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@ HCSOThrowaway @lemmy.world

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  • 75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

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  • One of the guys in my police academy class would rib me for being less of a man because I didn't drive a truck.

    A couple months later, he would go on to commit a felony on duty in front of a half dozen of his peers, including me. Nobody bothered to report him but me, even after we had a meeting about someone from a neighboring agency doing nearly the exact same thing that had been fired and arrested for it. Being a brand new deputy, I thought it was an integrity test so I was more than willing to report it. IA dropped the case.

    In hindsight, that was a clue I should've started applying elsewhere or quit, but I had three more years to put in before I wouldn't have to pay back my academy pay, not to mention I naively trusted there was some other interpretation of what happened I hadn't considered that the agency's brass and legal team had; I wasn't about to be the Apprentice telling the Master he's full of shit.

    Years later they'd fire me for some complete BS. He still works there as far as I know, and the US Army promoted him to Captain.

  • 75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

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  • No, the problem is you're taking a very niche stance in service of an interpretation of an ambiguous title that probably meant something entirely different, presumably because you enjoy a fight?

    Everyone else but you went with the "probably" instead of this war path you're on against the person who wrote the title for not being clear enough.

  • 75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

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  • Doubly so if they're a toddler.

    Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to protest at an abortion clinic because killing children is immoral when a woman does it.

  • 75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

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  • Or worse, motorcycle!

    -seethes with rage at the very notion of vehicles with less than four wheels-

  • 'The golden years are not golden’: Boomers are hoarding most of America’s wealth and power because they’re terrified of outliving their money

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  • The best part is we all know the "If you're over X you should just die" line will "coincidentally" "logically" rise with their age as their definition of "too old to live" changes as they hit that number.

    A 10 year old thinks a 30 year old is old. At 20, it's 50. At 30, it's 70. etc.

  • Pressure wash me

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  • Apparently they need a better rate structure if they're having to use low-flow laws as a crutch.

  • Companies should by law have to pay you for each interview round.

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  • Sounds like it wastes both sides' time and money, but measuring up to determine who is wasting the most time and money doesn't really help anything other than furthering Whataboutisms.

    Ideally, we change to a system that doesn't do that (nearly as much).

  • Companies should by law have to pay you for each interview round.

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  • So then a person could make his living by interviewing for jobs he’s not qualified for and could never get?

    That's already a flaw of the current system, so no change means no new downside. People receiving unemployment usually have to prove they're looking for work, but there's not usually a requirement that you're applying to things you're likely to get.

  • Pressure wash me

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  • Why wouldn't they simply tax water use at progressive rates? If you use a lot of water, you have to pay a lot of money (ideally, towards water processing services).

    Doing low-flow laws makes for easy loophole setups like this, not to mention simply buying a device in/from another state. I doubt their cops are kicking down doors for Suspicion of High-Flow Toilet.

  • Companies should by law have to pay you for each interview round.

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  • You're getting into the weeds about the definition of "work."

    Any definition of "work" that excludes calling, writing applications (AKA writing reports), emailing, interviewing (AKA meetings) etc. also excludes many paid positions.

  • 'The golden years are not golden’: Boomers are hoarding most of America’s wealth and power because they’re terrified of outliving their money

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  • "Why don't old(er than me) people simply die and stop being leeches?" is a wild take.

    Do you apply that logic to other people who take more from society than they (currently) contribute?

  • Goddammit

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  • Wait 'til you hear that you're "supposed to" pronounce the H in "who," "what," "when," "where," "why," and "which."

  • Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy

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  • Frankly, I very much believe this is a reading issue more than a writing issue, but I do agree the solution is "give it another pass."

    Right now we have a data set of 1/1 that had issues comprehending what I meant. When both sides of that number tick up, we can talk about the data tending towards that it was poorly written.

  • I guessed

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  • Yeah Flat Earthers is definitely one, though it also depends on a touch of mental illness with the delusions regarding the government and everyone else conspiring to deceive.

  • Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy

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  • Wait, being directly cited as not being akin to the three states I listed is a bad thing?

    I couldn't disagree more.

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • You're asserting you know what isn't posted to Reddit and why, based on a hunch, citing your age.

    I don't think that's a logical position, no.

  • I guessed

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  • Don't let your kids wander into the wilderness unattended and they won't get preyed upon.

  • Did they ever define what "woke" is?

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  • They do, but it's rare because they think it's common sense.

    Liberals, leftists, and others maligned by the abuse of the word "woke" also don't usually explain why that isn't a bad thing, because to us it's common sense.

    In a word phrase? Echo chambers.

  • I guessed

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  • Humans like to reinforce group membership and receive validation by targeting out-groups.

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • I've been on Reddit for decades too, and I disagree with you.

    1. Assuming that a post wasn't made and made visible because it has key words that were censored isn't based on logic; you're guessing.

    2. I type fast enough that to a 72 year old it might look like magic or a bot.