This "changes things" only to the depraved authoritarian mind, because to an authoritarian, any infraction by anyone considered to be on a lower tier of their imagined hierarchy, when directed upward, is treated as a challenge to the power structure itself. This they cannot allow.

When freakin' Aqua Buddha is making sense and pushing back on the GOP, you know things have gone off the cliff.

Well given that in this universe the SCP Foundation is fictional, I reckon we're pretty screwed from a containment perspective.

The fundamental problem here is the gap between what is said and written as official policy, and what is actually done. The people on the receiving end of state violence, some of which has historically come at the hands of the MPD, can see that gap very clearly.

So they are just a generalized paramilitary/private security force now? A "Protective Squadron" as it were? I reckon they'll need some kind of insignia to differentiate them. Maybe a coupla lightning bolts or something, I dunno...

I'm not saying you should keep it in your waistcoat pocket, occasionally taking it out and remarking "my preciousss", but I'm not NOT saying it ...

Sources tell me the nerds are this close to inventing a printable plastic weirding module
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQeP...

Ok but what am I supposed to do with these 30-50 feral guns just wandering up in my yard?

As someone who builds distributed systems, I can attest that no code is future proof, and asynchronous, event driven systems create whole new categories of problems at scale. So maybe don't blindly follow this advice unless your use case justifies the tradeoffs.

"The creatures outside looked from ICE agent to cartel sicario, and from cartel sicario to ICE agent, and from ICE agent to cartel sicario again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." - George Orwell, probably

DHS mobilized an unaccountable paramilitary force into MN and gave that force instructions to deploy mass violence against the population in ways that directly countermanded its own written regulations and policy and which are the very definition of domestic terrorism under 18 USC 2331. ABOLISH!