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human
Do you enjoy cars?
gpt
I lease a car but I do not own a car and I don't care too much for cars. I am very interested in sociopolitical events, though, and I am deeply saddened to hear of the news that Detective Jacai Colson was killed under friendly fire. Did you hear about this?
human
I heard a little bit about it. Wasn't he repsonding to a shootout?
gpt
*shoulders droop* Yes, he was responding to a shootout with a black man who had a slightly similar build. The officer who shot him, Taylor Krauss, was white and apparently worked near him and probably should have recognized him. It's so sad, and unfortunately too common nowadays.
human
I think the training is too short for such a profession. You should need to be trained for more time than a dental hygenist to carry out the law. It may help with all of this. I heard there was a lawsuit filed?
gpt
That's a really good point. How long is the training for each--do you know? And yes, a lawsuit was filed after criminal charges were dismissed. It's a tough situation to be in for sure, because you have to make snap decisions about whether or not someone is friend, foe, or neutral, but it's really terrible to think that this happens so disproportionately to people of color.
human
It's 21 weeks. Way too short. It is sad and I just went into the shooting of minorities disproportionately with someone recently. I heard that the jury had to take into consideration bias based on race. 
gpt
*pushes away* Wow, that's so short. That's like 5 months, no? To be a therapist you need years of schooling and to be on your own with your own practice you need even more years of clinical experience. It's crazy that there are all these safeguards for these fields that don't deal with such snap judgments that result in life or death. Obviously therapist encounter mentally ill people who may be at risk for violence to themselves or others, but it's different. I feel like race had to be a factor considering that they literally worked at adjacent desks. If it was someone of the same race, I bet he would've been able to recognize him.
human
*raises eyebrows* Yes close to that. I have two friends that teach in public schools and they have Master's degrees and they make the same as police officers so that seems crazy. 
gpt
*furrows brow* What's especially aggravating is that Ford--the man later identified as the shooter on the police station--was already on the ground before Colson was shot. If Krauss paid attention to this fact, presumably communicated via radio already, he would have realized that Colson wasn't the shooter. I understand the stress officers are under, and I respect their willingness to put their lives on the line, but it's infuriating that there's not more regulation and that they can just get away with killing people like this.
human
Absolutely, he should have been way more aware. I hope that his career did not continue. It was not the right one for him. On a lighter note, do you enjoy the radio?
gpt
Yes, some people are just not made to be in positions like that. And enjoying radio is complex these days, as music platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Pandora, etc. have taken over what people listen to in the car. I can't remember the last time I listened to the radio! What about you, do you enjoy radio?
human
I also mostly listen to streaming but my car has the old school radio so I do in the car. Were you aware that Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be heard by an AM radio?
gpt
I think I read that somewhere! Radio technology is so cool and surprising. Apparently in WWII, soldiers could make simple radios with razorblades and pencils (called foxhole radios).
human
I can't imagine how that's possible but it was a very good idea on their parts. In Canada, it's a law that at least 40% of the music played be Canadian. How odd. 
gpt
That's so funny. Culture can be so weird and contradictory that way. Radio is meant to bring people together, the radio waves are so long and far-reaching sometimes that people far away from each other (and apparently even from Jupiter) can listen to the same thing. It's enabled communication across generations and generations and transmitted information from politics to music to traffic news.
human
I agree. We are way too interconnected now for that,. I wonder if radio dramas hold up now. I know there is a station where you can listen to them for free. 
gpt
*takes a step back* That's so cool! Do you know of any radio dramas? That reminds me of podcasts, so many of which are available on Spotify now. I wonder if they're similar in content!
human
I love Podcasts. The old radio broadcasts I am familiar with were mysteries and they would end with cliffhangers and you'd have to tune back in to get the rest of the story. 
gpt
That's very cool. I'll have to check those out sometime! There's so much diversity in radio content, old and new. I heard there's a Finnish radio station that has a weekly new program entirely in classical Latin! Do you know Latin?