If we're including killings with degrees of separation there'd be a whole bunch of people in that crowd as well.

why would being form japan make it popular ?

Wealth for wealth's sake, possibly, but i'm not gonna start throwing shade at someone else's life goals.

Wealth is , however, a good baseline to build upon to achieve other metrics, up to a point at least.

They've had solar incentives,multiple times, the government fucked around and made it absolutely excruciating, then fully dropped it with a big fuck you.

There were legit financial reasons for this afaik, but it still left a bunch of people holding the bag.

People are understandably wary of any new promises.

I wonder if this it is a coincidence that this comes closely on the heels of : this or this or this

.....i don't know what that means?

Looked familiar though, so i looked him up, is there some significance to a picture of hegseth pointing ?

I'm sure you don't care, but if you sound like a combination pocket-mulching, militant-vegan, cycling purist, those are the only people who are going to hear what you have to actually say.

That might be your target market, in which case, congrats i suppose.

That level of condescension and pretension is pretty difficult to overcome, especially in a text only format, intentional or not.

They were arresting people for talking walks by themselves in the woods in 2020-2022

Citation ?

That seems like it'd be right in the region of lockdown and curfews.

The Switzerland part is verifiable, somewhat.

The British part is dubious in its subject, you can see many arrests for protesting and other things the government doesn't like. But preaching? Like, religion? Thats a stretch.

You can probably find a couple over the years but not much more.

The beatings in Europe part seems anecdotal and vague.

The small town America part has strong "trust me bro" vibes and a long history of anecdotes and news stories to the contrary.

The native reservation part is verifiable in numbers but lacking in context.

North Alaska I've no idea.

Areas with high levels of organised crime (not the governmental or ruling class kind) being potentially dangerous isn't exactly high detective work, but sure.

Experiences do very wildly though, so points for that.

Overall a solid 4/10.

I have and do look at it from that angle, my point was that the need for data collection isn't a guaranteed thing.

Even if you narrow it down to just the subset of companies for which continuous "shareholder value" is a requirement.

If it was the only avenue to profit i'd agree the need was universal, but there are other ways, some mutually exclusive.

Though i will conceded that data collection is one of the common ones.

I agree with that as a model for prediction of behaviour, i don't agree that there is a need.

There is obviously a want , but unless there is an existential requirement for data collection like that, the need is speculative.

Its your opinion , why would you hate to say it ? own it, it's yours.

I see the full meaning of ACAB as: if you participate in a system widely regarded as championing bastard-like behaviour then you yourself are a bastard by proxy and/or association.

Some cops actively try to change the pervasive bastardishness, they are not cops for very long , the latest example.

Some cops are there because they need to feed their kids(or themselves), still bastards, but with a relatable reason (perhaps even approaching a viable excuse) as to why they continue to make that choice.

if your argument is that at any point in time, there is the possibility of a non-bastard cop existing because they haven't been murdered, exiled, scapegoated, indoctrinated. converted or quit yet....then yes that is technically correct.

This, like everything else, is subjective.

If you are rich and/or powerful enough to be considered inside the demographic the police were designed to actually protect (as opposed to control) then i'm sure it's a much less bastardlike experience.

HAH, that tracks so much.

Im conflicted,

if that waste of breath sorbo is disappointed, that would normally indicate it was doing something right.