Now, disconnect the water, electricity, and network.
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2025
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Ah, the French approach. Highly efficient.
Unless they react with the Russian approach.
There used to be a story how a Russian military base wasn't paying its bills so their electricity got cut, so the soldiers just went to the nuclear power plant nearby, occupied it and turned it back on.
No idea how true it is, and because of Ukraine, it's impossible to google this.
The russian approach: kill the hostages, problem solved.
No hostages, no problem.
Fuck yeah. These pieces of shit deserve to feel uncomfortable every second of their fucking lives. Fucking traitors to humanity.
Objectively hilarious, but I can't believe they don't have a set of boltcutters in there somewhere.
We sure they didn't chain it to keep the protest out?
They probably just started filming as soon as the crooks noticed. With these vids its all about framing and timing, because 5 minutes later that gate was probably open and everyone arrested. Still a cool protest idea tho.
Are there portable arc welders?
How quick can you weld a few pieces of steel across the gates?
These questions a purely academic.
Yes there are and they are less than $200 for a full setup, these are the wire fed type you can get at a Harbor Freight.
The power supply is the trickiest part, but the low end welders only need a 20amp circuit, which is a typical power level that might serve a suburban bedroom. You would need a vehicle but even a couple of deep cycle lead-acid batteries and an converter/inverter would power several minutes of welding, more than enough as typical spot welds only require ~10 seconds of arc time.
Source: am farmer and recently built a 9 foot tall wind driven kinetic sculpture of a Wendigo out of scrap rebar found about the place.
That's a very informative comment and I'll save it to base some research on
But more interesting is the sculpture you mentioned. I'd love to see if you wouldn't mind sharing!
Sculpture deserves its own post. Preferably a video of the creation process if you have it.
Source: am farmer and recently built a 9 foot tall wind driven kinetic sculpture of a Wendigo out of scrap rebar found about the place.
That's cool, do you have any pictures to share?
There are portable power banks (generally known as power stations) that can put out that sort of power. 2.5-3kw is expensive, but not hideously.
You get batteries and inverter all in a portable package.
If we’re cobbling this together then we should just get a few lifepo4 12v 100ah for a couple hundred dollars. You could get 3 or 4: 1200 watt batteries for the price of one 1500 watt Jackery.
I'm with @rooty@lemmy.world that sounds sick and I wanna see that
Thermite doesn't require any electricity
Yeah but thermite welding can be tricky. But a cool light show regardless.
Source: am farmer and recently built a 9 foot tall wind driven kinetic sculpture of a Wendigo out of scrap rebar found about the place.
... This doesn't feel farming related.
If they are anything like the farmers near me they will put it in the woods on the edge of their property to scare the shit out of folks at night. Bonus points if there's an access road or trail with a bend.
You can make a stuck welder with nothing but a couple pairs of vice grips thick wire (good old jumper cables), some stick electrodes and a couple car batteries in series.
I think the elecroboom guy did it on stage at a ted talk once.
It takes 5 seconds to climb that fence.
You think those ice agents could climb? Especially in their tacticool cosplay gear?! The fence is also designed not to be easy to climb in case you didn't notice.
I was wrong, it would take me only 3 seconds.
Again, you are not an ice agents. They aren't hiring the best and brightest...
Great opportunity for some person in security to “misplace” the boltcutters
A federal facility without a bolt cutter? What a bunch if morons.
The clay of the West.
these people are not a bright bunch.
Don't worry, they'll have ICE use the ones they allegedly use to allegedly cut off the pinky toes of everyone they deport.
At this point I cannot determine if this is real or fake, and now I'm sad.
Isn't living in the post-irony era great?
i think this was a good idea
everyone agrees
Lock ‘em up!
This is UNLAWFUL DETAINMENT and the Perps need to be DEPORTED!
-People who SUPPORT ICE!
Well now yer fish are in the barrel. You know what to do.
Check the PH and clean the filter to make sure the fish stay healthy?
There seems to be no reference to this that is not reddit, facebook, x, threads, or instagram. Not sure what that means. Just an observation. I cant access the video for some reason.
At least they're safe in there.
Why can’t these fucking potatoes climb the fence? What a bunch of bastards!
This is technically keeping them hostage.