• mrbubblesort@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Adams also proudly stated the cost-effectiveness of the robocop as compared to a human transit cop: The city is leasing the robot for $9 an hour.

    “This is a good investment of taxpayer dollars,” he said. “This is below minimum wage, no bathroom breaks, no meal breaks.”

    I’m genuinely surprised the union is ok with this.

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      That’s because cop “unions” aren’t real unions.

      Real unions protect the employment of all their members while fighting for better wages and working conditions.

      Cop “unions” defend criminal cops from the consequences of their actions, fight for impunity for all cop killers (killers who are cops) and lobby the government to fund those heinous activities.

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          Both work. A cop killer can be killer of cops or a killer who happens to also be a cop. I like it over killer cop for two reasons

          1. it implies that the killer part is the essence and the cop part is external to that

          2. it replaces a term meant to set apart a category of killers for being worse because they kill cops (as if “blue lives matter” more than all others) with the many times more common killer that’s worse for being a cop.

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            It’s nice that you like your way and all, but the phrase ‘cop killer’ has a long standing accepted meaning in the English language. You are simply wrong here.

            • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              Standard isn’t automatically the only correct usage of a word or phrase. As long as it makes sense and is understandable, it’s correct enough. Live a little.

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                1 year ago

                Except that what you said was not understood as you intended. Entertaining willful ignorance is not 'living a little '. Be better.

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                  1 year ago

                  I explained concisely but thoroughly what I meant and the logic made sense. Regardless, ignorance doesn’t enter into a deliberate subversion of conventions.

                  You’re just being a crotchety prescriptivist and/or doubling down because you don’t want to admit you’re wrong. YOU be better.

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                    1 year ago

                    While word salad is a lovely side dish to serve with total bullshit none of us is eating what you’re serving up. Your writing smells like a 14 year old’s attempt at intellectual edgy. Chat GPT come up with that for you? Your generation was supposed to be creative and interesting. You are proving yourself to be lazy and boring. Trying to impress strangers on the Internet. How lame can you get?