• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I get the impression that the cops are about to hate facial recognition all of the sudden, for no particular reason

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      There’s a reason ICE conceal their faces.

      They know what they’re doing is wrong and don’t want to be held accountable if their fascist rule collapses.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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      Upvoted and agreed, not least because I just learned that “all of the sudden,” while at present a nonstandard variant of “all of a sudden,” has valid history.

      And of course it doesn’t matter in this casual context!

      But in formal writing, in this era, using “a” will avoid distracting the reader from your main point.

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        “All of the sudden” is only valid because it’s so commonly (incorrectly) used. Much as it annoys me, that’s just how language works.

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          “of the sudden” (1570) actually predates “of a sudden” (Shakespeare) according to my OED as squinted at through the nifty magnifying glass. But it’s been considered obsolete for a long time despite having all of a sudden experienced a resurgence.

          (Note, I modernized the spellings of “sudden” rather than try to switch focus back and forth)

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              Nothing wrong with “suddenly.” I probably should have used it in my previous comment. It’s just that sometimes you want to say “all of a sudden.” Especially at storytime. The extra time helps build the suspense. “Suddenly” is more sudden in that it just jumps in there. With “all of a sudden,” the subject isn’t ready but the listeners are.

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      Also what about cops outside of the LAPD? This app only useful if it works on any cop.

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      Because criminals get out of jail and can go after their families. We had someone leave a bomb on the doorstep of a judge in our neighborhood.

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        That’s a fair concern to a degree of course even the most fair sentences might have a disgruntled person on the other end of it but a fair justice system that serves and protects its community equally has little to fear overall. When a justice system is unfair, unequal, does not serve or protects its community that risk goes way up however they only have themselves to blame for the increased risk. An occasional crazy is just the price of being a human but if the public in general is against you, you’ve done that to yourself through your own actions

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    Breaking news!
    First animal facial recognition tool invented!
    Soon you’ll be able to prove another rancher stole some of your cattle,chickens,etc…
    For now only works for pigs.

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        fix what. You have some expectation that everything is actionable and merely a matter of nattering at people to go do it?

        We cant know its a honey pot and its not even remotely realistic to say a citizen can fix it or investigate it. Even an arm of the state would be unable to investigate an intention. So you’re trolling.

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          Yeah, they’re all honeypots. Signal, honeypot. Lemmy, honeypot. Linux, honeypot. Can’t make anything else. /s

          You won’t gaslight us.