Remember kids, climate change is your fault specifically, and only you can make things better by making your own life harder!

The police are militarized state violence. They enforce the will of the state through the use of violence. That’s not something that can be reformed because it’s inherent to policing. Any effective reform would lead to police not being police.

Still don’t understand how tf you bungle a situation like this so badly.

Step 1: Assume the person is intoxicated
Step 2: Do whatever you want because you’re a cop and you don’t consider drug users people/“something something fentanyl”

Agreed. Unfortunately a lot of people don’t have a union, and sometimes unionizing just isn’t possible.

HR can protect the company by reigning this guy in. I really feel it was a lone wolf thing, not policy.

Very true! Like I said, I’m not trying to convince you to not bring it up, just that it’s something to be careful about, and to make sure you have evidence or documentation.

I completely believe all of that, and I’m sorry she’s had to deal with so much crap. Lately a lot of employers seem to be showing their asses by being overtly racist, ableist, and transphobic. Everyone I know who isn’t a white straight cis man has had employment troubles in the last six months.

I hope this is just a strange interaction with one HR person and you have a better time with everyone else!

Exactly what I was referencing! I’ve known a few people who were recently fired from remote jobs under very strange circumstances. I can’t prove anything of course, but I distinctly got the feeling that they were fired because the intersection of their marginalizations made them look like “evil North Korean spies” to management.

Definitely! However if your first experience with HR is being discriminated against, raising concerns about discrimination can be dangerous. Who do you go to when HR is causing the issues? HR is there to protect the company, not you. If the easiest way to protect the company is to fire someone, HR will probably do that.

I’m not trying to talk OP or anyone else out of going to HR, they aren’t always sharks waiting to fire someone. It’s just good to be careful here and OP and their wife should be aware of the risks before taking any action. Definitely document this incident. If this becomes a repeat issue, documentation can be the difference between getting fired and winning a wrongful termination lawsuit.

They say something like “Lower Decks was made by people who aren’t Trekkies”. TLD has so many bizarre obscure references to past Trek series that I have to assume it was written by the biggest Trek fans ever. Anyone who thinks it was written by non-fans has clearly never even given it a chance.

It sure sounds like racism and poorphobia to me. HR trying to make sure her surroundings don’t look like what a “typical poor person” would have. It’s not super common, but it’s common enough that I hear about it every so often.

I can’t offer any kind of legal advice, but it sounds like this job will be potentially problematic and HR will definitely be one to watch out for.

There are definitely workarounds and mitigations that could solve a lot of the issues people have with IA. Unfortunately Jason Scott seems unwilling or unable to implement them. Based on what happened with the “textfiles” thing, I get the feeling he would rather see everything burn than give up any control. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m not holding my breath.

The issue isn’t that IA has problems, it’s that people have been pointing those problems out for years and nothing has changed. Eventually the disks are going to rot or the feds are going to come knocking and it’ll be too late.

To be clear, I’m not attacking Jason here. He’s running a great project using a lot of his own money and resources and I think it’s perfectly valid if he wants to keep an iron grip on how things work. There are real problems though, and it would be wrong to pretend there aren’t. We have to be prepared for a future where IA won’t be around forever, because nothing is around forever, and the IA isn’t an exception.

So the thing about qualified immunity is that unless there’s existing precedent that a cop can’t do this, then cops have immunity. Which is a cool catch 22 because you can’t have existing precedent if every cop who’s ever faced charges/lawsuits for a particular thing has gotten off because there wasn’t already a precedent. It’s an Ouroboros of letting cops do whatever they want.

This is beginning to change in some places, where police chiefs or their higher-ups want nothing to do with overtly shitty cops, but considering these cops have already finished their paid vacation suspension, I don’t think they’ll face any serious charges.

Thanks :)

I’d love to see a study done on the correlation between being a cop and killing animals. I bet there’s a definitive correlation there.

IA is not a sustainable project, and is built as a single point of failure. It has no transparency and no recovery plan if things go bad. Compare that to Anna’s Archive, a project that open sources all of their code and data so that things will continue running even if everyone involved disappears.

Ask yourself: if IA’s data was silently modified, would anyone be able to tell?

and the cheap sluts for violence that marry them.

60% of cops abuse their spouse. These aren’t “sluts for violence”, these are people who can’t leave because their spouse might kill them or at the very least sic other cops on them.

Can I introduce you to qualified immunity?

No, because psychopathy is not a real mental disorder and you won’t find it in the DSM. Either way, I’d be more upset at people killing animals than having an arbitrarily labeled mental illness.

Usually because people don’t start recording until there’s a reason, like police brutality.

Hang on, I’ve read this book before

Not yet, but I’m learning to sew so that I can make my own clothes! The only things I can find in my style just don’t fit or have terrible colors and patterns. With parametric patterns I can make anything I want tailored specifically for my body shape, and I don’t have to spend money I don’t have on things made in unethical abusive sweatshops.

The best resource I’ve found so far is https://freesewing.org. It’s a community based around a piece of software for creating parametric sewing patterns. There aren’t many patterns there yet, but there’s two patterns for underwear and one of the people involved has a youtube channel with some great tutorials https://invidious.perennialte.ch/channel/UCvknI22P32FxprncDmtpWpw