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Last Notes npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage The really stupid part about this is this giant oil tanker which is now on fire, full of oil, had previously gotten out in early July after being stranded in the gulf and the ownership appears to have decided to send it in for more oil during the MOU. Looks like it got hit at around 7:30 last night while 8nm off Oman. The timing suggests to me that it was trying to use proximity to sunset to try and hug the Oman side and run with AIS off. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Sounds like several ships have been hit trying to transit Hormuz and are burning/abandoned. One is a brand new 950 foot long tanker - bigger than the old Panamax standard. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage If you want my continued business as a long time Mullvad customer, I'd expect nothing less than Daniel Berntsson's removal as CEO. If he has any other role other than "major shareholder," then doing business with Mullvad is pretty much a direct pipeline from a customer's pockets into the war chest of fascism. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Yeah, the "it's just one of our employees making a private donation" line really doesn't fly with me. This is your CEO and co-founder, who presumably has a very large financial stake in the company and benefits very directly from its profits. He chose to give a very large amount of money to this Örebro Party, which is very visibly a vile, racist ethno-nationalist party. His funding accounts for an overwhelming percentage of their total resources. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Those processes and crystal clear internal messaging should have been in place already. That somehow this sort of thing still occurred leaves only a handful of possibilities in my mind re Andy Yen. It also casts doubt imo on the utility of the Proton Foundation to steer this enterprise in a meaningful way. Surprises me that someone like Tim Berners Lee would continue to want to be associated with this organization and it makes me think less of him for doing so. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage You've made a series of ad hominem attacks on me personally rather than address the substance of my arguments. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage If your internal messaging to employees is so unclear or lacking in authority that the message "Don't do anything that makes us look like we're aligned with fascists" doesn't get through and your employees continue to do stuff that makes the company look like it's aligned with fascists, then I'd submit that you're either a shit CEO who probably shouldn't be trusted with the reigns of a company built on trust or you've decided to throw in with the fascists to maintain market access. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Ah, so you worked for the company that literally put rootkits on CDs? Tell me more about companies not being evil, please. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Afaik, Proton's CEO is still running around with a personal social account with a veiled 88 in the username. Would not touch this company with a 10-ft pole at this point. I migrated all my personal accounts and a healthy chunk of my client accounts as well. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage I think we can see this in the success of Zohran Mamdani in New York and Zack Polanski with the Green Party in the UK. Nothing is quite so refreshing as people who are articulate and earnest. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Do this long enough and people recognize your actions and stop paying attention to your civil demeanor and nice suits and no amount of additional talking is going to get you those votes back. You see strong gains in terms of support for parties and politicians that very boldly tell you about what they're about and what policies they're intending to support and to have a demonstrable track record of being ideologically, driven and uncompromising. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage I think you can see this a lot with the recent political dynamics in the UK. Labour has put themselves in a real no-win scenario where they've been cracking down on grannies waiving signs, treating paint throwers like terrorists, persecuting gender minorities and providing material assistance to a genocidal nation. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage One of the things you hear a lot about in politics is when they politician or whole party becomes deeply unpopular and there's homeless chatter about whether they should go left or go right to earn or votes. The problem with this is the electorate has been watching you and they realize that you lack all morals and are just a rudderless vessel going whatever way the wind blows. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Thing is I don't think they can operate a blockade indefinitely. The modern US navy simply doesn't have the ships for it. They've got about 10 destroyers out in the Gulf of Oman to intercept ships. It then has to force their surrender and put prize crews aboard or escort the vessels to an anchorage in some place like Diego Garcia. Try doing that on a regular basis over an extended time. It might be easier to simply sink vessels. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Assuming the US operated an indefinite blockade of all Iranian oil ships and Iran maintained toll booth control at pre-war shipping volumes...they could actually increase their national GDP above pre-war levels by charging about $10m per passage, all while exporting no oil themselves. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Very little about the present moment feels "cold." We've got major world military powers acting nakedly with force with little respect to balance, much less law. Countries are being forced into strange shifting agreements in their own national interest to get the things they need. There are primary theaters to the war, but the war is being fought all over and with a wide variety of means. Nations are directly involving themselves, not just fighting via proxies. Feels very WW to me. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Communication via missile exchange. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Famously turned into the Demi Moore stinker of the same name, which did catapult her to the category of highest paid actress, with her salary accounting for 1/4 of the film's total production cost. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Took me a moment too, but then I remembered. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage I don't inherently believe that governments / nations have a right to exist. I believe people have a right to exist, but if the entities they form or allow to persist become so malign as to perpetrate genocide and constantly wage aggressive war, then I think there is a sort of global duty to ensure that system be dissolved. We didn't say that Nazi Germany had an inherent right to exist. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Many of the occupants were of that opinion as well, which is why you have the Petite and Grand Trianons, providing living, meeting and recreational spaces on a far more human scale. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Then change the law to actually reflect that, because otherwise, it's just at the whims of the current administration and what they define as peace. Germany is currently the second largest backer of the Israeli state war machine and a major base for US interests in Europe. I woke up this morning not knowing whether Donald Trump had nuked Iran overnight or not. This sort of thing can change in a flash. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage China is understandably pissed about the whole situation and has responded by throwing some elbows. Ships under Panamanian registry are getting inspected by China at a very high rate and they're finding lots of "you've got to fix this rusty whatever if you want to use our port" type problems. They're being slow with the inspections, too, which means a lot of unhappy ship owners with vessels and cargos sitting around not making money. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage So, China basically has these ports which they've invested billions of dollars into over decades suddenly seized by Panama without compensation. They're now being operated day to day by some Maersk subsidiary or another. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage So, found out a little more info about the Panama situation. So, Panama's government outright physically seized a bunch of major port facilities operated by China at either end of the canal after a judicial ruling held that now, after some 30 years, the framework under which they were operating was unconstitutional. Thirty years, folks. This also came after considerable US pressure to force the sale to who Trump's regime wanted. When that deal fell through, the facilities were seized outright. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage But that's not the way it is written, right? It's written as "To travel, you must get approval and do X." If it was written as "All men who are German nationals between such and such an age must get a physical and register their current address," that would seem to be less legally objectionable. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage This seems very contrary to the spirit of EU law, which allows people of any member the nation to move to any other, study there, work there, etc. This is fundamentally restraint on the free movement of people as well as being discriminatory based on sex and age. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage So, Israel/US went and started attacking Iran's gas production and it appears that Iran responded by directly attacking Qatar's Ras Laffan industrial facility. They got in a solid hit with 1 of 5 missiles which were launched and it's caused a chain of fires. This is the largest LNG facility in the world and Qatar produces 1/5th of the total global supply of LNG - or did. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Iran should demand Trump's head on a plate and the world should give it to them. The US needs to be understood as a global pariah which can't be appeased and acts too rashly to be ignored. Trump is the whole world's problem now. He's cut off 1/5th of the world's oil supply, to say nothing of the natural gas and fertilizer. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage That's about a thousand miles of coastline, btw. I don't see a lot of militarily viable alternatives, as the US doesn't have nearly enough vessels to run picket duty and escort type roles. We don't have enough smaller vessels capable of swatting drones, uncrewed surface vessels, etc. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Even if Iran's industry gets completely flattened, they're likely going to be able to keep the Strait of Hormuz in peril for a long time to come. They're far more capable than the Houthis and had a lot of time to prepare for just such a situation. And it appears they've done just that. My guess is the only way it can be safely opened is a capitulation or the US side, or the US ends up invading Iran at least to the extent of holding the coastal areas from which attacks would launch. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Thing is, the US thinks they can win this by breaking stuff and then breaking some more stuff. Iran knows they're not a match. They're fighting asymmetrically. They're fighting not to win, but to punish. The question is how long they can continue to economically punish the US (and the whole world for standing back and allowing America's mad king to do stupid ass shit) by keeping 1/5th of the world's oil from flowing. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage I think we can say that the US seems to have bombed Kharg island and hasn't claimed to have attacked any of the actual oil industry involved targets on the island. So, is this the destination for those couple thousand US Marines who are headed to the gulf? That would be my guess. They're softening up the island in preparation to take it and deny Iran an oil export capability. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Next strikes were five bombs on some pretty indistinct targets between two sets of what appear to be pipelines meeting at an acute angle. There are a few places meeting that description on the island, but hard to narrow it down from the images provided. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Next up, they blew two big holes in the runway. Not sure how long it would take to patch these to allow concrete enough time to cure to hold a sizable jet. From the position of the two bomb craters seen, they've got maybe 1500 meters of runway left. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage The second bloom appears to be just to the left of the main terminal building and there is what looks like a polygonal building sticking out there. My guess is they hit the airport's control tower. This is not exactly the sort of place with Google Maps Streeview. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage The Iranians have a 2300 meter long airport in the NE corner of the island. It looks like that is one of the targets Trump's regime struck. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Here is Kharg Island from space. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage US Centcom has released images of the strikes. I'm not sure that they've been geolocated by independent sources yet, but the US claims this is Kharg island they're bombing. It does look like bombing is the operative word here. These look like gravity bombs with a very vertical trajectory to me. Are we seeing JDAM equipped gravity bombs here? This those B-52's we saw loading up in the UK? npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage So, the US has apparently started bombing Kharg island. This is Iran's main oil export facility, handling like 90% of its oil exports. If Iran is prevented from exporting oil and can no longer derive a national benefit from keeping the strait open, that gives them a good motivation to further penalizing the US and US allies in the gulf for allowing this to happen. They'll mine the strait, because they'll have no reason not to at that point. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage I've seen a pretty wild and wide variety of attempts to differentiate businesses from the crowd here in Serbia. There was the Forrest Gump themed cafe and the Avatar restaurant a few towns back, but this one cracks me up. Unless I miss my guess, this is an 'Allo 'Allo themed cafe. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage This is the old town hall building in Vranje, Serbia. Is this not just exquisite architecture? npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Now imagine Iran decides to start shoveling granulated Uranium into their missiles and even if you successfully intercept them, you just end up scattering the material. They've got literal tons of the lower grade stuff. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Rules against swearing are only rules if mom is there to wash your mouth out with soap afterwards. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage They've had recent large scale protests there which seemed to have had a restoration of the monarchy bent to them (or at least that's what the monarchists wishing to be restored to power have claimed). But how many of the people who lead those protests are now dead or in jail? The US may have missed its window due to poor timing/preparedness. Even if the regime were overthrown, no guarantee what emerges in its place would be in any way in line with what the Trump regime wants. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Saying this as I sit with my ass planted in Serbia, I wonder if Trump's regime thinks the situation on the ground is fluid enough that Iran's regime could be tilted towards falling like Yugoslavia's was after the 1999 NATO bombing campaign, which significantly weakened Milošević's hold on power. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage We're in a position of probably needing to launch a massive ground invasion of Iran to actually prevent them from crossing the nuclear finishing line (assuming they haven't simply built ~3 WW2 class devices out of sub weapon's grade material). We used up most of the US stockpile of deep strike conventional munitions, so the alternative for no boots on the ground is basically tactical nukes. Assuming we knew where all the facilities were. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage And every US action under Trump has underscored the value of keeping nuclear programs from prying eyes and delivering one's status as member of the nuclear club as a fair accompli. Trump has killed nuclear non proliferation and IAEA inspection. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Everything the US has done since then has made the situation worse. We're no longer any sort of partner on security. We're a danger to keep in the loop on intelligence and potential source of extortion if a nation relies to heavily on US made weapons systems (or anything else). We're no longer the indispensable nation, we're a nation that countries are scrambling to disentangle themselves from while whispering soothing noises at our mad king. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage US security guarantees might as well be printed on toilet paper. Ukraine gave up not just its nukes, but also its long range bombers and air launched cruise missiles, of much the same sort which Russia has used to attack Ukraine with impunity, beyond the reach of reprisal against the launching bombers. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage I really need a browser plugin that simply blocks my browser from visiting any site known to regurgitate slop. At the very least, cause the browser to not go directly to the site and bring up a warning notification that can be clocked through. Would also be nice to remove all such sites from search results. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage I want old Notepad back, the Notepad that is just an EXTREMELY basic text editor. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Except many of these vegan meat replacement products are still hideously expensive compared to their meat counterparts. Until that changes "I can't afford it" is going to be a perfectly good excuse. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage I wrote earlier about how the system needs options more than simply finding defendants not guilty. In my opinion, juries should be able to find that someone was maliciously prosecuted. They should be able to rebuke the system itself and to levy fines against it. They should be able to compensate defense lawyers and award punitive damages. The prosecutorial system should fear that the laws that they're trying people under are fundamentally at odds with the will of the actual people. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage And they were sacks of flour, right? I wonder if convoluting the surface or reading at an angle over a curved cross section is enough to squish together two lines or move them closer together so that the number which gets read off appears as something different. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Do the barcodes look identical? Similar enough for a misread to be plausible? Maybe someone pasted over the flour barcode with one for berries to get a cheaper price on a big sack of flour? npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage I had a completely mainstream client ask me to find them a new laptop that would run Linux without much fiddling. They then asked me to make sure that it didn't have a co-pilot key. They hate their numerous unasked for brushes with AI that much. I've not had a lot of clients move off Windows yet, but have a ton who are trying Libre Office. They hate that Microsoft felt it okay to charge them more for a forced feature they explicitly don't want. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage I walked about fifty minutes to get to the dentist office, but didn't really need to do so. All the public transit in Belgrade is free. You can just hop on any bus or tram without need for a ticket or pass. It is the first European city with over half a million people to operate in this fashion. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Had a filling done today in Belgrade. The cost was the equivalent of $45 US, with another $35 or so for a 3D digital x-ray at another facility. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Trump has dissolved most of our existing partnerships with the world and made us an unreliable nation with which to engage with in any but the most immediate and transactional ways. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage There is no strategy within MAGA as to how to return America to greatness or even a definition of what made America great to begin with. It is just thrashing about and persecution at a grand scale, which only hastens the decline. There is no reinvestment in science, education, industry and infrastructure, grand social and prestige projects, etc. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage That long decline, which I think a lot of Americans must feel in their bones, even while not being able to articulate it, is in large part the appeal of the MAGA "movement" and why it connects with so many. It lets them lay the blame for that decline on others, whether that is China, immigrants, godless liberals, elites, globalists - a barely concealed euphamism for Jews, LGBT. It is inarticulate raging with an inarticulate demagogue as its figurehead. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage The US is no longer the indispensable nation and the world could restructure it's trade flows and IP laws so as to isolate a bellicose US. Indeed, I consider it vital that they do so. Too many countries have made themselves far too dependent on the US and the regime is now willing to use that for naked coercion. Eliminating those dependencies is now critical to basic issues of sovereignty and national defense. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage The US is now a much smaller part of the overall global economy and industrial capacity. People forget how shattered much of the world's industry was after WW2, except for the US, which had been untouched by bombs. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage The place where ICE killed Jeffrey Pretti is about 3 miles from where I lived in Minneapolis as a kid and less than a mile from where I went to elementary school. I biked around the circuit of the lakes pretty frequently with my parents and sometimes went to the Uptown. Didn't frequent Nicollet, but I absolutely knew where this was right off the bat. Just unbelievable to me. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Watch a whole lot of "Adrian's Digital Basement" on Youtube. He has a lot of CRT repair/reconditioning videos. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage There were people during WW2 who dissolved Nobek medals in acid and hid them as orange fluid in jars on shelves rather than let the Nazis have them. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage Sitting on a park bench minding my own business waiting for my train and a young woman comes up to me and asks me in good English if I am American. I say yes. She then proceeds to give me both middle fingers, does a little dance and hollers "Fuck you American!" Before turning on her heels and skipping away with a spring in her step. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage ICE's only legal argument in defense of its actions was that Renee Good was somehow perceived to be a vehicular threat to the officer who shot her. After she was shot, she was no longer any sort of threat and so denial of care is simply every ICE person on the scene deciding she needed to be dead. Not simply shot, but dead. It is utterly indefensible and IMO should make everyone there legally culpable in her murder. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #125: Woodstock Castle in Athy - Unimpressive looking at first glance, but a careful study of the stonework reveals a very interesting history of building and revision. Also a monkey once saved a nobleman's child from burning to death in a fire at the castle and the family has had a monkey on their coat of arms every since. Not joking. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #124: Tully's Castle in Clondalkin. Why, power lines? Why? Be elsewhere. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #123: Trim Castle in County Meath - Probably the most impressive medieval castle ever built in Ireland (imo). The many sided keep and death-trap of a barbican are amazing. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #122: The White Castle in Athy. Built to defend crossing of the Newry via the bridge. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #121: Termonfeckin Castle in County Louth. This is a tower house, but a really interesting one. Check out how they did the roof! npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #120: Sword Castle, north of Dublin. Not a tower house. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #119: Strangford Castle - Yet Another Tower House. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #118: Staigue Stone Fort - Built in the early centuries AD in a commanding position looking down a sloping valley to the sea. If you see one dry-stone fort in Ireland, see this one. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #117: St Laurence Gate - Barbican of town wall in Drogheda. The actual gate this sat in defense of is long gone. Very cool example of a substantial town barbican system. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #116: Shrule Castle in Shrule, County Mayo. Very cool and unique tower. Very thick walled with sizeable base battery and corbelled out machicolated corners. Castle is in a very precarious state with sizeable vertical cracks in all sides and fallen/unsecured stonework. Owner let me explore anyways. Just don't disturb the sheep! npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #115: Shanmuckinish 2: The Return - Think these are the stumpy remains of second tower. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #114: Shanmuckinish Tower House with Bawn near Ballyvaughan. Half this tower has fallen away. This is the good half. Considerable remains of the bawn survive. Records on this are confused beyond reconciliation due to a second tower at Shanmuckinish. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #113: Selskar Abbey - Abbey church fortified with a battlemented tower in Wexford. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #112: Ross Castle in Killarney. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #111: Roscrae Castle in County Tipperary. Yet another one with "King John's Castle" references made to it. Fairly large castle with a courtyard and a number of other sizeable towers. The gatehouse is impressive and takes the place of a keep. Has a complex geometry to it. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #110: Roscommon Castle in Roscommon - Very heavily built quadrangular castle with front and rear gatehouses. Rear gatehouse faces a public park. The main gatehouse can just barely be seen through thick hedges of an apartment complex. Shame, because it's a real nice gatehouse npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #109: Rock of Dunamase - Large scale castle ruins comprised of multiple wards set atop a very steep rocky hillside in County Laois. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #108: Roche's Tower House - 15th century and overlooks the River Slaney in Wexford. The Roches came over centuries earlier with Strongbow as part of the initial invasion of Norman mercenaries. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #107: Ringrone Castle in Kinsale. Just one tall, overgrown wall segment remains. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #106: St Mary's Carmelite Friary in Rathmulan. This is the reverse of Quin. This place started out as a friary and then was occupied by soldiers and converted into a castle by Bishop Knox. Doors and windows were blocked up and firing ports created. Repulsed a Jacobite allied attack in 1689. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #105: Raphoe castle aka Bishop Knox's Palace npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #104: Quin Abbey - Yes, this goes in the castle pile. It's a former de Clare built castle in Quin, County Clare, which was rebuilt as an abbey. The stumpy round towers and walls of the original quadrangular castle are still around. This is both an ruined abbey and a ruined castle. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #103 Portaferry Castle - Rises up over the town of Portaferry when taking the ferry over from Strangford. Strangford has its own tower house to match. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #102: Parke's Castle on Lough Gill - aka Newtowne Castle. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #101: Parkavonear Castle overlooking Killarney. Visited in the dark in a rain storm, because that was my only chance to see it when I was in the area. There is no wrong time to visit a castle. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #100: Oranmore Castle near Galway npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #99: Oldcourt Castle near Bray. The undergrowth was too much for me with this one. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #98: Old Castle Ward on the Ward Estate near Strangford in County Down. Used for Game of Thrones shoots. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #97: O'Brien's Castle aka Furmina Castle on Inisheer, one of the Aran islands. npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #96: Newtown Castle near Ballyvaughan. This is a 1 of 1 oddball original. It's a round tower house (almost non-existent in Ireland) with a very tall pyramidal base and window slits designed for plunging fire at attackers at said base. Has an unusual door set high up on the side of the tower whose use is highly speculative. Escape rope ladder? npub1v2uxevzwd3tkcdt8dnx36y08g5877tl8pmtmam40c96gns6pfevsd9cu69 Infoseepage #95: Nenagh Castle in County Tipperary. A fantastic place to have breakfast.
