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@freemo That's a fine example, but again it doesn't make it true that all precincts are corrupt. I won't believe that all precincts are corrupt until you can prove it.

publishers sue the Internet Archive 

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As a scientist and teacher, I will not write or peer-review for any journal from these publishers, nor will I use their books in my classroom, because their emotionally immature stunt risks the collective memory of the Internet.

Whether or not the "National Emergency Library" is ultimately a reasonable idea, there are good ways and bad ways to approach the issue, and Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley and Penguin Random House have chosen a bad one. For two decades, scholars have been asking, "What value do publishers actually add?" Answers vary, but a bitter "not bloody much" is prominent among them. Undermining our social and technical infrastructure in a time of global crisis only gives that view more weight.

@freemo

> disobeying their wishes

What wishes? Citizens need to comply with officers' requests, generally speaking (assuming of course they are lawful). It's kind of a big thing here.

> police abusing their power

In what way?

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@freemo

> thousands of people

There are like 330 million people in the , IDK why you're pretending that knowing a small fraction of them means you know everything about all police departments.

If you've never heard of a single positive interaction with law enforcement, IDK what to tell you man. You're rare, I guess.

Babies are perhaps the most attuned to their needs, knowing when something is off... they will cry in order to communicate this to those around them as they don't have another language to communicate.

A lot of adults mentally beat this attunement from children when they are old enough to learn to put the needs of the adults before their own so that they won't be neglected.

@freemo Ugh...yet another fallacy, this time the Fallacy of Composition (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_).

Perhaps in the places you lived, that was your experience, but that does not make your experience representative of the entire nation.

@freemo IDK where I would find this; apparently, nobody makes articles or reports saying "yo, check it out, this precinct doesn't have any corruption!"

But you're not even going about this correctly; you cannot prove all police precincts are corrupt if you can't demonstrate whether one is not corrupt. This is an Argument from Ignorance fallacy (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument)

It can be your opinion, perhaps, but it is not fact until you can prove it.

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