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These are generalisations and just aren't true.

No, it's not a "guilty by association" type argument.

I don't necessarily subscribe to the ACAB argument. It seems that way in the US, but I don't have any direct experience with that. In Australia I've never encountered a bastard cop, nor even heard of an experience like that, aside from a few instances I've heard of in the media.

I think it comes down to the prevalence of misconduct.

In some police services there may indeed be just one or two officers who are bastards and in that case you're obviously not a bastard just because you work in the same service provided you're not actively covering up their behavior.

In other services where there's a culture of violence and cronyism et cetera, it would become impossible to serve the community without at least passively condoning the misbehavior of others. This is the situation where one could like at the entire service and say, that all of them are bastards even if they're not directly perpetrating violence.

Wow, that's so amazing.

That's... disingenuous I think.

Biden has a lot to answer for, but this is just hyperbole.

Ideals are worthless if you can't get elected. Like fracking might be objectively bad, but if banning fracking will block you from getting elected then it's not a good policy.

Sure, a lot of people don't want more drilling, but apparently more voters do want more drilling.

I think it's a response to the common "a few bad apples" excuse.

The assertion being that to be a cop you have to overlook so many bad apples that at best, you're a bastard for enabling the bad apples.

Perhaps another way to say the same thing, at times in any profession, if you're unable to improve whatever situation then you're only recourse is to resign because being involved would compromise you.

I don’t understand why people don’t just choose not to put toxins in their body.

It's because it's addictive.

There's a firefox extension I still don't care about cookies that deals with these.

Since firefox rolled out total cookie protection the risks to privacy are minimal anyway.

I think everyone everywhere knows the world over is sliding to the right.

... or you know, spend the last 3 years setting up a proper democrat candidate instead of getting in the way till the last minute.

That's what it says in the summary.

Thing is, it's not a complete waste of time even if it has no practical impact on oil production. It means that Trump has to make a clear unambiguous statement in support of drilling. In the same way history has recorded the coal / river thing, so it will be for oil.

... bit of a roll of the dice. You don't want to hear the minutia of wedding planning every day.

Maybe the dog was about to attack a small child.

I've seen someone poke a dog in the ass with a stick. They were a hero. Dog was latched on to someone's leg.

"Anything longer than a sentence deserves a phone call"

This is for the oil and gas industry.

Ain't nobody paying for an underwater habitat for researchers when all researchers do at depth is take photos and samples, which can be done by an ROV.

Oil and Gas OTOH need deep see divers to do welding and other maintenance all the time.

I think that an obvious bot can still manipulate users. Fb has infinite resources with which to test this stuff prior to roll out. They skittish do it if it didn't work for them.

I'm not upset, thanks.

I disagree.

Lemmy is also a link aggregator which works in a similar way to reddit, but it has it's own history, culture, and quirks.

Sure, things will happen on Lemmy which are reminiscent of reddit because they're both link aggregators, but to say lemmy "is" reddit is very reductive.

I hadn't heard of CBC. I consume a lot of BBC content. Also maybe check out ABC (Australia). These public broadcasters produce some great journalism IMO.

I had forgotten why I don't get involved in discussions about COVID.

I get this type of intrusive thought. I think there's a french phrase for this "l'appel du vide" or call of the void. I think it's quite common actually.