dacops

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by dacops 4mo ago
It's circuses. Bread and circuses, except we don't get the bread part. But some people really like circuses.
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by dacops 4mo ago
It was either a genuine ableist comment or a ham fisted attempt at sarcasm poking fun at ableist folks. I see now it was the former. Edit: Pre-empting the inevitable "how is this ableist?": I don't mind the use of a reclaimed
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by dacops 4mo ago
That's a reasonable answer!
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by dacops 4mo ago
Tesla [Product] is poorly supported really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone at this point. Their cars have build quality issues, self driving continues to be "just around the corner", their service centers are cheap, the sol
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by dacops 4mo ago
That's damning in another way -- it suggests we aren't spending money on the other, larger groups of PTSD survivors. Shame it has to be a side effect.
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by dacops 4mo ago
What a strange and presumptive thing to say. I'm wondering why not all PTSD cases, why specifically this relatively small group? Like, obviously we should treat veterans with PTSD, but the article is unclear about whether it's jus
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by dacops 4mo ago
Only veterans? I wonder about the editorial choice to use veterans rather than, say, women who have PTSD from assaults, which is a much larger group of people. (Approximately 4% of US men and 8% of US women experience PTSD every year across
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by dacops 4mo ago
There really isn't. From the mouth is basically the same distance and it contains teeth and a tongue. Through the rectum is much much much farther through meters of intestine. Through the skin creates a surgical hole that's going
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by dacops 4mo ago
Buzz off. If you were trying to make a joke, it didn't land. It scans as ableist twat.
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by dacops 4mo ago
I have stopped. I get chastised constantly for it. Leftist candidates are rare, most mainline dems are center right. I catch so much flak from vote blue no matter who types (who then go out and don't vote for Mamdani). If candidates wa
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by dacops 4mo ago
If they have profit, we should be splitting that money towards addressing other needs. Maybe some profit is fine for ensuring sustainability or whatever, but like, potholes aren't the only need.
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by dacops 4mo ago
Same with capitalist governments? I don't think corruption is a left/right axis like that. And I don't know, maybe it's early days, but Mamdani seems less corrupt than his predecessors.
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by dacops 4mo ago
You take care of my needs I'll fill potholes. Plenty of folks would.
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by dacops 4mo ago
I mean, I don't disagree with you. But potholes are a stand in for infrastructure repair. I bike everywhere, my bike lanes and paths have holes. Water systems still dump lead, electricity and broadband networks aren't resilient. P
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by dacops 4mo ago
I look around and see work that needs doing all the time. Potholes, park maintenance, housing shortages, pollution. As long as we're have unsatisfied needs, there's work to be done. I also see unemployment. What kind of system has
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by dacops 4mo ago
"Likes to own" implies "cannot always own". Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
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by dacops 4mo ago
Cops are already paid very, very highly and should be held accountable. Cops don't take accountability and do take the pay, so your thesis is pretty well tested and didn't work.
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by dacops 4mo ago
Cops (modern cops) grew out of capital trying to socialize the cost of protecting their interests. Whether it was slave patrols or dock warehouse security, central cops evolved to protect capital's interests.
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by dacops 4mo ago
Cop unions are very different from basically every other kind of union. Cops aren't workers. They don't need workers unions. Teachers and administrative staff are workers. They need workers unions.
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by dacops 4mo ago
"On the spectrum of" is doing a lot of heavy lifting for you there. How many teachers have shot someone in their care this year? I'm guessing very few. Also, "definitely not zero" is an absurd bar. "One teacher
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by dacops 4mo ago
Police need reform. Police unions need to go entirely. Police unions exist primarily to prevent police from consequences of their abuses of power. The State doesn't need unions to protect itself from its citizens.