No no no, we must proactively give up on any potential measures to improve anything. Hopefully people will read this and think I’m clever for having a hot take.

-cue ‘its not that deep’/‘paragraphs’/DukeNukemI’mNotReadingAllThat.jpg spam-

Okay, but some people think the use of capitalization and punctuation is proof positive the writing is AI.

I never said they were wrong. Read more carefully.

Not all truths are helpful to announce. Here’s an example:

You or someone you love is going to have a miserable and agonizing death from cancer.

bUt ItS tRuE, wHy ArE yOu UpSeT?

Keep your “don’t bother trying to make the world better” to yourself, please.

Apathy is a contagious and deadly disease.

Thanks. I can virtually guarantee I’m not the only one, but it doesn’t surprise me to hear the implication I’m the first to mention it; I’m generally very outspoken and direct.

Yep!

Ring is flocked (not to mention beholden to Bezos); get rid of your Ring cameras, people.

I keep mistaking you for an admin because of your profile photo. Is that intentional?

Some communities/instances work furiously to ensure those voices are boosted and ours are suppressed.

Pop an echo chamber bubble, watch the ban come.

You can’t say that, it threatens the lives of our “friends” over at .ml

Makes you wonder what percentage of them are foreign adversaries trying to weaken the US (and its allies) - or simply help fascism - by helping the GOP.

Sure, they all say they simply want the US to stop being fascist, but telling people not to vote for Democrats in the General definitely isn’t helping that.

Some Americans will justify not voting by using Palestine as an example.

Don’t forget foreigners posing as Americans to help encourage voter apathy among Americans (so the GOP can win).

That question exceeds the scope of my training, experience, and rumor I heard on the job from other cops, so your web search would be as good as mine.

I’m 99% sure I was never trained on it, 100% sure I never saw it applied, and such a scenario never came up in the rumor mill.

Some states have “fighting words” clauses in their statutes or case law that stipulate when someone’s held less accountable for an otherwise clear-cut Assault/Battery.

If what you say is obviously an attempt to get under someone’s skin to make them throw the first punch it essentially blames you for the fight.

Of course the devil’s in the details, but rumor has it those exceptions exist.

If it were me, I’d hope I’d have the courage to risk my job to use some Discretion in an event like that without clear statute/case law backing up a Fighting Words issue, but I never handled a case like that so we can never be sure.

- Ex-cop

Alternatively:

“I like science when it directly contributes to my quality of life or proves me right, but not when it proves me wrong or needs funding.”

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.

Twitter-brained people think being Twitter-brained is the default.

I use Lemmy on my desktop browser via lemmy.world.

The whippersnappers think that as long as the ad is coming from someone hot and it’s in their FYP, it must not be an ad.