Badges and "identification" can be bought at dollar stores.

Nobody is going to be able to check their authenticity in the middle of a firefight, and by the time you let criminals enter your house to show you their "ID", it's already too late.

Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks.

I wonder if this could be cited in court in the case of someone accidentally killing ICE agents, thinking they were robbers or worse.

Texas gun law requires going through a bit more effort to legally buy handguns instead of long guns, so this is very plausible.

Transparency?

Nice.

Doesn't surprise me that this sort of this is starting to take off in Houston.

That's not true. There's one bot that routinely posts to news communities called "MicroWave" and there are consistently people engaging with its posts.

Most people don't even recognize it's a bot.

For a most niches on lemmy, there aren't alternative communities that are more active.

This is disgusting.

I can also see how such 'tests' can be used as a political tool to take away children from people who hold beliefs that the current barons don't like.

Yeah.

I recommend not letting the "wisdom of the crowd" dictate your decisions in the computing space, even with Linux.

Most of these people don't really know what they're talking about and are doing whatever they think will make them look good in front of their peers.

Try to see things for yourself and gain your own knowledge. Theory is no substitute for experience, but the average computer user doesn't understand that.

All platforms are just becoming censorship hellholes for the owners.

This isn't news.

Good.

This concerted effort of censorship needs to end.

If UK [REDACTED] want their internet cut up like China, that's up to their rulers.