They see the police as their allies in asserting the natural order.. they picture themselves as the treaders, not treated on.... curtailing their freedom to oppress others is tantamount to suggesting they are no better than a minority.

The devil is in the details though. their profitability is only if you exclude the cost of training models and paying emploees.

Cases like this make me think back to law enforcement back after 9/11 arresting people for 'hoax devices', meaning anything the jump scared police thought might be interpreted as bomb was the person trying to convince them that it was. So I always take their claims that someone 'meant to do something' that emnbarassed them might not be the case.

That is how phone companies, power companies, and many other utilities have been working for a long time.

Flock is selling data to the police, the police are buying it, and law enforcement tends to have a, if not hostile, at least not a good relationship with universities. if flock presses charges for the destruction of their property, property that benefits police, the police will probably side with flock.

So.. the reason slower population growth is a big problem.. it isn't the 'workers to non worker' ratio, it is the wealthy building their fortunes off economic growth. Right now, by being owners of capital, they get a cut of all economic growth, and that supports their lifestyle. So it is in their interests for having things like an educated population with middle class prosperity and democratic systems. Take away that incentive, and they don't really have a reason for us to keep those freedoms and personal oppurtunities.

A key point there.. for the first time in history, _women_ had control over becoming pregnant... not just because of the pill, but increased legal independence and rights. Granted we were still nearly 2 decades away from women legally being able to say 'no' to a husband, but it still shifted a lot of the power.

Well, at the time, women were barely out of the legal category of livestock, so yeah, they really did not account for people choosing something other than having lots of kids.

And rather critically, by the 60s, even though women had been people for a few decades (though in many legal ways, still property of their fathers and husbands), and in the workforce in significant numbers for 15 years, the economic and birthrate implications of gender equality were not clear. People (well, men at least) just sorta assumed that women would both worth full time and keep raising children thus you would get the economic benefit AND birthrates would stay high.
 
This is also the time period where dark forest was popular in fiction and that informed a lot of pop economics.

In the US, the police presupposing a threat is a good way to get someone killed. Their confirmation bias can be deadly.
 
Also do not forget, arrest can be expensive, sometimes cripplingly so, even if there are no charges you can still end up with 'court fees' which can quickly rack up interest.

Eh, I am old enough to remember after various mass shootings people turning in kids for writing dark poetry and violent artwork. With such rare events and panic kicking in, people look for possible threats and false positives skyrocket... which on the surface might sound like a fair price to pay for safety, but the people who get swept up in these moral panics don't feel that way.
 
I can also recall schools watching people's emails and IMs looking for 'threats', and not exactly thrilled that AI companies are taking up that pro-authority charge.

Great way to position your company as a 'friend of law enforcement' though. Cause problems, encourage people, then turn them in.

Thinking back though.. the python zealots loved talking about python and tried to get people to have fun with it, but they were also big on creating thier own tools and ecosystems. The Rust zealots on the othr seems really bent on pushing rust into existing high profile projects.
 
Put another way, the python people wanted to use python for everything, the rust people want everything to be using rust.

Well, I have no idea what the posters actual intention was, but there is a difference between an idea being the only thing that will work, and the idea being a good one. There are plenty of problems around where the solution is bad enough that it brings into question if you are even solving the right issue.
 
I view the birth rate issue this way.. I suspect the person is not that far off, and while you can mitigate the falling birthrates through various incentives and supports, the big driver really is that as women gain equality and their own lives, they make the same decision men likely would in their position and now want to have children.
 
But I think the solution is really going to have to involve coming up with a political and economic system that does not depend on constant growth.

To go one step further... I wonder how many of these are the same kinds of 'bugs' you would get by turning on all the compiler warnings, running a linter, or bringing i a commercial tool like LDRA or Vector cover. All of those will complain about all sorts of 'bugs'.