Not too far from the truth. The scientists are also putting random stuff in there just to see what it looks like!

Think the following question over yourself. Don’t bother answering it here.

As the enforcer of the law, how many times have you casually broken the law and felt ok doing it? How many times have you seen a fellow police officer break the law and failed to hold them accountable or even helped them cover it up? In your experience, these events may have only involved minor crimes - not murder or rape or anything - but you almost certainly still operated in an environment of willingness to break the law and fraternal duty to protect your colleagues at any cost. The same situation is too common with serious crimes, as we see in the news on a regular basis.

Good cops don’t help cover up the crimes of bad cops.

Once police throwing out/locking up the bad ones starts to become the norm, instead of circling the wagons and covering up each others’ crimes, we’ll start to see that distinction. In our universe in the present, however, the police, their unions, the prosecutors, and the judges all act almost in lockstep to prevent police from ever being accountable for any of their actions in almost all situations. Thus ACAB.

Be careful everybody! This poster was extradited and is currently serving a prison sentence in London for the comment above. Don’t make the same mistake they did.

Relieved in the sprinkle pool? If not, I’m disappointed.

That’s not good enough. Threads like this show up in the comment count and give the appearance of activity on a post even when there is none.

Because it’s a wall of text bot-spam from a self-appointed arbiter of truthfulness with questionable methodology.

And it’s spammed to every posting on some subs giving the disappointing appearance of actual human activity.

Hiring “bad apples” needs to be a crime for the sheriff, chief, etc. It’s sad that’s what it would take to keep guns and badges out of these guys hands.

Dude, even mentioning it violates some international convention. There goes the rest of my day.

They were in violation of that treaty themselves and the US is no longer a party to it (as of 2019).

They should be called oligarchs here too

This really is the right answer, as much as I despise what Israel is doing.

The Olympics should be about increasing non-hostile relations between people of the world and I don’t think anyone should be excluded.

Complicating this stance though is the compulsory military service that means that the attending athletes are associated with the military and the ongoing atrocities.

Which Democratic candidate are you thinking of? Surely not the one who has been bankrolling this whole thing so far…

I don’t think any “viable” candidate from any party will support the ICJ judgement.

But they’re also having to fight for more limited funding among a crowd of chatbot “researchers”. The funding agencies are enamored with LLMs right now.

Thank you for beating me to this. I had just copied that section to post this exact same thing.

How many other people are in prison to cover up the crimes of the police?

No need to qualify that statement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach

I currently have 301 unread text messages (not even close to my high score). For me, the anxiety wore off and was replaced with a sense of defeated relief.

If I get bored, I can go through them without feeling any obligation to respond at all.

With even email clients and web browsers running arbitrary and untrusted remote code on a regular basis, that model needs serious reconsideration.

This xkcd shouldn’t still be insightful. https://xkcd.com/1200/

Had to look that up too. My immediate reaction was wondering if Thalasin works for them too?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2x8s9GZlo

That’s literally exactly what I said.

Geez, you make some good posts sometimes but interacting with you is a really horrible experience every time. So needlessly hostile.