Unlocked means it’s not tied to a carrier (mobile phone provider).
Not too sure about the rest of the world, but North America has a huge problem with carrier-locked devices. You buy a phone from YourCellProvider, and you’re stuck using the phone only with YourCellProvider.
If he meant exactly what you said, I agree. But, there is an alternate interpretation of what the guy was saying:
You tend to get different kinds of customers with different price ranges. The ones who can afford to spend money generally don’t give a crap about what you’re billing them for, and they just want the work done properly.
The ones who aim to get a “good deal” tend to be less hands-off and more critical about the work done/supplies used and billed for. Frugal customers take extra time and sanity to field questions/suggestions, and sometimes, it’s just not worth dealing with.
If raising his fee filters out the latter category, it’s hard to blame him. I wouldn’t want to deal with penny-pinchers either, and simply being more expensive than the competition is an effective deterrent.
It’s more so outdated parroting than deliberate misinformation. A lot of the times I see people trying to back this one up, it’s with Hawkins et al.'s Comparative environmental life cycle assessment of conventional and electric vehicles paper. A 2012 study that analyzes emissions based on manufacturing and energy production capabilities of the time doesn’t hold up well over a decade later.
You would think that would be obvious, but ¯_(ツ)_/¯
It’s fair to judge someone for willfully enlisting if they were aware of their contribution to this system and wanted to further ingrain it, but dissuading those who want to do it for the right reasons will only skew the demographic towards those that don’t.
An optimistic kid deciding to be a cop when he grows up so he can help people shouldn’t be judged the same as an army reject enlisting because he got kicked out of the military for abusing his authority.
I dont care what … cops might do when they exist to enforce a system of law designed to ignore the crimes of the wealthy while punishing the poor for the societal conditions the rich have created.
This sounds like a systemic problem, not a cop problem. Don’t get me wrong, but you’re complaining about the wrong people if that’s all your argument is based on. Law enforcement is just one part of the shit sundae that’s the judicial system. They have the most power to immediately end someone’s life, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s the legislators that both give them that power and their directives to follow.
The US has a 25% of the world’s prison population while only being 5% of the global population. ACAB, ACAB and ACAB.
That’s a consequence of a private, for-profit prison system that uses incarcerated individuals as legal slave labor. The cops drag you off the street, but it’s the lawmakers who created the policies that give them an excuse to do that, and the prosecutors and judges who choose to exercise leniency or lack thereof. A lot of cops are bastards, but you know who’s a bigger bunch of corrupt bastards? The fucks in office taking legally-not-bribes bribes from lobbyists representing the prison-industrial complex.
Being shot, in my opinion, is a leniency compared to going through the judicial system. The moment you’re convicted for anything that isn’t a white-collar crime, your life is as good as over. You’re not getting loans or job offers because of your criminal history, and if you’re lucky enough to find a job, your employer knows they can damn-well underpay you because you have nowhere else to go. Unless you have someone willing to bail you out of the situation you’ve been put in or were already rich before getting thrown in prison, you’re probably not getting back on your feet. And when your best source of guaranteed food and shelter is to get thrown in prison again, it’s no fucking wonder why recidivism is so high.
The war on drugs was an abject failure and channel for institutionalized racism, and politicians are getting their pockets lined for neglecting to fix it or even actively making it worse. They are the people who should be held accountable for ruining the lives of millions. Blaming the cops first just distracts from the actual problem.
Want to stop getting hit in the face with a rake whenever you step on your lawn? Get rid of the asshole putting the rakes there first, then get rid of the rakes already on your lawn.