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Th4tGuyII , in First room temperature and pressure superconductor discovered
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Sceptical because "revolutionary" discoveries like this always end up either being bogus or have some massive caveat that makes them effectively useless outside of very specific scenarios.

Thought I will be pleasantly surprised if proven wrong

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Hazdaz , in Colorado Cop Who Left Handcuffed Woman on Train Tracks Says It was an Accident

And police unions will defend the cop. Unions are not our friend no matter how much some folks on here will want to claim otherwise. Unions make it difficult to reprimand and fire incompetent employees.

FlyingSquid ,
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Hope you enjoy losing your weekends and sick time. Because those will be the first things to go if unions are eliminated. They’re what made them possible in the first place.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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Corrupt, unaccountable Police Unions, propped up by the rich and powerful, don’t get to claim and sully the entire unionisation movement. Obviously.

be_excellent_to_each_other ,
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Many of them don't even call themselves unions, it's like they know better. PBA is one example used widely, but I believe there are many others.

ChaoticEntropy , (edited )
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“Police Benevolent Association” is such an ironically sinister sounding name… where was marketing?

From Wikipedia:

The PBA issues cards to its officers that read “The bearer of this card is a supporter of the PBA, and you should try to extend every courtesy possible.”

They get to give people cards that tell the police to be nicer to those citizens and let them off the hook…? The fuck?

be_excellent_to_each_other ,
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There's been a LOT of controversy about those cards.

Here's a recent article where to my surprise a cop calls them out for exactly what they are. They'll be drumming him out soon enough I'm sure. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/nypd-officer-cites-courtesy-cards-friends-family-cops-99709978

ChaoticEntropy ,
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“I see card after card. You’re not allowed to write any of them (up),” he told The Associated Press. “We’re not supposed to be showing favoritism when we do car stops, and we shouldn’t be giving them out because the guy mows my lawn.”

American law enforcement really is just a bad joke…

be_excellent_to_each_other , (edited )
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Police Unions are not our friends. I don't remember my local pipe-fitter's union trying to shield a plumber who killed someone for not playing simon-says correctly.

Police have been used for unionbusting for as long as there have been unions and police. Except police unions of course.

Many of the aspects of the modern workplace that make them look better than sweatshops of old, and which most people take for granted, are present only because unions literally fought for those things in the past.

If you work at a job in modern America, you are benefiting from union pressure on business. Edit - Here's five of those things.

winterayars ,

Police union aka criminal gang.

girlfreddy ,
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@winterayars @be_excellent_to_each_other

Always have been since their inception.

ACAB

Hazdaz ,

Just because you don’t understand that unions - ALL unions - shield incompetent workers doesn’t mean it isn’t the reality. That clueless pipe fitter you hired to do some work and then fucked up your pipes or charged your 2x as much as the job should have cost is just one of the many issues with incompetent union workers who can’t be fired.

be_excellent_to_each_other ,
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Source: Trust me bro.

CeruleanRuin ,
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Hazdaz ,

Your union does the exact same thing as police unions. Keep incompetent employees on the job. It just so happens that the stakes tend to be a lot higher with cops.

Ragnell ,
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No other union keeps people on the job when they kill people. Not even Jimmy Hoffa could get that put in a contract.

Hazdaz ,

Just because the stakes are higher with cops, doesn’t mean other unions don’t pull the same shit - keeping lazy workers employed who otherwise should have been fired.

girlfreddy ,
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@Hazdaz @Ragnell

Keeping on someone who's being lazy is in no way, shape or form the same as retaining a murderer.

Hazdaz ,

If you think keeping incompetent people around on a construction site isn’t dangerous - with the potential to hurt or kill someone - then you are deluded. What electricity can kill? Hauling equipment carrying material that could weigh tons? Operating heavy equipment? Noooo… none of that could possibly cause injuries. /s

Ragnell ,
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Good thing trade unions are the ones who require safety training and safety certifications for their members, then.

winterayars ,

Damn, you were doing so well in the first half… Well, first sentence.

red_october , in UPS reaches tentative contract with 340,000 unionized workers potentially dodging calamitous strike

They got shafted. Better than before, but nowhere near enough.

JustAManOnAToilet , in Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in lecture

Plot twist, they thought he was badmouthing the legendary sportscaster.

Chainweasel , in US citizens will need to pay for a visa to travel to Europe starting in 2024

$8 is the fee the headline neglected to include. Also, that’s less than the ~$20 equivalent visas Europeans have needed to enter the US for years.

bobs_monkey OP ,

Right, it really isn’t that bad. It just requires a little bit of planning ahead of time, and the thing is good for 3 years. Most other visas are only good for 1 year iirc.

afraid_of_zombies ,

NYPost is shit.

flavelius , in Elon Musk just changed Twitter’s logo again — sort of

There’s something about this, that just provokes the wrong associations; backslash, backlash, backwards, downwards, axed, crossed out, x-rated, darknet, close-button, third-to-last, xtra xtreme.

CeruleanRuin ,
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And also, “ex”, as in the one you left because they were an abusive jackass.

Melody , in Years After #MeToo, Defamation Cases Increasingly Target Victims Who Can’t Afford to Speak Out

There does exist Anti-SLAPP laws in some states.

I highly recommend all people be aware of this; and to encourage their own state legislatures to strengthen these laws or enact them if they don’t already exist in their state

Chickenstalker , in Elon Musk just changed Twitter’s logo again — sort of

Xerox?

SomeoneElse , in Colorado Cop Who Left Handcuffed Woman on Train Tracks Says It was an Accident

she didn’t realise a whole train was coming.

So just a carriage or two would have been fine.

JustAManOnAToilet ,

Well surely one of those mine cart things being operated by a monkey in red velvet would’ve been ok.

snor10 , in Colorado Cop Who Left Handcuffed Woman on Train Tracks Says It was an Accident

We’re sowwy.

Bornyellow , in First room temperature and pressure superconductor discovered

Do supercomputer get discovered? That’s new. Means the nature had built those once, it’s human’s task to find out their existence then learn how those are constructed and working. Supercomputer engineering superfluous; science and engineering quite in opposite. Made by nature, dynamic in its behavior, at same time non-organic that’s new too.

MooseBoys ,

What in the ChatGPT nonsense is this?

fearout ,
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Looks like a non-native speaker misread the title and jumped straight to some weird conclusions from there.

brianorca ,

Not a computer. A conductor. A superconductor is a material, a chemical. Finding the right combination of elements to make a new material with specific properties is usually called a discovery. (As there are a finite number of elements, and a finite, though large, number of ways to combine them, especially for homogenous, non biological molecules.)

Designing a process to create that material would be an invention.

6mementomori , in First room temperature and pressure superconductor discovered

I can count on my hands the amount of times I’ve seen revolutionary room conditions superconductor papers, which may not be too many, but enough to quickly dismiss this especially because it looks really barebones

themoonisacheese , in First room temperature and pressure superconductor discovered
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I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that until this is peer-reviewed and replicated, this is worthless.

I’ll also gladly eat my shorts if it turns out they actually did it but ATM I’m very skeptical.

wabafee ,

I do hope they are right I would love see you eat your shorts.

Whirlybird , in First room temperature and pressure superconductor discovered

If this were true they wouldn’t have released this, they’d have released a room temperature and pressure superconductor and instantly become billionaires.

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