1. Few people like to be the first(ish) one on the dance floor.

2. It’s slightly harder to sign up for than Reddit, so people interested in this kind of thing usually just sign up for Reddit (or stay there).

3. Most people don’t care about the advantages Lemmy affords us; they care about what’s on TV tonight or which celebrity is dating which celebrity.

I’ll be honest with you, this is one of the things I rarely notice when it’s AI, so this is theoretically targeted at me …

… but I still refuse to seek out AI music or support platforms that allow it for the sake of principle.

Yeah, it’s the type of post I’d privately nod+caveat if a friend made it, but not the type of post I’m sharing everywhere.

The wrong kind of person is going to love that OOP is body-shaming and poverty-shaming because they feel putting people down is fun and/or uplifts them.

They’re testing to see if we’re dumb enough to fall for such a switcheroo.

I suspect most of us are.

Police firearms are used far more often as a threat to force compliance thannthey are to defend life.

True That’s highly debatable, especially considering the ‘force compliance’ circumstances are usually in life-threatening scenarios, but you’re still almost certainly vastly overestimating either use.

By disarming most on-duty officers like a civilized country we’d have a more peaceful society because the police wouldn’t feel as empowered to escalate conflicts.

It’s possible, but in the interim there’d be a lot of deaths. The “civilized countries” you’re referring to don’t have the Second Amendment, a culture of violence, or (usually) as much distrust of government as Americans do.

Being a police officer isn’t a particularly dangerous job.

I never said it was.

Honestly I’m not going to bother reading the rest of your comment because you are repeatedly jerking the wheel into a conversation that you prefer to have rather than the conversation we were having and I’m getting bored of it.

So you dialed in the last slice of my comment to argue the one point you wanted to pounce on because you sensed you weren’t winning the original argument. That’s interesting, but not surprising.

I’m not particularly violent, scared, little, or a bitch, but if you’re going to stake the entire rationale and funding behind the equipment and training modern law enforcement has on one guy who had zero say in even one agency, I think that’s pretty funny and also pretty typical of ACABers.

I think I wrote maybe one speeding ticket every two years or so? That was an extremely tiny slice of my job, but again, it is pretty typical ACAB perspective to have no idea what law enforcement does; that’s a fundamental building block of that kind of person - having no idea what you’re talking about but being enraged about it.

The funny part is you kinda answer your own perceived mystery on that bit. Yes, the gun is useless in 99.9% of police contacts (or more); that’s not what it’s for.

The difference is every single place I go that isn’t a police station people talk shit about cops.

Someone who is employed to strategically and often deceptively visit consequence on you - while rarely helping you - will have no shortage of haters.

But at the same time, there are plenty of more adult and rational people who realize law enforcement isn’t worthy of universal and unconditional contempt.

You’re hated, and it’s not the unjustified hate of racism, intolerance, or ignorance. You’re hated because you actively choose to drain society’s resources while stimping on people’s rights. You should be hated.

Only by people that really haven’t thought it through, i.e. people that think “cops” is a monolith and they’re ideas rather than people - antagonists in the game of Fun Crime.

I’ve met plenty of ACABers and without exception they go from “omg u r evil” to “Oh, you’re a human being and law enforcement is more complex than I realized.”

Yeah - you may occasionally do something useful, but you’re a net drain on society and you should be ashamed of yourself and your entire profession for what you’ve become.

There isn’t really any political philosophy that thinks that way other than anarchists, and I view that “society is best when there are no laws” perspective as incredibly naive, so I shrug at your opinion.

Definitely not ashamed of what I did - hope that doesn’t trouble you.

All [Anything] that doesn’t describe the definition is almost always wrong.

It’s a shame you’re getting down voted, seemingly just for admitting on the Internet that you used to be a cop and not on the merits of your comment.

That’s Reddit Lemmy for ya!

Regardless of the sentiment people feel towards the police, it doesn’t change the fact that exceedingly few people would actually confront someone in real life like that, whether they are a cop, a healthcare CEO, or an AI bro.

True, and that’s kinda my point; the OP is built on a false premise.

Plenty of people in this thread huffing pure copium that everyone who’s ever been nice to me secretly hates me, when in reality some people like (ex-)cops, some are indifferent, and some dislike them. As you say, a rare % of the latter say something about it.

I’m sure they talk shit about you behind your back too; it’s part of the culture of employment alongside radically different positions.

That’s just how people are. You’re neither a visionary for figuring it out, nor particularly insightful for not realizing it doesn’t apply to you.

Again, I think you’re just vastly overestimating how much people hate the police because of the company you keep; echo chambers and such.

Meh. Not into skin color shaming.

Nah, I interact with people who know I was a cop all the time without a gun or the uniform. People are much less openly hostile to others when they don’t have a veil of internet anonymity.

Nah, most people aren’t hostile towards the police. That’s a fantasy of yours.

People generally don’t say that kind of thing to cops in the flesh, no. It’s mostly an internet thing.

Never minded being called a pig; pigs are very intelligent, sometimes cute, and usually friendly.

Never minded being called a racist; it’s always out of nowhere based on virtually nothing - because I happen to not be a racist.

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Yet.

Right right, that was one use of teletype.

Teletype, not text-to-speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_(disambiguation)

I remember ICQ fondly, but I guess I’m too young or didn’t inhabit the same tech niches you did/do.

To me, ending a typed message with “qq” or “QQ” is for teletype systems that lacked length and special characters, so it helped if you alphanumerically stated that your message was an interrogative, which wound up being “qq,” presumably two for certainty it wasn’t a typo or a word ending in Q.

E.g. “THERE” could mean “I am there” and “THERE QQ” could mean “Are you there?”

Who knew that building a pattern of attacking your allies could lead to your allies not trusting you any more?