AnarchistArtificer
I see a lot of people who hate her for not being left enough. Whilst I sympathise with that stance to an extent, from the perspective of someone in the UK, the US seems so shockingly right wing that I’m surprised that a figure like Ocasio-Cortez exists at all. That is to say that I wish America had more left wing politicians, but given the current lack, AOC is a refreshing presence.
Eh, I didn’t really understand ACAB until I was in my early 20s, and I don’t think I was any more brainwashed than the average UK child.
I can see an alternate world where someone like me, who had a strong sense of justice, might have wanted to join the police because of believing that the police can or should be a force for good.
Even though I was pretty solidly leftist in university, I still held the view of “oh come on, all cops are bastards? That seems extreme” and I thought that ACAB was mostly a cathartic but needlessly inflammatory slogan. It wasn’t until I actively sought out opinions and writing from people who earnestly believed ACAB that I actually understood that it’s not a comment on individual cops, but on the system itself which basically precludes the existence of non-bastardy cops
I know in at least some of the BSOD cases that it was an automatic update that wasn’t possible to delay. An acquaintance of mine told me that they have previously complained to their IT support about the disruption of auto-updates at inopportune times, but IT said it’s out of their hands for security updates because of regulatory requirements.
I visited my friend the other day and my phone was low, so I took the playstation controller off charge and plugged in my Android phone instead. A while later, her iPhone was low battery, so we charged her phone instead, with the same wire. It’s not much, but it made me happy.
