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Why is police training crap in America?

If you compare the standards to let’s say: Switzerland (2 years in the academy, the candidate must graduate with a diploma in policing. The first year is theoretical: mainly in the classroom learning about law, tactics and de-escalation. The second year is spent on the job in practical field training with a respective police force).

While police training in the US varies on state: but it’ll last up to 16-21 weeks (it’s pretty bad) before they’re sent on the streets, no wonder why you hear about cops resorting to violence first rather than a de-escalation. There’s an example from Norway where cops didn’t point their guns at a drunk guy, instead they laughed with him.

Both Norway & Switzerland DO NOT have qualified immunity for officers, meaning they are subjected to the same laws as every other citizen. But apparently the USA likes to consider cops above the law via qualified immunity (which is a reason why you barely hear an American cop being held accountable for their actions).

The responses are different: since US cops are like “GET DOWN!” or “DROP YOUR WEAPONS!” while Norwegian cops are like “Please, stop doing that” being said in a more pacifist tone that doesn’t evoke hostility (that’s an issue you hear from American cops, as they shoot first rather than trying to talk their way out).

How would YOU solve this case using today's technology?

There was a woman who was last seen in 1961 (early 30s at the time) the only traces left: kitchen was covered with red paint, but her corpse (if she was murdered) was not present at the scene nor was there a sign of foul play: since then, no hints of her presence or any sightings were ever recorded or confirmed by anyone else. (Do YOU think she’s still alive today?)

Back then: the internet, CCTV and cellphones were non existent meaning nobody saw what happened, how can you track someone who went missing for this long today even with the resources available? Multiple theories surfaced from: abducted, amnesia, passed from an accident but remains weren’t found or she staged and planned the entire thing.

If she was alive: she would’ve been close to 100 years old, but given the circumstances that she left with barely anything (no suitcases, just strolled somewhere never coming back willingly) the likelihood on finding her alive becomes slim (as the elements would’ve come by and died from starvation, disease or being murdered by someone in the middle of nowhere).

Do your managers also believe accusations made against you before asking for your side of the story?

This has happened to me 2 times already, 4 years working at this place.

• What managers say: “on day X you did Y.” Then they say nothing more, like expecting an answer from me.

• What I find makes sense to say: “coworker Z (or a coworker, without naming) claims on day X you did Y. Is this true?”

To me only the second example is neutral, the way management asks question # 1 is accusatory and assumes you’re already guilty.

Am I very thin skinned?

Do long term care facilities offer learning cooking activities for residents?

I said long term care because I’m not sure how many there are: I’ve heard about assisted living, memory unit and nursing home but I don’t know how they’re connected and who pays for what.

My father has never cooked a meal in his entire life and he’s now pushing 80. First his mother cooked for him, the whole 3 meals a day, then his wife took over. My mother is a person who apparently likes to prepare food in the kitchen on her own while everyone else waits. The idea of independently preparing something quick because you are hungry, you have places to go and don’t want to wait 90 minutes for a full meal is met with hostility and the same kind of language my father used with me when I was a teenager and exactly this happened. It’s no use offering to help my mother because “I don’t do it right”.

If my mother dies before my father, he is going down really fast: no cooking skills whatsoever, knows absolutely nothing about grocery shopping or how much time you need to simply prepare before actually cooking, has never used a washing machine in his entire life. He can still tell you lots about geology, his major and job till he retired, but for some things he is absolutely useless.

I’ve already told him he should prepare, that he should learn at least to cook to be independent as long as possible unless he wants to eat microwaved pizza every day (because he doesn’t know how to use an oven), because eating healthy actually gives you more energy and thinking what to cook keeps you active, but apparently my mother won’t let him cook either.

If my father has to go to LTC, do they offer cooking learning courses? IMO it beats always eating what they put in front of you, it’s an excuse to socialize and learning is always good. Or am I being unfair to my father, expecting him to change now that he’s almost 80 and has been catered to constantly? I know my mother won’t change.

What did/do you want to be when you grew/grow up?

My favorite ice breaker. What do/did you want to be as an adult?

Would smart locks fit my lifestyle?

I’m considering installing smart locks on my house’s exterior doors. I’m currently looking at the Lockin Veno Solar Face or the Lockly Visage Zeno.

My lifestyle is to always have the doors locked, and we unlock them when we go in or out, and then we re-lock the door behind us.

It seems that smart locks only “smart unlock” the door from the outside, and from the inside you must manually unlock it. I find that annoying and of such an insignificant increase in convenience over my current manual locks that is not worth it.

I suspect that locks that support ultra wide bandwidth (sense the presence of your phone/watch) would unlock from the inside a well as the outside, but I don’t want UWB.

Does anyone have experience with smart locks? Do any of them automate unlocking from inside as well as outside?

No degree, no Polish, but I know Linux and homelab. Can I get an entry IT job?

Hi everyone,

I arrived in Poland from Ukraine a few days ago. I do not have a university degree and I have never worked in IT before, but I have some practical skills and wanted to ask for advice.

I have used Linux as my main system on my desktop for a few years, and I really like fixing system problems. I also host different things on my own server: Wireguard, OpenVPN, Hysteria2, Matrix, XMPP, Mumble, an IRC bouncer, my own Git server, and a static website synced with rsync. I used Docker a lot and now I am learning Podman. I also know some basic programming: I made small games in LOVE2D with Lua, tried C++ and Unity, and wrote a Python bot that checks ticket availability on a website and sends notifications.

My English is around B1 level. I can read documentation easily, write in text chat, and speak okay, but I am still working on it. I do not speak Polish yet, but I want to learn it.

I know that getting a developer job is very hard right now, so I am not looking for that. I am ready to start with any entry job: technical support, helpdesk, junior Linux administrator, or an assistant role. I really want to work in tech and avoid physical work in warehouses if possible.

Is it realistic to find this kind of job in Poland without Polish and with B1 English? What job titles should I search for on LinkedIn or Pracuj, and do companies care about self-hosted home server projects?

Thank you for any advice!

Isn't Lemmy just Stack Exchange with extra steps?

I mean. . . start numerous online forums, use an SSO provider, and then a central way to push notifications.

those of you with elderly parents 800 miles away, how do you take care of them?

my parents live alone 800 miles away from me and are capable of living independently.

There might be a day they’re not safe at home anymore and need to be taken care of.

I’m not a caregiver and while my father is flexible and can adapt, my mother is very strict with what she considers right and it’s usually her way or the highway, reason why I would never live with her, let her live with me or take care of her alone. It would never work. My parents have a decent pension, no debt, and mostly love each other.

If it ever comes to me taking care of the administrative side of things 800 miles away, what does it look like? If you are in a situation like I described, how often do you visit?

Do you take care of them physically as well? I mean giving them showers, cleaning them, cleaning the house, feeding them, organizing their medicines, dressing them, answering 30 times per day the same question or old story because they forgot, because realistically I can do this up to 2 weeks per year, never on a permanent basis. I’m not a patient man.

I also want to live my life but where I grew up, small town in GA, the expectation seems to be I move in with my parents to physically take care of them, otherwise I’m not a good son.

ETA: thank you all for contributing

What is with Jason's voice in GTA 6 trailer?

Jason’s voice in this is absolutely terrible, especially as he ends his sentences. Everything in the trailer sounded great except his voice. It was so off-putting and breaks emersion it’s the only thing I could focus on. And I found myself getting more annoyed with it as the trailer went along.

Maybe it’s filtered and we’re not hearing his real voice. Or maybe the voice actor was talking into a box fan during his takes and started to walk away from the mic before finishing his lines whatever it is its ruined the trailer for me

Ok I know everyone said the same thing about Arthur in red dead redemption 2 but this is far worse. Arthur ended up being a great character . I dont know what’s driving me crazy about it. Arthur lacked emotion.

It’s not that Jason just lacks emotion it sounds like the audio is literally fucked

Why tears are more hot when I am too stressed

I do cry a lot, and when I am too stressed the tears are too hot, my the usual warm

how do P-N junctions work and why it's used in solar cells

I understand the behavior of it in circuits, I just don’t know how it achieves that behavior.

Also I’m curious of it’s application in the manufacturing of solar cells since my focus is in energy.

How many tabs do you have open on your phone/laptop right now?

Phone= 13

Lappy= 6

Is sales tax justified for what you get in return or too high?

The US has varied rates on ST based on state (for example, in New Jersey: its somewhere around 6.6%) but that in itself is nowhere close to an actual country (like, Norway imposes 25% VAT on everything nationwide, its included in the final price) but taxes in general are intended to fund roads, education, infrastructure, etc. (this is something all countries have) and taxes are deducted when you receive your paycheck.

The difference is that Norway imposes 25% VAT (whatever the price is, includes tax) for a reason: to maintain high quality standard of living (it explains why you don’t hear stories of medical or student debt as much) as their public services are funded from high taxes imposed towards citizens. While in the US: sales tax is only added upon checkout, but what do you receive from the government in return after paying taxes?

Which machine or technical sounds do you enjoy, which do you find annoying?

I’ll start: I love listening to the washing machine running. Relaxing, sounds like hard work I don’t have to do. Looking forward to the clean clothes and nice smell! Sewing machine sound makes me all giddy. Sound of my 1988 car engine.

I find chain saws and brushcutters extremely annoying. On some days in spring and autumn I can get quite grumpy about it, even though I rationally know they also save a lot of hard work.

How many watts could a windmill generate?

Hypothetically, if i were to hook up an old timey flour windmill to a generator, how much power could i produce with its rotation?

If I see the same post spamming more than two other threads, user gets blocked. Anyone get annoyed seeing 4+ cross posts or more on their feed?

Pick a lane, or give it some time.

Same with one user making 10 posts at a time to same community.

I block that lem.

People who dress "nicely" to travel through airports, why?

I get that some people have business waiting at the pickup and wanting to look professional, but why everybody else?

Swiss people, is it true you're not that conscious of who the president is?

because it’s a system without a chief, more based on committees than a figurehead

the president is not important… many Swiss people have trouble remembering who the president happens to be this year.

For both native and non-native English speakers: what word or phrase do you find especially difficult to pronounce?

I used to think the “th” sound is hard because it is uncommon in my language, we do not use our tongues to hit the top teeth like that. But then, it became 2nd nature after living abroad for almost 20 years.

Recently i happen to work with a lot of architects and designers and 1 word comes up which I think is the most difficult to pronouncr: AESTHETIC.

It sounds very simple but if you break down the syllables, your tongue needs to do a bit of work.

For the British English version, the “t” in tic is pronounced quite strong, as in “tick”. Mostly, your tongue only needs to worry about the “THE” sound, i.e. ES-THE-TIC.

In US English, the “t” is most often pronounced as a soft “d”. This means “TIC” will sound like “DIC”. So your tongue needs to flick up for the “THE” sound and then immediately flick down for the “DIC”.

This gets even harder if you consider the adverb: AESTHETICALLY. A lot of tongue gymnasium involve…

Any other words or phrase that you think is dificult?