Again, that angle is largely you seeking solutions to a problem that doesn’t exist; ICE agents aren’t trying to trick people in order to date/befriend them.

As I said, they don’t want anything to do with people who hate them.

Tons of joke answers and few actual answers, so here’s the opinion of an ex-cop:

What’s your aim? If it’s to identify ICE via speed dating or something to collect a list of local ICE agents, it’ll take weeks, months, or even years years to uncover what they do. ICE agents know quite a few people hate them, so they’re not going to wear their job on their sleeve. In that line of work it’s known as OPSEC. In my personal life, very few people know I was a cop. ICE is even less popular, so they’ll be even more tight about it. Best advice on this front is just keep your ears open for claims of being “taxi drivers,” “garbage collectors,” or other jokes cops often make to describe what they do.

If it’s to avoid dating/befriending ICE agents, all you need to do is let it be known that you hate ICE. Obviously your HR is going to come into the fray if you’re passing out “FUCK ICE” pamphlets, but feel free to get tattoos, bumper stickers, T-shirts, and whatever else you can get your hands on to express yourself, and I promise you ICE agents will avoid you like the plague, though they won’t outwardly state their reasons why.

I don’t want to hang out with people who hate me, you don’t want to hang out with people who hate you, and ICE agents don’t want to hang out with people who hate them. Not only is it unsafe, but it’s simply unpleasant.

Sadly not relevant to my specific post, but I appreciate you spreading the word.

I think making a personal community, throwing it at lemmy-federate, and then posting it there really works best in this case.

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I guess I have some homework to endlessly procrastinate do.

I reserve the right to feel guilty, embarrassed, sad, etc. for inappropriate reasons in much the same way I reserve the right to feel positive emotions for similarly nonsensical reasons, but I appreciate the logic of it and you for dispensing it.

Thank you.

In their defense, a feature that’s not known by everyone isn’t really the fault of the people who don’t know about it.

Thanks to you, now they and I know about it.

Unrelated but is there a way to convert someone else’s instance+community link to your own?

Obviously not faulting you for this, but when I click on your link I get taken to lemmy.zip, where I do not have an account so I cannot participate. I spent some time manually searching for that community on my own instance, which of course is a bit annoying for newbies and I would think there is a way around that I haven’t found yet.

Until now I honestly thought I’d have to host an Instance to create a Community, for some reason. Now I’m a bit embarrassed.

Thank you.

Edit for visibility:

This answer is the direction I chose to go in, mainly for simplicity’s sake.

If the fediverse gods are watching, it might be worth considering automatically making communities associated with people’s usernames. Maybe reserved automatically, but invisible unless you opt-in? That way nobody can create harassment communities targeting your username on your home instance. Just a thought.

Seems like a good community but sadly doesn’t fit my use-case for reasons I haven’t yet stated.

Thank you for the referral , though.

After poking around it does actually seem relevant, though it’s always against my nature to try to grab someone else’s limelight.

Yes, but definitely not proper form, as my left hand rests on WASD+CTRL/Shift+Space.

I’m around 100 wpm, so maybe it doesn’t matter.

While I completely understand people who can’t get to 100 wpm (much like people at 110+ completely understand me), I cannot fathom young adults who cannot touch-type (barring disability, obviously).

I don’t think I insulted your intelligence other than to imply you are not omniscient, and I immediately acknowledged I’m in a similar boat, just not in this very specific topic.

If implying you’re not perfect is an insult, sure, you’re welcome to throw in the towel and put that wall up by pretending I’m arguing in bad faith. Ironically, that actually does diminish your intelligence - actively fighting the opportunity to learn.

’ll bet my left nut that if we both tested our English skills, I’d have a larger vocabulary and better syntax. More than ten years ago I surpassed the average native speaker in vocabulary size.

Real talk? I don’t care. Good on you if you’re right, but I’m almost certain you’re wrong. I do understand why you made your assumption based on the average internet user, though. Literacy rates are dropping in the US and it’s equally embarrassing and dangerous.

My point by pointing out your terrible writing was that if you’re going to argue in such bad faith, you should at least put some effort into it. Put some pants on before you go scream at your neighbors that their grass is giving you migraines. By pointing out your penis was exposed, I’m not actually upset that I saw a penis, I just was hoping it’d embarrass you enough to shut up and go away.

No, you’re just a dummy.

Seeing this part and glancing at your many more paragraphs finally gave me the kick in the head that I needed to make me realize what a colossal waste of time talking to you is. Congratulations, you’re about to be the first person I’ve ever blocked on Lemmy.

… that said, before I hit the block button, I did notice this bit which tempted me to respond because it’s an all too common trope that I’d happily enter an in-depth discussion with you about my lived experience counter-anecdote if you weren’t such a prick:

There are laws in place which allow cops — just like soldiers, to not do what they’re commanded to do. They’re called “illegal orders”.

There are also laws that prevent Donald Trump from serving a second term. Does that comfort you, resting assured in the knowledge that your logic means he must not be President again? Definitely doesn’t comfort me; I’d prefer to live in reality and advocate for his removal. Backing away from my metaphor, I promise you there are cops who have been fired for failing to follow illegal orders, you just didn’t know about any of them because you never bothered to put in any effort to find out they exist. Ironically for the cause you pretend to care about enough to virtue signal on the internet, that pressures more cops to follow illegal orders (because they know they’re completely screwed if they do the right thing). I would know, I sit in the former camp and know many who sit in the latter. Enjoy the illusion, though!

People rushing to log into their alts to declare anyone who participates in their secretly favorite communities is a degenerate so that whoever they think monitors their primary account might discover they are A Very Good Person:

I didn’t insult you other than to say that you’re biased, which I don’t think is an insult personally. I’m biased too, about different things. All humans are.

My point, for the third (3rd) time, is that having Harry be interested in being a cop is not out of character and poor writing because Harry’s traits and background don’t preclude him from an interest in being one.

I think you just don’t understand that cops come from the same schools, communities, homes, families, etc. as anyone else, including you; in other words, you have a significant mental rift that makes it impossible for you to walk the bridge of logic I built for you.

I don’t know if I can build a bridge big enough for you to cross. I guess just stare at my previous comment for a while until it clicks.

TL;DR: If you think, and even shout from the rooftops, that the only people suitable for law enforcement are pieces of shit, guess who is going to become law enforcement? Oh my, we seem to have a Too Many Pieces of Shit in Law Enforcement problem! Wonder how that happened…

“No but you have to understand, All Cops might Be Bastards but they’re could be way worse bastards!”

This strawman isn’t even properly put together; it’s falling apart. If English isn’t your first language, skip the following: Write better.

Do you not understand that things are clearly immoral should lead to law enforcement refusing to enforce the laws. It doesn’t mean they get to decide which laws to enforce or not, willy nilly, but if someone says “go an arrest every minority out there” they can say ‘that’s unconstitutional and I won’t do it, you can fire me and then I’ll sue you’ or whatever it is you do there.

Evidently not, because my understanding of your argument is that it is an oxymoron: Cops should use their own moral judgement to selectively enforce the law, but also, cops should not use their own moral judgement to selectively enforce the law.

I’m not a Harry Potter encyclopedia so maybe your perception of Harry being a loose cannon is much more arbitrary than mine, but in the context of someone refusing to enforce a law on moral grounds, you’re making zero sense to me. It seems like you’re assigning “willy nilly” to selective enforcement you disagree with and “refusal” to selective enforcement you agree with.

I agree, but unless you’re asserting Harry did that, I don’t understand why you brought that up.

I haven’t touched the series in quite a long time, so you could be making specific references to specific things he did for all I know.

The nice part about my idea is that even with those hurdles in mind, I still proposed it knowing that all it would take is one person to happen upon whichever post or subreddit to auto-scrape and get the discussion on Lemmy going.

Let’s be real; 99% of the reason Lemmy is less popular than Reddit is copy+pasting a link, writing your own title, etc. is more effort than 0, therefore the Lemmy-Reddit hybrids like myself don’t bother.

Hell, even the staunchly anti-Reddit Lemmites who could be parasitically “stealing” posts and comments to steal Reddit’s thunder don’t do it. There are other things they’d rather do, evidently.

Now that I think of it, after using the word “scrape,” it could be that Reddit ToS follows most websites’ in that scraping is explicitly forbidden, so displaying the open source code (or even using it) would incur legal action from Reddit.

“Loose cannons” are never good as cops. No matter how much you delude yourself they’re completely moral and even if that were 100% true they wouldn’t be good cops. Cops aren’t justice. They’re law enforcement.

A reminder that we’re talking about choosing between lesser evils here. Would you rather an immoral by-the-book Auror/cop in league with Voldemort/Hitler or a moral loose cannon like Harry?

Someone applying their own morality all the time instead of laws should never ever be a cop. That’s why ACAB.

How do you feel about ICE arresting people for immigration offenses?

How do you feel about the DEA prosecuting people for cannabis?

There’s nuance here, and you’re pretending there isn’t.

Of course not. That’s why I said “To the best of my recollection the last I’ve seen bits of traffic data here and there, […]”