HipPriest

Thanks, that's really informative I never knew that. I could get why prison would be better relatively speaking.

That's just not how it works... Showing the bombing of Dresden by the Allies wouldn't make the Nazis look like 'the good guys' either.

And I'm sorry are you gatekeeping WWII?!?

Hopefully in 6 months enough inmates will be able to show this guy just how unpopular cops and paedos are in prison. Kind of a double whammy. But I'm a Brit so I don't know if County jail is 'easy' jail or 'oh shit' jail.

This is veering wildly into Is It Cake territory....!

This is why, as an adult vaper, I get slightly fed up of all the anti-vape news stories. Obviously I am heavily against kids using them, and I also think the disposable ones are environmentally unfriendly to say the least.

But they're a major asset in getting people off the cigs as well and it would be good to remember that once in a while. It's cheaper. It's healthier - a low bar but you can tell the difference in days after switching.

To my mind you can't have it both ways. It's no coincidence that smoking rates have fallen further at the same time that vape shops have popped up everywhere like a rash - they were falling anyway but it's sped things up a lot. (Incidentally my guess is it's not high street vape shops selling to kids but the same garages, newsagents etc that would have sold them fags in the past but that's just anecdotal evidence and conjecture).

I don't agree with bans. I also don't think putting little pictures of tumours on a fag packet ever stopped me lighting up once. What I do like it's seeing politicians finally mentioning 'oh yeah, by the way, smoking isn't very good for you either' after all this moral panic about vaping

(I am ranting a bit because I'm slightly drunk but I have been thinking this a lot this week)

I like how they focused on vapes first and then looked at smoking laws...

Have to say it though I'd agree with doing something pro-active anti-smoking, but he can say any old thing knowing he won't have to follow through on it now.

Someone I'm in a Discord group with wanted an invite to bluesky because it was more familiar to him than Mastodon.

He pretty much wanted a like-for-like replacement for Twitter, though to his credit he had already tried Mastodon before dismissing it out of hand.

It's not that he disliked it exactly, but he wasn't that interested by what he saw so didn't stick with it - to each their own

Tbh, I think the first two books are the best and it finishes perfectly for me there. It feels like that's where he was on a roll creatively and his heart was really still into it. That might not actually be true, but that's how it feels.

Douglas Adams himself didn't like the third book although I still like bits of it. The fourth and fifth I don't enjoy much - they're not bad books, just not very funny.

It’s a bit of a problem.

That's terrible. I can imagine there'll be a few pretty depressed police out there

Whistleblowers aren’t allowed in America. Any cop blowing the whistle on bad cops gets fired

Are you taking the piss? That's ridiculous! So if there is a bad apple cop, what do the good cops do?

We actually have anti-corruption units here, how effective they are I don't know but they're meant to 'watch the watchers' - a very popular series, 'Line Of Duty' was based on them if recommend it if you're interested in police corruption and it's available over there (I think series 4 or 5 was where it went downhill but before then it was really on the nose). Having a highly popular drama based around police corruption might have paved the way in the public consciousness for expecting the police to be having people like that in real life keeping on top of bent coppers.

Yeah it's because they found there'd been quite few officers all over the country who had been getting away with 'dodgy things' - read rape, coercive relationships, stalking, harassment etc' - to do with women for years. Wales was another particularly bad one I think but as per usual in the UK mainly the media care about London.

USA is a bigger country of course which means it's a bigger job - that said, each unit should be able to have one person same to spot check historical case files if there are concerns about an officer's behaviour. Need more whistleblowers in police forces. These guys can't be that well liked

That's just the London police force as well. There was a national review of all working police officers records to check any complaints etc that had been made against them just to double check they'd been dealt with properly and not been made to disappear...

I think the Police round our way has already cleaned itself up after previous things. But the it's the fact it takes a scandal to make it happen that's the hard thing to take.

I'm guessing this is an American community though and so I shouldn't complain because I don't think ours are as bad as yours.