Canada

Point taken.

I'm a woodworker. I've got a bandsaw that makes the one the meatman uses look like a toy, a 9 horse 3 phase shaper capable of detonating any unsecured piece of wood that comes within reach of it's spinning head, and a tablesaw just like thousands of others that kill or maim my fellow woodworker every year. Every piece of wood is an unknown situation. Was it dried too quickly, and then case hardened, or did it just grow with the internal stress that's going to lead me to be pulled into a machine, or hurt or killed as part of it comes flying out of a machine? Just because the machines don't have awareness or intent doesn't make them less dangerous. Kudos to you for not being stressed. It seems to me that if more cops had your attitude about facing death every day, more if us civilians would survive every year.

I still think the folks more likely to die just trying to make ends meet have every right to be more scared and stressed than those of us who get to live safer lives. It rankles me when I hear folks refer to how stressful cops jobs are, whilst not paying homage to to the men and women who literally build our homes and feed our hungry mouths, especially when I know they're killing a few of us every day. Don't get me talking about the dogs they kill, either. What goes around comes around. Mahaps my job is so dangerous because I kill trees? I'd accept that. I'd rather be killing trees than people, or dogs, for that matter.

Insofar as my police state, well I think Canadians better think seriously about the police state to the south. Especially since we've gone and reelected the nutter in chief, and the days of resource wars are here (read Ukraine). I believe there's been some commentary from the man in charge of the world's most advanced military about a 51st state. Fuck around and find out is fully in play across the globe. The police state coming for an extended visit might seem unthinkable. I'll bet they felt the same way in Ukraine 3 years ago, in Poland back in the '30s, and even here in America just a few hundred years back. I've got my bugout bag, and my family knows the plan. They also know not to talk to people who's main interest is detaining people, people who's main catchphrase is "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." Ot still amazes me every day that most folks think of cops as on their side, as buddies almost. What was it the scorpion said? You knew what I was when you picked me up.

Damn straight I've fucked off on the job, just never on the Taxpayers back. I'm self employed nowadays, so I only get to fuck around on my own dime. This may have colored my opinion.