Notices by Hippy Steve (exador23@m.ai6yr.org), page 2

ICE opened fire on a moving vehicle in Los Angeles this morning https://abc7.com/post/shooting-involving-federal-agent-willowbrook-prompts-massive-response-authorities/18443548/

Kessler roulette wheel is being spun

NOAA: An S4 severe solar radiation storm is now in progress - this is the largest solar radiation storm in over 20 years. The last time S4 levels were observed was in October, 2003. Potential effects are mainly limited to space launch, aviation, and satellite operations.

And here's another one posted today. They're running 3500W at 12v and wondering why this wire is reaching its melting point.

They finally found the 4 Oglala men who ICE abducted. They are being held in Ft. Snelling - the concentration camp their ancestors were held in during the Indian Wars and where the Dakota 38 were held before being executed.

If anyone belongs on Turtle Island, it's Native Americans - not the ICE thugs that abducted them.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/south-dakota-tribe-oglala-sioux-demands-release-of-lakota-men-in-minneapolis-detained-by-ice

So many people in #VanLife groups putting their lives at risk with their #Solar systems. The problem is inverter size vs system voltage. People are running 3500W and even higher wattage inverters on a 12V battery bank. That's 300A of current!! Not only do the wires need to be massive, expensive, and hard to negotiate around curves, but at those current levels you'd need to constantly monitor the torque on the connections and any heat build up in the wires.

Every connection is going to have some resistance. The higher the current the greater the voltage drop/heat build up through that resistance. This then causes thermal expansion/contraction which will loosen those connections resulting in even higher resistance and heat. Note the positive feedback loop. There's very little room for error at such high current levels. the same process can happen with a poor crimp.

12V is fine up to 2kW. 24V to 4kW. Anything above that and you should just go 48V.

@crazyeddie @guigsy

I think if I had a medical device and that was the only AC load, I'd consider one of those all-in-one power stations. A small inexpensive one should suffice. They can be recharged with DC from your main batteries. I'd keep the inverter too, but just powered off.

That way, if your main system went down, or the power station went down, you've still got power for the CPAP. And you can take it with you if your were on a trip or camping or whatnot.

Holy Shit. "one of ours. all of yours". on a government podium?!?

That's serious fascism stuff. It's the approach taken by the Nazis when Reinhard Heydrich, a prime architect of the holocaust, was assassinated by the resistance.

The assassins were mistakenly believed to be from the town of Lidice in occupied Czechoslovakia. So the Nazi's rounded up all the men and boys and killed them, and sent all the women to concentration camps. wiped the town off the map.

THAT is what's being evoked by that phrase on the puppy killer's podium.

Wherein Ken Klippenstein (independent investigative journalist formerly with The Intercept, The Nation, and Young Turks) contends (based on leaked documents and DHS sources) that Immigration Agents Terrified of ICE Backlash After Shooting https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigration-agents-terrified-by-ice

On Friday, DHS sought volunteers to deploy to Minneapolis, in part due to opposition within the ranks, according to border patrol agents and other homeland security workers who have reached out to me. “Please begin canvassing your personnel for volunteers,” a memo sent by the Border Patrol’s Acting Assistant Chief Joshua Andrew Post on Friday.

“There might be some immature knuckleheads who think they are out there trying to capture Nicolas Maduro, but most field officers see a clear need for deescalation,” a high level career official at Homeland Security headquarters in Washington also told me. “There is genuine fear that indeed ICE’s heavy handedness and the rhetoric from Washington is more creating a condition where the officers’ lives are in danger rather than the other way around.”

The senior DHS official adds that an increasing number of homeland security workers are concerned about the public backlash. “The claim is that recruiting is up, but there is also dread that the gung-ho types that ICE and the Border Patrol are bringing in have a propensity towards confrontation and even violence.”

Feds pay $125K after Border Patrol agent pointed gun at Portland hotel worker https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/01/feds-pay-125k-after-border-patrol-agent-pointed-gun-at-portland-hotel-worker.html

The federal government Friday agreed to pay $125,000 after a judge found a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent liable for civil assault for pointing a gun at a hotel maintenance man who came to the agent’s room to unclog a toilet.

Jones was staying in Room 428 at the Residence Inn by Marriott in North Portland and had called down to the front desk to report a malfunctioning toilet.

Christopher Frison, a chief maintenance engineer at the hotel, arrived at Jones’ room about 5 p.m. on July 27, 2020, and knocked several times. Frison also called out “maintenance,” gave his name and waited, holding a plunger, he testified in court.

That’s when “Jones opened the door ready to defend himself and his room,” according to U.S. District Judge Adrienne Nelson’s 22-page opinion.

According to Frison, Jones was wearing a sweatshirt with the hood pulled over his head when he “swung” the hotel door open, reached with his right hand behind his back and suddenly pointed a handgun at Frison’s chest. He said Jones held his gun in two hands, both arms outstretched.

“What the hell are you doing? What is going on?” Frison said he screamed. “All I could see was the white of his eyes. I could see the anger in his face. I wasn’t there as a threat. I was there as a maintenance worker.”

Frison testified that Jones pointed the gun at him for four to five seconds before uttering twice that he “f----- up.”

The judge found that Frison’s lawyers didn’t need to prove that Jones intended to shoot Frison or cause him physical injury. It didn’t matter if the gun was loaded or not, according to her opinion. It was clear Jones “intended” to place Frison in fear of imminent harm, she ruled.

“Simply put, that Jones opened the door quickly and pointed a gun at plaintiff is sufficient to establish defendant’s liability for civil assault,” Nelson wrote.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5677541-walz-minnesota-national-guard-ice-shooting/

In response to the governor’s warning order, Schaefer said the agency has begun preparations in the event the guard is activated, including equipment checks and notifying service members.

“To Minnesotans, on the National Guard, they’re there to protect you and protect your constitutional rights,” Walz said. “These are our neighbors. They don’t wear masks. They don’t bust in from somewhere else. They’re not here to cause hassles to you or what we saw today, the tragedy.”

“From here on, I have a very simple message: We do not need any further help from the federal government,” Walz said. “To Donald Trump and [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem, you’ve done enough.”

@ai6yr no idea. haven't seen a potential showdown between state and federal forces since... well... about 1861.

Whoa. If I understand his words correctly, Gov Tim Walz has issued a 'warning order' which is like a 'prepare for but don't execute yet' order for the National Guard to be prepared to kick ICE agents out of Minnesota if necessary.

um. wow.

Oof. Those poor Swiss nightclub patrons didn't stand a chance. That's highly flammable sound proofing foam above pyrotechnics. I don't know why both haven't been universally banned in clubs.

If you go to a club, or any place you're not familiar with like a hotel, find and walk to the nearest fire exits. clock where they are. you may have to get to them in the smoke filled dark to survive.

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If I were on #spotify, I’d cancel my subscription/account immediately.

King Gizzard pulled their music from the platform so Spotify has replaced it with #AI knockoffs of their music. As if paying almost nothing for streaming wasn’t evil enough, they’re now using LLMs trained on stolen content to pay artists nothing at all.

https://futurism.com/future-society/king-gizzard-spotify-ai-knockoff

Getting word that ICE thugs have been spotted all over NELA today (highland park, cypress park, eagle rock, etc).

New massive study of #covid mRNA vaccines with 28 million participants, 22 million of them vaccinated, with higher avg age and more co-morbidities. They found 74% lower risk of death from severe covid, and 25% lower all cause mortality. I suspect the latter is due to the havoc covid can wreak on blood, heart, organs, immune system, etc. so avoiding it or worse cases of it through vaccination results in fewer deaths attributed to other causes, but ultimately covid contributed to the illness or outcome.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305

@ai6yr

I friend saw a waymo just sitting at a stop sign with it's left turn signal on the other day like an old man who was confused. They honked for some time to no avail and finally just had to go around it.

This was after he rescued a food delivery bot stuck in the bushes just a little while earlier. lol.

WHOA.

Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of #Iran, the country’s president has said. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/irans-capital-has-run-out-of-water-forcing-it-to-move/

The situation in Tehran is the result of “a perfect storm of climate change and corruption,” says Michael Rubin, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.

“We no longer have a choice,” said Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian during a speech on Thursday.

Instead Iranian officials are considering moving the capital to the country’s southern coast. But experts say the proposal does not change the reality for the nearly 10 million people who live in Tehran and are now suffering the consequences of a decades-long decline in water supply.

Since at least 2008, scientists have warned that unchecked groundwater pumping for the city and for agriculture was rapidly draining the country’s aquifers. The overuse did not just deplete underground reserves—it destroyed them, as the land compressed and sank irreversibly. One recent study found that Iran’s central plateau, where most of the country’s aquifers are located, is sinking by more than 35 centimeters each year. As a result, the aquifers lose about 1.7 billion cubic meters of water annually as the ground is permanently crushed, leaving no space for underground water storage to recover.

#ClimateEmergency