While there’s truth there, the SR-71 still holds the records for highest sustained speed and altitude of any publicly-known air-breathing aircraft 60 years after they were adopted.

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

Being a police officer isn’t a particularly dangerous job. Police have, on average, about the same odds as any random citizen of being killed feloniously. Yet they’re armed to the teeth and are given less-strict rules of engagement than soldiers sent into actual combat zones against enemy soldiers who are explicitly trying to kill them. I’ve seen my share of police encounters, and police make the situation worse 90% of the time. That last 10% doesn’t justify what they do.

I understand that police are individuals. Being a cop doesn’t make you a bad person. There are lots of bad people in this world, and most of them aren’t cops. But anybody who looks at the state of policing in this country and decides they want to be a cop cannot be a good person. It’s like saying someone’s a good Nazi or Klansman. Being a bad person is a prerequisite to becoming a police officer in the US.

I have several cops in my family. I know them as individuals. And they’re all bad people for whom I have no respect. But they think I like them because I’m polite to them. I’ll even laugh and tell jokes around them, because part of living in a society is not starting fights. But they’re still scum.

I’m sure there are people in your life who joke and laugh around you, too. How many do you think quietly hate you? I guarantee it’s an uncomfortably high number.

I was pretty happy with our senior song.

My sister graduated in 1998, when every high school in the country did “My heart will go on.” The next uear, everyone did “Party like it’s 1999.” I don’t even remember what the next 2 classes did other than they were some kind of flash in the pan pop song from the time.

In 2002, my class voted for “At Last” by Ella Fitzgerald. That’s some classy, timeless shit.

There’s been great stuff since the 80s. Even some of the stuff that became popular outside of the typical anime fandoms, you have things like Cowboy Bebop, which oozes style, and the 2 FMA series that have solid storytelling and complex characters with great music and animation.

99.9% of law enforcement doesn’t require the kind of police forces we have. Why are armed goons used to hand out traffic tickets? In decades of issuing building code citations, I’ve never needed to carry a gun. And my fees are WAY higher. If I can walk up to an unidentified guy with a running chainsaw and give him a $200,000 fee for clear-cutting a lot without being in danger, you should be fine writing a speeding ticket.

But the problem is you have an institutional attitude of cowardice. You’re like chihuahas who pretend not to be scared by being super aggressive, which makes people afraid of you, which makes them hate you, which makes everyone less safe.

Why should anybody respect institutions made of violent, scared little bitches?

People at the office, people at the school I teach nights at, people at the church I attend. They all have different groups that they talk bad about, and people talk bad about all of them.

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

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.

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.

I work in for a municipal government, and our City Hall and police station share a building. We’re polite to the police just like we are with anyone else, but ALL of us that work on the admin side of the building talk shit about the police behind their backs and think they’re a bunch of overpaid thugs who are a net negative to the community.

It’s no different for you. People who hate you will still smile and say hello.

All the pumps near me disabled the mute button years ago.

We’re having an influx of professioal right-wing operations on Lemmy. The biggest example is all the people claiming to be leftists trying to convince American leftists that the Dems are 100% as bad as the Republicans and that we shouldn’t vote for them.

The Trump admin may he popular on the far-right, but the historic swing voters are voting Dem this round, so in addition to voter suppression and all their other bullshit, the right is trying to convince leftists to either stay home or burn their vote on a third party that can’t win.

Super Mario Brothers was released closer to WWII than to today.

If the fridge operation depends on a simple thermostat and compressor, then it’s more reliable and can be repaired with lamp wire and a soldering iron if it does break. Samsung would rather have a system depending on a control board they build for $3 and sell you for $600 when it breaks.

It can also potentially have a huge impact with the Court.

So many cases are being thrown out in the Shadow Docket for Trump’s lawlessness because of lack of standing. For instance, the majority is saying that nobody who is suing over the East Wing has standing to sue, because it’s Congress who has authority.

Flip Congress and they can sue the administration. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I think SCOTUS also has original jurisdiction over a case of Congress suing the President as well, meaning it would go straight to them instead of taking years to get there.

I like how the picture has a completely different seat that wouldn’t be able to travel with the suitcase. Also an entirely different design overall.

Okay, but for real the spring suspension could be great for a rolling cart or something in my garage for jumping over extension cords or standing mats.

Wait until your 40s.

I don’t usually even stay up for New Year’s anymore.

“It’s like 8:30 in the evening. I really should be getting ready for bed.”

I’m sure Alexa still has it.

My new college hire is full of energy and makes quirky sounds and I think it’s great. I miss having that.

She also is really good about leaving at 5, which is something the rest of us need to be better about. We had someone in another department point out to me and my boss that she always leaves before we do, and we explained that she’s the one doing things right and not us.

I’m trying to remember the name of it, but there’s a micro-generation made up of late X and early millennial (Like 78-85 or sokething) that’s seen as the transition generation from the analog world to the digital world.

We’re old enough to clearly remember pre-digital/internet life, but young enough to have been exposed to tech while our brains were still developing. We’re the generation that’s comfortable in both worlds.

We’re also good with computers generally because we developed alongside them and had to learn more about their inner workings and quirks as they were less automatic. All my new college graduates at work are surprisingly illiterate on tech because they grew up in a world of apps that are so automated they didn’t have to learn anything.

Stuff as simple as navigating a network is weird to them, because they’re used to apps just handling stuff like file locations.

They replaced the city police with county police. The county will probably need to hire a few more officers. And what do you know - 5 people were just freed up in Henderson!