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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago

Satire is dead. Not enough CEOs have followed suit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Where's the onion logo?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Errr...you guys have to wait on hold on 911? This isn't just a joke?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's more common in high population areas, but it does happen.
The obsession with running government services like a business results in some notions about efficiency where someone getting paid to work and not being busy all the time is worse than people regularly waiting for critical time sensitive assistance.

It also has the zesty side effect of making the dispatch operators overworked and rushed. This usually just manifests as mistakes, but sometimes results in anger and critical mistakes. The famous example of the operator who yelled at a kid for calling because his mom had a seizure in the bath and she didn't believe him comes to mind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

People's opinion on insurance: "boy am I glad that's there if I ever need it"

Their opinion on having extra dispatchers to pick up bursts of activity: "why the fuck are we paying them to sit around"

Both of those things are stuff you pay for but may never need, but only one of them is a human and that's the one we get upset about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Just wow. I mean everyone has a really shitty day and stuff can happen,we're all just human. But dispatcher is one of those jobs that should never be understaffed nor overworked. Like docs or nurses or EMTs or.... Jeez...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Where I live not only do we get put on hold but sometimes they don't answer (not enough dispatchers) and response time (except for shop lifters which is quick response) is about 4.5 hours for serious stuff and 72 hours, if they do show up according to my own experience and those I know in the community.

Their budget is right over $4 Billion/year. The area I live in gives a boost of around $60 mil/year on top for expanded help so we don't have to have our own city PD.

Also I wanted to add it's the Sheriff, so we do contribute to the 4 bill/year via county tax like everyone else and are in their jurisdiction already.

Fantastic return on investment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wtf? You're us-american, right? 4.5hrs? Why even call at all. Makes it totally useless.

At one store of mine, robberies were regular. I had an automatic alarm,which called for cops and they were there not 3 minutes later. Granted their station was just 3 minutes away, but still. Robbers usually managed to find a general direction for what they wanted by that time. But I always had pristine new windows thanks to that 😁

4.5hrs...i could've gone there myself. After watching a movie, meeting some friends, doing the taxes and....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's a thread of legitimacy to "defending oneself and their property" in the US sure to how poor response times are, but honestly, it's just stuff. Why risk killing someone or getting killed?

The distinctly inept class-traitors known as cops are understood to really only be there to file paperwork for insurance. Lock your good stuff up in a real safe with time controls.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Yes, in some jurisdictions this is common.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Legit, i thought that thing in only murders was just a bit

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And now the rich get their own military for use against the citizens

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

They've always had it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

That's it, I'm founding my own LLC so I can be a CEO

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A hotline won't solve the issue.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I would be ok with this if the working class has a say in a daily wait music and elevator music for the corpo buildings.

Drowning Pool - Bodies

Memphis Cult x Groove Dealers- 9mm

do not resurrect - 2077

la coca nostra - bang bang

Jedi Mind Tricks - Design in malice or Serenity in Murder

Nancy Sinatra - bang bang

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Blind guardian - curse my name

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am still pissed at Trevor Noah that he paraded the corrupt criminal reactionary ex-cop Eric Adams around as some sort of great achievement for black people, after Adams won the mayor election in NYC.

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[–] nathanjent 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Link for today's lucky few who haven't seen this yet:

The IT Crowd: New emergency number:
https://youtu.be/HWc3WY3fuZU

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, being a CEO should be considered suicidal ideation. We already have a hotline for that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

In a sense I suppose you're right, but now you'll see it far more readily deployed, even on a whim

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