• adrian783@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      this comes up again and again and it’s always only this one case. iq and being a good cop is not even directly related so I wish people would stop bringing this up as some sort of gotcha.

      • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Actually IQ is correlated to problem solving which literally makes you a better everything just not obviously by itself. While this case is an extreme example of scaring off smart people there are lots of less direct ways you can discourage them from joining your ranks. Promoting idiots to positions of power and allowing them to erect dysfunctional systems that people l lower on the totem pole aren’t allowed to change, punishing anyone who snitches on their fellow cops misbehavior, and promoting your idiot cronies are all pretty effect and pervasively practiced.

        • adrian783@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          just because your IQ isn’t 125 doesn’t mean you’re an “idiot”.

          what are the less direct ways?

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    i’ve played over 12,000 hours of Fallout 4.

    I’ll take my PhD now, thx

    • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Fallout 4 was released 2,985 days ago.

      12,000/2,985 = an average of 4 hours a day, every day, no days off.

      Probably the best value purchase you’ll make in your life.

      • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Probably the best value purchase you’ll make in your life.

        that’s why, after around 10k hours, I finally paid for it, lol.

          • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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            9 months ago

            also, it was on sale. GOTY Edition + all DLCs for, like, $15. why not?

            I got more out of that game than anything else I ever pirated (except, maybe, my copies of TNG, DS9, VOY, and all 20 seasons of Law & Order), so I thought: why not pay for it? it was totally worth it!

              • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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                9 months ago

                I’m 44. also, I spent most of my life freelancing/working from home, and, through covid and for a long time afterwards, unemployed— so lots of free time.

                also, I haven’t played it in about a year, although a new Mod, Fallout: London just came out, so I may just kiss a few hundred hours goodbye on that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • ThenThreeMore@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    9 months ago

    To become an American police officer.

    Other countries have somewhat higher requirements

    • Norway - 4500 hours

    • Finland - 4500 hours

    • India - 4000 hours

    • Germany - 4000 hours

    • Australia - 3500 hours

    • Spain - 2880 hours

    • United Kingdom - 2250 hours (plus if they want to carry a gun significant additional hours)

    • Canada - 2080 hours

    • New Zealand - 1924 hours