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Cake day: August 21st, 2023

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  • https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759

    in my police academy class, we had a clique of around six trainees who routinely bullied and harassed other students: intentionally scuffing another trainee’s shoes to get them in trouble during inspection, sexually harassing female trainees, cracking racist jokes, and so on. Every quarter, we were to write anonymous evaluations of our squadmates. I wrote scathing accounts of their behavior, thinking I was helping keep bad apples out of law enforcement and believing I would be protected. Instead, the academy staff read my complaints to them out loud and outed me to them and never punished them, causing me to get harassed for the rest of my academy class. That’s how I learned that even police leadership hates rats. That’s why no one is “changing things from the inside.” They can’t, the structure won’t allow it.

    And that’s the point of what I’m telling you. Whether you were my sergeant, legally harassing an old woman, me, legally harassing our residents, my fellow trainees bullying the rest of us, or “the bad apples” illegally harassing “shitbags”, we were all in it together. I knew cops that pulled women over to flirt with them. I knew cops who would pepper spray sleeping bags so that homeless people would have to throw them away. I knew cops that intentionally provoked anger in suspects so they could claim they were assaulted. I was particularly good at winding people up verbally until they lashed out so I could fight them. Nobody spoke out. Nobody stood up. Nobody betrayed the code.

    None of us protected the people (you) from bad cops.

    This is why “All cops are bastards.” Even your uncle, even your cousin, even your mom, even your brother, even your best friend, even your spouse, even me. Because even if they wouldn’t Do The Thing themselves, they will almost never rat out another officer who Does The Thing, much less stop it from happening





  • It’s hysterical, in every sense of the word minus pussy, oh wait, I guess that, too!

    Did the clanker give you this sentence too? More complete nonsense. Proofread it before you present it as your own.

    I asked it to come up with a novel concept.

    Because you have given up the ability to come up with our own novel concepts. You just ask you sycophantic support machine for a reply.

    You do realize that every word and novel concept in the world was invented by a human right? Typical cogsucker forgets all of human history because a machine did something neat. “I multiplied 2 random 4 digit numbers on my calculator and it took less than a second. You couldn’t do that! Calculators are intelligent and humans can’t do math without them!”


  • Same thing as what? You think asking a token guesser to spit out some paragraphs is the same things as having a novel thought of your own? You really have outsourced your thinking and then have the gall to mock other people who are actually using their own brains.

    LLMs are really good at looking competent in fields the user is not skilled in. Anything the user is skilled in AI looks incompetent. That is why you think it is competent at having a conversation, making arguments, and being an AGI…