Actually I was wrong.

🫡 I salute your rectitude.

My assessment of a typical police officer is that it is someone that:

• is overwhelmed with their job
• deals with annoying frequent offenders repeatedly
• their interactions with people are when the people are committing crimes
• feels that their lives are constantly in danger
• believes that their jobs are handicapped by policies that protect citizens at the officer's expense
• sees that a considerable portion of the community hates them despite regularly placing their lives in lethal danger
• their main training is to control and overpower everyone using lethal force
• uses concrete/black-or-white thinking

Because of this victim mentality, they have created a strong cultural value of protecting their own. In their minds, it's good guys (police) vs bad guys (citizens). This results in an authoritative approach with the main tactic being lethal violence and protecting each other from the consequences of the policies that handicap them. The last thing I would want is to be around a police officer that is triggered into fight-or-flight mode. At that time, everyone becomes enemy and they are the law.

I have been in life or death situations as the person that has to maintain control, so I have an idea of what it is like to be in a police officer's position. The main ideas that I consider are that (1) I have no idea who will be dangerous until they become dangerous, and (2) I am ultimately responsible. As such, when I interact with police, I take that into account. When I get pulled over, I have a system. While pulling over, I am already pulling out my wallet and placing it on the dash. Once I'm pulled over, I take the keys and place them on the dash as well. I open all of the windows and sunroof, place my hands on the steering wheel at 10 & 2, and wait for them to approach the car. If I have any weapons in the car, I tell them what and where they are as they arrive to the vehicle¹. I then only conduct behaviors they ask of me and announce what and how I plan on doing. For example, if they ask me for my registration, I tell them that it is in the glove compartment and ask them if it is okay that I go in there to get it. When they give permission, I do that slowlyyyy making sure that they can see everything that is in my hands at all times. I absolutely give no attitude whatsoever. Btw, my car has a a front- and rear- view dash cam recording, so I have my own evidence.

I'm not saying cops are awesome and we should kiss their asses, but I'm also trying to be compassionate for their position given the situation we are all in during those interactions. Like I said, the last thing I want to do is trigger a cop into fight-or-flight mode. Unless someone is in serious physical danger, it is not the time to stand up for your rights using any form of aggression, verbal or physical. Stay quiet, only answer if you have to (e.g. what's your name?), do not admit to violating any laws whatsoever, and comply with legal orders. If they violate any of your rights, there's a chance they gave you a get out of jail free card. For example, if you clearly told them not to come into your house and they do anyway, then any evidence they get cannot be used against you. Make sure you have your own cameras recording! On the other hand, if you try to physically prevent them from doing something, you're fucked whether you were in the right or not.

Regarding the murder of this lady

She was innocent as fuck. There was no need to even have the firearm out even when she had the pot of boiling water. He could have easily dodged it from that far way. If anything, he could have used a taser or stepped back. Still, do what you can to stay alive in those situations. If you are mentally present with a cop in your house, do not give them any reason whatsoever to fear you anymore than they already do. Whether you were in the right or not, you can't fight for police reform when your already dead.

Also, while I'm ragging on them, they had terrible muzzle awareness. The murdering cop stepped in front of the other cop's muzzle several times, while the other cop didn't point their firearm elsewhere when that happened. WTF.

1: I have been pulled over several times while carrying a firearm in the vehicle. In all cases, what they did was get the firearm, unload the magazine, and clear the chamber. They were super chill about it.

I had a similar experience with something that Lemmy would generally oppose. I used to be concerned that Google kept track of my location and nearly everything I do on my phone. However, I was accused of something serious that typically cannot be disproven otherwise, and since it's something perpetrators often get away with, people tend to believe the accuser without evidence. When that happened, I was so happy that Google had a record of my location because it would have demonstrated that I wasn't where the accuser said I was, nor did I have the contact they said I had. I not only offered to show my location history to investigators, but asked them to so it would clear my name. I guess my sincerity was evident because they didn't even bother and dropped the whole thing shortly after.

I agree with you. If I were a cop, I'd want every second of my day indisputably recorded to clear my name in case I'm ever falsely accused of something. I don't know what it is about me. Maybe my autistic traits make me seem suspicious or like a careless asshole to others, maybe my evident self-doubt make me an easy target for predators, or maybe my lack of conformity and unique style of accomplishing things give people an uncomfortable intuitive feeling about me, but I think I get accused/blamed for a lot of things I didn't do or had any intent of doing more than normal. I know I would eventually be accused of some bs and would need evidence to demonstrate my innocence.

• Wants to continue democracy and peaceful transfer of power
• Consistently demonstrates adequate mental health
• Respects religious diversity
• Has stable and data-driven policy stances

Not really true. I was a peer reviewer for a prominent journal in my field. I had no idea who the authors of the majority of the articles I reviewed were. The authors also never knew my identity.

Join the Mobile Infantry and save the Galaxy. Service guarantees citizenship.

Dose needed to kill half the number of individuals or animals of a species that take it. So if 100 people took this substance, what would be the dose needed to kill 50 of them. Same for mosquitos.

You’re a minority, you’ll always be a minority (among humanity as a whole) so there are certain things that just simply won’t change for your sake as one of those edge cases

Just replace minority with any slur in the quote above, and it becomes evident.

Unplug it

Considering that autistic people have hyper connectivity within brain sections but hypo connectivity between them, I wonder if psychedelics hit them noticeably different from normies.

Ironic that you are complaining about being banned from a community for sharing an opinion that other people should be banned from other communities.

Based

Exactly! Mf, campaign for yourself, not against an opponent. The entitlement of this guy is unbelievable. He thinks that he's automatically good enough to be president after seriously fucking up last time and just needs to trash the other candidates.

I think it is a tie between iRacing and Assetto Corsa, tho I personally preferred AC for the graphics and cost.

As for silly fun, Super Off Road on SNES. I could spend hours playing that as a kid. 🛻💨

You're stupid?

I guess you could say that I tend to have more difficulty understanding and navigating social environments than most people. However, I can't change my capacity, only make steps to learn and improve. Still, I don't think calling someone stupid is helpful.

welp, I'm off the wagon now. see yall in a few weeks 👋

Come join us at !transit@lemmy.autism.place

It's not really active since we haven't hit the user count threshold, but I'm hopeful we'll get there 😎

does it even matter? lol

Harris and Michelle HUSSEIN Obama

FTFY /j