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We’re more a country of guidelines than laws, really.

There was “operation lucky bag” where the NYPD would purposefully leave a backpack, and arrest people who picked it up

https://www.nydailynews.com/2019/02/03/nypds-operation-lucky-bag-resurfaces-in-manhattan-blasted-by-judge-and-public-defenders-for-entrapping-innocents-into-an-arrest/

There’s other coverage out there too.

The police are not a force for good.

It does seem like a lot of people are lacking in imagination

I’ve got the hubris to think I’d be cool about it. Starts with billionaires and Republican leadership. Ends with “people who park in bike lanes”.

It’s because management doesn’t only care about those numbers and stats you cited. They also have emotional needs. Like feeling important. Like being the boot.

They also often don’t really understand how work gets done. They do a lot of meetings and schmoozing and think that’s how a web server gets build. They’re self centered, unimaginative, idiots.

We are ruled by the worst among us.

Edit: I realized I already wrote the same kind of thing in this thread the other day. I’m an old broken record!

Working for someone else’s profit, someone who you don’t even like, is not uplifting. That’s capitalism. You spend all day building some API, the owner starts making millions, and you a few thousand in salary.

You’re not accounting for the emotional needs of management. Many of them are cruel. They put value in making their workers squirm.

We should have worker owned things instead of the petty tyranny of capitalism, but here we are.

One time my music started playing from my phone in my pocket, very faintly, and I didn’t realize. I was like “do you hear led Zeppelin??” and walked around the house for a while trying to find where it was coming from.

So I recently read “dying of whiteness” after seeing someone go on about it here. There’s apparently a lot of people that would rather personally die than let black people have health insurance

My understanding is HR’s thought process is “… … … … … … … … …”

This was my first thought. Are they trying to pull some bs like that. But also the wsj is a disgrace

Turns out historically, in the US, people would protest and then the police, national guard, or army would make them stop with violence. It’s very effective!

The police are class traitors, aside from their other crimes.