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Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.

The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.

Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.

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[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

For those who don't spend all their time online, "ahh" is a substitute (or euphemism?) for "ass". Kids have taken to say things like "ahh" instead of "ass" and "unaliving" for "suicide", and "funk" for "fuck", "epistomegacy" for "active clown threat", "rat intestine" for "rat intestine" and who even knows what else!

Well I for one am sick and tired of it and that's all I have to say on the matter.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 11 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I fucking hate that stupid-ass shit!

[–] vortexsurfer@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

I believe some of that is because TikTok doesn't allow certain words / subjects (like suicide), and so people have to make up / use other words to try to avoid having their posts removed. At least that's what I heard regarding the origin of "unaliving"...

[–] smh@slrpnk.net 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

The other day, I heard "PDF file" as a substitute for "pedophile". I kind of liked that one.

edit: it was in a name-and-shame video, discussing someone's poor behavior. The suspected pedophilia was just part of the concern regarding the person's behavior.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I hate it because we're sanitizing what it is. It's not normal to have a pedophile president, it should be shocking and unpleasant to read that, and we should all be very upset about it.

[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

Correct. It's trying to work around censors when there shouldn't be any at all, and everyone should actively be rebelling against censorship.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

PDF file is the one I actually like because it's funny. It's got this 4chanesque quality to it. BUT I ALREADY SAID EVERYTHING I HAVE TO SAY ON THE SUBJECT GOOD DAY SIR I SAID GOOD DAY