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[–] Toga77@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You can't perfectly stop all behavior this is so fucking dystopian.

They're watching people do fuckin donuts and then pulling them over.

What about the FUCKING PEDOPHILES?!?

[–] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 0 points 2 hours ago

Por que no los dos?

[–] LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 hours ago

Is this the original video? No torrent?

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 30 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

The cowardly lion woman needs to be named alongside flock itself. This needs to follow her forever as well. Fascist mouthpiece garbage person

[–] Fossy@programming.dev 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Her name is Caity Peak

She previously worked for the Elk Grove Police Department. She was named employee of the year.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CRVG9TCp0ef/

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone else notice that you can hear a guy snoring through the end of the video?

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 8 points 5 hours ago

Holy shit lol, good ear. Idk if it's sleeping/snoring or unhealthy breathing, but it's definitely sonorous breathing

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 49 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

So they have the capability of going after pedophiles, murders, and child kidnappers but they focus on No Kings Protests!?!?

What in the fuck is wrong with these people.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

This is what literal fascism is.

[–] dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Why would they go after their friends and bosses?

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 16 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I think it's funny that one of the most well-known ancient pieces of writing is of a man complaining that he was sold cheap copper, and here we are over 3,500 years later still thinking merchants can be trusted. Flock was never going to serve the common people when they can make so much more money serving the wealthy instead. When someone chooses a career in making money over all else, the only thing you can trust about them is that they will drop everyone and everything for a buck.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 3 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, the "moral right" is crooked as fuck and in contradiction to their source.

[–] No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I hate the banality of selling the panopticon to barely accountable militarized police departments with the same casual attitude as presenting a new AI workflow in a forced Microsoft Teams meeting.

These ghouls just walk among us and go on existing like they're people.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 1 points 5 hours ago

Because we don’t call them out, fire them, and overall make them feel more unwanted in society than they make trans girls feel.

[–] AxisExperience9@sh.itjust.works 12 points 19 hours ago

What a great display of free speech!

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh no I really believed that it was for our safety

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Think of the children! (They'll be the ones ratting out their neighbors to the Party)

[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 18 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Why would anyone work for Flock I wonder?

[–] chewypoops@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I do something similar to what this person does (sell software to buyers), but she absolutely chose to work for this company. If I was expected to demo something like this I would refuse. She didn't.

[–] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 15 points 22 hours ago
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[–] tourist@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

I need as many tools to make myself dangerous if and when I need it

boldly proclaiming your presence as a possible danger to the public is quite something

[–] Fosss@lemmy.world 124 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I remember, back in 2010, when podcasts were new, NPR had a whole webpage explaining the concept to people, and how to subscribe to them, and that the only people who weren't NPR that were making podcasts were people with very niche interests, like Satanists or Furries.

Now every dipshit has a podcast, and they all suck shit

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

2010?

The ‘pod’ part of podcast comes from iPod, they are from like 2004.

They even tried to make ‘vodcast’ a thing when the video iPod came out.

[–] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I bet kids today don’t even understand the original concept of everything being offline that you would have software to download episodes of podcasts from RSS feeds and automatically upload them to your iPod on the next sync.

Like you had to plan ahead before leaving the house. There were definitely times I was late leaving the house because I was waiting for my iPod sync to finish so I would have podcasts to listen to on my commute.

It was so small and unique. The daily source code was kind of the “look at this cool thing” of podcasting back in the day.

3g data really shifted podcast long from its original form to an on demand model.

Crazy how different and mainstream it all is now.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 55 minutes ago

It does almost feel like a failure on our part that the Gen Zers I meet typically see devices as completely solid-state and always online. But it’s almost one step further than that, there was somebody on here a few weeks ago talking about that being able to take your music in with you from the car would have been sci-fi in the 70s and I was like cassettes are portable… It’s almost like the tendency to look at past generations as less capable than your own has also been dialed up to 11 in the current crop of college aged Gen Zers especially. But this has just been my personal experience.

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Welcome to my podcast! You can listen to more in my patreon. Now go get some Hello Fresh!

Today we’re going to talk about how SpookyBogMonster thinks my podcast is shit. Well, I know you are but what am I? What do you think of that Mr or Mrs SpookyBogMonster?”

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

What do you think of that Mr or Mrs SpookyBogMonster?”

I just appreciate your willingness to be gender inclusive :)

[–] Noklito@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How cute, she has a LinkedIn profile, I'm sure some creative people can do something useful with such information.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

skills:

  • marketing
  • customer success
  • thought leadership
  • ...
  • Microsoft PowerPoint [✓ Passed Linkedin Skills assessment]
  • ...
  • 911 (that's not a skill)
  • mutual aid (politically indecipherable)

I don't know what to do with this information

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

find her address place ten cameras around it and broadcast her whole life to the world

[–] Noklito@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 day ago

Oh you can just bet she hates the idea of thousands of people knowing her exact whereabouts at anytime of the day.

Can see her tone deaf public statement about harassment and calls for civility.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 87 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The unapologetically naked racism in that "car show" example.

[–] user_name@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Based on who was promoting it.” WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?

[–] mursejoy@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

My first thought was the Paul Walker picture? So what, all Fast and Furious fans are latent criminals?

Those are some of the highest grossing movies of all time, surely you can’t profile criminals based on a film franchise with significant mass appeal. Talk about painting with a large brush.

[–] datrenaissancebro@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

One of the most interesting statistics I've ever heard was that traffic stops go up significantly around theaters that have recently screened a fast and furious movie.

I hope it's a true statistic because it makes a lot of sense.

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[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago

Would be a shame if someone were to surveil this woman and post her whereabouts for all to see.

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago

Not even the courtesy to put a mask on it. Full on fascist police state

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

flock employees teaching to their hunters how to hunt them

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml -1 points 13 hours ago

There was a mention of seeing blockages in traffic flow, and sending officers to free the traffic so drivers don't get upset ('road rage')

I was in yhe city once at a protest and someone in their car had a cry to the media about being late to a funeral because of a protest, like why're you driving through the cbd to a funeral? Why drive to a funeral at all?

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