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A modest proposal: if you're going to do it, and have the political wherewithal to push it through, do it in _your own_ county/city, then wait for 5 years or so
by m0zg 5y ago
A modest proposal: if you're going to do it, and have the political wherewithal to push it through, do it in _your own_ county/city, then wait for 5 years or so to see the effects. I.e. if Hollywood wants to "defund the police", defund Beverly Hills PD first, see how well that works.
Sick and tired of people proposing harebrained policies that affect everyone else but them.
- WalterBright 5y agoNot to split hares, but this is the first time I've ever seen harebrained spelled correctly in the wild.
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- 1123581321 5y agoAccording to Algolia it’s spelled right on HN about two thirds of the time (370 vs 170 results.) Not bad for that word!
- m0zg 5y agoThat's the difference between people who read, and those who don't. On the flip side, I don't know how to pronounce some of the words that I know how to spell, so when I read I sub-vocalize them incorrectly. There's no need to separately learn pronunciation in my native Russian - it's phonetic, with very few, minor deviations. Nor is there a need to learn spelling - it is governed by very few simple rules.
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- upbeat_general 5y ago1. Hollywood != Beverly Hills 2. IANAL but I believe this would have to be done on a state or federal level not a local level. 3. Why do you think the change is "harebrained"?
- pseudalopex 5y agoI think they mean people who run the entertainment industry live in Beverly Hills. Unclear what it has to do with activists all over though.
- ncmncm 5y agoStart by disarming the police.
- m0zg 5y ago> Start by disarming the police. Do it in _your own_ neighborhood though, not somewhere else. Something is telling me that this is not what you had in mind when writing that comment.
- SauciestGNU 5y agoWhy do you think that's not what we're trying to do? I am politically active against my local police because their violent policies affect /me/ and people I care about.
- ncmncm 5y agoDo you often hear voices telling you falsehoods? Best get that checked out.