To become an American police officer.
Other countries have somewhat higher requirements
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Norway - 4500 hours
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Finland - 4500 hours
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India - 4000 hours
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Germany - 4000 hours
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Australia - 3500 hours
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Spain - 2880 hours
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United Kingdom - 2250 hours (plus if they want to carry a gun significant additional hours)
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Canada - 2080 hours
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New Zealand - 1924 hours
Australian here. Our police are still shit after 3500hrs just FYI.
Have they shot anyone randomly lately?
No, they dont seem to even show up to crimes that are actively being committed.
Have you tried being filthy rich?
I have tried very hard it did not work.
Being filthy rich or having the police show up?
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Compare that to the federal standard 3-5 years of University-like education with loads of theory and practice parts they need in my country to be a basic police(wo)man. Topics like deescalation techniques, basic communication in several languages, and psychological training are integral parts of the curriculum. And much more important than knowing how to shoot or beat up someone.
Which country is that?
Germany.
Nice! I’ll be visiting there next month.
For anyone wondering that’s going to be around 5700 hours of studying/training/lecture.
This indeed produces a different breed of police(wo)men. And that is just the basic policing education.
While I agree that police need more training and psychological evaluations… How much of this is because job training schools lobbied for needless licenses and things to be covered under those licenses? Does someone really need 1600 hours of training to cut hair?
It differs state to state but being a barber and cutting hair are not the same thing. A barber’s license is one of a few different ones used to get a job cutting hair. The thing that barbers generally do that others don’t is provide a shave. Use of a straight razor along with health and safety is part of the training.
For context a full time bachelors student is pulling about 600 hours in one 15 week semester.
You can absolutely use a safety razor. Best haircut place I ever went to for my military cuts did so. If it’s a scissors and buzzers cut, anything over 40 hours is just exploitation.
Yes - the system is fucked pretty thoroughly.
I spent more hours playing Skyrim and Warframe.
I could have become a cop 6 times in Louisiana for the times I played Borderlands 2.
i’ve played over 12,000 hours of Fallout 4.
I’ll take my PhD now, thx
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.
Probably the best value purchase you’ll make in your life.
that’s why, after around 10k hours, I finally paid for it, lol.
Lol jesus
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!
Dawg how old are you that you’ve consumed that much content in your life lmao
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)_/¯
also, I haven’t played it in about a year
12000/(2985-365) = 4.58 hours per day!
I have fallout london open in a new tab on my computer waiting for me to have time to install it and play it. I haven’t been this excited for a mod in a long time
Waiting for skyblivion to be released too, that has been in the works for a while
Isn’t London coming out in a few months?
Here is your theoretical Doctorate of Science.
Thank you, Professor, I humbly accept.
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Entertainment is not 🚫 a thing you want to master. Watching 1000 movies gets you nowhere. Reading 1000 self care and business books will get you higher than binging TV.
Lmao fam really thought they were doing something with this
Or you could spend 12k hours enjoying your life and not worrying what others consider “productive”
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Good for you then. I’ll get right on baking your tray of cookies.
I bet they’re tons of fun at parties. We should have one and invite vsh.
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Speaking of coffins, you sound like the type that would be happier in one. Give it a try.
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No thanks. I enjoy my rest and relaxation.
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1000 self care and business books
Will rot your brain thoroughly. If you had spent that time instead reading 1000 pieces of actually good literature, there’s plenty of stuff you could’ve actually learned, instead of just having people tell you that you can count your golf trips as business expenses, and “stop being depressed it’s all about your growth grindset”, and “please buy the next book in this course it will really tell you how to make a bunch of money” and then it’s just a pyramid scheme.
You could’ve learned some sort shit like the vimes boot theory, which is pretty good, and is a pretty good example of something you could learn from a totally random book. You could’ve learned all about medieval speech and castle architecture. if you were addicted to hardcore pulp sci-fi, you could’ve learned about xenobiology and a bunch of different math and science that those books tend to use as the basis for their outlandish premises. If you’d read a bunch of classic french literature, you could’ve become a pretty good expert in that very particular field, same with watching 1000 random french movies from like the 50’s or 60’s. If you’d spent 10,000 hours skateboarding, instead, you’d probably be able to do a kickflip, and at that point, the world’s your oyster. You’ve won, you might as well quit now, since you can kickflip. 10,000 hours hacky sacking and you can probably juggle almost anything with your feet, and that’s pretty cool, I would think. 10,000 hours playing modded fallout 4, even though I don’t like that game very much and think it sucks, 10,000 hours doing that, and you might know enough just based on the shit you have to do to be able to play the mods, to be able to do some professional tech work. You might even just know how to make your own mod, at that point, if you’re interested enough in it. I know that 10,000 hours of dwarf fortress will basically have gotten you there.
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Bro’s like “oh nah you should go read some books, that’s a better use of your time” and then is also like “that’s too long I can’t read that shit”.
Trolling used to be impressive, you know?
Siskel and Ebert: And we decided to take that personally.
I speak 7 languages and have an MfA in Design and Technology from Parsons. I also know several programming languages.go judge someone else.edit: I’m happy, and that’s what matters. I’m sorry you’re not.
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you should probably take your own advice rather than getting so twisted up about how random strangers live their lives.
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wow, I feel sorry for you that my talking about my gaming habits triggered this level of insecurity in you. I suggest you talk to someone about that.
I hope you feel better.
the time i wasted playing TF2 alone could have made me a cop in 5 states.
If you had STUDIED instead you would now legally be able to beat your wife kill minorities and watch kids die because it’s too scawy!
How could you leave shooting dogs off that list?
Because too far. Your words were printed on a screen that’s within a square mile of my dog. That’s too close man.
I never realized Louisiana looks like an obese arm smoking a cigarette
“Hey you, you wanna buy some deathsticks?”
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“Do you even lift bro?”
Police in Norway have to have a bachelor’s degree in policing.
https://www.politihogskolen.no/en/about-us/our-campuses/bodo/ for anyone who wants to become a police officer in Norway.
Am I the terraria police?
You’re the Terraria electric signage specialist.
Somehow Florida made it highest in this list. Let that sink in…
What is an electric sign specialist?
Well obviously. You have to live with a bad haircut for at least a few weeks, what could a police officer do that would affect your life as much as that?
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Interior design is a regulated profession?
