• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Pizza delivery people have to get out of their car in any weather. Cops only have to get out of their car if they feel like it. Also, cops don’t have to buy their own gas.

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      A pizza can feed a family of four. A cop could feed his family of four if his wife and kids hadn’t left him for the domestic abuse reported amongst 40%* of all American cops.

      • 40% is the self-reported figure. Unreported instances presumably would make the actual number much higher.
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        Eat a pizza and you’re fed for a day. Be shot by a cop and you will never be hungry again

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    Tip your building superintendent this Christmas, they’re actually on the top 10 list of dangerous jobs in North America, like 10 spots above cops. I’ve done the job and it’s high risk of ergonomic injury, as well as accidents, and working alone makes it even more hazardous. You can get sick from the job, get crushed by garbage bins, electrocuted, poisoned, gased, burned, fall off a ladder or worse, and it’s low pay.

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    And soon to be you will find them employed by the Mafia betting their own whole life upon the success of a 30 minute delivery.

    And don’t touch the Snow Crash.

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    Driving a car is why both are dangerous.

    Edit: look up the most dangerous jobs BLS stats, and most common cause of death for almost all jobs is transportation related.

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      2 years ago

      Other people driving is the dangerous part, hence garbage collection and postal delivery being near the top of the list.

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        Indeed. Iirc I contributed heavily to that thread with sources and it’s simply not true almost any way you slice it.

        The closest proximity is using accidental vehicle deaths but it completely discounts the fact delivery drivers mostly deliver in town where speeds are low.

        Unfortunately there’s no good data tracking for gig work yet which would be the nearest parable.

        E: I was not lazy and found my old comment for sauce.

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          I don’t appreciate your common sense/rationalisation or water pouring/fun dampening on the internet. Please leave.

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            And I’ll take my crusts with me!

            FWIW I was not lazy and found my old comment if anyone wants sauce. It’s absolutely 100% grade-A BS from a scummy lawyer group cherry-picking data that doesn’t include ‘Pizza delivery’ or any conventional ‘delivery driver’ that aren’t big rigs or siilar.

            https://kbin.social/m/memes@lemmy.ml/t/366256/Italians-are-literally-braver-than-cops#entry-comment-1815988

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        Police were more likely to be killed by violence than most other positions (which are almost always accident/negligence related), although somewhat ironically their most likely cause of death in 2021 was covid

        Just…WOW. In case anyone was wondering about how fucked the US police are.

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        Yeah I’m just exhausted tolerating you cop hating retards. You’re so far gone you’re arguing in bad faith and using literally any bottom of the barrel numbers to say the dumbest bullshit.