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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Sure, here's a handful: https://komonews.com/news/local/police-union-president-defen... https://mynorthwest.com/70234/police-union-head-vehemently-d... https://www.usatoday.co
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
They've consistently pushed back on reforms from both the community and the federal consent decree. They insist they are 'tough on crime' and the city is holding them back, going so far as to demand people vote out the city c
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's absolutely not just propaganda. The KKK was formed in the 1860s and there are many accounts of reconstruction era patrols being perpetrated by or with the aid of police at the time. Enforcing the law required acting as slave patro
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You are incorrect. Not all police departments started as slave patrols, in fact many of them did not. But to deny that it was a widespread event is counterfactual. The first American police dept was founded in the 1850s, well after the spli
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I strongly disagree. Footage from protest after protest shows police firing weapons into crowds, causing permanent injuries with zero accountability. As far as I am aware, no active police officers have been killed by protesters. (One was k
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
When that becomes an issue, we'll address it. Police still have weapons and tools to address violence, but they shouldn't be bringing them to peaceful protests. Edit to address your edit: When you bring that question to the curren
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The medical tent targeting is currently being investigated by the Seattle OPA, and has several eyewitness accounts. We'll see where the OPA lands (though, the OPA is composed of mostly police officers, so....) What would be better? Sta
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Yeah. Maybe the root cause here is how to interpret 'absolutely necessary'. It's clear, however, that the police interpretation is overly broad, and they cannot be trusted to deploy these in the emergencies that might warra
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Police unions are almost all terrible. Seattle kicked their police union out of the local labor council, and it would be great to see more cities do the same.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Even if they were equally corrupt to everyone else, they have much, much more authority to use violence and be shielded from the consequences. We should demand that they are significantly less corrupt than everyone else.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Historically, this is what police were in the Northeast US. (In the South, police trace their heritage to slave patrols. I'm sure they would argue that these patrols were also just defending property. Gross.) Landowners and merchants h
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Rubber bullets have steel cores, and are aimed indiscriminately. Imagine getting hit by a steel paintball. Without a mask or protective clothing. People get hit in the face, losing eyes. Chemical weapons like CS gas are an aerosolized powde
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
They don't tell you until you've started.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Those are some serious mental gymnastics, and as far as I'm aware they didn't say that anywhere up front.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Rad! It's a bummer that Amazon employees will have a hard time contributing to this (as Amazon prevents collaborating with anyone on any side projects that are 'games'.) Their offices surround some of the worst traffic in the
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Wasn't Doordash one of the companies that was lowering payments if tips were added? Eg, if they were going to pay $10 for a delivery, and someone left a $2 tip, they would reduce what they paid to $8. The driver gets $10, rather than t
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
And, I'll add, no small amount of social frustration. Persistently being contrary in social settings is a path to being unwelcome at social events. There's a fine line between challenging ideas and sea lioning.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's a learned behavior. It benefits employers to have employees squabbling with each other over pay rather than uniting and saying, "We'd like to talk with you, together, about pay". For some reason, the US in particula
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'll even add that engineers should understand the value they bring to the company and adjust their concept of fair not just against their peers but against what the company is earning from their labor.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Plenty of folks these days are sharing both their starting and current compensations, both internally and externally. I (personally) believe it's super healthy to do.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
My understanding is that the pay schedules are designed to slow down your raises when you cross the median pay for that band. When you get hired, you can negotiate for any position in that band. Imagine a bell curve, the system is designed
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Pandemic and police use of chemical weaponry makes googles and gloves a pretty standard precaution for attending a protest these days.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's a relatively big surface area increase and a relatively small customer count increase?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> You didn't answer my question, I notice. Correct. It was a bad faith strawman question (I called it diversive above). > Is he not allowed to voice "his truth" I then immediately said he's free to voice his experi
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Maybe you aren't a moderate? I mean, you literally are calling anyone who participates in the internet these days insane. That hardly scans as a moderate take.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Sensible defaults. Consistent developer API. A great big pile of components that can dropped in and reskinned rather than having to be rebuilt each project. Easy theming. Accessibility, mobile... I dunno, it just seems to do the right thing
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Oh, sorry, yeah I'm aware of these things. I'm trying to square the circle where the parent suggested that maybe there shouldn't be public buckets. (And maybe that's actually true... maybe to serve from them you should b
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Google's published tech stats suggest the ratio is closer to 7 in 10. Women physicians are 3-4 in 10. Biology appears to be 6 in 10 from what I could find (and is relatively unique in STEM fields, also not out of line with the socializ
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
What if those barriers kicked in at some number, e.g. 5,000 users. Once you are dealing with a big enough crowd, you better be able to protect that data, no matter who you are (imo).
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I set up a few websites for side projects that use Cloudfront + a public S3 bucket + Lambda for the backend when needed. It's extremely fire and forget web hosting for simple static sites and I think it costs me basically nothing. How

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