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You misspelled monster.

Because, for whatever reason, we are stuck here.

I'm glad you seem to have the freedom from responsibility, coupled with the funds and work that can allow that.

Most people don't.

This may stem from the fact that police forces are running around with, essentially, military hardware.

There is also a lack of oversight when employing this hardware.

Hell, a cop could unload a magazine at a child holding a stuffed toy, and just say he was scared, and get a month or longer off paid while the department "investigates" itself, and finds no wrong doing.

Police frequently go to the wrong house, and go in guns blazing on innocent sleeping people.

These are militaristic actions performed by a group of people who hire, in part, by the LACK of intelligence in their staff.

Yes, being too smart can disqualify you from police work.

So yes, they get conflated. Have a problem with that? Good, so do I.

Fuck it, require special training to carry a firearm on duty.

And that training shouldn't include learned paranoia, like current training does.

The UK, as a middle ground for training requirements requires 2250 hours of training. Aren't they known for carrying the frightfully lethal whistle? You know, the same basic kind that gym teachers and children's sports coaches use?

US police require 672 hours. 3.35 (rounded) times LESS training than the UK police.

Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-training-requirements-by-country

I read it that way too at first.

I was not confused.

More than a few people in my life absolutely live that description.

Don't forget the long winded tales of how their distant relative they never met gave them the recipe from the "old country" or some shit.

Dude, I just needed to see what temperature to set the oven to.

This, I think, is one of the largest changes Trump instilled in his followers.

They aren't scared of being outed as a racist because the former cheeto in chief was always saying the quiet part out loud. Then his supporter politicians. Then his base.

I'm balding, horribly, and as such shave my head. Otherwise I wind up looking like I spent a vacation in Chernobyl.

The amount of people who are openly racist around me has quadrupled since 2016, easily.

Makes me wanna see if there are any SHARP groups around locally.

This, but also if you talk constantly, to yourselves and animals, don't get mad when people tune out the incessant chatter.

Looking at my SO on this one.

As some old lady tuts and throws out a "bless his heart."

I watched a documentary on it at one point, and it's not a pleasant experience, at least from an outside perspective.

Pretty much every orifice is gonna have something coming out of it, often simultaneously.

I'm curious about it's use in treating addiction, what with sharing a house with an alcoholic relative.

Possible to an extent I suppose, though with the clear silhouette of the whole body, that seems like it would entail a lot of nude usage for a chair in a "family" area.

I have a relative who did it.

But they are super into genealogy.

At this point, to go deeper, they would need to learn a new language and travel half way across the world.

I was not consulted before this was done. I would have cautioned against it.

I mean, Jesus was a liberal.

Gandhi was problematic in his own right, but he wasn't wrong when he said, paraphrasing, I like your christ, he is so unlike your Christians.

As a Texan, I concur. I've talked about it.

It either falls upon deaf ears, or it's quietly agreed to and pushed into the background so as not to cause waves.

When polite discourse doesn't work, it leaves people looking for alternatives to talk.

Sadly, being humans, violence inevitably is proposed at some point.

I don't condone violence, but Martin Luther King Jr. made a salient point, "A riot is the voice of the unheard."

The grand experiment that was America is crumbling before our eyes, and I am unsure if we as Americans can make things better without it getting worse first, and ultimately becoming something else in its place.

I briefly worked as a state employee, IT for a school district.

I swear I had a full day during orientation regarding "gifts." What was considered a gift, who the actual giver was, limitations on receiving them, how to report them however minor, etc.

The only time it came up was during an emergency that required an extended shift. Overtime pay would have been considered a "gift of the state" and wasn't allowed (somehow? I was young, whatever) and I got half a day off rather than OT pay. Coming from a retail background, half a day off and I didn't lose any money? Pretty sweet in my mind at the time.

With a pi hole, you're basically setting up a DNS server that has built in abilities to stop ads.

What that means is, you can point your router (or any device really) at that DNS server (pi hole) to block ads.

Ublock is good.

Due to remote work constraints, a pi hole doesn't play nicely with their stuff and I can't be bothered to figure out a work around. Mostly because it's my wife's remote work, and their IT is hesitant to talk with me about it - I get it, I wouldn't do that at work (I'm in IT).

So I use ublock on Firefox on both my desktop and phone, plus I run through a VPN that blocks ads and malware for everything else. The VPN is a separate use case, but that's just an added benefit.

My car loves to lock down the infotainment system, with a warning not to take my eyes off the road, after the car has been in motion.

Like, yeah, that was the plan.

This makes me miss a bar I used to go to, and was the favored watering hole for most of the staff at a previous job.

It had had several owners, and it's name changed on official paperwork every time. Locals still called it Big Tree.

Why?

It was built around a big tree that went out of the roof lol.

It was bought and demolished, the tree removed.

Nothing has been done with the lot since, and it's been a couple years.

Damn shame.

Social engineering, arguably, is one of the harder things to learn.

It's a collection of soft skills, and if you've been paying attention to rank and file tech jobs, places are looking for people with soft skills because they're so impractical to train.

This goes down to your basic help desk tech.

Anyone with an interest in computers can sit down and learn how to analyze and exploit weakness in code. In fact, it's a fun puzzle. Dealing with other people, let alone establishing oneself as another person and fucking SELLING that character enough to get what you need?

People write off social engineering far too quickly. It's quick, it's effective, and if done well, the person you exploited doesn't even realize they've been tricked.

I seem to recall an interaction between Bats, Superman, and WW.

All lassoed with the lasso of truth and stating their real identities.

Two give their real birth names, and Bats just identifies as batman, revealing that Bruce is absolutely his alter ego, billionaire mask he wears in public.