I think it's better too improve the police than create a power vacuum that might be briefly filled by peace loving volunteers before they are murdered by armed thugs extorting everyone for protection money.
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Historically, yes. Vigilantes tend to do that. If we abolish the cops, it won't be people armed with whistles that replace them.
If you hate police, I don't think you'll like vigilantes much better.
When I see police shootings like this, I always wonder how unarmed British cops would handle such a situation. I'm against defunding the police in general, but defunding their gun budget I think would go a long, long way.
Why is European seen as a selling point?
You must be British. Shocking images on any product is just bizarre. Everybody hates gore sites, assumes people who go there are sick in the head but when the government sticks those images on a beer bottle it's genius? WTF.
Wow. ELI5 on Lemmy is way different from ELI5 on Reddit.
I use 1930 as the base year. So the $20 USD bill is actually the new $1 bill.
That has never worked for me. People actually upvoted my wrong code and said it was correct when I tried this.
The algorithms aren't that smart. They're extraordinarily dumb.
For example, on YT recently I got recommended an ancient video from 2011 where an ex-con was giving advice about how to pick up hookers. I looked at the comments and tons of them were recent and also confused about why they were recommended this video. After sifting through my own watch history, I realized I had recently watched the Austrian version of Eyes Wide Shut where the main character meets a hooker. So the algorithm just looked and saw the synopsis had the word "hooker" and found another video where the word "hooker" is used, and then sent it my way.
The algorithm is not even as smart as any given free chess app that some college kid wrote over the weekend as an exercise. If the algorithm is manipulating people and hacking their brains, that's a problem with the wetware not the software. The remote control isn't hacking people's brains when they press 5 and the TV displays channel 5.
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It's a Catch 22 because no matter what you do, you're replacing police with police. The same things are going to happen with the new police force.