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by yareal 3y ago
A lot of neurological development happens between 18 and 24, college is not just a practical skills education, it's also a space you're allowed to practice being an adult while that neurological development happens. Ideally everyo
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I'm sorry, but it does have a different meaning. The gendarmerie are military units, police departments are typically civilian units. There's a clear difference in reporting, accountability, access to weaponry, training, and cultu
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Because it was a defining reason for their creation. Uniforms in policing represented a change in public thinking about crime prevention vs crime reaction. It marked the moment in time when the modern police force was effectively born. Befo
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It's important to separate the roles police play. Sometimes they are detectives, solving crimes. Sometimes they are traffic enforcement, mental health interventions, noise violation enforcement, violent robbery halters, etc. Not all of
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No, the term for that is gendarmerie. If you've read my other posts you've probably been able to infer that I'm not a fan of the police, but I find that being quippy about them undermines actual meaningful conversation about
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by yareal 3y ago
Fair enough. Of all the historical policing systems, the vigiles seem to be more similar to modern police forces than other systems. I still think the vigiles are probably notably quite different from police - operating mostly at night, bei
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It's especially funny to me, an anarchist, who believes that self organizing communities built around wellbeing for all would be radically better than today's world. If the police are the only thing between today's world and
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That's the bad alternative, for sure. I'm an anarchist (not the purge, but instead self organizing local communities kind). I genuinely believe that much of the role can be done by local community, reserving only the most violent
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Rome had a few different approaches, the Vigiles mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Several countries had armies enforce legal codes. Some places had night watches run by their local communities. Some had night watches you could pay to avo
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My understanding of the vigiles was that they were under the direct command of centurions, despite being largely slaves, and were organized into barracks. Vigiles could achieve higher or more desirable ranks directly through their service.
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The Vigiles come up a lot in this conversation, however, they were a military unit. In most cases when people think of police in the contemporary setting, they think of a non military force. But you are correct that I should probably say &q
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I don't believe I said the historical systems were better or preferable. Please double check the post I made, I highlighted the existence of alternative systems not to say "return to tradition", but rather to say "police
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Appreciate it. It was apparently flagged, despite my efforts to present a historical accounting and narrow, factual framing that was relatively judgement free until the end where I suggested we should be allowed to be critical towards poli
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Constables are not the same as "uniformed police forces". Constables and shire reeves (from which we derive the word sheriff) did predate uniformed police forces, but they generally operated on the "I'm the local law, an
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Yeah, I'm explicitly not calling for the return to night watches. I'm saying it should be possible to imagine societies without uniformed police forces, because we've had many models for justice without them in the past. We c
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It's OK to expect higher standards from police officers. Cameras should record all day and officers should only be allowed to mark timestamps they wish to be deleted later. The footage should still be logged in a black box, encrypted w
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The institution of uniformed police forces is relatively recent, established in the 1800s, and it reflects an 1800s era sensibility towards crime. In that it is predominantly focused on protecting the property interests of the wealthy. (The
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Why would it be bad? Surely sunlight is the best disinfectant? Let people film as much as possible. It's been demonstrated that police cameras don't always function... mysteriously.
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I'm not saying it's good, I'm saying it's not the same as "developing" or "third world". It's a set of countries with a unique set of characteristics that happen to mostly fall into the south. If
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To you, sure, the term is not as useful. But to the people involved in academia and politics, the jargon is useful. You can keep using words you prefer, language is adaptable like that. But the jargon used in those circles developed for a r
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by yareal 3y ago
Privilege absolutely exists. And overuse of the term privilege absolutely dilutes the impact of the concept, imo. But people are going to attach themselves to a term they like, that's just human nature, unfortunately. So I think it&#x2
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Global south and third world are different concepts, and cover a different set of countries. Brazil and Chile, for instance, were first world countries that are members of the global south. Here's a summary of differences between the t
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You said the article doesn't belong on HN, I'd say it clearly does. The title has been fixed.
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If it's of intellectual interest, it belongs here. A tech company failing to deliver for some reason is of interest. Tesla stopping deliveries is as interesting as cloudflare dropping traffic or aws down time.
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The cars are terribly manufactured, there are many videos of them falling completely, sometimes right off the lot. They don't meet their reported towing spec, they haul about as much as a cargo bike, they can't off-road. The only
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Now you are asking the right question
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When things fail, we gain little by punishing the person who was operating the system. Instead, we must ask, "why did the system allow this failure?" Fix that root cause, because the operator is not the root cause here.
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No one checks id on domestic flights in the U.S. at the gate.
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Good luck. Home gardeners, at least, are absolutely going to propagate their own plants. Gift to friends, etc. Sure, this patent nonsense might protect against broad sales but it won't be much use in stopping their spread. And like, if
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You've correctly identified how patents work, at least in the U.S.

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