2026-08-02 Social General Briefing Summary
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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues’ racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping (r/news)
- Drox88: Prime example of what happens when a “good cop” does the right thing.
- Biggle_fuzz: Well, just more evidence that even if we got good people to join the police to change the system from within, we couldn’t.
- Calm-Maintenance-878: HmmâŚfacing 13 years? So if the officer wanted to correctly report it, he should provide no proof, from a legal standpoint? In the event he simply told HR and HR spoke to themâŚwhatâs next? They deny the comments and HR can interviewâŚbut only use word of mouth? I feel like there should be a loophole to record without consent, since I donât get this. I get how it can help but clearly, I see how it can hurt.
Colorado declares town abandoned amid water and leadership crisis (r/news)
- legitimate-criminal: A 56-person town lost its entire government because four women threw hands at a board meeting over tap water. Peak local politics.
- Fuck-WestJet: They should reach out to their congressional rep, Lauren Boebert, for support. I’m sure she will be effective in resolving their governance problems….
- AstronautInitial3642: A town of 56 people turned a clean water emergency into a feud so toxic that even the people sent to help walked away. Losing municipal status may be the first functional decision made there in years.
Olive Garden employees, what do you do if someone doesn’t say stop when you’re grating their cheese? (r/AskReddit)
- nondescriptun: We used to have contests to see who could grate their entire block the fastest. At some point I’d just keep speeding up until I was cranking it like Tarantino in a shoestore.
- ImSoCul: the cheese doesn’t actually just spawn from the grater btw. I’ve had a friend sit there for a while and the block ran out. then they grabbed another block and politely resumed. I assume at some point they’d be “oh we ran out of blocks let me go to the kitchen” and they’d disappear and never come back.
- shamo0: The room fills with parmesan. There are no survivors.
Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year? (r/AskReddit)
- JubbsJB: I quit smoking so Marlboro lost my business hopefully forever
- iuxv_: Doordash, the driver stole my order and they refused to compensate me
- bekmoto: Safelite- technician fixing a rockchip on my car at my house fell off my porch. Gave him first aid, took him to the er. He clearly broke his pinky. I have a normal porch with steps. A month later they sent me a lawsuit. Wasnât even the technician suing me, Safelite was suing me for workers comp. We were deep in cancer treatment for my 10 year at the exact same time. They made an estimated \$2.5 billion last year. Scumbags!
People who lost a significant amount of weight, what piece of common diet advice turned out to be complete BS? (r/AskReddit)
- Local-Copy4401: The eat small meals all day thing was total bs for me bigger meals with long breaks between them worked way better for my hunger
- Possible-Egg5864: Breakfast being the most important meal of the day. I find I personally do best just drinking coffee until lunch time. If I eat breakfast I get way hungrier throughout the day đ¤ˇââď¸
- Anencephalopod: The eating 5 small meals a day thing. It makes it much harder to stay in a deficit, and it becomes like 5 really small sad meals instead of 2 - 3 more satisfying ones.