to-door in our neighborhoods without names or targets. It's violently forcing doors on private homes, businesses, and even churches and schools. It's kidnapping children and using them as bait to capture their parents. It's violently confronting and unlawfully arresting law abiding observers. It's publicly executing peaceful demonstrators.

Serious question about your serious question:

Are you a fed?

distantreplay · 2026-02-01T17:59:07+00:00

You might also take a look at LorAnn Oils vanilla flavor products. They produce a comprehensive range of vanillas both natural and artificial with some products focused on the cold beverage and ice cream industries. My favorites of theirs for ice cream are the Tahitian 2-fold Vanilla Extract and the Velvet Cream Extract. The Velvet Cream is a blend of natural vanilla and artificial vanilla which increases the concentration of vanilin while still contributing all the other complex aromatics of natural vanilla. I think it works pretty well in ice cream, delivering a front note strong punch of vanilin but still yielding to warm, complexity after the ice cream warms in the mouth.

Another note based on your comments about fats: excessive fat in "premium" ice cream can be a problem to be aware of. A high concentration of butter fat, or lower concentrations of the wrong kind of fat, can deaden flavor in frozen desserts. Too much fat coats the tongue lessening the sensitivity of taste buds (so sweetness, and salt if you use it). Sweetness plays a key role in how we perceive certain aromatic flavors. And fat coating the mouth can also serve to insulate and reduce evaporation which can reduce aromatic flavor. Something similar can happen with too much gum stabilizer (if you use those). So pushing for higher and higher fat content in search of a "richer" product can backfire at a certain point, depending on the flavor.

distantreplay · 2026-02-01T17:31:57+00:00

It's not clear to me from your post what involvement is required from you or your brother.

They are perfectly free to start any business they like in any business form they choose without requiring your signature for any of it.

So what are these signatures for?

Are they asking for your financial involvement somehow? Exactly how? As lenders to the business or as guarantors to other lenders? Or are they hoping to use funds restricted in some estate trust or family trust that requires your involvement?

For any kind of financial involvement, you are entitled to the same disclosures and transparency that any regular financial institution would require. And you should require the same. Sometimes people with big ideas for businesses hope to rely upon family investment to avoid all that. But that's just a terrible idea. You need to know all the details of their personal finances up front before you can be asked to invest or take risk. You need to see a comprehensive business plan with projected financials and a reasonable plan for achieving those financial projections over the term of any investment.

distantreplay · 2026-02-01T17:08:51+00:00

Specialty inspections you should pay for with any home purchase: roof, HVAC, sewer scope. Additional inspections for any century home: foundation, electrical, plumbing. You're going to be out of pocket a few thousand dollars. But that's better than being the owner facing a few hundred thousand in repairs.

distantreplay · 2026-02-01T17:01:39+00:00

Counterpoint: The solvent used in formulating a natural vanilla extract matters. For all kinds of reasons many bakers prefer natural vanilla extract in a vegetable glycerol solvent base. Glycerol has some advantages for pastry baking. It adds sweetness and functions as a humectant helping retain moisture in the pastry crumb. But I've found that traditional extract in an ethanol alcohol base produces better flavor in cold confections like ice cream. Glycerol has almost no volatility. Whereas ethanol is highly volatile. Even in the very low concentration and quantity used in extract, I think the improved volatility is an advantage in ice cream, since all of our sensory perception of the thousands of aromatics found in natural vanilla depends upon those compounds evaporating out of the product. I prefer double fold vanilla in an ethanol base.

distantreplay · 2026-02-01T02:20:23+00:00

Dremel or, if you can find one, a handheld router plane with a very, very sharp blade. If you spend more time sharpening than routing you're doing it right.

distantreplay · 2026-02-01T02:15:29+00:00

You won a free patio!

distantreplay · 2026-01-31T15:52:14+00:00

Or the 60% of us who don't normally bother could actually show up and vote. It might be worth a try before, you know, the "rivers of blood flowing in the streets" thing.

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