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I mean, yes, they are clearly individually bad, people making bad choices because they do not value the life of a dog above any risk to themselves or even fairly minor inconvenience.

At the same time, this is a bad job. Not a bad job to have, a bad job for society to make. There should not be cops. Cops are way to mixed as a profession.

Investigators of crimes? That is a reasonable job.

Dispute resolution specialists? Sure.

Someone to step between people having a domestic altercation? Yes, of course.

But just like you wouldn't want an emergency room doctor to also be a mortician you shouldn't want the traffic enforcement person to be the one to deal with a mental health crisis. The role has grown too large and cannot reasonably be performed well. It needs to be divided.

I think it is important to recognise that cops do way too many things which are very different. A reasonable job has rationally related responsibilities. For example, a technical support worker may also do some account admin work because the cause of a problem may be related to billing, a hairdresser may take payments, a bartender may assess the inebriation of a customer and cut them off. Cops?

The do parking enforcement. They arrest people who are drunk and disorderly. They execute search warrants. They do traffic enforcement. They attend domestic disputes. They record and process allegations of sexual assault. They do paperwork for insurance claims. They separate protestors and counter protestors. They take in lost property. They shoot dogs.

If your hair dresser had this many responsibilities you would think they would have multiple degrees and a big support team, or you would assume they would be incompetent in all of them.

A person who does mental crisis support uses very different tools to someone doing traffic enforcement. They are in many ways incompatible skills and those roles should not be mixed at all. The idea that the solution to cops being shit at their jobs is to increase training is insane.

Cops should be reduced to a single, well defined role. Most of their job should be broken into other roles and handled by people specialised in those specific things. A mental health crisis should have a mental health professional involved. A drunk altercation should have an officer of the peace who attends, deescalates, separates, and documents everything. A parking inspector would do just that, no more, no less. An investigator for SA would be a specialist in the topic, have strong mental health and trauma awareness, and not be a total creep. And I think we can just not have a person who's job involves shooting dogs.

If you took all those jobs and separated them out being a cop would be a much more simple thing. It would also be much easier to have a fairly good understanding of the law because you wouldn't have spent time learning about how to wrestle people to the ground, treat everyone as a threat, and shoot dogs, so yoh would have plenty of time to learn about law. Maybe you could even afford to have a uni degree in law and community services.

You haven't described diet at all and that is the most likely issue. You have said you use energy drinks to get through the day which suggests you are experiencing significant sleep debt and also clouding your ability to see true energy issues. I would recommend dropping the caffeine as soon as is reasonable and then see how you feel. Until you can do that I would recommend making sure you are getting enough iron, B vitamins, and calories. It is fairly easy to end up iron deficient and same for B vitamins, but both are readily solved. The calories is actually the hard one, if you have drifted down to low calorie intake it can be hard to pull back up.

I am an explainer of things. I love working with kids and helping explain the world to them, with a special interest in the places where the answer is that we don't know. I absolutely adore taking a question or comment and finding the full exploration which can bloom from that moment of curiosity. I do this on Lemmy too, and before that Reddit. Sometimes someone will post an article and it will be way too complex or not really answer any real questions and I will go ahead and explain it in much more simple English with analogies and simplifications which don't lose the important details.

If you want you can dig into my comment history and find it, but my favourite complement ever is someone who said I took a kegstand on the font of knowledge. If absolutely jives with my excitement and joy at learning while also being way less serious and stodgy about science and knowledge.

Some things I have noticed.

It looks like the Red Sea is also filled in.

It appears that other areas at the north of Europe have had some areas filled.

Sri Lanka now appears to have a land bridge to India.

Lake Victoria and Lake Malawi are both also filled in.

Sudan and South Sudan are just one country, which makes sense given that change was only recognised in 2011.

ROMs are your best bet for more play with less storage required. Older games are insanely small by today's standard, often coming in at under a single 600MB disc in size, but console games blow even that out of the water. N64 games are tens of megs, while earlier platforms are only a couple of megs a piece.

PlayStation games are all around that 6-700MB per disc and some games are multiple discs, but that is still way less than the size of modern games. Also a lot of them can play fairly well from a high compression format like 7z, so you can store then compressed.

Also, some games that are older have newer open source engines which can really breathe new life into them. My first example would be OpenMW for Morrowind, but DevilutionX is another great example. Trying to get Diablo running in modern hardware is entirely possible, but the resolution is very limited and it is super clunky. DevilutionX has more options and it is a much more enjoyable experience.

Also, Creeper World 3. I have put 50 full days of my life into that game and regret nothing.

A quick question, what accent do you have? As an Aussie I have real trouble speaking naturally with most speech to text software, open or closed source. I feel like the guys in that Scottish sketch show in the voice activated elevator. I sometimes use voice dictation for my notes for work and I spend almost as much time correcting as I do speaking.

That said, I have found a perfect solution. I can get well over the 95% correct mark by simply using an English or American accent. I can do both fairly well and the speech to text has no complaints. I imagine someone from Boston would have a tonne of trouble being understood, as would a Welsh person, but pretending to be a Californian or similar can help immensely.

I would love to find something that can be trained by my speech like Dragon Naturally Speaking used to be. I used that in the early 2000s and at first it was awful, but training it for a few hours really did offer a noticeable improvement, and ongoing use continued to improve further. My computer died and I lost all the trained data, so I never went back, but if I could I would definitely do that again.

True, kebabs are life, I would happily have one right now.

There was a study on the efficacy of paracetamol with ibuprofen compared to morphine and it was a very close thing, within the margin of error. The combination of paracetamol and ibuprofen works on pain in two different ways at the same time, whereas opiates only work in one major way. It seems overall more effective in many cases.

That said, some people report that morphine doesn't remove their pain as much as it removes their caring about it. It reduces the salience and therefore makes them respond less. I don't know from experience given the lack of response, but maybe that is part of why it is so addictive, you don't have to care any more about pain or other issues.

Noooch?

That looks like a kindle maybe a paperwhite 2 or 3? Amazon is making those way less functional very soon. I would recommend looking into jailbreaking it asap and getting KoReader installed so you can keep using it. I have a paperwhite 3, a kobo touch, and now a kobo Clara colour and all of them run beautifully with KoReader and are muchore useful than they were with the default software.

Also, I've heard good things about Dungeon Crawler Carl but haven't read it yet myself. I hope you enjoy it.

Sad to see this play out again. Lots of people are deficient in B12 and various other essential nutrients. The worst part from my perspective is obviously the loss of life, but the second worst is how easy this is to fix. I am by no means a vegan, I definitely eat my fair share of meat and eggs, but B12 deficiency is easy enough to get, especially if you eat a lot of processed foods or have a mono diet, eating the same thing every day.

For B12 I would recommend nutritional yeast. It gives a cheesy sort of flavour and can be added to foods like beans, refried beans, ragu/bolognaise, various pasta dishes, the list goes on. A fairly small amount packs a lot of B vitamins and you can have quite a bit without any issue. It also keeps very well, just requiring an airtight container and maybe a dessicant packet for longer term storage.

If you take some tapioca starch and add it to water then slowly reduce it you can make a really nice cheese sauce substitute, very similar to Mac and cheese. Nutritional yeast adds the full flavour and colour, making it actually tasty.