Yeah totally agree, even the most hardcore customer service falls far short of what cops have to deal with fairly regularly. I’ve never called the cops on a customer and only once or twice has it come close, they have a totally different set of interpersonal boundaries they work within.

I’ve also never been lucky enough to never have had any issues with cops myself apart from a few speeding tickets, I have usually lived in low crime areas and don’t belong to a more at-risk group that gets undue attention. With society changing so much these days I expect things to worsen, police could become more menacing to me or people near me in the future and I find some comfort in studying effective ways of interacting with them, and avoiding conflict with them.

I can respect how hard their job is while having deep concerns for a) the laws they enforce, b) how they are told to enforce them, c) a significant number of bad actors in the departments and leadership, d) a toxic policing culture pervasive in most areas, e) the current culture of gamification of sending the law after people you disagree with, etc…

Occasionally I speak briefly with them in my line of work and have mentioned bodycam youtube to a few of ]them. They seem aware of it and some watch it, some don’t, I figure anything that gives them more reason for self examination is a good thing, but I can also understand that some of them wouldn’t want to relive work over again on their downtime.

A guilty pleasure of mine is the bodycam footage channels on YouTube, its surprising how negatively/self-defeating some people react to police interactions. I steer clear of channels that have serious harm to the suspects, shootings and whatnot, but my job has me interact frequently with intoxicated or distressed community members and seeing how they process stressful situations is interesting.

These channels are copaganda but still, somewhat enjoyable and some deescalation techniques police use when employed gently have helped me with setting boundaries in customer interactions. I also feel like learning what not to do when interacting with police is helpful for me if I ever get pulled over, etc. Midwest Safety and Lens of Law are two that are more ethically run and primarily use FOIA requested bodycam footage.

Easy enough to block the sports communities from your feed if you browse c/all if you dont like them. I say someone set up the sports communities and start posting articles to see if we can get more adoption by the sports folks over here. I dont have the patience for sports but more users is good. Some sports people are obnoxious but some certainly aren’t (Bill Bppurr comes to mind) and userbase growth is needed.

One of those canonical seas, the Aral, is almost completely gone, that dove had better hurry!

I’ve got a 1GB Insignia Sport mp3 player from 2006 or 2007 that I check every few years and still worked last time I used it. Good for audiobooks or maybe 80 songs on shuffle. I got a lot of mileage out of it over the years, lovely little bit of electronics.

Fyi don’t do that with whipped cream, you’re just asking for trouble

I was going to say if he writes an app and doesn’t like it, something’s wrong there

I’m still trying to get a hold of my feelings about it but I think it’s more that some people treat their own trauma as a kind of privilege, like it excuses how they might treat others. I’ve had enough experiences with friends, coworkers and customers being careless or hurtful and imo it’s an uncomfortable truth that traumatized people can be harmful if they haven’t learned effective coping strategies for their own trauma.

I hate engaging in that kind of social triage though and there are a large, increasing number of traumatized people in the world, and it’s hard to access the kind of care that would help someone move past maladaptive behaviors that harm others as the result of their trauma.

For myself, at the moment, I will be maintaining boundaries and trying to avoid traumatized people in general, so as to not become more traumatized myself. This is the opposite of how I’ve previously engaged with people too, I’m consciously trying another strategy. Also apologies for being vague but I think it applies to a lot of situations.

I mean I’ve been getting spam sms texts from email addresses lately so I assume it’s complete phone anarchy now in these late days

I’ve seen this more in the last decade or so, someone experiences a moderate amount of distress and then expects to get a free pass on any kind of toxic behavior that they can link to it. I’m assuming some types of counselors are promoting this as a twisted “hurt people hurt people” sort of thing and I’ve helped these sorts of folks until the compassion fatigue really sets in and I realize it’s dragging me down, having real negative effects on my own well being.

So, lately out of self preservation I’m immediately suspicious of people who put their own trauma first in the interpersonal realm, like it’s the first thing you know about them. I’m not sure there are healthy environments where everyone enthusastically shares their trauma and uses it to bond over, although I feel like that concept has been promoted in some trendy pop psych circles. Heck, I see a sign on a church near me that they have a weekly “grief share” session. Sounds horrible and like a speedrun to burnout.

Am I out of line in my thinking about this? Generally I value community building and being compassionate but that sort of thing really has been getting my goat lately.

John Ashcroft notoriously had the bare-breasted statue of Justice covered up in 2002 (uncovered in 2005) because there were so many public TV appearances at the Justice Department during the worst part of the post-9/11 changes.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-29-mn-25302-story.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_Justice

Arguably they are a scaredy cat

I heard that’s from sisyphean, keep pushing that boulder, sissies!

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Not quite a show but the Marketplace podcast (marketplace.org or perhaps this PRI show is carried on your local NPR station) – for some reason Kai Ryssdal’s voice just makes it all better

Sometimes yeah, or your bathroom had a magazine rack

Perhaps, perhaps not. But the following verse shows simp to be synonymous with punk (derogatory)

Late 70s and the first few 80s years is a stretch, that’s Xennials. Elder Millenials and Xennials have an uneasy truce but we know the difference

Hi!

I can’t remember why I blocked them, it was probably like a year ago perhaps when I was having a bad day or something. So I have removed them as a blocked instance because of your kind comment and look forward to reading posts there on my /all feed). Thank you, stranger!